SUPPORTING THE DOWSE FOR OVER 40 YEARS ISSUE 44 / MAY 2014

IN THIS ISSUE INTERVIEW: RICHARD ORJIS In association with the exhibition Slip Cast, multimedia artist and educator Richard Orjis shares some insights about his work.

WHAT’S ON AT THE DOWSE All the information you need about the exhibitions and events taking place at The Dowse in the coming months. 4 A THOROUGHLY MODERN COUPLE: ROY COWAN AND JULIET PETER Senior Curator Emma Bugden discusses the remarkable lives of Roy Cowan and Juliet Peter. 5

SHAPESHIFTER 2014 We look back on Banks Shoes Shapeshifter, an exhibition of contemporary art held in the Lower Hutt Civic Gardens as part of the 2014 New Zealand International Arts Festival. 7

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ON THE COVER FRIENDS COMMITTEE 2014 Richard Orjis, Golden Daze, 2014. President SPECIALOFFERS Image courtesy of the artist and Bruce Sedcole P 569 8680 Melanie Roger Gallery. Vice president ARCHIBALD ART SUPPLIES, Heather Crichton P 021 937 750 95 MAIN STREET, UPPER HUTT 10% discount – except easels, pottery, IN THIS ISSUE Treasurer magazines or commissioned work from an Pg 2 Jonathan Tomkins Greetings from Courtney exhibition General committee CACI LOWER HUTT, Pg 3 Colin Kelly, Ann Montague 119 QUEENS DRIVE, LOWER HUTT Greetings from Bruce Patron 15% off – excludes Appearance Medicine and Profile: Katrina Smit Gillian Deane current promotions Pg 4 The Dowse Art Museum Friends liaison GORDON HARRIS – THE ART & GRAPHIC STORE, What’s on at The Dowse Katrina Smit 170 VICTORIA STREET, 10% Discount – except books and magazines Pg5 FRIENDS NEWSLETTER Open 7 days with parking – Wheelchair friendly A Thoroughly Modern Couple: www.gordonharris.co.nz Roy Cowan & Juliet Peter Editor Kimberley Stephenson Designer Nicky Dyer HORIZON PAPER PLUS, Senior Curator Emma Bugden discusses the 228 HIGH STREET, LOWER HUTT remarkable lives of Roy Cowan and Juliet Peter. 10% off books, stationery and greeting cards KEEP UP-TO-DATE WITH NEWS Pg 6 LA BELLA ITALIA, 10 NEVIS STREET, PETONE Interview: Richard Orjis Please take a moment to send us your email or change of postal address so we can keep in 10% discount on divella products In association with the exhibition Slip Cast, touch: [email protected] LIGHTHOUSE CINEMA, BEACH STREET, PETONE multimedia artist and educator Richard Orjis Free coffee when purchasing a movie ticket shares some insights about his work. MEETINGS MINE: THE DOWSE SHOP Pg 7 The Friends committee normally meets 10% discount to Friends Shapeshifter 2014 on the first Thursday of the month, REKA CAFÉ, 45 LAINGS ROAD, THE DOWSE ART We look back on Banks Shoes Shapeshifter, 6pm at The Dowse Art Museum. MUSEUM, LOWER HUTT an exhibition of contemporary art held in the 10% discount on food and drink until 5pm Lower Hutt Civic Gardens as part of the 2014 RONA (GALLERY AND BOOKS), New Zealand International Arts Festival. Find us online 151 MURITAI ROAD, EASTBOURNE Find the latest events and Friends news at Profile: Emma Ng 10% discount on art books and art supplies www.dowse.org.nz/friends Pg 8 VICTORIANA FLORIST, QUEENSGATE SHOPPING Upcoming Friends Events MALL & 496 FERGUSSON DRIVE, UPPER HUTT 10% discount on all flowers and loyalty card membership Join Us! WITH WARM THANKS TO OUR BUSINESSES For information about how to join the Friends of These discounts are exclusive to Friends The Dowse visit www.dowse.org.nz/friends members. Friends must show email [email protected] membership card to receive discounts. or phone 021 937 750

