IN THIS ISSUE DIARY of an INSTALL Dowse Host Alissa Liu Writes About Her Week Helping with the Install of Liu Jianhua: Transfer

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. Heather Crichton 021 937 750 MACKENZIE VICE PRESIDENT Colin Kelly

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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. Mine shop. dowse.org.nz/support/friends/join HEI KONĀ MAI, COURTNEY

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EXHIBITION

ABOVE: Installation view, The Family Jewels. Photo: John Lake

WARWICK FREEMAN The Family Jewels MACKENZIE PATON

In 1995, Warwick Freeman’s Owners original show. Further to that, Wunderruma: hammer I used and how to hit it to get the show toured the country, featuring New Zealand Jewellery, curated by Freeman marks I did then.’ If anything, this hits home and Karl Fritsch, was touring. The time was how much Owners/The Family Jewels speaks Patrick Reynold’s images of owners right for another look at Owners, but what had of a moment in time. It is unable to be read wearing their beloved Freeman changed in this time? or recreated in quite the same way. Twenty years ago contemporary jewellery was its own jewellery pieces. Twenty years on, In the original exhibition, Freeman had to make subculture, wound up in a growing Pacific replicas of each work because the owners this exhibition has been restaged consciousness and speaking of a were reluctant to part with their special pieces as The Family Jewels. new New Zealand identity - one greatly while the show toured. Since then, these informed by its time. Owners and makers were During install, I made my way to The Dowse have graced the walls of his family home. As of a generation that protested against nuclear to talk with Warwick about the revival of this he explains, ‘they’re not mine any more, they testing and influenced by the ideas of a new seminal exhibition. Instantly recognisable belong to the family and will be passed on to Pacific nationhood being promoted by the pieces of shaped shell, polished Auckland them eventually’, which is why they are referred then Labour government. scoria and hammered silver were being set to as the ‘family jewels.’ If Owners highlighted on the walls, each in a purpose-made display the relationship between the wearers and their Time changes and ownership shifts, and box, and flanked by the original black and objects, then this latest restaging touches sometimes we get a chance to look at what white photographs. Flicking through Owner’s upon how themes of ownership and identity has changed and what has not. ‘The family Manual, the original exhibition catalogue, can shift across this time. jewels’ left ghost impressions on the wall of Freeman fondly recalled old nicknames for the Freeman home, where they lived for twenty We move on to the subject of materiality. each image ‘grumpy man smiling building, years. Now that they are on tour again, his Warwick says, ‘I have a funny relationship with Herne Bay babe....’ family grumbles whenever they walk past the the materials I use. They have these amazing empty space. These pieces, on display at The A call from photographer Patrick Reynolds qualities, but they weren’t meant to be Dowse, will make their way back to their rightful sparked the restaging of Owners as The Family jewellery. I mean, this shell was just a house for owners in time. Until then, Warwick has covered Jewels. Reynolds no longer had the storage an oyster. I don’t necessarily trust my materials.’ the offending wall with a tapa cloth. space for the original photographs, and He describes making heart shapes from asked Warwick if he would like them back. In slices of Auckland scoria. A piece may have need of a little repair, Warwick cleaned up the one huge bubble, and if he keeps cutting photographs and was reluctant to file them the piece, it may get too thin and become away. ‘It seemed silly to clean the mould off unusable. ‘And if I tried to replicate them now and put them back in storage.’ It happened I would be doing it in the manner of a forgery. Warwick Freeman: The Family Jewels to be the twenty year anniversary of the For the silver, I would have to work out which AT THE DOWSE UNTIL 12 JUNE 2016

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EXHIBITION

ABOVE: Emil McAvoy, Subject Autobiography (Detail), 2014. Courtesy of the artist. this is the cup of your heart ALICE TAPPENDEN

“I tend to agree with the theory that if you want to keep a memory pristine, you must not call upon it too often, for each time it is revisited, you alter it irrevocably, remembering not the original impression left by experience but the last time you recalled it. With tiny differences creeping in at each cycle, the exercise of our memory does not bring us closer to the past but draws us farther away.” – Sally Mann

