Andrew Drummond (artist)

Andrew Drummond (born 1951 in Nelson, New Zealand) is a New Zealand painter and sculptor. He attended University of Waterloo in Canada, graduating in 1976.[1] He was a Frances Hodgkins Fellow in 1980.

Information

Andrew Drummond tends to focus on process and ritual while contemplating ideas of location. He considers the entanglements of the human body, ecology, and dislocated histories within the landscapes of New Zealand. In the 1970s, he created several documented performance works. Drummond lives and works in Christchurch, New Zealand.[2] He earned his degree in Fine Arts from the University of Waterloo, Canada, and is currently a senior lecturer in sculpture at the University of Canterbury, School of Fine Arts.[2] He is represented by Jonathan Smart gallery in Christchurch,[3] Page Blackie gallery in Wellington[4] and Antoinette Godkin gallery in Auckland.[5]

Honours and awards

In 2007 Drummond was awarded the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to sculpture[6]

Andrew Drummond has received the following awards:[3]

Works

Andrew Drummond works with the following medias and materials:

Public sculpture and commissions

Drummond has received many significant commissions for both private and public sculptures.[7][8]

  • 2014/15 Armillary for Air, private commission, Ohinetahi, Governors Bay, Canterbury
  • 2011/12 Rotating Sphere, private commission, South Canterbury, NZ
  • 2007 Vertical Form, Counter Rotating, private commission, Nelson
  • 2006 Vertical Form, Counter Rotating, private commission, Banks Peninsula
    Listening and Viewing Device Andrew Drummond
    2005 Tower of Light, Wellington Sculpture Trust commission for Meridian Energy Wind Project
  • 2004 Cascade, commission for Woollaston Estates, Nelson
  • 2004 for Swinging and Spinning, private commission, Geraldine, Canterbury
  • 2000 Assignation Device, commission by Kiwi Properties for Veto Building, Auckland
  • 1999 Crossroads, commission by Projects Environment for ArtBarns: After Kurt Schwitters
  • 1995 for Beating and Breathing, commission for Robert McDougall Art Gallery, Christchurch
  • 1994 Device for Listening & Viewing, Wellington Sculpture Trust commission
  • 1990 Stationary Limbs, commission for the Fletcher Trust Collection, Fletcher Challenge House, Auckland

Controversy

As part of the Canterbury Society of Arts 1978 festival Platforms Drummond performed Crucifixion. He was fixed to a diagonally shaped cross while a latex skin was created on his naked body, once formed the skin was shed from his body and he left the stage. Drummond wore a gas mask throughout to protect himself from the ammonia generated by the drying latex, he was also connected to an ECG machine so observers could monitor his emotional state. For the duration of the festival the discarded latex skin was laid out on the cross and exhibited with Polaroid photographs taken during the performance plus other detritus from the performance.[8]

Two people in the audience took offence at the nudity and reported the performance to the police. The police laid charges (under Section 3(d) of the Police Offences Act.), when eventually heard in court the behaviour was found to be 'ill-mannered, in bad taste, crude and offensive', but the charges were dismissed.[9]

References
  1. "Andrew Drummond, New Zealand artist, sculptor from Palmerston North". www.creativegiants.co.nz. Retrieved 27 September 2020.
  2. "Andrew Drummond". govettbrewster. Archived from the original on 9 February 2013. Retrieved 28 December 2012.
  3. "Andrew Drummond". Jonathan Smart Gallery. Retrieved 27 September 2020.
  4. "Andrew Drummond". Page Galleries. Retrieved 5 October 2020.
  5. "Andrew Drummond". Antoinette Godkin gallery. 4 March 2014. Retrieved 5 October 2020.
  6. "New Year Honours List 2007". New Year Honours List 2007. Retrieved 12 October 2020.
  7. "Jonathan Smart Gallery – Andrew Drummond". www.jonathansmartgallery.com. Retrieved 12 October 2020.
  8. Drummond, Andrew (2010). Andrew Drummond : observation / action / reflection. Hay, Jennifer, 1968–, Christchurch Art Gallery. Christchurch [N.Z.]: Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu. pp. 70–71. ISBN 978-1-877375-19-4. OCLC 660363390.
  9. "Crucifixion Performance". Art New Zealand. Retrieved 5 October 2020.
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