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'''Pauline Rhodes''' (born 1937 |
'''Pauline Rhodes''' (born 1937) is a New Zealand artist.<ref>{{cite web|title=Rhodes, Pauline|url=http://findnzartists.org.nz/artist/12671/ |website=Find New Zealand Artists|accessdate=1 January 2015}}</ref> |
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==Education and travel== |
==Education and travel== |
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Rhodes was born in 1937 in [[Christchurch]], New Zealand. In 1959 she attended the [[University of Canterbury]]'s [[Ilam School of Fine Arts|School of Fine Arts]] part-time.<ref name ='Brown'>{{cite book|last1=Brown|first1=Warwick|title=Another 100 New Zealand Artists|date=1996|publisher=Godwit Publishing|location=Auckland|isbn=0908877749}}</ref> |
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In 1960 she moved to [[Wellington]], and took the Basic Studies Art Course at the [[Massey University#Wellington Campus|Wellington Polytechnic School of Design]].<ref name='Barton'>{{cite book|last1=Barton|first1=Christina|title=Ground/work : the art of Pauline Rhodes|date=2003|publisher=Victoria University Press|location=Wellington|isbn=0864734336}}</ref>{{Rp|105}} In 1961 she moved to [[Westport, New Zealand|Westport]] and lived there until 1965.<ref name='Barton'/>{{Rp|105}} |
In 1960 she moved to [[Wellington]], and took the Basic Studies Art Course at the [[Massey University#Wellington Campus|Wellington Polytechnic School of Design]].<ref name='Barton'>{{cite book|last1=Barton|first1=Christina|title=Ground/work : the art of Pauline Rhodes|date=2003|publisher=Victoria University Press|location=Wellington|isbn=0864734336}}</ref>{{Rp|105}} In 1961 she moved to [[Westport, New Zealand|Westport]] and lived there until 1965.<ref name='Barton'/>{{Rp|105}} |
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In 1980 Rhodes contributed ''Extensions'' to the [[Sarjeant Gallery]]’s ''4 New Zealand Sculptors'' exhibition (which also included [[Andrew Drummond (artist)|Andrew Drummond]], [[Neil Dawson]] and Matt Pine). Working in space under the gallery’s well-known dome, Rhodes installed a floor piece made from squares of weathered steel laid out through the galleries from under the dome and extending into the grounds outside.<ref name='Barton'/>{{Rp|110}} |
In 1980 Rhodes contributed ''Extensions'' to the [[Sarjeant Gallery]]’s ''4 New Zealand Sculptors'' exhibition (which also included [[Andrew Drummond (artist)|Andrew Drummond]], [[Neil Dawson]] and Matt Pine). Working in space under the gallery’s well-known dome, Rhodes installed a floor piece made from squares of weathered steel laid out through the galleries from under the dome and extending into the grounds outside.<ref name='Barton'/>{{Rp|110}} |
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In 1981 as part of ANZART, the first Australia-New Zealand artist exchange, Rhodes presented a work titled ''Stained Silences'' at the [[ |
In 1981 as part of ANZART, the first Australia-New Zealand artist exchange, Rhodes presented a work titled ''Stained Silences'' at the [[Robert McDougall Art Gallery]]. She covered a long wall in the gallery with stained squares of newspaper and gave her first slide talk on her outdoors work as part of the exhibition events programme.<ref name='Barton'/>{{Rp|110}} |
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In 1982 Rhodes was included with [[Christine Hellyar]] and [[Jacqueline Fraser]] in ''3 Sculptors'' at the [[Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa]] in Wellington. She constructed two walls of rust-stained newsprint sheets attached to lengths of cane, which formed a corridor and shook subtly when visitors passed between them.<ref name ='Kirker'>{{cite book|last1=Kirker|first1=Anne|title=New Zealand Women Artists: A Survey of 150 Years|date=1993|publisher=Craftsman House|location=Tortola, B.V.I.|isbn=9768097302|edition=2nd}}</ref>{{Rp|166}} |
