Artists Max Gimblett

Max Gimblett with his wife Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett have donated 275 artist's books to the Getty Research Institute which has one of the largest art and architecture libraries in the world.

“I began writing and drawing in the blank pages of second-hand books when I was seven years old. Working in sketchbooks and journals has been the consistent and constant thread throughout my life,” Max notes.

Max was interviewed and featured on 1News over the weekend discussing this with Anna Burns-Francis, watch the full interview here and read more about this momentous acquisition here.

Marlborough wine producers Lawson's Dry Hills have collaborated with Max Gimblett as part of their Art Series. Only 300 hand-numbered bottles are available of their Chardonnay and Pinot Noir featuring Gimblett's signature quatrefoil artworks on the front of the bottles. Gimblett says “These fine wines lift us up into ecstasy and speak to us of the heights. We are so proud of them and of being members of their family.”

Find more details on their website here and orders can be made here.

Max Gimblett has produced his most significant book collaboration with American poet, cultural essayist and MacArthur Fellow Lewis Hyde. Published in September 2020 by the leading U.S. poetry and literary publisher Copper Canyon Press, the Hyde/Gimblett collaboration The Disappearing Ox creates a modern American version of the twelfth-century Chinese “Oxherding Series".

Read the full article about this latest publication on NZEdge here.

Max Gimblett's Ocean Wheel curated by Peter Vangioni is now on at Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū until 15 November.

"From brightly coloured abstract paintings to his pure black ink drawings, Ocean Wheel showcases an artist’s devotion to working on paper as a key part of his output. Featuring drawings, paintings, artist’s books and prints spanning Gimblett’s career from the 1960s to 2010, including examples from his iconic quatrefoil and enso series, Ocean Wheel acknowledges this major gift to Ōtautahi Christchurch."

Find more details here.

Max Gimblett has given a personal and insightful interview with Brian James for his Medicine Path Podcast on Art as Spiritual Practice. You can listen to the full interview here.

Max Gimblett has partnered with designer Lucy Tupu to collaborate on a series of hand-knotted rugs based on his vibrant ink works on paper. The project has been underway for 2 years now with 12 unique designs as the result. View the collection here.

Seven of our artists, Reuben Paterson, Darryn George, Dick Frizzell, Michael Hight, Max Gimblett, John Walsh and Karl Maughan have created original artworks inspired by re-imagined hymns for 'Offering', a 12 track album by Hollie Smith and Teeks and the Auckland Gospel Choir.

The album is available to purchase on 26 April (CD and digital) and the original artworks, as well as limited edition prints, will be sold at an exhibition in Auckland in May, with all proceeds going to the Salvation Army.

Find out more here.

At an intimate ceremony held at the Auckland Art Gallery, Max Gimblett received an honorary doctorate from AUT. Kate Powell from The Big Idea was there to document the event, with further images and details here.

Join Max Gimblett as he leads two special Sumi ink workshops at AUT on Saturday 16 March. Contact AUT for further information or visit their website here for more.

Max Gimblett: Original Mind documents the life and process of New Zealand born, New York based artist Max Gimblett and his devoted studio assistants. Directed by Rhys Mitchell in 2016, it was shown as part of the 2017 DocEdge Festival in New Zealand. It now available to watch on Vimeo for free here.

Sarah Catherall interviewed Max Gimblett in his New York studio and discussed his recent move to their new studio on Broadway, being a proud New Zealander, and the increasing influences on his works. Read the full article here.

Freshly installed in the Britomart Project Space located at 26-28 Customs Street East are three of Max Gimblett's latest screenprint series, South Pacific Paradise. This new series was completed earlier this year and features his signature sweeps of colours in the tondo format. The three prints exhibited are; Simple Way, Resevoir, and Untitled.

Contact the gallery for information on further prints that are available in this series, or view them here.

"South Pacific Paradise" is the title of a new series of screenprints by Max Gimblett now available at the gallery. With this series of prints, Gimblett has chosen to work with the "tondo" format rather than his usual quatrefoil. 

Max notes that these works are reflective of the sun and the moon, and of the philosophy of time having no beginning nor end. Bound within each tondo are Max's signature gestural and sweeping brushstrokes of colour, with each hue chosen to reflect those of the colours of the South Pacific.

Contact us for a list of the available works, or for further information.

Max Gimblett: Original Mind is set to have its international premiere in May/June. The documentary, directed by Rhys Mitchell, features the artistic practice of Max Gimblett with an intimate look at his studio in New York where Max and his assistants share how his magnificent works are created. With a philosophy of 'all mind-no-mind', this documentary promises to reveal the techniques used and how Max expresses his Buddist beliefs through his art.

