SUPPORTING THE DOWSE FOR OVER 40 YEARS ISSUE 49 / AUGUST 2015

IN THIS ISSUEUNCOVERING WHITE NOISECurator Sian van Dyk talks about getting to know the stories behind painter Séraphine Pick’s recent works.

5 A BUTTON-SIZED HISTORYButton exhibition All That Jazz: Deco Highlights from the Ruth Meier Button Collection prompts new editor Mackenzie Paton to research the wider history of buttons.ECC NZ STUDENT CRAFT/DESIGN AWARDSAll the information you need about the exhibitions and events taking place at The Dowse in the coming months. 6 WHAT’S ON AT THE DOWSEAll the information you need about the exhibitions and events taking place at The Dowse in the coming months. 7PLUS ALL THE LATEST INFO ABOUT UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS AND EVENTS

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ON THE COVERA visitor to the opening of Séraphine

Pick: White Noise at The Dowse. Séraphine Pick Everything is beautiful

(2015) in the background. Courtesy of the artist and Hamish McKay

Gallery. Photo: Mark Tantrum.

FRIENDS COMMITTEE 2015

PresidentHeather Crichton 021 937 750

Vice PresidentColin Kelly

TreasurerRiki Woods

General CommitteeAnn Montague, Bruce Sedcole, Emma Hill,

Kirsty Stratford, Louisa Gommans.

PatronGillian Deane

The Dowse Art Museum Friends liason

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FRIENDS NEWSLETTEREditor Mackenzie Paton

Designer Nicky Dyer

MEETINGS The Friends committee normally meets

on the last Tuesday of the month, 6pm at The Dowse Art Museum

IN THIS ISSUEPg 2

Editor’s Column

Profile: Emma Hill

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Greetings from Courtney Greetings from Heather

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Uncovering White NoiseCurator Sian van Dyk talks about getting

to know the stories behind painter Séraphine Pick’s recent works.

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ECC NZ Student Craft / Design Awards

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A Button-Sized HistoryButton exhibition All That Jazz: Deco Highlights from the Ruth Meier Button Collection prompts

new editor Mackenzie Paton to research the wider history of buttons.

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What’s on at The Dowse

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Upcoming Friends Events

Note from the editor

I am very pleased to have recently joined the committee and Friends of The Dowse and am looking forward to offering my support and learning more about the workings of the gallery. I have previously worked as a Marketing Manager in New Zealand and in Creative Services for a media company in London where I spent twelve and a half years. Now I’m settled back here, I am a full-time mother with two young children. Thea is five and a half, and Louis is four.I am very passionate about art and its ability to challenge and connect with its creator and its audience and strongly believe in the importance of supporting the arts in our culture. My particular interest is in drawing and painting and I am enjoying exploring these creative outlets through a Diploma in Art and Creativity with the Learning Connexion in Taita.

PROFILE

COMMITTEE MEMBER EMMA HILL

Kia ora, I’m Mackenzie, the new newsletter editor. I’ve taken over the role from the amazing Kimberly Stephenson, and am thrilled to be bringing you more content that celebrates the art and people that make The Dowse such a special, much-loved place. I studied History and Art History at Victoria University, and got introduced to the world of The Dowse through an internship in July last year. I worked on The Dowse’s Wikipedia project over the summer, feeling so lucky to be in such a supportive place doing something I just loved. Not only is this editor’s role a great opportunity to be involved with the Friends and The Dowse, it’s also my way of ‘getting back to the world’ after a serious car crash earlier this year. This issue includes an article that uses the latest exhibition of Art Deco buttons as a springboard for a wider discussion of the history of buttons. Curator Sian van Dyk also talks about her time getting to work with Séraphine Pick on her latest painting show, and we introduce the judges for the upcoming Student Craft / Design Awards.

MACKENZIE PATON

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Kia ora koutou, and a warm winter’s greeting to our Friends and other

readers of this newsletter.The cold snap hasn’t slowed things down at all at The Dowse. We’ve hosted a busy calendar of events as part of the Wellington Matariki festival, including Soup’s Up!, a special fundraiser for Te Omanga Hospice which raised $2,000 by way of a communal lunch served in hand-made bowls made by volunteers using the pottery workshop at the Hutt Art Society - a true community collaboration.

We’ve also opened two new shows. White Noise is a major new exhibition by one of New Zealand’s most renowned contemporary painters, Séraphine Pick. Leaving behind the heavily-worked surfaces and mysterious dreamscapes of her earlier career, Séraphine’s ambitious new paintings have a fresh clarity and focus, and show the artist working at a confident new scale that she has carefully matched to the architectural spaces of The Dowse’s galleries.

