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JOANNA BRAITHWAITEHen’s Teeth
April 30th - May 25th, 2011
Milford Galleries Dunedin18 Dowling Street (03) 477 7727 info@milfordhouse.co.nz
www.milfordgalleries.co.nz
1. JOANNA BRAITHWAITE, Decoy (2011)
oil on canvas, stretcher (v x h x d): 600 x 702 x 21 mm
2. JOANNA BRAITHWAITE, Touch Wood (2011)
oil on canvas, stretcher (v x h x d): 600 x 700 x 21 mm
2. DETAIL VIEW JOANNA BRAITHWAITE, Touch Wood (2011)
3. JOANNA BRAITHWAITE, Going South (2011)
oil on canvas, stretcher (v x h x d): 602 x 700 x 21 mm
4. JOANNA BRAITHWAITE, Shackled (2011)
oil on canvas, stretcher (v x h x d): 600 x 702 x 21 mm
4. DETAIL VIEW JOANNA BRAITHWAITE, Shackled (2011)
5. JOANNA BRAITHWAITE, Beauty Trap (2011)
oil on canvas, stretcher (v x h x d): 600 x 702 x 21 mm
6. JOANNA BRAITHWAITE, Old Timer (2011)
oil on canvas, stretcher (v x h x d): 602 x 702 x 21 mm
5. DETAIL VIEW JOANNA BRAITHWAITE, Beauty Trap (2011)
7. JOANNA BRAITHWAITE, Returning Point (2011)
oil on canvas, stretcher (v x h x d): 602 x 700 x 21 mm
8. JOANNA BRAITHWAITE, Hen's Teeth (2011)
oil on canvas, stretcher (v x h x d): 600 x 702 x 21 mm
8. DETAIL VIEW JOANNA BRAITHWAITE, Hen's Teeth (2011)
9. JOANNA BRAITHWAITE, Charmed Life (2011)
oil on canvas, stretcher (v x h x d): 600 x 703 x 21 mm
10. JOANNA BRAITHWAITE, Lost Time (2011)
oil on canvas, stretcher (v x h x d): 600 x 702 x 21 mm
9. DETAIL VIEW JOANNA BRAITHWAITE, Charmed Life (2011)
11. JOANNA BRAITHWAITE, Fight Night (2011)
oil on canvas, stretcher (v x h x d): 602 x 702 x 21 mm
12. JOANNA BRAITHWAITE, Bad Rap (2011)
oil on canvas, stretcher (v x h x d): 600 x 700 x 21 mm
11. DETAIL VIEW JOANNA BRAITHWAITE, Fight Night (2011)
In the exhibition “Hen’s Teeth” Joanna Braithwaite presents portraits of
birds and links them to human attributes and preoccupations in her
characteristic anthropomorphic manner.
Her works, as always, are visual riddles. She uses paradox,
contradiction, irony and the narrative power of parable to engage the
viewer directly. Her paintings use the power of gaze to arrest, ask and
question. A conversation begins, which is a mix of dream, political,
social, religious and environmental discourse. Braithwaite invents and
amends, alters and applies an essential strangeness to what’s going
on. What at first might seem simple or deliberately underdone, is
revealed as imbued with content beyond appearance. Complexity
arises.
In “Touch Wood” a necklace hangs, rosary-like, in front of a kereru’s
breast and there sits a crucifix. Is this a story of love, hope or death? All
these things? In “Beauty Trap” a peacock is chained by its beauty. In
“Bad Rap” a kea dolefully looks back, its neck adorned with rap
jewellery and its reputation as a thief. From a penguin hangs a
compass (“Going South”), an albatross is adorned with a shark’s tooth,
a studded collar completes the punk-like persona of a crowned hen.
Braithwaite explores tensions between fact and fiction, between
traditional portraiture and humour, between the unique and
endangered and ubiquitous. Cultural dynamics, social mores and
values enter each painting. A gap between a collective subconscious
and daily behaviour is revealed. A paradise duck sports a bullet
necklace, a pukeko a chain watch, a morepork has the heavy metal
references of a skull, a dagger, a padlock and a small animal hanging
down.