In 1982 Rhodes was included with [[Christine Hellyar]] and [[Jacqueline Fraser]] in ''3 Sculptors'' at the [[Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa]] in Wellington. She constructed two walls of rust-stained newsprint sheets attached to lengths of cane, which formed a corridor and shook subtly when visitors passed between them.<ref name ='Kirker'>{{cite book|last1=Kirker|first1=Anne|title=New Zealand Women Artists: A Survey of 150 Years|date=1993|publisher=Craftsman House|location=Tortola, B.V.I.|isbn=9768097302|edition=2nd}}</ref>{{Rp|166}} |
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Revision as of 09:03, 5 January 2015
Pauline Rhodes (born 1937) is a New Zealand artist.[1]
Education and travel
Rhodes was born in 1937 in Christchurch, New Zealand. In 1959 she attended the University of Canterbury's School of Fine Arts part-time.[2]
In 1960 she moved to Wellington, and took the Basic Studies Art Course at the Wellington Polytechnic School of Design.[3]: 105 In 1961 she moved to Westport and lived there until 1965.[3]: 105
From 1965 to 1969 Rhodes lived and travelled in Africa and Europe. She lived in Nigeria for 18 months, where she worked on terracotta sculpture, pottery, and bronze casting with a traditional bronze caster. [4] From she 1967 lived in Kent, England and travelled around England, Wales and Scotland, returning to New Zealand by way of Greece and India.[3]: 106
In 1971 Rhodes enrolled part-time again at the Canterbury University School of Fine Arts, and completed her Diploma in Fine Arts (Sculpture) in 1974. She attended Teachers College in 1976 and taught part-time briefly, but stopped to focus full-time on her art practice.[5]
Work
While at art school in the 1970s Rhodes began working outdoors, becoming one of New Zealand’s few environmental sculptors.[2]
Rhodes’ work takes two main forms: sculptural installations in buildings, usually art galleries, using materials that have often been modified through exposure to the elements (such as paper stained with rusted metal), and ephemeral outdoor interventions, where contrasting coloured elements and forms (such as dyed cloth or coloured rods) are placed in the landscape, photographed by the artist, and then removed.[2] While Rhodes has made outdoors works in New Zealand and Britain, most have taken place in Banks Peninsula, Canterbury, the area in which she lives.[6]
Rhodes has developed her own terms for these two kinds of works, both of which she sees as being about space.[7] ‘Extensums’ are usually outdoor works, which 'extend' a space in Rhodes' terms; ‘intensums’ are usually installations inside buildings, where space is intensifed.[7]
Career
Although she did not have her first exhibition until 1977, when she was 40, Rhodes quickly established herself with projects in public galleries throughout New Zealand.[7]
In 1980 Rhodes contributed Extensions to the Sarjeant Gallery’s 4 New Zealand Sculptors exhibition (which also included Andrew Drummond, Neil Dawson and Matt Pine). Working in space under the gallery’s well-known dome, Rhodes installed a floor piece made from squares of weathered steel laid out through the galleries from under the dome and extending into the grounds outside.[3]: 110
In 1981 as part of ANZART, the first Australia-New Zealand artist exchange, Rhodes presented a work titled Stained Silences at the Robert McDougall Art Gallery. She covered a long wall in the gallery with stained squares of newspaper and gave her first slide talk on her outdoors work as part of the exhibition events programme.[3]: 110
In 1982 Rhodes was included with Christine Hellyar and Jacqueline Fraser in 3 Sculptors at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa in Wellington. She constructed two walls of rust-stained newsprint sheets attached to lengths of cane, which formed a corridor and shook subtly when visitors passed between them.[8]: 166
In 1985 Rhodes exhibited in the Auckland Art Gallery’s artist project series. Her installation, titled Intensums '85, filled a long gallery with a three-dimensional grid like a labyrinth, made of a wide variety of materials including steel rods, cane, green painted cane, paper, fabric, copper wire and dried beach grass, all stained with rust, and small boxes of earth which sprouted grass during the exhibition.[3]: 115
