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13 October - 7 November 2012 Milford Galleries Dunedin 18 Dowling Street (03) 477 7727 [email protected] www.milfordgalleries.co.nz JENNA PACKER Anchored

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Anchored / 13 October - 7 November 2012 / Exhibition Catalogue / Milford Galleries Dunedin / www.milfordgalleries.co.nz

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13 October - 7 November 2012

Milford Galleries Dunedin18 Dowling Street (03) 477 7727 [email protected]

www.milfordgalleries.co.nz

JENNA PACKERAnchored

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1. The Mission (2012), acrylic on canvas, stretcher: 560 x 712 x 32 mm

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2. Walking the Right of Way (2012), acrylic on canvas, stretcher: 913 x 1115 x 33 mm

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3. Far Flung (2012), acrylic on canvas, stretcher: 558 x 712 x 38 mm

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4. Customs and Excise at Wickliffe Pier (2012), acrylic on canvas, stretcher: 910 x 1115 x 33 mm

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5. Harpooned (2012), acrylic on canvas, stretcher: 560 x 711 x 36 mm

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6. Pompallier's Dream (2012), acrylic on canvas, stretcher: 913 x 1115 x 33 mm

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7. Port Chalmers (2012), acrylic on canvas, stretcher: 912 x 1218 x 35 mm

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8. Port Line (2012), acrylic on canvas, stretcher: 910 x 1216 x 34 mm

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9. May Day (2012), acrylic on canvas, stretcher: 912 x 1216 x 34 mm

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10. Arcadia (2012), acrylic on canvas, stretcher: 913 x 1113 x 33 mm

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11. Wreck on Wharf and Jetty (2011), acrylic on canvas, stretcher: 910 x 1218 x 34 mm

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12. The Camp (2011), acrylic on canvas, stretcher: 905 x 1196 x 34 mm

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13. Saltmarsh Hangar (2011), acrylic on canvas, stretcher: 913 x 1220 x 34 mm

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14. Low Tide (2011), acrylic on canvas, stretcher: 555 x 713 x 36 mm

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Jenna Packer paints delicately detailed works that appear at first to be

historical observations, but upon closer inspection there emerges an

alternative colonial history that contains mystery, humour, contradiction and

wonderful elements of farce. Although the works have the authority of very

particular locations and are strikingly familiar, they are also an amalgam of

disparate events and in that way become increasingly strange and dream-

like.

The varying passages of time has always been an intrinsic element in Packer’s

paintings and in this new body of work the layered narratives reach into

depression-era NZ – we view desolate wharves, ruined houses, steam trains,

waka and wayward balloons. Collectively these speak of a particular time

but also to the transitory nature of it. An air of melancholy arises and yet we

know it will pass. Packer in works such as The Camp reveals life and time to be

tenuous, existence impermanent and structure skeletal. Yet there exists

purpose and constant human endeavour in each work.

Stories are being told in scenes and vignettes within each work. Clothing

speaks to differing times, persuasions and jobs. Washing hangs from zeppelin

girders, the hopeful splendour of a blue and gold Montgolfier balloon rises to

the heavens, jewelled dragonflies alter space and scale. Packer is now firmly

established as a considerable painter of social narratives with a unique

stylistic voice and vision.

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

E X H I B I T I O N P R I C E L I S T

1 The Mission (2012) 4,000

2 Walking the Right of Way (2012) 6,000

3 Far Flung (2012) 4,000

4 Customs and Excise at Wickliffe Pier (2012) 6,000

5 Harpooned (2012) 4,000

6 Pompallier's Dream (2012) 6,000

7 Port Chalmers (2012) 6,000

8 Port Line (2012) 6,000

9 May Day (2012) 6,000

10 Arcadia (2012) 6,000

11 Wreck on Wharf and Jetty (2011) 6,000

12 The Camp (2011) 6,000

13 Saltmarsh Hangar (2011) 6,000

14 Low Tide (2011) 4,000

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Jenna Packer 2012 CV Milford Galleries Dunedin www.milfordgalleries.co.nz

