karl maughan

Karl Maughan10th March - 4th April, 2012

Preview Friday 14th October 5:30 pm

Recent WorksUPSTAIRS GALLERY milford galleries queenstown

9A Earl Street Tel (03) 442 6896 [email protected]

www.milfordgalleries.co.nz

1. Canterbury (2011)

oil on linen, stretcher (v x h x d): 1218 x 2133 x 33 mm

2. Loveday Avenue (2011)

diptych; oil on linen, overall (v x h x d): 1220 x 1835 x 38 mm, stretchers (v x h x d): 1220 x 915 x 38 mm each

3. Riverena (2010)


4. Southland (2012)


5. Tiritea (2012), oil on linen, stretcher (v x h x d): 1830 x 1830 x 33 mm

6. Pohangina East (2011)


7. Pohangina West (2011)


8. Awahou North (2011)


9. Awahou South (2011)


10. Hiwinui (2010/11), oil on linen, stretcher (v x h x d): 557 x 556 x 33 mm

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 Canterbury (2011) 27,500

2 Southland (2012) 27,500

3 Riverena (2010) 27,500

4 Loveday Avenue (2011) 27,500

5 Tiritea (2012) 30,000

6 Pohangina East (2011) 12,000

7 Pohangina West (2011) 12,000

8 Awahou North (2011) 9,500

9 Awahou South (2011) 9,500

10 Hiwinui (2010/11) 4,750

Maughan masterfully combines invention and naturalism. His carefully

constructed garden scenes merge the natural world with one of order,

balance and control; the cultivated ideal.

When engaging with the work there is a real sense of being there. Both

aesthetically and emotionally pleasing, Maughan’s paintings have a richness

of colour, clarity of form and sharp perspective that entices the viewer to the

subject-matter. Compositional elements such as the trees in the foreground of

‘Riverena’, garden paths and deep shadows draw the viewer into the work,

and make it seem very possible to look through the branches, around the

corner of the rhododendron, or beneath the shadows to the pebbles on the

cool ground below.

The large-scale works are all encompassing. ‘Canterbury’, ‘Southland’ and

‘Loveday Avenue’ show a panoramic landscape and the life-like scale of the

works give the sense that this is only a window to the vast garden beyond,

there is far more than the eye can see.

The viewer is compelled to move toward the work, to experience the garden

and in doing so is confronted with a tactile and abstracted painting surface.

“What originally appeared to be hyperrealism is actually broad dashes of

paint. Up close these works are like impressionist paintings, a combination of

gestural marks, pointillism, and the white of the canvas which gives the work

its shimmering light.”(1)

Maughan’s ability to capture light and shadow is reminiscent of impressionist

Masters and describes succinctly the mood and the time of day, whether in

the dark contrasting shadow of the late afternoon ‘Awahou North’ or in the

bright midday sun ‘Hiwinui’ and ‘Riverena’.

1.John Daly-Peoples, ‘Karl Maughan’s Gardens of Delight in Dunedin’, NBR, 2010

Karl Maughan 2012 CV Milford Galleries Dunedin www.milfordgalleries.co.nz

KARL MAUGHAN b. 1964, lives Auckland

Kawakawa Road (2011)

Karl Maughan has been painting gardens since the mid-1980s and this accomplished concentration

on subject has made him a nationally and internationally recognised and recognisable New

Zealand artist. Maughan has been exhibiting with Milford Galleries Dunedin since 1993.

"Karl Maughan’s fascination with gardens has come through his wish to explore light and colour.

Photographing his chosen gardens in differing lights, Maughan records as much detail as possible. In

the studio he then collages selected elements into new composite images. Applying paint in small

areas of the canvas to avoid premature drying, he pieces the work together like a mosaic. Rather

than blending colours, he uses clean colours side by side, this ‘alla prima’ (wet onto wet) technique

was popular with the Impressionists." (1)

"With most of these paintings we are drawn into the work, impelled to walk towards the painting as

though into an actual garden. However, as one gets closer into the vista one discovers you are

actually entering a painting... Up close these works are like impressionist paintings, a combination of

gestural marks, pointillism, and the white of the canvas which gives the work its shimmering light." (2)

“Details dissolve into an abstract flourish of rhythmically applied paint. The paint is really more

important than the garden, but not entirely so.” (3)

After ten years in London, Maughan returned to New Zealand in 2005. He lives in Auckland. In 1997

he was a finalist in the John Moore Painting Award. (This award, whose previous winners include

David Hockney, is regarded as one of the two premier art awards in Britain, the other being the

Turner Painting prize.) His work is held in public and private collections in New Zealand and the UK.

In 1998 Maughan came to the attention of British arts benefactor Charles Saatchi who has

subsequently purchased several works. Maughan was included in the Saatchi Gallery, London

exhibitions The Neurotic Realism in 1998 and I’m a Camera in 2001. Also in 1998 he was offered the

opportunity to install a major six panel work A Clear Day in the Habitat store in Chelsea, London. This

work was bought by Te Papa in 2000.

Born Wellington, New Zealand 1964. Bachelor of Fine Arts, Elam School of Fine Arts, University of

Auckland 1986. He completed one year of Master of Fine Arts in 1987 and has exhibited regularly

since then.

