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.
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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. He is represented by Jonathan Smart gallery in Christchurch, Page Blackie gallery in Wellington and Antoinette Godkin gallery in Auckland.
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
1995 Creative New Zealand Grant for Robert McDougall Art Gallery commission
1990 Australia, New Zealand Foundation Fellowship
1987 Tylee Cottage Residency
1981 Major Grant, QEII Arts Council
1980 Frances Hodgkins Fellowship, University of Otago, Dunedin
Works
Drummond works with a variety of media and materials. His work includes process-based installation, photography, figurative and symbolic imagery. Drummond was included in a number of early exhibitions that featured performance art in New Zealand including ANZART initiated by Ian Hunter in 1981 and the F1 New Zealand Sculpture Project in 1982.
He had an exhibition at the Wellington City Gallery in 1981 titled Andrew Drummond: Works 80.
Public sculpture and commissions
Drummond has received many commissions for both private and public sculptures.
2016/17 Ramarama, Suter Gallery, Nelson
2014/15 Armillary for Air, private commission, Ohinetahi, Governors Bay, Canterbury
2011/12 Rotating Sphere, private commission, South Canterbury, NZ
2007 Vertical Form, Counter Rotating, private commission, Nelson
2006 Vertical Form, Counter Rotating, private commission, Banks Peninsula
2005 Tower of Light, Wellington Sculpture Trust commission for Meridian Energy Wind Project
2004 Cascade, commission for Woollaston Estates, Nelson
2004 for Swinging and Spinning, private commission, Geraldine, Canterbury
2000 Assignation Device, commission by Kiwi Properties for Veto Building, Auckland
1999 Crossroads, commission by Projects Environment for ArtBarns: After Kurt Schwitters
1995 for Beating and Breathing, commission for Robert McDougall Art Gallery, Christchurch
1994 Device for Listening & Viewing, Wellington Sculpture Trust commission, Botanic Garden, Wellington
1990 Stationary Limbs, commission for the Fletcher Trust Collection, Fletcher Challenge House, Auckland
Selected exhibitions
2010
Andrew Drummond: Observation / Action / Reflection Christchurch Art Gallery. Drummond’s first full survey exhibition of works from 1980 to 2010 curated by Jennifer Hay.
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 ISBN 978-0-908848-74-4 )
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
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.