Archive 2006-2007

 

17 August - 10 September 2006 PETER IRELAND:  Sampling landscape  1999-2005 Peter Ireland draws upon the 500-year-old practice of embroidered samplers in a series of paintings that queries the landscape tradition in New Zealand. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 14 July - 10 September 2006 ANOTHER VIEW - Photographs from the Seresin Family Collection An exhibition of images by some of the world's best known master photographers. The works are drawn from the collection of international film-maker and Marlborough wine producer Michael Seresin. The exhibition includes vintage B/W photographs by Henri Cartier-Bresson, Man Ray, Bill Brandt and Andre Kertesz to name just a few. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 27th July - 13th August 2006 Global Eye - International Perspectives on Conservation and the Environment This exhibition featured the works of 19 artists from a variety of cultures and seeked to raise awareness of our environment and environmental issues.  The artwork explored the premise that our cultural roots help shape our feelings for, understanding of and interactions with the environment.  ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 15 June - 16 July 2006 Grant Tilly This exhibition, which included 22 triptych panels for sale by Wellington artist Grant Tilly, was open at PATAKA's Blue Pacific Gallery. More  -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

15  July – 16 August 2006 HE NGAOMATARIKI An exhibition at PATAKA's Blue Pacific Gallery featured new work by  four artists based at Te Wänanga-o-Raukawa: Karl Leonard, Diane Prince, Hemi Tahuparae and Hinepuororangi Winiata.  Threads of history, carefully extracted by mussel shell from the inner most fibre of the harakeke and imbued in the purest paru, the chisel to carve out the ancient hokioi, the leaf of the neinei and the feathers of the pükeko to adorn and the pen & ink to imprint our peoples past on paper.  This is the new work by four artists based at Te Wänanga-o-Raukawa.   17 August - 10 September 2006 PETER IRELAND:  Sampling landscape  1999-2005 Peter Ireland draws upon the 500-year-old practice of embroidered samplers in a series of paintings that queries the landscape tradition in New Zealand. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 14 July - 10 September 2006 ANOTHER VIEW - Photographs from the Seresin Family Collection An exhibition of images by some of the world's best known master photographers. The works are drawn from the collection of international film-maker and Marlborough wine producer Michael Seresin. The exhibition includes vintage B/W photographs by Henri Cartier-Bresson, Man Ray, Bill Brandt and Andre Kertesz to name just a few. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 27th July - 13th August 2006 Global Eye - International Perspectives on Conservation and the Environment This exhibition featured the works of 19 artists from a variety of cultures and seeked to raise awareness of our environment and environmental issues.  The artwork explored the premise that our cultural roots help shape our feelings for, understanding of and interactions with the environment.  ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 15 June - 16 July 2006 Grant Tilly This exhibition, which included 22 triptych panels for sale by Wellington artist Grant Tilly, was open at PATAKA's Blue Pacific Gallery. More  -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

 

17 August - 10 September 2006 PETER IRELAND:  Sampling landscape  1999-2005 Peter Ireland draws upon the 500-year-old practice of embroidered samplers in a series of paintings that queries the landscape tradition in New Zealand. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 14 July - 10 September 2006 ANOTHER VIEW - Photographs from the Seresin Family Collection An exhibition of images by some of the world's best known master photographers. The works are drawn from the collection of international film-maker and Marlborough wine producer Michael Seresin. The exhibition includes vintage B/W photographs by Henri Cartier-Bresson, Man Ray, Bill Brandt and Andre Kertesz to name just a few. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 27th July - 13th August 2006 Global Eye - International Perspectives on Conservation and the Environment This exhibition featured the works of 19 artists from a variety of cultures and seeked to raise awareness of our environment and environmental issues.  The artwork explored the premise that our cultural roots help shape our feelings for, understanding of and interactions with the environment.  ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 15 June - 16 July 2006 Grant Tilly This exhibition, which included 22 triptych panels for sale by Wellington artist Grant Tilly, was open at PATAKA's Blue Pacific Gallery. More   -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

