Friends Breakfast and Private Tour of Frances Hodgkins: European Journeys

Frances Hodgkins Spanish Jars 1931–35. Oil on canvas. Collection of Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, gift of the Friends of the Auckland Art Gallery with funds from the Joy Marchant Bequest, 2016

Friends

Past event

Universo Brasserie & Bar

$30

BOOKINGS NOW CLOSED.

Join the Friends for breakfast in Universo followed by a tour of the new exhibition Frances Hodgkins: European Journeys with its curator Mary Kisler.

Booking essential by Monday 10 February. This is a Friends-only event.

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Celebrating one of New Zealand’s most significant expatriate artists.

Felicity Milburn

Felicity Milburn, the Gallery’s new lead curator, will speak about the importance of connecting people with art and share some highlights from the Gallery’s forthcoming programme.

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Join the Friends on an art-filled weekend in Auckland, including visits to Gibbs Farm Sculpture Park and McCahon House.

Book by Friday 28 February 2020.

With the death of Julie King late in 2018, art and art history in Aotearoa New Zealand lost one of its great champions and major scholars. Julie was born in Yorkshire and grew up and was educated in Alnwick, Northumberland; she moved to Christchurch in 1975 to take up a role lecturing in the newly formed art history department at the University of Canterbury. She retired three decades later, having pioneered the teaching of New Zealand art in Canterbury.

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Collection

Julia Morison Dulia

In the early 1990s, Julia Morison used gold and shit in many works, exploring the idealised and base elements of human experience. She drew on the Jewish Sefiroth as a model for thinking about the relationship between the physical and the metaphysical. “Personally, I need to put some kind of order on experience for sake of sanity and negotiation,” she said. “The Sefirothic structure, or Tree of Knowledge, is really a metaphorical file and folder system for all; a conceptual paradigm for understanding everything. Putting that at the core of my practice gives me the freedom to admit everything and anything, micro and macro, metaphysical and corporeal, as legitimate content. It also gives me an interface to compose works.”

The title of this work, Dulia, is a Catholic term for worship given to saints and angels. Here Morison has pressed gold and excrement on to handmade paper balls, which are threaded together like the beads of a catholic rosary—an invitation to meditate on the relationship of the sacred and the profane, on a monumental scale.

Interview

The London Club

In September 2017, Gallery director Jenny Harper, curator Felicity Milburn and Jo Blair, of the Gallery Foundation’s contracted development services, Brown Bread, went to London, taking a group of supporters who received a very special tour of the city’s art highlights. While there, they further developed the Foundation’s new London Club. Recently they sat down together in Jenny’s office…

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