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In the Last Days in the Forgotten Calendars (2013) storyboard with 12 panels, oil on aluminium, panels 360 x 420 mm each

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In the Last Days in the Forgotten Calendars (2013) storyboard with 12 panels, oil on aluminium, panels 360 x 420 mm each 1

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In the Last Days in the Forgotten Calendars (2013) storyboard with 12 panels, oil on aluminium, panels 360 x 420 mm each

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In the Last Days in the Forgotten Calendars (2013) storyboard with 12 panels, oil on aluminium, panels 360 x 420 mm each 1

, oil on canvas, unstretched canvas: 2110 x 3045 mm, painted image: 1900 x 2795 mm

Hints for the Incomplete Traveller (2013/14) oil on canvas, unstretched canvas: 2110 x 3045 mm, painted image: 1900 x 2795 mm

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Incomplete Traveller i - iii (2013/14), individual panels, oil on aluminium, panels 330 x 400 mm each 3 - 5

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Traveller iv - vi (2013/14), individual panels, oil on aluminium, panels 330 x 400 mm each 6 - 8

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Traveller vii - ix (2013/14), individual panels, oil on aluminium, panels 330 x 400 mm each 9 - 11

Hints for the Incomplete Traveller - x - xviii (2013/14)

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Traveller xii - xv (2013/14), individual panels, oil on aluminium, panels 330 x 400 mm each 15 - 17

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Traveller xvi- xviii (2013/14), individual panels, oil on aluminium, panels 330 x 400 mm each 18 - 20

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Traveller xxi- xxiii (2013/14), individual panels, oil on aluminium, panels 360 x 420 mm each 21 - 23

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Traveller xxiv- xxvi (2013/14), individual panels, oil on aluminium, panels 360 x 420 mm each 24 - 26

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Traveller xxvii- xxix (2013/14), individual panels, oil on aluminium, panels 360 x 420 mm each 27 - 29

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Traveller xxx- xxxii (2013/14), individual panels, oil on aluminium, panels 360 x 420 mm each 30 - 32

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Traveller - xix - xx (2013/14), individual panels, oil on aluminium, panels 330 x 400 mm each

- xxxiii - xxxiv (2013/14), individual panels, oil on aluminium, panels 360 x 420 mm each

Drawing on cinematographic traditions, Garry Currin’s paintings suggest sepia-toned photographs or frames from faded 8 mm film. Each small panel reveals a self-contained world where individual stories overlap and time and place are fluid. Currin directs the framing and focus of each ‘shot’, revealing only parts of the over-arching narrative structure.

The individual paintings are small, intense works. They glow within their painted frames and Currin uses bright points of light as visual signposts that draw the eye into and across the surface of the panels. Using a limited palette, he layers tone upon tone which creates a rich depth of hue, all the more striking for the clean lines of the wide borders. More figurative than earlier bodies of work, Currin has populated the stories with people and places that are almost recognisable; they appear as half-forgotten memories which have warped and changed over time.

Accompanying the ‘storyboards’ is a single large work on canvas which showcases Currin’s skill with his medium. From a raised point of view, the viewer looks down onto a shifting landscape that is touched with light. Dominating the foreground are shadowed plains and a solid sweep of hillside; Currin captures simultaneously the solidity of the landscape, and its mutability. The soft ridges of ploughed paddocks draw the eye to the expansive curve of a bay, edged by distant hills.

The exhibition title, Hints for the Incomplete Traveller, encapsulates the experience of Garry Currin’s paintings. The works are suggestive rather than explanatory; Currin tells part of the story but leaves viewers time and space to extend and complete the narrative as it suits them.

EXHIBITION PRICELIST

1 In the Last Days in the Forgotten Calendars (2013) 16,500 storyboard of 12 panels

2 Hints for the Incomplete Traveller (2013/14) 25,000 unstretched canvas

3 - 36 Hints for the Incomplete Traveller – i - xxxiv (2013/14) 1,750 each 34 individual panels (arranged into storyboards for exhibition)

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

GARRY CURRIN

b. 1952, lives Matakana

His paintings are "internal landscapes. They have a physicality about them like landscapes, but they also have something more. People see things in them that I don't see". (1)

“Currin’s work is …made major by a scope that encompasses not only the edgy physical attributes of its subject, but also the metaphorical implications, so that Currin actually captures the power, the darkness and the malevolence of the very thing that he paints.” (2)

“The monochromatic and the atmospheric way forms in his paintings melt into one another exude a sense of mystery.” (3)

