Recent acquisitions

Two paintings from John Reynolds' recent exhibition WalkWithMe... have been acquired for the Chartwell Collection which is housed at the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki,
Image: Unhinged Text (Dark Night) #1, 2016, acrylic paint marker on acrylic on canvas, 2100 x 1520 mm, Chartwell Collection, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki

Putting the Chartwell Collection to work

The Chartwell Collection is under the spotlight at the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki. A Work Undone opened last week and is showing alongside Seung Yul Oh's Soom and a photography exhibition titled The Social Life of Things. Most of the artists in the photography show are represented by works drawn from Chartwell's holdings and a few (like Gavin Hipkins) by works from both Chartwell and the collections of the Auckland Art Gallery.

Images (from the top): Gavin Hipkins, Homely: Wellington (Path), 1999; Alicia Frankovich, Pugiliese Suspension/post-performance object, 2007; Layla Rudneva-Mackay, Black Vase and White Flowers, 2011; Richard Maloy, Silver Rock #6, 2001

Chartwell Collection looks beyond New Zealand and Australia

On Sunday Rob and Sue Gardiner gave a floor talk about selected works in the exhibition A World Undone: Works from the Chartwell Collection, curated by Stephen Cleland. In the past Chartwell has focused on works by New Zealand and Australian artists, but the current show at the Auckland Art Gallery reveals a new international strand, featuring works by John Baldessari, Martin Creed, Gunther Forg, Christian Marclay, Robert Rauschenberg, Jessica Stockholder and Richard Tuttle. Aside from the Stockholder, the international artists are presented in a multiples section alongside local artists such as Gavin Hipkins and Jim Speers.
Image: Jim Speers' VeilSide in A World Undone: Works from the Chartwell Collection at the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki

Free downloadable artwork

Clinton Watkins' video Feedback is available as a free downloadable artwork at the Chartwell website.
Image: Clinton Watkins, Feedback (2009), video still, Chartwell Collection, New Zealand. This work was first presented by Chartwell and Starkwhite as a free download project at the 2011 Auckland Art Fair.

Alicia Frankovich nominated for the 2012 Walters Prize

Alica Frankovich has been shortlisted for New Zealand's most prestigious art award.Each of the four artists shortlisted for the 2012 Walters Prize receives $5000 and the opportunity to present their jury-selected project in the Walters Prize exhibition at the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki, which runs for three months from 4 August.

An international judge will be will be named later this year to select the winner who will receive $50,000 and an all-expenses-paid trip to New York, including the opportunity to exhibit at Saatchi & Saatchi's world headquarters.
Image: Alicia Frankovich, Floor Resistance, shown at Hebbel Am Ufer, HAU 3, Berlin (25 June 2011). Photograph courtesy of Hebbel Am Ufer, HAU 3