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Helen Calder
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Strip
2024
Acrylic and enamel paint on steel wire
285 x 690 x 90mm
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Orange Trace
2024
Acrylic and enamel paint on steel wire
345 x 600 x 80mm
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Pink Trace
2024
Acrylic and enamel paint on steel wire
360 x 875 x 150mm
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Helen Calder
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Acrylic and enamel paint on steel wire
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Helen Calder
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Install view
Acrylic and enamel paint on steel wire
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Blue Fold (detail)
2023
Acrylic and enamel paint on steel wire
1030 x 95 x 45mm
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Ultra Blue
2018
Acrylic and enamel paint on steel wire
435 x 900 x 140mm
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Maquettes - Ideas for a painting to walk through
2020-2024
Acrylic and enamel paint on brass wire
$320-700 | ENQUIRE
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Helen Calder
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Maquettes - Ideas for a painting to walk through
2020-2024
Acrylic and enamel paint on brass wire
$320-700 | ENQUIRE
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Helen Calder
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Maquettes - Ideas for a painting to walk through
2020-2024
Acrylic and enamel paint on brass wire
$320-700 | ENQUIRE
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Helen Calder
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Maquettes - Ideas for a painting to walk through
2020-2024
Acrylic and enamel paint on brass wire
$320-700 | ENQUIRE
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Helen Calder
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Maquettes - Ideas for a painting to walk through
2020-2024
Acrylic and enamel paint on brass wire
$320-700 | ENQUIRE
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Helen Calder
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Maquettes - Ideas for a painting to walk through
2020-2024
Acrylic and enamel paint on brass wire
$320-700 | ENQUIRE
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Helen Calder
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Maquettes - Ideas for a painting to walk through
2020-2024
Acrylic and enamel paint on brass wire
$320-700 | ENQUIRE
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Kelly McDonald
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Proboscis
2024
Steel, wire, brass
$450 | ENQUIRE
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Kelly McDonald
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Install view
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Kelly McDonald
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Install view
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Kelly McDonald
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The Protector
2024
Steel wire, shoe heel protectors, forged brass
$1100 | SOLD
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Kelly McDonald
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The Protector & Lovers
2024
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Kelly McDonald
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Lovers (detail)
2024
Steel wire
$1200 | SOLD
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Kelly McDonald
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Forked
2024
Brass forks, steel spanner
$490 | ENQUIRE
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Kelly McDonald
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Latched
2024
Steel wire, gate latch, cast bronze heads
$870 | ENQUIRE
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Kelly McDonald
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Butterfly, Drizzle, Nestled
2024
$370-790 | ENQUIRE
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Hold, drape, fold
Helen Calder & Kelly McDonald
01 Oct – 16 Nov 2024
Ōtautahi Christchurch based artist Helen Calder graduated with a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Canterbury in 2003. Her thesis on painting’s relationship with architecture has shaped her practice which sees architectural space as a frame for her work. Her work is held in private and public collections including the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, the Christchurch Art Gallery, the Chartwell Collection, the Fletcher Trust Collection and Simpson Grierson Collection.
Recent exhibitions include Kaleidoscope: Abstract Aotearoa, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, 2018, Qualia 760-620, Enjoy Public Gallery, Wellington, 2014, Burster Flipper Wobbler Dripper Spinner Stacker Shaker Maker, curated by Justin Paton and Felicity Milburn, Christchurch Art Gallery, 2014; and Unpainted, Blue Oyster Gallery, Dunedin 2014. Her first solo exhibition at The National The Tidy of Behaviour of Matter was in 2023.
Kelly McDonald is an artist based in Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington. Her work is a playful investigation of materials and their previous lives. McDonald’s childhood growing up near the largest brown coal deposit in the southern hemisphere has informed her visual language as a practitioner, employing a masculine and utilitarian aesthetic in her jewellery. She continually collects discarded domestic and industrial artefacts, deconstructing, reconstructing, and arranging them, bringing these potent, much-handled objects into surprising new relationships with each other and with the body. Her re-contextualisations transgress the boundaries of wearability, creating a subversive material language that speaks directly to the territory between people and the things they use. Hold, drape, fold: A curious story examines how these materials might rub against humans, both lovingly and in a scratchy way.
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