From three-metre tall paintings to artworks on a miniature scale: we have also recently opened All That Jazz, a selection of over 500 Art Deco period buttons from the expansive collection of Lower Hutt resident and collector Ruth Meier. Continuing in our commitment to showcasing the richness of the local community, we’re delighted that Ruth is sharing these precious objects with us and with you.

On the topic of sharing, if you haven’t already checked out the podcast we have been producing this year I urge you to do so. Edited and presented by Cat Auburn and Sasha Greig, the weekly podcast features interviews with staff, artists and invited guests. One regular feature demystifies the various jobs at the art gallery (what does a Communications and Relationships Manager actually do?), and we are also building up a back catalogue of interviews with artists such as Bronwynne Cornish, Elizabeth Thomson and John Parker. You can find the podcast on the homepage of our website, by searching iTunes for ‘The Dowse’, or on Soundcloud at www.soundcloud.com/thedowse.

HEI KONĀ MAI COURTNEY JOHNSTON, DIRECTOR

Greetings from Courtney

Hello Friends! In the last few months our committee members have doubled (which is very exciting!).

I would like to welcome to the team the following members: Treasurer – Riki Woods, Secretary – Louisa Gommans, Events – Emma Hill, Graphic Design – Nicky Dyer, Newsletter Editor – Mackenzie Paton (please have a read of Mackenzie’s new Editor Column). It is fantastic to have a full team on board. It now means that we can get a lot more done for the Friends and The Dowse. Check out our first bio of Emma Hill on page two.

We have been very busy organising the ECC NZ Student Craft / Design Awards and this year we have upped our game and now have category awards thanks to our sponsors ECC, Tuatara and Village Goldsmith. We felt it was important to acknowledge students from different design disciplines and so now have separate awards for lighting, furniture and product design, glass and ceramics, jewellery, textile and fashion design.

We have also recently launched a website for the awards www.nzcraftdesignawards.com and a Facebook page www.facebook.com/studentcraftdesignawards. If you are Facebook savvy, please make sure you share the site with your family and friends. Urbis magazine have been helping us out also with promotion through their online magazine.

A huge amount of thanks to Nicky Dyer who has worked tirelessly on the graphic design and website for the Awards this year. Nicky has designed and art worked our newsletter for many years, but is now an official committee member and we are excited to have her.

The judges this year include:

David Trubridge (Designer), Anita Dykes (ECC), Leanne Williams (Crystal Chain Gang), Federico Monsalve (Urbis Editor) and Courtney Johnston (The Dowse).

The Awards Night will be on Thursday 24th September. Please make sure you add this to your calendar, as we would love to see you there.

Please enjoy reading this issue of the Friends Newsletter. It is Mackenzie’s first newsletter and we think she has done a stunning job.

ALL THE BEST UNTIL NEXT TIMEHEATHER CRICHTON

Greetings from Heather

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UNCOVERING WHITE NOISE

ABOVE: Séraphine Pick, White Noise, 2010. Collection of the McArthur Family.

TOP: Séraphine Pick, Superstar, 2015. Courtesy of Hamish McKay Gallery.

One of my favourite things about being a curator is visiting artists’ studios and becoming more intimate with the stories behind their art works.Over the last year I have had the pleasure of meeting with Séraphine Pick in her spacious studio. Large paintings in various stages of completion lined the walls, subtly changing with each visit. On her couch, surrounded by books, watercolour sketches and print outs from the internet, we talked about all the things that informed her work—spirituality, churches, communes, mindfulness, crowds, riots, protesting, music festivals, rock stars, celebrities, film, surrealism, impressionism, romanticism, horses, Gauguin, Goya, Munch, drinking, social media, drugs, home grown gardens, recycling, landscape and tramping!

A memorable story from this time with Séraphine is that of a character called Roky Erickson, who features in the painting— and title of the exhibition –White Noise. At 19, Roky became the front man of Texas psychedelic rock band The Thirteenth Floor Elevators, formed explicitly to make music under the influence of LSD. He quickly rose to fame with his hit single You’re Gonna Miss Me. The band became a huge influence. At one point Janis Joplin nearly became a member and they inspired the Grateful

Dead, Primal Scream, the Jesus and Mary Chain, REM and ZZ Top.

