Curriculum Vitae
John Badcock

Education
1952 Born Queenstown
1969-73 Cabinet-making Apprenticeship, Invercargill/Christchurch Polytechnic
1974 Started own cabinet making, Business – Private & Public Commisions
1986 Began Painting full-time

Artistic Achievements
Awards
2015 Touring Exhibition - Wallace Art Awards – Auckland - NZ
2016 Finalist – Wallace Art Awards – Auckland - NZ
2015 Finalist – Wallace Art Awards – Auckland - NZ
2014 Finalist – Wallace Art Awards – Auckland - NZ
2012 Highly Commended - Adam Portrait Award, touring exhibition - NZ
2010 Adam Portrait Awards and touring Exhibition – NZ
2008 Hall of Fame – South Canterbury – Timaru District Council
2007 Selected – Archibald Salon des Refuses Exhibition – Sydney
2006 Highly commended – Adam Portrait Awards and touring exhibition -NZ
2004 Commended – New Zealand Portrait Awards – Wellington
2002 Finalist – New Zealand Portrait Awards – Wellington
2000 Finalist – New Zealand Portrait Awards – Wellington
1999 First – Anderson Park Gallery – Invercargill
1997-98 Finalist – James Wallace Art Awards – Auckland
1998 First – Coopers and Lybrand – Dunedin
1994-96 First – Ashburton Society of Arts – Ashburton
1989 First – South Canterbury Arts Society – Timaru

Artist Residencies and Teaching
2010-11-13-16 Geraldine - Weekend School
2010 Queenstown - Weekend School
2009 Australia - Milany, Glasshouse Mountains. Tutoring.
2008 Christchurch St Mary’s Church Merivale.
2007 Australia – Melbourne, Adelaide, Flinders Ranges. Tutoring
2006 Norfolk Island – Sydney – Teaching painting tour
2006 Gore - Arts Festival – Weekend School
2006 Dunedin - Otago Arts Society – Weekend School
2006 Oamaru - Oamaru Arts Society – Weekend School

Self-Funded International Research
2017 Melbourne, David Hockney
2014 Sydney
2013 Sydney , Francis Bacon
2009 New York, San Francisco
2008 Melbourne, Sydney
2007 Sydney
2005 Sydney
2001 United Kingdom and Europe
1991 United Kingdom and Europe

Solo Public Gallery, Museum Exhibitions
2017 Ashburton Art Gallery - Portraits
2015 Waikato Museum – Passing People
2015 Aigantighe Art Gallery – Stations of the Cross
2015 Geraldine Museum – Passing People
2014 Christchurch Transsitional Cathedral – Stations of the Cross
2013 Waikato Museum – Stations of the Cross
2012 Rotorua Museum of History and Art – Stations of the Cross
2011 Christchurch Cathedral (Closed due Earthquake) Stations of the Cross
2009 Ashburton Art Gallery – Lecture Series
2009 Rotorua Museum of History and Art – The Last Supper
2009 Tairawhiti Museum - Gisborne – Passing People
2008-09 Forrester Art Gallery - Oamaru – Lecture Series
2007 Rotorua Museum of History and Art – Passing People
2007 New Zealand Portrait Gallery – Wellington – Passing People
2006 Ashburton Art Gallery - Ashburton – Passing People
Forrester Gallery - Oamaru – Passing People
Eastern Southland Gallery - Gore – Passing People
Lakes District Museum - Arrowtown -Passing People
Millenium Art Gallery - Blenheim - Passing People
2005 Anderson’s Park Art Gallery - Invercargill -Passing People
Aigantighe Art Gallery - Timaru – Passing People - Launch
Landing Services Building – Timaru –The Last Supper
Eastern Southland Gallery – Gore – The Last Supper
2003 Christchurch Cathedral - Christchurch – The Last Supper
2001 Aigantighe Art Gallery – Timaru – Greed of The Seed
1999-00 Ashburton Art Gallery - Ashburton – Living under the Arch
1998 Aigantighe Art Gallery - Timaru – Judgements of Character
1994 Aigantighe Art Gallery – John Badcock 1974-1994
1993 Forrester Gallery - Oamaru – Studies and Tensions
1992 Eastern Southland - Gore – Studies and Tensions
Aigantighe Art Gallery - Timaru – Studies and Tensions

