My name is Anna Lundh, I am a Wellington-based artist & teacher.

In painting, a single brush-stroke can direct an audience through a work, and I believe print-making is no different. I seek to express movement and rhythm through my mark making and carving techniques and emphasizing the contrast between carved and bare wood through targeted ink application.

When I create new works I will often seek inspiration from structures found in nature. In my practice it is important that I capture ‘the essence’ of a structure or landscape, and through a wide variety of foundational resources (drawing and photography) I can abstract the core feeling of these natural forms in my art.

I have a range of works available for viewing on my website: https://www.annalundh.net

Questions, comments, and sale inquiries are welcome through my contact section!

My work is an exploration of materials. Discovering how far a medium can go is inspiring in itself, as it’s possible to discover how far I can go with each piece. I like to create work that isn’t always clearly one thing or another. I have always found it interesting to create forms that cause the viewer to ask how it was achieved.

I am primarily inspired by everyday things outside, such as an eroded river bank or the movement of water receding after a downpour. I currently bring these inspirations into my work using the ‘Lost Wax’ casting method. My work often starts as an experiment in wax to bring movement to life. I create abstract forms by rapidly cooling wax in water or by melting it down with various tools. Pieces can then be cast in different mediums which each have their own characteristics and qualities.

https://www.annastaceyartist.com/gallery

Kurk Harrick is a young Wellington artist. 

My artwork is a display of my entries for the 2016 edition of the NZ-originated 100 Days Project.

That Bloody Flag explores a crisis of ambiguous cultural identity brought about by recent world events. Lorraine Tyler spent her teen years in the US during the George W. Bush era and rejected the idea of becoming American. But since her return to New Zealand in 2007, she's become more deeply curious about the gifts and curses those years bestowed upon her. Stylistically, this artwork represents a reconciliation between Lorraine's old loves of portraiture, words and symbolism, and her recent development of mega-doodle compositions on paper.   

Mixed media on wood

Wellington based artist Erin Carver has been developing a new body of work as part of her Honours Diploma of Art and Creativity at The Learning Connexion. Recognisable for being full of bold, bright colour, Erin’s works often use symbolic imagery to represent some of the fundamental parts of the human experience. The lotus flower has been a reoccurring theme in both her recent paintings and printmaking – symbolising the brightness of potential, rising above the darkness of doubt.

A finalist in the 2016 Muriel Hopper Hutt Art Awards, Erin works from her Upper Hutt home studio where she enjoys exploring printmaking and mixed media, as well as her love of painting.

To find out more please visit her website: www.erincarver.com Or Facebook: www.facebook/erincarverartist

erinviviennecarver@gmail.com

Wellington based artist Don Smiths new work questions traditional methods & materials used in ART? making practice by using found materials (plastic, recycled plastic, perspex) silver tape & mixed media paint techniques. While the work appears seemingly lacking in thematic cohesion Smith simply describes it as a "rolling silver dream that culminates into mere decoration or display".

Employing nondescript one word titles the viewer is challenged into finding an explanation of / for the work and left to use only sight / imagination as their guides.

Feel free to make a bid by private msg thru my Facebook page:
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Email :
donsmith58@gmail.com

More work can be viewed on :
https://www.tumblr.com/blog/diskodon3

Often called ‘Buddha's birthday’, Vesakha Puja is observed by most Theravada Buddhists during full moon, usually in May. (21st May 2016)

It commemorates the birth, enlightenment, and death - the passing into Nirvana - of Buddha.

After some years as a counsellor/therapist (alcohol, addictions, suicide, bereavement) Heather Hapeta ran away from home and travelled the world for a year with no plans. On her return to New Zealand she attended a short writing course which resulted in her travel stories being published – the first in the New Zealand Woman’s Weekly about her adventures while canoeing down the Zambesi River for a few days. Since then, she has completely reinvented herself as a full-time travel writer, blogger, author, and photographer.

She has had a photography exhibition in Christchurch and Wellington (Searching for Buddha) - this is the first time this work has been shown. It was taken in Ayutthaya, the ancient capital of Thailand.

There are more and more fragrances released every year—1600 in 2014 alone—and even then perfume is only a small part of the $28.95 billion dollar global fragrance industry. We live in a perfumed world, but our sense of smell still lives on borrowed descriptions and metaphors. Because we can’t see smell, in my work the fragrant object becomes crucial.

This series of photographs continues from my recent exhibition, Soliflore, at Tōi Poneke, working with fragrant cut flowers but also material associated with the norms of personal hygiene and household cleanliness: body wash, soap, cleaning products.

I am a Wellington based artist and designer with a Bachelor of Design from Victoria University and a Masters of Fine Arts from Massey University. Previous exhibitions include Red Ring as part of Satellite 06, in Shanghai, 2006; Five Treasures with Kate Woods, at Michael Hirschfeld Gallery, 2006; l’abbondanza della strada at Tōi Poneke in 2012, and Soliflore at Tōi Poneke in 2012.

I lecture in the School of Design and School of Art at the College of Creative Arts, Massey University.

 

I will be showing original prints from my Outsourcing and Paper on Paper series, in the Lightbox over Christmas. All work is available for sale.

‘Paper on Paper, a dialogue’, records an infinite exchange between surfaces, with paper the material, ink the medium of translation …and printmaking the voice. Printed from paper packaging waste, each image is unique .

Recently shown in my solo exhibition in Cadaques, Spain, the ‘Outsourcing’ series of collagraph prints, examines the clothing industries practise of outsourcing garment manufacturing to poorer countries. These works are the remnants of recycled clothing, laboriously inked, wiped and printed by hand. The small editions are marked E.V. (edition variable) meaning none are the same, the colours differ substantially.

Rosemary taught at the former Wellington Polytechnic School of Design (Massey University), Whitireia Polytechnic, and is currently teaching at Inverlochy Art School.

Contact:
027 236 7343
sonntagstudio@gmail.com
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'Manzo' is the musical alias of Wellington artist Alan Hodgetts, and his 11 track debut album Ultramarine is currently being prepared for release.

Primarily a visual artist who has been emerging on the Wellington art scene since 2012 he uses any medium or materials at his disposal to get his ideas and stories across.

More about the album: The 11 tracks cover a range of styles, genres and experimental music. There are some recurring themes, such as the increasing use of technology to control the lives of ordinary people; the minions that work for the Corporate and Government machines where thinking for yourself is not a good career move. It also questions the unsettling intolerance, terrorism and ongoing regional conflicts around the globe today. A little fun, love and civil disobedience are also thrown in for good measure.