John Badcock Paint or Portrait
3rd-30th September 2013 pierre peeters gallery 251 Parnell Road; Habitat Courtyard; ph 09 3774832; www.ppg.net.nz
John Badcock Born in 1952, John Badcock comes from a very artistic family. He began painting in Queenstown with his father Douglas over 45 years ago and has been a professional artist now for three decades. He has had over 25 public gallery/museum solo exhibitions and over 40 dealer solo exhibitions. John has achieved ten New Zealand Art Awards, and in 2007 was selected for the Archibald Salon des Refuses exhibition in Sydney, Australia. In 2008 he was elected to the South Canterbury Hall of Fame, Timaru. Collections of John’s work are held extensively throughout New Zealand at locations including Christchurch Art Gallery, Hocken Library, Dunedin, New Zealand Portrait Gallery, Wellington, Aigantighe Art Gallery, Timaru, Andersons Park, Invercargill and internationally at the Sackman Corporation in New York. John is a published portraitist in his work “Passing People – 100 portraits”. Also is in a film by Cowboy Productions titled “A Changing Landscape”. John has become renowned for portraiture and has been described as an expressionist. His vibrant, texturally sculptured portraits are a richness of emotional brushstrokes in paint dripping off the canvas, provoking thought and conversation, insight, and revealing a depth of understanding of the human condition.
Paint or Portrait Artist Statement:
My experience with oil paint as a medium to produce the portrait began with an emphasis on drawing to achieve likeness, and in using oils to model that likeness in colour. This exhibition however challenges that process of mainly predetermined outcomes driven by drawing, and places the focus on the media of oil paint. When looking at my work it is easy to dismiss it for its apparent lack of drawing but within the cyclic process of constructing and deconstructing an image, drawing is always present, imbedded in and on the gestural applications of oil. Drawing has to somehow co-exist within the gesture, and within the paint, challenging our perception of what a portrait should look like. These are mainly self-portraits. As a painter I have a great love of oils as a medium. It is a sensual and provocative medium, offering its fragrance, its gooeyness, it freshness and its immediacy to me as an artist. These works put me in my world of paint and remind me of the sensory experience involved in painting them.
1. 27/4 - 16/6/13 Oil on Canvas 400 x 300mm
2. 25/9/12 - 3/5/13 Oil on Canvas 400 x 300mm
3. 17/6 - 18/7/13 Oil on Canvas 400 x 300mm
4. 24/4 - 29/4/13 Oil on Canvas 400 x 300mm
5. 21/4/13 Oil on Canvas 400 x 300mm
6. 22/4/13 Oil on Canvas 400 x 300mm
7. 17/6 - 6/7/13 Oil on Canvas 400 x 300mm
8. 6/3 - 3/7/13 Oil on Canvas 400 x 300mm
9. 9/7/13 Oil on Canvas 400 x 300mm
10. 7/5 - 28/6/13 Oil on Canvas 400 x 300mm
11. 23/4 -26/4/13 Oil on Canvas 400 x 300mm
12. 7/1 - 19/4/13 Oil on Canvas 400 x 300mm
13. 20/4 - 22/4/13 Oil on Canvas 400 x 300mm
14. 14/12/10 - 8/12/12 Oil on Canvas 1020 x 920 mm
15. 23/7/08 - 20/3/12 Oil on Canvas 1210 x 920 mm
1. 27/4 - 16/6/13
oil on canvas, 40 x 30 cm
$3,850
2. 25/9/12 - 3/5/13
oil on canvas, 40 x 30 cm
$3,850
3. 17/6 - 8/7/13
oil on canvas, 40 x 30 cm
$3,850
4. 24/4 - 29/4/13
oil on canvas, 40 x 30 cm
$3,850
5. 21/4/13
oil on canvas, 40 x 30 cm
$3,850
6. 22/4/13
oil on canvas, 40 x 30 cm
$3,850
7. 17/6 - 6/7/13
oil on canvas, 40 x 30 cm
$3,850
8. 6/3 - 3/7/13
oil on canvas, 40 x 30 cm
$3,850
9. 9/7/13
oil on canvas, 40 x 30 cm
$3,850
10. 7/5 - 28/6/13
oil on canvas, 40 x 30 cm
$3,850
11. 23/4 - 26/4/13
oil on canvas, 40 x 30 cm
$3,850
12. 7/1 - 19/4/13
oil on canvas, 40 x 30 cm
$3,850
13. 20/4 - 22/4/13
oil on canvas, 40 x 30 cm
$3,850
14. 102 x 92
oil on canvas, 102 x 92 cm
$28,000
15. 121 x 91
oil on canvas, 121 x 91 cm
$28,000
251 Parnell Road; Habitat Courtyard; ph 09 3774832; www.ppg.net.nz