Richard Killeen

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Richard John Killeen ONZM (born 1946)[1] is a significant New Zealand painter, sculptor and digital artist.

Biography[edit]

Killeen was educated at the Elam School of Fine Arts, where his lecturers included Colin McCahon, before graduating in 1966. He has won a number of awards, including the QE2 Arts Fellowship, and has been the subject of several major exhibitions. He is particularly known for his arranged collections of aluminium 'cut outs' hung on walls, from 1978 onwards, and has continued arrangements of objects in this style.[2] In the 2002 Queen's Birthday and Golden Jubilee Honours, he was appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to painting.[3]

Style[edit]

His early cut-outs reflected Killeen's "discontent with the compression caused by the four static points of the frame," and an answer was found in their "off-stretcher presentation."[4] These are created from cardboard templates, which he uses to cut aluminium sheeting, lacquer, and paint.[4][1]

Selected exhibitions[edit]

1967

  • The Group Show  68 Christchurch, Durham St. Art Gallery. Killeen had five works in the exhibition. (group)[5] and two works Soldier and Microphone Man in the 1968 Group Show.[6]

1968

1969

  • Manawatu Prize for Contemporary Art  Palmerston North Art Gallery. (group)[7] 

1970

  • Paintings April 1969-April 1970 Barry Lett Galleries, Auckland.
  • New Zealand Art of the Sixties: a Royal Visit Exhibition Auckland City Art Gallery. (group)[8]

1972

1975

  • Richard Killeen: Recent Paintings Peter McLeavey Gallery (later McLeavey Gallery), Wellington. Killeen’s first solo exhibition with Peter McLeavey will be the first of fifty held up to 2024.[10]

1976

  • New Zealand Drawing 1976 Auckland City Art Gallery. (group)[11]

1977

  • Young Contemporaries Auckland City Art Gallery. (group)[12] Killeen was represented with Frog Shooter[13] a painting purchased at the time of the exhibition by the Auckland Art Gallery.

1979

  • Richard Killeen Peter Webb Galleries, Auckland. From 1979 to 1981 Killeen would have 14 exhibitions with Peter Webb.[14]

1981

Richard Killeen Brooke/Gifford Gallery, Christchurch. The first of ten solo exhibitions Killeen would have with the gallery.[15]

1982

  • Artist Project No.1. Chance and Inevitability Auckland City Art Gallery. Curator of the project Alexa Johnston explained in the catalogue how Killeen allowed people attending the projects opening were allowed to take one of the cut-out pieces and hang them anywhere they chose on the wall. The final work she noted, ‘took shape gradually with the involvement of a large number of people'.[16]
  • Vision in Disbelief: The 4th Biennale of Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney. (group)[17]
  • Seven Painters/The Eighties Sarjeant Gallery, Wanganui. (group)

1983

  • Chance and Inevitability Robert McDougall Art Gallery, Christchurch. The installation, also shown at the Peter McLeavey Gallery in Wellington followed the same format as the Auckland exhibition the previous year.[18]
  • New Image, Aspects of Recent N.Z. Art Auckland City Art Gallery. (group)[19]
  • The Grid, Lattice and Network, Aspects of Recent N.Z. Art Auckland City Art Gallery. (group)[20] 

1984

  • Richard Killeen Ray Hughes Gallery, Brisbane
  • Richard Killeen New Vision Gallery, Auckland
  • Richard Killeen Bertha Urdang Gallery, New York

1985

  • Richard Killeen, Sue Crockford Gallery, Auckland
  • Origins originality & beyond: the Sixth Biennale of Sydney Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney. (group) The exhibition was curated by Nick Waterlow.[21]
  • Content/Context National Gallery, Wellington. (group)[22]

1988

  • NZXI Auckland City Art Gallery. (group)[23] 

1989

  • Lessons in Lightness Ray Hughes Gallery, Sydney

1990

  • Richard Killeen, Sampler 1967-1990 Sue Crockford Gallery, Auckland. Curated by Francis Pound.[24]

1991

  • Signatures of Place Govett Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth.
  • Cross Currents: Contemporary New Zealand and Australian Art from the Chartwell Collection Waikato Museum of Art and History, Hamilton. (group)[25]
  • Home Made Home Wellington City Art Gallery. (group)[26]

1992

Headlands: Thinking Through New Zealand Art Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney.[27]

1995

  • A Very Peculiar practice, Aspects of Recent New Zealand Painting City Art Gallery, Wellington. (group)[28] 

1996

  • The Dreaming of Gordon Walters[29] Sue Crockford Gallery, Auckland.

1998

  • Dream Collectors, One Hundred Years of Art in New Zealand Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington. (group) The exhibition was curated by Ian Wedde and John Walsh.[30]

1999

  • Stories We Tell Ourselves, The Paintings of Richard Killeen Auckland Art Gallery. A touring survey of Killeen’s work to-date curated by Francis Pound.[31]

2000

  • Wonderlust Ivan Anthony Gallery, Auckland.

