welcome

RAINBOW SERPENT (psychic skins)

a multi layered long walk along free hanging banner painting assemblige as a record of life thru time

otago art school gallery dunedin.

till the 18th of may.

thanks all who came performed at the closeing gig last friday.
kahu -peter gutterage- motoko and richard- catherine airian- and wolf skull.
it was a majical event for the wider dunedin arts community in the art school gallery and very successfull and meaningfull. restoreing some faith to what art in aotearoa can be about.

link for small video/talk of the work

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkWxWfHYDwY&feature=g-upl


kiora

as james robinson ive been makieng experimental art painting drawing found object assemblige collaberative film and writeing in a inturnal spiritual self styled anthropological deep space makeover project for along time.

(MOST IMAGES IN THE PAINTING SECTION CONSTITUTE BODYS OF WORK OR SERIES. ive chosen one from each period generally to represent a whole studio cycle or relationship of cycles)

id like to think it had essence of our pacific region...or indeed the earth region.

im charting the transformative inner process of being indiginous human..very very lucky and blessed for the opportunity and the help and opportunitys to share process and object in the wider world.

thanks everyone who has helped me ...in any way ever.

-griefs
and praises.!!

this website is a small sample only.
(wrieing section is a stream of consciousness diary of sorts)

UPCOMEING SHOWS

RESURRECTION
PAPERGRAPHICA CHRISTCHURCH
19TH MARCH
PAINTING DRAWING SHOW

notes on consciousness
DESIGN ROOM gallery
14 NILE ST
NELSON
PAINTING DRAWING SHOW

RAINBOW SERPENT (PSYCHIC SKINS)
OTAGO FINE ART SCHOOL GALLERY
20TH APRIL DUNEDIN
EXPERIMENTAL PAINTING /INSTALLATION SHOW

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love to hear from you
james@jamesrobinson.co.nz

animated short sci fi film
xogenesis.com


Testimonials


Justin Paton, Curator of Contemporary Art, Dunedin Public Art Gallery
‘... provoking, imploring, confessing ... he delivers a grungy retort to the clean-lined look of much recent art inspired by the virtual space of the computer screen ... Should we feel daunted by this chaos [...o]r marvel at the vitality and moments of unexpected beauty to be found within it?’

Chris Knox, in Look This Way: New Zealand Writers on New Zealand Artists
‘... a great big flatulent belch of fresh air amongst all the tight-sphinctered, deodorised boys and girls of the accepted national art world. ... off-kilter and threatening but always sumptuously, gloriously beautiful.’

John McDonald, art writer for the Sydney Morning Herald
‘...a hyper-literate, passionate imagination ... draws, paints and writes with an intensity that makes one think of Van Gogh, or perhaps Antonin Artaud ... a viral outbreak of signs and symbols, a splattering of cosmic graffiti, built up layer upon layer ... visionary landscapes, reminiscent of the teeming vistas of Bosch or Breugel.’

David Eggleton, New Zealand Listener, July 5th 2003
‘beautiful, harsh and weirdly heroic ... Scorched, soaked and scavenged, Robinson’s paintings are a testimony to modern life as a chapter of accidents, where menace mingles with grief, and aggression with abjection.’

T. J. McNamara, New Zealand Herald, November 19th 2003
‘The impressive achievement of these big canvases puts Robinson in the forefront of New Zealand artists ... powerful terrains ... great force ... the intensely personal expression of dark, turbulent emotion ... he has the potential to be one of our most gripping painters.’

Dr. Jennifer “Ginger” Knowlton, editor of Divide: Creative Responses to Contemporary Social Questions, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA
‘... subtle, poetic, meditative investigations of the nature of being within the contemporary world. [...] Response to Robinson’s work, here in the States, has been a rare mixture of awe and warmth.’

Bridie Lonie, writer and Head of School of Art, Otago Polytechnic
‘Painting’s inherent orderliness is both problem and salvation: in this sort of work, the field is opened up, disorder created and order regained. ... a delightful drawer.’

Roger Boyce, Art New Zealand, Summer 2005 (117)
‘It is a visually stunning and accomplished journeyman work ... potentially formidable gifts ... Robinson’s commitment to practice and ferocious level of production is admirable ...’

Dan Chappell, Art News New Zealand, Spring 2005
‘... a new talent ... the embodiment of the driven artist ... The wide sweep and energetic intensity of his recent work means he defies categorisation. ... Critics have mentioned names like Schnabel, Kiefer and Basquiat—but [...] it’s clear Robinson’s art is very much his own.’

Mark Amery, Dominion Post, June 30th 2006
‘... Robinson’s abstract works can create a bodily response, the impression that an emotional vein has been located and opened within the compressed matter of all things .’


Robyn Peers, The Christchurch Press, October 17th 2007
‘... enormously satisfying ... Basquiat, Kiefer, de Lautour, Peter Robinson; many artists are suggested as influences [...] but James Robinson is quite clearly his own artist and [...] has continued to develop his individual style.’

Margaret Duncan, The Christchurch Press, May 2004
‘... striking in its brutal physicality ...’

Peter Entwistle, Otago Daily Times, 2003
‘... a new and vital force in the tradition of Colin McCahon, James K. Baxter and Tony Fomison .... James Robinson's [work] is authentic. It shocks because it really hurts...’

Helen Watson White, Sunday Star Times, May 19th 2002
‘I was transfixed [...] by the extraordinarily positive force of its negative energy ... even the most abstract [work] is alive.’

Warren Feeney, The Christchurch Press, February 1997
‘... slovenly refreshing ... too loud, hazardous, and personal to ignore ... a reminder of why artists take up their brushes in the first place...’

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