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| birth_date = 1959 |
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| birth_place = Rotorua, New Zealand |
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'''Kim Pieters''' (born 1959) is a painter, musician and |
'''Kim Pieters''' (born 1959) is a [[New Zealand]] painter, musician and digital filmmaker. |
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== Background == |
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Pieters was born in [[Rotorua]], New Zealand, and grew up on the [[Bombay Hills]]. She began her career as a visual artist in the early 1980s, holding her first exhibition of photographs and drawings in Wellington in 1981, and her first painting exhibition at the [[Canterbury Society of Arts Gallery]] in 1989.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Barton|first1=Christina|title=What is a life?: Kim Pieters|date=2015|publisher=[[Adam Art Gallery]], [[Victoria University of Wellington]]|isbn=9781877309311|page=71|edition=First}}</ref> After meeting musician [[Peter Stapleton]] in Christchurch, the two entered a productive creative partnership which, after a move southward to Dunedin, included the bands [[Flies Inside The Sun]],<ref>{{cite web|title=Flies Inside the Sun|url=http://www.kranky.net/artists/fliesinsidethesun.html|publisher=Kranky|accessdate=2011-09-21}}</ref> [[Dadamah]], [[Doramaar]], Rain and Sleep, as well as running the underground music label Metonymic, and the experimental music and film festival Lines of Flight. Pieters currently works as a painter and video artist from her studio on Dunedin's waterfront. |
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Born in [[Rotorua]], New Zealand, she was the eldest of six children and grew up on the [[Bombay Hills]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|url=https://www.radionz.co.nz/concert/programmes/art-life-music/audio/2018632909/art-life-music-kim-pieters|title=Art, Life, Music - Kim Pieters|last=Wilson|first=Charlotte|date=20 November 2018|work=Radio New Zealand|access-date=9 June 2019|language=en-nz}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite book|title=What is a life? Kim Pieters|last=Barton|first=Christina|publisher=Adam Art Gallery|year=2015|isbn=9781877309311|location=Wellington, New Zealand|pages=71}}</ref> In the early 1980s, she led a peripatetic life, travelling to Australia and around New Zealand. She moved to [[Christchurch]] in the late 1980s and, without any significant formal training, "devoted herself to her art practice".<ref name=":1" /> She held her first exhibition of photographs and drawings in [[Wellington]] in 1981, and her first painting exhibition at the [[Canterbury Society of Arts Gallery]] in 1989.<ref name=":1" /> In 1993, along with others such as the musician [[Peter Stapleton]], she relocated to [[Dunedin]] where she participated in the city's "‘free noise’ scene", and was instrumental in establishing the Metonymic record label (1996) and the experimental film and music festival Lines of Flight (2000).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.undertheradar.co.nz/news/11802/Interview-Peter-Stapleton-of-The-Terminals.utr|title=Interview: Peter Stapleton of The Terminals|date=2 November 2016|website=Under the radar|access-date=4 June 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kranky.net/artists/fliesinsidethesun.html|title=Flies Inside the Sun|publisher=Kranky|accessdate=21 September 2011}}</ref> She took up residence in her current studio near the Dunedin waterfront in 2007, which initiated "an especially concentrated period of painting".<ref name=":1" /> |
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== Work == |
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Involved in a number of different media, and a long-standing fixture on the experimental music scene, she, nonetheless, describes painting as her "ultimate life choice". The origins of this choice date back to when, as a child of ten, she was encouraged by her aunt to make images as an afternoon project. Pieters recalls this moment as a "numinous" experience.<ref name=":0" /> "Making a picture" creates a state of mind, in her words, in which "everything falls away."<ref name=":0" /> She explains that "[p]ainting is where my attention is completely absorbed....I am happiest when I am painting." She elaborates: "When I paint I am looking to hold the unsayable....For me, abstraction is intimately tied to ideas of experience and language. The most curious, the most wonderful thing – but perhaps also the most terrifying – is that which we can’t name. This is where everything begins for me."<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.homestolove.co.nz/inspiration/people-and-places/dunedin-based-artist-kim-pieters|title=See Inside the Creative Space of Dunedin-based Artist Kim Pieters|last=Byrt|first=Anthony|work=Homes to Love|access-date=4 June 2019}}</ref> |
