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Gary Freemantle - artist information

1984 - Diploma of Fine Arts, Canterbury University
1988 - Rita Angus Cottage residency - info
1990 - worked with Mirek Smisek in his pottery studio in Te Horo
1994 - Tylee Cottage residency, Wanganui - info
1994 - Runner up, Wallace Art Award
1997-2003 - One Eye, Paekakariki (established and ran the gallery)
2007 - winner Molly Morpeth Canaday art award for the second time
2012 - William Hodges Fellow - see Southland Times story
2014 -
Exhibition at Pah Homestead
2014 - Artist residency in Sydney

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Link to Southland Times story

'Mud and Velvet' exhibition, Feb-March '14

This exhibition includes a suite of paintings by Freemantle using pigments made with ground-up South Island earth materials, and a group of small paintings using black paint on velvet that are not so much portraits as 'ghost faces'.

Below: installation photos from 'Mud and Velvet', Feb-March 2014 at Gilberd Marriott Gallery, Wellington. Click on photos for larger view.
Diagnostik Lake, 2012, artist Gary Freemantle, Gilberd Marriott Gallery, Wellington New Zealand
Diagnostik Lake, 2012
Ghost Face, 2014, velvet painting by Gary Freemantle, Gilberd Marriott Gallery, Wellington New Zealand
'Ghost Face, 2014', velvet painting by Gary Freemantle
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  • Exhibitions
  • Exhibited Artists
    • Anthony Davies
    • Phillipa Durkin
    • Denise Durkin
    • Ruby Joy Eade
    • Gary Freemantle
    • Felix Harris
    • POA Kollective
    • Naga Tsutsumi
    • Shane Hammond
    • Geoffrey Roche
    • Justin Rotolo
    • Louise Rutherford
    • Robert Thompson
    • Gordon Crook
  • About & Contact
  • GMG Blog