JOHN PARKER

Milford Galleries Dunedin18 Dowling Street (03) 477 7727 [email protected]

www.milfordgalleries.co.nz

16 March - 10 April 2013 John Parkerpatriotic ceramics by

Assorted Vessels [13-50] [13-6] [13-20] [13-31] [13-25] [13-37] [13-3] (2012-13), black glazed ceramic

Assorted Vessels [13-50] [13-6] [13-20] [13-31] [13-25] [13-37] [13-3] (2012-13), black glazed ceramic

Assorted Vessels [13-1] [13-23] [13-18] [13-32] [13-38] [13-9] [13-29] (2012-13), white glazed ceramic

Assorted Vessels [13-1] [13-23] [13-18] [13-32] [13-38] [13-9] [13-29] (2012-13), white glazed ceramic

Assorted Vessels [13-4] [13-42] [13-43] [13-14] [13-19] [13-8] [13-48] [13-16] (2012-13), red glazed ceramic

Assorted Vessels [13-4] [13-42] [13-43] [13-14] [13-19] [13-8] [13-48] [13-16] (2012-13), red glazed ceramic

Assorted Vessels [13-7] [13-27] [13-21] [13-39] [13-30] [13-33] (2012-13), black crawled glazed ceramic

Assorted Vessels [13-7] [13-27] [13-21] [13-39] [13-30] [13-33] (2012-13), black crawled glazed ceramic

Assorted Vessels [13-35] [13-45] [13-13] [13-22] [13-49] [13-34] [13-44] [13-36] [13-12] [13-11] [13-28] (2012-13), glazed ceramic

Assorted Vessels [13-35] [13-45] [13-13] [13-22] [13-49] [13-34] [13-44] [13-36] [13-12] [13-11] [13-28] (2012-13), glazed ceramic

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Assorted Vessels [13-24] [13-17] [13-30] [13-15] [13-41] [13-26] [13-5] [13-10] [13-2] (2012-13), glazed ceramic

Assorted Vessels [13-24] [13-17] [13-30] [13-15] [13-41] [13-26] [13-5] [13-10] [13-2] (2012-13), glazed ceramic

All prices are NZD and include GST; Prices are current at the time of the exhibition

E X H I B I T I O N P R I C E L I S T

1 Black Zig-Zag Bottle [13-31] (2012) 395

2 Black Grooved Orb [13-37] (2012) 250

3 Black Grooved Cone [13-6] (2013) 295

4 Black Zig-Zag Conical Flask [13-25] (2013) 415

5 Black Grooved Vessel [13-50] (2012) 450

6 Black Spotted Cylinder [13-20] (2013) 450

7 White Grooved Cylinder [13-23] (2013) 395

8 White Grooved Cone [13-5] (2013) 375

9 White Cone [13-1] (2012) 295

10 White Zig-Zag Conical Flask [13-32] (2013) 415

11 White Zig-Zag Bottle [13-29] (2012) 450

12 White Grooved Orb [13-38] (2012) 395

13 Red Cone [13-4] (2012) 295

14 Red Grooved Cylinder [13-14] (2013) 195

15 Red China Vessel [13-43] (2013) 295

16 Red Cone [13-8] (2012) 305

17 Red Spotted Cylinder [13-19] (2013) 395

18 Red China Low Bowl [13-48] (2013) 525

19 Black Crawled Zig-Zag Bottle [13-27] (2013) 450

20 Black Crawled Cone [13-7] (2013) 325

21 Black Crawled Cylinder [13-21] (2013) 425

22 Black Crawled Orb [13-39] (2012) 295

23 Black Crawled Zig-Zag Vase [13-30] (2013) 295

24 Black Crawled Zig-Zag Conical Flask [13-33] (2013) 425

All prices are NZD and include GST; Prices are current at the time of the exhibition


