Painted Histories: Jowitt, Pearless and Hillary

- For immediate release, 8 Oct 2014 -
Painted Histories
Corban Estate Arts Centre

At the end of this month three exhibitions open at Corban Estate Arts Centre, showing three quite different approaches to painting, but united in the way that they engage with the past. The exhibitions feature three leading Auckland based painters – Claudia Jowitt, Jessica Pearless and Sarah Hillary – and ranges from studies in abstraction to delicately hand-painted patterns on pipi shells. Though they each represent quite different forms of painting, they all, in their own way, celebrate painting’s connection with histories and narrative. These are works that trace their own histories, whether investigating the processes and traditions of abstraction, or capturing fragments of the ever-changing domestic environment.

The work of Claudia Jowitt, Jessica Pearless and Sarah Hillary is on display at Corban Estate Arts Centre from 24 October until 30 November 2014.

The exhibitions will be accompanied by artist talks by Sarah Hillary on Saturday 1 November, 11am and Jessica Pearless on Saturday 8 November, 11am. Claudia Jowitt will run a kids workshop on Saturday 15 November, 11am.

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Goosh features new work by artist Claudia Jowitt. Jowitt’s distinctive abstract paintings are inspired by questions around the potential of painting as an object – an object that suggests a history of its method of construction. Jowitt is interested in the process of a painting, and how the painterly action can both quietly reveal and hide such history.

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Jessica Pearless’ work in The After Paintings explores ideas on abstraction, specifically geometric and non-objective abstraction. In Pearless’ work her forms achieve a fine balance through simplicity, invoking a timeless aesthetic. The work appeals to those who have knowledge of historical, modern or contemporary abstract painting and to those who simply enjoy immersing themselves in the act of looking at a work of art.

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Sarah Hillary’s paintings offer trips into art history and domestic life. Her eye alights on the art of amateur enthusiasts as readily as that of the well-known artists she studies in her capacity as Principal Conservator at Auckland Art Gallery. Hillary admires the work of anonymous botanical illustrators and textile designers as well as the sketchbooks and fern albums produced by members of her family. At the centre of this exhibition is an uncharacteristically monumental Hillary work, Floating, a painting on 99 pipi shells that records the printed patterns of everyday objects in circulation in her household since the marriage of her parents in 1953.

Join us for the following public programmes: Sarah Hillary’s artist talk Saturday 1 November, 11am
, Jessica Pearless’s artist talk Saturday 8 November, 11am and Claudia Jowitt’s kids workshop Saturday 15 November, 11am.

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