On Now
A Lonely Place Facing The Sun presents moving image installation works by Amber-Jayne Bain, as the realisation of a two year Master of Fine Arts degree at Massey University.
‘Family folklore can warp and change with the telling’ - Marie-Jean Mills
This exhibition is an exploration of memory, isolation, domestic repetition and the juxtaposition of moving and still photographic imagery. Immersive and visual, it brings past and present together, and offers a response to the plurality of memory enacted through stories inherited from my mother, Marie-Jean, about her childhood on Waitai, Rangitoto ki te Tonga, D’Urville Island. The work draws upon an abundant trove of colonial settler female experiences recorded by my matriarchal line, and incorporates my own memories of a similar family place, Waitui, in the outermost tip of the Marborough Sounds.
EVENT
Artist talk
Saturday 15 February, 1pm
CONTACT
Website: ajbain.com
Email: aj@ajbain.com
Instagram: @amber_jayne_bain
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Up Next
PUNAKA is a collaborative installation between 11 artists of varied backgrounds. The work explores an embodied approach to practices of communion and collaboration. Through the interweaving of diverse knowledge systems and personal histories, a transient and nurturing place is formed. This place is what we call ‘Punaka’. It reflects on the ways we gather, build, and sustain each other through collective acts of making.
Join us at for opening night on Monday 17 Febuary from 5.30pm. Funded by WCC Creative Communites Scheme
ARTISTS
Olivia Fergerson, Amanda Smith, Thomas Strawbridge, Ocean Alleman, Merryn Thompson, Clara Bosshard, Oliver Raikawa, Oliver Budd, AJ Manaaki Hope, Andrew Morris, Jason Fastier
CONTACT
Instagram @punaka_collective
Nine Lives, A Thousand Details: A Feline Atlas brings together Rae Huang's intricate ink drawings and vibrant embroidery works, creating a whimsical journey through feline-centered worlds. In the artist's detailed drawings, cats take on human-like qualities – they work, dream, celebrate, and go about daily life in elaborately crafted scenes. Each composition reveals a rich narrative where cats become the storytellers of modern life, blending imagination with familiar situations in unexpected ways.
The exhibition's embroidery pieces, inspired by the artist's Tokyo residency in July 2023, capture intimate city moments through the lens of the strawberry cat – a symbol of Taiwan's Generation Y. These colorful works follow the artist's self-reflective journey through urban spaces: a cat contemplating life from a Tokyo apartment window, wandering through bustling streets, or finding quiet moments in city corners.
The artist will be drawing on-site during the weekend. Visitors are invited to witness the artist's creative process during weekend drawing sessions.
CONTACT
Website: rueithefoxx.cargo.site
Email: Rae Huang at partoftheszene@gmail.com
PhotoChop, not Photoshop!
For the last 20 years PhotoChop has showcased artists who reinterpret physical ephemera to celebrate the absurd and unpredictable in the human hand and eye. No Photoshop. Cut and paste by scissors and glue. In collecting and combining mass media images a new visual is created: relevant, ridiculous and anarchic.
Collages in PhotoChop are original art works priced from $5 to $100. Anyone can leave the exhibition with an affordable artwork. Stay and make your own PhotoChop at our collage workshop table, or add to an exquisite corpse collage.
With live music cut ups from DJ Tangent.
Part of 2025 NZ Fringe Festival