Events

Susan Wilson wins major prize in the Lynn Painter-Stainers Competition

Susan Wilson. The Oxford Undergraduate Contemplates the Poems of Siegfried Sassoon.

Jonathan Grant Galleries congratulate artist Susan Wilson on her runner up prize in the 2007 Lynn Painter-Stainers Competition for the work The Oxford Undergraduate Contemplates the Poems of Siegfried Sassoon. The Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize was established in 2005 to promote painting from direct observation. Wilson has experienced great success of late, with another of her paintings, Idaho included in the annual Threadneedle Prize exhibition. The Threadneedle Prize is an annual open-selection exhibition at The Mall Galleries in Britain. The painting is now included in the collection of designers Thornton & Bregazzi. More recently Susan's painting "Il Re Pastore" has been preselected for an art prize in the Premio de Pintura Focus-Abengoa 2009 in Seville at the  Hospital de Los Venerables (Velasquez Research Centre).

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Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton supports Peter O'Hagan Exhibition

Peter O'Hagan painting at the Manior de Verzy, accompanied by one of his favourite Champagnes.

The luxury brand of Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton has generously provided their support for Peter O'Hagan's latest exhibition, titled The Champagne Houses of LVMH. Having previously been awarded 'Artist in Residence' at Veuve Clicquot's Manoir Verzy, O'Hagan has consistently illustrated his love of Champagne throughout his artistic career, and this latest exhibition includes a collection of paintings dedicated to the history of the Champagne region.

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Goldie paintings reunited

Jonathan with Goldie's Te Aho and Nikorima & Nicotina

Two Charles Goldie paintings - Te Aho o te Rangi Wharepu (1910 and Nikorima and Nicotina were brought back together recently in Jonathan Grant Galleries after over 90 years apart. These two works were exhibited alongside each other at the Auckland Society of Arts in 1910 and were more recently reproduced in Roger Blackley's book Goldie

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Ken Knight

Forthcoming Exhibition: Ken Knight paints in the South Island

In April and May of this year, Ken Knight based himself in Queenstown and painted 'en plein air' at Glenorchy, Arrowtown, Lake Hayes, Wanaka and Lake Pukaki at Mt Cook. The resulting series of paintings will be shown at Jonathan Grant Galleries in a catalogue exhibition opening on Thursday 15th November. This photograph shows Ken painting at Glen Tanner near the Hermitage, Mt Cook.

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Grahame Sydney

'Antarctica Photographs'

This exhibition will be held in our contemporary gallery ARTIS, 280 Parnell Road, Parnell. The show is comprised of a suite of images shot by Grahame Sydney during his second visit to Antarctica in October 2006. The works are Durst Lambda photographic prints on archival Kodak Professional Endura paper. The exhibition will also feature Grahame's lastest oil painting of Antartica.

Peggy Guggenheim Internship in Venice, Italy

In February 2009, Jonathan Grant Galleries staff member Sophie Keyse was awarded an internship at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, Italy. Sophie will be spending the months of November and December in Venice working in the museum, as well as participating in seminars and tours taken by museum staff. Pictured in Artis gallery from left to right; Abby Sisam (Gallery Manager) and Sophie Keyse

The Inaugural Louise Perkins Prize in Art History

In November 2005, Jonathan Grant Galleries staff member Jemma Field was awarded the inaugural Louise Perkins Prize in Art History for consistently achieving the highest grades in Art History throughout her Bachelor of Arts degree. A special ceremony was held at the Auckland City Art Gallery to award the prize. Jemma hopes to further her studies at the Courtauld Institute in London like previous staff members of Jonathan Grant Gallery. Pictured at the ceremony, from left to right; Jonathan Gooderham, Scott Perkins, Jemma Field and Sarah Gordon.

Simon Richardson 'An Otago Perspective'

featured in the New Zealand Herald, November, 2006

Gallery owner Jonathan Gooderham with the painting of Anton Oliver that sold for $16,750 NZD.