Inevitably, Roky’s mind became scrambled by a cocktail of drugs. Dazed and confused, he would sit with his back to the audience and forget to sing. In 1969 he was charged for possession of marijuana and diagnosed with schizophrenia. Pleading insanity to avoid jail, he was committed to a psychiatric institute and given three years of shock treatment. In spite of his issues, Roky has continued to find himself in and out of the spotlight, playing at the Power Station in Auckland in 2012. He famously survived by turning on all the radios, TVs and even police scanners he had acquired for his home, creating white noise to cancel the disturbance in his head.1

Like many of Pick’s works, White Noise has stirred imaginations and been the subject of numerous antidotes. Not only have visitors compared Roky’s image to a rock star, but also Charles Manson and Jesus. The horse often baffles people. What does it mean? On one of my visits, Séraphine reflected,

My intuition, my influences, the images I choose, the way I’m thinking or feeling that day all contribute to what I do. Looking and observing is a big part of that. When you have one element then put another in a painting, it changes the whole way you read that first element. The meaning behind my subject choice is initially unconscious, but becomes conscious because people are always asking me what it’s about.2

Séraphine found Roky’s picture in a magazine and thought his sitting pose would be interesting to paint and only discovered his story later. She included a horse because she had been reminiscing about Gauguin’s The White Horse – a painting that featured in her childhood home. Because most of her new paintings come from second-hand images, she enjoys that people come to her paintings with stories of their own experiences. Next time you visit White Noise, think about how this exhibition evokes your own memories. We’d love to hear from you.

SIAN VAN DYK

SÉRAPHINE PICK: WHITE NOISE REMAINS OPEN

UNTIL 17 JANUARY 2016

EXHIBIT ION PROFILE

1 Roky’s story also told in more detail in an article by Dorian Lynskey, The man who went too high, The Guardian. 8 June 2007. Accessed 24 June 2015.

2 Interview of Séraphine Pick by Sian van Dyk. 19 May 2015.

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EVENT

KEY DATESAUGUST 1

ONLINE ENTRIES OPEN

AUGUST 16 ONLINE ENTRIES CLOSE

SEPTEMBER 24 AWARDS NIGHT

6.30PM - 8.30PM THE DOWSE ART MUSEUM

AWARDSECC SUPREME AWARD $2,000

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CATEGORY AWARDSECC LTD LIGHTING AWARD $1,000ECC LTD FURNITURE & PRODUCT

DESIGN AWARD $1,000TUATARA GLASS & CERAMICS

AWARD $1,000THE VILLAGE GOLDSMITH

JEWELLERY AWARD $1,000TEXTILE & FASHION AWARD $1,000

It’s that time of year again, a time for finishing touches, glossy photographs and big ideas. The judges have been selected, prizes lined up and the call for entries now open. The 2015 ECC NZ Student Craft / Design Awards are on.

For almost three decades, the Friends of The Dowse has run the Student Craft / Design Awards. It has become the leading award in its field, and a highlight of the tertiary calendar for students of craft and design. The awards offer support and encouragement for new generations of designers and craft artists, championing innovation, creativity and excellence in contemporary craft and design. Entries are welcome in the fields of lighting design, furniture and product design, glass and ceramics, jewellery, and textiles and fashion.

In 2015 the awards continue with the support of ECC, a nationally-recognised lighting and furniture design company. ECC brings exceptional designs from all over the world into our homes and commercial environments, and they have stores in our main centres: Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch.

This year, thanks to the generosity of Urbis and Wellington designer Tim Wigmore, the Friends of The Dowse will be able to present the winner with a beautifully designed trophy designed by Tim that will be used for years to come. Tim Wigmore is a Wellington based designer who sells and exhibits in New Zealand and internationally. He has previously been a judge on the panel of the Student Craft / Design Awards.

DAVID TRUBRIDGE — DESIGNERDavid Trubridge is New Zealand’s best known furniture and lighting designer. His work is manufactured by his company in Hawkes Bay, and sold and exhibited worldwide. His sophisticated, environmentally responsible designs have featured in countless international publications. In 2008, the French magazine Express listed him as one of the top 15 designers in the world, and in 2012 the Pompidou Centre in Paris purchased his ‘Icarus’ installation for its permanent collection.

COURTNEY JOHNSTON — DIRECTOR OF THE DOWSE ART MUSEUMCourtney Johnston, Director of The Dowse Art Museum, believes in the power of art to connect and reach out to people. She has been Radio New Zealand’s Art Correspondent on their Nine to Noon programme since 2010. Prior to The Dowse, she was General Manager of Wellington web agency Boost New Media, which specialises in working with cultural and heritage organisations. She has worked with a range of arts institutions, including City Gallery Wellington and the National Library.

2015 ECC NZ STUDENT CRAFT / DESIGN AWARD JUDGES

LEANNE WILLIAMS — ARTIST, CRYSTAL CHAIN GANGLeanne Williams is one of the key creatives in the collaborative art practice of the Crystal Chain Gang. Their work has been selected for exhibitions and included in many art collections both within New Zealand and Internationally. They are recipients of awards and international residencies and feature in major art and craft publications. Crystal Chain Gang’s glass creations are critically acclaimed for pushing boundaries between art, design and craft.