Greetings from Courtney

Tēnā koutou, and welcome to this It has already been an eventful year in staff and great networks to the team. We are also issue of the Friends of The Dowse movements. This issue is the first for our new excited to welcome our Creative New Zealand newsletter. Communications & Relationships Manager, / Blumhardt Foundation curatorial intern for Katrina Smit. Katrina joined us from Te Puni 2014, Bridget Reweti. Recently I was invited to the Govett-Brewster Kokiri; previous to this, she has worked in Art Gallery to speak at their Friends event on Finally, after ten dedicated and humour- communications at Creative New Zealand The Dowse’s community outreach. It was a filled years with The Dowse, Collections and and the Ministry for Culture and Heritage. wonderful opportunity to reflect on my first Touring Manager Bev Eng is taking a year’s Katrina will be The Dowse’s representative 18 months here, and think about what we sabbatical. Her position will be filled by our on The Friends committee, cooking up ways are working towards. It was also a chance Registrar, Jo Wehrly, recently returned from to entice new members and keep current to talk about the dual role The Dowse has in maternity leave, and in turn Georgia Morgan, members connected and excited. Lower Hutt - to be an accessible home for the who covered for Jo, will stay for another best of art and craft for local residents, while This month we farewell Emma Bugden, who year. Phew! also drawing attention and visitors to the leaves us for eight months on maternity Fortunately, as you can see throughout this city. This is certainly the context in which we leave. In turn we welcome Brian Wood, newsletter, we’re meeting all this change present exhibitions like June’s Wunderrūma, covering while Emma is on leave as Curator with lots of energy and fresh ideas. We look a cutting-edge exhibition of New Zealand of Exhibitions and Events. With a background forward to sharing more with you! jewellery we toured to Munich at the start of in ceramics and recent experience with New Zealand art and craft in auction house the year and are now showing on its return to HEI KONĀ MAI, these shores. Webbs, Brian brings deep subject knowledge COURTNEY JOHNSTON, DIRECTOR

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Greetings from Bruce

Dear Friends, greetings to all and a that The Dowse plays in enriching and We are still on the lookout for new special warm welcome to the new invigorating our local community, and it was committee members too, so contact us if members of The Friends who have great for The Friends committee volunteers you are keen to be involved in what is an joined us recently. to again be part of such a successful and enjoyable and satisfying role contributing well run event. to the support of The Dowse. Winter is now well and truly upon us, but This will be my last letter to you as President Please do come along to the AGM if you we are left with many enjoyable memories of The Friends as I will be standing down can, we’d like to share this evening with of events held at The Dowse in the last at our AGM on 3 June. After seven years you, and the meeting will conclude with a months of summer and autumn. Courtney on the committee, three as President, it is Collection Tour hosted by Bev Eng - a rare Johnston’s firstShapeshifter exhibition was time for a new face to take over, and our opportunity to see behind the scenes at a resounding success. I know many of you current Vice President Heather Crichton The Dowse. For information about other visited and enjoyed the superb pieces on has agreed to be nominated at the AGM as events planned for this year, please see show - I made it a number of times and President. I would like to thank both The page 8. I am looking forward to attending each time it was a great place to escape Dowse staff and The Friends committee these and other special events as a Friends from the “real world”, behind the walls for their wonderful ideas, hard work and member (although I have been co-opted and into the transformed setting of the encouragement over the years, their efforts to host more Friends Architecture Tours!). civic gardens to spend time enjoying the have been a great support for me in my role Finally, to you the members of The Friends, works exhibited. It is always the highlight as President and are sincerely appreciated. thank you for all your generous support... of the year for me when the Festival of and I’ll see you at The Dowse. the Arts and Shapeshifter come to town, and Courtney can be proud of the calibre WITH BEST WISHES BRUCE SEDCOLE, PRESIDENT of work she assembled for this year’s exhibition, and satisfied that she has maintained the exemplary standard that we have come to expect from this event.

Hot on the heels of Shapeshifter was the annual Big Day Dowse festival, cementing itself as one of the must-do events on the summer calendar. The crowd of more than 8,000 enjoyed a beautiful sunny day, a wide variety of entertainment and activities, and an excellent line-up of musical acts culminating in a stunning set delivered by Trinity Roots. This year the festival, organised by Sian van Dyk, extended beyond the new award-winning Dowse Square and into a closed-off Laings Road where a multitude of food stalls kept the crowd replete and happy. The Big Day Dowse again reinforced the vital role ABOVE: Big Day Dowse, 2014.

