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The "Filter" paintings are in reaction to the symbiosis of the forecasting climate changes within the ebbs and flows of the Human Nature/Nature relationship that we are subjected to in today's shifting and changing thermometer readings in the South Pacific and World over Weather narratives...
The exhibition 'SEED OF BIRD OF SOUL OF MAN' shown at the GILBERD MARRIOT GALLERY Oct 6TH – 22ND 2011 in Wellington city NZ was/is in part to raise funds for the Whanganui Manawatu Bird Rescue located in the town of Turakina.
These photographs are a body of work that is in collaboration with Dawne Morton of the Whanganui Manawatu Bird Rescue and proceeds of sold photos will be donated to this cause.
Dawne has been actively occupied with saving and nursing native, endemic, and introduced birds for the last 24 years trailing back to 1987. Although through the years Dawne has had various funding and support, she has had to rely mostly on the good fortune of private donations and local voluntary help.
The second hand shop named “The Cheap Shop” in the central city of Whanganui has been set up and running over the last five to six years by Dawne’s organization and is run with the help of voluntary workers opening a few days a week. All proceeds from “The Cheap Shop” go towards keeping the injured and healing birds fed as they recover under the loving watchful eye of Dawne in the bird sanctuary. Dawne is one of the people devoting herself in time to give the birds a space for healing so they can be released back into our unique part of the world’s landscape of Aotearoa, New Zealand.
The theme of this exhibition began with a parody play on the controversy of the 2009-10 Whanganui gang patch ban, which coexisted alongside a personal look at the gang patch members within my own family. During the process of the work, the concept broadened out to include the larger machinations of our time: Nature and the attempted human control of it...
The word play of Island Spirit blazes across the length of the canvas, creating a question; is land spirit, at the same time delivering the answer with the portrait of the great spirited Mt Taranaki-(Te Matua Tapu)...
In this body of work, rendered in bitumen, white enamel and road paint, words such as Now, Mind, Known, Is, Heart, Open, and Experiential have been combined with the numerals from the date O8/O8/O8, signifying the day on which the seed of these ideas began on in a two-week journey I took from Wellington to Auckland via Taranaki...
These works have been inspired by a series of high resolution time lapse photographs, taken by today’s telescopes. Although the photo images reveal vast, nebulas gas clouds of dust particles in energy and matter light years across the Universe formulating the birthing of masses of new planets, moons, stars etc...
Painting is my meditation. Letting go of the known through the processes of my painting praxis centers me as a painter in response to the modern world and my position in the flow of it.
Through years of practice in making my own canvases, I find the final result of a work from start to finish to be of an experience in wholeness with the completed result of a painting in front and facing me to be a pulsating membrane of something from inside, created to stand up right on hind legs giving birth to breathe. Creating and preparing a canvas to paint on is like a Hyde of an animal in front of me that one feels compelled to put life back into by applying ones own spirit through the applications of paint.
The alchemy and chemistry of paint inspires me by feel to move in praxis of action making impressions onto horizontal canvases laid across the floor. It’s the liquidity of the rhythm and rhyme of paint in pouring, spattering, dripping, smearing and tilting that has seduced me over time. Working in abstract expressive gestures, the nature of paint and the love and respect I have for its potential, freedom and beauty, has allowed me to go through a transition moving forward away from particular symbol practice and text application that I have seen to be an act of branding the Hyde making it static and restraining it from flight as in documented past and previous works.
I recycle as much as I can from the abundance of discarded materials that people throw away, canvas is bought and paint is salvaged from town refuge stations from around Mt Taranaki
Photography comes into play with my work as a painter. As a tool for subject study of interest towards my painting practice and process I’ve captured unexpected arrivals of inspiration for my painting. The influence of a peculiar subject matter photographed of recent has been a bridge for my work to cross over into a more selfless expressive way of painting.
Nature plays a large part in inspiration for my work. Creating images that relay cosmic impressions of our planet by taking close ups study photos of bird seed dispersion of some of our native birds of NZ. The natural and selfless organic bird expressions have been perfect models of nature that reflect and fuse back into the current stage of my painting praxis.
I am a self taught artist from New Zealand's South Island. Born and raised for my first years in Nelson I spent a subsequent number of years in Christchurch and Wellington, currently residing in Whanganui. I come from a Scottish and Maori background from Takaka on my mother's side and of Scottish and Spanish descent on my father's side. Having spent the last two decades exploring various techniques in painting my present work is a result of those processes and experiences that come into the practice of expressive abstract painting. Having exhibited in a variation of galleries and alternative public venue spaces, I currently seek to build stronger relations with galleries to exhibit my work to date.
