CHARLOTTE HANDY

Milford Galleries Dunedin18 Dowling Street (03) 477 7727 [email protected]

Preview Friday 16th July from 5:30pm Artist will Attend17th July - 11th August, 2010

www.milfordgalleries.co.nz

CHARLOTTE HANDYheaphy’s garden

1. CHARLOTTE HANDY, Do You Believe? (2010)

acrylic & oil on canvas, frame (v x h x d): 1031 x 730 x 54 mm, stretcher (v x h x d): 1000 x 700 x 25 mm

2. CHARLOTTE HANDY, The Garden Empirical (2010)

a crylic & oil on canvas, frame (v x h x d): 790 x 790 x 54 mm, stretcher (v x h x d): 760 x 753 x 40 mm

3. CHARLOTTE HANDY, Where Breathing Starts (2010)


4. CHARLOTTE HANDY, Begin on Your Histories (2010)acrylic & oil on canvas, frame (v x h x d): 1275 x 948 x 60 mm

5. CHARLOTTE HANDY, Dreams at Sea Level (2010)


6. CHARLOTTE HANDY, Anemone (2010)


7. CHARLOTTE HANDY, In this Hour (2010)


8. CHARLOTTE HANDY, Landscape by Candlelight (2010)acrylic & oil on canvas, frame (v x h x d): 790 x 785 x 54 mm, stretcher (v x h x d): 758 x 755 x 40 mm

9. CHARLOTTE HANDY, Teach Me to Dance (2010)


10. CHARLOTTE HANDY, I Am, But Only Here (2010)


11. CHARLOTTE HANDY, I Don't Miss You Yet (2010)


12. CHARLOTTE HANDY, Antebellum (2010)


13. CHARLOTTE HANDY, Morphia (2010)


14. CHARLOTTE HANDY, Across the River (2010)


15. CHARLOTTE HANDY, Systema Naturae 1 (2010)


16. CHARLOTTE HANDY, Systema Naturae 2 (2010)


17. CHARLOTTE HANDY, Forget Me Not (2010)


All prices are NZD and include GST; Prices are current at the time of the exhibition

E X H I B I T I O N P R I C E L I S T 1 Do You Believe? (2010) 5,000

2 The Garden Empirical (2010) 4,000

3 Where Breathing Starts (2010) 4,000

4 Begin on Your Histories (2010) 6,500

5 Dreams at Sea Level (2010) 2,500

6 Anemone (2010) 2,500

7 In this Hour (2010) 4,000

8 Landscape by Candlelight (2010) 4,000

9 Teach Me to Dance (2010) 4,000

10 I Am, But Only Here (2010) 2,500

11 I Don't Miss You Yet (2010) 2,500

12 Antebellum (2010) 4,000

13 Morphia (2010) 4,000

14 Across the River (2010) 4,000

15 Systema Naturae 1 (2010) 2,500

16 Systema Naturae 2 (2010) 2,500

17 Forget Me Not (2010) 2,500

Charlotte Handy 2010 CV Milford Galleries Dunedin www.milfordgalleries.co.nz

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CHARLOTTE HANDY b. 1967, lives Wellington

The First Weather Report (2006)

Charlotte Handy’s paintings explore “the tensions between abstract and literal, land and sea, surface

and depth.” (1) The atmospheres established move between the realms of implied, real and imaginary

while Handy dissolves perspective to play games with the viewer’s perception. Key in these paintings is

the state of constant visual flux: nothing is fixed or certain or final.

Handy’s paintings are a non-representational visual cartography of oceans, landmass, and weather

conditions where location is suggested rather than overtly stated. “Her works map dreamscapes; they

are the paintings of a self-exiled New Zealander whose eyes comb a phantasmal body of water for

evidence of something specific, something familiar.” (2)

The artist generates a search for places as meaning and delivers ambiguity. Just as the land and sea

are interchangeable localities, the cross motif predominant throughout Handy’s paintings can be read

as a symbol of faith, a navigational point, a ships mast. “A cross marks an edge a line twice drawn, a

crease-mark on a map…the position of a star or sun on an astrolabe.” (3) It is also a visual device of

emphasis.

“Handy paints uncertainty by choosing to depict wavering mirage-like forms that fade in and out of

cloud build-up that has settled over gently lapping waves.” (4) Ambiguity of form, content, depth and

meaning within Handy’s paintings are instruments of debate, while also being containers of cerebral

beauty and moments held in suspension.

(1) Anna Smith, Sea Lungs for an Inland Sea, 2006

(2) David Eggleton, The Sea Inside, New Zealand Listener, Dec 16, 2006

(3) Anna Smith, Sea Lungs for an Inland Sea, 2006

(4) David Eggleton, The Sea Inside, New Zealand Listener, Dec 16, 2006

Charlotte Handy was born in Wellington, 1967. She attended the Elam School of Fine Arts in the late

1980s and early 1990s. Her contempories included Giovanni Intra, Anna Miles, Michael Parekowhai, and

Gavin Hipkins. She was awarded a Senior Scholarship in painting and was invited in her third year at

Elam to hold her first solo exhibition at the Betty Wallis Gallery. A move to London in 1994 resulted in

Charlotte becoming involved in the British photography scene. She was a finalist in two international

competitions, and her work was exhibited at the Victoria and Albert Museum and The Royal Festive Hall.

Her work is held in the National Bank, Minter Ellison Rudd Watts and Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade

collections, and in private collections in New Zealand, East Asia, Europe and North America.

Charlotte Handy 2010 CV Milford Galleries Dunedin www.milfordgalleries.co.nz

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CHARLOTTE HANDY b. 1967, lives Wellington

EDUCATION

1990 Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland, Auckland

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2010 Heaphy’s Garden, Milford Galleries Dunedin

2008 The Peninsular, milford galleries auckland

2006 The Inland Sea, Milford Galleries Dunedin

2006‘ Overland, Tinakori Gallery Wellington

2005 Exile Harbour, Tinakori Gallery Wellington

1997 View from an Island, Bayswater, London

1996 Winter Paintings, Bayswater, London

1990 Charlotte Handy – Paintings, Betty Wallis Gallery, Parnell, Auckland

Victoria and Albert Museum, London

The Royal Festive Hall, London

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

1996 ASC Studios, Camberwell, London (open studio organised by Whitechapel Gallery)

1995 ASC Studios, Camberwell, London

South Bank Photo Show (four works), Hayward Gallery, London

The Guardian/Faberge Photographic Competition (finalist), Victoria and Albert Museum, London

1994 Members Group Show, ASA, Ponsonby, Auckland

1992 Cross Pollination (collaborative piece with Jennifer Ruston, in bi- cultural group show curated by

George Hubbard), Artspace, Auckland

The Face of AIDS – Artists against AIDS, Chiaroscuro Gallery, Parnell, Auckland

1990 Screen Show, Betty Wallis Gallery, Parnell, Auckland

The Elam Painters, ASA, Ponsonby, Auckland

AWARDS

1995 Finalist, The Guardian/Faberge Photographic Competition, London

1989 Elam Senior Scholarship in Painting

COLLECTIONS

The Rutherford Trust Collection

Hawkes Bay Museum and Art Gallery

Wingnut Films, Wellington

Le’Art Group, Hawkes Bay

BIBLIOGRAPHY 2007 Smith, Anna. Aqualung Blues: The Art of Charlotte Handy, Art New Zealand, Issue 124, Spring

2007, pg 66 - 68

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