Greener Pastures

GREENER PASTURES JOANNA FIELDES
ARTHAUS CONTEMPORARY
228 Orakei Rd, Remuera
2nd -13th September 2020
Open: Wed-Thurs 11am-5pm, Fri-Sun 11am-6pm
Closed Monday & Tuesday

Joanna Fieldes is an Auckland based artist who has been working in the discipline of oil painting since the early 1990’s and in more recent times she has extended her practice to include printmaking.
The dominant theme throughout Joanna Fieldes’ art career is the continuing impact of New Zealand’s colonial past on both its varied landscapes and the life forms, indigenous and introduced, that inhabit them. Through her paintings and prints she articulates serious narratives with a sense of humour, giving food for thought, bringing to life New Zealand’s past and present. She juxtaposes vessels, often in anthropomorphic guise in a rich tableau of the imported and indigenous within the landscape. The recurrent use of ceramic vessels dominates the work – acting both as containers of colonial culture and as the colonizers/colonized themselves.

Artist Statement 

 “History has revealed the strong human and animal desire to seek out, explore and inhabit greener pastures.Greener Pastures has new oil paintings in which I have used supports that have been laser cut from both Aluminium Composite Material (ACM) and Acrylic sheets. Working this way, I find that it brings my work to life, not just as paintings but as objects for the wall.
Included in this exhibition are monoprints & monotypes (printed using oil etching ink) which continue my storytelling, taking history for a walk. I have also included some of my previous works in this exhibition”.

Joanna Fieldes.

Paintings

Greener Pastures

oil on sealed & primed laser cut Aluminium Composite Material (ACM), w100cm x w58.3cm, 2020
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Layered Past

oil paint on Crown Lynn #21 hand potted vase, w13cm x h17.5cm, 2017
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Landscope

oil on linen, triptych: (1, 2 &3) w90cm x h70cm, w140cm x h70cm, w90cm x h70cm. 2019
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Landscope

oil on linen, (2) triptych, w140cm x h70cm. 2019
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Landscope

oil on linen, (1) & (3) as a diptych, w90cm x h70cm (x2). 2019
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Tabletop Encounter

oil paint on 600gsm sealed & primed water colour paper, diameter 58cm, placed on oak wooden table with glass top, h50.5cm. 2017
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Tabletop Encounter

Sentry Duty, The Sentinels & Rabbit Source

oil on linen, w140cm x h70cm, w140cm x h70cm, 2014, w140cm x h70cm, (w420cm x h70cm as triptych). 2014.
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The Sentinels & Rabbit Source

oil on linen, 140cm x 70cm, 140cm x 70cm, (w280 x h70cm as diptych). 2014
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Sentry Duty

oil on linen, 1400mm x 700mm. 2014
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The Merchant, The Navy Man, The Missionary, (as triptych)

oil on acrylic laser cut supports, 2020
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The Merchant

oil on acrylic laser cut support, w39cm x h35cm, 2020
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The Navy Man

oil on acrylic laser cut support, w65cm x h75cm, 2020
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The Missionary

oil on acrylic laser cut support, w52cm x h60cm, 2020
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Meat Sauce

oil on sealed & primed laser cut aluminium Composite Material (ACM). w100cm x w58.3cm. 2020
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Forever Faithful

oil on linen, w100cm x h140cm, 2008
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Scent

oil on linen, w400mm x h300mm. 2010
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Border Cross

oil on linen, w140cm x h90cm, 2009
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Land Of Milk And Honey

oil on linen, 110 x 85 cm. 2006
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Keeping Territory

2015, oil on sealed & primed medium density fibreboard (MDF), triptych, w30cm x 40cm each
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Printmaking

Lamb Ju

2019, V/P, 2 of 6, w74cm x h60cm, oil etching ink on Fabriano Tiepolo, 290gsm, 100% cotton paper,
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Encounter in a Vase

2019, V/P (monoprint), 3 of 8, oil etching ink on Fabriano Tiepolo, 290gsm, 100% cotton paper, framed w44.5cm x h55.5
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Pull The Trigger

V/P 5/10, oil etching ink on Fabriano Tiepolo, 290gsm, 100% cotton paper, w46cm x 43cm framed. 2019
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Boatscape 4

2020, 1 of 1 (monotype), oil etching ink on Fabriano Tiepolo, 290gsm 100% cotton paper, framed w70cm x h52cm. 2020
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Three Shipped Tobies

1 of 1 (monotype), oil etching ink on Fabriano Tiepolo, 290gsm, 100% cotton paper, w90cm x h56cm. 2020
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Shipped Jug

1 of 1 (monotype), oil etching ink on Fabriano Tiepolo, 290gsm, 100% cotton paper, framed w525 x h625cm, 2020
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Boatscape 2

2020, 1 of 1 (monotype), oil etching ink on Fabriano Tiepolo, 290gsm 100% cotton paper, framed w70cm x h52cm,2020.
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