Joanna Margaret Paul: Imagined in the Context of a Room / 12 July – 9 November
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Joanna Margaret Paul: Imagined in the Context of a Room / 12 July – 9 November

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Current Exhibitions

Exhibition on display until Sunday 9 November

Joanna Margaret Paul ‘Inventories’ 1977, gouache on paper, 1981/11/1.1. Collection of Te Whare o Rehua Sarjeant Gallery. Purchased, 1981.

A major retrospective celebrating the career and legacy of Joanna Margaret Paul.

With a multi-disciplinary practice spanning drawing, painting, poetry, photography and film, Joanna Margaret Paul (1945–2003) was an important and pioneering artist. Imagined in the context of a room considers the resonance and legacy of Paul’s work in the contemporary moment. This major exhibition presents a close study of her career from the 1970s to the 2000s and is accompanied by a significant publication. Moving across the different phases of Paul’s life as an artist, the exhibition traces key journeys that shaped her career: from Ōtepoti Dunedin to Te Pataka o Rakaihautū Banks Peninsula, Whanganui and beyond; between the landscape and the interior; the mind, body and spirit; between presence and absence.

Exhibition developed and led by Dunedin Public Art Gallery, project partner Te Whare o Rehua Sarjeant Gallery.

 

Curator Talk: Joanna Margaret Paul: Imagined in the context of a room

Senior Curator & Programmes Manager Greg Donson

 

Saturday 11 October, 2pm-3pm
Venue: Te Whare o Rehua Sarjeant Gallery events space
Senior curator and public programme manager Greg Donson discusses his career long association with Joanna Margaret Paul (1945-2003) and her work before her passing in 2003. Alongside Lauren Gutsell and Lucy Hammonds of the Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Greg Donson co-curated the current exhibition ‘Joanna Margaret Paul: Imagined in the context of a room’ and wrote the companion book that accompanies this major survey exhibition. Donson discusses Joanna Margaret Paul’s many interests, her work and practice and her life in Whanganui.
Free. All welcome, no bookings necessary.

 

 

Step into the world of Joanna Margaret Paul: an accompanying book 

A significant publication that accompanies the retrospective exhibition of the same name developed by Dunedin Public Art Gallery in partnership with Te Whare o Rehua Sarjeant Gallery.

Joanna Margaret Paul is one of the major figures of our recent art history – an innovative and experimental artist who has found great resonance with a contemporary generation in Aotearoa New Zealand.  This book explores the full arc of Joanna’s career, celebrates her connection to many places across New Zealand, and the multi-disciplinary nature of her creative vision.

This generously illustrated publication features new essays by the exhibition’s curators Lauren Gutsell, Lucy Hammonds and Greg Donson, who were joined in this project by writers Pascal Harris, Emma Bugden, Andrea Bell and Joanna Osborne.

Available online here an at the Sarjeant Gallery shop.

Hardback
225 pages
22 x 28.5 x 2.6cm
ISBN 978-0-9941353-7-7
$65