HANNAH KIDD

HANNAH KIDD Beastly Delights

4th December - 27th February, 2011 @ Aigantighe Art Gallery

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1. HANNAH KIDD, Cow Cocky (2008) corrugated iron, mild steel, paint, clear powder

rcoating, cow (v x h x d): 1500 x 2020 x 1400 mm, man (v x h x d): 1980 x 690 x 440 mm

2. HANNAH KIDD, "Great Rack" (Stag) (2008) steel rod, corrugated iron, size (v x h x d): 2410 x 1870 x 1800 mm

2. DETAIL VIEW HANNAH KIDD, "Great Rack" (Stag) (2008)

3. HANNAH KIDD, Happy Camper (2008) steel rod, corrugated iron, paint, size (v x h x d): 1882 x 820 x 550 mm

3. DETAIL VIEW HANNAH KIDD, Happy Camper (2008)

4. HANNAH KIDD, Common Kotuku (2008) steel rod, corrugated iron, paint, size (v x h x d): 1375 x 585 x 670 mm

5. HANNAH KIDD, Highlights from the Museum (Hartebeest) (2009)

steel rod, corrugated iron, size (v x h x d): 1080 x 620 x 630 mm

6. HANNAH KIDD, Highlights from the Museum (Gerenuk) (2009)

steel rod, corrugated iron, size (v x h x d): 898 x 538 x 555 mm

7. HANNAH KIDD, Highlights from the Museum (Four-horned Antelope) (2009), steel rod, corrugated iron, size (v x h x d): 380 x 410 x 350 mm

8. HANNAH KIDD, Highlights from the Museum (Walrus) (2009), steel rod, corrugated iron, size (v x h x d): 905 x 638 x 778 mm

9. HANNAH KIDD, Highlights from the Museum (Walrus Skull) (2009)

steel rod, corrugated iron, size (v x h x d): 930 x 425 x 520 mm

10. HANNAH KIDD, Delphine and Beatrix Buttercup the 3rd (2010) steel rod, corrugated iro

size overall (v x h x d):

on, paint, figure (v x h x d): 1750 x 1350 x 780 mm, poodle (v x h x d): 1100 x 1260 x 520 mm 1750 x 1350 x 1750 mm

11. HANNAH KIDD, Weekend Warrior (2010), steel rod, corrugated iron, paint,

11. DETAIL VIEW HANNAH KIDD, Weekend Warrior (2010)

11. DETAIL VIEW HANNAH KIDD, Weekend Warrior (2010)

EXHIBITION PRICELIST

1

Cow Cocky (2008)

19,000

2

"Great Rack" (Stag) (2008)

21,000

3

Happy Camper (2008)

12,500

4

Common Kotuku (2008)

6,500

5

Highlights from the Museum (Hartebeest) (2009)

8,500

6

Highlights from the Museum (Gerenuk) (2009)

4,250

7

Highlights from the Museum (Four-horned Antelope) (2009)

3,750

8

Highlights from the Museum (Walrus) (2009)

8,500

9

Highlights from the Museum (Walrus Skull) (2009)

6,000

10

Delphine and Beatrix Buttercup the 3rd (2010)

19,000

11

Weekend Warrior (2010)

15,000

All prices are NZD and include GST; Prices are current at the time of the exhibition

Hannah Kidd’s “Beastly Delights” at Aigantighe Art Gallery, Timaru (until 27 February, 2011) features key works from the last three years.

In that time Hannah Kidd has risen to national prominence and international success. Her work is compellingly distinctive and possesses an authentic rural voice.

Kidd demonstrates in every work a vast array of technical and engineering skills. Her work traverses portraiture, event and circumstance, building persuasive, focused, narratives.

“Happy Camper” (2008) has a smiling man displaying the reward of his sporting endeavours. “Common Kotuku” (2008) paradoxically contrasts two white herons squabbling over a small fish on the ubiquitous plastic chair. “Weekend Warrior” (2010) sees a wet-suited figure, holding a crayfish in each hand. Kidd’s virtuosity and ability to sculpt anything with representational aplomb is demonstrated in each work.

Kidd brings to her subjects insider’s observation and outsider’s detachment. “Delphine and Beatrix Buttercup the 3rd” (2010) encapsulates humour, fact and event, achieving the status of exacting social comment. The plurality achieved in this work means we know it can be located in Remuera or Methven without any loss of relevance or meaning.

Kidd is no apologist for rural NZ, nor one championing a rural arcadia. Her work has content informed by what goes on and how it happens. Her sculpture is attuned to important environmental debates and the breadth of her concerns can be seen in the suite of works “Highlights from the Museum” (2009) where she presents extinct animals as trophies and potent reminders of what has been so easily lost we at first think we recognise them.

“Cow Cocky” (2008) is a remarkable work. A stoic farmer, arms crossed, gum booted feet planted apart, watches, waiting for the cow to stop licking a teat. The unerring accuracy of this work is accompanied by insightful humour and courageous contradiction.

“Great Rack” (2008) is unmistakably a major work. Kidd’s ability to deliver the physical reality of the stag is matched by an unequalled capacity to present its animal nature. The stag watches back and an undercurrent of threat emerges from the black sockets of its eyes and the caverns of its nostrils.

