NZR Cups in NZ HOUSE & GARDEN August

 
 

A friend told me about seeing three of my NZR Cups in the August issue of NZ HOUSE & GARDEN, page 21 and 22. Great house and taste by the Wellington owners. What a nice surprise!

Rudolf Boelee - Fashion Drawings (after 'Eric')

 
 

Art Work Backroom

 
 
 

Installation of New Posters

 
 
 

Vintage Cars May 2010

 
 
 

New Vintage Posters

 
 
 
 

Schweizerhof, Zurich
Alex W. Diggelmann
Giclee Print - Framed
$350

Chinese Girl (Blue Lady)
Vladimir Tretchikoff
Giclee Print - Framed
$310

Cycles France Sport
A. Bernat
Giclee Print - Framed
$325
Championnats du Mode, 1935
M Guillermain
Art Print - Framed
$300

The Epitome of Glamour 2

 
 
 

Katherine Hepburn Fiona Campbell - Walter
Constance Bennett Lauren Bacall

These Rudolf Boelee paintings are acrylic, silkscreen and lacquer on board, 600 x 600mm, and are available from Pug Design Store, 228 Kilmore Street, Christchurch or
from Pug online store. Price $600

The Epitome of Glamour 1

 

Marlene Dietrich Pola Negri
Greta Garbo Vivien Leigh

Acrylic, silkscreen and lacquer on board
600 x 600 mm

Available at Pug Design Store

Price $600

Robyne Voyce - Asian Art News - Volume 20 - Number 2

 
 
 

Asian Art News - Volume 20 - Number 2 March/April 2010

Welcome to Asian Art News

New Zealand textile artist Robyne Voyce draws on memories that are woven into intricate narratives that have much to teach us on how to view memory and the narratives are often powerfully articulated through the simplest of things and the quietest of moments.

Editorial

The Dressing Room - Robyne Voyce

 
 
 
 

The Dressing Room

The text is an excerpt from Cassandra Fusco ‘Fabric representations, the retro, modern and contemporary work of Robyne Voyce.’

Robyne Voyce is fabric artist known throughout New Zealand for her innovative textile explorations of the possibilities of colour and non-representational abstract forms. Her early work in fashion and furniture design propelled her in the 1980s to become an independent studio-based fabric artist, working primarily with original and recycled vintage printed textiles which she combines to form simultaneous fields of structured pattern, vivid, fluid and sculptural. Together with her partner and fellow artist, Rudolf Boelee, Voyce operated the Opshop Art & Design Gallery,concurrent with part-time tertiary level art and design teaching. She has recently opened Pug Design Store in central Christchurch.

From the 1990s onwards, Voyce relinquished conventional notions of representation associated with perspective and began employing a cell-like approach to form and structure. “I began combining modular 2-D and 3-D affects and extended this play of surface and structure by adding actual blocks and eventually combining these with printed fabrics to reference experience, recollection, reflection and change.” This was developed in screen-print and fabric works not so much with either a strong Kiwi or English accent, but more with an international Modernist intonation and using materials that reflected the realities of industrial design and production.


“Ever since I can remember, textiles and patterns and geometry have been an important part of my life. The malleability and versatility of fabric allows for a rich recording and exploration of layers; of thoughts and feelings and events and geometry provides both the discipline and harmony.” “In my work the placement of every piece is crucial; nothing of the design is arbitrary. I use fragments of particular textiles and patterns in what is called ‘simultaneous design’, that is where one design when placed next to
‘Compositions’ (2007) continues the latter but with a difference. There is no hint of disappointment or disillusion, only a confident re-construction of vintage New Zealand fabrics, reconstituted, as in translation, to bring them to life again for another generation. Voyce comments that she has long admired designs from the Maurice Kain workshop. Kain’s organisation started out over 55 years ago in Dunedin as a modest drapery concern. It developed a strong in-house design team and is now recognised as one of New Zealand’s most innovative textile designers. In Composition 3 (2007),Voyce has taken two lengths of the ‘Liverno’ design by Kain and revitalized their central pattern, reconstructing them as a closed, and an open, flowing motif in triptych format. She has, as it were, extended the rhythmic and associational possibilities of the original and it is interesting the compare these works with the earlier Chrysanthemums series.

“I am fascinated in how we perceive and record the fabric of our lives, experience and how we develop these faculties. I am also interested in the significance and symbolism of designs and references, exploring and questioning these. Few objects are value-free and decoration for Decoaration for decoration’s sake is rare, perhaps even a bit meaningless. I think this is why my partner and I have an abiding interest in Modern design and designers. Whether or not movements like the Bauhaus succeeded, they were, I believe, trying to make rational, useful and meaningful objects widely available, as opposed to just consumerist baubles.”“While much of my early work drew upon mimesis or figurative forms, my work is currently exploring more formalistic designs. That said, obviously there is dialogue between the two approaches. Abstraction, after all is built knowledge of structure and rational design.”
What Voyce’s current developments demonstrate is that she (like many of us) is trying to make sense of the present and is doing so in an increasing spare and sculptural language.

Lace - triptych
Robyne Voyce
Silkscreen and lacquer on fabric on board
$600
Swan Lace - triptych
Robyne Voyce
Acrylic, silkscreen, collage and lacquer on board
$600
Doyley - triptych
Robyne Voyce
Acrylic, silkscreen, collage and lacquer on board
$600
Blooms - triptych
Robyne Voyce
Acrylic, silkscreen, collage and lacquer on board
$600
Composition 2 – 6 panels
Robyne Voyce
Fabric construction on board
$2200
Composition 3 – triptych
Robyne Voyce
Fabric construction on board
$2000

Denby Arabesque 1964 designed by Jill Pemberton

 
 

DENBY - ARABESQUE - 1964
Designed by Jill Pemberton
$450 for the set


By the 1920's Denby's functional kitchenware (from pie dishes, jelly moulds and colanders to 'hot water bottles') could be found in many homes along with decorative vases, bowls and tobacco jars which were all stamped 'Danesby Ware'. This was the generic name given by Denby Pottery to all its decorative and giftware ranges.

In the 1930's 'Electric Blue' (shiny blue) and 'Orient ware' (matt blue/brown) became classic giftware ranges and today are popular with collectors. Kitchenware became more colourful with Cottage Blue, Manor Green and Homestead Brown - all of which remained popular until the early 1980's.

Radical steps to change Denby's product range were taken in the 1950's when the pottery became predominantly a producer of tableware (ranges now included cups, saucers and plates). Denby continued to employ the best designers to ensure the transition was successful and this expertise produced such best sellers as Greenwheat (1956), Echo and Ode (1950's), Studio (1961) and Arabesque (Samarkand in the USA - 1964).

Art Deco Glass

 

Pink Glass Art-Deco Dish - $150

Bohemian-Deco Small Brown Glass Vase - $60

Art-Deco Clear Glass Dish - $60

Art Deco was a popular international art design movement from 1925 until the 1940s, affecting the decorative arts such as architecture, interior design and industrial design, as well as the visual arts such as fashion, painting, the graphic arts and film. At the time, this style was seen as elegant, glamorous, functional and modern.

Jacques Tati

 
 
 

French Vintage Posters - Part 1