Solo Dealer Gallery Exhibitions
2016 Susan Badcock Studio - Geraldine - Superheroes
2015 Susan Badcock Studio - Geraldine - Portraits
2014 Pierre Peeters Gallery – Auckland – Portraits J.H.W.
2013 Pierre Peeters Gallery – Auckland – Paint or Portrait
2012 McAtamney Gallery – Geraldine -Stations of the Cross
2011 McAtamney Gallery - Geraldine –Lecture Series
2011 McAtamney Gallery - Geraldine
2010 Saffron Gallery – Timaru – Waimarie Garden – Passing People
2006-07 Fisher Galleries – Christchurch – Life and Land
2006 Fisher Galleries – Christchurch –A Lot of Art is Boring
2004 McGregor Wrights Gallery – Wellington – Expressions Europeon
2001 Bealey Gallery – Christchurch – Greed of the Seed
2001 Ghiaroscuro Gallery – Auckland – Bloodline
2000 Bealey Gallery – Christchurch – Bloodline
2000 Ghiaroscuro Gallery – Auckland –Living under the Arch
2000 McGregor Wrights Gallery – Wellington – Living under the Arch
1992 C.S.A – Chrischurch – Studies and Tensions
1990-93 Ritchies Fine Arts – Christchurch
1989-05 McGregor Wrights Gallery – Wellington
1987-88 Mansfield Gallery – Christchurch
1986-87 Vertu Gallery – Napier
1985-87 Fishers and Sons – Christchurch

Selected Group Exhibitions

2015-16      Susan Badcock Studio – Geraldine
2014-15-16   Pieere Peeters Gallery - Auckland
2015 Exhibitions Gallery – Summer Show - Wellington
2014 The Big Egg Hunt – Starship - Auckland
2014 Susan Badcock Studio – Opening Exhibition
2014 Pieere Peeters Gallery - Auckland
2013 Pierre Peeters Gallery - Auckland
2012 Warwick Henderson – Winter Catalogue- Auckland
2012 Adam Portrait Awards Touring Exhibition – N.Z. Portrait Gallery
2010 Adam Portrait Awards Touring Exhibition – N.Z. Portrait Gallery
2009 Exhibitions Gallery - Wellington
2009 Coco and the Christchurch Cathedral –The Cross
2008 St Mary’s Church Merivale - Christchurch - Artist in Residency
2007 Coca and Christchurch Cathedral – Slate Project
2004-06 New Zealand Portrait Gallery - Wellington
2004 Fisher Galleries – Auckland, Christchurch and Wellington
2002 New Zealand Portrait Gallery - Wellington
2002 Chiaroscuro Gallery - Auckland
2001 Landing Services Building - Timaru - The Launch
2000 New Zealand Portrait Gallery - Wellington
2000 Chiaroscruo Gallery – Auckland
1997-01 Bealey Gallery – Christchurch
1997-99 COCA Contemporary Gallery – Christchurch
1997 Ferner Gallery – Auckland
1992 Festival of the Arts - Artseen – Wellington
1990 South Canterbury Artists - A Retrospective View -– Timaru
1989-04 McGregor Wrights Gallery – Wellington
1988 Mansfield Gallery – Christchurch
1987-89 Academy of Fine Arts – Wellington
1986 Plunket Exhibition – Timaru
1984 Guest Artist – Waimate
1982 Town and Country - Christchurch
1981 Canterbury Crafts – Christchurch
1980-89 South Canterbury Art Society – Timaru

Published Books, Films, Magazines
Stations of the Cross – UTube -Dr Warren Feeney -McAtamney Gallery , 2012
Lecture Series - McAtamney Gallery - Geraldine 2011
Passing People – John Badcock
A Changing Landscape – A film by Cowboy Productions – Simon Pattison
Arts International No63 – Dr Cassandra Fusco
Capturing Mountains, The Life and Art of Austen Deans – Nathalie Brown
A Painted Country, New Zealand – Denis Robinson
New Zealands Favourite Artists – Denis Robinson
New Zealand on Canvas – Denis Robinson
Through Grit to Glory – Crawford Murray – Christchurch Cathedral
Symmetry – Summer 2008
Fisher Galleries – 2007 Catalogue
Anglican Taonga – Brian Thomas - Christmas 2002
New Zealand House and Garden – December 1998
New Zealand Gardener – January 1990
Latitude – Winter 2009
Collections
Sir James Wallace – Portrait - Auckland
Wallace Trust Collection – Pah Homestead - Auckland
New Zealand Portrait Gallery - Wellington
Christchurch Art Gallery – Te Puna O Waiwhetu – Christchurch
Hocken Library – University of Otago
Christchurch Cathedral - Christchurch
St Mary’s Merivale - Christchurch
Sackman Corporation - New York
Aigantighe Art Gallery - Timaru
Anderson Park, Invercargill
St Mary’s - Timaru
Raymond Sullivan McGlasham, - Timaru
B.P. - Wellington
Telecom – Wellington
Geraldine Museum

