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Groundbreakers: Grace Joel, Frances Hodgkins and the new art of Ōtepoti
Jugs in New Zealand Painting
Frances Hodgkins Fellow Awarded Golden Lion at the 60th Venice Biennale
Field Collection moves to new Toi Mahara home
Frances Hodgkins, Anything but a Still Life
Frances Hodgkins and Her Circle Exhibition Reviewed in Art New Zealand
The Winter 2021 Issue of Art New Zealand featured a four page exhibition review by art writer Richard Wolfe of Frances Hodgkins and Her Circle.
In Frances Hodgkins and Her Circle artworks by Frances Hodgkins were exhibited alongside pieces by her family members, students and artist friends. The exhibition was accompanied by a catalogue of extensive essays, drawing a map between the many characters whose artistic careers where influenced by Frances Hodgkins and who intern also supported her during he lifetime, including essays on John Piper, Isabel Field, Girolarmo Nerli and Beatrice Seddon.
In his review Richard Wolfe says:
In 2020, 132 years after its public debut, Marguerites was included in an Auckland exhibition celebrating the community of artists centred on Frances Hodgkins. In addition to four works by Hodgkins herself, this selection included 15 by other practitioners, mainly women, who were born in New Zealand and who had a preference for watercolours. All were associated with and supported Hodgkins in various degrees and capacities, collectively representing an extensive network of personal and professional relationships.
Hodgkins died on 13 May 1947, and a month later the English Listener published a tribute by Gorer, who wrote that at the age of 70 she had 'reached the height of her powers', which he believed was an 'unparalleled development in the history of art. A few months earlier she had given him a painting of his cottage, with flowering cherries and pear trees. She expressed her satisfaction with the work, almost the last she completed, noting 'I think I've got it', and then, 'There's growth, and spring, and hope; do you feel it?"
Frances Hodgkins and Her Circle. Jonathan Grant Galleries. October - December 2020.
The online exhibition can still be viewed on the gallery website here.
Copies of Art New Zealand can be ordered here.
Frances Hodgkins: A New Zealand Modernist
To celebrate the 150th anniversary of Frances Hodgkins birth, Jonathan Grant Galleries curated a selection of works, dating from 1893 – 1945, by the esteemed expatriate artist. The exhibition, A New Zealand Modernist, featured 14 works for sale and an extensively researched exhibition catalogue, written by Jonathan Gooderham & Richard Wolfe.
Frances Mary Hodgkins (1869-1947) is regarded as one of New Zealand’s leading expatriate artists. Her works capture the spirit of an era greatly influenced by Impressionism and the beginnings of en plein air painting, Post-Impressionism, Fauvism and two World Wars. With a professional life that spanned fifty-six years, Hodgkins was one of the foremost artists of her generation. During her time in Britain she became one of the leaders of the English avant-garde movement. She travelled extensively and evolved her style from impressionistic watercolours to striking twentieth-century modernist paintings.
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Jonathan Grant Galleries| Frances Hodgkins: A New Zealand Modernist | Thursday 30 May - Monday 24 June 2019
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Frances Hodgkins: European Journeys at the Auckland Art Gallery
Frances Hodgkins: European Journeys is the culmination of a significant international project to bring together artworks from New Zealand and around the globe to explore the artist’s place in 20th-century art. The exhibition traces Frances Hodgkins’ creative and peripatetic life through France, Morocco and Spain to her final days in England, examining the influence of location on her development as a modernist painter and the notion of travel and journeying as a source of artistic inspiration.
Exhibition curator and Auckland Art Gallery Senior Curator, International Art, Mary Kisler says the exhibition is the result of almost a decade-long research project that saw her retracing Hodgkins’ extensive journeys throughout Europe.
“‘Frances Hodgkins: European Journeys will allow visitors to see what Hodgkins saw, and to understand how place influenced the way she painted. We’ll also share Hodgkins’ artistic development over time, beginning as an avid and excited young artist through to her later life, when she created the best work of her career.”
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Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki | Frances Hodgkins: European Journeys | Saturday 4 May to Sunday 1 September 2019
— New Zealand residents $14
— New Zealand concessions $12
— Members and Members Guests FREE (with valid Members card)
— Children 12 & under FREE
— International adults (includes Gallery entry) $28
— International concessions (includes Gallery entry) $25