Centenary Art Auction
Oli Aikawa
Allan Crombie
Paul Deans
Asher Etherington
Sue Hale
Henry Hargreaves
R.M. Inkster
Sandra Johnson
Jo Keleghan
Lucy Mackie
Sam Mahon
Peter Mardon
Kelvin McMillan
Svetlana Orinko
Claire Elizabeth Turner
Kaori Uemura
Welcome to the Centenary Art Auction and Cocktail Evening
We are excited to present this evening of Art, featuring emerging and well known artists across a range of media.
All proceeds will go towards the Medbury Centennial Fund to raise funds for the advancement of education at Medbury, including key building initiatives in line with the Master Plan. You can read more at community.medbury.school.nz.
Programme
6.00pm Silent Auction Commences
6.30pm Live Auction Commences Auctioner, Connor Kitto.
Thank you to those in our community who have made the generous donations profiled on the following pages, and to auctioneer Connor Kitto for generously donating his time and expertise to run tonight’s auction.
Adam Chennells has kindly supplied the never seen before video footage of Medbury in the 1920s which you will have the opportunity to view tonight. Thank you Adam.
Thank you to our Sponsors The Oxford Group, Two Rivers, Southern Alps Brewing Co and Hey Hey.
Finally, thank you to every boy in the School for producing art for the exhibition, and to all the staff and teachers who have been involved in bringing tonight together.
Nga mihi Dave Scott HeadmasterLot 1. Svetlana Orinko
Heavenly Garden
Svetlana has been at the forefront of the New Zealand art scene for over 25 years. She received a Classical Art Education in Ukraine before immigrating to New Zealand in 1992. She has won numerous Art Awards and has a strong national and international following.
Dimensions: 90 x 109cm.
Estimate: $4,500.00.
Lot 2. Lucy Mackie
Revival - Ballantyne House
A cropped acrylic painting of Ballantyne House, Tondo work on Board. Lucy Mackie is an artist and teaches Art and Photography at St Margaret’s College. Lucy loves to create in any media, from design and illustration to acrylic paint and printmaking. Iconic Otautahi buildings feature regularly in her work and she loves to explore mixed media and archival imagery also.
Dimension: 30cm.
Estimate: $600.00.
Lot 3. Oli Aikawa
H agley Run
Back in 2017, Oli won a best exhibit prize at the NZ Institute Science & Technology Fair for his ‘Power of Packaging’. Since then we have seen his art and design skills in oils, watercolours and sculpture in a variety of public art exhibitions and competitions. This work is part of a collection of art he is working on right now. ‘Ka Pakihi-whakatekateka-a-Waitaha’ Canterbury plains, where he looks at lots of different Canterbury locations. Dimensions: A4. Estimate: $500.00 - $600.00.
Lot 4. R. M. Inkster
D inghy Boat
O ffset reproduction of dinghy boat, from the Medbury School Art Collection.
Dimensions: 450 x 390mm.
Estimate: $100.00 - $120.00.
Lot 5. Svetlana Orinko
Vase of Roses
Framed oil. Svetlana Orinko is a leading master of watercolour and oil mediums, enjoying amazing success and a growing reputation as one of the country’s top artists and tutors.
Dimensions: 66 x 87cm.
Estimate: $3,750.00.
Lot 6. Claire Elizabeth Turner
“Working predominantly with oil paints I produce collections of works, as well as pieces for commissions. I am inspired by the natural environment and express this through what I feel is emotive motion in paint. I don’t tend to name my works because I like people to be able to assign meaning to them based on their own individual impression. I think that how they may make a person feel or think is what is important and I don’t want to define or restrict that for them.”
Dimensions: 1000 x 1200mm. Estimate: $3,000.00.
Lot 7. Peter Mardon
West Coast painting
Lo cal artist Peter Mardon is well known for his landscapes.
A winner of the Keliher Art Competition, he spent more than 50 years capturing scenes in New Zealand and overseas. This West Coast watercolour was a property near Hari Hari. Estimate: $850.00.