Rhodes took part in a number of other notable exhibitions in the 1980s and 1990s, including Content/context: a survey of recent New Zealand art (1986, organised by the National Art Gallery), Alter/Image: a different view, women artists in New Zealand 1973-1993 (1993, City Gallery Wellington and Auckland City Art Gallery), and Action replay: post-object art (1998, Artspace, Auckland) and had solo projects at a number of galleries, including Intensum/Extensum (1986, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, Extensum - soft ground and Paper works: stained ground (1987, Artspace, Auckland), INTENSUM in memorium (1987, Wellington City Art Gallery), INTENSUM: stained silences, interconnections (1998, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery), and In-between (McDougall Contemporary Art Annex, Christchurch), and made the site-specific sculpture Ziggurat 2000 in Hagley Park, Christchurch, for the Art and Industry Biennial.[3]: 116–129
In 2003 the Adam Art Gallery in Wellington staged the exhibition Conduits and containers: Leakages from the tests, curated by Christina Barton, to accompany the publication of Barton’s book on Rhodes’ work from 1977 to 2000, Ground/Work: The Art of Pauline Rhodes (2003, Victoria University Press).[9]
Rhodes’ private archive and documentation of her work was destroyed in the 2011 Christchurch earthquake.[10]
Collections
Because her work is largely temporary and site-specific, few of Rhodes’ works are held in public collections.[11] One large sculptural work, Extensum/Extensor (1982) is in the collection of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa: the artist stipulated that the work could only be purchased if she could personally control how it was presented in future.[11] Both Te Papa and the Christchurch Art Gallery hold drawings by Rhodes and photographic recordings of her outdoor works.[12][13]
Awards and recognitions
In 1987 Rhodes was the first recipient of the Olivia Spencer Bower Fellowship award.[5]
References
- ^ "Rhodes, Pauline". Find New Zealand Artists. Retrieved 1 January 2015.
- ^ a b c Brown, Warwick (1996). Another 100 New Zealand Artists. Auckland: Godwit Publishing. ISBN 0908877749.
- ^ a b c d e f g Barton, Christina (2003). Ground/work : the art of Pauline Rhodes. Wellington: Victoria University Press. ISBN 0864734336.
- ^ Eastmond, Elizabeth; Penfold, Merimeri (1986). Women and the arts in New Zealand - Forty Works: 1936-86. Auckland: Penguin Books. ISBN 014009234X.
- ^ a b "In-between". Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu. Retrieved 1 January 2015.
- ^ Milburn, Felicity (1999). In-between (PDF). Christchurch: Robert McDougall Art Gallery and Annex. p. 4. ISBN 0908874553. Retrieved 1 January 2015.
- ^ a b c Green, Tony (Winter 2003). "Placing the art of Pauline Rhodes". Art New Zealand. 107. Retrieved 1 January 2015.
- ^ Kirker, Anne (1993). New Zealand Women Artists: A Survey of 150 Years (2nd ed.). Tortola, B.V.I.: Craftsman House. ISBN 9768097302.
- ^ "Pauline Rhodes:". Adam Art Gallery. Retrieved 1 January 2015.
- ^ Wood, Andrew paul. "Rhodes at Smart". Eye Contact. Retrieved 1 January 2015.
- ^ a b McAloon, William (2009). Art at Te Papa. Wellington: Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. p. 346. ISBN 9781877385483.
- ^ "Rhodes, Pauline". Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. Retrieved 1 January 2015.
- ^ "Pauline Rhodes". Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu. Retrieved 1 January 2015.
External references
- Barbara Strathdee, 'Women Artists At The F1 New Zealand Sculpture Project', Art New Zealand, no. 26, 1983
- Felicity Milburn, In-between, Christchurch: Robert McDougall Art Gallery and Annex, 1999. ISBN 0908874553. URL http://christchurchartgallery.org.nz/media/uploads/2010_08/PaulineRhodesInBetween.pdf
- Tony Green 'Placing the Art of Pauline Rhodes', Art New Zealand, no. 107, Winter 2003
- Christina Barton, 'Post-object and conceptual art - Revival of interest, 1990s to 2000s', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, updated 31 October 2012, accessed 1 January 2015 URL: http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/post-object-and-conceptual-art/page-3