14 December 2012 – 1.39pm
Wanderer, 2005, New Zealand. Leek, Saskia. Purchased 2005. Te Papa
Opening at the Dowse Art Museum this month on 15 December 2012, is an exhibition titled Saskia Leek: Desk Collection. The exhibition provides the first opportunity for audiences to see a broad range of Leek’s work and appreciate Leek as an artist whose works may be physically modest in scale, but whose artistic reach is considerable. Seven of the sixty painting in this show are from Te Papa’s collection. The exhibition is on until 14 April 2014 so you have plenty of time to visit and look out for our paintings.
Morning star, 2005, New Zealand. Leek, Saskia. Purchased 2005. Te Papa
Fudge sale, 2000, New Zealand. Leek, Saskia. Purchased 2001. Te Papa
Lakeland, 2001, New Zealand. Leek, Saskia. Purchased 2001. Te Papa
Untitled. From the portfolio: Underwood, 2001, New Zealand. Leek, Saskia. Purchased 2001. Te Papa
Untitled. From the portfolio: Underwood, 2001, New Zealand. Leek, Saskia. Purchased 2001. Te Papa
Hello Poedua followers! Mel and I have taken a break from our treatment of Poedua for a while in order to focus on some other paintings conservation commitments.
In the past two months we have been kept busy working on a loan of 23 paintings for the exhibition
Painting New Zealand which is currently on display at Tauranga Art Gallery.
We have prepared a number of paintings that have been on display in the Te Papa touring exhibition E Tu Ake, which will soon be making its international debut at the Quai Branly in Paris.
Lastly, but by no means least, we have also been very busy working on the upcoming Oceania exhibition which will be opening soon at Te Papa and City Gallery Wellington. The Tony Fomison painting below is one of the many art works that will be on display in the Oceania exhibition which is on during the Rugby World Cup.
Te Puhi o te tai Haruru, 1984-85, Fomison, Tony (1939–1990), Auckland. Purchased 2003. Te Papa
If you are missing your fortnightly Poedua updates, here are a couple of other conservation blogs that you may find of interest from some overseas colleagues. The first is written by Hannah Tempest who interned with us last year and is currently undertaking an internship at the National Gallery of Denmark in Copenhagen. The second is written by conservators at the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne and follows the conservation of a Nicolas Poussin painting.