“He paints as if mixing rare elixirs with rancid oils. He’s a lyricist in paint, coaxing moody landscapes out of tangled streaks and veils of colour. He’s a quester in search of lost time, remembering things past: the fall of shadow at a certain time of day, the spiritualised sunburst, the cloud-splitting vista at dusk

“His paintings are phantasmagoric because they’re less actual landscapes than they are atmospheric reconstructions… At times his paintings seem to well up from the surfaces they’re painted on like secretions. They’re tinged with a morbid edge, a Gothic resonance verging on the melodramatic. These are the talismans of skewed memory. Currin teases and disrupts your attempts to establish reality of place by, say, triangulating a few landmarks. … He offers you inventions which tease and tantalise with their elusiveness. The landmarks fluctuate, dissolving back into the paint before re-emerging as cloud, or surf, or waterspout.” (4)

Born Wanganui, New Zealand 1952. Currin has been exhibiting his work since 1976. The time he devotes to painting and his exhibiting programme has been gathering momentum in recent years. Currin was a finalist in the Wallace Visa Gold Award in 1999 and a finalist in the James Wallace Awards 10 times since 1995 in addition to winning the ‘people's choice' vote in 2004. In 2008 Currin won the grand prize in the Team McMillan 'Where Brush Meets Bonnet' BMW Art Award and in 2011, a merit in the NZ Painting and Printmaking Award. His work is included in various significant collections.

1. Garry Currin, Artist’s Statement, 2009

2. Paul Field, ‘Seascapes capture power’, Otago Daily Times, 14 June 2001

3. Charmian Smith, ‘Shifting Changing World Inspires’, Otago Daily Times, March 27, 2003

4. David Eggleton, ‘Garry Currin The Painter as Salvage Artist’, Art New Zealand No. 94, Autumn 2000

This Distance (2008/09)

GARRY CURRIN

b. 1952, lives Matakana

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2014 Hints for the Incomplete Traveller, Milford Galleries Dunedin

2012 Voices of Earth, Milford Galleries Dunedin

2011 This Day, That Hour, milford galleries queenstown

Smoke and Dreaming, Whitespace, Auckland

Various Distances Apart, Milford Galleries Dunedin

2010 New Work, Whitespace, Auckland

2009 Inland, Milford Galleries Dunedin

2008 This Distance, Statements Gallery, Napier

Occupied Territory, milford galleries auckland

2006 Quotation of Dream, milford galleries auckland

Sea Narratives, milford galleries queenstown

2005 Old Language, milford galleries auckland

2003 Apertures, Milford Galleries Dunedin

Pages from the Book of Balls II, McPherson Gallery, Auckland

2001 Seacliff Narratives, Milford Galleries Dunedin

New Works, McPherson Gallery, Auckland

2000 New Works, Statements Gallery, Napier

1999 New Works, Peter Muirs Petford Gallery, Auckland

Pages from the Book of Balls, Drawings Gallery, Auckland

1997 Impressions I, Drawings Gallery, Auckland

Impressions II, Chiaroscuro Gallery, Auckland

1995 Emotional Landscape Series, Chiaroscuro Gallery, Auckland

1994 Conflict of Conscience, Chiaroscuro Gallery, Auckland

1993 Psychological Luggage, Devonport Gallery, Auckland

1980 From Dawn Till Dusk, Mollers Gallery, Auckland

1976 The Escaped Gnome, Mollers Gallery, Auckland

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2014 Works on Paper, The Vivian, Matakana

2013 Earl Street Journal, milford galleries Queenstown

The Small Show, The Vivian, Matakana

Three Artists, Whitespace, Auckland

The Local Show, The Vivian, Matakana

Idyll, New Zealand Steel Gallery, Franklin Art Centre, Pukekohe East

The Members Show, NorthArt Gallery, Auckland

Small Works, Milford Galleries Dunedin

The Review, milford galleries queenstown

Small Works, Milford Galleries Dunedin

The Landscape Show, The Vivian, Matakana

2012 Salvage, WHMilbank Gallery, Wanganui

The Opening Show, The Vivian, Matakana

Significant Works, Milford Galleries Dunedin

Drawing the Line, Whitespace Auckland

Rear Vision: 6 Artists Looking Back, Northart Gallery

Small Works, milford galleries queenstown

2011 Large Works, Milford Galleries Dunedin

2010 The Earl Street Journal, milford galleries queenstown

Wild Swans, Rayner Brothers Gallery, Wanganui

Drawings, Annual Drawing Show, NorthArt Gallery, Auckland

Small Works, Milford Galleries Dunedin

The Royal Queenstown Easter Show, milford galleries queenstown Mahurangi Group at Matakana