Reviews
2012 Stations of the Cross – NZ Listener – July 14-20 – Gu Somerset
2012 Stations of the Cross - The Press - February 2012 - Dr Warren Feeney
2009 Bulletin B158 – Christchurch Art Gallery – Te Puna O Waiwhetu
2006 Last Supper – Christchurch Cathedral –Lecture -Prof Andrew Hornblow
2006 Last Supper – Christchurch Cathedral –Lecture -Dr Kathleen P Rushton
2006 Last Supper – Christchurch Cathedral – Lecture - David Moore
2001 Bloodline - New Zealand Herald – May 21 – T.J. McNamara
2000 The Press – November 22
2000 The Press – October 18 – Mathew Appleby
2000 Living Under the Arch - New Zealand Herald – May 29 – T.J.McNamara
1999 Timaru Herald – July 12
1996 Otago Daily Times – August
1993 Studies and Tensions - Southland Times – May 20 – Pat Veltkamp
1993 Studies and Tensions - Oamaru Mail – September 7 – Russell Shrub
1992 Studies and Tensions – The Press – August 21 – Peter Simpson

Monograph Publications
2006 Bloodline – Wiremu Bretton
2004 Sermon Series – Jessie Gower
2003 National Education Monitoring Project 30 New Zealand Visual Arts
2001 Expressions European – Gordon Cooksley

Testimonials
The Press 2012 – Dr Warren Feeney
“Stations of the Cross, is a tour-de-force in the act of painting. Badcock’s 14
stations detail the suffering of Jesus Christ from his condemnation to his crucifixion
and burial in a succinct iconography that largely removes the cast of Roman soldiers
and unruly mod to reveal the story of a man alone in the tempestuous landscape of
the South Island.”

Peter Beck, Bulletin, 2009
“A few years ago I had a personal breakthrough in my appreciation of art. At
Christchurch Cathedral during Lent, we exhibited John Badcock’s The Last Supper
and accompanied it with a series of talks entitled ‘Conversations with a Painting’. And
that was the turning point for me. Until that time my occasional wanderings around
art galleries had been to look at pictures, but after
that Lenten reflection I realized that what I was really looking for was a conversation
with a piece of art. Over the period of forty days that we had John’s work in the
nave, it was often a three-way conversation between the painting, the cathedral and
myself a roller coaster of emotions”

T.J.McNamara, 2001
“The sense of rising towards a luminous spiritual state through the fire of experience
unifies this accomplished and powerful show”

Dr Cassandra Fusco, 2005
“…the best of Badcock’s works reveal subjects couched in lines that move between
sightings and detections”

Prof Andrew Hornblow, 2003
“These thirteen faces stare, unblinking, silent, the intensity of the gaze unbroken by
the social convention of breaking eye contact to reduce the intensity of the
interaction. Instead, one is drawn through the eyes to the powerful inner world of
varying moods and emotions, vices and frailties and strengths and weaknesses of
our human condition.”

Matthew Appleby, 2000
“This sequence of paintings is appealing in its experimental feel, spiritual imagery,
unpretentious accessibility ad above all, it’s heart.”

Dr Kathleen Ruston
“This was not the first time that I encountered a painting of the Last Supper which
disturbs. I had stood in tears before massive apparently empty Abendmahl (Last
supper) of Ben Willikens and reeled before Harald Duwe’s Abendmahisbild (Last
Supper) in which the unimaginable is presented pictorially. (Crumlin: 1998:135, 133)
While I could walk away from other paintings I was committed to a conversation with
this one”

Gordon Cooksley
“As one revels in John’s extrovert renditions of the Greek Isles, the Seine, Assisi or
London etc. etc. a sense of a ‘journey of discovery’ unfolds as the gorgeous colors
and sensuous use of rich impasto paint combine to transport the viewer along as few
artists can.”

Dr Cassandra Fusco
“Pausing in front of or walking past this assembly, we see Badcock’s quick, lithe,
lines; they ‘show and tell’ much about human relationships. They may delight and
engage us, or stir us with poignant insights. Here then are one hundred reflections,
linear, tonal, tactile and partial, like our knowledge of ourselves and others. These
portraits, like a good novel, invite reading and rereading; they chronicle moments of
behavior and the processes of life.”