Julia Morison at the Auckland Art Fair

16 May, 2018

For the upcoming Auckland Art Fair May 23rd - 27th, 2018 Jonathan Smart Gallery is delighted to be working with recent New Years Honour recipient, Julia Morison. It will be a solo presentation of new work. Julia’s Auckland Art Fair presentation combines different threads of her current visual research: ceramic headcase works; small quirky and cagelike sculptures; and painting at times exuberantly figurative and sometimes suggestively abstract. It will be clear in the installation, but these works are all linked by the grid, and a playful yet visceral sense of form and materials. 

To preview the works by Julia Morison for Jonathan Smart Gallery and the Auckland Art Fair online use the Artsy link below: 

 https://www.artsy.net/show/jonathan-smart-gallery-jonathan-smart-gallery-at-auckland-art-fair-2018

Miranda Parkes - Frances Hodgkins Fellowship

12 April, 2018

Miranda Parkes' display table liners installed at Jonathan Smart Gallery

Below is an insightful conversation between Miranda Parkes and Warren Feeney, published in The Press on Tuesday April 10. In this article, Miranda & Warren discuss the development of her work over the duration of her Frances Hodgkins Fellowship in Dunedin in 2016. Enjoy the read and make sure to view the individual works from her show the merriest on our exhibitions page.

 
https://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/christchurch-life/art-and-stage/visual-art/102892464/miranda-parkes-looks-back-on-a-year-warming-up-dunedin-with-colour 

Zina Swanson - Grace Butler Foundation Award

28 February, 2018

 
 
Zina Swanson & Jonathan Smart installing at JSG in 2017

Well done to Zina Swanson, inaugural winner of the Grace Butler Memorial Foundation Award! This award includes a $20,000 grant along with a 3 month residency and studio facilities at the Ara School of Art & Design. Read more about Zina's selection below...

 
https://www.thebigidea.nz/stories/media-releases/217646-grace-butler-memorial-foundation-award-at-ara-winner-announced

Julia Morison appointed Officer of NZ Order of Merit

14 February, 2018

image: David Walker/Stuff

Our warmest congratulations to Julia Morison who was appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit in the New Years Honours. Jonathan Smart Gallery is delighted to be working with Julia, shaping a solo presentation of her new work at The Auckland Art Fair, May 2018. 

https://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/arts/100196306/artists-new-year-honour-we-dont-value-the-arts-highly-enough

Hannah Beehre exhibiting at CoCA

15 December, 2017

In collaboration with Jonathan Smart Gallery, CoCA is presenting Mures, et Terram by artist Hannah Beehre.

This exhibition can be seen from Saturday 16 December 2017 until Sunday 18 February 2018 at CoCA Toi Moroki Centre of Contemporary Art
66 Gloucester St, Christchurch Central

http://www.coca.org.nz/exhibitions/hannah-beehre

Opening Shows for 2017

26 January, 2017

 
We're gearing up for another year at JSG with an impressive programme of exhibitions. Opening tomorrow evening are two shows: Ummm by Judy Darragh and Blue Sleeps Faster Than Tuesday by Pete Wheeler. We'd love to see you here at 52 Buchan St, Sydenham, to celebrate our first event for 2017. Both artists will be present; Judy is down from Auckland and Pete has come all the way from Berlin!

Judy Darragh Ummm
Pete Wheeler Blue Sleeps Faster Than Tuesday
Opening 5.30pm Friday 27 January
Until 3pm Saturday 18 February

Jonathan Smart and Judy Darragh installing her works

Fiona Pardington receives prestigous French Honour

2 May, 2016

 

In a rare honour, Fiona Pardington was named a Knight (Chevalier) in the Order of Arts and Letters (Chevalier de l’ordre des Arts et des Lettres) by the French Prime Minister, Manuel Valls, in a ceremony at Auckland War Memorial Museum yesterday evening. Fiona is the first New Zealand photographer to receive this honour. Sir Peter Jackson was the one other recipient of the award at Sunday’s ceremony.

The Ordre des Arts et des Lettres is a French honour established in 1975 that recognises significant contributions to the arts and literature, and is given to both French citizens and those throughout the world whom the French government deem worthy of the award.

Past recipients include George Clooney, Olafur Eliasson, Cate Blanchett, Uma Thurman, Tim Burton, Rudolf Nureyev and William S. Burroughs.

It is Fiona’s extraordinary photographic work and research of collections in the French Museums that secured her this award. She was a Moet et Chandon Fellow in 1991-92, and in 2009 received the Musee du Quai Branly Laureate award: La Residence de Photoquai. During her Laureate, Fiona created several bodies of work from the various museum collections, including The Pressure of Sunlight Falling, where she photographed the casts taken by eminent French phrenologist Dumoutier who was on board Dumont d’Urville’s voyage through the Pacific in 1837–1840.

Well done, Fiona! We are very proud to represent you at JSG.

Group Shows By Guest Curators

14 April, 2016

 
We're currently installing two exhibitions by guest curators Sophie Bannan & Jamie Hanton. Sophie - artist, writer, and a founder of North Projects artist-run iniative - is occupying the front gallery with a show entitled House Studies. Aritsts include Daegan Wells, Emma Fitts, Keir Leslie, Kim Pieters, Louise Menzies and Nina Oberg Humphries. Jamie - writer, curator, former Director of the Blue Oyster in Dunedin and currently Art Collections Curator at Canterbury University - is presenting a show entitled Laissez-Faire. Artists include Nicola Hansby, Philip Madill, Justin Spiers and Charlotte Watson.

Sophie Bannan installing House Studies

Jamie Hanton and Justin Spiers installing Laissez-Faire

HOUSE STUDIES and LAISSEZ-FAIRE
Opening 5.30pm Friday 15 April
Until 3pm Saturday 7 May

We look forward to seeing you at the opening tomorrow night!