Andrew Drummond

Born 1951, Nelson, New Zealand
Lives in Christchurch, New Zealand
Senior Lecturer in Sculpture, University of Canterbury, School of Fine Arts 1992 - 2003

Solo Exhibitions

2006 Jonathan Smart Gallery, Christchurch Recent Work
2005 Vavasour Godkin Gallery, Auckland The Light and Dark of Visibility
2004 Peter Webb Fine Art Gallery, Auckland Project 04: Contemporary New Zealand Sculpture
2002 Dunedin, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Rotating, Assigning, Displacing
Palmerston North, Manawatu Art Gallery, Rotating / Revealing
2000 Christchurch, Jonathon Smart Gallery, Rotating / Revealing
1999 Ambleside, England, Daisy's Cafe, as part of "Art barns: after Kurt Schwitters"
1998 Auckland, Andrew Jensen Gallery, Cascade
1997 Wellington, Andrew Jensen Gallery, Recent Work
Christchurch, Jonathon Smart Gallery, Recent Work
Christchurch, Jonathon Smart Gallery, Samples and Speculations
Auckland, Gow Langsford Gallery, Recent work
1996 Christchurch, Jonathan Smart Gallery, About Chest Height
Wellington, Andrew Jensen Gallery, Sculpture and Drawing
1995 Wellington, Andrew Jensen Gallery, Jet
Christchurch, Robert McDougall Art Gallery commission of installation, For Beating and Breathing
1994 Christchurch, Jonathan Jensen Gallery, "Backdating"
Wellington, Botanic Gardens, Commission of "Listening & Viewing Device"
For Wellington Sculpture Trust
Christchurch, Jonathon Jensen Gallery, Vented
New Plymouth, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, From the Duplicitous Nature of the Swan
Wanganui, Sarjeant Gallery, From the Duplicitous Nature of the Swan
1993 Auckland, Gregory Flint Gallery
Manchester, England, R.I.B.A. installation for New Voices in the City conference
1992 Wellington City Art Gallery, Between Rocks and Glasshouses - a collaborative
installation with architect Noel Lane
Christchurch, School of Fine Arts Gallery, University of Canterbury, A Place for
Supporting Limbs and Vessels
Auckland, Gregory Flint Gallery, Recent Work
1991 Wellington, Katherine Scollay Gallery, From a Flight Across the Desert
Auckland, Gow Langsford Gallery, From a Flight Across the Desert
Auckland, Gregory Flint Gallery
1990 Ipswich Regional Gallery, Townsville, Crossroads
Perc Tucker Gallery, Townsville, Queensland
Queensland Art Gallery, Supports for Falling Limbs and Articles for an Ongoing Nature
Hastings Art Gallery, Supports in a Falling Landscape
1989 Wellington, Southern Cross Gallery
Auckland, Gow Langsford Gallery
Auckland City Art Gallery, Images from Another Archaeology
1988 Auckland, Gow Langsford Gallery, Agricultural Still Life
Auckland, ArtSpace, Images from the Woodcutter
Hamilton, Centre Gallery for the Contemporary Arts, Drawings / Installations
Auckland, Gow Langsford Gallery, From the Valley of the Shadow
1987 Dunedin Public Art Gallery, FiveSights, Vessels and Containers, Braided Rivers
This exhibition toured 1987-88:
Wanganui, Sargeant Gallery
New Plymouth, Govett Brewster Gallery
Lower Hutt, Dowse Art Museum
Wellington, Southern Cross Gallery, Images from the Woodcutter
Wanganui, Sargeant Gallery, Dome Installation
1985 Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Vein
Auckland, Red Metro Gallery, Vein
1984 Portsmouth, England, ASPEX Gallery, From the Valley of the Shadow
1983 Dunedin, Red Metro Gallery, Vein - objects
Dunedin, Red Metro Gallery, Witness, installation
Dunedin, Hocken Gallery, Vein, the completed work
1982 Wellington, National Art Gallery, Cycles / Stages, installation
1981 Wellington City Art Gallery, Works '80
Palmerston North, Manawatu Art Gallery, Works '80
Landed - an installation
1980 Dunedin, Hocken Gallery, Relics
Dunedin, Bosshard Galleries, Toxic, an installation
1979 Wellington, Eva Bett Gallery, Walking, a video installation
Palmerston North, Manawatu Art Gallery, The Grass is Greener a video installation
1978 Auckland City Art Gallery, Tattoo Tapes / Onto Skin, Project Programme
1977 Wellington, Elva Bett Gallery, One Night & One Day
1976 Wellington, Settlement Gallery, Dynamic Energy Art Group
1974 Palmerston North, Massey University, Kinetic Constructions
1973 Dunedin, Dawson's Gallery, Kinetic Paintings