The film will be premiered at The Roxy in Wellington on Friday 19th May and Sunday 21st May (tickets available here), and in Auckland at Q Theatre on Friday 2nd June and Sunday 4th June (tickets available here).

For more information, visit the DocEdge website here.

Gow Langsford Gallery has popped up in Christchurch to showcase an exciting new exhibition.

For three weeks this month, the exhibition will feature works by New Zealand and international artists, including Gregor Kregar, Dick Frizzell, Sara Hughes, Reuben Paterson, Damien Hirst, Jeff Koons, Pablo Picasso, Gordon Walters and Colin McCahon. Follow us on Facebook and Instagram and see the project unfold.

Visit us at the newly renovated space at The Tannery, or read more about the exhibition here.

Gow Langsford Gallery Pop Up
The Tannery
200 Cumnor Tce
Woolston

Friday 4^th - Sunday 20^th November
Open daily 10 - 5pm

*CLOSED PUBLIC HOLIDAYS

Highly regarded Gallery artist, Max Gimblett will be attending a public event this Sunday the 24th of July at Presbyterian St David's Church on Khyber Pass Road from 3pm. The free event is a celebration of his recent fundraising campaign to raise money for the restoration of this church that Max attended as a young boy. 

7,000 of his quatrefoil works, in seven unique designs, were reproduced on brass to represent each Kiwi soldier that fought in WWI for the Art of Remembrance installation. Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa held an exhibition that ran from March to May this year, where a selection of the quatrefoils were installed. On Anzac Day last year they were unveiled on the facade of St. David's, and were available for purchase by the public. These small quatrefoils are now situated in homes all over the world.

The event on Sunday will include an interview with Max by Maggie Barry, the Minister of Arts, Culture and Heritage, with the chance to meet him. Following this, they will announce the total money raised from the sale of these works. For more information on this project, visit the website here.

31st of July is the final date to view The Universe: Max Gimblett on at Tauranga Art Gallery. The exhibition includes a large selection of his works on paper from the Unviersity of Waikato's collection, supplemented with a selection of his paintings from Gow Langsford Gallery. Max visited Tauranga this week and gave a talk about his background, personal journey and works to many Gimblett enthusiasts. For more information on Max, see here.

Paul Barbera interviews Max Gimblett for his Where They Create project. Barbera describes Max as a “true maverick” and “part of the living history of artists in New York”, and we couldn't agree more.

Read the full article here.

The Art of Remembrance project features the work of New York based New Zealand artist and long-time Workshop collaborator Max Gimblett has been partly reinstalled in store at Workshop.

This fundraising project to save St. David’s – The Soliders’ Memorial Church in Khyber Pass, Auckland kicked off earlier in the year with thousands of Gimblett’s Remembrance works installed to the church’s exterior.

Beautiful signature Gimblett quatrefoils, cut from solid brass and individually screen-printed, were installed yesterday morning at all five Workshop stores; the flagship installation a spectacular display that soars up the high stud walls of the Mackelvie Street store.

For further information on the Art of Remembrance project visit www.rememberthem.nz

Take a look at a recent profile of Max Gimblett and his New York studio, in a project by Photographer Paul Barbera.

Something surprising you would find in Max Gimblett's studio?  A human skull. A squash racket. 14 pairs of John Fluevog shoes.​

Read the full article here: http://www.wheretheycreate.com/Max-Gimblett

  

Congratulations to Max Gimblett who was named in this year's Queen’s Birthday honours. Max has been named Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit for his services to Art. Congratulations!

The friends of St. David’s invite you to join them for the unveiling of the memorial project The Art of Remembrance.

A monumental, site-specific Max Gimblett art installation cloaks the historic St David’s Church – The Soldiers’ Memorial – to commemorate the 100,000 New Zealanders who served overseas in WWI.

REMEMBER THEM - To be unveiled by the Hon Nikki Kaye, Member of Parliament on the eve of Anzac Day 2015.

Friday 24 April at 5.30pm
St David’s, 68 – 70 Khyber Pass Road,
Grafton, Auckland

RSVP essential; see more information on their website www.rememberthem.nz

Gallery Artist Max Gimblett has been commissioned to create a WWI-commemorative artwork installation. We have been asked to be tight-lipped about its planned location but it will be a free, public artwork that will we believe capture the imaginations New Zealanders.

We are seeking your support to assist in the production of the work in Auckland this weekend and the coming week. Details are shown below.