All prices are NZD and include GST; Prices are current at the time of the exhibition
E X H I B I T I O N P R I C E L I S T
1 Decoy (2011) 4,750
2 Touch Wood (2011) 4,750
3 Going South (2011) 4,750
4 Shackled (2011) 4,750
5 Beauty Trap (2011) 4,750
6 Old Timer (2011) 4,750
7 Returning Point (2011) 4,750
8 Hen's Teeth (2011) 4,750
9 Charmed Life (2011) 4,750
10 Lost Time (2011) 4,750
11 Fight Night (2011) 4,750
12 Bad Rap (2011) 4,750
Joanna Braithwaite 2011 CV Milford Galleries Dunedin www.milfordgalleries.co.nz
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JOANNA BRAITHWAITE b. 1962, lives Sydney
Joanna Braithwaite juxtaposes objects, animals, humans and insects onto lavish painterly surfaces in
unexpected and imaginative ways. She characteristically works in series and her immediate
environment often prompts her subject matter. “Braithwaite’s work always contains figurative and realist
elements but seldom without a twist which wrenches the work away from simple realism towards the
surreal.” (1)
"Notions of progress and evolution, of sexual and natural selection, are seldom far from the surface of
Braithwaite's paintings, whether they reference science lab or dog park." (2)
“Joanna Braithwaite’s fascination with the inversion of hierarchies and power structures and her
preoccupation with testing the limits of what is considered human, raises wider issues of identity and
authority. Her paintings prompt physical responses by means of psychological narratives, while
projecting the spectator into realms where they must question the nature of their existence and their
relationship with those around them. By these means her work also serves to make visible the processes
by which power structures and hierarchies operate in contemporary society.” (3)
She has long been concerned with the interrelationship between humans and animals. Of her recent
‘Hover’ series she states “I decided to push this idea of an imbalance between man and beast further
by considering the attributes of each. What if the balance was altered, and what if one species
acquired some attribute of the other? I chose to paint a series of works where the human form was
completely covered in creatures that could fly.” (4) “The placement of humans and creatures in mid-
air, ascending, floating, or falling, deliberately deprives the viewer of reference points.” (5)
The 2003 ‘Wild Things’ and 2006 ‘All Sorts’ and ‘Avian Suite’ works continue the use of both the symbolic
and metaphoric and Braithwaite adds explicit anthropomorphic characteristics to her creatures and
animals. These animals have become performers – “a trapped consciousness” is implied. (6)
Braithwaite was born in Halifax, England in 1962 and came to New Zealand in 1965. She graduated with
a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Canterbury in 1985 and was awarded the Ethel Rose
Overton Scholarship in 1983, and the Olivia Spencer Bower Foundation Art Award in 1990. She was
awarded merit prizes in the 1997 and 1998 Visa Gold Art Awards. Since 1999 she has lived and worked in
Sydney and has held many solo exhibitions in New Zealand and Australia. She has work in many private
and public collections in New Zealand, Australia and London including the Robert McDougall Art
Gallery, Brisbane Public Art Gallery and the Dunmoochin Foundation in Melbourne. In 2005, her work
was the subject of a major survey exhibition under the curation of Justin Paton (Dunedin Public Art
Gallery) and Felicity Milburn (Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna O Waiwhetu). A survey catalogue of ,
‘Wonderland – Joanna Braithwaite’ was published by Dunedin Public Art Gallery and Christchurch Art
Gallery to accompany the survey exhibition.
1. Peter Simpson, ‘Pleasure Seeking and Surrealism’, Sunday Star Times, 19 August, 2001.
2. Gregory O'brien, 'Upwards and Onwards', Art New Zealand, Autumn, 2010
3. Lisa Beaven, ‘Taking Flight: The Airborne and Hybrid Images of Joanna Braithwaite’ Art New Zealand
102, Spring 2002.
4. Joanna Braithwaite quoted in Beaven, ibid
5. Beaven, ibid
6. Bridie Lonie, ‘The island of Dr Braithwaite’, NZ Listener, 23 April, 2005.
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JOANNA BRAITHWAITE b. 1962, lives Sydney
EDUCATION
1984 BFA, University of Canterbury School of Fine Arts, New Zealand
1999-2000 MFA at College of Fine Arts, Sydney
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2011 Hen’s Teeth, Milford Galleries Dunedin
2010 Walk My Way, Bowen Galleries, Wellington
Born To Be Free, Brooke Gifford Gallery, Christchurch
2008 Sealegs, Brooke Gifford Gallery, Christchurch
2007 Animalia, Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Animalia, La Trobe University Visual Arts Centre, Bendigo, Australia
Paintings 1995 – 2006, milford galleries auckland
2006 All Sorts, milford galleries auckland
2005 Selected Works, Milford Galleries Dunedin
Relative Moments, Brook/Gifford Gallery, Christchurch
2005 Wonderland, touring exhibition; Dunedin Public Art Gallery,
Christchurch Art Gallery
2004 Little Wonder, Brook/Gifford Gallery, Christchurch
2003 Wild Things, milford galleries auckland
2003 Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney
2002 Paintings 2002, Bowen Galleries, Wellington
2001 Hover, milford galleries auckland
Menagerie Series, Brook/Gifford Gallery, Christchurch
Spaces, milford galleries auckland
2000 Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney
1999 Paintings, Brook/Gifford Gallery, Christchurch
Phenomena, Milford Galleries Dunedin
1998 Vicarious Relations, Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney
