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Heaphy's Garden / Exhibition Catalogue / 17 July - 11 August 2010 / Milford Galleries Dunedin / www.milfordgalleries.co.nz
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Milford Galleries Dunedin18 Dowling Street (03) 477 7727 [email protected]
Preview Friday 16th July from 5:30pm Artist will Attend17th July - 11th August, 2010
www.milfordgalleries.co.nz
CHARLOTTE HANDYheaphy’s garden
1. CHARLOTTE HANDY, Do You Believe? (2010)
acrylic & oil on canvas, frame (v x h x d): 1031 x 730 x 54 mm, stretcher (v x h x d): 1000 x 700 x 25 mm
2. CHARLOTTE HANDY, The Garden Empirical (2010)
a crylic & oil on canvas, frame (v x h x d): 790 x 790 x 54 mm, stretcher (v x h x d): 760 x 753 x 40 mm
3. CHARLOTTE HANDY, Where Breathing Starts (2010)
acrylic & oil on canvas, frame (v x h x d): 790 x 790 x 54 mm, stretcher (v x h x d): 757 x 760 x 40 mm
4. CHARLOTTE HANDY, Begin on Your Histories (2010)acrylic & oil on canvas, frame (v x h x d): 1275 x 948 x 60 mm
5. CHARLOTTE HANDY, Dreams at Sea Level (2010)
acrylic & oil on canvas, frame (v x h x d): 538 x 538 x 54 mm, stretcher (v x h x d): 504 x 506 x 40 mm
6. CHARLOTTE HANDY, Anemone (2010)
acrylic & oil on canvas, frame (v x h x d): 537 x 535 x 54 mm, stretcher (v x h x d): 507 x 506 x 40 mm
7. CHARLOTTE HANDY, In this Hour (2010)
acrylic & oil on canvas, frame (v x h x d): 790 x 790 x 54 mm, stretcher (v x h x d): 758 x 758 x 40 mm
8. CHARLOTTE HANDY, Landscape by Candlelight (2010)acrylic & oil on canvas, frame (v x h x d): 790 x 785 x 54 mm, stretcher (v x h x d): 758 x 755 x 40 mm
9. CHARLOTTE HANDY, Teach Me to Dance (2010)
acrylic & oil on canvas, frame (v x h x d): 790 x 790 x 54 mm, stretcher (v x h x d): 760 x 760 x 40 mm
10. CHARLOTTE HANDY, I Am, But Only Here (2010)
acrylic & oil on canvas, frame (v x h x d): 538 x 535 x 54 mm, stretcher (v x h x d): 508 x 506 x 40 mm
11. CHARLOTTE HANDY, I Don't Miss You Yet (2010)
acrylic & oil on canvas, frame (v x h x d): 538 x 536 x 54 mm, stretcher (v x h x d): 507 x 506 x 40 mm
12. CHARLOTTE HANDY, Antebellum (2010)
acrylic & oil on canvas, frame (v x h x d): 788 x 788 x 54 mm, stretcher (v x h x d): 757 x 760 x 40 mm
13. CHARLOTTE HANDY, Morphia (2010)
acrylic & oil on canvas, frame (v x h x d): 788 x 788 x 54 mm, stretcher (v x h x d): 757 x 759 x 40 mm
14. CHARLOTTE HANDY, Across the River (2010)
acrylic & oil on canvas, frame (v x h x d): 945 x 636 x 54 mm, stretcher (v x h x d): 915 x 605 x 40 mm
15. CHARLOTTE HANDY, Systema Naturae 1 (2010)
acrylic & oil on canvas, frame (v x h x d): 538 x 538 x 54 mm, stretcher (v x h x d): 505 x 505 x 40 mm
16. CHARLOTTE HANDY, Systema Naturae 2 (2010)
acrylic & oil on canvas, frame (v x h x d): 539 x 534 x 54 mm, stretcher (v x h x d): 508 x 503 x 40 mm
17. CHARLOTTE HANDY, Forget Me Not (2010)
acrylic & oil on canvas, frame (v x h x d): 538 x 534 x 54 mm, stretcher (v x h x d): 506 x 505 x 40 mm
All prices are NZD and include GST; Prices are current at the time of the exhibition
E X H I B I T I O N P R I C E L I S T 1 Do You Believe? (2010) 5,000
2 The Garden Empirical (2010) 4,000
3 Where Breathing Starts (2010) 4,000
4 Begin on Your Histories (2010) 6,500
5 Dreams at Sea Level (2010) 2,500
6 Anemone (2010) 2,500
7 In this Hour (2010) 4,000
8 Landscape by Candlelight (2010) 4,000
9 Teach Me to Dance (2010) 4,000
10 I Am, But Only Here (2010) 2,500
11 I Don't Miss You Yet (2010) 2,500
12 Antebellum (2010) 4,000
13 Morphia (2010) 4,000
14 Across the River (2010) 4,000
15 Systema Naturae 1 (2010) 2,500
16 Systema Naturae 2 (2010) 2,500
17 Forget Me Not (2010) 2,500
Charlotte Handy 2010 CV Milford Galleries Dunedin www.milfordgalleries.co.nz
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CHARLOTTE HANDY b. 1967, lives Wellington
The First Weather Report (2006)
Charlotte Handy’s paintings explore “the tensions between abstract and literal, land and sea, surface
and depth.” (1) The atmospheres established move between the realms of implied, real and imaginary
while Handy dissolves perspective to play games with the viewer’s perception. Key in these paintings is
the state of constant visual flux: nothing is fixed or certain or final.
