27th February.4pm-6pm
Book Lsunch
Abberley Park Hall.15 Abberley Crescent.St Slbans.79s music by Jonsthon Harper,readings by Catherine Msnchester..Light refreshments.
My debut novel Sunshine novel is a story that began as two short stories twenty years ago.I attended an evening writing course, worked on a short story with Renee Taylor and got to work in earnest in Laingholm in Titirangi. My life blended writing ,painting and film extra work which provided a creative loop.Now 6 years later it will be available from Copy Press in Nelson in January 2026..I have a collection of unpublished poems and stories.
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Sunshine road Survey Orion Powerhouse gallery Akaroa.
Sunshine Road
Oil on canvas 2024
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A literary connection.My mother's grandmother was Mary Jane Mander which made my grandmother first cousin to Jane Mander.
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Flee Oil on canvas 2026
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Song of the sea 80x 76cm
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I go go Jason. ( 1998 Arts on Tour catalogue and Art New Zealand article.
Jason appears as a character in Sunshine road.A novel and the name of a painting.The graffiti is from a song scribbled on a wall in Eastside of Otautahi .
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Fields of figures
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Ancient formations 45x 30cm 2025
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Nature becoming form 46 x36cm 2025
Oil on canvas 2025 SOLD
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Touching the earth 153 x61 cm2025
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Man and the sea.30 x30cm 2025
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Sweep of time 101x 51cm
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Stop.
Oil on canvas 2026
Everything and all
141cm x 99cm. 2020.Exhibited Chambers gallery 2024 entitled Landscapes of the mind
Where the harbour meets the sea. 30x30cm 2025
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Youth 90 x60cm Oil on canvas 2025
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The departure.Oil on canvas 152 cm x 101cm 2022
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Paradise regained through rest .2025.Finalist Academy Prize for visual art 2025 153x61cm
Habitat 40x 30cm2025.Oil on canvas 2025
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Out of forms and formations 2020
They plan their journeys. Oil on canvas .2024 Sold and reproduced in book.Orion Powerhouse gallery 2025
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Nature and time. Oil on canvas. 153cm x 38cm 2021 Chambers art gallery Christchurch. Sold.
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Private collection Christchurch Happenstance:field of figures
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Waiting in isolation. Oil on canvas. 2020 Greater Wellington regional art award finalist.Sold at Ranui Charity auction Christchurch.
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Birds eye view 2024 Oil on canvas Exhibited Akaroa Powerhouse gallery
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Enquiries
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Man and bicycle 2025
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Exhibited Chambers gallery 2024 The Grower
Guests of summer
2023.75 x 100 cm Oil on canvas Craigs aspiring art prize finalist.$4,000.Exhibited Chambers gallery 2024
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Curate and the dieties of earth and fire 2025
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Monuments.and transient meanings
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Journeys to an unknown country. Oil on canvas. 137x 111 cm. Sold.Survey exhibition Sunshine road
at Akaroa Orion Powerhouse gallery
2025
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Far far away 2024
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All that could be . Oil on canvas 2023. Exhibited Chambers gallery 2024
Worlds within worlds 2023 Oil on canvas 70 x 50 cm.
Out west.Inlets and bays 31cm x 46cm
2020.Sold.
Chambers art gallery Christchurch
Homage to Santa Maria
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Visitation Pixelation. Oil on canvas 168 cm x 102 cm 2021 Exhibited Sunshine road survey.Orion Powerhouse gallery 2025
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2024 On the shoulders of giants .Exhibited Akaroa Powerhouse gallery 2025
Urban dream.Oil on canvas 2022 60 x 90 cm
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Urban dream 2 2024.Exhibited Chambers gallery 2024 and Orion Powerhouse gallery 2025
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It's us or them. Oil on canvas 136cm x 76cm. 2018
Sunshine road survey.Orion Powerhouse gallery.opening Dec 28 2024
Modelling habitats 114 x 100cm 2015,2022 Oil on canvas
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Figures from the Anthro Scene.(Anthropocene) 2018, 2021 91cm x 61 cm Oil on canvas .Available at Art by the sea.Auckland.
Yellow notes
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Dress code .Oil on canvas sold. Survey show Sunshine road at Orion Powerhouse gallery Akaroa
Past moments 2023.Oil on canvas
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Making light of .Oil on canvas Sold
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Figuring the multiverse
90cmx 60cm 2020 .Available at Art by the sea Auckkand
Oil on canvas 85 cm x 60cm
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What's on your mind.Oil on canvas .2018.Regional arts review finalist Sold.
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Piece of peace 102cm x 106cm 2014 Sold
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Social significant spacing Oil on canvas. Sold.
Heads together . Oil on canvas. 40cm x 30cm .
