Bio | Tyne Gordon
Image by Conor Clarke
Known for her gestural and explorative paint surfaces, object-making and an intense interest in materiality are significant aspects of Tyne’s practice. She revels in the various qualities of paint, media and materials to create texture and energy in the surfaces of her work. Smooth slick areas, exuberant impastos, gestural smears, cracks and scratches are all commonplace. Working intuitively, Tyne’s works are often an assortment of opposites; abstraction with figuration, chaos alongside control. Tyne is constantly editing, experimenting, and breaking her own rules.
The framing of the works and her sculptures are also an important aspect of Tyne’s practice. She casts her own frames from a mixture of different materials — resin, pewter, aluminium — referencing the materiality of the paint surfaces, which are in turn mirrored in the character of her sculptures. She is interested in creating an immersive experience with her exhibitions. The paintings being one aspect of many, blurring the two and three dimensions.
Tyne Gordon graduated from the University of Canterbury School of Fine Arts with a BFA (Hons) degree in painting in 2015 and lives and works in Christchurch. Recent exhibitions include: YORE at Weasel Gallery, Hamilton; Visitor, Toi Moroki Centre of Contemporary Art, Christchurch; MMCA painting and drawing exhibition, Whakatāne Museum and Arts, Whakatāne; Double Dribble, Ilam School of Fine Arts, Christchurch.
Education
2011-2015: Bachelor of Fine Arts with (First Class) Honours, University of Canterbury
Exhibitions
2021
Auckland Art Fair, Jhana Millers (upcoming)
2020
Yore, Weasel Gallery, Hamilton
Group show, Jhana Millers, Wellington
2019
Visitor, Solo Show, Toi Moroki Centre of Contemporary Art, Christchurch
MMCA painting and drawing exhibition, Whakatāne Museum and Arts, Whakatāne
Double Dribble, Solo Show, SoFA, Ilam School of Fine Arts, Christchurch
Double Dribble 2, Solo Show, The National, Christchurch
Catch, group show, Tinning Street Gallery, Melbourne
2018
Quartet, Group Show curated by Andrew Paul Wood, City Art Depot, Christchurch
2017
Big Spread, Group Show, Next Gallery, Christchurch
Water Park, Solo Show, Next Gallery, Christchurch
2016
Pooling, ‘Precarious Nature’, Group Show, CoCA, Christchurch
Croon, Solo Show, 30upstairs, Wellington
Group show, Julia Morrison’s Studio, Christchurch
Parkin Prize 2016, Group Show, Academy of Fine Arts Queens Wharf, Wellington
Outlook: A Group Exhibition, Next Gallery, Christchurch
2015
AMAZONS; Expeditionary Force, Group Show, curated by Roger Boyce, {Suite}, Wellington
Silent Auction Fundraiser, The Physics Room, Christchurch
Faux Fair, Annual Fundraiser, c3 Contemporary Art Space, Melbourne
North Projects Summer Gala, North Projects, Christchurch
Parkin Prize 2015, Group Show, Academy of Fine Arts Queens Wharf, Wellington
They Ghosted Up The River, Group Show, SOFA Gallery, Christchurch
Murmuring Through The Walls, Group Show, Casting Room, Christchurch
Select, Group Show, SOFA Gallery, Christchurch
2014
Re-make, Re-model, Group Show, SOFA Gallery, Christchurch
Birds of a Feather, Group Show, Chambers 241, Christchurch
Fitting Room, Group Show, First Thursdays, Christchurch
Select, Group Show, SOFA Gallery, Christchurch
Awards/Scholarships
Molly Morpeth Canaday 2D Finalist, 2019
Olivia Spencer Bower Award, 2018
Ethel Susan Jones Fine Arts Travelling Scholarship, 2016
Parkin Prize Finalist, 2015 and 2016
Sawtell-Turner Prize in Painting, 2015
Bickerton-Widdowson Scholarship, 2015
Bickerton-Widdowson Scholarship, 2014
Grant Lingard Scholarship, 2014
Collections
Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu
University of Canterbury, Christchurch
Essays/Reviews
Pagework no.43, Peter Vangioni, Bulletin, Issue #198, Summer 2019-20
To blur the edges, Andrew Paul Wood. Profile, Art News, Studio Spring 2019
Dreamscape, Benn Jeffries, ArtZone, Issue #80, 2019
Christchurch, Andrew Paul Wood, Postcards, Art News New Zealand, Winter 2019
Tyne Gordon, Lucinda Bennett, Profile, Art Collector, Undiscovered Issue, #88, 2019
Christchurch-Tyne Gordon, Hope Wilson, Review, Art New Zealand, Winter 2019
Artifice of Art, Andrew Paul Wood, Review, Art Beat, April 2019
Christchurch, Andrew Paul Wood, Postcards, Art News New Zealand, Summer 2018
Top art award-winner keen to sculpt her own career path, Warren Feeney, The Press, 2017