Andrew Drummond room for Observation (detail) 2003. Mixed media. Reproduced courtesy of the artist. Photo: Brendan Lee
Andrew Drummond Viewing Device, Counter Rotating (detail) 2008-10. Steel, paint, aluminium, air system. Partially funded by Creative New Zealand. Reproduced courtesy of the artist
Installation view: Andrew Drummond: Observation / Action / Reflection, May 2010
Installation view: Andrew Drummond: Observation / Action / Reflection, May 2010
Installation view: Andrew Drummond: Observation / Action / Reflection, May 2010
Installation view: Andrew Drummond: Observation / Action / Reflection, May 2010
14 May – 5 September 2010
This spectacular exhibition explores Andrew Drummond's rich and diverse practice, which spans performance, sculpture, installation, drawing, photography and technology.
The first comprehensive survey exhibition of this acclaimed New Zealand sculptor. Focusing on the period between 1980 and 2010, this spectacular exhibition explores the artist's rich and diverse practice, which spans performance, sculpture, installation, drawing, photography and technology.
Drummond is renowned for consistently producing engaging and dynamic large-scale mixed-media works that explore themes relating to the land and the human body, machines and movement. The exhibition features a major new kinetic sculpture, installed in the Gallery's foyer, and is accompanied by a stunning catalogue.
Exhibition number 842, 842A, 843B, 846, 848
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Curator:
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Exhibition number:
842
– Jenny Harper, director
Related
film
Andrew Drummond - Dome works
Watch Andrew Drummond refurbishing his Dome works for the exhibition Andrew Drummond: Observation / Action / Reflection.
film
Andrew Drummond - Counter Rotating and Earthing Device
Watch curator Jennifer Hay's interview with Andrew Drummond, discussing his work Counter Rotating and Earthing Device.
Exhibition
Wunderbox
15 February 2009
Wunderbox brings together secretive spaces, model worlds and eccentric collections by some of New Zealand's best-known contemporary artists, including Judy Darragh, Andrew Drummond, Bill Hammond, Neil Pardington, Francis Upritchard, Terry Urbahn and Ronnie van Hout.
Collection
Andrew Drummond 90° Device, Beating
Andrew Drummond’s kinetic sculpture suggests the flat Canterbury landscape with its jagged coastline, and, like a heartbeat, the constantly pumped blue liquid brings to mind the region’s braided rivers, or the arteries of the body.
Drummond has drawn on the idea that the land and the body are interconnected, and he explores the way science and medicine use technology. This work is part of a larger installation entitled For beating and breathing in which the body is portrayed as a complicated piece of machinery.
Drummond was born in Nelson and studied at Waterloo University, Ontario. He is well known for his performance art practice during the 1970s and 1980s. He has also completed several major public commissions in Auckland and Wellington. Drummond was Senior Lecturer in Sculpture at the University of Canterbury from 1992 until 2003.
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Sunspots
Andrew Drummonds spectacular Viewing Device, Counter Rotating was hanging in the foyer on Feb 22, 2011.
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Extraction complete
It seems quite some time ago now – almost two years actually – since we were in the planning stages of the Andrew Drummond exhibition Observation, Action, Reflection.
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Andrew Drummond exhibition opens this week
Spanning a career of over thirty years, this exhibition draws on Drummond's rich and diverse practice between 1980 and 2010. It is the first major comprehensive survey of this important artist's work, and it's on here at the Gallery.
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Kinetic sculptures installed in foyer of Christchurch Art Gallery
Two kinetic sculptures from the forthcoming exhibition Andrew Drummond: Observation / Action / Reflection were installed in the foyer last week.
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90˚ device, beating by Andrew Drummond
This article first appeared in The Press on 14 September 2005
90˚ device, beating by Christchurch sculptor Andrew Drummond has an audible presence in the contemporary gallery of the Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū long before it is visible.