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Frances Jill Studd (click any image for a larger view) Pink Terrace Below the Pink Terrace Sole Charge Versalite Undercover 1 Ladies Slipper Orchid Farmers Window 1

 

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About the Frances Jill Studd
A painter and photographic artist born in England who moved to New Zealand in 1959 and graduated from the University of Canterbury School of Fine Arts, New Zealand in 1972. Exhibiting since the l980's, initially she worked with found images and mixed media collage, combining historical and cultural imagery. She has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions throughout New Zealand and has shown at the Worcester Art Gallery and Museum during a short visit to the UK in 1987. Her work in the l990's included public gallery installations. In exhibiting at Whanganui Museum in 1990, she is noted as one of the first New Zealand artists to show her work within a museum environment. Until 1997 she refused to sell her work on the general market. She has also worked as a publishing researcher, freelance designer and gallery registrar.

About the work
This work is from three recent exhibitions.
Undercover 1996 combines images of New Zealand's forest canopy with native orchid species. "Much of our native forest is now gone while what remains is under serious threat. I have set the temporal fragility of these flowers back into the hidden environment in which they flourish but which is now a kind of limbo, like a living museum, cut off from the world." - from Artist's statement

Quickening 1997 explored images from the eruption of Mt Tarawera on June 10 1886 in the central North Island of New Zealand, a cataclysmic event which killed over 200 people, destroyed the world famous Pink and White Terraces and was notable for a series of supernatural events that occurred prior to the eruption - in particular the appearance of a ghost Maori canoe. "We saw another canoe in the distance being vigorously paddled but never moving. Several said they could see it, but as I looked earnestly the men who paddled changed into dogs and then the whole thing vanished" - Guide Sophie of Rotorua. "The works in this exhibition have a dream-like quality filled with foreboding, yet also a great beauty which Studd resurrects. She weaves the original landscape and its terraces back into existence as a golden and floral land." - from catalogue essay

Night Tokens In 1999 1 wanted to work with urban images again and began photographing deserted shop windows. I was interested in the emptiness and alienation that characterised a shopping environment at night. "(These) are beautifully crafted canvases that exemplify a painterly control of light and shade - perfectly capturing a night time bout of window shopping. Studd's control of surface is akin to the illusions of space perfected by the Renaissance artists. You can almost reach out and touch the dingy areas presented in these works …" from a review by Wayne Lorimer

Selected Exhibitions

2000, 100 x 100 x 100, Christmas exhibition at McPherson Gallery Auckland.
2000, NIGHT TOKENS, exhibition as artist in residence at Artspost Hamilton, 10 Dec - 31 January 2001.
2000, KEEP OFF THE GRASS Artists Against Genetic Engineering, group exhibition at Pataka, Porirua, 24 Sept - 10 October.
1999, NIGHT TOKENS solo exhibition Campbell Grant Gallery, Christchurch, 13 - 23 July.
1999, SUSTAINABILITY Group exhibition based on the environment, Manawatu Art Gallery 27 March - 9 May,
         Sarjeant Gallery 22 May - 15 August.
1999, GROUP EXHIBITION Brian Queenin Gallery Wellington, with James Cousins & Noel lvanoff, 2 - 27 February.
1998, QUICKENING solo exhibition Campbell Grant Gallery, Christchurch, 24 March - 11 April
1997, QUICKENING solo exhibition Brooker Gallery Wellington, 12 - 30 August
1997, BLACK POHUTUKAWA solo exhibition Hawke's' Bay Cultural Trust, Napier, 23 June - 3 August.
1997, BLACK POHUTUKAWA solo exhibition Archill Gallery, Grey Lynn, Auckland 1 - 14 April.
1996-97, GROUP EXHIBITION Brooker Gallery, Wellington, with Victor Berezonsky James Cousins, Cam Munroe,
             10 Dec 1996 - 1 Feb 1997.
1996, BLACK POHUTUKAWA solo exhibition Manawatu Art Gallery 8 Sept -20 October.
1994, WALKING ON THE MOON solo exhibition Sarjeant Gallery, Wanganui 15 July - 28 August. Part also in the Manawatu Science          Centre Space Exploration exhibition 11 July - 8 August.
1994, WALKING ON THE MOON solo exhibition Manawatu Art Gallery,13 May - 10 July.
1993, IN SITU project work, group exhibition Community Arts Centre, Wanganui.
1993, RESERVES solo exhibition Wanganui Regional Museum
1992, RESERVES solo exhibition Manawatu Art Gallery
1991, EXIT, The George Fraser GaIIery/Artspace, group exhibition with Wayne Barrar, Matt Pine and Aromea Tahiwi.
1990, NATURAL FICTIONS solo exhibition, Manawatu Art Gallery
1990, HISTORY AND ITS THEATRE Wanganui Regional Museum, group exhibition with Wayne Barrar, Joanna Paul, Matt Pine and          Aromea Tahiwi.
1988, CROSSING THE BRIDGE solo exhibition, Worcester City Art Gallery and Museum, U K
1987, ANTIC 2 artists project.
1988, WOMAN AND CULTURE group exhibition Outreach, Auckland
1985, ANZART Artists Book Exhibition, Auckland City Art Gallery
1985, NEW WORK solo exhibition Artis Gallery Auckland 3 - 17 September
1984, MEMBERS EXHIBITION Association of Women Artists, Outreach Auckland.
1983, WOMAN TO WOMAN Outreach, Auckland

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