CLAUDIA JOWITT BY THE LIGHT OF THE MOON / VAKAVULAVULA
, 11 NOVEMBER - 5 DECEMBER 2020
As the moon and the sea are intertwined in their movements, so too in this exhibition, Claudia Jowitt allows sculptural force, and the three-dimensional, to pull on her two-dimensional painted surfaces. Similarly her conceptual concerns - an ongoing investigation of the feminine in art and the insertion of place into abstraction - continue to interact.
Here, place is the moana, the ocean which binds the Pacific, and Jowitt's Pakeha and Fijian heritage. Here as viewers, we dive perhaps into the corals of her multi-layered surfaces which in this exhibition have stepped into a more sculptural realm. That step is reinforced with the inclusion of small sculptures which speak to the gestures and forms of the paintings - with the gallery wall itself, in installation, becoming the painting substrate. Continuing with the sense of swimming analogy, the works offer an easy glide between painting/sculpture or sculpture/painting, moving us in some strangely crafted new powerfully feminine sea.
Claudia Jowitt completed a Master of Fine Arts at the University of Auckland in 2015. She has also studied at Carnegie Mellon University's College of Fine Arts in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In 2016, she was the inaugural Tautai Pacific Arts Trust Artist in Residence at the Dunedin School of Art. She has been exhibiting since completing her undergraduate degree at AUT in 2009 and was included in an exhibition of four Pacific women artists at Enjoy in Wellington earlier this year. She has work in the University of Auckland and Wallace Collections as well as in many private collections.
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 | Claudia Jowitt Baravi II, 2020 acrylic, spray paint, cotton cord, linen & vinyl offcuts, paua shell, Fijian vau, clay forms & bronze powder on linen, 565 x 520 x 60 mm |
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 | Claudia Jowitt Baravi II (side view), 2020 acrylic, spray paint, cotton cord, linen & vinyl offcuts, paua shell, Fijian vau, clay forms & bronze powder on linen, 565 x 520 x 60 mm |
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 | Claudia Jowitt Lomaloma III, 2020 acrylic, spray paint, cotton yarn, linen offcuts, Fijian vau, paua shell, kina shell, tuangi (cockle) shells, clay forms & bronze powder on panel with clay frame, 370 x 320 x 45 mm |
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 | Claudia Jowitt Lomaloma III (side view), 2020 acrylic, spray paint, cotton yarn, linen offcuts, Fijian vau, paua shell, kina shell, tuangi (cockle) shells, clay forms & bronze powder on panel with clay frame, 370 x 320 x 45 mm |
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 | Claudia Jowitt Lomaloma IV, 2020 acrylic, spray paint, cotton yarn, linen offcuts, Fijian vau, paua shell, kina shell, tuangi (cockle) shells, clay forms & bronze powder on panel with clay frame, 365 x 315 x 45 mm |
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 | Claudia Jowitt Lomaloma IV (side view), 2020 acrylic, spray paint, cotton yarn, linen offcuts, Fijian vau, paua shell, kina shell, tuangi (cockle) shells, clay forms & bronze powder on panel with clay frame, 365 x 315 x 45 mm |
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 | Claudia Jowitt Lomaloma I, 2020 acrylic with paua shell & Fijian vau on panel with painted clay frame, 225 x 225 x 45 mm |
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 | Claudia Jowitt Lomaloma I (side view), 2020 acrylic with paua shell & Fijian vau on panel with painted clay frame, 225 x 225 mm |
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 | Claudia Jowitt Lobaka I, 2019 waxed bronze in bronze or white bronze in edition of 6 in each type of bronze, 22 x 56 x 16 mm |
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 | Claudia Jowitt Lobaka IV, 2019 waxed bronze in bronze or white bronze in edition of 6 in each type of bronze, 30 x 72 x 18 mm |
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 | Claudia Jowitt Lobaka VI, 2019 waxed bronze in bronze or white bronze in edition of 6 in each type of bronze, 45 x 47 x 14 mm |
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 | Claudia Jowitt Lobaka VII, 2019 waxed bronze in bronze or white bronze in edition of 6 in each type of bronze, 29 x 49 x 15 mm |
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 | Claudia Jowitt Lobaka VIII, 2019 waxed bronze in bronze or white bronze in edition of 6 in each type of bronze, 30 x 69 x 12 mm |
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 | Claudia Jowitt Lobaka X, 2019 waxed bronze in bronze or white bronze in edition of 6 in each type of bronze, 15 x 65 x 14 mm |
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 | Claudia Jowitt Voka III, 2020 acrylic, cotton cord, leather offcuts, bronze powder, resin on panel, 325 x 275 x 55 mm |
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 | Claudia Jowitt Voka II, 2020 acrylic, bronze powder, resin on panel, 240 x 240 x 60 mm |
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 | Claudia Jowitt Voka I, 2020 acrylic, bronze powder & resin on panel, 325 x 290 x 65 mm |
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 | Claudia Jowitt Lobaka Levu I, 2020 painted fibreglass cast (Smalt Blue Hue) in edition of 6 & 2 APs, 145 x 430 x 13 mm |
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 | Claudia Jowitt Lobaka Levu I, 2020 painted fibreglass cast (Light Phthalo Green) in edition of 6 & 2 APs, 145 x 430 x 13 mm |
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 | Claudia Jowitt Baka III, 2020 acrylic, spray paint, rayon yarn, Fijian vau, paua shell, kina shell, cowrie shells, moulded acrylic, clay forms, bronze powder on linen, 1004 x 1004 x 70 mm |
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 | Claudia Jowitt Baka IV, 2020 Acrylic, spray paint, rayon yarn, Fijian vau, copper leaf, paua shell, kina shell, cowrie shells, moulded acrylic, clay forms & bronze powder on linen, 1004 x 1004 x 70 mm |
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