IN THIS ISSUE DIARY of an INSTALL Dowse Host Alissa Liu Writes About Her Week Helping with the Install of Liu Jianhua: Transfer
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SUPPORTING THE DOWSE FOR OVER 40 YEARS ISSUE 51 / MARCH 2016 IN THIS ISSUE DIARY OF AN INSTALL Dowse Host Alissa Liu writes about her week helping with the install of Liu Jianhua: Transfer. WARWICK FREEMAN: THIS IS THE CUP WHAT’S ON THE FAMILY JEWELS OF YOUR HEART AT THE DOWSE Mackenzie Paton interviews Blumhardt Curatorial Intern All the information you need jeweller Warwick Freeman. Alice Tappenden talks about about the exhibitions and her new show, this is the cup events taking place at The 4 of your heart. 5 Dowse in the coming months. 8 ISSUE 51 / MAR 2016 ON THE COVER Liu Jianhua, Regular Fragile at The Dowse Art Museum, 2016. Photo: John Lake. KEEP UP-TO-DATE WITH FRIENDS NEWS & EVENTS Send us your email so we can keep in touch. Mackenzie Paton Louisa Gommans We’ll send you occasional updates about NOTE FROM THE EDITOR MEMBER PROFILE what’s on at The Dowse, and invitations to events at The Dowse. Kia ora Friends, I joined the Friends of The Dowse committee Email to: [email protected] last year, just in time to be involved with the Welcome to our first issue for 2016. It’s been Student Craft/Design Awards. I was blown FIND US ONLINE sad saying goodbye to a set of much- away by the enthusiasm and talent of this www.dowse.org.nz/friends loved exhibitions (art deco buttons and small group of people, and the wonderful www.facebook.com/Friends-of-The-Dowse pink ladies) but there are some recently things they make happen! Living in the city opened exhibitions I am very excited about. I didn’t know nearly enough about The JOIN THE FRIENDS OF THE DOWSE I am writing this just after the opening Dowse, so I have been thrilled to discover For information about how to join of Blumhardt Curatorial Intern Alice more exhibitions and events since joining the Friends of The Dowse Tappenden’s beautiful exhibition this is the the committee. cup of your heart. Alice kindly introduces us visit: www.dowse.org.nz/friends to this exhibition on page five. By now you I studied Art History, Italian and Law at Victoria email: [email protected] will have heard about Liu Jianhua: Transfer, University, and knew that I wanted to combine a love of art with practicing law if I could. or phone: 021 937 750 the major ceramic installations by Chinese artist Liu Jianhua, which opened at The I work as a commercial lawyer at Rainey Collins Lawyers, and have a special interest FOLLOW THE DOWSE ART MUSEUM Dowse in February. It’s the kind of exhibition I would have loved to visit as a small child - to in art law which I write and speak about dowse.org.nz/follow regularly. My husband Julian and I live with our www.facebook.com/thedowseartmuseum me, it seems quite magical. Alissa Liu, one of The Dowse hosts, acted as a translator during dog Floyd in a house with an ever decreasing the install for Transfer, and wrote a diary of supply of free wall space - I’m a bit art- her week, which she has shared with us on obsessed, so love collecting pieces for our page seven. Finally, I had the opportunity to home! I’m looking forward to what 2016 will talk with Warwick Freeman during the install bring for the Friends of The Dowse. FRIENDS COMMITTEE 2016 for The Family Jewels - page four! I hope you enjoy this latest issue, and I look forward to PRESIDENT seeing you at this year’s Friends events. 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Friends must show membership card to receive discounts. 2 ISSUE 51 / MAR 2016 Courtney Johnston Heather Crichton DIRECTOR OF THE DOWSE FRIENDS OF THE DOWSE PRESIDENT Kia ora koutou, and a warm welcome to 2016 to our Friends and other readers of this newsletter. The year has started with a rush at The Dowse. We farewelled the beloved exhibition of Art Deco buttons from the collection of Ruth Meier, and Séraphine Pick’s White Noise, selected by Wellington arts writer Mark Amery as “the solo show of the year”. We have welcomed Suburban Dreams, curated by Sian van Dyk, looking at the many ways artists have depicted the experience of growing up or living in the suburbs, through works from our collection, from other public galleries (including my favourite, Ian Scott’s stunning Golden Dreams from Te Manawa), and new and recent works from artists, including a major new piece by Kerry Ann Lee. ABOVE: Children at Shapeshifter 2016 enjoying Jin Ling Zhang’s Friends (2015). Photo: Mark Tantrum I’m also thrilled that we’re showing The Family Jewels, a re-presentation of Warwick Freeman’s Welcome to our first newsletter of the year! It’s hard to believe we are well landmark 1995 jewellery project Owners and into 2016 already. accompanying publication Owner’s Manual. Twenty years on these works are as compelling The Friends committee met early in the year Thank you to Friends members who and inventive as the day they were made, and to look at our membership strategy and volunteered to help with the Shapeshifter it is always a pleasure for us to be working with revisit what we are all about. In previous years exhibition currently running next to The Warwick, an artist with longstanding ties to (going back over many years) the Friends Dowse. It’s always a great and worthwhile The Dowse. have been an integral part of helping to fund event and we are happy to help in whatever art acquisitions for the gallery. The last time way we can. As I write our team is deep in preparations for we gifted an artwork was in 2012, by Saskia our flagship New Zealand Festival exhibition A quick thank you to Emma Bugden who Leek. We would like to focus on helping to Liu Jianhua: Transfer. The first of hundreds recently left The Dowse. We have enjoyed contribute another piece to the gallery and of delicate porcelain objects have been working with Emma on Friends events, look forward to working with Courtney and unwrapped for the two huge installations particularly the Barry Brickell exhibition her team to nominate an appropriate artwork. that make up the show, Regular Fragile (1500 and talks. In order to do this, the paying events we run individual pieces alone!) and Square. The will help towards this so we would love your A reminder also to renew your membership exhibition is our last by current Senior Curator support in helping us to raise funds. subscription by the end of March. Thanks for Emma Bugden, who is moving with her family your ongoing support. to Whanganui - a suitably dramatic finale for a curator who has given so much to the museum. UNTIL NEXT TIME, HEATHER I want to close this newsletter by paying tribute to the remarkable life of Barry Brickell (1935 - 2016). Emma and I were fortunate to RENEW YOUR MEMBERSHIP attend Barry’s memorial service, a fittingly BE INVOLVED IN 2016 WITH THE DOWSE AND LIKE-MINDED PEOPLE heartfelt and jubilant celebration held in the Coromandel Area School hall, packed to Thank you for your membership over the All current memberships are due for the rafters by people from the many areas of last year. We have some great events renewal by 31st March 2016. life Barry touched. The Friends were strong and activities planned for 2016 and we There are several ways to renew, either fill supporters of our 2013 survey of Barry’s work, want to see you again soon, so make sure out the form on the back of this newsletter His Own Steam: A Barry Brickell Survey and I you renew your membership and don’t and post it with your cheque, OR renew am so glad that this exhibition, which showed miss out. in five galleries around the country, was able online. bring a generous selection of his work to Don’t forget – membership also gives New Zealand’s attention. Arohanui Barry - you you access to a number of great retailer will be sadly missed but your vision stays discounts, including 10% off at The Dowse Renew today: strong with us all.