Over the past few weeks, I’ve been reading Emil McAvoy, for example, is an Auckland its title is in fact taken from one of her poems. American photographer Sally Mann’s very artist who often repurposes existing images Joanna, too, wrote about memory often. I’ll beautiful memoir. When I came across this in his work. In Subject Autobiography, leave it to her to have the last words, as a passage, I felt like it resonated with many of he considers the relationship between starting point for considering the works in this the things I’ve been mulling over while putting photographs and memory, having selected, is the cup of your heart: together the upcoming exhibition this is the restored and reprinted snapshots from his cup of your heart. I’m not only interested in mother Susan Sayer’s personal collection, in “So where is memory? Is memory a pact what we remember, but how we go about response to her recent diagnosis of early with place? Do we leave traces of it, and have come to think that our desire to onset dementia. As memory aids and sources ourselves in places loved or frequented, remember stems from two conflicting yet of comfort, photographs have since taken at sites of feeling unregarded at intertwined feelings: love and fear. We want on a heightened significance for Emil’s the time?” to remember people we’ve lost, but we also family. Working on their presentation at The Alice Tappenden is the eighth recipient of the worry that one day, we might lose these Dowse, I’ve felt privileged that Emil has been Blumhardt Foundation’s Curatorial Internship, memories or even be forgotten ourselves. able to share something private with a wider supported by Creative New Zealand. this is the cup audience, allowing others to inevitably bring In this show I wanted to bring together artists of your heart includes work by Erena Baker, Kim Brice, their own experiences to the work. I’ve also Andrea Daly, Ruby Joy Eade, Emil McAvoy, Joanna who consider these ideas, and who look at the learned much more about Susan, having read Margaret Paul, Marie Shannon and makers unknown. loss and longing that go hand-in-hand with her phenomenal Masters Thesis, also called memories. The works in this is the cup of your Subject Autobiography. In turn, Susan’s heart manage to do so without reverting to research has influenced my writing about easy clichés, with many sharing very personal Joanna Margaret Paul, an artist and poet this is the cup of your heart experiences with the viewer. whose work is also featured in the exhibition; AT THE DOWSE UNTIL 26 JUNE 2016

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INTERVIEW

ABOVE: Ruth Cleland Island #7, 2013, acrylic on linen. Courtesy of Melanie Roger Gallery. INTERVIEW WITH Sian van Dyk MACKENZIE PATON AND SIAN VAN DYK

Suburban Dreams, curated by Sian Why did you feel this was a story that Do you think your own experiences with van Dyk, looks at how New Zealand needed to be told? suburbia shaped the way you put this exhibition together? artists have addressed themes One thing I really wanted to do was challenge of suburbia. Editor Mackenzie stereotypes about people, experiences and While it’s important for curators to remain feelings associated with suburbia. There are neutral when telling a story – it’s about got the chance to interview Sian so many suburbs with different characteristics the artists and audience—I don’t think you about the process of curating and it would be naïve to think they can be can help but bring a little bit of yourself Suburban Dreams. represented with one set of ideas. into a project like this. After all, I grew up in suburbia too. The work I most personally In the exhibition, there is a selection of Mackenzie Paton: How did the concept for identify with is probably Murray Hewitt’s works from the 1970s (Robin White, Ian Suburban Dreams come about? Barbra (2008) because I spent my teens in Scott) right through to the present day. Whitby, a suburb similar to the Churton Park Sian van Dyk: Our curatorial team is always How do you think themes of suburbia setting of his video. I am also one of the many thinking about themes that people can relate have changed across this time in New Zealanders saving hard to buy their first to; a way to give our visitors an opportunity to New Zealand art? home, so am very aware of the role the Kiwi connect with art and see themselves or their dream plays in my own life and values. experiences reflected in the work displayed On one hand, I don’t think that artist’s concerns have changed that much, it’s here. Group shows are a great way to be What part of curating this show did you have more about how their ideas are realised that able to consider various perspectives on a the most fun with? subject matter and really explore it. Suburbia has changed. Ian Scott’s painting Golden as a subject makes sense because so many Dreams (1969) could be read as bright and My favourite part of any exhibition is reaching people live or have lived there – including joyous but it is also tinged with irony – that the point where my concept and selection of the curator and artists in the show! is not what a typical family looked like. It’s work is solid enough to invite artists to show. placed alongside a video by Steve Carr They bring their own perspectives and push How did you decide upon the title? called Cowboy and Indians (2004) which on the boundaries of the exhibition further in the surface looks like a bit of fun, but spend positive ways. I also really enjoy bringing our The title plays with the Kiwi dream of owning some time with it and you’ll see it hints at wonderful exhibitions team on board to start your own home on a quarter acre. It’s power dynamics and racial stereotypes. On workshopping the display of the exhibition. something that has shaped our national the other hand, New Zealand has become For me, there is nothing more exciting than identity since the beginning of the 20th more diverse and so have our suburbs. If you installation time and seeing my ideas come century. Over time suburbia has become consider the two large video installations in alive as the works on the walls start to interact both a goal and the subject of scrutiny, and the exhibition, you should be able to get a with each other and our visitors. the title plays on these opposites. sense of some of the shifts over the last 50 years. Joanna Margaret Paul’s video from Thorndon (1975) presents a predominately Pakeha middle class viewpoint, while Tim Suburban Dreams Barlow’s work Nui (2016) shows a multi- AT THE DOWSE UNTIL 29 MAY 2016 cultural perspective.

