HANNAH KIDD

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

www.milfordgalleries.co.nz

HANNAH KIDDBeastly Delights

@ Aigantighe Art Gallery4th December - 27th February, 2011

1. HANNAH KIDD, Cow Cocky (2008) corrugated iron, mild steel, paint, clear powdercoating, cow

corrugated iron, mild steel, paint, clear powdercoating, cow (v x h x d): 1500 x 2020 x 1400 mm, man (v x h x d): 1980 x 690 x 440 mm

2. HANNAH KIDD, "Great Rack" (Stag) (2008)

steel rod, corrugated iron, size (v x h x d): 2410 x 1870 x 1800 mm

2. DETAIL VIEW HANNAH KIDD, "Great Rack" (Stag) (2008)

3. HANNAH KIDD, Happy Camper (2008)

steel rod, corrugated iron, paint, size (v x h x d): 1882 x 820 x 550 mm

3. DETAIL VIEW HANNAH KIDD, Happy Camper (2008)

4. HANNAH KIDD, Common Kotuku (2008)

steel rod, corrugated iron, paint, size (v x h x d): 1375 x 585 x 670 mm

5. HANNAH KIDD, Highlights from the Museum (Hartebeest) (2009)


6. HANNAH KIDD, Highlights from the Museum (Gerenuk) (2009)


7. HANNAH KIDD, Highlights from the Museum (Four-horned Antelope) (2009), steel rod, corrugated iron, size (v x h x d): 380 x 410 x 350 mm

8. HANNAH KIDD, Highlights from the Museum (Walrus) (2009), steel rod, corrugated iron, size (v x h x d): 905 x 638 x 778 mm

9. HANNAH KIDD, Highlights from the Museum (Walrus Skull) (2009)


10. HANNAH KIDD, Delphine and Beatrix Buttercup the 3rd (2010) steel rod, corrugated iron, paint, figure

size overall (v x h x d):

steel rod, corrugated iron, paint, figure (v x h x d): 1750 x 1350 x 780 mm, poodle (v x h x d): 1100 x 1260 x 520 mm

): 1750 x 1350 x 1750 mm

11. HANNAH KIDD, Weekend Warrior (2010), steel rod, corrugated iron, paint,

11. DETAIL VIEW HANNAH KIDD, Weekend Warrior (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 Cow Cocky (2008) 19,000

2 "Great Rack" (Stag) (2008) 21,000

3 Happy Camper (2008) 12,500

4 Common Kotuku (2008) 6,500

5 Highlights from the Museum (Hartebeest) (2009) 8,500

6 Highlights from the Museum (Gerenuk) (2009) 4,250

7 Highlights from the Museum (Four-horned Antelope) (2009) 3,750

8 Highlights from the Museum (Walrus) (2009) 8,500

9 Highlights from the Museum (Walrus Skull) (2009) 6,000

10 Delphine and Beatrix Buttercup the 3rd (2010) 19,000

11 Weekend Warrior (2010) 15,000

Hannah Kidd’s “Beastly Delights” at Aigantighe Art Gallery, Timaru (until 27 February, 2011)

features key works from the last three years.

In that time Hannah Kidd has risen to national prominence and international success. Her

work is compellingly distinctive and possesses an authentic rural voice.

Kidd demonstrates in every work a vast array of technical and engineering skills. Her work

traverses portraiture, event and circumstance, building persuasive, focused, narratives.

“Happy Camper” (2008) has a smiling man displaying the reward of his sporting

endeavours. “Common Kotuku” (2008) paradoxically contrasts two white herons

squabbling over a small fish on the ubiquitous plastic chair. “Weekend Warrior” (2010) sees

a wet-suited figure, holding a crayfish in each hand. Kidd’s virtuosity and ability to sculpt

anything with representational aplomb is demonstrated in each work.

Kidd brings to her subjects insider’s observation and outsider’s detachment. “Delphine and

Beatrix Buttercup the 3rd” (2010) encapsulates humour, fact and event, achieving the status

of exacting social comment. The plurality achieved in this work means we know it can be

located in Remuera or Methven without any loss of relevance or meaning.

Kidd is no apologist for rural NZ, nor one championing a rural arcadia. Her work has content

informed by what goes on and how it happens. Her sculpture is attuned to important

environmental debates and the breadth of her concerns can be seen in the suite of works

“Highlights from the Museum” (2009) where she presents extinct animals as trophies and

potent reminders of what has been so easily lost we at first think we recognise them.

“Cow Cocky” (2008) is a remarkable work. A stoic farmer, arms crossed, gum booted feet

planted apart, watches, waiting for the cow to stop licking a teat. The unerring accuracy of

this work is accompanied by insightful humour and courageous contradiction.

“Great Rack” (2008) is unmistakably a major work. Kidd’s ability to deliver the physical

reality of the stag is matched by an unequalled capacity to present its animal nature. The

stag watches back and an undercurrent of threat emerges from the black sockets of its

eyes and the caverns of its nostrils.