I opted for overseas travels to submerge myself and experience other cultures through art in the interest as a painter as opposed to my peers choosing other means for their career directions. I painted my way through Europe for few years from 2003, in that time my travels helped me to view and construct a narrative in my work that reflected aspects of my New Zealand culture from a distance. My connection to Europe and its history rich land focused me towards similarities and differences within the compared frame of my New Zealand identity, and secondly, how the New Zealand identity and its landscape fits within the wider global cultural context within interest in the preservation towards conservation and environmental interest.
My works have found place into private collections in New Zealand, Spain, France, Italy and London. S.A.H -2012
E-mail: shaneanthonyhammond@hotmail.com
Mob: 021 102 82 82
Studio address: 42 Bedford Avenue, Whanganui
(by appointment, 021 102 82 82)
1989 - Main St Café, Christchurch. Exhibition title “Cycliptic sun” – Five paintings rendered in acrylic on board.
1990 - Gallery 223, High Street , Christchurch. Exhibition title “Presence of Absence” – Four paintings rendered in acrylic and ink on board.
1994 - City Limited Café, Wellington. Exhibition title “Black X” – Seven paintings rendered in oilstick on cartridge paper.
1995 - Globe Café, Wellington. Exhibition title “White X” – Six paintings rendered in oilstick on builder’s paper.
1995 - Mojo Gallery,Downstage Theatre, Wellington. Exhibition title “Tar and Feathered Road” – 12 paintings rendered in bitumen and enamel road paint mix on canvas.
1997 - Bats Theatre Pit Bar, Wellington. Exhibition title “Hybrid Sycophants” - Three airbrush paintings rendered in acrylic and ink on recycled school chalk boards.
1999 - Ministry of Food Café, Wellington. Exhibition title “Well-Oiled Figures” – Five paintings rendered in oil and canvas.
2002 - Deluxe Café, Wellington. Exhibition title “Liquid Energy” (No’s. 1 and 2) – Airbrush paintings rendered in acrylic and ink on canvas.
2002 - Stuart Gallery, Wellington. Exhibition Title “Liquid Energy” (No’s. 1 to 7) – Airbrush paintings rendered in acrylic and ink on canvas.
2003 - Bach Café, Wellington. Exhibition title “Liquid Energy” (No’s. 4 and 6) – Airbrush paintings rendered in acrylic and ink on canvas.
2003 - Deluxe Café, Wellington. Exhibition title “Liquid Energy” (No’s. 3 and 5) – Airbrush paintings rendered in acrylic and ink on canvas.
2003-2004 - Green Party of NZ Caucus Room, Parliament, Wellington. Exhibition title “Liquid Energy” (No. 4) - Airbrush painting rendered in acrylic and ink on canvas.
2005 - Piranha Café, Wellington. Exhibition title “Vessel 8” – 3 Airbrush paintings rendered in acrylic and ink on architectural drafting paper.
2008 - Paramount Theatre, coinciding with the International Human Rights Film Festival, Wellington. Exhibition title “Architects of Modern Fossils II” – Seven paintings rendered in a multitude of mixed mediums on canvas on board.
2008 - Amnesty International, New Head Office, Auckland. Exhibition title “Three Wombs” – A triptych painted work in a multitude of mixed mediums on recycled round pub table tops.
2008 - Gilberd Marriott Gallery, Wellington. Exhibition title “Spirit of Now” – Fourteen paintings rendered in bitumen, road paint enamel mix on 15-oz stretched canvases.
2010 - Traveling exhibition “Passage” from Wellington’s Thistle Hall Gallery in June 2010 on to the Percy Thomson Gallery, Stratford in November 2010 and finishing at the artist 2011 Whanganui Open studio week.
2011 - Whanganui Open Studio weekends @ artist studio 42 Bedford Ave Whanganui- 19th -20th and 26th -27th March 2011. Numerous works in progression open for view including completed exhibition “Passage”
2011 - Gilberd Marriott Gallery. Wellington. Exhibition title “Seed of Bird of Soul of Man” – Nine selected photographs.
1988 - Ideal Gallery, Christchurch. Submitted for a group show, four paintings rendered in acrylic and ink on board.
1989 - Ideal Gallery, Christchurch. Submitted for group show two paintings rendered in acrylic and ink on board.
1995 - Eva Dixon’s Café, Wellington. Exhibition with Craig Richardson. Exhibition title “Seven Weights” – Two paintings rendered in acrylic and ink on canvas on board.
1996 - Victoria University Exhibition Foyer Student Union Building, Wellington. Exhibiting with Chris Clements, Tyrone Smith and Craig Richardson. Exhibition title- “Express” – Four paintings rendered in acrylic and ink on board.
