SAM MITCHELL
Hips
28 May - 22 June 2013
You are warmly invited to attend the opening preview and meet the artist
Tuesday 28 May, 5.30 – 7.30pm
Bartley + Company Art is pleased to present a new exhibition by Auckland artist Sam Mitchell – her first in our gallery
and her first in Wellington for a few years. The show comprises her signature paintings on Perspex - her “portraits from
the inside out” – and a series of watercolours on found book covers and paper.
In 2010 Sam was the Paramount winner of the Wallace Trust Art Award which led to her spending six months in New York in
2011 on a residency at New York’s ISCP (International Studio & Curatorial Program). This experience continues to play out in her work with the new ‘portraits’ in this exhibition
exploring the hipster culture that was so prevalent in Williamsburg where she was based during her residency. Hips takes a light hearted and subversive look at style, at markers of identity and how popular culture internalises and
surfaces in the individual psyche. Her medium, with its characteristic flat surface interacts with the ideas at play in
her work reinforcing the tension between the veneer of the outer character and his or her suggested inner life. As TJ
McNamara has written:
Sam Mitchell’s work is sensational but never comfortable.
Please enquire if you wish to preview images of works.
Sam Mitchell Floortalk
Sam Mitchell will give a talk about her work at 5.45pm on Wednesday 29 May in the gallery.
Brett Graham & Rachael Rakena in Canada
Brett Graham and Rachel Rakena’s impressive large scale installation Aniwaniwa which showed at the Venice Biennale in 2007 is having another outing at the National Gallery of Canada. Sakahàn (meaning to light a fire) brings together more than 150 works of recent Indigenous art by over 80 artists from 16
countries.
Have a look at Aniwaniwa digital stills
Aniwaniwa installed at City Gallery Wellington, 2008
Shane McGrath in Dunedin
It’s not often that art hits the front page of newspapers but Shane McGrath managed to make the front page of the Otago
Daily Times recently with a project that investigates the public debate around Dunedin’s proposed wharf hotel
development. McGrath launched a balloon that showed the how tall the hotel would be. The project culminated in a show at
the Blue Oyster Gallery which runs until Saturday.
Shane McGrath, Raised from the dead, 2012, mixed media, 750 x 120 x 120 mm
Coming up next: Cat Auburn
PUSH ME, PULL YOU
We are pleased to be giving Wellington artist Cat Auburn her first solo show in the gallery. In this exhibition she
employs a range of hunting and hunted animals to explore the psychological states of freedom and constraint.
The gallery is open Wednesday to Friday 11 - 5.30 and Saturday 11 - 3
We are also always happy to open by appointment if those hours dont suit for any reason - please feel free to ask for a
'private viewing' any time.
Best wishes,
Alison, Kate and Vanessa
Our address is:
Bartley + Company Art
56A Ghuznee Street
Wellington, NI 6011
New Zealand