Catherine Manchester Art 2020's
The Green art shed
311 Westminster st Mairehau Christchurch
02108742623
Everything and all
141cm x 99cm. 2020
Visitation Pixallation.Oil on canvas 168 cm x 102 cm 2021
The departure.Oil on canvas 152 cm x 101cm 2022
Worlds within worlds 2023 Oil on canvas 70 x 50 cm
Lullaby of the sea 30 x 30cm
Oil on canvas 2022
Alternative reality. Oil on canvas 100cm x140cm 2021
Piece of peace 102cm x 106cm 2014 Sold
Guests of summer
2023.75 x 100 cm Oil on canvas
Urban dream.Oil on canvas 2022 60 x 90 cm
Figures from the Anthro Scene. 2018, 2021 91cm x 61 cm Oil on canvas
Flowers of the sea 46 x 41 cm 2022
Out west.Inlets and bays 31cm x 46cm
2020.Sold.
Chambers art gallery Christchurch
Heads together . Oil on canvas. 40cm x 30cm .
2020. Enquire Chambers gallery Christchurch .Sold
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Model compliance 2021 Oil on canvas Sold
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Modelling habitats 114 x 100cm 2015,2022 Oil on canvas
Struggle street Oil on canvas 85 cm x 60cm 2022
Figuring the multiverse
90cmx 60cm 2020
Deities of earth and fire Oil on canvas. 56cm x 30cm 2022 Available Chambers Christchurch
Jerome's genome.Oil on canvas 75 cm x 80 cm .2021.
Aratoi Exhibition 2013 St John at Awarua station
In flux 2022
Catherine Manchester
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Private and public collections.eg Christchurch Law society,Power Co,and the Aigantighe gallery.Galleries exhibited in include Ferner Gallery,JanneLand, Brooke Gifford, Christchurch, Aratoi, Christchurch public art gallery, The Loft Barbara Markwick, Aigantighe, Forrester public art gallery,Black Asterisk Auckland, Suter friends guest artist, Chambers Christchurch,..Solo In the International festival of the arts ChCh at the Art House Christchurch.Tours with schools.ChCh public art gallery,Williams gallery Wellington and Morgan st Gallery with the Auckland art fair.
Paintings available.at. Chambers gallery Christchurch.Art by the sea Takapuna , Auckland,The artist's room ,Dunedin. |
Untitled
45 cm x 40 cm 2022
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Christchurch based.Enquire about studio visit
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Detail photo Art New Zealand facebook page
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Breaking out of the shell. 70 cm x 55 cm Oil on canvas 2022
Like seeds dispersed we have come down from the ancients Oil on canvas, 2022
Private collection Christchurch
Residency Rita Angus cottage 1987
New artist grant 1986
Adam portrait finalist 2006
Wellington regional arts review 2018,2022.
EDUCATION
BA
DFA
I have from 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.
New artist grant 1986
Adam portrait finalist 2006
Wellington regional arts review 2018,2022.
EDUCATION
BA
DFA
I have from 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.
What's on your mind.Oil on canvas .2018.Regional arts review finalist Sold.
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Man with bottle 70 x 54 cm.Oil on canvas 2022
The Grower 76 cm x 45 cm.2022. Oil on canvas
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Waiting in isolation. 91 cm x 61 cm
2021 Wellington regional art review finalist 2022
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Figure fiction series Exhibited .Christchurch International festival of the arts .2005
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"2020" 91cm x 46cm
2020 Oil on canvas 2020
It's us or them. Oil on canvas 136cm x 76cm. 2018
Journeys to an unknown country. Oil on canvas. 137x 111 cm.
Home world: fire and water.
2019.Oil on canvas Sold
Runway,runaway. 2021.Oil on canvas 91x 61cm
Social significant spacing Oil on canvas. Sold.
Happenstance 11 2011 Oil on canvas.Sold
Social physics 2021 Oil on canvas
Honeymoon stranding.Oil on canvas
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Out of forms and formation 105cm x72cm
2020.
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Dreams, ancient,wild. 46cm x 31 cm 2020 Sold
Selected reviews
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Private collection Auckland
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Nature and time. Oil on canvas. 153cm x 38cm 2021 Chambers art gallery Christchurch. Sold.
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Catherine Manchester recent 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
Apple of your eye 2015.Oil on canvas
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Gate crashing galaxies. Oi on linen. 31 cmx 61 cm Sold
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Spooky action at a distance .Oil on canvas. 2021
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Sense.Oil on canvas 2021
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Protector . Oil on canvas
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Model Habitats 1 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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Homage to Santa Maria .Trastevere 2012
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Location history 2017 Sold
Search 46 cm x 91 cm
2018 Sold
Signifier and code
46 cm x 30cm 2010
Rhythm, Sea, and figure . Oil on canvas.75 cm x 100 cm 2019
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Walk on the wild 46cm x 36 cm 2020
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Nature's new cadets 91cm x 31cm
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Human living kind
56 cm x 30cm 2020
Portrait of 6. Oil on canvas
23 cm x 91 cm x2 .2019
Make light of
76cm
x 38cm. 2020
Love's careful watch. Oil on canvas . 2012 .Sold
Where to Jason?
2021 Oil on canvas 51cm x36 cm
Whisper of sea and tides
30cmx 30cm 2019
Evolving spaces. 152cmx 122cm 2018-2020
Rhapsodic sequence
101 cm x 150.3 cm Sold
Journey of water.Oil on canvas. 2022
Out west 101 31cmx 46cm Private collection Christchurch 2020
Sway of the sea.Oil on canvas 2018.
Colours of a dream. 2018 102 cm x 76.5 cm Sold
Disrupted forms 2019
120 cm x 84cm
Thoughts like a waterfall, waiting for winter to thaw
Deeper states 91 cm x 61 cm
2018
Unbroken bonds
oil on canvas 2021 Sold
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Non locality linkage
70 cm x50 cm. 2019
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