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John Crawford - Works on Paper
5-26 March 2010
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For further artist information, images & price enquiries please contact Lydia Baxendell: lydia@gallery33.co.nz
John Crawford utilizes the landscape as a source of colour and texture in his drawings to convey a sense of location. His simple yet expressive compositions are sensitve to the balance of oppositions, often combining elements of the natural and manmade or chaotic and orderly. Working in oil stick and printers ink on paper, he builds a lyrical rhythm where delicate lines score, scribble, thread and outline layered segments of colour, recalling the everyday experience of the artist.
Crawford lives in Ngakawau, a small untamed piece of land on the West Coast of the South Island where the Tasman Sea and Southern Alps meet. Observation and memory merge to inform the artists’ process. Crawford explains, 'it has been my habit to draw each day to collect things and record them in work books. These work books act as a memory bank, a sort of hording of shapes of lines that are later called upon when working.' Whether it is the random pattern of stones piled on the beach (Cross) tidal lines left in the sand (Wave), the texture of a notched rock or a sea polished pebble; these are details he sees, stores in the memory and subsequently translates into his art works.
An accomplished painter, printmaker and ceramicist, John Craford has been a practicing artist since 1973. With work in major private and public collections both nationally and internationally, Crawford established his own studio in partnership with Anne Crawford over thirty years ago and has participated in exhibitions nationally and overseas in Munich, Taipei and Hong Kong.
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Ball (2008)
Oil stick & printers ink on paper
1000 x 700mm |
Black Stone (2008)
Oil stick, oil pastel & printers ink on paper
700 x 1000mm
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Cross (2010)
Indian ink on paper
1000 x 710mm |
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Wave (2010)
Oil stick & printers ink on paper
1000 x 710mm
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Not all ladders are for climbing (2010)
Oil stick on paper
1000 x 710mm |
Stone (2008)
Oil stick & printers ink on paper
1000 x 700mm
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Line (2008)
Oil stick & printers ink on paper
700 x 1000mm
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Box (2008)
Oil stick & printers ink on paper
1000 x 700mm | |