1. Natalie Poland, Manawatu Art Gallery information sheet, April 1998

2. John Daly-Peoples, 'Karl Maughan's Garden's of Delight in Dunedin", NBR, March 2010

3. TJ McNamara, Small seas and giant gardens’, NZ Herald, 8 April 2002

Karl Maughan 2012 CV milford galleries queenstown www.milfordgalleries.co.nz

P a g e | 2

KARL MAUGHAN b. 1964, lives Auckland

EDUCATION

1983 - 87 BFA and MFA, Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2012 Recent Works, milford galleries queenstown

2011 Oroua Valley, Milford Galleries Dunedin

Idlewild, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland

2010 Karl Maughan, Page Blackie Gallery, Wellington

The Lost Path, Milford Galleries Dunedin

2009 Everyday is Like Sunday, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland

Blackbarn Gallery, Hawkes Bay, New Zealand

2008 Martin Browne Gallery, Sydney, Australia

New Works, milford galleries queenstown

2007/08 On A Clear Day, Te Manawa Gallery, Palmerston North

2007 New Paintings, milford galleries queenstown

Page Blackie Gallery, Wellington

Cross Hills, Milford Galleries Dunedin

Recent Paintings and Prints, Gow Langsford Auckland

2006 Outside, Martin Browne Fine Art Galler, Sydney, Australia

2005 Kimbolton, Milford Galleries Dunedin

2004 Karl Maughan: Recent Paintings, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland

2003 The Visitor, Gow Langsford Gallery, Sydney, Australia

Park Lane, Vertigo Gallery, London, UK

Blow Up. St. Pauls Gallery, Birmingham, UK

Walking in Light, Vertigo Gallery, London, UK

2002 Garden Centre, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland

2001 Yew, Milford Galleries Dunedin

Art Lab, Imperial College Exhibition, London, UK

2000 Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland

Karl Maiughan, Art Hotel, Florence, Italy

1999 Crowd, Vynel St, London, UK

Karl Maughan, Habitat, London, UK

1999 Waterview, Milford Galleries Dunedin

1997 Great Outdoors, Tinakori Gallery, Wellington

1996 Love Lies Bleeding, Milford Galleries Dunedin

Day Night, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland

1995 Green Triumph, Brooker Gallery, Wellington

1994 Romance and Irony, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland

1993 New Paintings, Milford Galleries Dunedin

Brooker Gallery, Wellington

1992 Gow Langsford Gallery, Wellington

CSA Gallery, Auckland

1991 Brooker Gallery, Wellington

Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland

1990 Brooker Galllery, Wellington

1989 Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland

Brooker Gallery, Wellington

1988 Brooker Gallery, Wellington

Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland

1987 Garden Series II,Brooker Gallery, Wellington


P a g e | 3

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2010 Small Works, Milford Galleries Dunedin

2009 Masterworks, milford galleries Queenstown

John Leech and Gow Langsford Galleries Spring Catalogue, Gow Langsford Gallery,

Auckland

2008 Clock the Ton, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland

2007 In Fluorescents, Gow Langsfor Gallery, Auckland

Auckland Art Fair

2006 Chosen, Milford Galleries Dunedin

Master Works, milford galleries queenstown

2005 Auckland Art Fair

Selected Artists, Tinakori Gallery Wellington

Recent Floral Works, milford galleries queenstown

2003 Is As: Landscape As Metaphor, Milford Galleries Dunedin

1999 Idlewild, The Approach Gallery London

1998 Saatchi Collection Catalogue Show, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK

Karl Maughan and Dick Frizzell, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland

1997 MNZA: Landscape, Milford Galleries Dunedin

John Moores Liverpool Exhibition 20, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK

Under Growth, Holy St Studios, London, UK

1996 NZ Real, Milford Galleries Dunedin

1995 Blindfield, Coventry Gallery, London, UK

Catalogue Exhibition, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland

Stop Making Sense, City Gallery, Wellington

1992 Waikato Museum of Art and History, Hamilton

1990 Robert McDougall Art Gallery, Christchurch

AWARDS

1997 Finalist John Moore Painting Award, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool

COLLECTIONS

Te Papa Museum of New Zealand

British Council

University of Victoria Wellington

Robert McDougall Art Gallery Christchurch

District Court Wellington

Corporate Collections

Glaxo Industries

Yates

Fletcher Challenge Limited Auckland

NZ Police

PricewaterhouseCoopers Wellington

Saatchi & Saatchi Wellington

Saatchi Collection London

Sky City Casino

Sky City Grand

BIBLIOGRAPHY

2011 Wolfe, Richard and Stephen Robinson, Artists At Work, Penguin Books, London, England

2009 ‘Karl Maughn’, New Artland, Series 2, Episode 4

2008 Thomson, Joelle, Into the Garden, Mindfood, issue 2, May, pp136-139 (attached)

2008 Somerville, Jane, New Work; Karl Maughan, Artworld, issue 2, April/May, pp144-147

(attached)


P a g e | 4

2007 Jennings, Nicola, On a Clear Day, Exhibition Catalogue, Te Manawa Art Gallery, Palmerston

North

2006 Newton, Katie, Up the Garden Path, Sunday Star Times, February, pp 16 & 17 (attached)

2000 Wolfe, Richard, Interflora, Karl Maughan Paints in the Face of Nature, Art New Zealand 97,

Summer pg 62 – 65

1998 Lopdell House Gallery, (Re)visioning the Real, exhibition catalogue 1998 The Saatchi Gallery, The New Neurotic Realism, collection catalogue 1998 Gregg, Stacy, The Flower and the Glory, Sunday Star Times, February 1, (attached)

1997 Milford Galleries, 3 Major Surveys-Modern New Zealand Art, exhibition catalogue, 1997 1997 John Moores Liverpool, Exhibition 20, catalogue, 1997 1995 Brown, Warwick, 100 New Zealand Paintings, 1995, p49

Loveday Avenue (2011)

karl maughan

Documents