KARL MAUGHAN

1. KARL MAUGHAN, Apiti North (2011), oil on linen, stretcher (v x h x d): 1020 x 760 x 35 mm

2. KARL MAUGHAN, Apiti South (2011), oil on linen, stretcher (v x h x d): 1020 x 760 x 35 mm

3. KARL MAUGHAN, Awahou North (2011), oil on linen, stretcher (v x h x d): 915 x 710 x 33 mm

4. KARL MAUGHAN, Awahou South (2011), oil on linen, stretcher (v x h x d): 915 x 710 x 33 mm

5. KARL MAUGHAN, Loveday Avenue (2011) diptych; oil on linen, overall (v

x h x d): 1220 x 1835 x 38 mm, stretchers (v x h x d): 1220 x 915 x 38 mm each

6. KARL MAUGHAN, Kawakawa Road (2011) diptych; oil on linen, overall (v

x h x d): 1220 x 1835 x 38 mm, stretchers (v x h x d): 1220 x 915 x 38 mm each

7. KARL MAUGHAN, Pohangina East (2011), oil on linen, stretcher (v x h x d): 915 x 915 x 33 mm

8. KARL MAUGHAN, Pohangina West (2011), oil on linen, stretcher (v x h x d): 915 x 915 x 33 mm

9. KARL MAUGHAN, Waiata East (2011), oil on linen, stretcher (v x h x d): 1215 x 1215 x 33 mm

10. KARL MAUGHAN, Waiata West (2011), oil on linen, stretcher (v x h x d): 1215 x 1215 x 33 mm

The technical virtuosity and stylistic breadth of Karl Maughan’s painting is unmistakeable. An acute combination of naturalism and invention is revealed everywhere in his paintings.

Maughan’s paintings present notions of the cultivated ideal in which social associations, cultural dynamics and suggestive narratives emerge and simultaneously he reminds the viewer that each work is a world of painterly invention. He positions colour side by side in a manner which is abstract in style and delivery but which collectively establishes an environment so convincing in its naturalism that the viewer comes to believe he can enter the works. And smell them.

Maughan uses light to infuse pictorial height and depth, while also altering perspective in ways which are exceptional. He establishes “an ultra realistic chiaroscuro-modelled three dimensional space.”(1) He colours shadow and gets away with the impossible by presenting this as pictorial fact. Likewise the flowers perform a compositional role and as such are rendered by deliberate and distinct brush-strokes that function in an abstract colour-field: yet collectively they come to more than imply, they state everything about each flower.

Viewed close up, powerful rhythms and a sense of the painter’s hand making the marks emerge. However with distance the paintings coalesce and the effect is almost photographic. This dualism lies at the heart of Maughan’s work. The paintings in “Oroua Valley” are powerful testimony to how considerable this achievement now is.

(1) Christopher Harrod, “Karl Maughan, Jo Pegler, Emily Wolfe” NZ Art Monthly, Dec 2005/Jan 2006

EXHIBITION PRICELIST EXHIBITION PRICELIST

1ApitiNorth(2011) 12,000

2ApitiSouth(2011) 12,000

3AwahouNorth(2011) 9,500

4AwahouSouth(2011) 9,500

5LovedayAvenue(2011) 27,500

6KawakawaRoad(2011) 27,500

7PohanginaEast(2011) 12,000

8PohanginaWest(2011) 12,000

9WaiataEast(2011) 15,000

10WaiataWest(2011) 15,000

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

KARL MAUGHAN

b. 1964, lives Auckland

Skye Farm (2010)

Karl Maughan has been painting gardens since the mid-1980s and this accomplished concentration on subject has made him a nationally and internationally recognised and recognisable New Zealandartist.MaughanhasbeenexhibitingwithMilfordGalleriesDunedin since1993.