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DIARY OF AN INSTALL

ABOVE: Alissa Liu and Liu Jianhua with Regular Fragile at The Dowse Art Museum, 2016. Photo: Mark Tantrum. LIU JIANHUA Working Diary ALISSA LIU

Chinese artist Liu Jianhua spent glistening pools of gold-coated porcelain a very rewarding and touching feeling after on a set of massive black steel panels. Even all the work that many people had put in day a week alongside The Dowse though my official duty was as an interpreter, I and night throughout the week. The will of The exhibitions team installing Transfer. was proud to be involved in the actual creation Dowse team as usual never weakens as we near of the piece as a helper. Just as a composer the final sprint! We were packing, cleaning, Dowse Host Alissa Liu wrote a diary cannot realize their work without an orchestra, securing and making sure the two exhibitions of her week acting as translator. so too does the artist need a dedicated team were presented to our audience in a way that to bring their work to the world. How about the can focus their perceptions, and stimulate FIRST DAY other room? We brought in a second scissor their intellect. We met each other in front of the hotel, and had lift to hang up the white porcelain objects. That a very nice greeting and a small chat about the was a big improvement and helped get back SIXTH DAY artist’s first impression of Wellington’s weather on schedule. Opening day was bittersweet, as it was both and food. I immediately felt that Mr. Liu and his a reward for the culmination of a project that wife were very friendly and a lovely, humble took over two years of planning, but also it was couple. This was a good start to what would my last day to work with Liu Jianhua as a host surely be a very exciting week. We viewed and interpreter. I learned a lot about crossing the gallery spaces, met The Dowse team, and cultural barriers by being the facilitator of had coffee. After that, we attended a Māori communication for our international guests Powhiri (traditional welcome ceremony) for our and guiding them throughout their time important international visitors. Our special in New Zealand. “We may speak different guests were patient, embracing learning about languages, but we can communicate through a new culture and very happy to be part of this art.” He said. cultural experience. In the afternoon, we jumped straight in to creating his two amazing artworks.

SECOND DAY FOURTH DAY A hard working day began with one team We had scheduled several interviews with adjusting the brightness and focus of the outlets such as the Dominion Post, Xinhua News, lighting on every single object and every Oceania TV etc. Through these interviews, I glistening pool of gold-coated porcelain. gained more knowledge about Liu Jianhua’s At the same time, on the other side of the work and his unique perspective on things. room, our technicians Jay and Mr. Xia were What’s new today? Liu Jianhua’s new posters, working all day long, hanging up the array of designed by Michael Pester are shining out from white porcelain objects for the other artwork, The Dowse’s front windows! It is very exciting painstakingly placing them one by one carefully to see how the amazing dream is gradually and positioning them correctly per coming true. Mr. Liu’s specifications. FIFTH DAY THIRD DAY The last working day was definitely the most Liu Jianhua: Transfer Transfer was magically transforming from nothing exciting. We were beginning to be able to see AT THE DOWSE UNTIL 10 JULY 2016 to something! We were working on placing the Liu Jianhua’s vision of the final work emerge,

ABOVE MIDDLE: Translator Alissa Liu installs pieces for Square ABOVE: Installation shot, Regular Fragile at The Dowse. Photo: RNZ / Lynda Chanwai-Earle 7 Photo: John Lake. CHECK OUT www.dowse.org.nz/friends WHAT’S ON FOR UPDATES AND NEW EVENTS

Exhibitions Events

MUSIC & TEA

SUN 17 APRIL 2016 Join us for an exquisite tea ceremony followed by Chinese instrumentalists mingling classic repertoire with cross- cultural riffs. Presented by the Confucius Institute of Victoria University of Wellington in association with Liu Jianhua: Transfer.