LORENE TAUREREWA  Drawing, 24 Aug - 24 Sept 2006 For Lorene Taurerewa, Chinese visual art has become the medium to explore the paths back to an original source. “I have always had a deep interest in my own family history, (Samoan/Chinese) which informs my work from a base of intimate knowledge. My Chinese lineage can only be traced four generations back and then is lost for all time. The only way ‘forward’ as I could see was to study their art forms”. She acknowledges her Chinese heritage as the main source of inspiration for her most recent work, large scale figurative drawings, which, through the conventionality of the portrait, emerge into visibility to remind us of the unavoidable and necessary work of inheritance and her/our relationship to the lost ancestor other. Acknowledging a need to see the art first hand, Lorene researched traditional Chinese art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. This involved studying and drawing from their collection, one of the largest collections of Asian art in the world. “Just after I arrived a fantastic new exhibition of Chinese ancestor portraits went up. Along with Chinese mark making concepts I was specifically interested in ancestor portraiture. Every day I would go to the Met to draw and found myself studying the postures intently as the nuances of the human gestures in their arts are very subtle and communicate on many levels. For instance, in Chinese tradition, portraiture is a portrait not of the individual, but of the immortal. A portrait does not present a view of an individual as if through the eyes of someone sharing a place in time with the sitter, as in traditional western portraiture. Instead, Chinese portraits are venerated as encapsulations of the ancestor; they are a collective view of what the outward form of the figure shows of something much more enduring and unchangeable, namely that which walks through the family lines from generation to generation. The main body of Lorene’s work has been painting but since returning from New York she has concentrated on drawing as the medium to lessen the ‘gap’ the spatial barriers between viewer and maker. The scale and execution of her drawings have effectively allowed her to draw attention to its conspicuously marked surfaces and encourages the possibility of being read as a trace of the artists hand, a way of ‘embodying’ the artist and drawing attention to the body of the spectator. Traditional Chinese mark making concepts evoke the illusion of presence and empathy: a trace of the movement of the artists hand ‘the mark’ is liable to bring awareness of the artist as an embodied being, of the process (the duration) of drawing, and of the space of the work’s making (that is, the space in front of the drawing as opposed to the space ‘within’ it). Consequently, Chinese drawing tradition holds that the drawer and the viewer inhabit the same world, on this side of the paper. There is no belief, as there is in western tradition, in the possible reality of the illusioned - that you can enter a 2D space imaginatively. The drawing is not a window to another world, but an empathy space where the drawer and the viewer come together in the contemplation and commemoration of a fact. In this instance, the fact is the 2-sided coin – on the one side the fleetingness of time, action, mark in time; and on the other the continuity of family, the immortality of ancestry. The drawings exhibited in this show are part of the series Journey of 1000 miles.

