Evan Woodruffe collaborating with Strangely Normal tailors and
BMW Australia, Sydney 2017 @dk.gordon
Evan Woodruffe (b.1965) brings the extraordinary into the ordinary. Whether on a wall or a luxury motorcar, his paintings build complex relationships between colour and pattern to form what writer Lucinda Bennett referred to as Wet Maps, “living, breathing ecosystems, and visualisations of a new kind of urbanism”, where the world itself is fluid and porous.
Through a close collaboration with PAULNACHE, Evan sustains an unpredictable and exciting exhibition schedule, with works that range from the gargantuan 3m x 9m multi-panelled painting 6th April 2019 to his tiny painted pill capsules, both shown at until science finds a cure for our condition, remain medicated (2019). Together, they have expanded Evan’s audience through gallery exhibitions, art fairs including Sydney Contemporary (2017) and Melbourne’s Spring 1883 (2016), and projects in Auckland, Wellington, and Singapore. Evan has regularly shown at public institutions, including his significant contribution to the NZ Special Exhibition at 8th Beijing Biennale (2019). He produced a major exhibition for Tauranga Art Gallery (2018), a large temporary work for Dunedin Public Art Gallery (2015), performance work for the 5th Auckland Triennial (2013), and worked with Whakatane Museum to produce a show based on their photographic archives (2013). Painting remains the core of Evan’s practice, both as artworks in themselves and providing the imagery for printing onto fabrics, furniture, automobiles, and architecture. Collaboration with designers and performers has extended his painting practice off the wall and into our 3D world. Evan is a long-standing supporter of the visual arts, not only as an artist, but as a collector, sponsor, teacher, and advocator. He has run Akepiro Street Studios, home to over a dozen artists, since 2008, and is a regular contributor to community events such as Artweek Auckland. 
Evan Woodruffe in collaboration with Elibra Fleur, Auckland Art Fair 2016
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(For China & Japan Ai Gallery) Upcoming exhibitions PAULNACHE Late 2021 Hastings City Art Gallery 2022 Selected Exhibitions links Charting PAULNACHE 2021 Beacon, with Teresa HR Lane, Artweek Auckland 2020 WWW PAULNACHE 2020 Poetry of the White Cloud Blue Roof Museum, Chengdu 2019 Beijing International Art Biennale National Art Museum, Beijing 2019 Until science finds a cure for our condition, remain medicated PAULNACHE 2019 cobalt float, Gallery 9, Sydney 2019 the world is porous, Tauranga Art Gallery 2018 Art of Performance collaboration with Jaguar Singapore 2018 9x2=18 PAULNACHE 2018 Nowhere to Somewhere, PAULNACHE 2018 Sydney Contemporary PAULNACHE 2017 Village Huha PAULNACHE 2017 Spring 1883 Melbourne PAULNACHE 2016 Lost Dimension, WooSpace, Beijing 2016 Auckland Art Fair PAULNACHE 2016 Graffiti Lounge, PAULNACHE 2016 Intellectual Fashion Show, Gus Fisher, Auckland 2016 Hypnic Jerks PAULNACHE 2015 Dodge, Rear Window, Dunedin Public Art Gallery 2015 Here Comes Everyone OREXART 2015 Considered, M Contemporary, Sydney 2015 UNfold FourFOLD, Ferriera Projects, London 2015 Melbourne Art Fair PAULNACHE 2014 tattered by attempting moonbeams OREXART 2014 7 x 2 = 14 PAULNACHE 2014 Art for the People! with Catherine Ellis, 5th Auckland Triennial, Auckland Art Gallery 2013 Drawn Back Te Koputu a te whanga a Toi, Whakatane 2013 The Memory Archive OREXART 2012 Voyeur, with Imogen Taylor, K’Road, Auckland Art Week 2012 Time is a Thief OREXART 2011 The Dangerous Looseness of Doom OREXART 2010 Scene OREXART 2008 Lost Blue Heaven OREXART 2005 Laid Down OREXART 2003 Video links
Re: Evan Woodruffe, artist and Collector 2019 In the Studio Wallace Arts Trust 2017 Interview 2017 Graffiti Lounge 2016 Evan Woodruffe Hypnic Jerks 2015 Publications links Woodruffe, E. (2019). Bejing and beyond, Art News 39/4. ElGenaidi, D. (2018). A View from the Easel Hyperallergic. Gardiner, S. (2017). Dabbling with Consciousness, Art Collector (SC17 Special Edition). Seed, J. (2016). Assertively Decorative, Huffington Post. Bennett, L. (2016). Wet Maps: Evan Woodruffe's Painted Networks, Art New Zealand 157 Seed, J. (2015). Heightened Perceptions, Poets & Artists 65. Marshall, J. (2005). The Dialectic of Terror & Temptation, Art New Zealand 117. Education MFA (1st Class), University of Auckland Post-Graduate Art & Design, AUT Awards 2011 Molly Morpeth Canaday Award 2003 Becroft Premier Award Collections NZ Department of the Prime Minister NZ Ministry of Foreign Affairs & Trade Wallace Art Trust Parkin Collection Private Collections in New Zealand, Australia, Singapore, China, USA, & Spain. |