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Start Date
15 July -  
End Date
20 July 2025
Artist
Simon Olsen
Main Image
Painting by Simon Olsen
Opening Hours
Tuesday - Sunday: 11am - 6pm
Description

Simon Olsen paints to celebrate the beauty around and within us - to inspire gratitude for what shouldn’t be taken for granted. He says: “Gratitude is what creating art requires of me, and fosters in me, including for how miraculous our human, natural and spiritual natures are.”

Olsen’s practice explores techniques where he applies paint in multiple layers, with the canvas rotated for gravity to work it in different directions. This creates texture, and an illusion of movement.

His exhibition and practice are grappling with questions such as: “Why might we need things to appear more surreal, bold or colourful, to remember how wonderful they actually are?”

 

 

EVENT

FREE public painting co-lab - open for the duration of the exhibition. Anyone can add brush strokes to a large canvas. A collaborative painting will emerge, to engage people in a creative process that values diversity, unity and connection.

 

 

 

 

CONTACT

Email: simonolsen@gmail.com
Instagram: @simonsverreolsen 

 

#WellingtonArtist #ExpressionistPainting #GratitudeForWonder

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Start Date
22 July -  
End Date
26 July 2025
Artist
Morgan Dean
Main Image
Sculptural installation by Morgan Dean. A line of small loss and found objects snakes across a concrete floor.
Opening Hours
Tuesday - Saturday: 12 - 6pm
Description

This installation is a self-portrait made up of 100s of things found on the streets that I have walked on in my life. The start of the installation is things I collected when I was a child, mainly in Helensville (where I grew up) and the surrounding areas. This then flows into the things that I have found as an adult living in Wellington. The tail end of the piece are things that people have found on the street and given to me. The installation takes its form from the Kaipara River that runs through the centre of Helensville. I moved to Wellington 3 years ago to study Arts Management, and although I really love living here, no matter how long I stay I will never have the same connection to it that I do to Helensville.

 

 

 

CONTACT

Instagram: @mmmorgan.dean

Start Date
18 August -  
End Date
24 August 2025
Artist
James Harcourt
Main Image
Detail of 'Devi" a mask by James Harcourt. A phoenix palm leaf painted with an animalistic facebright paint
Opening
Opening Hours
Monday - Sunday: 9:30am - 6pm
Description

An exhibition of visual art using a wide variety of genre/media presented as a Museum with gift store. A didactic celebration of environment focussed in kaitiakitanga o te taiao. Artworks and pseudo-artifacts curated to entertain and reinforce values of humankind's interconnectedness and place within environment. Sculpture, painting, cabinetry, embroidery, masks, installation, costume combine to form a museum-like space that can educate alongside a gift shop of handmade clothing, skincare, tote bags, aprons... We are here, it's a surprise, let's uplift, be grateful and celebrate each other.

 

EVENTS

Artist talk each day at 1pm

 

Thursday 21 August, 5:30pm
Pizza Event

 

CONTACT

Website: www.jamesharcourt.co.nz

Email: ijamesharcourt@yahoo.com