Jonathan Smart Gallery

artists

Stephen Bambury

Stephen Bambury is one of New Zealand's senior artists - an almost
iconic abstract painter.

Hannah and Aaron Beehre

Collaborators Hannah and Aaron Beehre fuse painterly touch with graphic design in dynamic projects ranging from painting to interactive digital works.

CV | 2008 - JS11.08 | 2007 - JS03.07 | 2005 - JS05.05 |
Selected works for sale
www.hannahandaaronbeehre.co.nz

Mark Braunias

Go native with Mark Braunias into a land of laid back dudes and alien-looking busy bodies.

Judy Darragh

Judy Darragh has turned the constant re-invention of kitsch into a richly quirky artform.

CV | 2008 - "what" |
Selected works for sale

Margaret Dawson

The history of photography and notion of masquerade have long informed the work of Christchurch photographer Margaret Dawson.

CV | 2008 - Tinsel | 2003 - All the King's Men |
1998 - The Men from Uncle |
Selected works for sale

Neil Dawson

Drawn from flights of fancy, the imaginative sculpture of Neil Dawson has teased visual expectations for 30 years.

CV | 2009 - Deck: First Cut | 2007 - Recent Work |
Selected works for sale
www.ferns.co.nz

Andrew Drummond

Andrew Drummond is a Christchurch sculptor.

CV | 2006 - Recent Work |
Selected works for sale

Luise Fong

A sense of movement, depth and rupture is at the heart of Luise Fong's painting.

CV | Selected works for sale

Kristy Gorman

Beauty as overlay, transparency and control is the essence of Kristy Gorman's practice.

CV | 2007 - Spill & Punctum |
Selected works for sale

Chris Heaphy

Whether in hard-edged abstraction or figuration, Chris Heaphy reconciles things Maori and Pakeha in a practice that crosses painting with various interdisciplinary projects.

CV | 2007 - The End of Nothing |2004 - Stereo |
2002 - Wonderworks
Selected works for sale

Robert Hood

Robert Hood is the 2007 Olivia Spencer-Bower Fellow.
Chairs, Rob.

CV | 2008 - Big Bull Market |
Selected works for sale

Lonnie Hutchinson

In Lonnie's Black Pearl animation, a cut-out curtain creates a window or peep show where the viewer becomes voyeur.

Megan Jenkinson

Rich and operatic, Megan Jenkinson's layering of collage into photography has led to spectacular results in Antarctica.

CV | 2009 - Second Silence | 2007 - The Dark Continent | 2004 - Afterword: The Colours, Colour Codes, and Cloud of Unknowing |
The Virtues
Selected works for sale

Joanna Langford

For Joanna Langford, read gypsy, queen of resource recovery, fantasy and the sublime.

CV | 2009 - The Beautiful and The Damned | 2007 - the quietening |
Selected works for sale

Saskia Leek

"Fading in and out: the pleasure of distance"

CV | 2008 - Magic Hour | 2003 - This is not the end
Selected works for sale

Brenda Nightingale

In Brenda's recent paintings, urban environments are rendered as eerie scenes full of nostalgia and edgy psychological presence.

CV | 2009 - Paintings | 2008 - Nightingale | 2004 - Way Out West |
Selected works for sale

Anne Noble

She was an Antarctic Arts Fellow in 2001-2002, spending three weeks on the frozen continent in January 2002.

CV | 2007 - Ruby's Room 1998 - 2007 | 2003 - Antarctica...terra incognito |
Selected works for sale

Fiona Pardington

Fiona Pardington (Kai Tahu, Clan Cameron) has been a photographer in the silver gelatin tradition for more than twenty years.

CV | 2008 - The Heart Derelict | 2005 - Eight Shells |
2003 - Whakakitenga Revelation |
Selected works for sale
www.fionapardington.com

Neil Pardington

Whether it be operating theatres or museum storerooms, Neil Pardington (Kai Tahu, Clan Cameron) dissects the visual with a beautiful and clinical efficiency.

Michael Parekowhai

A polished humour and laconic swagger inform the work of Michael Parekowhai.

CV | 2001 - All there is/The Consolation of Philosophy | 2000 - The Beverley Hills Gun Club |
Selected works for sale

Anton Parsons

A sculptor with an elegant and minimal sense of form, Anton Parsons has long employed braille as a point of entry into his work.

CV | 2008 - Some People Add Some Subtract | 2004 - One Minute To Twelve | 2002 - Jamb
Selected works for sale
www.antonparsons.co.nz

Nathan Pohio

There is a very painterly and atmospheric quality to the moving cinema of Nathan Pohio.

CV | 2009 - Spyglass Field Recordings, Vol.1 | 2006 - Phantasmagoria |
Selected works for sale

John Pule

".....................dreaming of fire
Chasing a Raven over your thigh..."
The practice of painter and poet John Pule is increasingly recognised across Australasia and Europe.

CV | 2007 - Ata | 2003 - 'Na' (Gift) |
Selected works for sale

Jude Rae

Be it in oil or more recent charcoal drawings, Jude Rae's ability is classical - a lightness of touch and an inscrutable eye for form.

CV | 2008 - Dialogue | 2006 - Work in Progress | Spelling the Sensuous
Selected works for sale

Heather Straka

The painter as manufacturer of a brand, be it based around ethnicity or a more personal stylistic signature, has long been territory staked out by Heather Straka.

CV | 2008 - Donor | 2005 - Paradise Lost |
2002 - Roxburgh Classics
Selected works for sale

Sofia Tekela-Smith

Sofia Tekela-Smith, from the northernmost island of Fiji (Rotuma), makes Pacific-inspired adornments for the body, as well as large-scale photographs.

CV | 2007 - Ata | 2003 - Na (gift) |
Selected works for sale

Ben Webb

A curious sense of forensic pathos illuminates the found imagery of Ben Webb.

2009 - They don't give medals to yesterday's heroes |
2008 - Ben Webb |
Selected works for sale

Ri Williamson

Ri Williamson's show Ianuae was a very handsome debut at Jonathan Smart Gallery in September 2006.

CV | 2007 - Like a Diamond in the Skyline | 2006 - Ianuae |
Selected works for sale

et al.

"How do we as individuals stand before the institutions of society?" The mesmerising artists' collaborative et al. occasionally shed light on this and other grand questions.

CV | 2006 - in the national interest | 2004 - programma |
Selected works for sale

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