Russell Moses

Last updated

Russell Moses
Born1948 (age 7374)
Palmerston North, New Zealand
OccupationArtist

Russell Moses (born 1948) is a New Zealand artist. He was born in 1948 in Palmerston North, New Zealand, Moses works in a variety of media including painting, printmaking, ceramic art, and sculpting. Moses is a self-taught artist who came to prominence in the 1970s with his large pit-fired ceramic sculpture installations. [1] From 1971, he intermittently shared studio space with fellow New Zealand artist Ralph Hotere, who had built a studio at Observation Point, [2] near Port Chalmers, in New Zealand's South Island. The studio was demolished in 1993 as part of efforts by the town's port facilities to expand. In response to the demolition of Observation Point, in 1995 Moses used the site clay to create large rosaries and paintings, as well as using woodchips from the wharf for bark paintings and sculptures. [3]

Related Research Articles

Henri Matisse 20th-century French artist (1869–1954)

Henri Émile Benoît Matisse was a French artist, known for both his use of colour and his fluid and original draughtsmanship. He was a draughtsman, printmaker, and sculptor, but is known primarily as a painter. Matisse is commonly regarded, along with Pablo Picasso, as one of the artists who best helped to define the revolutionary developments in the visual arts throughout the opening decades of the twentieth century, responsible for significant developments in painting and sculpture.

Frank Stella American painter

Frank Philip Stella is an American painter, sculptor and printmaker, noted for his work in the areas of minimalism and post-painterly abstraction. Stella lives and works in New York City.

Marc Quinn is a British contemporary visual artist whose work includes sculpture, installation, and painting. Quinn explores "what it is to be human in the world today" through subjects including the body, genetics, identity, environment, and the media. His work has used materials that vary widely, from blood, bread and flowers, to marble and stainless steel. Quinn has been the subject of solo exhibitions at Sir John Soane's Museum, the Tate Gallery, National Portrait Gallery, Fondation Beyeler, Fondazione Prada, and South London Gallery. The artist was a notable member of the Young British Artists movement.

Arthur Boyd Australian painter (1920–1999)

Arthur Merric Bloomfield Boyd was a leading Australian painter of the middle to late 20th century. Boyd's work ranges from impressionist renderings of Australian landscape to starkly expressionist figuration, and many canvases feature both. Several famous works set Biblical stories against the Australian landscape, such as The Expulsion (1947–48), now at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Having a strong social conscience, Boyd's work deals with humanitarian issues and universal themes of love, loss and shame.

Ralph Hotere New Zealand artist (1931–2013)

Hone Papita Raukura "Ralph" Hotere was a New Zealand artist of Māori descent. He was born in Mitimiti, Northland and is widely regarded as one of New Zealand's most important artists. In 1994 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Otago and in 2003 received an Icon Award from the Arts Foundation of New Zealand.

Eamon Everall English Stuckist artist and educator

Eamon Everall is an English artist and educator. He was one of the 12 founder members of the Stuckists art group. He paints in a "neo-cubist" style, with subjects from life worked on over a long period.

Studio pottery Modern hand-made artistic pottery

Studio pottery is pottery made by professional and amateur artists or artisans working alone or in small groups, making unique items or short runs. Typically, all stages of manufacture are carried out by the artists themselves. Studio pottery includes functional wares such as tableware and cookware, and non-functional wares such as sculpture, with vases and bowls covering the middle ground, often being used only for display. Studio potters can be referred to as ceramic artists, ceramists, ceramicists or as an artist who uses clay as a medium.

York Art Gallery Art museum in York, England

York Art Gallery is a public art gallery in York, England, with a collection of paintings from 14th-century to contemporary, prints, watercolours, drawings, and ceramics. It closed for major redevelopment in 2013, reopening in summer of 2015. The building is a Grade II listed building and is managed by York Museums Trust.

Harold Ambellan (1912–2006) was an American sculptor. Born in Buffalo, New York Ambellan provided sculpture for New Deal-era projects and served as President of the Sculptors Guild in 1941, prior to his service in the U.S. military. Ambellan exiled himself to France in 1954 because of his political views.

Viola Frey American artist (1933–2004)

Viola Frey was an American artist working in sculpture, painting and drawing, and professor emerita at California College of the Arts. She lived and worked in the San Francisco Bay Area and was renowned for her larger-than-life, colorfully glazed clay sculptures of men and women, which expanded the traditional boundaries of ceramic sculpture.

Doris Lusk New Zealand painter, potter, art teacher, and university lecturer (1916–1990)

Doris More Lusk was a New Zealand painter, potter, art teacher, and university lecturer. In 1990 she was posthumously awarded the Governor General Art Award in recognition of her artistic career and contributions.

Ann Robinson (artist) New Zealand studio glass artist

Ann Robinson is a New Zealand studio glass artist who is internationally renowned for her glass casting work. Robinson is a recipient of the ONZM (2001) and a Lifetime Achievement Award by the American Glass Art Society (2006), and is a Laureate of the Arts Foundation of New Zealand (2006).

Chris Bailey is a Māori sculptor and carver of Ngāti Porou, Ngāti Hako, Ngati Pāoa, Te Aupōuri and Irish descent. Bailey studied Māori language and Māori material culture at the University of Auckland under Dante Bonica. He lives and works on Waiheke Island.

Elizabeth McClure is a New Zealand based glass artist who was born in Lanark, Scotland.

Julia Morison

Julia Morison is a New Zealand artist working across a wide range of media including painting, sculpture, photography, installation and recently ceramics.

Observation Point

Observation Point, also known as Flagstaff Lookout or Flagstaff Hill, and formerly as Flagstaff Point is a large bluff in central Port Chalmers, in New Zealand's South Island. The point, as its name suggests, offers panoramic views covering the town, its deep-water port, and across the Otago Harbour. A road, Aurora Terrace, ascends to near the top of the point, allowing for easy public access.

Rebecca Tobey

Rebecca Tobey is an American artist from Santa Fe, New Mexico, who creates ceramic, brass, and patina animal sculptures in both modern and abstract styles. Along with her husband, Gene, she worked for decades to create animal forms. Her artworks, inspired by the mythologies of the Native Americans, have been commissioned by the government and private institutions, and exhibited worldwide.

Leon van den Eijkel was a Dutch-born New Zealand artist who studied at The Hague's Royal Academy of Art from 1958 to 1963, and emigrated to New Zealand in 1986. Van den Eijkel exhibited widely in Europe, the United States, and New Zealand, and is represented in many major public and private collections.

Andrew Lord (artist)

Andrew Lord is an English artist based in New York, primarily known for ceramics and drawings. In a 2010 monograph on the occasion of his exhibition at the Milton Keynes Gallery, Dawn Adès commented that his sculpture, informed by painting, ceramics poetry, the natural world and the city, exemplifies, "The centrality of material things to memory, experience, associations."

Kate Just is an American-born Australian artist.

References

  1. "Russell Moses, Kaipara Waka". Gibbs Farm. Retrieved 13 March 2016.
  2. "Russell Moses at G2/FHE Galleries". New Zealand Herald. 9 June 2002. ISSN   1170-0777 . Retrieved 13 March 2016.
  3. "Russell Moses · FHE GALLERIES · ARTISTS". Fhegalleries.com. Retrieved 13 March 2016.