Artworks Focus: Scott Lawrie at the Gallery
We are thrilled to join forces with Scott Lawrie Gallery for our latest New Zealand Modern Collection. The exhibition is a collaborative effort featuring a curated range of local modern design pieces and contemporary artworks from a diverse group of artists. We are incredibly pleased to collaborate with Scott, and have these works featured in our gallery until Saturday, August 13. We hope you enjoy them as much as we do. View more from Scott Lawrie Gallery at scottlawrie.com and on Instagram.
Rebecca Wallis
'Edge of Self', 2022
Rebecca’s practice was established in 1995 with her Masters Degree in Visual Arts from Goldsmiths College, London. Her practice has predominantly used the traditional painting structure, while simultaneously questioning it. She makes analogies between the Self and the painting. Her methods characteristically involve simple and unconventional gestures, where she refers to herself as a conduit for the interaction between materials. In her work Wallis exhibits a slipping away and a resisting of containment, referring to the allusive felt experiences of the Self and it's fluid positions between Self and Other, Subject and Object. It is her understanding of being, outside of language, informed by Kristeva's theories of Abjection, Lacan's theories of the Real and Freud's theories of the Uncanny.
Rebecca Wallis 'Edge of Self', 2022
Roy Good 'Gothic Portal', 2020
A much-loved figure in New Zealand art, Roy has been painting for over 50 years, exhibiting extensively here in New Zealand, while typifying a modernist abstract movement that has become one of the world’s most significant painting genres. A humble man, and a quiet painter, Roy’s work speaks to us from across five decades, yet the work in the exhibirtion is as fresh and invigorating as any cutting-edge contemporary practice.
Clare has been working hard on her upcoming solo exhibition with the gallery – her first in New Zealand – next year. Following on from her sold out shows in Australia last year, Clare’s work offers us a moment of reflective calm; a much needed respite from the uncertain world outside. Clare is an observational colourist, using planes of flat colour to highlight the nuances within these landscapes, capturing elements such as dappled light, vertical tree lines, dense bush and, occasionally, a moment of bright joy with a contrasting colour, dash of sky, or the hint of a colourful bloom. Reductive to the point of abstraction, these are beautiful paintings to live with, while encouraging us to breathe deeply and reflect a wee bit on the majesty and comfort that nature provides.
Clare Brodie 'Elusive Forms 2', 2021
Cruz Jimenez 'First day of the 13th moon', 2020
Cruz Jimenez 'Ikeya-Seki 1967', 2021/2022
Jimenez’s work is beautifully gestural, giving a fluidity and lightness to the complex layers of media that are often saturated in dark pigment. This parallel of light and dark is evident in this new collection of works where Jimenez incorporates his signature exploration of nightfall alongside works that embrace lightness in both palette and composition. Cruz has three works in our show, each contrasting in tone and scale to show how they can work in a domestic environment.
Cruz Jimenez 'Paradisia #3', 2021/2022
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