I was hugely pleased to win the Gordon Harris award at the 2023 Walker and Hall Art Awards at the Waiheke Community Art Gallery last weekend.
Many thanks to the Gallery, the sponsors Walker and Hall and Gordon Harris and the Cable Bay Vineyard for hosting the Gala dinner. A huge thanks to Lonnie Hutchinson the judge.
Also congratulations to the other award winners and all the artists who made for a wonderful evening.
Foenander Gallery hosted an exhibition of my recent work. ‘New Wave’ in March 2023. The opening was photographed by Sait Akkirman of artsdiary and you can view his photos here.
Photo credit Sait Akkirman of artsdiary
The list of works and text can be viewed at Foenander Gallery.
A review by John Daly-Peoples can be found at his NZ Arts Review website.
‘Post Box’ is part of the exhibition opening on Friday 14th October at the Waiheke Community Arts Centre in Oneroa and the winners will be announced on Saturday 15th.
Photographer Sait Akkirman documented the opening of ‘Outsider’ and his great photographs are on his website Artsdiary.
The opening of ‘Outsider’ is at 6.00 to 8.00pm on Friday 12th March at Föenander Gallery in Mount Eden.
The show represents my new work from the past year and it is my first true solo show at Föenander Galleries. Previously I have exhibited with the sculptor Ramon Robertson or had a joint show with another painter, photographer or printmaker.
Laurence Yep writes, ‘Despite the implication that the outsider is alone or excluded from the majority, the sense of being outside has a familiar ring for many of us. The outsider is a dominant theme in literature & film. Whether historical and contemporary fiction, science fiction, or fantasy, readers – and viewers – experience the magic and wonder in the world that can be found by shifting perspective and seeing things instead as outsiders.’
Yep, L. (2005). The Outsider in Fiction and Fantasy. The English Journal, 94(3), 52-54. doi:10.2307/30046419
Seeing things from the perspective of an outisder resonates with Carter’s reimagining of the everyday, and ordinary things around the city; rubbish bins, buildings ready for demolition, various bits of machinery and so on. These things are the detritus of city life. Continuing with his search for discovering new ways to see the city as the ‘Flânuer’ – this series sees Carter introduce familiar characters and narratives from literature and cinema.
All are welcome. https://www.foenandergalleries.co.nz/
The opening can extend into Saturday for those that can’t make it on Friday night.
In March 2021 I’ll be having an exhibition of my latest work at Föenander Galleries in Mount Eden, Auckland. More details to follow.
Here is a new video I’ve made using some rather basic recording and editing equipment. Seven minutes long and posted on YouTube: The painting will be available for sale most likely at Föenander Galleries in the near future: https://youtu.be/mGS1aBX7YsI
Now that the country is in lockdown due to the virus it is an opportunity to get on with some work in the studio. So, I’ve been painting a series of urban paintings in which I’m continuing my exploration into colour in particular the effect of colour and subjective colour schemes. This exploration relates to and moves on from my interest in the psychology of urban space.
For now though I’ve paused the painting as I’ve run out of canvases and boards and so I’m building up a stock of them.
I have a few paintings in the window of Gallery 1, 2 and 3 at NorthArt in Northcote. There is also a great exhibition of landscapes of New Zealand from the collection of the Kelliher Arts Trust. The trust held awards and some paintings are from those and others were commissions.
In the exhibition in Gallery 1 is a painting by Robert Ellis, a high view of Auckland with a motorway flyover. The exhibition is open until the 19th February.
Photos courtesty of Anita Cole