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 18 June to 8 October 2006 BIRDS - The Art of New Zealand Birdlife 18 June to 8 October 2006 Birds is an enchanting new exhibition at PATAKA offering a sense of the species' fragility whilst flaunting their charm.  This exhibition depicts the delicate balance between our world and theirs.  It illustrates their spiritual significance to Maori and reveals a snapshot of their fleeting presence. Birds includes art work by Laurence Aberhart, John Bevan Ford, Don Binney, Rob Cherry, Bruce Connew, Shane Cotton, Jim Dennison and Leanne Williams, Paul Dibble, Charlotte Fisher, Fred Graham, Kowhai Grace, Bill Hammond, Michael Harrison, Matt Hunt, Gavin Hurley, John Johns, Maureen Lander, Tony de Lautour, Saskia Leek, Richard Lewer, Colin McCahon, Andrew McLeod, Moana Nepia, Brendan O’Brien, Hamish Palmer, Seraphine Pick, Martin Poppelwell, Fiona Pardington, Michael Parekowhai, Peter Peryer, Paul Raynor, Brydee Rood, Jeff Thomson, Ronnie van Hout, Warren Viscoe, John Walsh, Robin White, Emily Wolfe, Carey Young. Some of our greatest contemporary artists have engaged with the theme of bird life in Aotearoa.  You may never see our 'feathered friends' in quite the same light...ever again. Birds is open from 18 June to 8 October 2006. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 29 September - 8 November 2006 LABOUR OF LOVE New work from three local Pacific Island artists -   Jack Kirifi, Liana Leiataua and Nestor Opetaia. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 17th September - 26th November 2006 GIVEN Warwick Freeman Warwick Freeman, a laureate of the Francois van den Bosch Foundation and the NZ Arts Foundation, is New Zealand’s foremost contemporary jeweller. He has been a leading proponent of the movement that saw contemporary jewellery playing an active role in the expression of cultural identity in New Zealand. GIVEN: Jewellery by Warwick Freeman exhibits 35 works made by Freeman between 1980 and 2000 from collections, public and private, from here and overseas.    17 August - 10 September 2006 PETER IRELAND:  Sampling landscape  1999-2005 Peter Ireland draws upon the 500-year-old practice of embroidered samplers in a series of paintings that queries the landscape tradition in New Zealand. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 14 July - 10 September 2006 ANOTHER VIEW - Photographs from the Seresin Family Collection An exhibition of images by some of the world's best known master photographers. The works are drawn from the collection of international film-maker and Marlborough wine producer Michael Seresin. The exhibition includes vintage B/W photographs by Henri Cartier-Bresson, Man Ray, Bill Brandt and Andre Kertesz to name just a few. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 27th July - 13th August 2006 Global Eye - International Perspectives on Conservation and the Environment This exhibition featured the works of 19 artists from a variety of cultures and seeked to raise awareness of our environment and environmental issues.   The artwork explored the premise that our cultural roots help shape our feelings for, understanding of and interactions with the environment.  ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 15 June - 16 July 2006 Grant Tilly This exhibition, which included 22 triptych panels for sale by Wellington artist Grant Tilly, was open at PATAKA's Blue Pacific Gallery. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------                 17 August - 10 September 2006 PETER IRELAND:  Sampling landscape  1999-2005 Peter Ireland draws upon the 500-year-old practice of embroidered samplers in | a series of paintings that queries the landscape tradition in New Zealand. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 14 July - 10 September 2006 ANOTHER VIEW - Photographs from the Seresin Family Collection An exhibition of images by some of the world's best known master photographers. The works are drawn from the collection of international film-maker and Marlborough wine producer Michael Seresin. The exhibition includes vintage B/W photographs by Henri Cartier-Bresson, Man Ray, Bill Brandt and Andre Kertesz to name just a few. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 27th July - 13th August 2006 Global Eye - International Perspectives on Conservation and the Environment This exhibition featured the works of 19 artists from a variety of cultures and seeked to raise awareness of our environment and environmental issues.   The artwork explored the premise that our cultural roots help shape our feelings for, understanding of and interactions with the environment.  ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 15 June - 16 July 2006 Grant Tilly This exhibition, which included 22 triptych panels for sale by Wellington artist Grant Tilly, was open at PATAKA's Blue Pacific Gallery. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Peter Madden: Escape Into Order 21 October – 28 January 2006 TURN OFF THE CENTURY   Turn Off The Century comprises three sculptural installations by Peter Madden with Sam Sampson, Chris Heaphy and Stuart Shepherd - The Deep End, After the Big Bang and The Hit and  Myth of Creation. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 29 October - 4 February 2006 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 15th ANNUAL WALLACE ART AWARDS exhibition 15 years ago James Wallace established the Annual Wallace Art Awards. These awards are now the longest surviving and richest annual art awards of their kind in Australasia. The James Wallace Art Awards exhibition showcases the very best in contemporary New Zealand Art.  This is a fantastic show to view the width and depth of artistic practice in New Zealand.                             -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  14 October – 28 January: 2006 TE HUE IPU - Artifact and Artwork Te Hue Ipu -Artifact and Artwork is an exhibition that explores the interaction of the gourd and the New Zealand people and in particular the New Zealand artist, both Maori and others. It is a history that starts its journey with the arrival of the Maori in New Zealand and continues through to the gourds (te hue) uses and influences today on artwork in Aotearoa. -------------------------------------------------------------------------

 

7 December – 22 Jan 2007 MUNT~ MOSS  Hamish Palmer Hamish Palmer: Munt ~ Moss. Bringing the simple beauty of the outdoors indoors with asophisticated sampler from Hamish Palmer’s summer collection. Munt ~ Moss is a collectionof works made during the past year and is part of a continuing exploration into everyday aesthetic relationships between nature and culture.