FEDERICO MONSALVE — EDITOR, URBISFederico Monsalve is the editor of Urbis and Interior magazines. He is a writer and journalist with particular interest in cultural journalism. His art, literary, film and architectural criticism and features have appeared in a range of local and international media including: The New Zealand Herald, Monocle (UK), ARTnews (NY) and the Los Angeles Magazine, among many others.

ANITA DYKES — LIGHTING DESIGN CONSULTANT, ECCAnita Dykes graduated from Victoria University with a bachelor of Design and followed up her passion for lighting and products with a Postgraduate Certificate in Illumination Engineering. She also worked in the stage and event production industry and uses those skills for her current job, as a Lighting Design Consultant for ECC, where she liaises with architects, designers and engineers to illuminate spaces.

ECC NZ STUDENT CRAFTDESIGN AWARDS

2015

BANNER IMAGE TOP: The Salago lamp by Danny Fang. Available at ECC.

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All That Jazz: Deco Highlights from the Ruth Meier Button Collection is at The Dowse until January 31, showcasing stunning examples of Art Nouveau and Art Deco buttons.

Starting in the 1890s and spanning fifty years of history, All That Jazz is all about buttons from the collection of Hutt resident Ruth Meier. The show inspired new editor Mackenzie to delve into the history of buttons, going beyond the show’s Art Nouveau and Art Deco focus to place ‘the button’ in a wider context.

One of the things All That Jazz does so beautifully is to remind us that even the most commonplace objects have fascinating histories that we usually never get the chance to wonder at. I had never given much thought to these ubiquitous little fasteners. For the most part, buttons were little plastic things with four holes and a tendency to fall off right before important school assemblies. However, a history of buttons can actually reflect social histories and the stories of craft, decorative arts, design, manufacture and materials.

The world’s earliest known button is five thousand years old. It’s a small curved piece of shell unearthed in the Indus Valley in modern day Pakistan. Ancient civilisations used buttons for decoration, rather than to hold their clothes together. Ancient Greek and Romans fastened their clothes with knots, or using a fibula, rather than buttons. When buttons featured, they added decorative flair and indicated rank and status.

Returning Crusaders sparked a new craze for buttons in Medieval Europe when they introduced a radical new invention - the buttonhole. Catching on quickly, this was the innovation that transformed the button from a decorative object into a functional one. As clothing fasteners, buttons were simpler than ties or laces, and safer and stabler than sharp, heavy brooches or pins. They allowed for form-fitting fashions that daringly followed the shape of the body, revealing the lines of arms, waists and chests. By the 1300s, the population of Europe was button mad.

Buttons were coveted by the high ranking and wealthy, and the button market went from strength to strength over the centuries. Precious buttons were kept with prized jewellery and passed down as family heirlooms, while special outfits had hundreds or thousands of buttons with corresponding buttonholes. Queen Elizabeth I of England’s buttons were so important to her that she had each one recorded in a list of her possessions. One record describes fourteen buttons

“embroidered like butterflies, with flower pearles and one emerode in a pece, lined with cloth of sylver…”1

Buttons seemed to operate in this little niche between fashion and art. Their designs reflected the dominant styles of the

age, following the decorative trends of the Baroque and Rococo periods. Whatever was popular usually found its way to button form. In the 1860s, Queen Victoria went into permanent mourning after the death of her husband Prince Albert, initiating a craze for black jet buttons. Also in the 1800s, the influx of decorative objects from Japan inspired Japanese-style buttons crafted in Europe and passed off as ‘oriental’, while new technologies allowed for all manner of buttons, including steel cut and printed buttons.

With the onset of the industrial revolution, the once coveted button could be made quickly and cheaply; yet style, material and craftsmanship was still valued. This is where we meet with the buttons displayed in All That Jazz, in the age of flappers, jazz and swing. New ideas, new movements and new materials influenced the world of buttons, yet to be challenged by zippers and stretch fabrics. Early plastics like Celluloid, developed in the 1860s, and Bakelite, a thermosetting resin, could be easily moulded, coloured and produced. Such materials allowed the bold, decorative shapes and designs of Art Deco to be translated into the glamorous button forms on display at The Dowse in All That Jazz: Deco Highlights from the Ruth Meier Button Collection.

