Anton Paul Chapman
I think of my work as the witness to a sort of continuous unravelling of the objectivity and reason which shaped my training as a student.
Abstraction is for me a natural outcome in my development as a painter. Meaning for me does not occur through the prescriptive confines of narrative but through paint and the painting process. Abstraction, for me, is emotional, political and artistic freedom because it operates in the realms of the imagination.
In my paintings the process of building and scraping back the paint to reveal the remnants and shadows of previous layers reflects a desire to convey an enigmatic tension and the ebb and flow which can occur between perception and conception.
This reflects my engagement with the expressive power of the unconscious and its ability to make the world mysterious to the everyday eye.
My paintings act as containment for unexpected feelings, which might otherwise be uncontainable. These are highlighted in continuous changes to structure and approach from circuitous and delicate to brusque and ruthless.
Curriculum Vitae
POSITIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES
2013 to the present
Life drawing tutor, Animation College. Auckland.
Facilitating drawing, painting and theory programmes for the year I degree students and for the diploma students years I, II and III.
Drawing tutor,objective and figure studies.
Browne School of Art. Auckland.
2003 to the present
Tutor.
Providing focussed Tuition in studio-based art practice, encouraging individual student pathways of learning.
Student Centered Learning.
Facilitation of and development of: Conceptual aesthetics Abstract, Figurative and Non-Figurative painting.
Mentor and encourage students in the exhibition of their work. Mentor and encourage students in commercial undertakings.
1994 – 2003
Senior Lecturer, Fine Art Whitecliffe College of Arts and Design.
Facilitating drawing and painting programmes through Year I, Year II and Year IV across fine art disciplines.
Tutoring painting and drawing. Tutoring in life drawing and anatomy, cast drawing and other studio based programmes. Mentoring of Year IV students in various disciplines i.e. Fine Art, Fashion, Design and Photography. Administration duties particular to the above undertakings.
1995 – 1996
Tutor.
Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland.
Life drawing tutor.
1994 – 1996
Painting Tutor and Artist in Residence.
Pakuranga Community Arts.
1990 - 1994
Practising Artist, South Africa.
1988 – 1989
Lecturer in Painting.
University of Durban-Westville, Durban, South Africa.
Facilitating of Year I and II painting.
Mentoring of Year IV students in both theory and practical areas of study.
Administrative duties particular to the above undertakings.
1987
Assistant to Dorothy Momberg.
Leading South African decorative painter, South Africa.
1986
Lecturer.
Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa, School of Art.
General History of Art.
Research material; deliver lectures and hold tutorials.
1985
Lecturer, Painting.
Rhodes University, Grahamstown, School of Art, South Africa - Acting Head of Painting. Supervising painting years I, II & IV.
1982
Lecturer.
Joubert Park Technical College, Johannesburg, South Africa.
Painting.
EXHIBITIONS
A selective record of exhibitions, 1995 – 2013
2016
Group Exhibition ‘Allusions of Abstraction II’ - Johans Borman Fine Art Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa.
2015
Group Exhibition ‘SPECTRA’ - Johans Borman Fine Art Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa.
2014
Solo Exhibition,NKB Gallery, Auckland.
2013
Solo Exhibition,Johans Borman Fine Art.
2012
-scape, group exhibition at Johans Borman Fine Art, Cape Town.
Group Exhibition, NKB Gallery, Auckland.
2011
Waikato Arts Awards Finalists Exhibition, Hamilton.
2010
Solo Exhibition, NKB Gallery, Auckland
2009
Group Exhibition, NKB Gallery, Auckland
2008
Group Exhibition, NG Art Gallery, Sydney, Australia.
Group Exhibition, Noel Hodnett Fine Art, Vancouver, Canada.
2006
Solo Exhibition, Edmiston Duke Gallery, Auckland
2005
Group Exhibition, Edmiston Duke Gallery, Auckland
Wallace Awards Finalists Exhibition
Northart Members Exhibition, Auckland
2004
Solo Exhibition, Judith Anderson Gallery, Auckland
2003
Group Exhibition, Judith Anderson Gallery, Auckland
2002
Solo Exhibition, McPherson Gallery, Auckland
Group Exhibition, Northart Gallery, Auckland
2000
Group Exhibition, McPherson Gallery, Auckland
1999
Solo Exhibition, McPherson Gallery, Auckland
Tutor’s Exhibition, Whitecliffe Gallery, Auckland
1998
Solo Exhibition, Drawings Gallery, Auckland
Solo Exhibition, Whitecliffe Gallery, Auckland
1997
Solo Exhibition, Drawings Gallery, Auckland
1996
Solo Exhibition, Whitecliffe Gallery, Auckland
1995
Group Exhibition, Drawings Gallery, Auckland
QUALIFICATIONS
2012
Enrolment at University of Melbourne: Two papers in the Post Graduate program, ‘Cultural Materials Conservation’
1) Technical Examination and Documentation
2) Conservation Materials Chemistry
1986
Masters Degree in Fine Art with distinction. Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa Thesis The thesis focuses on the work of Samuel Palmer with particular reference to the formative works and the relationship of these to the works of painter, Graham Sutherland. Practical A body of paintings which expressed the artists’ concern for land¬scape as a metaphor for spirituality
1979 – 1980
Italian Study 4 months study at the Academia di Belli Arti, Rome 4 months painting throughout Italy
1976 – 1979
Diploma in Fine Art Distinctions in history and practical Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
AWARDS
2004
Waitakere Art Award
1998
Mairangi Bay Art Award
1979
Italian State Bursary Awarded for outstanding undergraduate results Placement in the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome
Purvis Book Prize
Award for the most promising painting student in the Diploma of Fine Arts qualification
1973
East London Exposition Award Award for the most promising painter in the senior division
REFEREES
HENRY SYMONDS
Dean of Instruction and Undergraduate Studies Whitecliffe College of Arts and Design henrys@whitecliffe.ac.nz 24 Balfour Road, Parnell, Auckland 1052, New Zealand Ph: + (64) (9) 309 5970
JOHN HORNER
Senior Lecturer Whitecliffe College of Arts and Design johnh@whitecliffe.ac.nz 24 Balfour Road, Parnell, Auckland 1052, New Zealand Ph: + (64) (9) 309 5970
MATTHEW BROWNE
Senior Lecturer Art Station. Community Art Centre mrmattbro@hotmail.com Ph: + (64) (9) 378 1822 mob: + (64) 21 267 9242
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