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JENNA PACKER lives Waitati

The Mission (2012)

Jenna Packer paints metaphorical and alternate histories commenting on journeys of discovery, evolution, the survival instinct of escape, fragility and the endless possibilities of life. "Jenna Packer's startling art is unlike that of any other artist active in New Zealand. Her busy, excellently composed scenes depict images of an alternative timeless, time-filled Otago, its coastlines plied with vessels from throughout history and imagination... She gives viewers the feeling of "saudade", that peculiar wistful longing for things that never were but could have been, and lets our minds wander and wonder at this history that may have resulted." (1) Jenna Packer draws on a lifelong interest in history and the telling of it, and in image making. "I am looking at the past in order to find some clues to what is happening, what to expect and how to live it. This is not just in painting but reading, conversations, thoughts. I keep returning to the period of the 1930’s and to the exodus of people across Europe at the onset on WWII. I want to affirm the fragility and the possibility of life, but the dark shadows which have been in the background – (sometimes as zeppelins or parachutes) keep encroaching further into the pictures." (2) Jenna Packer is a graduate from the Ilam School of Fine Arts. A painter, printmaker and illustrator she has exhibited in New Zealand, France and Japan.

(1) James Dignan, "Art Seen", Otago Daily Times, November 2010 (2) Jenna Packer, Artist Statement, 2009

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Jenna Packer 2012 CV Milford Galleries Dunedin www.milfordgalleries.co.nz

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JENNA PACKER lives Waitati

EDUCATION

1996-97 3 months total) La Rouelle Studio (printmaking), France 1996 (July) The Slade School of Art (Fresco), London 1995 Otago Polytechnic School of Couture (Couture), Dunedin

1992 (March – May) Glasgow Print Workshop (printmaking), Glasgow 1989 BA (History) (First-Class Honours), University of Canterbury, Christchurch 1988 Bachelor Fine Arts, Ilam School of Art, Christchurch

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2010 Provisioning, Milford Galleries Dunedin 2009 A History of Flight, Milford Galleries Dunedin

2008 Plant, Gallery on Blueskin, Waitati 2007 The Island, Solander, Wellington 2006 The Island, Milnes Court Gallery, Port Chalmers 1995 Imprints, Ground Essence, Dunedin 1994 Moroccan Notebook, Ground Essence, Dunedin

Etchings (solo), Ground Essence, Dunedin

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2012 The Surreal, Milford Galleries Dunedin 2009 Southern Landscape, milford galleries queenstown 2008 Etched in Memory, PaperGraphica, Christchurch

Opening, Gallery on Blueskin, Waitati

2007 The Paper Show, The Artists’ Room, Dunedin Spring Exhibition, Anderson’s Park Art Gallery, Invercargill

The Knowne Worlde Illuminated, Salisbury House Art Gallery, Dunedin Impressed Atatoi, Wairarapa Museum of Art and History, Masterton

2006 ‘10’, The Print-makers’ Studio, Dunedin 1997 Féte de Papier, Maison de Josianne, Génolac, France

1995 Three Printmakers, Salamander Gallery, Christchurch Fishing for Camels in the Bush, Arthouse Gallery, Dunedin Arthouse Members Show, Arthouse Gallery, Dunedin

1994 Exposure II (Invited Dunedin Artists), Applied Art NZ, Christchurch Nakhodka – Dunedin – Otaru, Sister Cities Art Exhibition, Otaru, Japan Five Printmakers, Left Bank Art Gallery, Greymouth

Women Show, Arthouse Gallery, Dunedin 1990 Printmakers Exhibition, Aigantigue Art Gallery, Timaru

Prints: Jenna Packer and Neave Fraser-Davies, CSA Gallery, Christchurch

COLLECTIONS

Work held in private collections in NZ, Australia, UK, Canada, France and Italy.

Quadrille (2010)