Archive for the 'Art' Category

Chris Parkin’s $20,000 drawing competition calling for entries

Press Release – Museum Art Hotel
Entries for The Parkin Prize national drawing award close on June 21, 2013 and artists are being reminded to enter and be in to win a major prize of $20,000. Read more »

Sam Mitchell exhibition at Bartley and Company Art

Press Release – Bartley and Company Art
Bartley + Company Art is pleased to present a new exhibition by Auckland artist Sam Mitchell – her first in our gallery and her first in Wellington for a few years. Read more »

Toi Poneke: Māori culture for sale?

Press Release – Toi Poneke Gallery
The economic and social value of Māori culture to New Zealand and the way that it is marketed and sold to the world is the theme of a new exhibition called Mana for Jam at Wellington’s Toi Pōneke Gallery from Friday 31 May to Saturday 22 June. Read more »

Thistle Hall – what’s on

Press Release – Thistle Hall
20 – 26 MAY 2013
LIFE IS SWEET | ALAN & ELLEN HODGETTS
OPENING:
5.30 – 7.00pm Monday 20 May
OPEN:
10.00am – 6.00pm Tuesday – Saturday
10.00am – 1.00pm Sunday
Life is sweet… and art is too!
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Creative Wellingtonians to present art and music in city’s old halls

Press Release – Old Hall Gigs
An exciting series of gigs will be taking place in old halls around Wellington throughout 2013. Old Hall Gigs is a series of events coordinated by Sarah Smythe and Thomasin Sleigh which sees local musicians, artists, dancers and writers take over old halls in Wellington for eclectic variety nights of art and music. Read more »

The Film Archive gets musical

Press Release – The Film Archive
Get your groove on at The New Zealand Film Archive this May. A series of screenings and live music events happening from May 23 – 25 will feature varied types of music, Read more »

Film Archive: Alex Porter / Len Lye shorts

Press Release – New Zealand Film Archive
Three shorts by Canterbury-based filmmaker Alex Porter screen alongside three Len Lye films. Porter is the creator of Porter’s Cinebooth, an individual screening device with a plush interior, currently on display in the Film Archive cafe. The screening will be followed by a Q&A session with Alex Porter and Sarah Davy (Director Collect Division, Film Archive, and our resident Len Lye expert). Read more »

Gifted Kids showcasing their art

Press Release – Gifted Kids Programme
Gifted Kids Hutt Unit, in conjunction with Hutt City Council, will be showcasing their art work at the “About Space” venue in Margaret Street this month. Read more »

City Gallery: photography by Gregory Crewdson

Press Release – City Gallery Wellington
City Gallery Wellington is delighted to present Gregory Crewdson: In a Lonely Place (15 June–8 September 2013), the first solo exhibition in New Zealand of the internationally renowned, New York-based photographer, Gregory Crewdson. Read more »

Thistle Hall: ‘Life is Sweet’

Press Release – SweetArts
‘Life is Sweet’ – joint art exhibition by Alan and Ellen Hodgetts
Thistle Hall Gallery
20 – 26 May
Opening event: 5.30 – 7 pm Monday 20 May
Opening hours: 10 am – 6pm Tuesday – Saturday, 10am – 1pm Sunday Read more »

Te Papa’s Andy Warhol exhibition opens next month

Press Release – Te Papa
Selected works by Andy Warhol go on display at Te Papa next month in what is a significant coup for the national museum. Read more »

Thistle Hall: French photographic tribute to Fiona Kidman


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Press Release – Lise Leboeuf
“ECHOES OF WOMEN, a French tribute to Fiona Kidman”.
This photography exhibition presents 12 diptychs (80×40), with Dame Fiona Kidman’s handwritten texts on one side and black and white photos of New Zealand on the other side. Read more »

Sue Elliott to be new chair of Sculpture Trust; succeeding Neil Plimmer


Press Release – Wellington Sculpture Trust
The Wellington Sculpture Trust announces that the Chairman for the last 12 years, Neil Plimmer, is retiring in mid May and that Trustee, Sue Elliott has been appointed the new chair. Read more »

Group photography exhibition ‘Facets of Wellington’

Press Release – Photospace Gallery
Group photography exhibition ‘Facets of Wellington’ at Photospace Gallery, May 4th – 25th
‘Facets of Wellington’ group photo exhibition featuring Jenny Dey, Linda Strand, Sushrutha Metikurke, Russ Finnerty, Thomas Kuehne, Craig Phillips, Mark Berger, Hugh Davies. Read more »

Khandallah Art Group

Press Release – The Khandallah Art Group
The Khandallah Art Group is a group of dedicated artists who meet weekly for tuition and peer review. Most of the members were pupils of the Dutch artist Marian van der Velde, who ran a popular art class in Khandallah. When Marian returned to Europe, a number of keen students decided to keep going, and have now been meeting for two years, under the eye of English artist Holly Bazett. Holly has a BA (Hons) in Fine Art Painting from the University of Brighton. Read more »

Adam Art Gallery: the realm of the visual

Press Release – Adam Art Gallery
Visually lush art works infused with the raw materials of pop, trash, queer and fashion culture, unite in the latest exhibition at the Adam Art Gallery, opening 3 May. Read more »

Bartley and Company: Kate Woods and Kerry Ann Lee

Press Release – Bartley and Company Art
KATE WOODS AND KERRY ANN LEE
Hyperspace 
1 - 25 May 2013
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Sea Star Studio: Circus of the Soul

Press Release – Sea Star Studio
SATURDAY MAY 25th & SUNDAY MAY 26th Art Exhibition, Music Concert, Performance Art, Children’s workshop
Sea Star Studio, 28 Dundas Street, Seatoun. Read more »

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