Jonathan Grant Galleries

28/11/2023

28/11/2023

Justin Boroughs at Jonathan Grant Galleries until 11 Dec. View coverage at:
https://artsdiary.co.nz/173/4043.html
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10/08/2023

As sun embraces the continent, Europe becomes alive with colour, people and new experiences. Each painting in this selection embodies the spirit of the season.

Currently on display in the Gallery is a selection of works titled ‘A European Summer’.

A European Summer is an exhibition of work on display in Jonathan Grant Gallery, Established 1984 throughout our New Zealand Winter.

26/04/2023

UPCOMING EXHIBITION •
GEORGE BALOGHY
‘Urban Pastoral’
Opening Tuesday 2 May

The Pastoral is a historical genre of landscape painting going back at least four centuries, revelling in the beauty and romance of the rural countryside. The title of this exhibition, ‘Urban Pastoral’, appears contradictory, however when applied to Auckland City, large swathes of the environment do look like the countryside. Auckland’s sprawling parks, volcanic cones and the profusion of trees through suburbia make it look like a giant garden.

In this exhibition Baloghy focuses on the beauty and interplay between the built environment, the natural landscape and the harbour. It is done with the familiar eye of someone who knows the area intimately and whose personal life has evolved to the rhythm and pulse of the city. Baloghy has painted Auckland over many decades, recording its changes over time. New apartments and towers pop up and one could regard these paintings as a record of the evolution of Auckland.

They are actually more than that – they are the story of an artist’s lifelong romance with his city.

The exhibition can now be previewed on our website by clicking on the link in our bio.

For more information contact the Gallery at [email protected]

Featured work •

Cornwall Park to Upper Harbour
Oil on canvas
650 X 1200 mm

14/04/2023

Currently on display in the Gallery is a selection of Modernist works by Patrick Caulfield, Sir Terry Frost, Dame Barbara Hepworth, Mervyn Williams and Patrick Heron.

Visit the Gallery over the weekend to view. We are open on Saturday from 10am - 4pm and on Sunday from 11am - 4pm.

The exhibition Modernist Silhouettes will be on display in Jonathan Grant Gallery, Established 1984 from Friday April 14th.

04/04/2023

Currently on display •

Bruce Hunt
Lake Benmore
Acrylic on canvas

Terry Stringer
Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time
Bronze

For further information on the works featured here please contact the Gallery at [email protected] or 09 303 1090

Installation view by

Works by •

Terry Stringer

04/04/2023

New works on display in the Gallery as part of our ‘Selection Show’.

Stop by 280 Parnell Rd to view or click on the link in our bio to visit our website.

Featured works •
Terry Stringer
Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time
Bronze

John Edgar
Flag 17
White marble, black granite

John Edgar
Flag 23
Red granite, black granite

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29/03/2023

It is the final week of the MANZ exhibition ‘Our Nature’. Stop by the Gallery at 280 Parnell Rd to view works by 30 leading New Zealand sculptors.

Featured work •

Greer Twiss
Red Clamp
Bronze and enamel
90 x 160 mm
Signed ‘Twiss

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15/02/2023

OPENING TONIGHT · MARGARET LOVELL · 'SOLITARY FORMS'

Join us tonight from 5 - 7pm for the Opening of Margaret Lovell's exhibition 'Solitary Forms'.

Featured work:
MARGARET LOVELL
Dialogue VII PA
Bronze on hardwood
9 x 7.7 x 7.7 cm
Edition 2/4
2022

28/01/2023

The Gallery will be closed on Sunday 29 and Monday 30 January.

For any enquiries please contact us by email at [email protected] or by phone 09 308 9125.

Featured work •
Ken Knight

7th Feb 20, Dawn-Antarctica
Oil on board
33 x 35 cm
Signed lower left

12/12/2022

Currently on display -

Ken Kendall ·
Sculpted Form
13 - 24 December 2022

Ken Kendall was born and raised in New Zealand. From early childhood he was deeply interested in modelling the human figure. For some years he taught art at intermediate and high schools in his home city of Auckland.

Permanent collections in New Zealand, Australia, America, United Kingdom and Europe display ‘Kendall’ masterworks. In April 1994 Kendall exhibited a group of bronzes in London in association with the Shakespearean Globe Theatre Trust. In 1997 Kendall was commissioned by the Diocesan School in Auckland to sculpt a charming life-size bronze of a young girl for the entrance hall of the Junior School. His lovely Joanna was met with such success that he was also commissioned to sculpt a bronze work of a senior girl. In 1999 he was commissioned by the Masterton City Council to do a life-size bronze of Russian Jack for its city park. His most recent commission was a life-size bronze of the Masterton founder Joseph Masters. This stands in the main street of Masterton in the Wairarapa where Ken lived until he died on 27th February 2012.

30/10/2022

Four years in the making, the exhibition, ‘Frances Hodgkins – A Personal Perspective’, scheduled to open at Jonathan Grant Gallery on the 8th of November 2022, will feature a collection of original watercolours and gouaches by Frances Hodgkins. The exhibition will be accompanied by an extensively researched catalogue with essays by Mary Kisler, Curator Emerita at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki and Jonathan Gooderham, Director of Jonathan Grant Gallery.

Featured work •

Storm (Ibiza) c.1932
Watercolour & gouache on paper, 40 x 52 cm
Signed Frances Hodgkins lower right
Inscribed under mount Storm – Ibiza II

Provenance
Mrs Rée A Gorer, Highgate, London
By family descent to Mr Richard Gorer (1913 – 1994), East Sussex
Mr Alan Rowe, London 1973
Private Collection, France

For the full provenance history of the painting featured, please visit our website.

27/10/2022

UPCOMING EXHIBITION •

Frances Hodgkins
‘A Personal Perspective’

8 - 28 November 2022

15/09/2022

A walk through our current exhibition at Jonathan Grant Gallery.

Visit our website to view more or contact the Gallery to request an exhibition catalogue.

09/09/2022

Steven Dews is one of Britain's most celebrated marine artists. Born in Yorkshire in 1949, Dews divides his time between his homes in Australia and on England's southern coast.

Dews is a highly experienced yachtsman having owned cruising and race yachts. He has sailed on Lulworth and Velsheda, and his passion for ships and the sea is clearly evident in the composition and detail of his paintings. Dews states:

"I sail so that I can paint and I paint so that I can sail, they feed each other both literally and emotionally.”

Dews’ paintings are prized amongst collectors and have seen him attract major patrons including the Royal Yacht Squadron, the Marine Board of New South Wales and the New York Yacht Club. He has also undertaken private commissions for marine collectors and America’s Cup syndicate owners around the world.

Steven Dews’s work is avidly collected around the world. Above all, he lives and loves the subjects he paints, and spends any of his spare time, sailing.

Featured work •

Roche Harbour, San Juan Island WA c.1910
Oil on canvas board, 17 x 25.5 cm
Signed lower left