Miranda Parkes - Frances Hodgkins Fellowship
12 April, 2018
Miranda Parkes' display table liners installed at Jonathan Smart Gallery
The following link will take you to 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!
Julia Morison's Omnium Gatherum
31 March, 2016
From 19 Feb to 12 March this year, visitors to our gallery were wowed by an awe-inspiring and significant body of works by Christchurch artist Julia Morison. If you didn't get the chance to come in and see the show, please follow the link:
/Exhibitions/Omnium-Gatherum/ and enjoy!
Seductive Straka's
16 October, 2015
Soft, sexy & seductive are but a few of the words ascribed to Heather Straka's latest portraits at our gallery. Fourteen cameo-like, back-viewed 'Honeys' adorn the space. With attitudes both demure and suggestive, and finely painted in tones of warm fleshpinks and cool grey-greens, these are works that truly deserves to be seen in person. We look forward to your visit!
/Exhibitions/The-Honeytrap/
The Honeytrap
7 - 31 October, 2015
The artist and her italian greyhounds
