Andrew Drummond (artist)

New Zealand artist

Andrew Drummond

Born| 1951

Nelson, New Zealand

Nationality| New Zealand
Education| University of Waterloo, Canada
Awards| New Zealand Order of Merit 2007

* Listening and Viewing Device Andrew Drummond

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[edit]

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, Page Blackie gallery in Wellington and Antoinette Godkin gallery in Auckland.[3][4][5]

## Honours and awards[edit]

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

Andrew Drummond has received the following awards:

* 1999 Creative New Zealand Grant for Projects Environment commission[3]
* 1995 Creative New Zealand Grant for Robert McDougall Art Gallery commission[3]
* 1990 Australia, New Zealand Foundation Fellowship[3]
* 1987 Tylee Cottage Residency[7]
* 1981 Major Grant, QEII Arts Council[3]
* 1980 Frances Hodgkins Fellowship, University of Otago, Dunedin[2][8]

## Works[edit]

Andrew Drummond works with a variety of media and materials. His work includes process-based installation, photography, figurative and symbolic imagery.[2] Drummond was included in a number of early exhibitions that featured performance art in New Zealand including ANZART initiated by Ian Hunter in 1981 and the F1 New Zealand Sculpture Project in 1982.

He had an exhibition at the Wellington City Gallery in 1981 titled Andrew Drummond: Works 80.[9]

## Public sculpture and commissions[edit]

Ramarama, Andrew Drummond

Drummond has received many commissions for both private and public sculptures.[10][11]

* 2016/17 Ramarama, Suter Gallery, Nelson
* 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

* 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, Botanic Garden, Wellington
* 1990 Stationary Limbs, commission for the Fletcher Trust Collection, Fletcher Challenge House, Auckland

## Controversy[edit]

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.[11]

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.[12]

## See also[edit]

* List of University of Waterloo people

## References[edit]

1. ^ "Andrew Drummond, New Zealand artist, sculptor from Palmerston North". www.creativegiants.co.nz. Retrieved 27 September 2020.
2. ^ a b c d "Andrew Drummond". govettbrewster. Archived from the original on 9 February 2013. Retrieved 28 December 2012.
3. ^ a b c d e "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. ^ "Forward Impetus | Sarjeant Gallery Whanganui". Sarjeant Gallery Whanganui. 3 November 2016. Retrieved 8 June 2021.
8. ^ Fox, Rebecca (3 November 2016). "Fellowship leaves imprint". Otago Daily Times Online News. Retrieved 8 June 2021.
9. ^ "City Gallery Wellington". City Gallery. Retrieved 8 June 2021.
10. ^ "Jonathan Smart Gallery – Andrew Drummond". www.jonathansmartgallery.com. Retrieved 12 October 2020.
11. ^ a b 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.
12. ^ "Crucifixion Performance". Art New Zealand. Retrieved 5 October 2020.

## External links[edit]

* Profile from the New Zealand Listener, 29 July – 4 August 2006 Vol 204 No 3455
* Andrew Drummond – TePapa's website [1]
* Jonathan Smart gallery – solo show in 2013 [2]

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Frances Hodgkins Fellows

* 1966 Michael Illingworth
* 1967 Tanya Ashken
* 1968 Derek Ball
* 1969 Ralph Hotere
* 1970 Michael Smither
* 1971–2 Marte Szirmay
* 1973 Ray Thorburn
* 1974 Marilynn Webb
* 1975 J. S. Parker
* 1976 Ian Bergquist
* 1977 Jeffrey Harris
* 1978 Grahame Sydney
* 1979 Matthew Pine
* 1980 Andrew Drummond
* 1981 Gretchen Albrecht
* 1982 Chris Booth
* 1983 Joanna Paul
* 1984 Michael Armstrong
* 1985 Denis O'Connor
* 1986 Ian C. McMillan
* 1987 Kendal Heyes
* 1988 Julia Morison
* 1989 Shona Rapira Davies
* 1990 Siegfried Koglmeier
* 1991 Christine Webster
* 1992 Neil Frazer
* 1993 Peter Gibson Smith
* 1994 Nicola Jackson
* 1995 Jeffrey Thomson
* 1996–7 Fiona Pardington
* 1998 Shane Cotton
* 1999 Séraphine Pick
* 2000 Jim Speers
* 2001 Ava Seymour
* 2002 Scott Eady
* 2003 Sara Hughes
* 2004 Mladen Buizumic
* 2005 Rohan Wealleans
* 2006 Sarah Munro
* 2007 Ben Cauchi
* 2008 Heather Straka
* 2009 Eddie Clemens
* 2010 Joanna Langford
* 2011 Kushana Bush
* 2012 Nick Austin
* 2013 Zina Swanson
* 2014 Patrick Lundberg
* 2015 John Ward Knox
* 2016 Miranda Parkes
* 2017 Campbell Patterson
* 2018 Louise Menzies
* 2019 Imogen Taylor
* 2020–2021 Bridget Reweti
* 2022 Sorawit Songsataya
* 2023 Emily Hartley-Skudder
* 2024 Miranda Bellamy and Amanda Fauteux

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