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Award-winning Curator to give Public Talk about Investing in Art

Monday 22 August 2016, 2:48PM

By St Margaret's College

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Penny Jackson
Penny Jackson Credit: St Margaret's College

CHRISTCHURCH

                                                        

22 August 2016

 

Media Release

For immediate release

 

Collecting: A Personal Journey

Award-winning Curator to give Public Talk about Investing in Art

 

Penelope Jackson, well known art historian, curator and writer is presenting Collecting: A Personal Journey, a public talk on collecting art for personal or investment purposes on Saturday 27 August at 2pm in the Charles Luney Auditorium. Tickets are $10, door sales only.

 

Jackson is in Christchurch to curate the Art Exhibition & Sculpture Garden to be held at St Margaret’s College from 26-28 August. Organised by the school’s Parents’ and Friends’ Association to raise funds to support the campus rebuild, the event, in association with Principal Sponsors Craigs Investment Partners features over 160 art works by more than 80 artists. All art is for sale. Among the artists featured in the Old Girls’ Atrium and Cranmer Quad are Gretchen Albrecht, Philip Trusttum, Rebecca Rose, Darryn George, Philip Beadle, Jacquelyn Greenbank, Miranda Parkes, landscape painter Callum Arnold who is Head of Visual Arts at St Margaret’s College as well as up-and-coming artists and students from the University of Canterbury, Ara and St Margaret’s College.

 

The award winning curator will share her experiences of collecting art and offer advice for those interested in purchasing art for personal or investment purposes. Jackson won the 2013 Exhibition of the Year under $20,000 Museums Aotearoa with the sold-out Corrugations: the art of Jeff Thomson and her exhibition Lynley Dodd: A Retrospective is currently on tour in Australia. Jackson is also a Trustee of the NZ Art Crime Research Trust and presented at the inaugural art crime 15 symposium at City Gallery in Wellington.

 

The Art Exhibition & Sculpture Garden is free to attend and is open Saturday 27 August 9.00am–5.00pm and Sunday 28 August from 9.00am–3.00pm. Maggie’s Café in Winchester Street will also be open from 9.00am-1.00pm each day.

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For more information, please contact:

Nicky Averill, Coordinator

Ph: 0274 185 266

Email: caverill@xtra.co.nz

 

To contact Penelope Jackson:

Email: arthistorian@outlook.co.nz

 

 

Curator Bio – Penny Jackson

Penelope Jackson is an Art Historian and writer having held roles at the Robert McDougall Art Gallery and Tauranga Art Gallery. She holds an M.Phil (University of Queensland) in Art History and an MA (Hons) in Art History  (University of Auckland). The author of Edward Bullmore: A Surrealist Odyssey (2008) and The Brown Years: Nigel Brown (2009),  she has contributed to The Dictionary of New Zealand Biography and several journals including Art New Zealand, Art Monthly Australia, Studies in Travel Writing, Journal of Art Crime and Katherine Mansfield Studies. Jackson has also contributed essays to Myriorama/Julia Morison (2008) and Kermadec: Nine Artists Explore the South Pacific (2011). Her interest areas range from researching and documenting the history of art crime in New Zealand to the portraiture of Katherine Mansfield. The exhibition, Lynley Dodd: A Retrospective, curated by Jackson, was hosted by nine venues in New Zealand and is currently on tour in Australia.  She co-authored the book, Corrugations: the art of Jeff Thomson, that accompanied the exhibition of the same name that she curated, sold out and the exhibition won the 2013 Exhibition of the Year under $20K Museums Aotearoa. In her most recent role as Curator and Director of Tauranga Art Gallery, totalling 11 years, she oversaw and contributed to the curatorial and public programmes as well as completing all staff training around a variety of exhibitions and delivering several public talks. Jackson is a Trustee of the NZ Art Crime Research Trust and presented at the inaugural artcrime15 symposium at City Gallery Wellington.  Her chapter, Legacy and Longevity: protecting the past for the future, appeared in Art Crime and its Prevention (Lund Humphries 2016). Jackson’s book, Art Thieves, Fakers and Frausters: The New Zealand Story (Awa Press) is due out late 2016.

Penelope Jackson

M.Phil, MA (Hons), BA(Hons), Grad.Dip.Arts, Dip.Tchg, T.Coll. Dip.