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Work in progress. Chapter 1 Time’s Verticals. Chapter 2 Time and the Veiling of Memories. Chapter 3 Traces in the wind. Chapter 4 Time. Chapter 5 Silent Words. Chapter 6 Exhibitions, published material, press reviews. Chapter 7
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Chapter 1
Work in progress
Icelandic Chronicles
Watercolours created when I was in Iceland as an artist in residence. My home was in HerhĂšsid, SiglufjĂśrdur, in Arctic Iceland. I was lucky enough to experience many weather conditions; rain, ice, wind, cold and not so cold, wonderful sunny days and even witness the wondrous Northern Ligths.
Ice on the path Series 1 and 2; watercolour on paper, 2011.
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Icelandic Chronicles
Towards Gullfoss, watercolour, 2011. Private collection, Iceland.
Myvatn, watercolour, 2011.
Skies Series 2, watercolour, 2011.
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Chapter 1, Continuation‌
Port-Louis Chronicles
Oil on polyester. 140cm x 50cm. 2010.
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Port-Louis Chronicles
Oil on polyester. 140cm x 50cm. 2010.
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Chapter 1, Continuation... ..The impermanence of things...
...the lightness of linen and the animated surface of its irregular weave. A veil which moves with every breath of air : apparent fragility and obvious tangibility of its form where memories can be imprinted.
. ..remembering the niaoulis night...
of New Caledonia, at
Oil and acrylic on linen, 100cm x 150cm. 2010.
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...remembering the niaoulis of New Caledonia, at night...
Oil and acrylic on linen, 100cm x 150cm. 2010.
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Chapter 1, Continuation...
Animated Moments from 2004 to 2008.
Traces of our lives; written in our mind, of uncertain meaning, printed with oil on a transparent surface. These moments, painted on long rectangles, have the walls as background. The shadows of these traces can be projected on the walls when the light is right. The room is reflected in these long transparent shapes so that the objects and the people present mix with the painting creating a new perspective, new moments.
Oil on polyester, 120cm x 40cm.
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Chapter 1, Continuation...
A day in the caves of Isturitz and Oxocelhaya in March 2010.
Isturitz, Oil and acrylic on linen, 115cm x 110cm. 2010.
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Chapter 1, Continuation...
Watercolours
New Zealand / Aotearoa from 1995 to 2005.
Auckland, 2000. Watercolour and Indian ink on paper.
Napier, 2000. Watercolour and Indian ink on paper.
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Chapter 1, Continuation...
journeys, encounters, taking time, making time‌
Costa Rica, 2003.
Watercolour and Indian ink on a travel sketchbook 17cm x 24cm. Private collection, New York, U.S.A.
Costa Rica, 2003.
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Costa Rica, 2003.
Private collection, Bayonne, France.
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Chapter 1, Continuation...
Saint jean de Luz / Donibane Lohizun, France.
2006 . Watercolour and Indian ink on paper
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Chapter 1, Continuation...
Work on glass
memories written with light on sand...memories on glass...
Ray, oil on glass, 50cm x 40cm. 2010. Private collection, St Jean de Luz, France.
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Chapter 2 Verticales du Temps / Time’s Veticales
This show with Maité Pébay and Catherine Le Roux was presented in October 2009 by the Arts and Cultural Services of the city of Anglet, France. Photographs, paintings, a slide show and three books were part of the exhibition. Verticales du Temps came out thanks to the combined creative input of three artists; Maité thought the idea through and Catherine brought back from China the amazing photographs which truly served as a solid base for the show. The exhibition asserted how modern China is informed by its past, how it permeates modern life.
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make war 2- 2009 Oil on polyester, 140cm x 50cm.
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make war 1- 2009 Oil on polyester, 140cm x 50cm.
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this door closed for too long - 2009 Oil on polyester, 140cm x 50cm. Public collection of the city of Anglet, France.
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Towards and back - 2009 Oil on polyester, 140cm x 50cm.
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The Officer- 2009 Oil on polyester, 140cm x 50cm. Private collection, Saint Jean de Luz, France.
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war horse - 2009. Oil on polyester, 140cm x 50cm.
the lampoon, 2009. Oil on polyester, 140cm x 50cm.
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avec le soir brûlé - 2009 Oil on polyester, 140cm x 50cm. Private collection, Périgueux, France.
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warm wind in the evening Oil on polyester, 140cm x 50cm. 2009. Private collection, Esher, Great Britain.
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Warm wind - 2009. Oil on polyester, 140cm x 50cm.
The window - 2009. Oil on polyester, 140cm x 50cm.
Private collection, Esher, Great Britain.
Private collection, Esher, Great Britain.
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Chapter 3 Time and the veiling of memories
Solo show at Grantham Galleries, Auckland, New Zealand in 2002.
The memorizing process is complex and seems to depend as much on social structures as on purely physical make-up. The veil in front of some of our memories, which prevents us from recognizing clearly our souvenirs, might not be so much an alteration than a simplification exerted by our brain. Under the veil, our reality can only be partially perceived not to say imagined.
Veiled Memories 7, oil on linen, 148cm x 110cm. 2002.
Veiled Memories 3, oil on linen, 84cm x 112cm. 2002.
Private collection, Auckland, N.Z.
Private collection, Auckland, N.Z.
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Chapter 4 Traces in the wind Voyage to Newfoundland in 2002.
Scaled Down, group show at the Lane Gallery, Auckland, N.Z, in 2002. (Watercolour and Indian ink on paper.)