Handy’s paintings are a non-representational visual cartography of oceans, landmass, and weather
conditions where location is suggested rather than overtly stated. “Her works map dreamscapes; they
are the paintings of a self-exiled New Zealander whose eyes comb a phantasmal body of water for
evidence of something specific, something familiar.” (2)
The artist generates a search for places as meaning and delivers ambiguity. Just as the land and sea
are interchangeable localities, the cross motif predominant throughout Handy’s paintings can be read
as a symbol of faith, a navigational point, a ships mast. “A cross marks an edge a line twice drawn, a
crease-mark on a map…the position of a star or sun on an astrolabe.” (3) It is also a visual device of
emphasis.
“Handy paints uncertainty by choosing to depict wavering mirage-like forms that fade in and out of
cloud build-up that has settled over gently lapping waves.” (4) Ambiguity of form, content, depth and
meaning within Handy’s paintings are instruments of debate, while also being containers of cerebral
beauty and moments held in suspension.
(1) Anna Smith, Sea Lungs for an Inland Sea, 2006
(2) David Eggleton, The Sea Inside, New Zealand Listener, Dec 16, 2006
(3) Anna Smith, Sea Lungs for an Inland Sea, 2006
(4) David Eggleton, The Sea Inside, New Zealand Listener, Dec 16, 2006
Charlotte Handy was born in Wellington, 1967. She attended the Elam School of Fine Arts in the late
1980s and early 1990s. Her contempories included Giovanni Intra, Anna Miles, Michael Parekowhai, and
Gavin Hipkins. She was awarded a Senior Scholarship in painting and was invited in her third year at
Elam to hold her first solo exhibition at the Betty Wallis Gallery. A move to London in 1994 resulted in
Charlotte becoming involved in the British photography scene. She was a finalist in two international
competitions, and her work was exhibited at the Victoria and Albert Museum and The Royal Festive Hall.
Her work is held in the National Bank, Minter Ellison Rudd Watts and Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade
collections, and in private collections in New Zealand, East Asia, Europe and North America.
Charlotte Handy 2010 CV Milford Galleries Dunedin www.milfordgalleries.co.nz
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CHARLOTTE HANDY b. 1967, lives Wellington
EDUCATION
1990 Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland, Auckland
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2010 Heaphy’s Garden, Milford Galleries Dunedin
2008 The Peninsular, milford galleries auckland
2006 The Inland Sea, Milford Galleries Dunedin
2006‘ Overland, Tinakori Gallery Wellington
2005 Exile Harbour, Tinakori Gallery Wellington
1997 View from an Island, Bayswater, London
1996 Winter Paintings, Bayswater, London
1990 Charlotte Handy – Paintings, Betty Wallis Gallery, Parnell, Auckland
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
The Royal Festive Hall, London
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
1996 ASC Studios, Camberwell, London (open studio organised by Whitechapel Gallery)
1995 ASC Studios, Camberwell, London
South Bank Photo Show (four works), Hayward Gallery, London
The Guardian/Faberge Photographic Competition (finalist), Victoria and Albert Museum, London
1994 Members Group Show, ASA, Ponsonby, Auckland
1992 Cross Pollination (collaborative piece with Jennifer Ruston, in bi- cultural group show curated by
George Hubbard), Artspace, Auckland
The Face of AIDS – Artists against AIDS, Chiaroscuro Gallery, Parnell, Auckland
1990 Screen Show, Betty Wallis Gallery, Parnell, Auckland
The Elam Painters, ASA, Ponsonby, Auckland
AWARDS
1995 Finalist, The Guardian/Faberge Photographic Competition, London
1989 Elam Senior Scholarship in Painting
COLLECTIONS
The Rutherford Trust Collection
Hawkes Bay Museum and Art Gallery
Wingnut Films, Wellington
Le’Art Group, Hawkes Bay
BIBLIOGRAPHY 2007 Smith, Anna. Aqualung Blues: The Art of Charlotte Handy, Art New Zealand, Issue 124, Spring
2007, pg 66 - 68