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Biography b. 1951 Susan Te Kahurangi King‘s interest in drawing began during her childhood in the 1950s, and over the subsequent decades has developed into a visually rich, idiosyncratic and evocative practice. During her early years, much of King’s work included a strong focus on the deconstruction, recontextualisation and interpretation of pop culture iconography, ranging from Disney and Warner Bros. cartoon and comic strip characters to motifs drawn from advertising signage and illustrations. Amongst other sources, the fluid, energetic linework and rounded volumes of imported American comics provided King a wealth of motifs; Donald Duck’s blue sailor suit and hat feature in an extended series of 1960s and ‘70s works, while the sleek contours of various Disney characters’ hands, beaks and limbs gradually fold and coalesce into a novel, biomorphic visual discourse that is both culturally resonant and intensely personal. |
Group Exhibitions 2020 |
Solo Exhibitions 2019 |
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Biography b. 1990 Emma McIntyre (b. 1990, Tāmaki Makaurau, Aotearoa New Zealand) Graduated with a BVA (Painting) from AUT University in 2011, and an MFA from Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland, in 2016. In 2019 she was awarded a Fulbright General Graduate award to study an MFA at ArtCenter College of Design, Pasadena C.A., graduating in Summer 2021. Selected exhibitions include: Pour plenty on the worlds, Chris Sharp Gallery, Los Angeles (2021); Heat, Mossman, Wellington (2020); The Blue of it, 21 Shaddock St, Auckland (2019); Memory Disco, Hopkinson Mossman, Wellington (2019); Rose on Red, Hopkinson Mossman, Wellington (2018); Pink Square Sways, Hopkinson Mossman, Auckland (2017); A Trip to the Beach, Play_station, Wellington (2017); Painting: A Transitive Space, ST Paul St Gallery Three, Auckland (2016). |
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Biography b. 1983 Kushana Bush was born in 1983 in Ōtepoti, New Zealand where she lives and works. Her residencies and awards include the University of Otago Frances Hodgkins Fellowship in 2011 and New Zealand Arts Foundation New Generation Award in 2013. Her major solo exhibition and publication The Burning Hours was toured by Dunedin Public Art Gallery throughout New Zealand from 2016-17. Her work is held in public collections throughout New Zealand and Australia, including the Art Gallery of New South Wales, National Gallery of Victoria, Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Monash University Museum of Art Collection, Buxton Contemporary Melbourne, Dunedin Public Art Gallery and Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū. |
Group Exhibitions 2022-2023 2022 Darren Knight Gallery at Sydney Contemporary 2022, Carriageworks, NSW wHole, Heide Museum of Modern Art Ivan Anthony Gallery at Art Fair Aotearoa 2022 APS Editions, Aotearoa Art Fair 2022 2020-21 2020 2019 Here we are, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia Sydney Art Fair, Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney, Australia Contemporary Art from Asia and the Pacific: Selected works from QAGOMA's Asia Pacific Triennial, Fundacion Centro Cultural Palacio La Moneda, Santiago, Chile Under the Spell of the Image - Kushana Bush, David Kettner, Susan Te Kahurangi King - curated by John Stezaker, The Approach, London, UK 2018 NGV Triennial, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia Out of the ordinary: works from the ARTAND Emerging Artist Collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney Sisters Communing, Hocken Collections Uare Taoka o Hākena, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand 2017 Lucie Rie: A New Zealand Connection, The New Dowse, Lower Hutt, New Zealand Imagine Asia, Pataka Art and Museum, Porirua City, New Zealand Undreamed of…50 years of the Frances Hodgkins Fellowship, Dunedin Public Art Gallery Dunedin, New Zealand 2014 Where do I end and you begin, Edinburgh Festival, City Art Centre, Edinburgh Object Shift, Objectspace, Auckland 2013 Art & Australia Collection 2003 – 2013, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery and Arts Centre, Sydney A Different View, Gus Fisher Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand (Curated by Linda Tyler and Virginia Braun) Picture This: Recently Acquired Art, Hocken Collections Uare Taoka o Hākena, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand 2012 Art & Australia Collection 2004-2012, MOP Projects, Sydney, Australia & Newcastle Art Gallery, NSW, Australia 2011 Tender is the Night, City Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand Auckland Art Fair, Brett McDowell Gallery, Viaduct Events Centre, Auckland Game On, Hastings City Art Gallery, Hastings, New Zealand 2010 Liquid Dreams, The New Dowse, Lower Hutt, New Zealand Ready to Roll, City Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand 2009 2008 2007 16th Annual Wallace Art Awards 2007, Aotea Centre, Auckland Preview: 40 Contemporary New Zealand Artists, Centre of Contemporary Art, Christchurch, New Zealand 2006 2005 Class of 2004 Graduate Show, Blue Oyster Gallery, Dunedin, New Zealand |
Solo Exhibitions 2022 2020 2019 2018 2017 Bird, Wind, Box, Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney, Australia The Burning Hours, Christchurch Art Gallery, Christchurch, New Zealand 2016 2015 2014 2013 Last song in silence, Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney, Australia 2012 All Things to All Men, Frances Hodgkin Fellowship exhibition, Hocken Collections Uare Taoka o Hākena, University of Otago, Dunedin, Pah Homestead TSB Bank Wallace Arts Centre, Auckland, New Zealand 2011 2010 Pimp Squeaks, Ivan Anthony Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand 2009 Hungry Ghosts, Observatory Building, Arts Centre, Christchurch, New Zealand 2008 2007 2005 |