Group Exhibitions

2006 Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin. War and Peace
2005 Wellington Sculpture Trust, Meridian Wind Project Tower of Light Public Commission
2005 'Group Show' Vavasour Godkin Gallery, Auckland
2005 'Art of the Nation' Te Papa Tongarewa Museum of New Zealand
2004 Woollaston Estates Fountain Commission
2001 Christchurch, COCA, Dark Plain, for the Christchurch Arts Festival
2000 Christchurch, Art and Industry Biennial, Christchurch International Airport, Counter
Rotating Device
Auckland, Assignation Device , Royal Sun Alliance Building
1999 Dunedin, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dream Collectors
England, Lancashire: Projects Environment, Artbarns: After Kurt Schwitters - exhibition of 10 international artists in barns in the Forest of Bowland, Lancashire.
1998 Dunedin, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Lights and Shadows
Auckland, Artspace, Proscenium.
Auckland, Artspace, Action Replay
New Plymouth, Govett-Brewster, Action Replay
Auckland, Auckland City Art Gallery, Dream Collectors
1997 Wellington, Museum of New Zealand, Dream Collectors
Napier, Hawkes Bay Museum, Earth / Water
Dunedin, Hocken Library, Frances Hodgkins Collection
1996 Auckland, Gow Langsford Gallery
Christchurch, The Physics Room, The Crime Show.
Dunedin, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Echo chamber
1995 Hamilton, Waikato Art Museum, Chartwell Collection
1994 Wellington, Museum of New Zealand, Art Now
Christchurch, CSA Gallery Stimulus to Style
Barcelona, La Virreina, Differentes Natures
1993 Paris, France, Differentes Natures, Galerie de l'Esplanade
Christchurch, Jonathan Jensen
Dunedin, Solutions Gallery
Auckland, Gregory Flint Gallery
1992 Madrid, Spain, ARCO
Sydney, Australia, Museum of Contemporary Art, Headlands: Thinking through NZ Art
Wellington Museum of New Zealand, Headlands: Thinking through NZ Art
Dunedin, Solutions Gallery, Body of the Land Projects
Auckland, ASA Gallery, Wiremark Award for Sculpture
Christchurch, Robert McDougall Art Gallery, Prospect '92
Christchurch, Jonathon Jensen Gallery
Dunedin, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, A Comfortable Environment
1991 Waikato Art Museum, Crosscurrents, Contemporary Australian & New Art
Auckland City Art Gallery, Recent Acquisitions
1990 Melbourne, Heart and Land, an Australian touring exhibition
Rotorua, Bath House, Kei Konei Inaianei, 15 N. Z Sculptors Here and Now
1989 New Plymouth, Govett Brewster Art Gallery, Putting the Land on the Map,
a national touring exhibition
Moet and Chandon Award, Constructed Intimacies, a national touring exhibition
Wanganui, Sargeant Gallery, Wood Show
Auckland, Fisher Gallery, Doors and Lintels
1988 Wellington, Southern Cross Gallery, Festival Show
Wellington, National Gallery, Exhibits
Auckland, ArtSpace, Exhibits
1987 Wellington, National Art Gallery, Shed 11, When Art Hits the Headlines
Wellington City Art Gallery, Drawing Analogies
1986 Dunedin, Patricia Bosshard Gallery
1985 Auckland, Red Metro Sculpture Show
1984 Hamilton, Centre Gallery, Four Sculptors; Installations
Orkney, Pier Arts Centre, Land Art, a response to Orkney
Edinburgh, Scotland, Richard Demarco Gallery, ANZART in Edinburgh
Portsmouth, England, ASPEX Gallery, ANZART in Portsmouth
1983 Hobart, Tasmania Australia, ANZART 2
New Plymouth, Govett Brewster Art Gallery, Red Wedge - for Installation Art
1982 Dunedin, Red Metro, Opening Show
Wellington, F1 Sculpture Project
1981 Christchurch, ANZART 1
Melbourne, Australia, La Trobe University, 1st Australian Sculpture Biennial
1980 Wanganui, Sargeant Gallery, Four N. Z Sculptors
Christchurch, School of Fine Arts, Artists Books
Wellington City Art Gallery, Aramoana - Dunedin Artists
Dunedin, M. L. C. Building, Colour Xerox by Artists
1979 Wellington, National Art Gallery, Propositions: Drawings, Proposals and Projects for Sculpture
1978 Christchurch, CSA Gallery, Festival Exhibition, Platforms
Mildura, Australia, 7th Mildura Sculpture Triennial
New York City, N.Y., U.S.A., Franklin Furnace, N. Z Artists Books
N. Z National Touring Exhibition, N. Z Sculptors at Mildura
1977 Wellington, National Arts Festival, Video Store
Palmerston North, Manawatu Art Gallery, A Show of Hands
1976 Canada, Stratford Art Gallery, Graduation Exhibition
1975 Edinburgh, Scotland, Richard Demarco Gallery, >From Hagar Qim to Callanish
Canada, Waterloo University, A Conceptual Menagerie
1974 Canada, Waterloo University, Five from Town
1973 Wanganui, Sargeant Art Award
Palmerston North, Manawatu Art Gallery, Manawatu Review

