Valerie Bos
Valerie Bos has been exhibiting with PAULNACHE since 2007. Predominantly a painter she periodically strays into other mediums.
Bos makes use of symbols and allegory to explore aspects of the human condition: the interrelationships between people, the spaces people find themselves occupying, and forces that drive their energies.
For Bos, one body of work can be quite different to another in content and medium.
A new project or body of work might start with a vague motivating idea but rarely with any predetermined image in mind. It is through the process of painting that things become clearer.
Persisting with small scale works - for the time being - recent works are emboldened with a brighter more lustrous palette that hold their own at distance whilst closer inspection rewards the viewer with the materiality of her painting process.
Her approach to painting explores aspects of the human condition; the interrelationship between people, the spaces people create for themselves and forces that drive their energies. More recent works have introduced abstract elements.
Brief biography
Self-taught, her formative years as a painter were spent in Gisborne, when there was an active art scene. Thirty years later she has returned from Wellington to take up residence once again.
Valerie was born in 1963, Palmerston North, New Zealand (of Dutch decsent). Her works are held in private collections throughout New Zealand, Australia and Singapore as well as Te Tairawhiti Museum Collection.
Anonymous (Series)
Valerie Bos, 2020, Acrylic ink & acrylic paint on paper, 29 x 21cm (unframed) Contact the Gallery
Paintings
Selected Exhibitions
Valerie Bos + Virginia Leonard, 20 September – 26 October 2024
The Meeting Place, Group Show, PAULNACHE, 27 January – 24 February 2023
Valerie Bos & Lorene Clotworthy Taurerewa, New Work, Jul 15 – Aug 12, 2016
Exhibition History
Solo Exhibitions
2020 Anonymous, PAULNACHE, Gisborne
2017 Fragments: paintings, installation & video projection, Brooklyn, New York
2017 Transitional States, Mahara Gallery, Waikanae
2016 Valerie Bos and Lorene Clotworthy Taurerewa, PAULNACHE, Gisborne
2014 Repeat, PAULNACHE, Gisborne
2012 Walk, Memory, PAULNACHE, Gisborne
2011 To Aid or Abate, Thermostat Gallery, Palmerston North
2008 New Work Valerie Bos- PAULNACHE, Gisborne
2007 New Work Valerie Bos- PAULNACHE, Gisborne
1995 Sacrificial Barb, Manawatu Art Gallery
1994 Nothing If Not Plain, Fettucine Brothers (Cafe), Gisborne
1993 Fine Line to Flight, Tairawhiti Museum, Gisborne
1993 Installation, Wharf Wine Bar, Gisborne
1991 Change of Tide, Scrumples Cafe, Gisborne
1990 Taking Flight, Flying Moas Gallery, Gisborne
Group Exhibitions
2022 Method curated by Eliza Webster & Michael Prosee, Pah Homestead, Auckland
2017 Flying Moas, Tairawhiti Museum and Art Gallery, Gisborne
2016 The Collector / The Gather Part 4, Wallace Gallery, Morrinsville
2014 Lying in Space 30Upstairs, Wellington
2014 PaulNache, Melbourne Art Fair
2014 Frameless, Justin Jade Morgan
2013 Parallel Lines, PAULNACHE, Gisborne
2012 Not Just a Pretty Picture, Thermostat Gallery, Palmerston North
2011 Upstairs 142 Cuba, PAULNACHE Wellington
2010 Tairawhiti Landscapes, Tairawhiti Museum and Art Gallery, Gisborne
2010 Represent, PAULNACHE, Gisborne
2010 Encore, Thermostat, Wellington
2010 First Test, Suite, Wellington
2009 Hoof and Hand, PAULNACHE, Gisborne
2009 Six Degrees of Separation, Suite, Wellington
2008 Waterfront Exhibition, Gisborne
1993 Here & Now-Contemporary Painters of Gisborne, Tairawhiti Museum, Gisborne