Lot 8. Henry Hargreaves M afia No Fear
This series looks at the children’s names banned in New Zealand by the Department of Internal Affairs because they ‘must not cause offence to a reasonable person, be unreasonably long, or include or resemble an official title or rank’. The cakes come from the Australian Women’s Weekly cookbook. Henry wanted to combine these two elements to celebrate birthdays for the kids in New Zealand who will never be able to rejoice under their first given name. Estimate: $2,500.00.
Lot 9. Svetlana Orinko
Dreaming of Peonies
A framed watercolour by Svetlana Orinko, a leading master of watercolour and oil mediums. She has won numerous art awards and enjoys a growing reputation as one of the country’s top artists and tutors.
Dimensions: 900 x 1030mm.
Estimate: $4500.00.
Lot 10. Kelvin McMillan
T he Cricket Match
U nframed, Giclee Print by Kelvin McMillan.
Estimate: $600.00.
Lot 11. Paul Deans
D onated by Lesley Ballantyne. Paul Deans, son of Austin Deans is a sculptor and portrait artist. He lives and works in Christchurch, New Zealand.
“Growing up with an artist as a father instilled in me a passion for creating beautiful things and so, by the age of four, I knew that’s what I wanted. However, that heritage was also daunting and it took me a long time to concede that this is how I want to work and live.”
Lot 12. Svetlana Orinko
Mt Aspiring
Oil on Canvas. Award winning artist
Svetlana Orinko has been at the forefront of the New Zealand art scene for over 25 years. She received a Classical Art Education in Ukraine before immigrating to New Zealand in 1992.
Dimensions: 88 x 1209cm.
Estimate: $6,950.00.
Lot 13. Sam Mahon
U ntitled (Barristers’ conference)
1987. Offset reproduction, from the Medbury School Art Collection.
Dimensions: 970 x 380mm
Estimate $200.00 - $300.00.
Lot 14. Medbury 1963
Medbury 1963
A framed aerial image of Medbury in the 1960’s. From the Medbury School Collection.
Lot 15. Kaori Uemura
T he room with a blue clock
O il on canvas by Japanese artist Kaori Uemura from the Medbury School Art Collection. Oil on board. c 1995.
Dimensions 1160 x 900mm
Estimate $1,000.00 -$1,500.00.
Lot 16. Asher Etherington
Joseph and His Coat of Many Colours
G enerative biblical image, by Asher Etherington (AI.TORAH), as part of a project to illustrate the entire Torah (the five books of Moses) using AI. This is one of the first images Asher made as part of his overall project, generated to serve as a logo/icon of the AI.Torah project.
Dimensions: 520 x 535mm
Estimate: $300.00.
Lot 17. Allan Crombie
Wanaka Cottage
Allan worked initially in Otago and for most of his artistic life, in Nelson. The painting is of an old stone/mud cottage at Luggate near Wanaka. Donated by the Terpstra Family Estimate: $300.00.
Lot 18. Peter Mardon
Mackenzie Country
This was painted on the road into Mt Cook. Back in the day it was a shingle road. It was painted on an overcast day.
Estimate: $850.00.
Lot 19. Mary Patterson
Sir Ed Hillary’s Tae Hut
Photo of the historically significant first Scott Base, Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition 1956-
7. Taken 11/02/2014 at 1:38am by Mary Patterson (Medbury Mum) outside the existing Scott Base, on the Ross Ice Shelf Antarctica. www. nzaht.org Hillary’s Hut. Taken with a LEICA D-LUX 5 point and shoot camera, IS080, 35mm, f 3.5.
Lot 20. Lionel Barrymore
Framed print ca. 1900–1925
The great-uncle of Drew Barrymore, Lionel Barrymore was an American actor and artist, best known for his roles in the films ‘A Free Soul’, for which he won an Academy Award for best actor, and as the villain in the classic Frank Capra movie, ‘It’s A Wonderful Life’.
Dimensions: 22.5 x 38cm.
Estimate: $200.00 -$300.00.
Lot 21. Miguel Canals de Febrer
S tudy of an
18th Century swordsman/musketeer
Framed charcoal and wash drawing from the S chool of Miguel Canals de Febrer (Spain, 1925-95). Miguel’s work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 554 USD to 11,412 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork.
Dimensions: 42 x 27cm.
Estimate: $500.00 -$600.00.
