Andrew Drummond

Listening and Viewing Device Andrew Drummond Andrew Drummond (born 1951 in Nelson, New Zealand) is a New Zealand painter and sculptor. He attended University of Waterloo in Canada, graduating in 1976. He was a Frances Hodgkins Fellow in 1980.

Career Drummond tends to focus on process and ritual while contemplating ideas of location. He considers the entanglements of the human body, ecology, and dislocated histories within the landscapes of New Zealand. In the 1970s, he created several documented performance works. Drummond lives and works in Christchurch, New Zealand. He earned his degree in Fine Arts from the University of Waterloo, Canada, and later became a lecturer in sculpture at the University of Canterbury, School of Fine Arts.

Honours and awards In 2007, Drummond was awarded the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to sculpture

Drummond has received the following awards: 1999 Creative New Zealand Grant for Projects Environment commission 1981 Major Grant, QEII Arts Council

Works Drummond works with a variety of media and materials. His work includes process-based installation, photography, figurative and symbolic imagery.

Public sculpture and commissions Ramarama, Andrew DrummondDrummond has received many commissions for both private and public sculptures.

2008

Wunderbox Christchurch Art Gallery (group). Mostly Harmless: A Performance Series Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth (group). ( Now Showing: A History of the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery eds Christina Barton, Wystan Curnow and Jonathan Bywater Gobvett-Brewster Art Gallery 2016 )

2000

Intervention: Post Object and Performance Art in 1970 and Beyond Robert McDougall Art Gallery (now Christchurch Art Gallery) - Contemporary Art Annex (group) The exhibition was curated by Jennifer Hay.

1998

Action Replay: Post Object Art Artspace, Auckland and the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery. (group) The exhibition was curated by Christina Barton, Wystan Curnow, John Hurrell and Robert Leonard. Dream Collectors, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington. Curated by Ian Wedde and John Walsh (group).

1995

Andrew Drummond: for beating and breathing Christchurch Art Gallery Annex, Christchurch.

1994

Art Now: The First Biennial of Contemporary Art National Art Gallery Wellington. (group) The exhibition was curated by Christina Barton.

1992

Between Rocks and Glass Houses City Gallery, Wellington. With architect Noel Lane. Curator Gregory Burke noted in the catalogue that, 'Their installation focuses on the social and environmental considerations of architecture and highlights an interaction between the organic nature of building materials and the symbolic potential of building structures’.

1991

Crosscurrents, Contemporary Australian and New Art, Waikato Art Museum, Hamilton (group).

1990

Supports for Falling Limbs and Articles for an Ongoing Nature, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia.

1989

Constructed Intimacies Moët & Chandon and New Zealand Arts Foundation tour (group). Andrew Drummond: Images from Another Archaeology Auckland City Art Gallery, Auckland. Putting the Land on the Map: Art and Cartography in New Zealand Since 1840, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery (group) Curated by Wystan Curnow. Landscape and Sculpture Manchester Polytechnic. (group).

1988

Exhibits: The Museum Display and the Encyclopedia Plate, National Art Gallery, Wellington (group). Action Replay held by the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth and Artspace, Auckland in 1988 (group). When Art Hits the Headlines, Shed II, National Art Gallery, Wellington (group). Five Sights, Vessels and Containers, Braided Rivers, Dunedin Public Art Gallery.

1985

Sentinel, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin.

1982

F1 New Zealand Sculpture Project, Wellington (group). New Zealand Drawing; Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin (group).

1981

1st Australian Sculpture Biennial, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia. Works 80 City Gallery, Wellington. Drummond installed nine living willow trees in the gallery along with videos of willows in the wild.

1978

Platforms~An Exhibition of 15 Dimensional Structures by New Zealand Artists, COCA Christchurch Arts Festival, Christchurch. New Zealand Sculptors at Mildura, national tour organised by Queen Elizabeth II Arts Councill of New Zealand.

1977

Young Contemporaries Exhibition 1977 Auckland Art Gallery. (group) Drummond presented the installation and performed Onto Skin, a Performance in Three Parts.

Controversy As part of the Canterbury Society of Arts 1978 festival Platforms, Drummond performed Crucifixion. He was fixed to a diagonally shaped cross while a latex skin was created on his naked body, once formed the skin was shed from his body and he left the stage. Drummond wore a gas mask throughout to protect himself from the ammonia generated by the drying latex, he was also connected to an ECG machine so observers could monitor his emotional state. For the duration of the festival the discarded latex skin was laid out on the cross and exhibited with Polaroid photographs taken during the performance by artist Paul Johns plus other detritus from the performance.

Two people in the audience took offence at the nudity and reported the performance to the police. The police laid charges (under Section 3(d) of the Police Offences Act.), when eventually heard in court the behaviour was found to be 'ill-mannered, in bad taste, crude and offensive', but the charges were dismissed.