Oliver Perkins
Biography
Oliver Perkins, Traverso, 2022, ink, watercolour and size on canvas, 400 × 500 x 45 mm
Oliver Perkins, The Reserve, 2023 Installation view, Michael Lett.
Oliver Perkins, Mandan, 2022, ink, watercolour and size on canvas, 350 × 400 x 45 mm
Oliver Perkins, The Reserve, 2023 Installation view, Michael Lett.
Oliver Perkins, Reserve, 2022, ink, watercolour and size on canvas, 500 × 700 x 45 mm
Oliver Perkins, Freeway, 2022, ink, watercolour and size on canvas, 350 × 500 x 50 mm
Oliver Perkins, The Reserve, 2023 Installation view, Michael Lett.
Oliver Perkins, FREE-RANGE, 2022 Installation view, Dunedin Public Art Gallery.
Oliver Perkins, A kind of arrow, 2022 Installation view, Dunedin Public Art Gallery.
Oliver Perkins in Walls to Live Beside, Rooms to Own: The Chartwell Show. Exhibition installation view, courtesy of Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, 2022
Oliver Perkins, Casting a crisis Painting a cat Looking out a window, 2020. Installation view, Michael Lett, Auckland
Oliver Perkins, Serge, 2020, ink, acrylic, and size on canvas, 450 x 600mm
Oliver Perkins, Last Letter, 2019, size, acrylic, and ink on canvas, 650 x 550mm
Oliver Perkins, Untitled, 2019, size, acrylic, ink, and rope on canvas,1600 x 1200mm
Oliver Perkins and Patrick Lundberg, On Emptiness, Installation view, Fold Gallery, London, May 2019
Oliver Perkins, A New Spider, 2018, size, acrylic, and ink on canvas, 450 x 450mm
Oliver Perkins, Untitled, 2018,
size, acrylic, and ink on canvas, 650 x 600mm
Oliver Perkins, Untitled, 2016, acrylic, dowel, and rope, 460 x 280mm
Oliver Perkins, Untitled, 2016, acrylic on cardboard in artist’s frame, 480 x 340mm
Oliver Perkins, Untitled, 2016, acrylic on dowel and painted rope, 595 x 300mm
Oliver Perkins, Bridge Painting No. 4, 2016, size, ink, acrylic, paper, and dowel on canvas, five panels, 480 x 340mm
Oliver Perkins, Return, 2016, acrylic on canvas and dowel, 680 x 490mm
Oliver Perkins, Architrave Painting No. 6, 2016, acrylic on dowel and plywood, 310 x 640mm
Oliver Perkins, Japanese Laurel, Installation view, Te Uru Waitakere, Auckland, August 2017
Oliver Perkins, Rollah, 2015, ink, acrylic, size, and dowel on canvas, 980 x 650mm
Oliver Perkins, Who’s Afraid of Walking Frida (Hacienda Fire Remix), 2015, size, ink, and spacecoat on canvas, four panels, 1600 x 5200mm
Oliver Perkins, Comic, 2015, ink and size on canvas in artist’s frame, 420 x 390mm
Oliver Perkins, The Reserve, 2023 Installation view, Michael Lett.
Oliver Perkins, The Reserve, 2023 Installation view, Michael Lett.
Oliver Perkins, Freeway, 2022, ink, watercolour and size on canvas, 350 × 500 x 50 mm
Oliver Perkins, FREE-RANGE, 2022 Installation view, Dunedin Public Art Gallery.
Oliver Perkins in Walls to Live Beside, Rooms to Own: The Chartwell Show. Exhibition installation view, courtesy of Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, 2022
Oliver Perkins, Serge, 2020, ink, acrylic, and size on canvas, 450 x 600mm
Oliver Perkins, Untitled, 2019, size, acrylic, ink, and rope on canvas,1600 x 1200mm
Oliver Perkins, A New Spider, 2018, size, acrylic, and ink on canvas, 450 x 450mm
Oliver Perkins, Untitled, 2016, acrylic, dowel, and rope, 460 x 280mm
Oliver Perkins, Untitled, 2016, acrylic on dowel and painted rope, 595 x 300mm
Oliver Perkins, Return, 2016, acrylic on canvas and dowel, 680 x 490mm
Oliver Perkins, Japanese Laurel, Installation view, Te Uru Waitakere, Auckland, August 2017
Oliver Perkins, Who’s Afraid of Walking Frida (Hacienda Fire Remix), 2015, size, ink, and spacecoat on canvas, four panels, 1600 x 5200mm
Oliver Perkins
Born 1979, Christchurch (NZ). Lives and works in Christchurch (NZ)
Oliver Perkins takes the constituent elements of painting production as material for aggregation and intervention. Seen and unseen materials like canvas, cardboard, dye, rabbit skin glue, ink, stretcher bars, dowel, and staples are employed as actors in a network of painting practice to be redistributed and realigned, offering new modes of being with and experiencing painted objects.