Moments recorded while driving through Newfoundland, Canada, as I was an artist in residence in Pouch Cove on the Avalon Peninsula. Pouch Cove is a small seaside town north of the capital St. John’s. These moments speak about the crisp blues of the sky, the ocean, the frozen lakes and rivers. They suggest stories about the wind that blows from the Atlantic with unforgiving strength and seems to shape landscapes and people alike; here everything seems to be but traces in the wind.
Traces in the wind 1, 2002. Private collection, Canada.
Traces in the wind 3, 2002. Private collection, Auckland, N.Z.
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Chapter 5 Time
Solo show at Chiaroscuro, Auckland, New Zealand, in octobre 2001.
As one of the threads that weave our beings, time is a recurrent subject in the arts. Time explores the idea of memory and the relative nature of time past, present and future. The Interval Series deal with the fugitive instant situated between one moment and another. The Interval Series on paper explore more specifically the idea of memories willingly hidden by the mind.
Interval Series 5, oil on canvas, 76cm x 122cm. 2001. Private collection, N.Z.
Ever, oil on canvas, 35cm x 122cm. 2001. Private colection, Auckland, N.Z.
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Time, continuation...
Simultaneity, oil on canvas. 102cm x 76cm. 2001. On the cover of the 2002 Amnesty International Annual Report, French language edition. Private collection, Sydney, Australia.
Interval Series - work on paper 1, oil on paper, 61cm x 86cm. 2001. Private colection, Waiheke Island, New Zealand.
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Chapter 6 Silent Words
Solo show at Chiaroscuro, Auckland, New Zealand in April 2000.
The lines of our landscapes and buildings shape our reality; our moods also have an influence on how we see our surroundings. Our reality is often quite different from the theoretical knowledge we have of the world. Silent Words is about a reality which is fashioned by the fugitive moments of our human experience.
Silent Words, oil on canvas. 76cm x 102cm. 1999. Private collection, Auckland, N.Z.
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Chapter 7 Solo Shows Grantham Galleries, Auckland, New Zealand. Time and the veiling of memories, 2002. Chiaroscuro Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand. Time, 2001. Chiaroscuro Gallery. Silent words, 2000.
Group Shows (a selection) Semi-finalist in the International juried exhibition: “Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going?” New York, 2011. Verticales du Temps (Time’s Verticals) with the Artist Collective à fleur de temps (Maité Pébay, Catherine Le Roux, Nadine Arrieta), Villa Beatrix Enea, Anglet, 2009, France. Abstract Painting : colour/surface/object, James Baird Gallery, St John’s, Canada, 2003. Scaled Down, The Lane Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand, 2002. 100 X 100 X 100, McPherson Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand, 2002. International collective show, Kivipankki Gallery, Jämsä, Finland, 2002. Art in Miniature, Grantham Galleries, Auckland, New Zealand, 2002. 100 X 100 X 100, McPherson Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand, 2001. Group show, Artstation, Auckland, New Zealand, 2001. Art In Summer, Galeria D’Art Zero, Barcelona, Spain, 2001. The contemporary Nude, The Lane Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand, 2001. Chiaroscuro Summer Hanging, Chiaroscuro Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand, 2000. Exhibition of drawings, The Lane Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand, 2000. Chiaroscuro Summer Hanging, Chiaroscuro Gallery, New Zealand, 1999. Artist residencies Herhùsid, Iceland, 2011. Pouch Cove, Newfoundland, Canada, 2003. Murals Rescued, holiday resort at the Serge Blanco Thalasotherapy in Hendaye, France, 1991. Marine depths, holiday resort in Arcachon, France, 1991. Jonas and the whale, holiday resort in Biarritz, France, 1989.
Artists Collectives 2010 Member of the Charlatan Ink Collective New York, U.S.A. 2009 Creation of the Artist Collective à fleur de temps with Maité Pébay and Catherine Le Roux.
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Published Material
2009 Le Rêve du Guerrier, Le Rêve du Chamane, Le Rêve de l’Objet : with the Artist Collective à fleur de temps.
2008 Rouge Temps (S’Ayme à Bruire Editions) by Jean-Baptiste de Seynes and Nadine Arrieta.
2002 Simultaneity, from the show « Time and the Veiling of Memory » is on the cover of the 2002 Amnesty International Annual Report, French language edition.
Reviews (a selection)
2009 Sud Ouest, France. October 13, 2009, “Verticales du Temps” by Alain d’Aries.
2003 The Telegram. February 23, 2003, St. John’s, Canada. « Islands of spiritual creation » by Janine Smiter. (Former chief of media relations at the National Gallery of Canada, and a board member of the International Association of Art Critics, Canada).
Atlantica Magazine, No 108 – January 2003, France. «Nadine Arrieta. Des traces dans le vent » by Pierre-Marie Nousbaum.
2001 Interview at the radio station “Amuse Gueule”, June 17, Auckland, New Zealand.
Art review by TJ McNamara, art critic for the New Zealand Herald, Arts on Monday. October 22, 2001, « breaking through the mist ».
Art review by Isabel Haarhaus « Time tableaux » in citymix of October 2001, on Time, solo show at Chiaroscuro Gallery, New Zealand.
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The New Zealand Herald, Auckland, New Zealand. October 22, 2001.
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Citimix, Auckland, New zealand. October 2001.
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Memory of an evening by the lake Oil on linen, 2002. Private collection, Auckland, N.Z.
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The Telegram, St John’s, Canada, February 28, 2003.
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Sud Ouest, October 13, 2009, France.
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