NEW STUDIO WORK - VIKY GARDEN - View here​
Fe29 Gallery, June 2024
Viky Garden presents a troika of exhibitions within her current display at Fe29.​
The bulk of her works are a series of new paintings, many of them her trademark otherworldly portraits, heavily painted pieces in which women's faces loom from a mist of texture and pattern. The faces stare, not with composure...more
PORTRAYAL OF THE HUMAN FORM - VIKY GARDEN & EDWARD POVEY - View here​
Fe29 Gallery, December 2022
Fe29 Gallery’s latest exhibition, "Portrayal of Human Form", is somewhat deceptively listed as featuring the works of Viky Garden and Edward Povey...more
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AUTUMN COLLECTION - View here​
Fe29 Gallery, April 2022​
Fe29's "Autumn Collection" is an opportunity to combine an overview of work by the gallery's regular artists with previously unseen pieces by Viky Garden and John Drawbridge...more
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Fe29 Gallery, June 2021
In ‘‘Grit’’, Garden explores the mental and physical states accompanying menopause, using her self-images as a tool to examine its accompanying psychological, emotional and sexual changes...more
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VIKY GARDEN PAINTINGS - View here​
Fe29 Gallery, June 2019
Hard on the heels of an exhibition of Viky Garden’s pinhole photography, Fe29 Gallery now presents some of the artist’s better-known work: her strong, introspective paintings and monotypes....more
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CASTING SHADOWS - View here​
Fe29 Gallery, May 2019
Viky Garden's art is being shown in two consecutive exhibitions at Fe29. The second, starting at the beginning of June, focuses on her paintings, but in the current display it is the artist's pinhole photography which takes pride of place...more
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SAY IT TO MY FACE - View here​
Warwick Henderson Gallery, August 2018
As a respected artist who rarely publicly displays her work, a new exhibition by Viky Garden is a delightful treat....more
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SEVEN MOODS OF VIKY GARDEN - View here​
Warwick Henderson Gallery, September 2016
...Paintings by Garden are rare. She seldom shows her work, perhaps because, throughout her long career, she has concentrated, to an unusual degree, on self-portraits in a variety of moods and settings. These are generally domestic and she sees herself as Everywoman....more
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ADAM PORTRAITURE EXHIBITION
James Wallace Trust, Pah Homestead, August 2014
As a gallery of New Zealand faces evoked by an established award, it is well worth a visit...more
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AUTUMN GROUP EXHIBITION
Warwick Henderson Gallery, May 2014
Viky Garden’s new work, featuring in the Autumn Exhibition at Warwick Henderson Gallery, comes hot on the trail of her recent success in the USA...more
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PASSENGERS - View here​
Warwick Henderson Gallery, November 2009
These thoughtful works could be melodramatic but although the images are far from sentimental they have a highly individual charm...more
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NEW WORLD VIRTUES - View here​
Warwick Henderson Gallery, August 2008
It is typical of the work of Viky Garden that the phone is linked to adolescent females as a source of pressure. Her show at the Warwick Henderson Gallery is intensely personal. It is also toughly unsentimental as it makes memorable images from the way a naïve young woman comes to terms with the world...more
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ARABESQUES - View here​
Edmiston Duke Gallery, 2006
Garden's self-portraits reveal a variety of moods and attitudes and achieve their remarkable presence by her unusual combination of expressive glance, baroque patterning and the audacity to be a little grotesque while preserving dignity...more
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FEMME-BRIDAL SUITE - View here​
Edmiston Duke Gallery, 2005
Not so high-flying, also reliant on withdrawal, but much more humanistic is the touching little exhibition called femme - bridal suite by Viky Garden at the Edmiston Duke Gallery until September 23...more
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BASELINES - View here​
Judith Anderson Gallery, September 2004
Garden combines tight construction with individual style and/psychological penetration...more
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ANY GIVEN DAY - View here​
Judith Anderson Gallery, November 2002
Symbols are all very well but they must be given an effective visual presence and Garden's figures have an extraordinary force as they act out their part in wide landscape settings...more
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AUCKLAND - A WORK OF FICTION - View here​
Judith Anderson Gallery, February 2002
Viky Garden's work at the Judith Anderson Gallery (until February 23) is not a narrative but a series of autobiographical feelings. In her paintings she uses a tall, female figure who is obviously the artist herself but also stands as an emblem or metaphor. The images are solemn and intent...more
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HERE, AFTER - View here​
Peters Muir Petford Gallery, October 2000
The artist is best known for her portrayal of young women in emblematic roles. In this show she is portraying objects rather than people, although one of the remarkable qualities of the work is the suggestion of people among the objects that help to make up their lives...more
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CONTRA-INDICATIONS - View here​
Peters Muir Petford Gallery, September 1999
The paintings as a group have an astringency set by the acerbic face of the woman and the tension between subject and object, between the cradled vase and the nearby statue of motherhood, between the perilous poise of the vase and a bare tree out a window or a faded rose on a table...more
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Chiaroscuro Gallery, November 1997
What is the secret that makes Viky Garden popular enough to sell well, and yet keep an undeniable intellectual strength? The answer is many layered...more
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OFFICE WIVES - Women of Modern Substance
Chiaroscuro Gallery, November 1997
Vermeer lovers take note. If you are, like me, susceptible to the hypnotic world of the Dutch paintings, where serene women in starched linen bodices are caught attending to timeless interior rituals, Viky Garden's Office Wives may take your breath away...more
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SISTERS OF MERCY - View here​
Chiaroscuro Gallery, August 1996
In the sell-out exhibition, Sisters of Mercy by Viky Garden at the Chiaroscuro Gallery, some of the most striking paintings have in the background agitated pieces of linen swept by turbulent breezes...more
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A THIN DISGUISE - View here​
Chiaroscuro Gallery, August 1995
This witty, astringent, idiosyncratic show is sharp and unsentimental and in its own way full of delightful, intriguing painting...more
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TRUE LIFE STUDIES - View here​
Chiaroscuro Gallery, August 1994
An evaluation of Garden's work like this would not be possible if the work itself was not of a high standard. Garden has a talent with the brush and an eye for colour where the shades and tones of the body are a subtle decorative patterning like the bruises on an apple...more
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VIKY GARDEN PAINTINGS
Auckland Society of Arts, 1989
In the last little gallery there is a very bright exhibition by Vicky Garden, whose paintings have strong unusual design elements and very individual colour schemes and make good use of the texture of the hessian on which they are done. TJ McNamara, NZ Herald 1989
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