Evan Woodruffe

Abstract Artist

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ARTWORKS

Title: 28th August 2023

It often takes a while to find myself again after a major show. This was the first painting I was happy with following No Straight Lines 4 months prior.
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Title: 28th April 2023

Although begun in late 2022, the greater realisation of this work took place after the devastating floods of Anniversary Weekend in Tamaki Makaurau Auckland and Cyclone Gabrielle in Matau-a-Maui Hawkes Bay.
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Title: 24th July 2022

My signature is always on the back of the work, yet here the red ribbon careering across nearly 3m of canvas loosely spells my initials EW. Sometimes you have to shout from the top!
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Title: 6th February 2022

This unusual colour palette was influenced by Wassily Kandinsky’s Three Elements (1925) and used in two works for my Lollygagger exhibition at PAULNACHE.
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EXHIBITIONS

Exhibition at Fe29 Gallery Dunedin

On a Purple Thought-Base is my first exhibition in Te Wai Pounamu the South Island (the title comes from a Hone Tuwhare poem).
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No Straight Lines, Te Whare Toi o Heretaunga Hastings City Art Gallery 2023

Opening just two months after the devastating floods of Cyclone Gabrielle, this exhibition offered a bright, uplifting environment for the community to refresh themselves in.
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Until science finds a cure for our condition, remain medicated, PAULNACHE 2019

Until science finds a cure for our condition, remain medicated, PAULNACHE 2019

PAULNACHE and I had discussed how multipanel paintings could be rearranged and mixed up yet still work as an image.
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Roof Space, Chengdu, China 2019

Roof Space, Chengdu, China 2019

Ai Gallery toured us through China as cultural ambassadors, visiting three cities and meeting with artists, curators, collectors, and with the great support of our Embassy staff.
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A confused multiplicity of interconnected elements and surfaces that allude to our current urbanism.

Evan Woodruffe – artist and collector

“There are weapons in this world, but art is the antithesis of that. It’s something that builds up; it’s something that makes our hearts soar.”

COLLABORATIONS AND COMMISSIONS

Private Commission

This was made for a specific spot in the client’s new home, halfway up a tall, open stairwell.
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Commission for MC, Office of the Crown Solicitors

"Along with his brilliant work that left us all speechless, Evan’s way of creatively collaborating and including us in his step-by-step process made the experience of working with him all that much more exciting."
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Chatting with Claire Dutton of Auckland tailors Strangely Normal

Chatting with Claire Dutton of Auckland Tailors Strangely Normal

I'm wearing my Artist Jacket 2018, their Brubeck jacket made with genuine silk velvet printed with my work.
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Working with the senior art students at Mt Albert Grammar School in Auckland Tamaki Makaurau 2021 as Artist In Residence

Artist in Residence at Mt Albert Grammar School

Working with the senior art students at Mt Albert Grammar School in Auckland Tamaki Makaurau 2021 as Artist In Residence to create this mural was an uplifting experience.
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An assertively decorative aesthetic.

NEWS

Largest work to date 28th April 2023

My exhibition No Straight Lines at Te Where Toi o Heretaunga Hastings City Art Gallery provided the opportunity to negotiate with its Main Gallery, the largest un-poled space in the Southern Hemisphere.
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Creative Matters Podcast

Whether you’re out for a stroll or need some aural distraction while working, you can now listen to me in conversation with Mandy Jakich at her lovely Muriwai studio for Creative Matters.
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Exquisite Colours collaboration with Schmincke

My collaboration with renown German paint manufacturer Schmincke in 2022, designing the palette of colours for a Ultimate Mixing Set of Horadam Watercolours, was so successful that they asked me to devise a new set for 2023.
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Newsletter February 2022

Delightfully, I’ve realised this newsletter reflects a part of my practice where elements come together to make a whole.
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