2001

  • Prospect 2001: New Art New Zealand City Gallery, Wellington. (group)[32]

2003

  • Ladybird Brett McDowell Gallery, Dunedin. [33]

2005

  • Nature Culture Dunedin Public Art Gallery. (group)

2005

  • Mixed-up Childhood Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland. (group)[34]

2007

2010

  • Unnerved, The New Zealand Project Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane. (group)[35]

2021

  • Repetition Brett McDowell Gallery, Dunedin.[36]

2024

  • Banners McLeavey Gallery, Wellington.[37]

Selected works[edit]

  • Man and Window Reflection 1968 view
  • Street Corner 1969 view
  • Wind 1971 view
  • Untitled 1975 view
  • Untitled 1975 view
  • Frog Green 1976 view
  • Collections from a Japanese Garden 1937  1978 view
  • Age of Fishes 1980 view
  • Living for Today Number 3 1981 view
  • Black Insects, Red Primitives 1981 view
  • Chance and Inevitability 1982 view
  • Measuring Tools 1994 view
  • Book of the Hook 1996 view
  • Jar of Pattern Sky 2001 view
  • Loading 2004 view

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (2005). Treasures from the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. Te Papa Press. p. 72. ISBN 1-877385-12-3.
  2. ^ "Richard Killeen". McLeavey Gallery. Retrieved 14 January 2021.
  3. ^ "Queen's Birthday and Golden Jubilee honours list 2002". Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. 3 June 2002. Retrieved 25 June 2020.
  4. ^ a b Bett, Elva (1986). New Zealand Art: a modern perspective. 39 Rawene Road, Auckland: Reed Methuen Publishers Ltd. p. 57. ISBN 0-474-00063-X.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location (link)
  5. ^ "The Group 1967" (PDF). Retrieved 20 May 2024.
  6. ^ "The Group 1968" (PDF). Retrieved 20 May 2024.
  7. ^ "Manawatu Prize for Contemporary Art". Retrieved 20 May 2024.
  8. ^ "New Zealand Art of the Sixties". Retrieved 20 May 2024.
  9. ^ Hanfling, Edward, ed. (2003). Vuletic and his circle: the Gus Fisher Gallery, the University of Auckland, 10.05. - 28.06.2003. Auckland. ISBN 978-0-473-09528-4.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  10. ^ Trevelyan, Jill (2013). Peter McLeavey: the life and times of a New Zealand art dealer. Wellington, New Zealand: Te Papa Press. ISBN 978-0-9876688-4-4.
  11. ^ "New Zealand Drawing 1976" (PDF). Retrieved 20 May 2024.
  12. ^ "Young Conntemporaries" (PDF). Retrieved 20 May 2024.
  13. ^ "Frog Shooter". Retrieved 20 May 2024.
  14. ^ Pound, Francis (1999). Stories we tell ourselves: the paintings of Richard Killeen (1st publ ed.). Auckland: Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki [u.a.] ISBN 978-1-86953-431-8.
  15. ^ Riley, Brett (Spring 1983). "The Brooke/Gifford Gallery". Art New Zealand (28).
  16. ^ "Artist Project No.1. Chance and Inevitability" (PDF). Retrieved 20 May 2024.
  17. ^ Taylor, Paul (October 1982). "Vision in Disbelief: The 4th Biennale of Sydney". Artforum. 21 (2).
  18. ^ "Chance and Inevitability". Retrieved 20 May 2024.
  19. ^ "New Image: Aspects of New Zealand Art" (PDF). Retrieved 20 May 2024.
  20. ^ "The Grid, Lattice and Network, Aspects of Recent N.Z. Art" (PDF). Retrieved 20 May 2024.
  21. ^ Art Gallery of New South Wales, ed. (1986). Origins originality + beyond: 16 May-6 July 1986, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Art Gallery Road, Sydney, PIER 2/3 Walsh Bay, Sydney. Sydney, N.S.W., Australia: Sixth Biennale of Sydney. ISBN 978-0-9596619-5-8.
  22. ^ Content / Context. Wellington: National Art Gallery. 1986. pp. 50–51.
  23. ^ Bell, Leonard (Spring 1988). "NZXI: A Commentary". Art New Zealand (48).
  24. ^ Pound, Francis; Killeen, Richard (1990). Sampler 1967-1990. Workshop Press.
  25. ^ "History". Retrieved 20 May 2024.
  26. ^ "Home-made Home" (PDF). Retrieved 20 May 2024.
  27. ^ Whiting, Cliff; Murphy, Bernice; McCormack, John; Sotheran, Cheryll, eds. (1992). Headlands: Thinking through New Zealand Art. Sydney: The Museum of contemporary Art [u.a.] ISBN 978-1-875632-04-6.
  28. ^ "A Very Peculiar Practise". Retrieved 20 May 2024.
  29. ^ "The Dreaming of Gordon Walters". Retrieved 20 May 2024.
  30. ^ Wedde, Ian; Walsh, John; Johnston, Alexa; Museum of New Zealand; Auckland Art Gallery, eds. (1998). Dream collectors: one hundred years of art in New Zealand. Wellington [N.Z.]: Te Papa Press. ISBN 978-0-909010-48-5.
  31. ^ Pound, Francis; Killeen, Richard (1999). Stories we tell ourselves: the paintings of Richard Killeen. Auckland, N.Z: David Bateman. ISBN 978-1-86953-431-8.
  32. ^ "Prospect 2001: New Art New Zealand" (PDF). Retrieved 20 May 2024.
  33. ^ "Richard Killeen: Ladybird". Retrieved 20 May 2024.
  34. ^ Craw, Janita; Leonhard, Robert; Kincaid, James; May, Helen, eds. (2005). Mixed-up Childhood. Auckland: Auckland Art Gallery. ISBN 978-0-86463-262-3.
  35. ^ Leonard, Robert (2011). "Unnerved: The New Zealand Project, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, 2010". Eyeline (73).
  36. ^ "Repitition". 1991. Retrieved 20 May 2024.
  37. ^ "Banners". Retrieved 20 May 2024.

Further reading[edit]

External links[edit]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Richard Killeen.
Stub icon

This article about a New Zealand painter is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Richard_Killeen&oldid=1224896334"