Perkins’ work has been included in Walls to Live Beside, Rooms to Own, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki (2023); Touching Sight: Conor Clarke, Emma Fitts, Oliver Perkins, Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū (2020) and Necessary Distraction: A painting show, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki (2015). Selected solo exhibitions include: The Reserve, Michael Lett, Auckland (2023); A kind of arrow and FREE-RANGE, Dunedin Public Art Gallery (2022) and Casting a crisis, Painting a cat, Looking out a window at Michael Lett, Auckland (2020). In 2017 Perkins was awarded the Parehuia Artists’ Residency at McCahon House, Auckland, which resulted in the exhibition Japanese Laurel at Te Uru Waitakere Contemporary Gallery, Auckland (2017).
Perkins studied at Christchurch School of Art & Design (CPIT) from 1999-2002. In 2005, he was awarded the TANZ Scholarship, which saw him awarded a Master of Arts from Chelsea College of Arts, London.
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Oliver Perkins, Traverso, 2022, ink, watercolour and size on canvas, 400 × 500 x 45 mm
Oliver Perkins, The Reserve, 2023 Installation view, Michael Lett.
Oliver Perkins, Mandan, 2022, ink, watercolour and size on canvas, 350 × 400 x 45 mm
Oliver Perkins, The Reserve, 2023 Installation view, Michael Lett.
Oliver Perkins, Reserve, 2022, ink, watercolour and size on canvas, 500 × 700 x 45 mm
Oliver Perkins, Freeway, 2022, ink, watercolour and size on canvas, 350 × 500 x 50 mm
Oliver Perkins, The Reserve, 2023 Installation view, Michael Lett.
Oliver Perkins, FREE-RANGE, 2022 Installation view, Dunedin Public Art Gallery.
Oliver Perkins, A kind of arrow, 2022 Installation view, Dunedin Public Art Gallery.
Oliver Perkins in Walls to Live Beside, Rooms to Own: The Chartwell Show. Exhibition installation view, courtesy of Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, 2022
Oliver Perkins, Casting a crisis Painting a cat Looking out a window, 2020. Installation view, Michael Lett, Auckland
Oliver Perkins, Serge, 2020, ink, acrylic, and size on canvas, 450 x 600mm
Oliver Perkins, Last Letter, 2019, size, acrylic, and ink on canvas, 650 x 550mm
Oliver Perkins, Untitled, 2019, size, acrylic, ink, and rope on canvas,1600 x 1200mm
Oliver Perkins and Patrick Lundberg, On Emptiness, Installation view, Fold Gallery, London, May 2019
Oliver Perkins, A New Spider, 2018, size, acrylic, and ink on canvas, 450 x 450mm
Oliver Perkins, Untitled, 2018, size, acrylic, and ink on canvas, 650 x 600mm
Oliver Perkins, Untitled, 2016, acrylic, dowel, and rope, 460 x 280mm
Oliver Perkins, Untitled, 2016, acrylic on cardboard in artist’s frame, 480 x 340mm
Oliver Perkins, Untitled, 2016, acrylic on dowel and painted rope, 595 x 300mm
Oliver Perkins, Bridge Painting No. 4, 2016, size, ink, acrylic, paper, and dowel on canvas, five panels, 480 x 340mm
Oliver Perkins, Return, 2016, acrylic on canvas and dowel, 680 x 490mm
Oliver Perkins, Architrave Painting No. 6, 2016, acrylic on dowel and plywood, 310 x 640mm
Oliver Perkins, Japanese Laurel, Installation view, Te Uru Waitakere, Auckland, August 2017
Oliver Perkins, Rollah, 2015, ink, acrylic, size, and dowel on canvas, 980 x 650mm
Oliver Perkins, Who’s Afraid of Walking Frida (Hacienda Fire Remix), 2015, size, ink, and spacecoat on canvas, four panels, 1600 x 5200mm
Oliver Perkins, Comic, 2015, ink and size on canvas in artist’s frame, 420 x 390mm