2020. Enquire Chambers gallery Christchurch .Sold
Model compliance 2021 Oil on canvas Sold
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Social physics 2021 Oil on canvas Sold
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Aratoi Exhibition 2013 St John at Awarua station
 Dreams, ancient,wild. 46cm x 31 cm 2020 Sold
Rita Angus award 1987 Wellington
New artist grant 1986 Adam portrait finalist 2006 Wellington regional arts review 2018,2022. EDUCATION BA DFA I have from the 1990s onwards had a focus on human activity on the landscape eg Land Crucifixion series where the land is chopped up into demarcations.It has been "crucified" for human use.It has been fought over and scarred and fenced. Dislocation Dislocation references the Location location TV programme. My fence palings reference the dislocation and displacement of populations through conflict. Air and water is a painting that references the need of clean water and air in order for all species survival and to keep the balance of natural ecosystems. The helpless gaping fish proportionately larger than the humans it is alongside is very much part of the conversation that must be had . Model habitats series where humans have imposed structures and shaped the land displacing communities and animals such as in the painting Us or them is a painting that references the human dominant habitation over the natural world .From the pre human era the tuatara looks out at us.The habitats are far from being model and human made structures display the humans. .My series Figuring the Anthroscene is also commentating on the human epoche , a world which has seen the rise of humans.The anthropocene,This is the "scene" for the humans as in popular music terminology. The quest /dream of a perfectly balanced world was striven for but often resulted in chaos especially for the environment .In one painting an owl overlooks a motorway that has destroyed it's habitat. The painting Honeymoon stranding focuses on a short but dramatic rise of Homo Sapiens no more than 100,000 years ago. What was meant to be the honeymoon of our existence instead points to refugee crises, where political turmoil creates desperate measures and a refugee is rolled into the ocean and stranded upon the shores. Piece of peace was painted at the height of the invasion by Western forces into the Middle East in the decades war since 9/11. Happenstance series began my endeavour to explore chance and accident inherit in abstract expressionism and involved in quantum physics. When painting my most recent series Visitation pixallation series I drew on a malfunctioning TV during bad weather , reminding me of the the dramatic recent floods from a heated climate .The pixallations of the images broadcast intrigued me so I photographed the rapid changing pixallation sequences. The distortions reminded me of rivulets, and channels. Some shapes the outlines of buildings , figures from a cafe or the street. The colours were watery and dreamlike , shapes reminded me of colonial monuments ,disparate and meaningless. Faces forged out of the pixallations are distorted and disrupted.An elongated arm stretches across the length of the canvas caught in the midst of what action? Reconciliation and hope. Gatecrashing galaxies a painting suggesting overlapping images and worlds has the unlikely scenario of us joining another world unless we are part of a multiverse already ie the parallel worlds theory being debated by quantum physicists. |
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"2020" 91cm x 46cm
2020 Oil on canvas 2020
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Figure fiction series Exhibited .Christchurch International festival of the arts .2005
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Runway,runaway. 2021.Oil on canvas 91x 61cm
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Home world: fire and water.
2019.Oil on canvas Sold
Happenstance 11 2011 Oil on canvas.Sold
Honeymoon stranding.(from the figuring of the anthroscene series)Oil on canvas 2018-2022
Selected reviews
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Catherine Manchester past Events and exhibitions
2015 Survey show NZFA curated by Greg Chaston Wellington.
2016 Potocki Paterson. Solo exhibition Model Habitats Wellington.
2018 Chambers art gallery solo.View as.Christchurch
2019 Black Asterisk .Figuring the Anthroscene .solo.Auckland.
2021 Grey Gallery.Solo.Walk on the Wild.Auckland.
2022 Summer show Diversion Gallery Picton
2022 Visitation Pixallation Thistle hall gallery.Wellington
2022 Whirinaki Whare Taonga Wellington Wellington arts review Finalists exhibition
2023 Craigs aspiring art prize exhibition of finalists
2023 Arts Canterbury Open studio programme event.Studio was open for 7 days
Apple of your eye 2015.Oil on canvas
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Gate crashing galaxies. Oi on linen. 31 cmx 61 cm Sold
Protector . Oil on canvas
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Roads of National significance.2016 46 cmx.101 cm.
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Nature and you.
2012 Oil on canvas
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Detail Homage to Santa Maria .Trastevere 2012
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Location history 2017 Sold
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Search 46 cm x 91 cm
2018 Sold
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Rhythm, Sea, and figure . Oil on canvas.75 cm x 100 cm 2019
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Nature's new cadets 91cm x 31cm
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Human living kind
56 cm x 30cm 2020
Love's careful watch. Oil on canvas . 2012 .Sold
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Where to Jason?
2021 Oil on canvas 51cm x36 cm
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Rhapsodic sequence
101 cm x 150.3 cm Sold
Sway of the sea.Oil on canvas 2018.
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Journey of water.Oil on canvas. 2022
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Out west 101 31cmx 46cm Private collection Christchurch 2020
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Colours of a dream. 2018 102 cm x 76.5 cm Sold
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Disrupted forms 2019
120 cm x 84cm
Unbroken bonds
oil on canvas 2021 Sold
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Deeper states 91 cm x 61 cm
2018
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