John Maillard is a Canterbury artist using photography and related print making and drawing.
John has a Ba honors degree, a Masters degree and thirty years experience. He has twenty years experience as a professional educator in photography.
He has worked with and studied with world class photographic practitioners, artists and thinkers, for example, Paul Kilsby, Paul Hill, Martyn Greenhalgh, Brian Griffin, Deborah Baker, Roy Montgomery and Martin Parr.
Johns work is about the landscapes of the south Island and the rural community he lives in.
The themes of the work are many and varied, the story of the landscape and land use, the grandeur of south Island views.
John tries to capture the unseen elements in his work.
Subjects like wind, elements and time passed, all play a role in his visualisation of the landscape.
Johns main influence was his German grandfather, who was a painter in Northern Germany. The great mid century American landscape and late century British photographers have also been an influence.
Exhibitions
2014 Art Box “community Halls” solo show
2014 Collected works Nut point center
2014 Public Space. Container image, landscape on four containers, center of
Sumner, NZ.
2012 Summer show Nut point center NZ
2012 time-lapse with live performance by Roy Montgomery, the Physics
Room.
2011 Selected Landscapes Alexis Gallery
2010 Selected Landscapes Alexis Gallery
2009 Sole Contributing photographer for a projected multimedia display
at the Christchurch winter festival.
2009 COCA Christchurch, ‘New Work’ (November)
2008 COCA Christchurch, ‘Paths’
2008 Two Rivers Gallery, Cheviot, ‘Time and Paths’
2002. CPIT School Art and design, ‘Digital printmaking’.
1999. Moot Hall, Daventry, ‘Isle of Man Landscapes.’
1998. Banbury college of Art, Landscapes, still lives and digital
images of the ‘Isle of Man.’
1987 Wyvern Theatre Arts centre, Swindon.
Group exhibitions
2014 Chambers 241 gallery group show
2013. “Unknowable” With Wendy Clarke, John Maillard, Stefan Roberts.
2013 Wellington academy of Arts. Cliff to Clay group show NZ
2012 Chambers 241 group show
2007 CPIT Staff Show, COCA Christchurch
2004. Barbie Aotearoa, COCA Christchurch.
2001. Road mender, Arts Center, Northampton. Arts Week.
1999. Oxo Tower, the South Bank, London.
1997, 1998, 1998. 1999
The Mill Arts Centre, Banbury,
1985 Commonwealth Centre, London, Images of Malta.