PROFILE COMMUNICATIONS & RELATIONSHIPS MANAGER, KATRINA SMIT

The Dowse Art Museum has a unique place in New Zealand and it’s not just because of the collection and the programmes. The vision that created The Dowse - the commitment and aspirations of a community that recognised the value of having a distinctive, innovative art museum at its heart - is what makes The Dowse like no other. The Dowse has been my family’s art “fix” since we moved to Lower Hutt twelve years ago and I’m looking forward to working with the Friends of The Dowse to keep growing the affection for the museum both locally and nationally.

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MAY 2014 – AUGUST 2014

SHORT TRADITIONS ELIZABETH THOMSON: Exhibitions AN INVITATION TO OPENNESS - UNTIL 3 AUGUST 2014 SUBSTANTIVE AND TRANSITIVE STATES NUKU TEWHATEWHA Short Traditions cuts a visual slice through The Dowse Collection, connecting recent acquisitions with iconic 23 AUGUST - 23 NOVEMBER 2014 ONGOING - works. Highlighting abstraction, this exhibition An Invitation to Openness - Substantive and Transitive Commissioned by Te Atiawa chief W Tako Ngatata- includes work by Simon Denny, Julian Dashper, Allen States, by Wellington sculptor Elizabeth Thomson in the 1850s as a sign of support for the K ngitanga Maddox and Milan Mrkusich. is an ambitious installation of hundreds of flocked (Maori- King) movement, Nuku Tewhatewha is one of bronze white moths. Invading the gallery space, the seven pataka- built around the North Island as ‘Pillars moths will create an immersive environment, landing of the Kingdom’. on the walls of their own accord without the restriction of order as if it is their natural habitat. FALLEN ROBOT ONGOING Events Commissioned by the E Tu Awakairangi Hutt Public Art Trust, Ronnie van Hout’s giant metal robot reclines LATE LOUNGE in front of The Dowse. FIRST THURSDAY OF THE MONTH 7–9PM | KOHA SLIP CAST 5 June The Wellington City Shake-’Em-On-Downers Short Traditions, 2014. UNTIL 2 JUNE 2014 3 July Mat Enright / The Dancing and Drinking Society Slip Cast highlights current ceramics in New Zealand, A MODEST MODERNISM: ROY COWAN & JULIET including works by artists Francis Upritchard, Suji Park PETER TALK & TOUR: SHORT TRADITIONS and Kate Newby, and potters Tony Bond, Paul Maseyk, SATURDAY 7 JUNE 2014 1PM FREE Madeline Child and Kate Fitzharris. 31 MAY – 2 NOVEMBER 2014 A Modest Modernism: Roy Cowan & Juliet Peter Meet Rebecca Rice, proud owner of a doer-upper in celebrates the creative lives of Wellington artist Moera and Curator of Historical New Zealand Art at Te couple Roy Cowan (Ngāpuhi, Te Atiawa 1918-2006) Papa. Rebecca will share her thoughts on abstraction and Juliet Peter (1915-2010). Painters, printmakers, in relation to works from The Dowse Collection in this potters and illustrators, both artists placed aesthetics exhibition. at the heart of all their work, and approached life with the idea that all artistic activity is connected. WUNDERN: SPEND A SPECIAL AFTERNOON WITH THE WUNDERRŪMA JEWELLERS SATURDAY 21 JUNE 2014 1-4PM FREE Exhibition curators Warwick Freeman and Karl Fritsch will discuss the making of Wunderrūma, followed by Madeleine Child, Popcorn Pieces, 2013. informal banter, encounters and performances with Collection of The Dowse Art Museum. their special guests in the exhibition space. There will also be opportunities to go behind the scenes to MALCOLM HARRISON: THE FAMILY spy some of The Dowse’s own jewellery collection and pick up the latest copy of Overview. We’ll UNTIL 22 JUNE 2014 conclude with drinks and nibbles for all Wunderrūma Malcolm Harrison’s exquisite dolls, part of The participants and visitors. Dowse Collection, were created in the 1980s from Roy Cowan in his garden workshop at 8 Heke Street, Ngaio, his collection of fabrics, buttons, jewellery, lace, 1960s or 1970s. ART NIGHT: PŌ WHAKAATU TOI embroidery and hat trimmings, some dating back to the 19th century. MATATOKI: CONTEMPORARY MĀORI CARVING THURSDAY 3 JULY 2014 5–10PM FREE 21 JUNE - 28 SEPTEMBER 2014 For one magical starry night, jump on board a free Art Night bus and catch special late night openings at Coming to us from Rotorua Museum, Matatoki brings galleries across the Wellington region. together the work of some internationally-recognised contemporary Māori carvers. City Gallery Wellington and Te Papa (Wellington), Pataka (Porirua), The Dowse (Lower Hutt) and Expressions (Upper Hutt) join forces to open late and celebrate Matariki with live music, exhibitions and special events after dark. Art Night: Pō Whakaatu Toi is winter’s must-see event for contemporary art- lovers and an exciting night out for the whole family. Free Art Night buses will run in a circuit across the region. Buses depart every 30 minutes, 5–10pm. We’ll be hosting you on board with information on what to Malcolm Harrison, The Family (Bank, Thomas and Lennox), 1983- expect at each gallery. 1987. Collection of The Dowse Art Museum. Matarikiwellington.org HERE TO THERE Iwi Le Comte, Te Ika-a-Maui, 2011. MATARIKI CELEBRATION UNTIL 20 JULY 2014 Courtesy of the artist. This exhibition of artworks from The Dowse Collection SUNDAY 6 JULY 2014 FREE reflects on the notion of journeys. Whether we came WUNDERRŪMA: NEW ZEALAND JEWELLERY Join us in celebration of Matariki: to Aotearoa New Zealand on a plane or a boat, across 21 JUNE - 28 SEPTEMBER 2014 the sky or the sea, following a compass or the stars, TANABATA I 10.30AM–12.00PM once upon a time, someone in our family decided Wunderrūma brings together over 200 pieces by Learn more about this ancient star festival from “that’s the place to be!” Featuring work by E. Mervyn more than 75 contemporary New Zealand jewellers Japan, write a wish on Tanzaku and make an origami Taylor, John Bevan Ford, Richard Killeen, Christine and artists as well as Māori taonga and Pacific and star to display in The Dowse courtyard. Hellyar, Harry Watson, and Seung Yul Oh, as well as historical European jewellery from Te Papa. a real life waka! MANU AUTE MĀORI PERFORMING ARTS I 1PM Manu Aute Productions bring contemporary kapa haka to The Dowse! Located in Wingate Lower Hutt, Manu Aute Productions provides quality teaching in Diploma Level of Māori Performing Arts. TALK & TOUR: MATATOKI | 2PM Join curators Karl Chitham and Eugene Kara in an insightful conversation about putting together the exhibition Matatoki: Contemporary Māori Carving. They will also share some of their stories about the Harry Watson, The Red Band, 2001. carvings on show. Collection of The Dowse Art Museum. Ross Malcolm, Yellow Brooch, 2013.

