Monday 3 June 2013

John Reynolds



New Zealand artist John Reynolds, he had a range of practice basic on simple, repeated and 

abeyant shapes, he called this project the “plates”, different visual languages displayed 

similar. In his artworks, there is always a vision of diagram, a multiplicity of possible reading 

and a sense of humor.
























“Kingdom come” 2001, it is colorful small-scale lines across canvas, numbers of square-like 

fragments layer over layer, the first glance, there can’t see any particular orders just busy 

and giddy grid patterns, but after focus it brings a shift of rainbow’s colors and an emotion of 

a primary event in abeyance, also you can just read it as a composition diagram.












“Kingdom come” 2001







Reynolds, J. (2001). Summer. Wellington: Govett-Brewster Art Gallery and Artspace.

Erika. Congreve, R. and Gibbs, J. (2002). The Walters prize. New Zealand: Ernst &Young.

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