"Karl Maughan’s fascination with gardens has come through his wish to explore light and colour. Photographing his chosen gardens in differing lights, Maughan records as much detail as possible. In the studio he then collages selected elements into new composite images. Applying paint in small areas of the canvas to avoid premature drying, he pieces the work together like a mosaic. Rather than blending colours, he uses clean colours side by side, this ‘alla prima’ (wet onto wet) technique waspopularwiththeImpressionists." (1)

"With most of these paintings we are drawn into the work, impelled to walk towards the painting as though into an actual garden. However, as one gets closer into the vista one discovers you are actually entering a painting... Up close these works are like impressionist paintings, a combination of gestural marks, pointillism, and the white of the canvas which gives the work its shimmering light." (2) “Details dissolve into an abstract flourish of rhythmically applied paint. The paint is really more importantthanthegarden,but not entirelyso.” (3)

After ten years in London, Maughan returned to New Zealand in 2005. He lives in Auckland. In 1997 he was a finalist in the John Moore Painting Award. (This award, whose previous winners include David Hockney, is regarded as one of the two premier art awards in Britain, the other being the Turner Paintingprize.)His workisheldinpublicandprivatecollectionsinNew ZealandandtheUK.

In 1998 Maughan came to the attention of British arts benefactor Charles Saatchi who has subsequently purchased several works. Maughan was included in the Saatchi Gallery, London exhibitions The Neurotic Realism in 1998 and I’m a Camera in 2001. Also in 1998 he was offered the opportunity to install a major six panel work A Clear Day in the Habitat store in Chelsea, London. This workwasbought byTePapain2000.

Born Wellington, New Zealand 1964. Bachelor of Fine Arts, Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland 1986. He completed one year of Master of Fine Arts in 1987 and has exhibited regularly sincethen.

1.NataliePoland,ManawatuArt Galleryinformationsheet, April1998

2.JohnDaly-Peoples,'KarlMaughan'sGarden's of Delight inDunedin",NBR,March2010

3.TJMcNamara,Smallseasandgiant gardens’,NZHerald,8 April2002

KarlMaughan2010CV

EDUCATION

1983-87

KARL MAUGHAN

b. 1964, lives Auckland

BFAandMFA,ElamSchoolof Fine Arts,Universityof Auckland

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2011 OrouaValley,MilfordGalleriesDunedin