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A THOROUGHLY MODERN COUPLE Roy Cowan & Juliet Peter “There was something Bloomsbury the house show a home filled with pots and to go into residential care. At Heke Street about their environment … the fabrics, paintings, and by all accounts it was a hub they lived full-time as artists from the the utensils, the pots, the paintings, the for a lively creative community that included late 1950s, largely surviving from sales of food, the garden … In the ways that the artist , architect Ernst domesticware pottery. Plischke and composer David Farquhar. matter most they remained children. In 2004, when Juliet finally left Heke Street, They remembered why it was they They married in 1952, having got to know she donated to The Dowse a number had got into the arts in the first place. each other in the late 1940s when they of significant works by Roy, along with Because as children they had got a real were both working at School Publications, photographs and other memorabilia of where Juliet was staff artist and Roy a their lives together. This generous gift kick out of doing it and they never lost School Journal art editor and illustrator. has sparked the exhibition we are now that primal connection.” There they were part of a long and illustrious presenting. We have also added in works Fellow artist wrote the line of artists and writers whose careers from various collectors, most of whom quote above about two artists, Roy Cowan were supported by the School Journal, knew Roy and Juliet personally. The show (Ngāpuhi, Te Ātiawa, 1918-2006) and Juliet from Janet Frame to Colin McCahon and is uniquely personalised by the inclusion Peter (1915-2010), whose work we are Gordon Walters. It’s fascinating to consider of elements of their shared life together, featuring at The Dowse this month. I never such a heady mix of talent working to from hand-painted tiles by Juliet that were met Roy or Juliet but always felt drawn to shape young minds! installed in their bathroom to a Plischke the legacy they left behind. A couple who chair from their living room. I hope that In 1953 they travelled together to London each carved out important and productive the exhibition conveys the remarkable to study further – Roy at the Slade School careers as artists, they began in the early and inspiring lives of Roy and Juliet, two of Fine Art and Juliet at the Hammersmith 1950s, at a time when two artists sharing talented people who were thoroughly School of Art. During their time there they a creative life was far less common committed to life as an artist couple. reveled in the opportunities for viewing art than today. that Europe offered and first discovered EMMA BUGDEN, SENIOR CURATOR Throughout their lives they worked closely pottery and printmaking, media that would together, each with their own style, but become central to their later work as clearly influenced by each other. I like to artists. Once back in Wellington in 1955 A Modest Modernism: imagine them together in their home in they purchased a bungalow on Heke Roy Cowan & Juliet Peter Ngaio, working on their own projects but Street, Ngaio, where they lived until the Open at The Dowse 31 May – 2 November 2014 bouncing ideas off each other. Photos of early 2000s when first Roy, then Juliet, had