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== Critical reception == |
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Pieters won the [[Waikato Museum]]’s National Contemporary Art Award in 2017 for her painting "The Meaning of Ethics" (2017, mixed media on board).<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://eyecontactsite.com/2017/08/2017-national-contemporary-art-award|title=2017 National Contemporary Art Award|last=Domauf|first=Paul|date=19 August 2017|website=EyeContact|access-date=10 June 2019}}</ref> Elizabeth Caldwell, director of the [[City Gallery Wellington|City Gallery]] in Wellington and judge for the award commented: "The work draws on a tradition of stylistic abstract painting. As a judge, one of the things I look for is originality and a signature style. Kim Pieters is an artist who uses her own vocabulary of gestures in her art-making. She has got complete mastery of her craft."<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU1707/S00383/the-meaning-of-ethics-wins-national-contemporary-art-award.htm|title=The Meaning of Ethics wins National Contemporary Art Award|date=29 July 2017|publisher=Scoop News|access-date=9 June 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/arts/94628889/masterly-artist-kim-pieters-wins-20000-art-award-with-abstract-painting|title='Masterly' artist Kim Pieters wins $20,000 art award with abstract painting|last=Mather|first=Mike|date=29 July 2017|website=Stuff|access-date=9 June 2019}}</ref> |
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Pieters' work has been widely exhibited in New Zealand in galleries such as: [[Artspace NZ]] (2012), the [[Adam Art Gallery]] (2014),<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.circuit.org.nz/artist/kim-pieters|title=Kim Pieters|website=Circuit: Artist, Film and Video, Aotearoa, New Zealand|access-date=8 June 2019}}</ref> [https://www.facebook.com/ingedoesburggallery Inge Doesburg Gallery] (2016),<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.odt.co.nz/entertainment/arts/art-seen-september-9|title=Art Seen|last=Dignan|first=James|date=8 September 2016|work=Otago Daily Times|access-date=9 June 2019}}</ref> the [[Dunedin Public Art Gallery]] (2018),<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://dunedin.art.museum/exhibitions/past/four/|title=four: Kim Pieters. Charlotte Parallel. Megan Brady. Aroha Novak.|website=Dunedin Public Art Gallery|access-date=9 June 2019}}</ref> [https://bowerbankninow.com Bowerbank Ninow] (2016, 2018)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://bowerbankninow.com/exhibitions/123-the-mallarmé-suite|title=the mallarmé suite|last=Pieters|first=Kim|date=26 October - 19 November 2016|website=Bowerbank Ninow|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2 December 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://bowerbankninow.com/exhibitions/58-erotic-anamnesis|title=Erotic Anamnesis|last=Pieters|first=Kim|date=17 October - 17 November 2018|website=Bowerbank Ninow|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2 December 2018}}</ref> and RDS Gallery (2019).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.odt.co.nz/entertainment/arts/art-seen-september-19|title=Art Seen|last=Pickens|first=Robyn Maree|date=19 September 2019|website=Otago Daily Times|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2 December 2019}}</ref> |
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== External links == |
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*[http://kimpietersstudio.com/ Official website] |
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Latest revision as of 23:39, 20 January 2024
Kim Pieters | |
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| Born | 1959 Rotorua, New Zealand |
| Years active | 1981-current |
| Known for | Artist |
Kim Pieters (born 1959) is a New Zealand painter, musician and digital filmmaker.
