CHARLOTTE HANDY

CHARLOTTE HANDY

heaphy’s garden

Preview Friday 16th July from 5:30pm Artist will Attend 17th July - 11th August, 2010

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Milford Galleries Dunedin 18 Dowling Street (03) 477 7727 info@milfordhouse.co.nz

1. CHARLOTTE HANDY, Do You Believe? (2010) acrylic & oil on canvas, frame (v x h x d): 1031 x 730 x 54 mm, stretcher (v x h x d): 1000 x 700 x 25 mm

2. CHARLOTTE HANDY, The Garden Empirical (2010) a crylic & oil on canvas, frame (v x h x d): 790 x 790 x 54 mm, stretcher (v x h x d): 760 x 753 x 40 mm

3. CHARLOTTE HANDY, Where Breathing Starts (2010) acrylic & oil on canvas, frame (v x h x d): 790 x 790 x 54 mm, stretcher (v x h x d): 757 x 760 x 40 mm

4. CHARLOTTE HANDY, Begin on Your Histories (2010) acrylic & oil on canvas, frame (v x h x d): 1275 x 948 x 60 mm

5. CHARLOTTE HANDY, Dreams at Sea Level (2010) acrylic & oil on canvas, frame (v x h x d): 538 x 538 x 54 mm, stretcher (v x h x d): 504 x 506 x 40 mm

6. CHARLOTTE HANDY, Anemone (2010) acrylic & oil on canvas, frame (v x h x d): 537 x 535 x 54 mm, stretcher (v x h x d): 507 x 506 x 40 mm

7. CHARLOTTE HANDY, In this Hour (2010) acrylic & oil on canvas, frame (v x h x d): 790 x 790 x 54 mm, stretcher (v x h x d): 758 x 758 x 40 mm

8. CHARLOTTE HANDY, Landscape by Candlelight (2010) acrylic & oil on canvas, frame (v x h x d): 790 x 785 x 54 mm, stretcher (v x h x d): 758 x 755 x 40 mm

9. CHARLOTTE HANDY, Teach Me to Dance (2010) acrylic & oil on canvas, frame (v x h x d): 790 x 790 x 54 mm, stretcher (v x h x d): 760 x 760 x 40 mm

10. CHARLOTTE HANDY, I Am, But Only Here (2010) acrylic & oil on canvas, frame (v x h x d): 538 x 535 x 54 mm, stretcher (v x h x d): 508 x 506 x 40 mm

11. CHARLOTTE HANDY, I Don't Miss You Yet (2010) acrylic & oil on canvas, frame (v x h x d): 538 x 536 x 54 mm, stretcher (v x h x d): 507 x 506 x 40 mm

12. CHARLOTTE HANDY, Antebellum (2010) acrylic & oil on canvas, frame (v x h x d): 788 x 788 x 54 mm, stretcher (v x h x d): 757 x 760 x 40 mm

13. CHARLOTTE HANDY, Morphia (2010) acrylic & oil on canvas, frame (v x h x d): 788 x 788 x 54 mm, stretcher (v x h x d): 757 x 759 x 40 mm

14. CHARLOTTE HANDY, Across the River (2010) acrylic & oil on canvas, frame (v x h x d): 945 x 636 x 54 mm, stretcher (v x h x d): 915 x 605 x 40 mm

15. CHARLOTTE HANDY, Systema Naturae 1 (2010) acrylic & oil on canvas, frame (v x h x d): 538 x 538 x 54 mm, stretcher (v x h x d): 505 x 505 x 40 mm

16. CHARLOTTE HANDY, Systema Naturae 2 (2010) acrylic & oil on canvas, frame (v x h x d): 539 x 534 x 54 mm, stretcher (v x h x d): 508 x 503 x 40 mm

17. CHARLOTTE HANDY, Forget Me Not (2010) acrylic & oil on canvas, frame (v x h x d): 538 x 534 x 54 mm, stretcher (v x h x d): 506 x 505 x 40 mm

EXHIBITION PRICELIST

1

Do You Believe? (2010)

5,000

2

The Garden Empirical (2010)

4,000

3

Where Breathing Starts (2010)

4,000

4

Begin on Your Histories (2010)

6,500

5

Dreams at Sea Level (2010)

2,500

6

Anemone (2010)

2,500

7

In this Hour (2010)

4,000

8

Landscape by Candlelight (2010)

4,000

9

Teach Me to Dance (2010)

4,000

10

I Am, But Only Here (2010)

2,500

11

I Don't Miss You Yet (2010)

2,500

12

Antebellum (2010)

4,000

13

Morphia (2010)

4,000

14

Across the River (2010)

4,000

15

Systema Naturae 1 (2010)

2,500

16

Systema Naturae 2 (2010)

2,500

17

Forget Me Not (2010)

2,500

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

CHARLOTTE HANDY b. 1967, lives Wellington

The First Weather Report (2006)

Charlotte Handy’s paintings explore “the tensions between abstract and literal, land and sea, surface and depth.” (1) The atmospheres established move between the realms of implied, real and imaginary while Handy dissolves perspective to play games with the viewer’s perception. Key in these paintings is the state of constant visual flux: nothing is fixed or certain or final.