Hannah Kidd’s first exhibition at a public institution conclusively establishes that she is a key figure in contemporary NZ sculpture, possessing a unique voice and delivering content of very real importance.

HANNAH KIDD b. 1979, lives Franz Joseph

Artist to Antarctica (2009)

Franz Josef based sculptor Hannah Kidd predominantly crafts and welds sculptural creations from steel rod and corrugated iron as a means to investigate people and the relationships they have with their surrounding environment. “Kidd’s works remind us we are New Zealanders and explore our relationships with each other and our environments”. (1) Kidd’s subject matter has focused on witty and often comical animal studies which she has used as a vehicle to discuss the human condition.

“Kidd’s works are covered with flat tin, spot-welded, and remarkably detailed, notwithstanding their clear origins in bits of roofing iron. She will take on any living subject, from humans to horses.”

(2) Hannah Kidd has quickly risen to critical acclaim and her distinctive and unique work has been exhibited around the world, from Australia to Denmark including “I’m sure I’ve seen that before”, Vienna, Austria (2002), Sculpture By the Sea, Sydney (2007) Sculpture By the Sea, Denmark (2009), Sculpture By the Sea, Perth (2009) along with numerous group and solo exhibitions throughout New Zealand. Hannah Kidd graduated in 2001 from the Otago Polytechnic School of Art with a Bachelor of Fine Arts majoring in sculpture. In 2010 she was the Winner of the Montalto Sculpture Award, Australia and the People’s Choice Award at NZ Sculpture On Shore.

1. Brown, Warwick ‘Seen this Century’, Godwit, 2009 2. ibid

Hannah Kidd 2010 CV P a g e |1

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HANNAH KIDD b. 1979, lives Franz Joseph EDUCATION 2001

BFA Otago Polytechnic School of Art (Sculpture Major)

SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2010 2009 2008

2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002

Top Dog, milford galleries queenstown Only Real Men Need Apply, Little River Gallery Antarctica and Other Adventures, Milford Galleries Dunedin Heartland, CoCA, Christchurch The Locals, Milford Galleries Dunedin Tapestry Addiction, Little River Gallery Go, Dog. Go!, CoCA, Christchurch The Gentlemens Club, Little River Gallery Quarter Acre Dreaming, Little River Gallery Road Kill, CoCA, taxidermy and mixed media, CoCA, Christchurch Run Away to the Circus, Little River Gallery Best in the Show, CoCA, Christchurch Made to Rust, Little River Gallery Down on the Farm, CoCA, Christchurch Good Breeding, CoCA, Christchurch

GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2010 2009

2008

2007

2006

2005

2004

2003

Anthony Harper Award, CoCA, Christchurch Shapeshifter, Wellington Sculpture by the Sea Cottesloe, Peth, Australia Masterworks, milford galleries queenstown Sculpture by the Sea, Aarhus, Denmark NZ Sculpture OnShore, Auckland Recent Works, milford galleries auckland 3 Some, Letham Gallery, Auckland Kiwi Caravan, Uxbridge, Auckland Sculpture by the Sea, Sydney, Australia Sculpture on the Peninsula, Banks Peninsula Sculpture in Central Otago, Olssen’s Vineyard, Bannockburn The Great Art Auction, NG Gallery, Christchurch The CoCA Art Awards, CoCA, Christchurch A show with Ross Whitlock, Morgan Street Gallery, Auckland A&P Show, Christchurch Art Gallery The Art Event, Christchurch Art Gallery Sculpture in Central Otago, Olssen's Vineyard, Bannockburn Art in a Garden, Flaxmere, North Canterbury Urban Life-A Celebration in Art, Wellington Sculpture in the Garden, Banks Peninsula Sculpture in Central Otago, Ollssen’s Vineyard, Otago Art in a Garden, Hawden, Canterbury The Art Event, Christchurch Art Gallery Wine and Art Auction, Christchurch Hospital Art in the Garden, North Canterbury The Big Art Auction, Banks Peninsula Greens NZ Sculpture Onshore, Auckland Aotearoa Barbie, CoCA, Christchurch CoCA Art Awards, CoCA, Christchurch Gardenz, Sculpture Symposium, Christchurch Sculpture in the Garden, Banks Peninsula I’m sure I’ve seen that somewhere before, Vienna, Austria

Hannah Kidd 2010 CV P a g e |2

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AWARDS 2010

Winner People’s Choice Award, NZ Sculpture OnShore, Auckland Winner Montalto Sculpture Award, Australia Finalist Anthony Harper Awards, CoCA, Christchurch

SELECTED ARTICLES 2009 2008 2008

Brown, Warwick, Seen This Century: 100 Contemporary New Zealand Artists, A Collectors Guide, Godwit, Auckland, pg 216 – 219 Benson, Nigel, Welding a View of NZ Rural Life, ODT, pg 37 Hanton, Jamie, Innocence and Exploitation, The Press

Hannah Kidd 2010 CV P a g e |3

Milford Galleries Dunedin

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