1997 Nature of Beings, Brooker Gallery, Wellington
Ways of Being, Brook/Gifford Gallery, Christchurch
1996 Darren Knight DKW, Melbourne
Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland
Brooker Gallery, Wellington
1995 Off Shore, Brook/Gifford Gallery, Christchurch
1994 Darren Knight DKW, Melbourne
1993 Brooker Gallery, Wellington
1992 New Paintings, Brook/Gifford Gallery, Christchurch
1991 Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland
1990 Paintings, Brook/Gifford Gallery, Christchurch
Paintings, Brooker Gallery, Wellington
1989 Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland
1988 Paintings and Drawings, Brook/Gifford Gallery, Christchurch
Paintings, Brooker Gallery, Wellington
1986 Beasts and Birds, Brook/Gifford Gallery, Christchurch
1984 Twelve Paintings, Six Drawings and Five Collages, C.S.A. Gallery Christchurch
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2009 Darren Knight Gallery at Auckland Art Fair, Auckland, New Zealand
2008 Wish you were here, Tweed River Art Gallery, New South Wales, Australia
The Year of the bird, Hawkesbury Regional Gallery, New South Wales, Australia
Who let the dogs out - the dog in contemporary Australian art, Lake Macquarie City Art
Gallery and Hazelhurst Regional Gallery and Arts Centre, New South Wales, Australia
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2007 Devils in Paradise, Bett Galley, Hobart
Sulman Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
2006 Braithwaite, Ellis and Harris, milford galleries auckland
Object, Milford Galleries Duedin
Portia Geach Memorial Award, S. H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Postcards from the Desert – Six artists on the Larapinta Trail, Damian Minton Gallery,
Sydney, Australia
2005 Portia Geach Memorial Award, S. H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Sulman Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Chosen, Milford Galleries Dunedin
2004 The Menagerie: Animals in Art, Northart Community Arts Centre, Northcote, Auckland
2003-04 Spiders & Flies, newcontempories, Sydney, Australia
2003 Home Sweet Home: Works from the Peter Fay Collection, touring National Gallery of
Australia,
Norsewear Art Awards, Guest Artist, Hastings, New Zealand
Overview: Notions of the Figurative, Milford Galleries Dunedin, New Zealand
2002 The Cloak - milford galleries auckland
2001 Leaping Boundaries, Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney, Australia PCL Exhibitionists, Sydney,
Australia
2000 Canterbury Painting in the 1990’s, Robert McDougall Art Gallery, Christchurch, New
Zealand
Paintings, Bowen Galleries, Wellington, New Zealand
Paintings, Milford Galleries, Dunedin, New Zealand
1999 Selected Works, Milford Galleries, New Zealand
1998 Group Show, Brooke Gifford Gallery, Christchurch, New Zealand
Bulge, Brian Queenin Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
Visa Gold Art Award, touring exhibition, New Zealand
1997 The Subject of Object, Milford House, Dunedin, New Zealand
Christmas Show, Gow Langsford, Auckland, New Zealand
Christmas Show, Brooke Gifford Gallery, Christchurch, New Zealand
1996 Group Exhibition, Milford House, Dunedin, New Zealand
1994 Artists Eye IV, curated by Noel McKenna, Rex Irwin Art Dealer, Sydney, New Zealand
Ronnie, Barney, Shane, Jo and Mike, Darren Knight DKW, Melbourne, Australia
Small Works, Brooke Gifford Gallery, Christchurch, New Zealand
1993 White Camelias, Robert McDougall Art Gallery, Christchurch, New Zealand
1992 Triplicate, Brooker Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
Prospect Canterbury, Robert McDougall Art Gallery, Christchurch, New Zealand
Bermondsey Artist Summer Exhibition, London, England
Vanities, Robert McDougall Art Gallery, Christchurch, New Zealand
1991 Festival Exhibition, Brooker Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
1989 Brooke Gifford Gallery, New Zealand
1988 Here and Now – twelve Young Canterbury Artists, Robert McDougall Art Gallery,
Christchurch, New Zealand
The Painted Zoo, Shed 11, Wellington, New Zealand
Thirty Canterbury Artists, Robert McDougall Art Gallery, Christchurch, New Zealand
1987 Architecture Show, Brooke Gifford Gallery, Christchurch, New Zealand
Aigantighe Art Gallery, Timaru, New Zealand
1986 Women’s Exhibition, CSA Gallery, Christchurch, New Zealand
1985 Christmas Show, CSA Gallery, Christchurch, New Zealand
Christmas Show, Brooke Gifford Gallery, Christchurch, New Zealand
AWARDS
2001 Roche Prize, PCL Exhibitions, Sydney Australia
1999 Art Excellence Award, Christchurch Community Trust, New Zealand
1998 Merit, Visa Art Award, New Zealand
1997 Merit, Visa Art Award, New Zealand
1991 Molly Morpeth Canaday Art Award, New Zealand
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1990 Olivia Spencer Bower Foundation Art Award, New Zealand
1987 Major Project Grant, QE II Arts Council, New Zealand
1985 New Artists Promotion Grant, QE II Arts Council, New Zealand
1983 Ethel Rose Overton Scholarship, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
1983 Sawtell Turner Painting Prize, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
COLLECTIONS
Aignantighe Art Gallery, Timaru
Christchurch Art Gallery, Christchurch
Fletcher Challenge Collection, Auckland
Lincoln University, Canterbury
College House Collection, Christchurch
James Wallace Collection, Auckland
Robert McDougall Art Gallery, Christchurch
Brisbane Public Art Gallery, Australia
Dunmoochin Foundation, Melbourne
University of Canterbury Library Collection, Christchurch
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Beauty Trap (2011)