Thursday, November 16th, 2006 “Courage, confidence, individuality, intelligence, stubborn dedication, love and a recognition that in art maturity builds slowly and without artifice. More work than talk. That’s where art like this comes from, and its quiet depths will be a pleasure to ponder for all the years to come.” Grahame Sydney of Central Otago spoke of Simon Richardson’s most recent exhibition, which opened at Jonathan Grant Galleries on November the 25th, 2006. The exhibition was held at Jonathan Grant Gallery in November 2006 and featured seven figurative oil paintings including a self-portrait, two reclining nudes and several other portraits. Richardson paints in oils and shows through his work influences of the Venetian masters and Spanish realists. He is best known for his famed work of New Zealand poet Hone Tuwhare; which sold for $20,000 two years ago. The exhibition caused quite a stir among the media as well as attracting intrigued art collectors. This was due to the controversial painting of the All Black hooker Anton Oliver that was in the exhibition. The painting featured in the third page of the New Zealand Herald in the hands of the Gallery owner, Jonathan Gooderham. The nude portrait, painted by Simon Richardson, is titled 'Back Field' and features Oliver nude, facing a wall. The traditional rugby fraternity reacted with consternation to Oliver’s candour. The All Black great Colin Meads, aged 70, commented: ‘we’re meant to be the salt of the earth, down-to-earth, grassroots, and bloody good guys. You don’t pose bloody nude, or get a painting of yourself in the nude.’ When Oliver was questioned about the work he replied ‘I get naked around 30 guys every day, but getting a chap to paint me was making me squeamish, so I thought I’d get out of my comfort zone and give it a go.’ The oil painting sold for $16,750 and is one of five works that were sold within two days of the exhibitions catalogue being posted. Richardson remarks on Oliver’s endeavour, ‘it is a brave thing for him to do, but Anton is very much his own man.’

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Rare Frances Hodgkins watercolours repatriated to New Zealand

Jonathan and Belinda unpack works by Frances Hodgkins

Jonathan Gooderham has recently returned to New Zealand with some very special watercolours by the expatriate artist Frances Mary Hodgkins. The current exhibition at Jonathan Grant Galleries in Parnell is a selection of eight watercolours and is accompanied by a full colour catalogue. Several of these works on display were kept in a very private collection in France and have never been seen before by the public. Jonathan says, ‘Whenever I travel overseas, I look for paintings with a New Zealand connection, and I was thrilled to discover these unseen works by one of New Zealand’s favourite artists.’ Frances Hodgkins was born in Dunedin, but left New Zealand in 1901 for England, where she became a successful painter, many years before her avant-garde style found favour in New Zealand. Her early works included portraits, genre pictures and some landscape painting, with her early style evolving through Impressionism to post-Impressionism. All these styles are represented in this exhibition at Jonathan Grant Galleries. Hodgkins’ paintings became much sought after following a successful 1940 exhibition in London, with the artist subsequently being selected to represent Britain at the Venice Biennale that same year. Her artistic career was further honoured in 1942 when she received a Civil List Pension, and in 1944 when the Tate Gallery purchased her 1915 painting Loveday and Ann: Two Women with a Basket of Flowers. Her work is held in all New Zealand public galleries and in numerous British galleries, including the Tate Gallery and the Victoria & Albert Museum. The exhibition opens on Friday July 4th and will be remain on display for four weeks. One of the works has already been purchased by a public art gallery to complement its important collection of Frances Hodgkins paintings. Along with the superb Hodgkins works, there are many other paintings by well-known New Zealand artists exhibited at Jonathan Grant Galleries, including a pair of oils by Charles Frederick Goldie that Jonathan has recently purchased in Australia. Caption: Jonathan Gooderham and Belinda May unpack Frances Hodgkins’ 'Arrangement of Jugs, 1938'.

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Peter O'Hagan painting donated to the SPCA at Dampierre Champagne presentation

The Count Audoin and Countess Roselyne de Dampierre visited Auckland on March 9th 2007 to launch their Grand Cru and Premier Cru collection of Champagne cuvées. Count Audoin de Dampierre, a rally driving vintage car collector with a particular interest in Aston Martin cars, introduced the Champagnes at a reception at the Independent Prestige Aston Martin showroom in Auckland. When Peter O’Hagan visited the Dampierre’s home in Chenay the previous year he sketched his impression of his first taste of the family’s 1998 reserve cuvée as poured by Audoin de Dampierre in the company of their two Labradors, Opium and Tequila. The resultant painting, which features the two dogs and the Dampierre Grand Cru champagne, was sold by silent auction during the Champagne tasting. Jonathan Gooderham presented the proceeds, amounting to $7,800, to Mr Bob Kerridge on behalf of the SPCA at a special function at Jonathan Grant Galleries on March 16th, 2007.