1996 – New Moon Gallery, Wellington. Exhibition with Craig Richardson. Exhibition title “Filter” – Two paintings rendered in bitumen and varnish on four joined board panels.
1996 - City Limits Café, Wellington. Exhibition with Craig Richardson. Exhibition title “Devouring Heads” – Seven paintings rendered in bitumen and enamel on board.
2001 - St James Theatre (foyer), Wellington. Exhibition with 19 other artists. Exhibition title “Expressions’’– Two paintings rendered in oils on canvas.
2007 - Paramount Theatre, Wellington. Exhibition with Ewen Anderson. Exhibition title “Architects of Modern Fossils” – Five paintings rendered in a multitude of mixed mediums on canvas on board.
2007 - Taranaki Art Review, Opunake. Group exhibition. One painting submitted rendered in oil paint titled “Sister Francis” - Portrait.
2008 - Thermostat Art Gallery, Vent 8, Palmerston North. Exhibition with 23 other artists. Exhibition title “Spirits, Ghosts and Gremlins” – One painting rendered in mixed media submitted titled “Note, Coin and Patch”.
2008 - Taranaki Art Review, Opunake. Group exhibition. One painting rendered in oil paint submitted titled “Andrew Ross” - Portrait.
2009 - Thistle Hall Gallery, Wellington. Exhibition and auction with 48 other artists. Exhibition title “Explosive Expression: Creative Resistance to the State Terror Raids of October 15, 2007” – One painting submitted titled “Blood Group Now” rendered in bitumen and road paint/enamel mix on stretched 15-oz canvas framed .
2009 - Whanganui Art Review, Whanganui. Group exhibition. One painting submitted rendered in bitumen and road paint/enamel mix titled “Blood Group Now II”.
2009 - Taranaki Art Review, Opunake. Group exhibition. One painting rendered in mixed media on paper titled “Spirit Proof”.
2010 - Open Studio, 62 Taupo Quay, Whanganui. Exhibiting with James Robinson and Jonny De Painter. Exhibition title “Te Matua Tapu”. 100 paintings/works in total submitted by the three artists, rendered in mixed media.
2010 - Rayner Brothers Gallery, Whanganui. Exhibition with 20 other artists. Exhibition title “The ET Experience” – One work submitted (Bitumen Head sculpture) titled “Blind Spot”.
2010 - Artbay Gallery, Queenstown. Submitted four paintings for exhibiting thoughout the year of 2010. Under the title “Spirit Land (Te Matua Tapu”, three large paintings on free-hang eyelet, 15-oz canvases, rendered in acrylics and bitumen wash and one painting in enamels on recycled circular pub table top.
2010 - Belomy Gallery, St Andrews Bay, Dunedin. Exhibition title “Macracarpa Tree”. One painting submitted titled “Sleeper”. Large hessian print on builder’s paper.
2010 - Coco Gallery, Christchurch. Coca Anthony Harper Contemporary Art Awards finalist. Group show. One painting submitted.Title- “Ping” A work on hessian
2010 - Thistle Hall Gallery, Wellington. Exhibiting with James Robinson and Jonny De Painter. Overall exhibition title “Lead Us Out of the Darkness” – Ten paintings submitted titled - “Passage”.
2010 - Whanganui Art Review, Whanganui. Group exhibition. One combined work/ painting in collaboration with James Robinson titled “Collaboration Study (Composition)” submitted. Mixed media on stretched 15-oz canvas.
2003 - 2005 Overseas travels to further my studies.
2004 - Tim Can Gallery, Barcelona, Spain. Exhibition title “Head Bone/ Space Mine” – Paintings rendered in acrylic on paper.
2004 - Two-month residency “Tout, Autor de la Terre”/ “Rainbow Potteries” – France (South). Exhibition title “Nature” – one walled fresco work with team of three other artists. Studied and worked pottery in south of France with ‘Rainbow Potteries’, centering, throwing and kiln-firing.
2004 - Three-month residency Italy (North - Dosson) invite guest of Sergio De Peri @ “Open House of Dosson”. Exhibition title “Spirited under the Pregnant Skies”. Three paintings rendered in oils on large 6-ply boards Traveled working/painting through Trevisso and Venice.
2004 - Tim Can Gallery, Barcelona-Spain. Group show. Exhibition title “Fem” – Five paintings rendered in oils on canvas.
2004 - Tim Can Gallery, Barcelona-Spain. Group show. Exhibition title “Gatto Getto” Group performance with live music and painted dancers. Based on youth revolt in Barcelona against the 2004 Barcelona forum.
2004 - La Concha Flemenco Drag Bar, Barcelona-Spain. Group show. Exhibition title “Drag! Drag! Drag!” – Three paintings rendered in acrylic on canvas.
