Ambrose Tiso is a young cartoonist. He spends lots of time drawing and thinking of new stories he can turn into comics. His preferred medium is felt pens.
As he gets older his aim is to lengthen his work into more substantial stories and hopefully turn them into movies.
Talei Peckham
Wellington based spokenword poet, set designer and photographer enthusiast
She believes that there are ballpoint pens that tell more truth then men. These are the poems that demand to be heard. Through each poem she aims to express the light and not hide from the sour tales through her mixed media
Toni Ann Alamani
Wellington based Hand-Lettering artist
Lettering for Toni Ann has always been a way to encourage and inspire others with beautifully written words to serve as reminders of their potential and worth, to push them further and believe in more for their life.
Janice Lum
Wellington based artist, illustrator and typography enthusiast
Passionate about exploring themes of God, nature and everyday truths through the medium of watercolour and ink. Her work encourages creative exploration and boldness through embracing the failures that push you forward.
Harriet Bright
Harriet Bright's work breathes immediacy and fluidity. She captures the spirit of her models with lively line work and a free, loose style of painting.
Born in Norfolk in 1973, Harriet emigrated to New Zealand ten years ago. She won the Adam award for Portraiture in 2010, and was a finalist in the NZ Art Show signature Awards. She has held many solo and group exhibitions, most recently a collaboration with Elspeth Shannon at the New Zealand Portrait gallery.
Harriet works directly from life, and for many years has been engaged with the simple and expressive qualities of line.
Harriet's work can be found at www.harrietbright.co.nz
Denise Durkin
In 2001 I made a commitment to drawing and painting. I first began drawing the figure at Wellington Polytechnic, and when I wanted to increased the fine arts direction of my life I returned to the human as a subject. This started my association with Inverlochy Art School and their untutored life classes. There I was able to develop my drawing and painting skills and increased my confidence with the figure.
I have been helped immensely by Inverlochy Art School and the personal micro community I have found there, particularly artist friend Patricia Fry who has pushed my oil painting and drawing along with encouragement and a painter's eye over my work.
Represented by Gilberd Marriott Gallery:
www.gilberdmarriottgallery.com
www.denisedurkinartwork.com
Artist Noel Faifai born and bred in Lower hutt now residing in Wainuiomata having my first exhibition in 11 years.
I am a painter at heart but for this show I'm using more than one medium Oils, acrylic, spray paint, Natu -Tongan tapa cloth & photo transfer.
There will be 12 pieces exhibiting to show case a style in which I feel give a different perspective on pasifika art, some paintings are steeped in Samoan culture, some have social commentary & Religious elements & some are just pure expression.
Sarah Jamieson is a Scottish visual artist who recently moved to Wellington. This exhibition is a direct response from her journey to and around New Zealand. Her work focuses on the environment surrounding her, and how people explore and connect with it. She focuses on patterns in nature, geography, landforms and found objects that she collects along her travels.
She looks at the idea of place through mapmaking and the language that maps deploy, like a cartographer she uses the process of selection. In her work she also looks at the idea of an ever-changing landscape using organic forms, subtle tone changes and mark making.
www.artistsarahjamieson.com
How does it feel to be between states of change? Can you imagine the gradient of saturation as one sense takes over from the other? Chora Carleton and Tyler Jackson exhibition Between presents an exploration and interaction of their art practices, offering two ways of approaching the effect of colour perception and space on the viewer.
Chora Carleton's practice indulges on the phantasy of colour, sensation and space through beautiful soft watercolour abstract paintings. On the other hand, Tyler Jackson's practice entails an avid enquiry into the phenomenological role of light and colour, materiality and aesthetics through intense saturated colour objects that enrich in form and interaction.
The exhibition Between will present these two different approaches to handling colour, the artists' wish to spark conversations into how one perceives and experiences colour.
Welcome to the fascinating world of string art, the creative craft working with wood, nails and string. My exhibition shows a range of techniques used including abstract, representational designs, 2 and 3 dimensional, layered, paired and a few string sculptures.
A special section devoted to the "spider-man series" featuring 10 pieces showing various body positions strung in alternative styles.
Personal statement
For me thread design started back in the mid 70's with my brother bringing homework home of geometric patterns (symmography) from college. theses were later handed onto me to do, I soon revised that this was a great way to make a piece of art. Slowly over the years I continued to gather and collate resources leading into some original designs of my own. My passion for working with nails and string motivates me to create. I like the idea of the artwork being with all who appreciate beautiful pictures which can enhance the home, office or workplace.
The Dinner Party
Ceramics by Aimée McLeod
Fast food, take away coffees out of paper cups and plastic containers, eating on the run or in front of TV, hurry, stress…part of the daily routine for many these days. Consider sitting down with friends at a table with plates and dishes that are worthy of the food and enhance the pleasure of eating . Aimée’s ceramic tableware is unrepentantly non- recyclable and non-disposable.
