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Kar l MaughanOroua Va l ley15th October - 9th November 2011

1. KARL MAUGHAN, Apiti North (2011), oil on linen, stretcher (v x h x d): 1020 x 760 x 35 mm

2. KARL MAUGHAN, Apiti South (2011), oil on linen, stretcher (v x h x d): 1020 x 760 x 35 mm

3. KARL MAUGHAN, Awahou North (2011), oil on linen, stretcher (v x h x d): 915 x 710 x 33 mm

4. KARL MAUGHAN, Awahou South (2011), oil on linen, stretcher (v x h x d): 915 x 710 x 33 mm

5. KARL MAUGHAN, Loveday Avenue (2011) diptych; oil on linen, overall (v x h x d

v x h x d): 1220 x 1835 x 38 mm, stretchers (v x h x d): 1220 x 915 x 38 mm each

6. KARL MAUGHAN, Kawakawa Road (2011) diptych; oil on linen, overall (v x h x d

v x h x d): 1220 x 1835 x 38 mm, stretchers (v x h x d): 1220 x 915 x 38 mm each

7. KARL MAUGHAN, Pohangina East (2011), oil on linen, stretcher (v x h x d): 915 x 915 x 33 mm

8. KARL MAUGHAN, Pohangina West (2011), oil on linen, stretcher (v x h x d): 915 x 915 x 33 mm

9. KARL MAUGHAN, Waiata East (2011), oil on linen, stretcher (v x h x d): 1215 x 1215 x 33 mm

10. KARL MAUGHAN, Waiata West (2011), oil on linen, stretcher (v x h x d): 1215 x 1215 x 33 mm

The technical virtuosity and stylistic breadth of Karl Maughan’s painting is

unmistakeable. An acute combination of naturalism and invention is revealed

everywhere in his paintings.

Maughan’s paintings present notions of the cultivated ideal in which social

associations, cultural dynamics and suggestive narratives emerge and

simultaneously he reminds the viewer that each work is a world of painterly

invention. He positions colour side by side in a manner which is abstract in style

and delivery but which collectively establishes an environment so convincing in

its naturalism that the viewer comes to believe he can enter the works. And smell

them.

Maughan uses light to infuse pictorial height and depth, while also altering

perspective in ways which are exceptional. He establishes “an ultra realistic

chiaroscuro-modelled three dimensional space.”(1) He colours shadow and gets

away with the impossible by presenting this as pictorial fact. Likewise the flowers

perform a compositional role and as such are rendered by deliberate and

distinct brush-strokes that function in an abstract colour-field: yet collectively they

come to more than imply, they state everything about each flower.

Viewed close up, powerful rhythms and a sense of the painter’s hand making the

marks emerge. However with distance the paintings coalesce and the effect is

almost photographic. This dualism lies at the heart of Maughan’s work. The

paintings in “Oroua Valley” are powerful testimony to how considerable this

achievement now is.

(1) Christopher Harrod, “Karl Maughan, Jo Pegler, Emily Wolfe” NZ Art Monthly, Dec 2005/Jan 2006

All prices are NZD and include GST; Prices are current at the time of the exhibition

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1 Apiti North (2011) 12,000

2 Apiti South (2011) 12,000

3 Awahou North (2011) 9,500

4 Awahou South (2011) 9,500

5 Loveday Avenue (2011) 27,500

6 Kawakawa Road (2011) 27,500

7 Pohangina East (2011) 12,000

8 Pohangina West (2011) 12,000

9 Waiata East (2011) 15,000

10 Waiata West (2011) 15,000

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KARL MAUGHAN b. 1964, lives Auckland

Skye Farm (2010)

Karl Maughan has been painting gardens since the mid-1980s and this accomplished concentration

on subject has made him a nationally and internationally recognised and recognisable New

Zealand artist. Maughan has been exhibiting with Milford Galleries Dunedin since 1993.

"Karl Maughan’s fascination with gardens has come through his wish to explore light and colour.

Photographing his chosen gardens in differing lights, Maughan records as much detail as possible. In

the studio he then collages selected elements into new composite images. Applying paint in small

areas of the canvas to avoid premature drying, he pieces the work together like a mosaic. Rather

than blending colours, he uses clean colours side by side, this ‘alla prima’ (wet onto wet) technique

was popular with the Impressionists." (1)

"With most of these paintings we are drawn into the work, impelled to walk towards the painting as

though into an actual garden. However, as one gets closer into the vista one discovers you are

actually entering a painting... Up close these works are like impressionist paintings, a combination of

gestural marks, pointillism, and the white of the canvas which gives the work its shimmering light." (2)

“Details dissolve into an abstract flourish of rhythmically applied paint. The paint is really more

important than the garden, but not entirely so.” (3)

After ten years in London, Maughan returned to New Zealand in 2005. He lives in Auckland. In 1997

he was a finalist in the John Moore Painting Award. (This award, whose previous winners include

David Hockney, is regarded as one of the two premier art awards in Britain, the other being the

Turner Painting prize.) His work is held in public and private collections in New Zealand and the UK.

In 1998 Maughan came to the attention of British arts benefactor Charles Saatchi who has

subsequently purchased several works. Maughan was included in the Saatchi Gallery, London

exhibitions The Neurotic Realism in 1998 and I’m a Camera in 2001. Also in 1998 he was offered the

opportunity to install a major six panel work A Clear Day in the Habitat store in Chelsea, London. This

work was bought by Te Papa in 2000.

Born Wellington, New Zealand 1964. Bachelor of Fine Arts, Elam School of Fine Arts, University of

Auckland 1986. He completed one year of Master of Fine Arts in 1987 and has exhibited regularly

since then.

1. Natalie Poland, Manawatu Art Gallery information sheet, April 1998

2. John Daly-Peoples, 'Karl Maughan's Garden's of Delight in Dunedin", NBR, March 2010

3. TJ McNamara, Small seas and giant gardens’, NZ Herald, 8 April 2002

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KARL MAUGHAN b. 1964, lives Auckland

EDUCATION

1983 - 87 BFA and MFA, Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2011 Oroua Valley, Milford Galleries Dunedin

Idlewild, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland

2010 Karl Maughan, Page Blackie Gallery, Wellington

The Lost Path, Milford Galleries Dunedin

2009 Everyday is Like Sunday, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland

Blackbarn Gallery, Hawkes Bay, New Zealand

2008 Martin Browne Gallery, Sydney, Australia

New Works, milford galleries queenstown

2007/08 On A Clear Day, Te Manawa Gallery, Palmerston North

2007 New Paintings, milford galleries queenstown

Page Blackie Gallery, Wellington

Cross Hills, Milford Galleries Dunedin

Recent Paintings and Prints, Gow Langsford Auckland

2006 Outside, Martin Browne Fine Art Galler, Sydney, Australia

2005 Kimbolton, Milford Galleries Dunedin

2004 Karl Maughan: Recent Paintings, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland

2003 The Visitor, Gow Langsford Gallery, Sydney, Australia

Park Lane, Vertigo Gallery, London, UK

Blow Up. St. Pauls Gallery, Birmingham, UK

Walking in Light, Vertigo Gallery, London, UK

2002 Garden Centre, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland

2001 Yew, Milford Galleries Dunedin

Art Lab, Imperial College Exhibition, London, UK

2000 Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland

Karl Maiughan, Art Hotel, Florence, Italy

1999 Crowd, Vynel St, London, UK

Karl Maughan, Habitat, London, UK

1999 Waterview, Milford Galleries Dunedin

1997 Great Outdoors, Tinakori Gallery, Wellington

1996 Love Lies Bleeding, Milford Galleries Dunedin

Day Night, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland

1995 Green Triumph, Brooker Gallery, Wellington

1994 Romance and Irony, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland

1993 New Paintings, Milford Galleries Dunedin

Brooker Gallery, Wellington

1992 Gow Langsford Gallery, Wellington

CSA Gallery, Auckland

1991 Brooker Gallery, Wellington

Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland

1990 Brooker Galllery, Wellington

1989 Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland

Brooker Gallery, Wellington

1988 Brooker Gallery, Wellington

Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland

1987 Garden Series II,Brooker Gallery, Wellington

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SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2010 Small Works, Milford Galleries Dunedin

2009 Masterworks, milford galleries Queenstown

John Leech and Gow Langsford Galleries Spring Catalogue, Gow Langsford Gallery,

Auckland

2008 Clock the Ton, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland

2007 In Fluorescents, Gow Langsfor Gallery, Auckland

Auckland Art Fair

2006 Chosen, Milford Galleries Dunedin

Master Works, milford galleries queenstown

2005 Auckland Art Fair

Selected Artists, Tinakori Gallery Wellington

Recent Floral Works, milford galleries queenstown

2003 Is As: Landscape As Metaphor, Milford Galleries Dunedin

1999 Idlewild, The Approach Gallery London

1998 Saatchi Collection Catalogue Show, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK

Karl Maughan and Dick Frizzell, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland

1997 MNZA: Landscape, Milford Galleries Dunedin

John Moores Liverpool Exhibition 20, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK

Under Growth, Holy St Studios, London, UK

1996 NZ Real, Milford Galleries Dunedin

1995 Blindfield, Coventry Gallery, London, UK

Catalogue Exhibition, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland

Stop Making Sense, City Gallery, Wellington

1992 Waikato Museum of Art and History, Hamilton

1990 Robert McDougall Art Gallery, Christchurch

AWARDS

1997 Finalist John Moore Painting Award, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool

COLLECTIONS

Te Papa Museum of New Zealand

British Council

University of Victoria Wellington

Robert McDougall Art Gallery Christchurch

District Court Wellington

Corporate Collections

Glaxo Industries

Yates

Fletcher Challenge Limited Auckland

NZ Police

PricewaterhouseCoopers Wellington

Saatchi & Saatchi Wellington

Saatchi Collection London

Sky City Casino

Sky City Grand

BIBLIOGRAPHY

2011 Wolfe, Richard and Stephen Robinson, Artists At Work, Penguin Books, London, England

2009 ‘Karl Maughn’, New Artland, Series 2, Episode 4

2008 Thomson, Joelle, Into the Garden, Mindfood, issue 2, May, pp136-139 (attached)

2008 Somerville, Jane, New Work; Karl Maughan, Artworld, issue 2, April/May, pp144-147

(attached)

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2007 Jennings, Nicola, On a Clear Day, Exhibition Catalogue, Te Manawa Art Gallery, Palmerston

North

2006 Newton, Katie, Up the Garden Path, Sunday Star Times, February, pp 16 & 17 (attached)

2000 Wolfe, Richard, Interflora, Karl Maughan Paints in the Face of Nature, Art New Zealand 97,

Summer pg 62 – 65

1998 Lopdell House Gallery, (Re)visioning the Real, exhibition catalogue 1998 The Saatchi Gallery, The New Neurotic Realism, collection catalogue 1998 Gregg, Stacy, The Flower and the Glory, Sunday Star Times, February 1, (attached)

1997 Milford Galleries, 3 Major Surveys-Modern New Zealand Art, exhibition catalogue, 1997 1997 John Moores Liverpool, Exhibition 20, catalogue, 1997 1995 Brown, Warwick, 100 New Zealand Paintings, 1995, p49

Loveday Avenue (2011)