My City, Group Show, Whitespace, Auckland

Garry Currin 2014 CV Milford Galleries Dunedin www.milfordgalleries.co.nz

Wild Swans, Rayner Brothers Gallery, Wanganui

2009 Drawings (Annual Drawing Show), NorthArt Gallery, Auckland

Masterworks, milford galleries queenstown

Private Viewing, milford galleries queenstown

2008 10 Big Paintings, NorthArt Gallery, Auckland

Occupied Territory II, A Fine Line Gallery, Matakana

2007 Five By Three, Milford Galleries Dunedin

Masterworks, milford galleries queenstown

2005 The Southern Landscape, milford galleries queenstown

This Earth: Currin, Edwards and McFarlane, milford galleries auckland

2004 Group Show, Statements Gallery, Napier

Transit of Venus, Milford Galleries Dunedin

Transit of Venus, milford galleries queenstown

2003 Devonport Connections, Flagstaff Gallery, Auckland

Overview IS AS: ‘Landscape As Metaphor’, Milford Galleries Dunedin

2002 Meeting Point, Flagstaff Gallery, Auckland

2001 3 C’s, The Depot, Auckland

2000 Winners Show, Westshore Arts Centre, Auckland

1999 100 x 100, McPherson Gallery, Auckland

Eight Devonport Artists, Statements Gallery, Napier

Beyond Beauty, Peter Muirs Petford Gallery, Auckland

1998 Milford Galleries Dunedin

Small Works Exhibition, Drawings Gallery, Auckland

Spiritual Themes in Art, St. Georges Church, Auckland

Terrestrial Forces Exhibition, Statements Gallery, Napier

1997 Westshore Exhibition, Bruce Mason Centre, Auckland

ASA Working Members Show, ASA Gallery, Auckland

Ida Eise Award Exhibition, ASA Gallery, Auckland

Art Auction Show, Outreach Gallery, Auckland

1996 Spiritual Themes Exhibition, St. Georges Church, Auckland

Copy Art Exhibition, Outreach Gallery, Auckland

Small Works Exhibition, Drawings Gallery, Auckland

Group Show, Chiaroscuro Gallery, Auckland

ASA Working Members Show, ASA Gallery, Auckland

Ida Eise Award Exhibition, ASA Gallery, Auckland

1995 Ida Eise Award Exhibition, ASA Gallery, Auckland

1994

1993

ASA Working Members Show, ASA Gallery, Auckland

Ida Eise Award Exhibition, ASA Gallery, Auckland

ASA Portrait Exhibition, ASA Gallery, Auckland

1981 Group Show, Mollers Gallery, Auckland

1977 Group Show, Mollers Gallery, Auckland

AWARDS

2012 The NZ Painting and Printmaking Award, Finalist

2011 The NZ Painting and Printmaking Award, Merit Award

2010 19th Annual Wallace Awards, Finalist

2008 BMW Bonnet Artist grand prize at the BMW art awards

Wallace Award, Finalist

2007 Wallace Award, Finalist

2005 Wallace Award, Finalist

2004 Wallace Award, Finalist

Wallace Award, People’s Choice Award

2003 Cranleigh Barton Drawing Award, Finalist

2001 Cranleigh Barton Drawing Award, Finalist

2000 Wallace Award, Finalist

1999 Wallace Visa Gold Award, Finalist

1998 Wallace Award, Finalist

1997 Wallace Award, Finalist

1995 Wallace Award, Finalist

1992 Westshore Exhibition, two Merit Awards

COLLECTIONS

The Wallace Trust Collection

Private collections New Zealand, Europe and Australia

BIBLIOGRAPHY

2011 Eggleton, David, ‘Various Distances Apart’, Art New Zealand, Winter 2011, #138, p 20

2009 Benson, Nigel, ‘Dark Lands’, Otago Daily Times, August 28 2008

2008 John Daly-Peoples, ‘The Art Of BMW’, New Zealand Business Review, October 16 2008

2007 ‘Paintings Mesh with Poetry’, Art News, Summer 2007

2006 Howard, David, The Word Went Round, (with eight Garry Currin paintings accompanying the title poem), Otago University Press, 2006

2004 Amery, Mark, ‘13th Wallace Awards Travelling Show, Dowse Museum’, Dominion Post, 2004

2003 Smith, Charmian, ‘Shifting Changing World Inspires’, Otago Daily Times, March 27 2003

2000 Eggleton, David, ‘Garry Currin: The Painter as Salvage Artist’, Art New Zealand, Autumn 2000

Various Distances Apart, Kaipara (2010)