Artist in Residence

1999 Lancashire, England, Wycoller, Artbarns Project via Lancashire County Council
1990 Queensland, Australia, Queensland Art Gallery
1987 Wanganui, N. Z Sargeant Gallery
1984 Orkney, Scotland, Pier Arts Centre
Portsmouth, England, ASPEX Gallery
1980 Dunedin, University of Otago, Frances Hodgkins Fellow

Publications

2002 Devices: rotating, displacing, assigning, Dunedin Public Art Gallery
Rotating / Revealing, Andrew Drummond Sculpture
1997 Samples and Speculations, Jonathon Smart Gallery
1995 For Beating and Breathing, Robert McDougall Art Gallery
From the Duplicitous Nature of the Swan, Sarjeant Gallery
1994 Andrew Drummond, Jonathon Jenson Gallery
1990 Images from Another Archaeology
Supports for Falling Limbs and Articles for Ongoing Nature
1980 Vein
1979 The Grass is Greener
Dawn/Water - Hawk Press
1978 Tattoo Tapes
1977 Recent Work
1976 Cycles of Work, Dynamic Energy Art Group

Awards

1999 CNZ Grant for Projects Environment commission
1995 CNZ Grant for Robert McDougall Art Gallery commission
1990 Australia, New Zealand Foundation Fellowship
1981 Major Grant, QEII Arts Council
1980 Frances Hodgkins Fellow, University of Otago, Dunedin

