Adrian Jackman is a New Zealand artist. He graduated in 1997 with a Master of Fine Arts from Auckland University’s Elam School of Fine Arts and has exhibited widely thought New Zealand since.
Adrian’s more recent work has developed a distinctive language of formal abstraction with a strong use of flat colour. Adrian works from digital photographs to create a palette of colour unique to a specific space and place. His work is a compilation of object files in the form of drawings, rendered from everyday objects; presented as a linear x-ray of the existing image like a three-dimensional science model.
Selected Awards and Residencies
2020 Eden Arts – Karekare House Artist Residency, Auckland
2012 Tylee Cottage Artist Residency, Whanganui
2002 Goldwater Art Award (Merit)
1996 James Wallace National Art Award (Runner Up)
1996 Mt Eden Young Artist Award (Premier Award)
1996 Joe Raynes Masters Scholarship, Auckland University
1995 Ida Eise Painting Prize, ASA Gallery, Auckland
Public Collections
Auckland City Council
Perpetual Guardian Trust
Selected Reviews
‘Visual Trickery’ – Exhibition Review 2018 by John Daly Peoples, National Business Review , May 2018
‘Sporting Chance’ –Exhibition Review 2016 by Don Abbott – Art New Zealand, Number 159, Spring 2016
‘Three Artists, Three Worlds’ – Exhibition Review 2016 by John Daly Peoples, National Business Review , June 2016
‘Revisiting the Summerof Love’ by Sue Gardiner – Art News, Summer 2012
Selected Publications
Very Contemporary by Madeleine Slavick, Carterton Crier May 2018
Geometry of Life, NZ House & Garden, by Warwick Brown, February 2016
City Unlocks inspiration – Minimal Wave, Sarjeant Gallery, Wanganui Cronicle, January 4th, 2014
Minimal Wave – Greg Donson, Sarjeant Quarterly, Vol 5, December 2013-February 2014
Formal abstraction with a twist – Artnews New Zealand, Summer 2014, page 43
Revisiting the Summer of Love – Sue Gardiner, Artnews New Zealand, Summer 2012,Pg 98-99
Minimal Wave – Greg Donson, Sarjeant Art Gallery, Wanganui, 2013, ISBN 978-0-9864569-9-2
Mind The Gap – Matt Blomeley, Lopdell House Gallery, Auckland, 2009