26 Black Zig-Zag Bottle [13-28] (2012) 295

27 White Spotted Cone [13-12] (2013) 375


29 Red China Vessel [13-44] (2013) 315

30 Black Grooved Orb [13-36] (2013) 375

31 Red China Vessel [13-42] (2013) 395

32 Red China Vessel [13-45] (2013) 315

33 Black Crawled Orb [13-35] (2012) 315

34 Black Zig-Zag Conical Flask [13-34] (2013) 395


36 White Grooved Vessel [13-49] (2012) 450

37 Red Cone [13-11] (2012) 295

38 White Spotted Gooved Cone [13-9] (2013) 395

39 Black Grooved Cylinder [13-15] (2013) 395

40 Black Spotted Cylinder [13-24] (2013) 195


42 Red China Vessel [13-40] (2013) 395

43 Black Grooved Cone [13-3] (2013) 350

44 Black Cone [13-10] (2012) 295

45 White Zig-Zag Conical Flask [13-26] (2013) 315


47 Red Cone [13-2] (2012) 295

48 Red China Vessel [13-41] (2013) 395

49 White Spotted Cylinder [13-17] (2013) 395


Fundamental to John Parker’s pre-eminence as a ceramic artist is a

preparedness to define, restrict, and then repeat. His works are hand-built

forms - variously cones, cylinders, jugs, and orbs with surface treatments that

reveal his colourist’s sensibility and the rhythms of incised patterns.

Parker uses the space surrounding each work – and between various works -

to objectify the work itself. He is thinking of each work in a sculptural way.

Although none of the works are in themselves large-scale, the role played by

this surrounding or “between space” asserts a role which means that the

work(s) occupies a considerably larger area than at first revealed.

This exhibition of new work sees (2010 Art Laureate) John Parker exploring red,

white, black and crackled surface treatments. The objects sit within his well-

defined oeuvre and within that further extend his customary dialogues.

John Parker 2013 CV Milford Galleries Dunedin www.milfordgalleries.co.nz

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JOHN PARKER b. 1947, lives Auckland

Still Life for Keith and Ernie 8 (2009-11)

“I subscribe to the well rounded aesthetic ideal, I guess. All the things I do relate, they are all visual. They

all concern the drama of reactions to shape and colour and arrangement.” John Parker works as a

potter, set and costume designer and film critic. He draws no distinction between his interests. “The

same themes flow through your work and the same processes of stylisation, fine-tuning and attention to

detail apply.” (1)

“When working in clay, I see myself following in the traditions of being just a craft potter. Each piece is

hand-made and unique. I throw and turn all my work on the potter’s wheel. I make ware which is easily

recognisable as the classical pottery vessel, bottle or bowl, but my special concern is to push the

concepts of these as far as possible into severe minimalism and into the functional/non-functional

debate to explore the very essence of defining these ideas. My forms and aesthetic, of the stark and

the industrial owe more to the philosophy of the European design movements of de Stijl and the

Bauhaus than to Leach and Hamada.” (2)

“His pots are beautifully formed, strongly based on simple geometry, they are elegantly glazed and

crisply detailed.” (3) “For some years now Parker has been limiting his focus and simplifying his forms. In

his search for refinement and perfection he now works purely in white porcelain.” (4)

"Shufflebotham had worked with the New Zealand designer Keith Murray at Wedgwood during the

1930s. There he had been a master thrower and key interpreter of Murray’s innovative, restrained and

glacial domestic wares. When, in the 1940s, Shufflebotham found himself at Crown Lynn in

Auckland, he produced a series of hand potted, turned and white-glazed works that were essentially a

theme and variation on those he had thrown at Wedgwood. In the works of these two men, Parker

discovered like-minded ceramic artists who thought across traditional boundaries and in doing so

instituted the exchange of a distinctive modernist iconography particular to Britain and New Zealand.

Parker began to add to that tradition, bringing to it his own set of references and experiences."(5)

Born in Auckland, New Zealand 1947. After some years studying in New Zealand and London, Parker

graduated with a Master of Fine Arts, Royal College of Art, London in 1975. He returned to Auckland in

1977 and continues to live and work there.

Parker has been exhibiting ceramics since 1967. He now frequently has three solo exhibitions in New

Zealand annually and also participates in local and international groups show in the UK, Italy, USA and

Australia. Widely regarded as one of New Zealand’s leading ceramic artists, Parker has received

numerous commissions and awards for his work including the prestigious Arts Foundation Laureate

Award in 2010. His work is held in major New Zealand public collections including the Museum of New

Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa as well as many private collections in New Zealand and internationally.

