November, December 2019, January 2020
Duet brought together a selection of new digital prints by Mark Graver and ceramics by Richard Parker.
Mark Graver ARE, is an award-winning artist printmaker, tutor and curator based in Kerikeri New Zealand. Originally from the UK he studied at Leeds Polytechnic (B.A. Hons Fine Art 1985-88) and Camberwell College of Arts, London (MA Printmaking 1994-95).
Moving to NZ in 2003 he established the Wharepuke Print Studio in 2005 (NZ’s only dedicated Non- Toxic Acrylic Resist Etching workshop) and with partner Tania Booth Art at Wharepuke gallery in 2009, and the Wharepuke Sculpture Park in 2015.
He is author of the printmaking handbook Non-Toxic Printmaking (2011, London, A&C Black), has sat on printmaking selection panels in China, Bulgaria and NZ and curated international print projects, exhibitions and symposiums in the UK, NZ and Australia.
In 2019 he was elected as a Fellow of The Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers, (RE) based in London.
His work is held in many public collections including the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, The Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK, The Art Gallery of Ballarat, Victoria, Australia, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, Australia and in China, Thailand, NZ, USA, Mexico, South Africa and Europe.
Richard Parker is an internationally known ceramic artist based in Kerikeri. Richard’s work is in many national and international museum collections including Te Papa in Wellington.
Wharepuke is the only gallery in Northland that represents Richard’s work. It is on permanent display in the gallery cabinets and also in Maha, our on site restaurant. His also has an on-going ceramic project housed in the Wharepuke Sculpture Park