Artists on video
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Grant Takle
Grant Takle was born in Christchurch in 1962 and was educated at Canterbury University school of Fine Arts, graduating in 1983. He has been exhibiting his work consistently for 25 years and has received many grants and awards 2002: Creative New Zealand New Works Grant; Phoebe Maunsells, Estate Chartable Trust Award; 1997: VISA Gold (Finalist), Wallace Art Award (Finalist), Westpac Trust - Arts Excellence Award recipient; 1992: Guthery Travel Art Grant C.S.A. Gallery, Christchurch; 1989: QEII Arts Council ‘New Creative Project‘QEII Arts Council ‘New Artists Promotion Scheme’
Resent shows have included in 2008 ‘DEADBEAT’ SOFA Art Gallery-Canterbury University ‘Critical Mass’ Brooke Gifford Art Gallery, ‘REIGN MAKER’ Te Wai Whetu Art Gallery (Christchurch Art Gallery).
These works deal with the complex rivalry between cultures. Takles’ work is widely divergent, in content, drawing from a personal lexicon of imagery; combing aspects of local and regional politics he choreographs these disparate elements into orchestrated structures. These paintings appear self- contained but are both complex and immediate, like circuitry they look for connections to a broader main frame.