SUBURBAN DREAM LIFE: DIY ZINE WORKSHOP

SATURDAY 7 MAY, 9AM – 12PM KIDS, 1 – 4PM ADULTS BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL | $5 Get inspired by the stories in Suburban Dreams and learn to make a zine about your own dreams with artist Kerry Ann Lee. More details at www.dowse.org.nz

FAMILY FUN Spaces are limited, to avoid disappointment pre-book your children into one of our family workshops by going to: ABOVE: Liu Jianhua, Square at Pace Beijing (detail), 2015. Photo courtesy of Liu Jianhua Studio [http://dowse.org.nz/learn/list]. Please note these creative workshops are for children five years and up. LIU JIANHUA: TRANSFER MAGIC OF MUD WORKSHOP UNTIL 10 JULY 2016 THURSDAY 28 APRIL 10:15AM-11AM, 11:30AM-12:15PM, 1:30PM-2:15PM From the Venice Biennale to The Dowse Art Museum—this is the first time the work of Liu Jianhua, one of China’s best known contemporary artists, is being shown in New Zealand. Liu Jianhua presents two full-gallery installations at The Dowse: one of Turn a ball of air dry clay into your very own creation. the artist’s signature works of over 1,500 everyday objects cast in white porcelain including teddy bears, hammers and stilettos, and a new work (never before shown outside of China) of glistening pools of gold-coated porcelain. LATE LOUNGE Support for the show has been received from the Confucius Institute of Victoria University of Wellington and the Asia FIRST THURSDAY OF THE MONTH 7–9PM | KOHA New Zealand Foundation. Soak up some of Wellington’s finest music. Enjoy pizza at NUKU TEWHATEWHA WARWICK FREEMAN: THE FAMILY JEWELS Café Reka and check out the latest exhibitions. All galleries, café, bar, shop and upstairs lounge are open till 9pm. Bands ONGOING UNTIL 12 JUNE 2016 start at 7pm. Commissioned by Te Ātiawa chief Wī Tako Ngātata in the The Family Jewels is a re-presentation of Warwick 1850s as a sign of support for the Kīngitanga (Māori King) Freeman’s 1995 iconic exhibition Owners. The exhibition A GIRL NAMED MO movement, Nuku Tewhatewha is one of seven pātaka built features jewellery made between 1988 and 1994 alongside THURSDAY 7 APRIL, 7PM around the North Island as ‘Pillars of the Kingdom’. photographs by Patrick Reynolds of the owners wearing them. The works and the portraits were featured in the 1995 Three piece neo-soul group led by the smooth voice of FALLEN ROBOT publication Owner’s Manual. Moana Ete, supported by Slade Butler and Marcus Gurtner. ONGOING Commissioned by the E Tu Awakairangi Hutt Public Art Trust, Ronnie van Hout’s giant metal robot reclines in front of The Dowse.

SUBURBAN DREAMS

UNTIL 06 JUNE 2016 The dream of the nuclear family in a brand new house on a quarter acre might be getting harder to reach but the suburban dream still shapes our identity. Suburban Dreams explores the place of suburbia in our lives, finding significance in the commonplace. Featuring artists MATIU TE HUKI including Ian Scott, Joanna Margaret Paul, Robin White, Warwick Freeman, Large Star 1989. Mother of Pearl shell, paint. Yvonne Todd and Jo Sheehan. Image courtesy of Warwick Freeman. THURSDAY 5 MAY, 7PM THIS IS THE CUP OF YOUR HEART This singer songwriter blends roots, dub and funk with a strong Māori flavour using haka, chants and traditional UNTIL 26 JUNE 2016 Māori instruments. this is the cup of your heart brings together artists that explore loss, longing and nostalgia. Working across a range of media, Erena Baker, Kim Brice, Andrea Daly, Ruby Joy Eade, Emil McAvoy, Joanna Margaret Paul, Marie Shannon and an unknown nineteenth-century maker create intimate works that pay attention to the presence of absence in our lives.

HUMM

25 MARCH– 24 JULY 2016 Colours vibrate to make visual melodies. Humm showcases artists from The Dowse’s collection that have carefully Ruth Cleland, Island #3, 2012. Acrylic on paper. Courtesy of Melanie Roger Gallery. orchestrated colour to make music for our eyes.

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