MACKENZIE PATON

A BUTTON-SIZED HISTORY

EXHIBIT ION PROFILE

1 Nina Edwards, On the Button: The Significance of an Ordinary Item (London: I.B. Taurus & Co, 2012).

TOP LEFT & RIGHT: Buttons from Ruth Meier’s collection. CENTRE: Button Collector Ruth Meier in her home. Photos: Mark Tantrum.

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ExhibitionsNUKU TEWHATEWHAONGOINGCommissioned by Te Ātiawa chief Wī Tako Ngātata in the 1850s as a sign of support for the Kīngitanga (Māori King) movement, Nuku Tewhatewha is one of seven pātaka built around the North Island as ‘Pillars of the Kingdom’.

Nuku Tewhatewha (detail).

FALLEN ROBOTONGOINGCommissioned by the E Tu Awakairangi Hutt Public Art Trust, Ronnie van Hout’s giant metal robot reclines in front of The Dowse.

Fallen Robot, Detail.

ALL THAT JAZZ: DECO HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE RUTH MEIER BUTTON COLLECTIONUNTIL 31 JANUARY 2016Lower Hutt resident Ruth Meier has a button collection of international repute that has been amassed over forty years. The Dowse is thrilled to be presenting a stunning selection of Art Deco and Art Nouveau buttons from this wonderful collection.

Buttons from the Ruth Meier Collection. PHOTO: Mark Tantrum

SÉRAPHINE PICK: WHITE NOISE UNTIL 17 JANUARY 2016White Noise is a major exhibition of new and recent work by New Zealand painter Séraphine Pick. Over the last two decades Pick has become well known for her lyrical painting, in which she explores subject matter such as dreams, memory and psychology that dip in and out of everyday life. Visitors to the exhibition will experience the familiar euphoria of Pick’s lushly painted works, whilst also discovering a new edge to her practice.

Séraphine Pick, A Million Likes, 2013 (detail). Courtesy of Station Gallery, Melbourne.

ARETA WILKINSON: WHAKAPAIPAI — JEWELLERY AS PEPEHA01 AUGUST – 18 OCTOBER 2015Artist Areta Wilkinson brings together contemporary jewellery, photograms and cyanotype blueprints to explore customary Ngāi Tahu cultural values through contemporary craft methodology.

Areta Wilkinson, Hine-āhua & Huiarei (toggle), 2013. Courtesy of the artist

LONNIE HUTCHINSON: BLACK BIRD 22 AUGUST 2015 - 15 NOVEMBER 2015Bringing together diverse works from public and private collections throughout New Zealand, Black Bird is the first major survey of 16 years of Lonnie Hutchinson’s rich and varied practice.

Lonnie Hutchinson, Milk and Honey, 2012. Chartwell Collection, Commissioned by Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, purchased 2012.

MIX IT UP!UNTIL 8 NOVEMBER 2015Mix It Up! is a new exhibition celebrating the joy of colour, full of artists from The Dowse’s collection who have chosen to work with shades of blue, yellow and green. Featuring work by Michael Smither, Louise Henderson, Lauren Lysaght, Paul Maysek and many more.

EventsLATE LOUNGEFIRST THURSDAY OF THE MONTH 7–9PM | KOHA3 SEPTEMBER - NIKO NE ZNANiko Ne Zna is a hot and spicy taste of the old countries right here in the capital. Playing original music as well as songs from the gypsy-soaked Balkan States, Niko Ne Zna’s hypnotic melodies and wild infectious rhythms will set even the most rhythmically challenged moving and grooving!

Niko Ze Na1 OCTOBER - THE FRANK BURKITT BAND Playing skillfully written originals and select covers, The Frank Burkitt Band are inspired by contemporary bluegrass, 20s swing and American roots music.

The Frank Burkitt Band

BLACK BIRD OPEN DAYSATURDAY 22 AUGUST | FREEJoin us for a day of talks and performances to celebrate the opening of Black Bird, the first major survey of 16 years of Lonnie Hutchinson’s rich and varied practice.1PM | TALK & TOUR: LONNIE HUTCHINSON: BLACK BIRDSpend some time with Lonnie Hutchinson on the opening day of Black Bird and hear the stories behind some of the key pieces in the exhibition.3–5:30PM | KAVA CLUB COLECTIVE PRESENTS CHOP SUEY HUI: BLACK SIVAJoin the Kava Club Collective for an afternoon of interactive talks, spoken word, music and siva (dance), which will respond to Black Bird. Food and drinks provided.

ECC NZ STUDENT CRAFT / DESIGN AWARDS EXHIBITIONFRIDAY 25 – SUNDAY 27 SEPTEMBERFor one weekend only, pop into The Dowse to see the Student Craft / Design Awards winning entries in the fields of lighting design, furniture and product design, Glass, ceramics, jewellery, textiles and fashion.

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