IMAGE: Juliet Peter, Sombre Summer, 1976. Collection of The Dowse Art Museum. Gift of The Friends of The Dowse, 1976.  5  SUBSCRIBE TO E-NEWS AT www.dowse.org.nz JOIN US ON FACEBOOK www.facebook.com/thedowseartmuseum CHECK OUT www.dowse.org.nz/friends ISSUE 44 / MAY 2014

INTERVIEW RICHARD ORJIS Showcasing ceramics by contemporary New Zealand artists, Slip Cast celebrates the creative freedom that has been brought to the medium in recent years. Among the artists whose work is represented in the show is Auckland-based multimedia artist and educator Richard Orjis. In May, Kimberley Stephenson spoke to the artist about his work.

KIMBERLEY STEPHENSON: Two of your ceramic RO: I’m not sure if it does, my process is the surface. I think I’m constantly trying works are currently on show at The Dowse always quite intuitive though. It’s a marriage to capture that in my work, the magical or as part of the exhibition Slip Cast. Can of ideas I want to explore and mediums mystical parallel to what we see. you tell us about the development of these I want to work with at that time. There’s KS: Many of your recent photographs are works and the processes involved? an underlying desire to understand the world around me, to grasp the intersection a combination of studio photography and RICHARD ORJIS: Clay offered a material that between the natural and human-made with digital manipulation. Can you tell us about is primary about the tactile experience. whatever material I’m working with. this process? The works grew out of what the medium KS: Are there any artists working in this RO: Photoshop freed photographers to treat would allow me to do, there’s a celebration medium that have particularly inspired your the image more like a painter would. I align of the organic and imperfect forms that practice? much of my photographic work to collage, were created, and the human hand is RO: pulling images from a variety of sources always present. I looked to natural forms Slip Cast is an amazing exhibition and placing them together. I have a store of for inspiration: hives, anthills and rock featuring many of my favourite contemporary artists working with ceramics today. My own images on my computer that I use, images formations. They are robust forms that could work grew from a desire to learn something that I’ve shot in a studio, snapshots from the conceivably be used in the everyday - a through doing and the concepts of wabi sabi world around me and scans from books or lantern, a vase for dried flowers. I want to in Japanese ceramics. Wabi sabi represents off the Internet. marry form and function, something that an aesthetic centred on the acceptance KS: What projects are you working on at ceramics lends itself to so easily. Vessels of transience and imperfection. The have the power to transform your life, for aesthetic is sometimes described as one of the moment? instance changing your cup to something beauty that is imperfect, impermanent, and RO: I’m currently on the Tylee Cottage unique, handmade, where you know its incomplete. Residency in Whanganui. There is a origin, would no doubt influence that whole KS: A recurrent theme in your work is that of wealth of Māori and European history, experience of drinking a cup of tea. cult and ritual. What is it about this theme I’ve been accessing the rich knowledge KS: As an artist, you have produced work that interests you? of ceramics and photography that is held in a broad range of media, including RO: I enjoy the idea of something, even the here and extending my research into photography, paint, sculpture, and everyday experience, being special in some gardens. Gardens are fascinating sites that performance. Does your multidisciplinary way. I grew up Roman Catholic and, as a demonstrate our ever-changing relationship approach to art-making influence your child, the world was imbued with a sense with the natural world and what is happening ceramic works in any way? that things weren’t quite as they seem on within a culture at a certain time.

