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Julian Dashper

JULIAN DASHPER

Untitled (Black: For Fred Sandback), Untitled (Blue: For Fred Sandback) Te Tuhi From 4 September 2008 Auckland
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Te Tuhi hosts the first long-term commissioned artwork by Julian Dashper (1960–2009). One of New Zealand’s most prolific contemporary artists, Dashper exhibited regularly throughout Aotearoa New Zealand and internationally. Throughout his practice, Dashper brought a healthy degree of humour to his reworkings of abstraction, conceptualism and minimalism. One of his early insights was that characteristics of the reproduction of international art, such as a flattening-out and a simplification of form, provided formal solutions to gauge the efficacy of a reproduced modernism. As art historian Christina Barton states, his local context then provided “the unique perspective of attending to an internationalist art history from a distance, enabling him to devise strategies to work around his geographical isolation whilst simultaneously articulating its effects.” Dashper travelled extensively. This commission is part of a series, influenced by encounters with the late American minimalist artist Fred Sandback during visits to Marfa, Texas. In homage to Sandback, Dashper created linear works that toy with the idea of a permanent art acquisition through the use of materials that are at once accessible, and intrinsically susceptible to erasure.

About the Artist

Julian Dashper was a New Zealand contemporary artist from Auckland, known for wry conceptual paintings, drum-kit and record works, and projects like The Big Bang Theory, Future Call, and Midwestern Unlike You and Me that rethink modernist art from Aotearoa New Zealand’s vantage point.

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About the Gallery
Te Tuhi is a nationally significant contemporary art gallery presenting exhibitions and projects by New Zealand and international artists. Te Tuhi works actively within the community of Auckland, providing a conduit for audience engagement and participation in the visual arts, underpinned by innovative exhibitions, education and associated programmes. In addition, Te Tuhi serves as a focal point for the community as an events venue and meeting place for our many users and community groups.

Te Tuhi was created in a partnership between the Fisher Gallery and the Pakuranga Community and Cultural Centre, the latter formally a Manukau City Council facility.

The Fisher Gallery had been created in the early 1980s by a dedicated and energetic group of local art lovers, who had decided that the area, only recently subdivided for residential use, needed an arts venue. The Fisher Gallery took its name from the Fisher family, who farmed the area prior to its suburbanisation and Iris Fisher, who was an original member of the Pakuranga Arts Society and the driving force behind the effort to build the new institution.

The name Te Tuhi was generously conferred on the institution by the Ngai Tai Iwi. The name refers to the legend of the ancestor Manawatere, a Maori voyager and explorer who arrived in the Hauraki Gulf prior to the arrival of the Tainui waka. Landing at the beach at Howick's Cockle Bay, he made his tuhi, or mark, on a pohutukawa tree located on the foreshore, using karamea, a red ochre. This was his sign to those who would follow, that this was the place he had chosen: Te Tuhi a Manawatere. The tree still stands today, although the tuhi has since disappeared.

Te Tuhi is administered by the Te Tuhi Contemporary Art Trust in conjunction with the Contemporary Art Foundation.
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Auckland 13 Reeves Road, Pakuranga
Te Tuhi contemporary art institution in Auckland New Zealand
Te Tuhi
13 Reeves Road, Pakuranga, Auckland, New Zealand
+64 9 577 0138
http://www.tetuhi.art

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9am − 5pm
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