Andrew Drummond (artist)

Andrew Drummond tends to focus on process and ritual while contemplating ideas of location. He considers the entanglements of the human body, ecology, and dislocated histories within the landscapes of New Zealand. In the 1970s, he created several documented performance works. Drummond lives and works in Christchurch, New Zealand.[2] He earned his degree in Fine Arts from the University of Waterloo, Canada, and is currently a senior lecturer in sculpture at the University of Canterbury, School of Fine Arts.[2] He is represented by Jonathan Smart gallery in Christchurch, Page Blackie gallery in Wellington and Antoinette Godkin gallery in Auckland.[3][4][5]

In 2007 Drummond was awarded the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to sculpture[6]

Andrew Drummond has received the following awards:

• 1999 Creative New Zealand Grant for Projects Environment commission[3]
• 1995 Creative New Zealand Grant for Robert McDougall Art Gallery commission[3]
• 1990 Australia, New Zealand Foundation Fellowship[3]
• 1987 Tylee Cottage Residency[7]
• 1981 Major Grant, QEII Arts Council[3]
• 1980 Frances Hodgkins Fellowship, University of Otago, Dunedin[2][8]

Andrew Drummond works with a variety of media and materials. His work includes process-based installation, photography, figurative and symbolic imagery.[2] Drummond was included in a number of early exhibitions that featured performance art in New Zealand including ANZART initiated by Ian Hunter in 1981 and the F1 New Zealand Sculpture Project in 1982.

He had an exhibition at the Wellington City Gallery in 1981 titled Andrew Drummond: Works 80.[9]

Ramarama, Andrew Drummond

Drummond has received many commissions for both private and public sculptures.[10][11]

• 2016/17 Ramarama, Suter Gallery, Nelson
• 2014/15 Armillary for Air, private commission, Ohinetahi, Governors Bay, Canterbury
• 2011/12 Rotating Sphere, private commission, South Canterbury, NZ
• 2007 Vertical Form, Counter Rotating, private commission, Nelson
• 2006 Vertical Form, Counter Rotating, private commission, Banks Peninsula

• 2005 Tower of Light, Wellington Sculpture Trust commission for Meridian Energy Wind Project
• 2004 Cascade, commission for Woollaston Estates, Nelson
• 2004 for Swinging and Spinning, private commission, Geraldine, Canterbury
• 2000 Assignation Device, commission by Kiwi Properties for Veto Building, Auckland
• 1999 Crossroads, commission by Projects Environment for ArtBarns: After Kurt Schwitters
• 1995 for Beating and Breathing, commission for Robert McDougall Art Gallery, Christchurch
• 1994 Device for Listening & Viewing, Wellington Sculpture Trust commission, Botanic Garden, Wellington
• 1990 Stationary Limbs, commission for the Fletcher Trust Collection, Fletcher Challenge House, Auckland

As part of the Canterbury Society of Arts 1978 festival Platforms Drummond performed Crucifixion. He was fixed to a diagonally shaped cross while a latex skin was created on his naked body, once formed the skin was shed from his body and he left the stage. Drummond wore a gas mask throughout to protect himself from the ammonia generated by the drying latex, he was also connected to an ECG machine so observers could monitor his emotional state. For the duration of the festival the discarded latex skin was laid out on the cross and exhibited with Polaroid photographs taken during the performance plus other detritus from the performance.[11]

Two people in the audience took offence at the nudity and reported the performance to the police. The police laid charges (under Section 3(d) of the Police Offences Act.), when eventually heard in court the behaviour was found to be 'ill-mannered, in bad taste, crude and offensive', but the charges were dismissed.[12]

• List of University of Waterloo people

• Profile from the New Zealand Listener, 29 July – 4 August 2006 Vol 204 No 3455
• Andrew Drummond – TePapa's website
• Jonathan Smart gallery – solo show in 2013