Slip Cast

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EXHIBITION BANKS SHOES 2014 SHAPESHIFTER

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BLUMHARDT FOUNDATION / CREATIVE NEW ZEALAND CURATORIAL INTERN 2013 PROFILE

Emma Ng In late 2013, Emma Ng became the sixth recipient of the Blumhardt Foundation’s Curatorial Internship, funded by Creative New Zealand. A legacy of New Zealand potter Dame Doreen Blumhardt’s commitment to arts education, the internship provides a rare opportunity for an aspiring curator to develop their skills alongside professional museum staff, in a contemporary gallery setting.

During her internship Emma was responsible for curating the exhibition Everyday Fiction, which opened in February this year. Located upstairs in the Blumhardt Gallery, the exhibition brought together artworks that imagine details of everyday life in times and places beyond here and now. Combining decorative and contemporary art, the show featured works by Bekah Carran, Kirsten Haydon, Andy Irving and Keila Martin, Sara Lee, Marian Maguire, and Jo Torr.

Emma, who holds a Bachelor of Design Innovation and an Honours degree in Art History from Victoria University, is now Manager/Curator at Enjoy Public Art Gallery in Wellington.

ABOVE: Kirsten Haydon, Ice Dome, 2011.  7  AWARDS PRESENTATION AT THE DOWSE 29 AUGUST 2014 WINNERS WORK EXHIBITED AT THE DOWSE

GET YOUR WORK RECOGNISED ECC NZ Student Craft/Design Awards 2014 CALL FOR ENTRIES FROM THE FIELDS OF 2013 WINNER FURNITURE / PRODUCT / Table Lamp Dark JEWELLERY / GLASSWORK / Hayden Maunsell LIGHTING / TEXTILE / CERAMICS

ENTRIES CLOSE SUNDAY 3RD AUGUST 2014 1ST PRIZE $3,000 2ND PRIZE $1,000 PEOPLES CHOICE AWARD $1,000

To be eligible to enter the Awards students (full-time or part-time) need to be enrolled at a New Zealand tertiary institution during 2014 or have completed the final year of their course in 2013. MORE INFO @ www.dowse.org.nz/scda

AGM – 1ST NOTICE

FRIENDS OF THE DOWSE Limited Edition FRIENDS AGM Piece of Jewellery Tuesday 3 June 2014 ANNUAL 6PM – 8PM at The Dowse Art Museum ARCHITECTURE The Friends are commissioning a limited All members welcome! The proceedings will be edition piece of jewellery, to be created followed by a Collections Tour – Bev Eng’s last TOUR by one of New Zealand’s leading jewellers before she heads north. Lynn Kelly, and to be exclusively available NOVEMBER 2014 Committee nominations and any General Business to the Friends of The Dowse. must be made in writing at least seven days before Early November seems ages away, the AGM to: but tickets are available soon for the 2014 Tour. Watch this space! Friends of The Dowse A chance to see a selection of PO Box 30 396 interesting homes in the Hutt Valley – Lower Hutt always a great afternoon! In conjunction with - or email [email protected] Wunderruma Nomination Forms can be collected from the front desk of the gallery. If you are interested or 21 June to 21 September 2014 would like to put someone’s name forward please at The Dowse contact: Heather Crichton on 021 937 750.

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