This weekend - 11 and 12 April 
Activity: Max Gimblett artwork: adhering small metal brackets onto the back of the brass artworks. Not a difficult task, just time consuming! School age through to seniors: all welcome. Physical fitness: medium level – gluing requires a steady hand
Time: 9am – late daily, or as much time as you have available
Location: Meet at gate 3, Auckland Grammar School, Mountain Road, Auckland  Session 2: Artwork production

Tuesday 14 – Sunday 19 April 
Activity: Max Gimblett artwork: adhering small metal brackets onto the back of the brass artworks. Others will be attaching the artworks to the installation wires. Not a difficult task, just time consuming! School age through to seniors: all welcome. Physical fitness: medium level – gluing requires a steady hand plus ability to bend for some volunteers to attach the artworks to steel strings
Time: 8.30am – late daily, or as much time as you have available
Location: Meet at gate 3, Auckland Grammar School, Mountain Road, Auckland 

Contact person: Joseph Waddingham jowaddingham@gmail.com or phone 022 129 5164.

This March marks the fourth anniversary of the Syrian crisis which has left 12.2 million people in desperate need of humanitarian assistance - including 5.6 million children, more than the entire population of New Zealand.

Gow Langsford Gallery and gallery artists Dick Frizzell, Max Gimblett, John Pule, Sara Hughes and Reuben Paterson are proud to have been part of World Vision's campaign The Forgotten Millions.  On the 18th of March, seven new works, made especially for the event, were auctioned off at a fundraising event that raised a total of $22,000.

To continue World Vision's work with these kids and their families, more funds are urgently needed. 

Donations can be made on the World Vision website.

Gow Langsford Gallery is pleased to announce the launch of a collaborative project between Max Gimblett, Martin Poppelwell and fashion label WORKSHOP.  Elements from the works feature in  limited edition printed garments by WORKSHOP and all works will be available for purchase.  

Read more on the collaboration in Viva magazine.

Launch: Thursday 12^th March, 6pm hosted by WORKSHOP Ponsonby. RSVP to manea@rcm.co.nz.

This is the first publication to focus entirely on the Sumi ink paintings of American-New Zealand artist Max Gimblett. Published by Charta with a foreword by Eric Shiner and text byTom Huhn. To order a copy please email orders@artbook.com.

Max Gimblett's first solo exhibition in the UK, Love Conquers All, will open to the public at Kashya Hildebrand Gallery, London, on 28 November, running until 24 January 2015.

Max Gimblett is now represented by Kashya Hildebrand in London and will have a solo exhibition at the gallery, opening November 27, 2014.

A new publication on Max Gimblett, The Sound of One Hand—Max Gimblett's Calligraphy Practice, will be published by Charta, Milan in October this year. The book features an essay by Tom Huhn and foreword by Eric Shiner.

This September Max Gimblett will participate in John O'Loghlen and Sophie McKinnon's China Contemporary Art + Architecture Tour. Max will give a lecture called 'Color, Abstraction and Gesture in My Studio Practice' at the China Central Academy of Fine Arts, Thursday 19 September and there will be a reception held at the New Zealand Embassy on Wednesday 18 September. Please contact us for more information.

Max Gimblett is currently in Auckland visiting from New York. View his exhibition, The Gold Thread, at our Lorne St gallery and listen to him talk about his practice at AUT this evening.
28 May 2014
Doors open 6.30pm
Presentation will start at 6.45pm
Limited seats available.
For more information contact AUT.

Ladders, a new collaboration by Ryan Hollingshead, Max Gimblett and Giovanni Forlino, is now available through the gallery. With text by Hollingshead accompanied by images by Gimblett and Forlino, this union began when the three met at Gimblett's exhibition at Gow Langsford Gallery, 2011. They have been working on the project ever since. As Max has said: 'We are at one, Ryan and I. Words and images flow together. We fell in love.'

During his upcoming visit to New Zealand, Max Gimblett will be conducting several sumi ink workshops at Waikato University to coincide with Universe, a works on paper and inks exhibition that will open at the University on 9 June. For more information please visit the Waikato University's website. Max Gimblett's next solo exhibition at Gow Langsford Gallery will open on 28 May. Please contact us to receive a preview of his new work.

This May, Max Gimblett will travel to Florence, Italy, to work on a limited edition artist's book with publisher Edizioni Canopo. Gimblett will produce etchings for the book which will be accompanied by poems written by Ida Panicelli.

Max Gimblett has been named one of NZEDGE's New Zealand Legends. New Zealanders do things that create ripple effects. New Zealand Legends is a broad group of 100+ innovators who have show grit, guts and genius to achieve their goals and create their visions. Congratulations Max!

This September, Max will travel to China to participate in John O'Loghlen and Sophie McKinnon's art and architectural tour of Beijing and Shanghai. At the conclusion of the tour there will be a reception honouring Max, an exhibition of his works at the New Zealand Embassy and a lecture at the Central Art Academy, Beijing.