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John Reynolds
Born 1956, Auckland John Reynolds has been a prominent figure in New Zealand painting and printmaking since the early 1980s. He has featured in many exhibitions and publications on contemporary New Zealand art, has been involved in many solo and group shows throughout the country and overseas in Spain and the Netherlands. Reynolds has won numerous awards including the Montana Lindauer Award, and the Visa Gold Art Award, and he has received a Visual Arts Fellowship from the Arts Council of New Zealand and an Arts Foundation Laureate award. A graduate of the Auckland University School of Fine Arts. Reynold’s work is drawing based, using the material of paint in a highly expressive manner that moves between sensuality and austerity. Characterised by lines and/or text scrawled across the canvas, Reynolds creates abstract, grid-like patterns or word-plays infused with humour and irony, and revealing the artist's interest in the 'grand Christian narrative'. Reynold's work is influenced by literary, religious, arthistorical and architectural allusions, he frequently using both everyday and epic references.
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