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29 October - 7 February 2006 15th ANNUAL WALLACE ART AWARDS exhibition 15 years ago James Wallace established the Annual Wallace Art Awards. These awards are now the  longest surviving and richest annual art awards of  their kind in Australasia. The James Wallace Art  Awards exhibition showcases the very best in  contemporary New Zealand Art.  This is a fantastic show to view the width and depth of artistic practice in New Zealand.

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27 January – 25 February
TU MAIA 
An exhibition of greenstone carvings by Lewis Gardiner.

Lewis's carvings are a series of Tiki forms designed around the theme of
acknowledging ancestors from the past.

In 1995, Lewis became a full-time jade and bone carver specialising in traditional
Maori imagery in his work. He is quickly becoming recognised as one of the most innovative
Maori jade carvers for his unique style, design and composition, utilising many colours of jade.
His reputation has been further enhanced with his winning of the Mana Pounamu
Awards for contemporary Maori jade design in 1999 and 2001. His jade works have been
prized by collectors both in New Zealand and all over the world from Europe, Asia,
Australia and the USA.

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10 February – 23 April 2007  
PEOPLE OF THE CEDAR
First Nations Art from the
Northwest Coast of Canada

An exhibition celebrating the renewed expression of artistic and cultural
identity among Canada’s First Nation peoples. People of the Cedar is an
exhibition of Contemporary First Nation artists who draw inspiration
from their land, heritage and culture.

These extraordinary pieces of art are a physical representation of traditional
beliefs that help enrich our understanding of the culture from which they come.
Each artwork is a treasured link to the artist’s heritage and to ceremonial practice.
They reflect the First Nations people’s determination to reclaim their identity
and symbolise a deep spiritual relationship to British Columbia's coast and forests.

This exhibition expresses the richness of a re-learned tradition and includes early
works by internationally renowned Canadian First Nations artists such as
Freda Diesing, Dempsey Bob, Joe David and Walter Harris.

This exhibition has been made possible by the Government of Canada
with the support of the Freda Diesing School of Northwest Coast Art.

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10 FEBRUARY - 18 APRIL 2007 PAINTING FOR JOY New Japanese Painting in the 1990's Painting for Joy: New Japanese Painting in the 1990s is a worldwide touring exhibition organised by the Japan Foundation, featuring the paintings of nine contemporary Japanese artists who have contributed to the critical revision of painting in Japan. Artists include internationally acclaimed artists Takashi Murakami and Yoshitomo Nara. All nine artists were born in or around the 1960s and grew up in an advanced consumer society. This group of artists helped bring about a large-scale revival of contemporary Japanese painting during the final decade of the twentieth century. They consciously sought an alternative to the existing painting traditions of Japan and established their own individualist styles. In 2000, Takashi Murakami, considered a leader in the Japanese contemporary art scene and one of the most prolific and thought provoking artists of the 1990s, curated an enormously influential exhibition of Japanese art titled, Superflat, which helped to establish a post modern style of painting in Japan. Painting For Joy: New Japanese Painting in the 1990s has been brought to New Zealand in partnership with the Japan Information and Cultural Centre and the Embassy of Japan in New Zealand.

 

17 FEBRUARY - 30 APRIL 2007
FA FEU’U
The Feu’u Family

This exhibition features new work by Fatu that pays tribute
to his late father’s life, and by way of photographs and other
material, celebrates the time that the family has lived in Porirua.

The family of Samoan artist Fatu Feu’u came to Porirua in 1969.
They were among the early Pacific Islanders to immigrate to Porirua.
From being a spray painter at the Todd Motors assembly plant in Petone,
Fatu Feu’u has now become one of this country’s leading Pacific Island artists.

Fatu Feu’u, Solo ole lupe ulu iva, 2007.