1. Artists Statement, 1994.

2. Artists Statement, 2000.

3. Helen Schamroth, ‘100 New Zealand Craft Artists’, , Godwit, Auckland, 1998.

4. Barry Allom, ‘Urbane, stylish, all white’, The Press, 18 November 1998.

5. Douglas Lloyd-Jenkins, 'The Journey Towards White', John Parker Ceramics, David Bateman, 2002.


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JOHN PARKER b. 1947, lives Auckland

EDUCATION 1975 MA, Royal College of Art, London, England

1970 DipTech (Distinction) Auckland College of Education

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2013 Black + White + Red, Milford Galleries Dunedin

Positives / Negatives, Masterworks, Auckland

Attracted Opposites, AVID, Wellington

2012 Untested, Masterworks, Auckland

Negatives/Positives, AVID, Wellington

2011 RED, milford galleries queenstown

Shades of Red, AVID, Wellington

Testing, Masterworks, Auckland

2010 Black + White + Red, milford galleries queenstown

2009 The Same But Different, Masterworks, Auckland

The Same But Different, AVID, Wellington

2007 New Ceramic Forms, milford galleries queenstown

New China, Masterworks, Auckland

Diversions, AVID, Wellington

2006 Baubles, AVID, Wellington

Off White, Masterworks, Auckland

Superstrata, Milford Galleries Dunedin

Superstrata, AVID, Wellington

2005 Superstrata, Objectspace, Auckland

Resurfacing, AVID, Wellington

2004 Resurfacing, Masterworks, Auckland

New Artefacts, Milford Galleries Dunedin

Abstraction and Still Life, Milford Galleries Dunedin

2003 New Artefacts, Masterworks, Auckland

New Artefacts, AVID, Wellington

White Ware, Form Gallery, Christchurch Festival of the Arts

2002 John Parker Ceramics (Retrospective Exhibition), City Gallery, Wellington

2001 White Ware, Masterworks, Auckland

White Ware, AVID, Wellington

2000 Wall to Wall, Hastings Exhibition Centre, Hastings

White Ware, International Arts Festival, Wellington

White Ware, Milford Galleries Dunedin

1999 Twentieth Century Ceramics, AVID, Wellington

Twentieth Century Ceramics, Masterworks, Auckland

1998 99 White Bottles, Albany Village Gallery, Auckland

Functional Ware, Masterworks, Auckland

Functional Ware, AVID, Wellington

1997 White Ware, MIRO Gallery, Napier

White Ware, Masterworks, Auckland

White Ware, AVID, Wellington

1996 Recent Ceramics, AVID, Wellington

1995 New Work, AVID, Wellington

New Work, FORM Gallery, Christchurch

1994 Points and Penetrations, Masterworks, Auckland

New Work, AVID, Wellington

New Work, FORM Gallery, Christchurch

1993 Triptychs, Masterworks, Auckland



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1992 Window Dressing, Compendium Gallery, Auckland


1991 Masterworks, Masterworks, Auckland

1990 Ceramics for the Modern Home, Compendium Gallery, Auckland

1986 Happy Birthday to Me, Real Time, Auckland

1985 Decorative Art, 12 Potters Gallery, Auckland

1984 12 Potters Gallery, Auckland

1983 Textures, New Vision Gallery, Auckland

1982 Pots of Ponsonby, Auckland

1981 Blackfriars Gallery, Sydney, Australia

New Vision Gallery, Auckland

Dowse Art Museum, Wellington

1980 The Craft Centre, Melbourne, Australia

Albany Village Pottery, Auckland

Domestic Wares, Alicat Gallery, Auckland

1979 Brooke Gifford Gallery, Christchurch

Blackfriars Gallery, Sydney, Australia

New Vision Gallery, Auckland

Media, Wellington

1977 New Vision Gallery, Auckland

1973 New Vision Gallery, Auckland

1972 Faenza, ITALY

Christmas Show, MEDIA, Wellington

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2012 Significant Works, Milford Galleries Dunedin

2011-12 Collecting Contemporary, Te Papa Tongarewa, Museum of New Zealand

2011 Crown Lynn: Crockery of Distinction, City Gallery, Wellington

2009 Collis and Parker, The David Lloyd Gallery, Hamilton

In Good Company, Skepski Gallery, Melbourne

2008 Down Under China, Arthouse, Christchurch

Reconstructing China, Masterworks, Auckland

2006 Beyond the Pale¸ North Art, Auckland

2004 Parker and Parker; Installation with Richard Parker, Object Space, Auckland

2002 Space, Fire and Form, Gallery East, Fremantle, Ceramic Art Gallery, Sydney, Shepparton

Art Gallery, Victoria, Australia

1996 The Bowled and the Beautiful, Freemantle, Australia

Works in Progress (collaboration with Terry Stringer), Compendium Gallery, Auckland