Idlewild,Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland

2010 KarlMaughan,Page BlackieGallery,Wellington

TheLost Path,MilfordGalleriesDunedin

2009 EverydayisLikeSunday,Gow Langsford Gallery,Auckland

BlackbarnGallery,HawkesBay,New Zealand

2008 MartinBrowneGallery,Sydney, Australia

New Works,milfordgalleriesqueenstown

2007/08 On AClearDay,TeManawaGallery,Palmerston North

2007 New Paintings,milfordgalleriesqueenstown

PageBlackieGallery,Wellington

CrossHills,MilfordGalleriesDunedin

Recent PaintingsandPrints,Gow Langsford Auckland

2006 Outside,MartinBrowneFine Art Galler,Sydney, Australia

2005 Kimbolton,Milford GalleriesDunedin

2004 KarlMaughan:Recent Paintings,Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland

2003 TheVisitor,Gow LangsfordGallery,Sydney, Australia

ParkLane,VertigoGallery,London,UK

Blow Up.St.Pauls Gallery,Birmingham,UK

WalkinginLight,VertigoGallery,London,UK

2002 Garden Centre,Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland

2001 Yew,MilfordGalleriesDunedin

Art Lab,ImperialCollege Exhibition,London,UK

2000 Gow Langsford Gallery,Auckland

KarlMaiughan,Art Hotel,Florence,Italy

1999 Crowd,VynelSt,London,UK

KarlMaughan,Habitat,London,UK

1999 Waterview,MilfordGalleriesDunedin

1997 Great Outdoors,TinakoriGallery,Wellington

1996 Love LiesBleeding,MilfordGalleriesDunedin

DayNight,Gow LangsfordGallery, Auckland

1995 GreenTriumph,Brooker Gallery,Wellington

1994 RomanceandIrony,Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland

1993 New Paintings,MilfordGalleriesDunedin

Brooker Gallery,Wellington

1992 Gow Langsford Gallery,Wellington

CSAGallery, Auckland

1991 Brooker Gallery,Wellington

Gow Langsford Gallery,Auckland

1990 Brooker Galllery,Wellington

1989 Gow Langsford Gallery,Auckland

Brooker Gallery,Wellington

1988 Brooker Gallery,Wellington

Gow Langsford Gallery,Auckland

1987 GardenSeriesII,Brooker Gallery,Wellington

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2010 SmallWorks,Milford GalleriesDunedin

2009 Masterworks,milfordgalleriesQueenstown

John Leech and Gow Langsford Galleries Spring Catalogue, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland

2008 ClocktheTon,Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland

2007 InFluorescents,Gow Langsfor Gallery, Auckland

Auckland Art Fair

2006 Chosen,MilfordGalleries Dunedin MasterWorks,milfordgalleriesqueenstown

2005 Auckland Art Fair

Selected Artists,Tinakori GalleryWellington

Recent FloralWorks,milfordgalleriesqueenstown

2003 Is As: Landscape AsMetaphor,Milford GalleriesDunedin

1999 Idlewild,The Approach GalleryLondon

1998 SaatchiCollectionCatalogue Show,SaatchiGallery,London,UK KarlMaughanandDickFrizzell,Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland

1997 MNZA: Landscape,MilfordGalleriesDunedin JohnMooresLiverpoolExhibition20,Walker Art Gallery,Liverpool,UK UnderGrowth,HolySt Studios, London,UK

1996 NZReal,Milford Galleries Dunedin

1995 Blindfield,CoventryGallery,London,UK

CatalogueExhibition,Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland StopMakingSense,CityGallery,Wellington

1992 WaikatoMuseum of Art andHistory,Hamilton

1990 Robert McDougall Art Gallery,Christchurch

AWARDS

1997 Finalist JohnMoorePainting Award,Walker Art Gallery,Liverpool

COLLECTIONS

TePapaMuseum of New Zealand BritishCouncil

UniversityofVictoriaWellington

Robert McDougall Art GalleryChristchurch District Court Wellington CorporateCollections GlaxoIndustries Yates FletcherChallengeLimited Auckland NZPolice

PricewaterhouseCoopers Wellington Saatchi&SaatchiWellington SaatchiCollectionLondon SkyCityCasino SkyCityGrand

BIBLIOGRAPHY

2011 Wolfe,RichardandStephenRobinson, Artists At Work,PenguinBooks,London,England

2009 ‘KarlMaughn’,New Artland,Series2,Episode4

2008 Thomson,Joelle, Into the Garden,Mindfood,issue 2,May,pp136-139 (attached)

2008 Somerville,Jane, New Work; Karl Maughan,Artworld,issue2, April/May,pp144-147 (attached)

KarlMaughan2011CV

2007 Jennings,Nicola, On a Clear Day,ExhibitionCatalogue,TeManawa Art Gallery,Palmerston North

2006 Newton,Katie, Up the Garden Path, SundayStarTimes,February,pp16& 17 (attached)

2000 Wolfe,Richard, Interflora, Karl Maughan Paints in the Face of Nature, Art New Zealand97, Summer pg62–65

1998 LopdellHouse Gallery, (Re)visioning the Real,exhibitioncatalogue

1998 TheSaatchiGallery, The New Neurotic Realism,collectioncatalogue

1998 Gregg,Stacy, The Flower and the Glory,SundayStarTimes,February1,(attached)

1997 MilfordGalleries, 3 Major Surveys-Modern New Zealand Art,exhibitioncatalogue,1997

1997 JohnMooresLiverpool, Exhibition 20,catalogue,1997

1995 Brown,Warwick,100 New ZealandPaintings,1995,p49

Loveday Avenue (2011)