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milford galleries queenstown9A Earl Street (03) 442 6896 [email protected]
12th February - 9th March, 2011UPSTAIRS GALLERY
www.milfordgalleries.co.nz
CALLUM ARNOLDSojourn
1. CALLUM ARNOLD, Valley II (2010), oil on linen, stretcher (v x h x d): 607 x 912 x 33 mm
1. DETAIL VIEW CALLUM ARNOLD, Valley II (2010)
2. CALLUM ARNOLD, Valley Track (2011), oil on linen, stretcher (v x h x d): 607 x 912 x 33 mm
2. DETAIL VIEW CALLUM ARNOLD, Valley Track (2011)
3. CALLUM ARNOLD, Crown Range (2010), oil on linen, stretcher (v x h x d): 708 x 1217 x 33 mm
3. DETAIL VIEW CALLUM ARNOLD, Crown Range (2010)
4. CALLUM ARNOLD, Cold Pass (2010) oil on linen, stretcher
oil on linen, stretcher (v x h x d): 912 x 1522 x 32 mm
5. CALLUM ARNOLD, Lake Path (2010) oil on linen, stretcher
oil on linen, stretcher (v x h x d): 912 x 1522 x 32 mm
6. CALLUM ARNOLD, Reflecting (2010), oil on linen, stretcher (v x h x d): 708 x 1215 x 33 mm
6. DETAIL VIEW CALLUM ARNOLD, Reflecting (2010)
7. CALLUM ARNOLD, Southerly Approach (2010), oil on linen, stretcher (v x h x d): 607 x 912 x 33 mm
7. DETAIL VIEW CALLUM ARNOLD, Southerly Approach (2010)
8. CALLUM ARNOLD, Rest Stop (2010), oil on linen, stretcher (v x h x d): 607 x 912 x 33 mm
8. DETAIL VIEW CALLUM ARNOLD, Rest Stop (2010)
9. CALLUM ARNOLD, Lake Edge (2011), oil on linen, stretcher (v x h x d): 457 x 710 x 33 mm
9. DETAIL VIEW CALLUM ARNOLD, Lake Edge (2011)
Producing dynamic compositions that achieve a synthesis of landscape painting and
abstraction through gestural painted marks and complex layering of visual elements, Callum
Arnold is establishing himself as a significantly skilled and confident painter. Carefully
considered subtle shifts in light, shade, opacity or scale solicit various and altered views that
disorientate and re-orientate at every turn despite the familiarity of the landscape presented.
Forms and fleeting shadows fragment and unfurl as quickly as they emerge in a harmonious
rhythm of flux. Intersecting lines, layered imagery and fractured planes appear to migrate
within the surface of the painting kindling the suggestion of passing time and memory. “We
are captured in a moment of cross-fade between the past and the present, the picturesque
and the documentary, between memory and witness”.1
‘Sojourn’, Callum’s much-anticipated second solo exhibition at milford galleries queenstown,
reveals the artists inland journey southwards through the Lindis Valley to Queenstown. From
the crisp chill of windswept snow collected against the steep tussock-clad hillside in ‘Cold
Pass’ (Lindis Valley), the looming heavy sky and misted atmosphere in ‘Valley II’ (Lindis Valley)
as it blankets the land with its cool touch to the comforting warmth of the late winter sun
bathing the land in gold-tinted light in ‘Crown Range’, Callum’s keen ability to convey the
physical reality and sense of place in his painting is profound.
Making an emblematic presence in ‘Lake Path’ (Diamond Lake, Wanaka) and ‘Reflecting’
(Mackenzie basin) the figure is a new muse for Callum. Not only do we find that the figure
amplifies the sheer scale and expansiveness of the landscape depicted but it also makes an
allusion to that familiar physical sense of journey and movement so distinctive to Callum’s
practice.
Paths of water wistfully stretching into the distant horizon in a mirage of evaporating
reflections in ‘Lake Path’ direct our attentive gaze subconsciously as do the bright blue
watery depths of the canals as they weave a threaded path in ‘Reflecting’. Power poles, sign
posts and roads intervene and dissect in works such as ‘Valley II’ and ‘Rest Stop’ (Lindis Valley)
as if to offer a momentary lull before tempting us on another path, an alternative viewpoint.
‘Sojourn’ reveals a progression in Callum’s practice in terms of insight, complexity, stylistic
substance and painterly skill. It is clear too that a heightened spatial awareness and sense of
journey along with the interconnected emergence of the figure (as both metaphor and
subject) are becoming increasingly important and central to the narrative in his work.
Callum’s dedication to a constantly evolving practice further establishes his importance as a
remarkably assured and skilled artist who is reinvigorating and reinterpreting the experience
of the New Zealand landscape in a visual language which is entirely his own and just as
unique as the environment he travels through.