 

3 FEBRUARY – 6 MAY 2007 PUBS OF THE PAST Hotels and Wayside Inns of the Porirua District From the establishment of the first wayside inn in New Zealand to the heady days of the Cobb and Co coaches heading north out of Wellington, grog was served to willing customers in the old coaching hotels of the Porirua district. The exhibition tells the colourful story of these overnight watering holes.      The second Porirua Hotel opened in 1910. Titahi Bay bottle store, 1960     15 February – 25 March  MOTHERS WITH BRUSHES. Mothers with Brushes is an exhibition of work by 4 local artists, Angela Bunce, Jan Cromie, Helena Morris and Andrea Broadhurst, who share a major common bond, they are all mothers of young children. The exhibition is a celebration of their art and their families. 31 MARCH – 29 APRIL NGA PUTANGA O TE AOMARAMA Challenging the way New work by top weaver Tina Wirihana. The most common fibres used for weaving were Harakeke (phormium tenax, known as New Zealand flax), Kiekie (Freycinetia banksii) and Pingao (Desmoschoenus spiralls).  Cultural conservation practices have contributed to the sustainability of resources, ensuring the continuous material growth for the prolific weaver. In today’s climate this could be disputed, with access limitation. I’ve used a combination of natural and manmade materials in the production of artworks, intended to signal a message to weavers. The resource management of weaving materials suggests that the use of natural materials will become non existent over time. Through the continuous felling of our remaining native bush, what’s left of it, to the restricted accessibility through Department of Conservation legislation, will give limited options for weavers when creating work.  The retention of technique application and process continues to have a strong presence in the produced works regardless of material choice. Furthermore this is strongly signaled in the production outcome. The selected materials assist to inform the weaver of the produced works that the retention, beauty, integrity, depth and breath are strongly evident in the artwork. It is hoped the information and imagery throughout this journey will be of interest to the knowledge holders and practitioners who would appreciate the artist’s choice of materials in her production outcome. 5 MAY – 3 JUNE 2007 INVISIBLE LANDSCAPES A collection of work from Poppy Moore, Anne Philbin and Rosie White. The extraordinary New Zealand landscape dominates our senses but there is little discussion about other types of landscapes, which could be described as “invisible landscapes”. Invisible landscapes inhabit our minds, criss-cross our hearts and even impose on actual landscapes. They can be seen as a by-product of multi tasking, of lives crammed with activity, of interrupted directions and of focus/out of focus visions. Poppy, Anne and Rosie each work in a variety of media, and each artist has individually produced a body of work that collectively makes up the exhibition. 31 MAY - 1 JULY SCHOOLS CANVAS SHOW An exhibition to show off the talents within our Porirua schools. Four to five canvases were supplied to schools for creative students to apply their skills to.  A selection of the 80 canvases on show for the Schools Canvas Show     9 JUNE – 8 JULY 2007 DIFFERENT VIEWS An exhibition including photographs by Simon Mark, Bob Maysmor, Jaxon Laidlaw and Andrea Gardner.        Andrea Gardner, Thorns                Jaxon Laidlaw, Lyall Bay     Simon Mark, Paris Couple      Bob Maysmor, Blue Boats       29 APRIL – 12 AUGUST 2007 THE ITINERANT ARTIST- Revisiting the paintings of William George Baker William George Baker's love affair with the unspoilt New Zealand landscape is readily apparent. He painted its every mood, seemingly with the ambition to capture the entire length and breadth of New Zealand with his brush. Baker was born in Wellington on 20th October 1864. He had no formal art training but was arguably one of the most prolific landscape artists of the late 19th and early 20th century. He travelled the country, often selling his paintings in hotels, at local fairs and show-grounds and bartering a painting in exchange for his accommodation. He painted the great lakes, rivers and mountains of the South Island and in the North Island, his work included the representation of numerous Maori pa and villages, usually set beside a picturesque river or lake. Baker travelled as far south as Stewart Island and north to Great Barrier Island, portraying the landscape that he obviously felt a close affinity with. Socially there were interesting implications that led from Baker's itinerant lifestyle. There is no doubt that his style of work, sold while journeying the back roads of the land and possibly to those with a lesser purse in the public bars and at the country fairs of small town New Zealand, would have reached a wider audience than that shown in the art society exhibitions in the cities. Unlike the topographical painters of the 19th century, