Andrew Drummond (artist) explained

Birth Date:1951
Birth Place:Nelson, New Zealand
Nationality:New Zealand
Education:University of Waterloo, Canada
Awards:New Zealand Order of Merit 2007

Andrew Drummond (born 1951 in Nelson, New Zealand) is a New Zealand painter and sculptor. He attended University of Waterloo in Canada, graduating in 1976.[1] He was a Frances Hodgkins Fellow in 1980.

Career

Drummond tends to focus on process and ritual while contemplating ideas of location. He considers the entanglements of the human body, ecology, and dislocated histories within the landscapes of New Zealand. In the 1970s, he created several documented performance works. Drummond lives and works in Christchurch, New Zealand.[2] He earned his degree in Fine Arts from the University of Waterloo, Canada, and is currently a senior lecturer in sculpture at the University of Canterbury, School of Fine Arts. He is represented by Jonathan Smart gallery in Christchurch, Page Blackie gallery in Wellington and Antoinette Godkin gallery in Auckland.[3] [4] [5]

Honours and awards

In 2007, Drummond was awarded the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to sculpture[6]

Drummond has received the following awards:

Works

Drummond works with a variety of media and materials. His work includes process-based installation, photography, figurative and symbolic imagery. Drummond was included in a number of early exhibitions that featured performance art in New Zealand including ANZART initiated by Ian Hunter in 1981 and the F1 New Zealand Sculpture Project in 1982.

He had an exhibition at the Wellington City Gallery in 1981 titled Andrew Drummond: Works 80.[9]

Public sculpture and commissions

Drummond has received many commissions for both private and public sculptures.[10]

Selected  exhibitions

2010

2008

2000

1998

1995

1994

1992

1991

1990

1989

1988

1987

1985

1982

1981

1978

1977

Controversy

As part of the Canterbury Society of Arts 1978 festival Platforms, Drummond performed Crucifixion. He was fixed to a diagonally shaped cross while a latex skin was created on his naked body, once formed the skin was shed from his body and he left the stage. Drummond wore a gas mask throughout to protect himself from the ammonia generated by the drying latex, he was also connected to an ECG machine so observers could monitor his emotional state. For the duration of the festival the discarded latex skin was laid out on the cross and exhibited with Polaroid photographs taken during the performance plus other detritus from the performance.[31]

Two people in the audience took offence at the nudity and reported the performance to the police. The police laid charges (under Section 3(d) of the Police Offences Act.), when eventually heard in court the behaviour was found to be 'ill-mannered, in bad taste, crude and offensive', but the charges were dismissed.[32]

See also

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Andrew Drummond, New Zealand artist, sculptor from Palmerston North. 27 September 2020. www.creativegiants.co.nz.
  2. Web site: Andrew Drummond . govettbrewster . 28 December 2012 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20130209044311/http://www.govettbrewster.com/Exhibitions/Exhibitions/AndrewDrummond.aspx . 9 February 2013 .
  3. Web site: Andrew Drummond. 27 September 2020. Jonathan Smart Gallery.
  4. Web site: Andrew Drummond. 5 October 2020. Page Galleries. en.
  5. Web site: 4 March 2014. Andrew Drummond. 5 October 2020. Antoinette Godkin gallery. en.
  6. Web site: New Year Honours List 2007. 12 October 2020. New Year Honours List 2007. 30 December 2006 . en-NZ.
  7. Web site: 2016-11-03. Forward Impetus Sarjeant Gallery Whanganui. 2021-06-08. Sarjeant Gallery Whanganui. en-NZ.
  8. Web site: Fox. Rebecca. 2016-11-03. Fellowship leaves imprint. 2021-06-08. Otago Daily Times Online News. en.
  9. Web site: City Gallery Wellington. 2021-06-08. City Gallery. en-NZ.
  10. Web site: Jonathan Smart Gallery – Andrew Drummond. 12 October 2020. www.jonathansmartgallery.com.
  11. Web site: Andrew Drummond: Observation, Action, Reflection . 17 May 2024.
  12. Web site: Wunderbox . 17 May 2024.
  13. Book: Now Showing: A History of the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery    . Govett-Brewster Art Gallery . 2016 . 9780908848744 . Barton . Christina . Curnow . Wystan . Bywater . Jonatan.
  14. Book: Hay, Jennifer . Intervention: Post Object and Performance Art in 1970 and Beyond  . Robert McDougall Art Gallery . 2000 . 0908874618 . 64–71.
  15. Web site: Barton . Christina . 1997 . Post-object and conceptual art . 17 May 2024 . Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand.
  16. Book: Dream Collectors . 1998 . Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa . 184–185.
  17. Web site: Andrew Drummond: For Beating and Breathing . 17 May 2024.
  18. Book: Art now: the first biennial review of contemporary art; body, site, material; published to accompany and document the exhibition Art Now: The First Biennial Review of Contemporary Art, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, 11 June - 18 September 1994 . 1994 . Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa . 978-0-909010-19-5 . Campbell . Joyce . Wellington . Lloyd . Jillian . Museum of New Zealand.
  19. Web site: Between Rocka and Glasshouses . 17 May 2024 . City Gallery.
  20. Book: Tyler, Linda . Cross currents: Contemporary New Zealand and Australian art from the Chartwell Collection: Waikato Museum of Art and History, Te Whare Taonga o Waikato, 14 July-25 August 1991 . Waikato Museum of Art and History, Te Whare Taonga o Waikato . 1991.
  21. Web site: Constructed Intimacies: Moet Chandon Touring Exhibition . 17 May 2024.
  22. Web site: Andrew Drummond: Images from Another Archaeology . 17 May 2024.
  23. Book: Curnow, Wystan . Putting the Land on the Map: Art and Cartography in New Zealand Since 1840 . Govett-Brewster Art Gallery  . 1989 . 0908848013 . 61–63.
  24. News: 23 August 1989 . N.Z. sculptors in British symposium The Press (Christchurch) . The Press (Christchurch) . 21.
  25. Book: Burke, Gregory . Drawing Analogies . Wellington City Art Gallery . 1987 . 17.
  26. Book: Barr . Jim . When art hits the headlines: a survey of controversial art in New Zealand . Barr . Mary . 1987 . National Art Gallery in association with the Evening Post . National Art Gallery (N.Z.) . 978-0-9597785-4-0 . Wellington.
  27. Web site: Barton . Christina . Post-object and conceptual art - The rise of post-object art . 17 May 2024 . Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand..
  28. Web site: Works 80 . 17 May 2024.
  29. News: 25 July 1978 . Naked artist makes man cross . The Press (Christchurch) . 1.
  30. Web site: 1977 . Young Contemporaries 1977 . 17 May 2024.
  31. Book: Drummond, Andrew. Andrew Drummond : observation / action / reflection. 2010. Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu. Hay, Jennifer, 1968–, Christchurch Art Gallery.. 978-1-877375-19-4. Christchurch [N.Z.]. 70–71. 660363390.
  32. Web site: Crucifixion Performance. 5 October 2020. Art New Zealand.

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