1995 Clay and Architecture (Collaboration with Simon Carnachan), Fisher Gallery, Auckland

Ceramics for the Year of the Pig, Masterworks, Auckland

1994 Collaborations (Joint show with Rick Rudd), Masterworks, Auckland

1984 Porcelain: 4 Potters, 12 Potters Gallery, Auckland

Clay and Glass, AZ ART, Arizona, USA

1983 Basic Black: Twenty Bowls, Denis Cohn Gallery, Auckland

1982 Weaver John Hadwen, C S A Gallery, Christchurch

1980 5 x 5, Denis Cohn Gallery, Auckland

1979 North Island Potters, Dowse Art Museum, Wellington

1978 Crafts New Zealand, overseas travelling exhibition

Porcelain 3, Alicat, Auckland

4 x 10: Four Approaches, Peter Webb Gallery, Auckland

1977 Oxford Gallery, Oxford, UK

Porcelain Show, MEDIA, Wellington

Porcelain 2, Alicat, Auckland

1976 Heals (with Ian Godfrey), London, UK

Upper Street Gallery, London, UK

Third Eye Gallery, Glasgow, UK

Tom Caldwell Gallery, Belfast, UK

24 British Potters (travelling show) USA


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1975 Degree Show, Royal College of Art, London, UK

Oxford Gallery, Oxford, UK

Christmas Show, Goswell Road Workshop, London, UK

Faenza, Italy

National Museum of Wales, Cardiff, Wales, UK

1969+ New Zealand Society of Potters Annual Exhibitions

With Grant Hudson, Upstairs Gallery, Hamilton

1967+ Auckland Studio Potters Annual Exhibitions

AWARDS & COMMISSIONS 2010 Arts Foundation Laureate Award

2009 Winner of Portage Awards, John Green Waitakere Artist Award

2007 Winner of Portage Awards, John Green Waitakere Artist Award

1999 Awarded Waitakere City Millennium Medal for services to the Community

Commissioned Installation for Ministry of Foreign Affairs, for Embassy Chancery, Jakarta

Commission for Noel Lane - Architect, Auckland

Commissioned APEC Leaders Gift presented to Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin

Commissioned Installation for Chapman Tripp Foyer, Wellington

1998 Birkehead Licensing Trust Award

Royal Easter Show Western Potters Award

1995 Merit Award, Royal Easter Show Pottery Awards

Merit Award, Hume Gas Award

1989 Awarded Major Creative Development Grant by QE2 to research glaze technology & UV

light

1985 Merit Award, Fletcher Brownbuilt Pottery Award



SELECTED COLLECTIONS

Chapman Tripp

Sun Alliance

Montana Wines

Auckland Institute and Museum

Dowse Art Museum

Museum of New Zealand - Te Papa Tongarewa

Manawatu Art Gallery

Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences, Sydney, Australia

N Z Embassy, Tokyo, Japan

Northern Arizona University, USA

Pennsylvania State University, USA

Waikato Art Museum

Whangarei Art Gallery

NZ Embassy, Jakarta, Indonesia

James Wallace Arts Trust

SELECTED ARTICLES

2002 John Parker Ceramics, Wellington: David Bateman

2002 Severe White Things, Art News, Summer 2002, pp 50 – 51

1998 Schamroth, Helen, 100 New Zealand Craft Artists, Auckland: Godwit

1996 Lloyd-Jenkins, Douglas, From Paris to Vortex: Keith Murray and New Zealand Ceramics,

Keith Murray in Context, Robin Craw (ed.), Napier: Hawkes Bay Museum

1995 Parker, John, The Organic Nature of Sophistication: Lucie Rie Remembered, New Zealand

Potter, vol.37, no.3, December 1995, pp 16-18

1995 Mansfield, Janet, Contemporary Ceramic Art in Australia and New Zealand, Sydney:

Craftsman House

1990 Waitakere Arts and Cultural Centre. Stages: John Parker Survey Exhibition, Auckland

1988 Parker, John and Celia Parkinson 24 New Zealand Potters, Auckland: David Bateman


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1981 Parker, John, Domestic Wares, New Zealand Potter, vol.23, no.2, Spring 1981, pp 24-25

1978 Parker, John, Eat Your Heart Out Betty Crocker, New Zealand Potter, vol.20, no.2, Spring

1978, pp 20

1973 Harris, Margaret, John Parker, New Zealand Potter, vol.15, no.1, Autumn 1973, pp 44-46

1973 Harris, Margaret, John Parker at New Vision, New Zealand Potter, vol.15, no.1. Autumn

1973, pp 47

Selection of red vessels (2011)

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