Cathy de Monchaux
De Monchaux’s vision remains unique, independent and distinct. Embedded with symbolic references, it brings to mind religion, shamanism, social taboos, Freud, Poe, de Sade, Brothers Grimm, Gothic and Baroque art, Surrealism, but with a distinctively postmodern vision.
De Monchaux’s new works rattle our senses, both emotionally and visually: odd, magnetic, intense, haunting, they linger in our memory and invade our dreams.
De Monchaux was born in 1960, received a B.A. from the Camberwell School of Art, an M.A. from Goldsmith’s College and resides and works in London, England. She has exhibited internationally since 1988, has been included in the Biennale of Sydney, Australia in 1992, the Sao Paolo Biennale, Brazil in 1997, and the Turner Prize at the Tate Gallery, London in 1998.
Solo exhibitions include a major exhibition in 1997 at the Whitechapel Art Gallery in London, which later travelled to the Galerie Rudolfinum
in Prague. Recent exhibitions include Mordant Rapture at Sean Kelly Gallery, New York in 1999 and Directions at the Hirshhorn Museum
and Sculpture Garden in Washington, DC. Literary reviews of her work include articles such as “Cathy de Monchaux at Sean Kelly” in Art in America, January 1996, by Janet Koplos and Mark Osbourne’s “Pagan Rapture” featured in the Whitechapel Art Gallery’s catalogue of 1997.

Cathy de Monchaux
Sovereign, (Detail) 1999
Brass, copper, leather, wood, mink, oil on canvas, graphite and chalk.
635 x 4064 x 140mm
Courtesy of Sean Kelly Gallery, New York

Ian Breakwell
Ian Breakwell exhibits with Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London. His Diaries were published in 1986 and serialised on BBC Radio 3 in 1990. Channel 4 television regularly broadcast the Diaries during the 1980s as well as his autobiographical series Public Face Private Eye in 1991. Breakwell has collaborated with composer Ron Geesin on several audio-visual installations, including: Auditorium, presented at the ICA, London in 1994, and the award-winning Bellring, which premiered in 2000 in the cloisters of Durham Cathedral where he was Artist-in-Residence 1994-95.
With a Sci-Art Award from the Wellcome Trust in 1998 Breakwell made a series of photographic, audio-visual and digital works on the theme of the dance of death using medical imaging techniques. Death’s Dance Floor toured London, Cardiff and Glasgow in 1999.
During 1999-2000 Breakwell’s films were featured in Fourth Wall on the outside of the National Theatre, London; his Diaries in Live In Your Head at the Whitechapel Gallery; and his textworks in a survey show organised by Loughborough University. Breakwell’s new film Variety, commissioned by the BFI, premiered at the Edinburgh Film Festival in Autumn 2001. His new book Derby Days was launched at the Frankfurt Book Fair.

Ian Breakwell
at the Ballinspittle Shrine
Summer 1984

Pierre et Gilles
Pierre was born at La Roche-sur-Yon, Gilles in Le Havre. In autumn 1976, Pierre and Gilles met at the opening of the Kenzo boutique in Paris and started living together. As from 1977, it became clear that they should work in collaboration. Their work for the publication Façade brought them to the attention of the public. They photographed Andy Warhol, Salvador Dali, Mick Jagger, Yves Saint Laurent and Iggy Pop. 1978 saw the start of the Palace era, for which they produced posters and invitation cards. In 1979, they worked for Thierry Mugler producing album covers for Amanda Lear, Krootchey and Marie-France.
Adam and Eve in 1982 marked a turning point in their work and they created their first series in the Maldives and in Sri Lanka, Les Enfants des Voyages. In 1983, they had their first personal exhibition at the Texbraun gallery in Paris with Les Paradis and Garçons de Paris. In 1984, they exhibited at “Ateliers 84” at the ARC-Musée d’Art Moderne in Paris. In 1986 they Exhibited Naufragés and the Pleureuses at the Galerie Samia Saouma in Paris and dealt with religious themes and the saints. They also worked with Tomah, a young Laotian who was to become their stylist and assistant for 10 years.
In 1992 they exhibited at the Diaghilev Modern Art Museum in Saint-Petersburg. In 1993 they received the Grand Prix de Photographie in Paris. In 1994 they met Catherine Deneuve, Madonna, Polly Fey, Jeff Stryker, Lolo Ferrari, Sylvie Vartan, Aiden Shaw, and others. They produced the series Au bord du Mékong in Laos and Les Petits Boxeurs in Thailand. 1996 featured their first retrospective at the Maison Européenne de la Photographie in Paris. In 1998, the Museo de Bellas Artes in Valencia devoted a retrospective to them and they exhibited Douce Violence at Galerie Jérôme de Noirmont, Paris which exclusively represent the artists.
2000 featured their retrospective at the New Museum in New York and the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco. Arrache mon c

Pierre et Gilles
Saint-Lazare-Alexis Lemoine, 1988
©Pierre et Gilles. Courtesy Galerie Jérôme de Noirmont, Paris

Megan Jenkinson
Megan Jenkinson lectures in photography at the Elam School of Fine Arts, the University of Auckland. In 1989 she was included in Photography Now at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London-an exhibition which commemorated 150 years of photography; then in 1990 she represented New Zealand in the Eighth Sydney Biennale.
Her major series The Virtues toured New Zealand 1996-1998, then won a major award at the The Sharjah International Art Biennal in 1999.
New Zealand collections that hold her work include: the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa and the National Library of New Zealand; the Sarjeant Gallery, Wanganui; the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth; and the Auckland Art Gallery. International collections include: the Victoria and Albert Museum, London; the Bibliothèque Nationale and the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; and the National Art Gallery, Canberra, Australia.
Jenkinson’s work is published in the exhibition catalogue Per Genus et Differentium and in the book Under the Aegis which features her series The Virtues. She lives in Auckland.

Megan Jenkinson
In Parenthesis, (Detail) 2001
Courtesy of the artist and Jonathan Smart Gallery, Christchurch

Christopher Braddock
Christopher Braddock is Senior Lecturer in the School of Art & Design at Auckland University of Technology. He exhibits with Gow-Langsford Gallery in Auckland/Sydney and BartleyNees Gallery in Wellington.
In 1994 he was included in Station to Station: The Way of the Cross, 14 contemporary artists, Auckland Art Gallery, curated by William McAloon. In 1998 he featured in Sharp & Shiny: Fetishism in Contempory New Zealand Art, Govett Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, curated by John Hurrell.
Votive Mutation, 1999, marked a turning point for Braddock in its exploration of ornamentation, religion, fetishism and the body. Current exhibitions include the New Zealand Jewellery Biennale, Grammar: Subjects & Objects, curated by Deborah Crowe on behalf of the Dowse Art Museum, Wellington and Changing Spaces, an outdoor sculpture installation for the New Zealand Arts Festival 2002 for which his work focuses on an ornamentation of monumental minimalist aesthetics.
Braddock is one of the founding curators of pp: an annual artist initiated event of visual and performing arts based in Auckland. Collections that hold his work include: the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, the Auckland Art Gallery, the Robert McDougall Art Gallery, Christchurch and the NZ Post, Wellington.

Christopher Braddock
Slaver, (Detail) 2001
Courtesy of Gow-Langsford Gallery, Auckland/Sydney
and BartleyNees Gallery, Wellington