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Artist Talk: Peter Bauhuis
Peter Bauhuis GRAND BLOB CHAIN–necklace 2014; copper, silver, gold, bronze, 13 elemtents, ø 30 - 72mm. Photo © Peter Bauhuis
Talk
Past event
Philip Carter Family Auditorium
Free
Munich-based jeweller and object-maker Peter Bauhuis gives a public talk about his practice in conjunction with his solo exhibition opening at the National in Christchurch on 23 November 2018.
Peter Bauhuis’s work consists of jewellery and objects, but his oeuvre is not limited to these genres. In his challenging exhibitions, both the exhibit and exhibition concept are autonomous artworks; his numerous books must also be seen as independent art productions and form part of a network of making and its perception.
Bauhuis was born in Germany and lives and works in Munich. He trained as a jeweller and studied at the Munich Academy for Fine Arts, finishing with the prestigious title „Meisterschüler“. He has exhibited worldwide since 1999 and won numerous awards and prizes, including the highly esteemed International Silver Triennial in Hanau, Germany, in 2013. His work can been seen in public collections in Europe, the USA and Australia. Bauhuis taught at Alchimia, Contemporary Jewellery School in Florence, Italy for ten years, and is a much sought after guest professor and lecturer in universities and institutions around the world. His solo exhibition opens at the National, Christchurch, 23 Nov 2018.
Bauhuis is in New Zealand courtesy of the National and will be teaching workshops in Auckland, Wellington and Dunedin.
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Artist Profile
Lisa Walker: 0 + 0 = 0
It might be tempting to say that Lisa Walker makes jewellery out of any old thing – but it isn’t true. The eclectic objects that form her distinctive necklaces, brooches and other body-adornments are meticulously selected and shrewdly modified before they see the light of day. She salvages her materials from an unlikely cornucopia of sources – re-presenting objects such as car parts, animal skins and even kitchen utensils through the frame of body adornment’s long history. Tiny Lego hats, helmets and hairpieces – of the kind that clog vacuum cleaner nozzles in children’s bedrooms around the world – are strung on finely plaited cords like exotic beads or shells; trashy gossip magazines are lashed together to yield a breastplate befitting our celebrity-obsessed culture; dozens of oboe reeds donated by a musician friend bristle round the wearer’s neck like the teeth of some unimaginable deep sea leviathan.
Article
The pleasure of making: objects taking centre stage in the space of the art gallery
Was it serendipity that the opening of Christchurch Art Gallery's Burster Flipper Wobbler Dripper Spinner Stacker Shaker Maker coincided with that of Slip Cast, a group exhibition at the Dowse Art Museum that also focused on the pleasure that artists take in manipulating materials in the process of making art?
Collection
Fiona Pardington Mauria mai, tono ano
The title of this work means ‘to bring to light, to claim again’. The seven heitiki (greenstone pendants) Fiona Pardington has photographed came originally from her iwi, Kāi Tahu, in Te Waipounamu. All are now held in the collection of Auckland Museum. Traditionally worn close to the heart, heitiki are sacred fertility symbols in te ao Māori, strongly associated with whakapapa (family connections across time). Fiona not only wanted to record the physical attributes of these old and precious objects, but also to capture their more intangible qualities, such as how they speak of the past and this place, despite being stored so far away.
(Perilous: Unheard Stories from the Collection, 6 August 2022- )