Background
[edit]Born in Rotorua, New Zealand, she was the eldest of six children and grew up on the Bombay Hills.[1][2] In the early 1980s, she led a peripatetic life, travelling to Australia and around New Zealand. She moved to Christchurch in the late 1980s and, without any significant formal training, "devoted herself to her art practice".[2] She held her first exhibition of photographs and drawings in Wellington in 1981, and her first painting exhibition at the Canterbury Society of Arts Gallery in 1989.[2] In 1993, along with others such as the musician Peter Stapleton, she relocated to Dunedin where she participated in the city's "‘free noise’ scene", and was instrumental in establishing the Metonymic record label (1996) and the experimental film and music festival Lines of Flight (2000).[3][4] She took up residence in her current studio near the Dunedin waterfront in 2007, which initiated "an especially concentrated period of painting".[2]
Work
[edit]Involved in a number of different media, and a long-standing fixture on the experimental music scene, she, nonetheless, describes painting as her "ultimate life choice". The origins of this choice date back to when, as a child of ten, she was encouraged by her aunt to make images as an afternoon project. Pieters recalls this moment as a "numinous" experience.[1] "Making a picture" creates a state of mind, in her words, in which "everything falls away."[1] She explains that "[p]ainting is where my attention is completely absorbed....I am happiest when I am painting." She elaborates: "When I paint I am looking to hold the unsayable....For me, abstraction is intimately tied to ideas of experience and language. The most curious, the most wonderful thing – but perhaps also the most terrifying – is that which we can’t name. This is where everything begins for me."[5]
Critical reception
[edit]Pieters won the Waikato Museum’s National Contemporary Art Award in 2017 for her painting "The Meaning of Ethics" (2017, mixed media on board).[6] Elizabeth Caldwell, director of the City Gallery in Wellington and judge for the award commented: "The work draws on a tradition of stylistic abstract painting. As a judge, one of the things I look for is originality and a signature style. Kim Pieters is an artist who uses her own vocabulary of gestures in her art-making. She has got complete mastery of her craft."[7][8]
Pieters' work has been widely exhibited in New Zealand in galleries such as: Artspace NZ (2012), the Adam Art Gallery (2014),[9] Inge Doesburg Gallery (2016),[10] the Dunedin Public Art Gallery (2018),[11] Bowerbank Ninow (2016, 2018)[12][13] and RDS Gallery (2019).[14]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Wilson, Charlotte (20 November 2018). "Art, Life, Music - Kim Pieters". Radio New Zealand. Retrieved 9 June 2019.
- ^ a b c d Barton, Christina (2015). What is a life? Kim Pieters. Wellington, New Zealand: Adam Art Gallery. p. 71. ISBN 9781877309311.
- ^ "Interview: Peter Stapleton of The Terminals". Under the radar. 2 November 2016. Retrieved 4 June 2019.
- ^ "Flies Inside the Sun". Kranky. Retrieved 21 September 2011.
- ^ Byrt, Anthony. "See Inside the Creative Space of Dunedin-based Artist Kim Pieters". Homes to Love. Retrieved 4 June 2019.
- ^ Domauf, Paul (19 August 2017). "2017 National Contemporary Art Award". EyeContact. Retrieved 10 June 2019.
- ^ "The Meaning of Ethics wins National Contemporary Art Award". Scoop News. 29 July 2017. Retrieved 9 June 2019.
- ^ Mather, Mike (29 July 2017). "'Masterly' artist Kim Pieters wins $20,000 art award with abstract painting". Stuff. Retrieved 9 June 2019.
- ^ "Kim Pieters". Circuit: Artist, Film and Video, Aotearoa, New Zealand. Retrieved 8 June 2019.
- ^ Dignan, James (8 September 2016). "Art Seen". Otago Daily Times. Retrieved 9 June 2019.
- ^ "four: Kim Pieters. Charlotte Parallel. Megan Brady. Aroha Novak". Dunedin Public Art Gallery. Retrieved 9 June 2019.
- ^ Pieters, Kim (26 October – 19 November 2016). "the mallarmé suite". Bowerbank Ninow. Retrieved 2 December 2019.
- ^ Pieters, Kim (17 October – 17 November 2018). "Erotic Anamnesis". Bowerbank Ninow. Retrieved 2 December 2018.
- ^ Pickens, Robyn Maree (19 September 2019). "Art Seen". Otago Daily Times. Retrieved 2 December 2019.
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