2004 - Busta Gallery, Barcelona-Spain. Group show. Exhibition title “Bang and Bang” – Five paintings rendered in acrylic on canvas.
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'Seed of Bird of Soul of Man' Exhibition
By Laurel Stowell, Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Prolific, passionate and proudly self-taught, Wanganui painter Shane Hammond has his first photographic exhibition in Wellington this month.
Called Seed of bird and soul of man it's at the Gilberd Marriott Gallery, finishing at the end of October. It is essentially a series of photographs of bird droppings on glass - but that's not what the pictures look like.
Hammond has made the smears and clumps of faecal matter bigger, backed them with colour and made them curve. They're digital photographs, but not photoshopped. The result looks more like pictures of the earth's surface, taken from far out in space.
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'Seed of Bird of Soul of Man' Exhibition
October 5th, 2011
Whanganui-based artist Shane Hammond’s latest solo exhibition comprises a series of close-up photographs of bird droppings – for a good cause, of course.
Hammon, a painter by trade making a rare venture into photography, has teamed with Wanganui-Manawatu Bird Rescue to produce the exhibition of bird excrement with 10 percent of all sales going towards a new aviary for injured birds.
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Creative Resistance to the State Terror Raids of Oct ‘07.
October 15th Solidarity Newsletter – 26 September 2009
“Hammond has tended to resist gallery exhibitions, instead exhibiting in alternative spaces around the world from Auckland to Barcelona, including theatres, eateries and the headquarters of Amnesty International. Hammond’s work addresses the relationship of New Zealand to the global sphere, the disharmony of modern living, and calls to the communicative power of symbolism.”
“Scoop” Culture - Independent News
Autumn 2009
“In December Shane Hammond’s exhibition opened the new gallery with a cosmic bang. Symbols in his paintings, at once personal and universal, were emblazoned onto the fragrant bitumen base of the paintings – markets of progress in a journey undertaken with gusto.
There’s mystery here, an ambiguity that gives us access to the works. The symbols he makes his own – ‘8’ as infinity and ‘0’ – are powerful, especially when used in the same space. He uses red sparingly, as conscious homage to his Maori heritage, and introduces music and movement in sweeping trails of shooting stars. Hammond’s intellectual energy unites with the hands-on textures within the work, which is alive with possibilities for the journeys we all face.”
Katy Corner
Changing times - 06 May ‘09
“Shane Hammond’s work, Renewal No 1, is one of the latest art works to be donated to the Wellington Regional Hospital by an artist. Shane said the work was about looking at identity from ‘the womb to the tomb.’
‘I was influenced by the images from the Hubble telescope and relaying that to the human reproductive form. There’s a power to abstract works where the longer you look at them the more you see. So here there’s focal point of an egg, or perhaps the world, within a shell that’s moving upwards.”
NRH Project Officer: Sue Valentine
The Flame - June/July/August 2008
“An artwork titled ‘Three Wombs’ has been generously donated to Amnesty International Aotearoa New Zealand by Wellington-based artist Shane Hammond.
Shane says his work has many stories to tell ‘and storytelling is about keeping the flame alive.’ His art aims to capture ‘the potential in the veins of humanity’ and is’heartfelt storytelling’ inspired by his friends and every day encounters with people. They tell him many storiesof happiness – of new babies, an exciting job, a funky outfit…
‘But when I ask are you happy with your human-ness and humanity they do have a great fear for the future and how we can all co-exist on a platform of shared rights’ he says.
In part that seems to have contributed to Shane choosing Amnesty International to gift his work too.
The trinity of works, which took three months to complete, encapsulates ‘the spiritual, physical and moral universes, the first, seconds and thirds worlds. And I quite like the metaphor of the transition of energy and the invisible womb passing into the visible womb,’ says Shane.
But he also loves that viewers put their own take on his art, some commenting that his series has a celestial feel, shooting stars, planets and angels…while others love the musical notes aspect of ‘Three Wombs.’
This self-taught artist says the earthy reds, orange and yellows which dominate reflect the influences of a recent visit in Spain. His exhibition featured at the Paramount Cinema throughout the run of the Human Rights Film Festival. His donation followed his viewing of the movie ‘Fighting the silence – Sexual violence against women in Congo’.
Chief Executive Officer, Patrick Holmes, expressed delight at the donation saying the artworks would grace the reception area in Amnesty’s new office space. A move to new premises in Auckland will occur in August.”
Chief Executive Officer: Patrick Holmes
E-mail: shaneanthonyhammond@hotmail.com
Mob: 021 102 82 82
Studio address: 42 Bedford Avenue, Whanganui
(by appointment, 021 102 82 82)