Urban Trees
Photographs by Roland Idaczyk
Urban Trees is a story of survival. These trees have apparently assimilated to their surroundings. They even adapted similar colours. Although these trees look deprived, they are full of life. The images for this series were mostly taken during winter. While this reduces the appearance of the trees to their essential structure, in all their nakedness they also convey a very special beauty. Unfortunately, several of the Wellingtonian trees in this series have had their lives taken.
Electron Micrographs
John Patterson
The Electron micrographs were taken using the 30 year old JEOL 733 microprobe at Victoria University. John looked after this analytical microscope for 11 years. Some of these images were recently interpreted in oils by Linda Ćihařová, an artist in Prague.
I am an amateur photographer with a love of black and white street photography and portraiture. Wellington’s urban environments are rich with opportunities to observe and capture life in the city. With the images in this Cuba People series I aim to celebrate the everyday, the surprising, the humorous, the beautiful, and the sad aspects of people out and about in this unique street in central Wellington, Aotearoa-New Zealand.
As noted on a Cuba Mall display board:
“Everything you ever wanted........and more
acupuncture, antiques, art, automobiles, beauty, books, chainsaws, Chinese medicine.... skates, tattoos, technology, travel, vinyl...........plus much much more
and the most fascinating mix of people in the country”
Cuba People is my third street photography book; the others are Three Cities (2015), and Newtown Forever (2016).
Mary Hutchinson
May 2016
“...They have a story to be told. I want to tell it, I want to be a voice for the unfamous people. They are the people who interest me. Whether it’s a guy in Miami who goes to a dance or its someone who’s dying in Ethiopia, they are the unfamous people that I care about. I feel a certain purity in them that’s real, and I want to document their lives...”
Mary Ellen Mark in The Photo Essay (Photographers at work, a Smithsonian Series, 1990).
Kirsty Oliver’s work explores the concept of home, identity and belonging by borrowing visual elements from cultures she is connected to.
A recent trip to Bahrain (the Middle East) sparked already growing feelings of connection to this Islamic country, and influenced Kirsty to explore the cultural identity of the country she was born in. Due to her family connection to the Middle East, Kirsty has a strong foundation for her artwork.
Kirsty’s current work includes 2D ink drawings on paper using Islamic patterns and wood carvings using New Zealand native wood. These materials and visual elements show the connections between Kirsty, the Middle East and New Zealand which portray her identity and concept of home and belonging.
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A delegation of Optiv101 Studio Artists visit Wellington in an exhibition to enhance the global and local relationships we have with the capital city of Aotearoa, New Zealand.
The State Visit will be the chance for Optiv101 Fine Arts and Multimedia Studios to exhibit at Thistle Hall again. Discussions of New Zealand and our place in the world across economic and cultural indicators of education, wealth , media, commerce, and politics.
Image: Neil Buddle, Get Up, Get on Up (Feel Like Being a War Machine), 2015, Linocut
Dave Bang
As well as working primarily in pen and ink, drawing very detailed studies of rural NZ, Dave's recent exploration of red wine, beer and coffee as painting mediums has resulted in something truly different and unique.
He also finds satisfaction and enjoyment for larger works using chalk pastel.
Amelia Downs
Amelia is a self-taught artist and has been painting for 17 years.
Her love of nature inspires her paintings of landscapes, with her favourite subject being seascapes, whilst her strong spiritual side influences a love of abstract expression also.
Painting is Amelia's true passion in life and she feels very rewarded by the joy and appreciation that people have for her work.
Elza Dissanayake
Elza discovered the love of painting about 4 years ago and hasn't stopped creating since. She paints mostly abstracts, predominately in oils but is equally skilled using acrylic.
Sharlene Schmidt
Sharlene is an experienced international artist., noted for her painting in oils, with an additional talent to render beautiful studies in both pastel and charcoal.
Vicky Webster
With a natural talent, uncomplicated by formal training, Horowhenua acrylic artist, Vicky Webster's love of colour and experimentation with different materials has resulted in the development of her own very enjoyable unique and quirky style.
John Wysocki
John is a well-known craftsman throughout the lower North Island, his many exhibitions and Arts Trail displays have demonstrated John’s ability to take woodturning to the next level where it can be enjoyed as its own art form
Play by Play will be the first event of its kind in New Zealand—an interactive, public exhibition of grassroots game development talent. Taking place during the first week of the April school holidays, the exhibition will feature a selection of international and locally developed videogames, all fully playable. Come along and check out the great games that Kiwis have been making!
Hanging from the walls will be traditional art pieces submitted by artists around New Zealand, inspired by games and games culture. These will be purchasable from the venue if you're looking for a spark of play to brighten your lounge!
During the evening will be tabletop play nights - sample a variety of games and give old favourites a go or introduce yourself to new ones.
For those of you that want to make games as well as play them, or just understand a little more about how they're built, we'll be putting on workshops throughout the week.
EVENTS
Monday the 18th of April
10am-6pm: Exhibition at Thistle Hall.
10-11.30am: Control a Game, Your Way - Mindlab workshop at Thistle Hall.
Tuesday the 19th of April
10am-6pm: Exhibition at Thistle Hall.
2pm-3.30pm: Dance Dance Revolution - Mindlab workshop at Thistle Hall.