Review by Richard Dingwall, ODT, 23 March 2006
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 Valley II (2010) 4,500
2 Valley Track (2011) 4,500
3 Crown Range (2010) 7,000
4 Cold Pass (2010) 9,000
5 Lake Path (2010) 9,000
6 Reflecting (2010) 7,000
7 Southerly Approach (2010) 4,500
8 Rest Stop (2010) 4,500
9 Lake Edge (2011) 3,000
Callum Arnold 2011 CV Milford Galleries Dunedin www.milfordgalleries.co.nz
P a g e | 1
CALLUM ARNOLD b. 1973, lives Christchurch
Ranges (2010)
Callum Arnold challenges the traditional representation of the landscape as static. His paintings are
“reminiscent of a Sunday journey. …Long drives through the landscape are experienced in passing
through the car window.” (1)
“Despite the sense of journeying, nothing is blurred. On the contrary, an Arnold painting exudes a sense
of tranquillity, of time stilled, a dream frozen.” (2)
“My interest lies in the disjointed construction that memory creates through the influence of fleeting
visions of land. The attempt is to depict a more universal view rather than a regional specific location.
Some aspects or similarities between locations are due to geographical feature of the rural
environment and the way roads are constructed to dissect the land into portions.” (3)
“The act of looking for dramatic panoramic landscapes in dislocated spaces is limited to viewing from
roads and the visual memory. My work is primarily concerned with geographic experience and the
transpositions of media upon that knowledge. The act of painting the visual…is no longer an accurate
rendering of the actual world but a collaboration of processes. The inherent spiritual nature of the land
has become diffused creating a new visual history.” (4)
“The great journey in New Zealand painting has been by road, from John Kinder to Colin
McCahon….Arnold proves that the road trip as a nationalist narrative isn’t over yet. His paintings put us
in the front seat of a vehicle driving through the heartland on a road that, paradoxically, seems to be
taking us both back to Samuel Butler’s Erewhon and forward to a future of destabilised digital
representations.” (5)
Born Wellington in 1973, Callum Arnold gained a Bachelor of Fine Arts with Honours, 2000 and a Masters
of Fine Arts with Distinction in Printmaking 2001 from the University of Canterbury, School of Fine Arts.
1. Callum Arnold, Artist Statement, 2005
2. Warwick Brown, ‘Seen this Century’, Godwit, 2009
3. Callum Arnold, Artist Statement, 2005
4. Ibid
5. David Eggleton, ‘High Visibility’, NZ Listener, April, 2006
Callum Arnold 2011 CV Milford Galleries Dunedin www.milfordgalleries.co.nz
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CALLUM ARNOLD b. 1973, lives Christchurch
EDUCATION
2002 Graduate Diploma in Secondary Education, Christchurch College of Education
2001 MFA with Distinction in Printmaking, University of Canterbury School of Fine Arts
1997 BFA Honours 2000, University of Canterbury School of Fine Arts SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2011 Sojourn, milford galleries queenstown
2010 Callum Arnold & Simon Edwards: New Works, Suite Gallery, Wellington
2009 Simulations, Milford Galleries Dunedin
Divergence, Suite, Wellington
2008 Direction, milford galleries auckland
Detour, Suite, Wellington
2007 Merge Shift, milford galleries auckland
Horizon, milford galleries queenstown
2006 Contents May Shift, Milford Galleries Dunedin
2005 Transitional Space, Centre of Contemporary Art, Christchurch
2004 New work, Chambers Gallery, Rangiora
2003 Simon Edwards & Callum Arnold, Centre of Contemporary Art, Christchurch
2001 Leading Impressions, Centre of Contemporary Art, Christchurch
Landscapes, University of Canterbury Fine Arts Gallery
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2009 Recent Work (Dawson, Petre, Arnold), milford galleries queenstown
Southern Landscape, milford galleries queenstown
2008 Small Works, Centre of Contemporary Art, Christchurch
2007 Looking South, Milford Galleries Dunedin
2006 Essence, milford galleries auckland
2003 25, Centre of Contemporary Art, Christchurch
2002 Christchurch College of Education 125 Anniversary Art Show, Centre of Contemporary Art,
Christchurch
AWARDS & RESIDENCIES
2008 Awarded Artist in Residence, Rangiruru Girls School
2008 Finalist The Wallace Awards, Auckland, New Zealand
BIBLIOGRAPHY 2009 McCrone, John, ‘Art for living's sake’, The Press, 12th December 2009
2009 Brown, Warwick, Seen This Century: 100 Contemporary NZ Artists a Collector’s Guide,
Godwit, 2009
2006 Dingwall, Richard, ‘Movie Technique Exposes The Shifting Nature of Landscape’, Otago
Daily Times, 23rd March 2006
2006 Eggleton, David, ‘High Visibility: Callum Arnold paints New Zealand from the road’, New
Zealand Listener, April 1-7, 2006