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Keith Money website exhibition

The Duchess of Norfolk, Arundel, circa 1960 Watercolour 45 x 56 cm

With an advertisement in the June 4th Collectors Edition of Country Life magazine, Jonathan Grant Galleries are holding a website-based exhibition of oils and watercolours by expatriate artist Keith Money. His paintings were first exhibited in London's West End at the Leicester Galleries, hanging amongst stellar company. He also worked for The Daily Telegraph, The Sunday Times, and Tatler magazine, as artist and writer, and also as a photo essayist. An extensive tour of East Africa, firstly in 1978, prompted a widely acclaimed Nairobi exhibition depicting Kenyan views. As well as exhibiting throughout London, Money also held shows in New York and Virginia, and over the years there have been a number of exhibitions in the English provinces. Throughout his wide-ranging career, Keith Money has painted a diverse range of subjects, and is particularly well known for his 1950s paintings of major English country houses. However, Keith Money’s talent is not only confined to painting – he has written several well received books on ballet, including four on ballerina Margot Fonteyn; a large biography of Anna Pavlova, as well as texts on the Royal Ballet. His theatrical interests are seen in two works in this exhibition, with a conte and watercolour of dancer Sir Anthony Dowell in Jerome Robbins’ ‘Afternoon of a Faun’, 1971, as well as a sanguine chalk work of Rudolf Nureyev as Prince Florimund in The Sleeping Beauty, 1968. While still in New Zealand, Money contributed bloodstock articles to The British Racehorse magazine and he later contributed articles and illustrations to several equestrian publications, including Stud & Stable and The Field. This equestrian interest extended to portraits of horses and their riders, including Jenny Bullen on Desert Storm, 1959, The Prince of Wales on a Polo Pony in Windsor Great Park, circa 1974 and The Duchess of Norfolk, Arundel circa 1960. (illustrated)

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November 2006 Exhibition - Jonathan Grant Galleries

Ken Knight - North Island Landscapes

Held in November 2006, the show featured an extensive selection of landscapes that were painted around New Zealand by prominent Australian artist Ken Knight. Prominent New Zealand locations that Ken painted included the Hawkes Bay's Tukituki River and Te Mata Peak, the cliff faces of the Rangitiki River and the beaches of Auckland's North Shore. Working outside in the tradition of the French and British Impressionists, Ken produces dynamic compositions with a scintillating sense of colour and atmosphere. Exhibition dates; November 10 - 30th 2006

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New Grahame Sydney Lithographs

New limited edition lithographs

As part of our upcoming show in our contemporary gallery ARTIS, we are delighted to be able to offer a new pair of limited edition lithographs by Grahame Sydney titled 'Fog at Kane's Pond' (33 x 55 cm) and 'Night Station,' (43.5 x 55 cm). Images of these works are also able to be viewed on our Recent Acquisitions. Alternatively, please do not hesitate to contact the gallery should you wish to reserve or purchase a lithograph or if you would like more information. The edition is only 50 and currently there are 20 available.

November 2005 Exhibition - Artis Gallery

Ray Ching - The Last Tree Fell

"Good Luck" They called to the Black Robbins

This show was held in our cntemporary gallery, ARTIS at the end of 2005 and was comprised of seventeen large canvases by Ray Ching. The paintings in this exhibition drew on Ching's life-long fascination in painting birds to explore links and connections between legends and myths, hopes and fears and our current concerns about species of plants and animals needing to find space in our crowded planet. Over twenty years ago, Ching began depicting scientifically improbable groupings of altogether unrelated birds. He has produced more than fifty connected paintings, which continued with the seventeen works that were in this exhibition.

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October 2005 Exhibition - Jonathan Grant Galleries

The Trafalgar Bi-Centenary

An exhibition to celebrate the bi-centenary of the battle of Trafalgar. A selection of hand coloured engravings including portraits of Lord Nelson by Lemuel F Abbott and John Hoppner and Nelson's ship Victory at The Battle of Trafalgar by JMW Turner as well as the First and Last Journeys of HMS Victory by William L Wyllie.

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Peter O'Hagan painting presented to Rt Hon Jonathan Hunt M.P.

Jonathan Gooderham presents the painting to The Rt Hon. Jonathan Hunt

Jonathan Hunt, the recently retired Speaker of the New Zealand Parliament, heard of Peter O'Hagan's interest in New Zealand wine following O'Hagan's 2004 exhibition "Fine New Zealand Wines Abroad" at Jonathan Grant Galleries. Jonathan consequently invited Peter to taste some of New Zealand's spectacular wines in the Speaker's Dining Room at Parliament House. Subsequently O'Hagan painted several watercolour and gouache works from this theme, and the large painting titled "Evaluating the 2001 Pinot Champion for Australia and New Zealand - The Speaker's Dining Room, Parliament, Wellington" was presented to the future New Zealand High Commissioner in London, Jonathan Hunt ONZ, M.P. on March 23, 2005 by Peter O'Hagan's art dealer Jonathan Gooderham. The painting, which features Matua Valley 2001 Wairarapa Pinot and Craggy Range Quarry and Sophia, will hang in Mr Hunt's official residence in London and will not only serve as a fine tribute to New Zealand wines, but also act as a reminder of Jonathan Hunt's 38 year career as an M.P., and his position as Speaker in the New Zealand Parliament.

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