6.30pm-late: Games night at Level Up, the local videogame co-working space on Dixon Street.
Wednesday the 20th of April
10am-6pm: Exhibition at Thistle Hall.
10am-11.30am: Shots Fired, Shots Fired! - Mindlab workshop at Thistle Hall.
7pm - late: Wellingtaru - casual drinks with other local game developers at the Fork & Brewer.
Thursday the 21st of April
10am-6pm: Exhibition at Thistle Hall.
2pm-3.30pm: B-Ball, Anyone? - Mindlab workshop at Thistle Hall.
6.30pm-9pm: Game Developers of Wellington - meetup of local game devs with a talk by Liam Esler, at BizDojo.
Friday the 22nd of April
10am-6pm: Exhibition at Thistle Hall.
10am-11.30am: Whack-a-Mole - Mindlab workshop at Thistle Hall.
12pm-7pm: Yoobee graduation interaction exhibition at Toi Poneke.
Saturday the 23rd of April
10am-5pm: Exhibition at Thistle Hall.
10am-5pm: Conference at Thistle Hall (upstairs).
12pm-7pm: Yoobee graduation interaction exhibition at Toi Poneke.
6.30pm-late: Awards and afterparty at Mac's Function Centre.
Check out the website for more information!
The assimilation of computers into humanity’s cultural fabric has created an interest in what I see as a correlation between computers and painting. They both utilise codified information and abstract data; both are storage devices and retrieval systems; we see the viewer as user interface; they use partitions to order and relay information.
The dawn of the electronic media age began a cultural shift from the modernist grid’s determination of projection and representation to the fluid structures and circuits of the network. 1971 was the year that radically altered the world of computers, how they manage and process information due to the invention of the microprocessor.
The cultural artefact of the computer is a starting point to investigate virtual space as non-place. The space the paintings are representative of is hidden from physical view and separated at some distance from both the artist and the viewer.
In conjunction with the conventions of painting, the works incorporate the use of both the analogue and the digital. It is commonplace now for humanity to access information through the aptitude of remote viewing; most things are now mediated through the computer terminal.
An exhibition of recent paintings and prints by Nelson artist Riki Sommers.
The artwork reflects his everyday observations represented in a still life format. In addition, the exhibition will be supported by older works; a series of portraits from 2013 2014 using aerosol and oil, sketches & illustrations.
I would like to invite you all to my first solo show in over five years; The Enchanting.
A world of the ethereal and ghostly.
Filled with doe eyed dolls with butter skin who only listen to the saddest of songs.
This is a love story, a ghost story, a tragedy.
Blooming Cuba Dupa
Tuesday 15 March: 10am - 3pm
Drop-ins welcome!
Come and get involved in the creation of a fabulous pop-up Urban Garden for the Cuba Dupa Festival with REACT (Rangiwahia Environmental Arts Centre).
Using renewable, reuse and low impact resources we will be creating beautiful blooms, bugs and vines for the Leeds Street carpark transformation.
No experience required. Bring your enthusiasm.
Made possible with funding by Welly Council Arts and Culture Fund
Workshops in Flower making will also run during the Cuba Dupa Festival.
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Glam Up Ur Headwear
Tuesday 15 & Wednesday 16 March: 3pm - 5pm
All welcome to come and make fantastic head dresses, masks and hats to wear at Cuba Dupa Festival.
Resources and advice provided by the team from REACT.
Bring anything you may wish to use – cap base/old hat, snazzy bits.
I am Kathryn Armitage, a local photographer from Wellington and have recently been studying at The Photo School in Raumati, which is where my passion for Documentary Photography evolved. I have discovered that I have a huge interest in community and love connecting with people, places and gaining an understanding of different aspects of our community.
This photographic exhibition is about community and breaking down the barriers and the “box” which people are often put into.
These images a part of a project which is about love and acceptance – we are all the same on the inside and deserve to be loved, accepted and respected regardless of the way we express ourselves or choose to live our lifestyles.
Looking at the negative and positive experiences for which people in this community have experienced and though tailoring images to each person and their story, this project is about raising awareness towards a greater social acceptance.
Everyone is welcome to come along and view!
Constructed by Kate Bartlett, in collaboration with Rebecca Solomon, Our Catharsis is a performance work that looks to address the destabilising effects of life’s apparent fragility.
How do we wear our worry? In what form do we find cathartic release from this?
These notions of questioning are carried out through text, movement, and film to present a personal unfolding of events. We, two women with overlapping experiences, will share a semi-autobiographical account of our method for living; exposing the instances in which we find ways of coping...
of becoming
of projecting
of ending
Part of Wellington Fringe Festival 2016
LUCY is an exhibition that explores the nuances that make us human, the small details that our habits reveal about us. It offers the opportunity to explore the intimate nature of an individual's bedroom from the safety of a gallery.
The analytical approach to the subject matter allows the viewer to start their own investigation into the subtle changes in an individual’s space, documented by daily photographs, notes, and a small selection of objects.
This is Ivy Urquhart’s first exhibition, and is a project that she will continue to grow in the future. This is the first in a developing series.