Handy’s paintings are a non-representational visual cartography of oceans, landmass, and weather conditions where location is suggested rather than overtly stated. “Her works map dreamscapes; they are the paintings of a self-exiled New Zealander whose eyes comb a phantasmal body of water for evidence of something specific, something familiar.” (2) The artist generates a search for places as meaning and delivers ambiguity. Just as the land and sea are interchangeable localities, the cross motif predominant throughout Handy’s paintings can be read as a symbol of faith, a navigational point, a ships mast. “A cross marks an edge a line twice drawn, a crease-mark on a map…the position of a star or sun on an astrolabe.” (3) It is also a visual device of emphasis.

“Handy paints uncertainty by choosing to depict wavering mirage-like forms that fade in and out of cloud build-up that has settled over gently lapping waves.” (4) Ambiguity of form, content, depth and meaning within Handy’s paintings are instruments of debate, while also being containers of cerebral beauty and moments held in suspension.

(1) Anna Smith, Sea Lungs for an Inland Sea, 2006 (2) David Eggleton, The Sea Inside, New Zealand Listener, Dec 16, 2006 (3) Anna Smith, Sea Lungs for an Inland Sea, 2006 (4) David Eggleton, The Sea Inside, New Zealand Listener, Dec 16, 2006 Charlotte Handy was born in Wellington, 1967. She attended the Elam School of Fine Arts in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Her contempories included Giovanni Intra, Anna Miles, Michael Parekowhai, and Gavin Hipkins. She was awarded a Senior Scholarship in painting and was invited in her third year at Elam to hold her first solo exhibition at the Betty Wallis Gallery. A move to London in 1994 resulted in Charlotte becoming involved in the British photography scene. She was a finalist in two international competitions, and her work was exhibited at the Victoria and Albert Museum and The Royal Festive Hall.

Her work is held in the National Bank, Minter Ellison Rudd Watts and Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade collections, and in private collections in New Zealand, East Asia, Europe and North America.

Charlotte Handy 2010 CV P a g e |1

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CHARLOTTE HANDY b. 1967, lives Wellington EDUCATION 1990

Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland, Auckland

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2010 2008 2006 2006‘ 2005 1997 1996 1990

Heaphy’s Garden, Milford Galleries Dunedin The Peninsular, milford galleries auckland The Inland Sea, Milford Galleries Dunedin Overland, Tinakori Gallery Wellington Exile Harbour, Tinakori Gallery Wellington View from an Island, Bayswater, London Winter Paintings, Bayswater, London Charlotte Handy – Paintings, Betty Wallis Gallery, Parnell, Auckland Victoria and Albert Museum, London The Royal Festive Hall, London

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 1996 1995

1994 1992

1990

ASC Studios, Camberwell, London (open studio organised by Whitechapel Gallery) ASC Studios, Camberwell, London South Bank Photo Show (four works), Hayward Gallery, London The Guardian/Faberge Photographic Competition (finalist), Victoria and Albert Museum, London Members Group Show, ASA, Ponsonby, Auckland Cross Pollination (collaborative piece with Jennifer Ruston, in bi- cultural group show curated by George Hubbard), Artspace, Auckland The Face of AIDS – Artists against AIDS, Chiaroscuro Gallery, Parnell, Auckland Screen Show, Betty Wallis Gallery, Parnell, Auckland The Elam Painters, ASA, Ponsonby, Auckland

AWARDS 1995 1989

Finalist, The Guardian/Faberge Photographic Competition, London Elam Senior Scholarship in Painting

COLLECTIONS The Rutherford Trust Collection Hawkes Bay Museum and Art Gallery Wingnut Films, Wellington Le’Art Group, Hawkes Bay

BIBLIOGRAPHY 2007

Smith, Anna. Aqualung Blues: The Art of Charlotte Handy, Art New Zealand, Issue 124, Spring 2007, pg 66 - 68

Charlotte Handy 2010 CV P a g e |2

Milford Galleries Dunedin

www.milfordgalleries.co.nz