Hannah Kidd’s first exhibition at a public institution conclusively establishes that she is a key

figure in contemporary NZ sculpture, possessing a unique voice and delivering content of

very real importance.

Hannah Kidd 2010 CV Milford Galleries Dunedin www.milfordgalleries.co.nz

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HANNAH KIDD b. 1979, lives Franz Joseph

Artist to Antarctica (2009)

Franz Josef based sculptor Hannah Kidd predominantly crafts and welds sculptural creations

from steel rod and corrugated iron as a means to investigate people and the relationships they

have with their surrounding environment. “Kidd’s works remind us we are New Zealanders and

explore our relationships with each other and our environments”. (1)

Kidd’s subject matter has focused on witty and often comical animal studies which she has used

as a vehicle to discuss the human condition.

“Kidd’s works are covered with flat tin, spot-welded, and remarkably detailed, notwithstanding

their clear origins in bits of roofing iron. She will take on any living subject, from humans to horses.”

(2) Hannah Kidd has quickly risen to critical acclaim and her distinctive and unique work has been

exhibited around the world, from Australia to Denmark including “I’m sure I’ve seen that before”,

Vienna, Austria (2002), Sculpture By the Sea, Sydney (2007) Sculpture By the Sea, Denmark (2009),

Sculpture By the Sea, Perth (2009) along with numerous group and solo exhibitions throughout

New Zealand. Hannah Kidd graduated in 2001 from the Otago Polytechnic School of Art with a

Bachelor of Fine Arts majoring in sculpture. In 2010 she was the Winner of the Montalto Sculpture

Award, Australia and the People’s Choice Award at NZ Sculpture On Shore.

1. Brown, Warwick ‘Seen this Century’, Godwit, 2009

2. ibid


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HANNAH KIDD b. 1979, lives Franz Joseph

EDUCATION 2001 BFA Otago Polytechnic School of Art (Sculpture Major)

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2010 Top Dog, milford galleries queenstown

Only Real Men Need Apply, Little River Gallery

2009 Antarctica and Other Adventures, Milford Galleries Dunedin

2008 Heartland, CoCA, Christchurch

The Locals, Milford Galleries Dunedin

Tapestry Addiction, Little River Gallery

2007 Go, Dog. Go!, CoCA, Christchurch

The Gentlemens Club, Little River Gallery

2006 Quarter Acre Dreaming, Little River Gallery

2005 Road Kill, CoCA, taxidermy and mixed media, CoCA, Christchurch

Run Away to the Circus, Little River Gallery

2004 Best in the Show, CoCA, Christchurch

Made to Rust, Little River Gallery

2003 Down on the Farm, CoCA, Christchurch

2002 Good Breeding, CoCA, Christchurch

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2010 Anthony Harper Award, CoCA, Christchurch

Shapeshifter, Wellington

2009 Sculpture by the Sea Cottesloe, Peth, Australia

Masterworks, milford galleries queenstown

Sculpture by the Sea, Aarhus, Denmark

2008 NZ Sculpture OnShore, Auckland

Recent Works, milford galleries auckland

3 Some, Letham Gallery, Auckland

Kiwi Caravan, Uxbridge, Auckland

2007 Sculpture by the Sea, Sydney, Australia

Sculpture on the Peninsula, Banks Peninsula

Sculpture in Central Otago, Olssen’s Vineyard, Bannockburn

The Great Art Auction, NG Gallery, Christchurch

The CoCA Art Awards, CoCA, Christchurch

A show with Ross Whitlock, Morgan Street Gallery, Auckland

2006 A&P Show, Christchurch Art Gallery

The Art Event, Christchurch Art Gallery

Sculpture in Central Otago, Olssen's Vineyard, Bannockburn

Art in a Garden, Flaxmere, North Canterbury

2005 Urban Life-A Celebration in Art, Wellington

Sculpture in the Garden, Banks Peninsula

Sculpture in Central Otago, Ollssen’s Vineyard, Otago

Art in a Garden, Hawden, Canterbury

The Art Event, Christchurch Art Gallery

Wine and Art Auction, Christchurch Hospital

2004 Art in the Garden, North Canterbury

The Big Art Auction, Banks Peninsula Greens

NZ Sculpture Onshore, Auckland

Aotearoa Barbie, CoCA, Christchurch

CoCA Art Awards, CoCA, Christchurch

2003 Gardenz, Sculpture Symposium, Christchurch

Sculpture in the Garden, Banks Peninsula

I’m sure I’ve seen that somewhere before, Vienna, Austria


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AWARDS

2010 Winner People’s Choice Award, NZ Sculpture OnShore, Auckland

Winner Montalto Sculpture Award, Australia

Finalist Anthony Harper Awards, CoCA, Christchurch

SELECTED ARTICLES

2009 Brown, Warwick, Seen This Century: 100 Contemporary New Zealand Artists, A Collectors

Guide, Godwit, Auckland, pg 216 – 219

2008 Benson, Nigel, Welding a View of NZ Rural Life, ODT, pg 37

2008 Hanton, Jamie, Innocence and Exploitation, The Press

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