KARL MAUGHAN

EXHIBITION PRICELIST

Maughan masterfully combines invention and naturalism. His carefully constructed garden scenes merge the natural world with one of order, balance and control; the cultivated ideal.

When engaging with the work there is a real sense of being there. Both aesthetically and emotionally pleasing, Maughan’s paintings have a richness of colour, clarity of form and sharp perspective that entices the viewer to the subject-matter. Compositional elements such as the trees in the foreground of ‘Riverena’, garden paths and deep shadows draw the viewer into the work, and make it seem very possible to look through the branches, around the corner of the rhododendron, or beneath the shadows to the pebbles on the cool ground below.

The large-scale works are all encompassing. ‘Canterbury’, ‘Southland’ and ‘Loveday Avenue’ show a panoramic landscape and the life-like scale of the works give the sense that this is only a window to the vast garden beyond, there is far more than the eye can see.

The viewer is compelled to move toward the work, to experience the garden and in doing so is confronted with a tactile and abstracted painting surface. “What originally appeared to be hyperrealism is actually broad dashes of paint. 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.”(1)

Maughan’s ability to capture light and shadow is reminiscent of impressionist Masters and describes succinctly the mood and the time of day, whether in the dark contrasting shadow of the late afternoon ‘Awahou North’ or in the bright midday sun ‘Hiwinui’ and ‘Riverena’.

1.John Daly-Peoples,‘Karl Maughan’sGardensof Delightin Dunedin’,NBR,2010

KARL MAUGHAN

b. 1964, lives Auckland

KawakawaRoad (2011)

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 Zealandartist.Maughan hasbeen exhibitingwithMilfordGalleriesDunedin since1993.

"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 waspopularwith theImpressionists." (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 importantthan thegarden,but not entirelyso.” (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 Paintingprize.)His workisheldin publicandprivatecollectionsin New ZealandandtheUK.

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 workwasbought byTePapain 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 sincethen.

1.NataliePoland,Manawatu Art Galleryinformationsheet, April 1998

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

3.TJMcNamara,Small seasandgiant gardens’,NZHerald,8 April 2002

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EDUCATION

1983- 87

KARL MAUGHAN

b. 1964, lives Auckland

BFAandMFA,ElamSchool of Fine Arts,Universityof Auckland

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2012 Recent Works,milford galleriesqueenstown

2011 OrouaValley,MilfordGalleriesDunedin

Idlewild,Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland

2010 Karl Maughan,Page BlackieGallery,Wellington

TheLost Path,MilfordGalleriesDunedin

2009 Everyday isLikeSunday,Gow Langsford Gallery,Auckland Blackbarn Gallery,HawkesBay,New Zealand

2008 Martin BrowneGallery,Sydney, Australia

New Works,milfordgalleriesqueenstown

2007/08 On AClearDay,TeManawaGallery,Palmerston North

2007 New Paintings,milfordgalleriesqueenstown PageBlackieGallery,Wellington CrossHills,MilfordGalleriesDunedin

Recent PaintingsandPrints,Gow Langsford Auckland

2006 Outside,Martin BrowneFine Art Galler,Sydney, Australia

2005 Kimbolton,Milford GalleriesDunedin

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

2003 TheVisitor,Gow LangsfordGallery,Sydney, Australia

ParkLane,VertigoGallery,London,UK

Blow Up.St.Pauls Gallery,Birmingham,UK

Walkingin Light,VertigoGallery,London,UK

2002 Garden Centre,Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland

2001 Yew,MilfordGalleriesDunedin

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,MilfordGalleriesDunedin

1997 Great Outdoors,Tinakori Gallery,Wellington

1996 Love LiesBleeding,MilfordGalleriesDunedin DayNight,Gow LangsfordGallery, Auckland

1995 Green Triumph,Brooker Gallery,Wellington

1994 RomanceandIrony,Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland

1993 New Paintings,MilfordGalleriesDunedin

Brooker Gallery,Wellington

1992 Gow Langsford Gallery,Wellington

CSAGallery, 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 SeriesII,Brooker Gallery,Wellington

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SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2010 Small Works,Milford GalleriesDunedin

2009 Masterworks,milfordgalleriesQueenstown

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

2008 ClocktheTon,Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland

2007 In Fluorescents,Gow Langsfor Gallery, Auckland

Auckland Art Fair

2006 Chosen,MilfordGalleries Dunedin

MasterWorks,milfordgalleriesqueenstown

2005 Auckland Art Fair

Selected Artists,Tinakori GalleryWellington

Recent Floral Works,milfordgalleriesqueenstown

2003 Is As: Landscape AsMetaphor,Milford GalleriesDunedin

1999 Idlewild,The Approach GalleryLondon

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

Karl Maughan andDickFrizzell,Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland

1997 MNZA: Landscape,MilfordGalleriesDunedin

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

UnderGrowth,Holy St Studios, London,UK

1996 NZReal,Milford Galleries Dunedin

1995 Blindfield,CoventryGallery,London,UK

CatalogueExhibition,Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland

Stop MakingSense,City Gallery,Wellington

1992 WaikatoMuseum of Art andHistory,Hamilton

1990 Robert McDougall Art Gallery,Christchurch

AWARDS

1997 Finalist John MoorePainting Award,Walker Art Gallery,Liverpool

COLLECTIONS

TePapaMuseum of New Zealand

British Council

UniversityofVictoriaWellington

Robert McDougall Art GalleryChristchurch District Court Wellington CorporateCollections GlaxoIndustries

Yates

FletcherChallengeLimited Auckland

NZPolice

PricewaterhouseCoopers Wellington Saatchi &Saatchi Wellington Saatchi Collection London

Sky CityCasino

Sky CityGrand

BIBLIOGRAPHY

2011 Wolfe,RichardandStephen Robinson, Artists At Work,Penguin Books,London,England

2009 ‘Karl Maughn’,New Artland,Series2,Episode4

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

2008 Somerville,Jane, New Work; Karl Maughan,Artworld,issue2, April/May,pp144-147 (attached)

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2007 Jennings,Nicola, On a Clear Day,Exhibition Catalogue,TeManawa Art Gallery,Palmerston North

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

2000 Wolfe,Richard, Interflora, Karl Maughan Paints in the Face of Nature, Art New Zealand97, Summer pg62– 65

1998 Lopdell House Gallery, (Re)visioning the Real,exhibition catalogue

1998 TheSaatchi Gallery, The New Neurotic Realism,collection catalogue

1998 Gregg,Stacy, The Flower and the Glory,SundayStarTimes,February1,(attached)

1997 MilfordGalleries, 3 Major Surveys-Modern New Zealand Art,exhibition catalogue,1997

1997 John MooresLiverpool, Exhibition 20,catalogue,1997

1995 Brown,Warwick,100 New ZealandPaintings,1995,p49