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Tauranga-based artist Cordula Taiwo is set to open her exhibition, "Of a Wild God," at Thistle Hall, intentionally overlapping with Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds’ Wellington concerts (Feb 5 & 6). This sophisticated body of work is a deeply personal creative response to Nick Cave’s music, his public correspondence (The Red Hand Files), and his published conversations (Faith, Hope and Carnage).
The exhibition, running from February 4 to 7, 2026, features 15 paintings and voice recordings, presenting a profound dialogue on life, loss, and the transformative power of faith and art.
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Up Next
60 photographic prints. Contemporary Wellington based images.
Also showing a significant number of earlier works including past exhibition
photos.
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Artists:
Judith Maxim, Jeanie Randall, Grant Price, John Randall, Jo Constable, Peter Randall
Come along to Thistle Hall, February 16-22 to delight & ignite your senses. We are six artists joining together to display our unique methods of working with the elements of wood, bronze, copper, ink, paint and paper. We six artists will have on display; paintings, printmaking, photography, wood turning, bronze sculpture, jewellery and handmade books. The artists will be working on various pieces throughout the exhibition and on Saturday 21 February will be having a printmaking demonstration from 1-2pm.
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Tuesday February 17th, 5pm-late: Opening event
Saturday February 21st, 1-2pm: Printmaking Demonstration
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This series of ‘tree of life’ paintings have been created to stimulate personal investigation and self-inquiry as well as to be beautiful and out of the ordinary. For thousands of years the tree has symbolised powerful universal motifs such as life, death, fertility and metamorphosis, and even the ensouled human being itself. This ancient and timeless understanding of ‘the tree’ underlies the contextual foundation for these creative works. ‘I see my paintings as visual metaphors and empowering talisman that can be experienced as meditations, each exploring one of eight themes – Courage, Letting Go, Protection, Boundaries, Transformation, Karma, Renewal and Awakening.’ 'I believe that each of these paintings offers a door, a pathway, to wholeness and to physical and spiritual agency in helping ameliorate the dehumanising pressures that assail us in these troubled times.'
Would you like to borrow one of these paintings? These paintings are not for sale; they are for loan. Whether you are an individual, group, community, organisation, school or venue. The idea is for these works to continue as conduits for self-discovery, awakening and personal exploration – and for creative workshops to continue to be facilitated in union with each piece.
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The Easter Triptych Workshop: Exploring the Self through Art and Creativity
9am – 12.30pm Sunday 1 March 2026
$90 per person.
Herbal tea & snack provided.
Facilitated by the artist Emily Rose Fletcher and Mark Geard of Alamandria.
In this workshop we will be exploring the themes of The Easter Triptych painting in The Sacred Grove series, within the gallery space at Thistle Hall. We will be partaking in group sharing and creative and artistic activities as a pathway into the themes of the three trees of life that appear on each panel – such as letting go, transformation, renewal and love – specifically in connection to our own personal journeys.
Join Emily Rose Fletcher and Mark Geard for an enriching, creative morning filled with their signature humour, depth and creative insights.
For more information and registration visit:
https://www.alamandria.co.nz
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Emily Rose Fletcher, The Tree of Protection, paint
Emily Rose Fletcher, The Tree of Awakening, paint
Emily Rose Fletcher, The Tree of Transformation, paint
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