Selected Bibliography

- Art New Zealand No 106 2003, 'Ingenious Devices', Jennifer Hay, pp. 54-57
-Long Haul, 2002, essay Justin Paton, Dunedin Public Art Gallery from exhibition Devices: rotating, displacing, assigning.
-Rotating / Revealing. Andrew Drummond 2002, essay Jennifer Hay. ISBN 0-473-08396- 5
Sculpture International, Focus: 'Turn of the Wheel', March 2002, Jennifer Hay.
-Dark Plain, Christchurch Arts Festival Exhibition, 2001, essay John Hurrell, Fiona Farrell
-Art New Zealand 95 Andrew Drummond Artbarns; After Kurt Schwitters, John Hurrell
-Contemporary New Zealand Sculpture, Priscilla Pitts, Godwit Press 1998
-Dream Collectors, 100 Years Of Art in New Zealand, pgs 184-5, Museum of New Zealand, Te Papa Press, ISBN 0-909010-48-x
-100 New Zealand Artists, Section 31, Warwick Brown, Godwit Press, ISBN 0-90877-98-6
-Art Now, catalogue pgs. 42-43 1994 Museum of New Zealand ISBN 0-909010-19-6
-Stimulus to Style, catalogue pgs. 24-27 1994 C.S.A. Gallery
-Differentes Natures, catalogue, pgs. 109 Joerg Bader ISBN 88-7180-074-5 1993
-Heart & Land, catalogue essay, N. Z. A. G. D. C. 1989 Jennifer Phipps, Lynda Tyler
-Putting the Land on the Map, catalogue essay, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery 1989, Wystan Curnow
-Drawing Analogies, catalogue essay, Wellington City Art Gallery 1988, Gregory Burke
-Between Rocks and Glasshouses, exhibition catalogue edited by Gregory Burke,
Wellington City Art Gallery, ISBN 0-908818-21-1 1992
-Headlands, Thinking through New Zealand Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney 1992, IBSN 1 875632-04-2
-Art News, Summer 1991, 'The Ecological Art Explosion', pp 97-105, Robin Cembalest
-Supports for Falling Limbs and Articles for an Ongoing Nature, Queensland Art Gallery
catalogue, Anne Kirker
-Images from Another Archaeology: Embodying Art, Auckland City Art Gallery catalogue,
Peter Leech
-Artlink, Volume 5, Nos 3 and 4, 'The Primitivist Quality of Experimental Art in Southern
New Zealand', Lita Barrie
-New Zealand Listener, June 6 1987, 'Ending with a New Beginning', Lindsay Shaw
-Art New Zealand No. 44, 'Andrew Drummond: Towards an Allegorical Use of the Body',
pp 64-67, Lita Barrie
-Art New Zealand No. 43, 'The Bodily Arrangement of Art: Andrew Drummond at the
Dunedin Public Art Gallery', pp 84-86, Peter Leech
-Art New Zealand No. 28, 'Art and Product: Andrew Drummond', pp 16-17, Peter Leech
-Art New Zealand No. 16, 'Art and Narrative: Colin McCahon and Andrew Drummond',
p 21, Peter Leech
-Newsletter No. 12, Elva Bett Gallery, 'The Art of Andrew Drummond', Heather Curnow
-Art New Zealand, No. 13 'Andrew Drummond - Technician of the Sacred', Wystan Curnow
-New Zealand Sculptors at Mildura, catalogue essay, pp 3-5, Thomas McCullough
-New Zealand Artists, 1978 Mildura Triennial Catalogue, Thomas McCullough
-Education, No. 10 1977, 'Aspects of New Zealand Sculpture: Recent Developments',
pp 20-22, Wystan Curnow

Public and Corporate Collections

- National Art Gallery, Wellington (Te Papa)

- Auckland City Art Gallery, Auckland

- Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth

- Hawkes Bay Museum, Napier

- Sarjeant Gallery, Wanganui

- Manawatu Art Gallery, Palmerston North

- Dowse Art Museum, Lower Hutt

- Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin

- Hocken Collection, University of Otago, Dunedin

- Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu

- Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane

- Chartwell Trust Collection, Hamilton

- United Bank Trust Collection, Auckland

- Bank of New Zealand Collection, Wellington

- Fletcher Challenge Collection, commissioned work for Corporate Headquarters,
Penrose, Auckland

- Wellington Sculpture Trust, commissioned work for Wellington Botanic Gardens

- University of Auckland, commissioned work for Tamaki Campus

- Kiwi Properties commissioned for Royal Sun Alliance building, Auckland

- Robert McDougall Art Gallery, Christchurch, commissioned installation for permanent collection (now Christchurch Art Gallery)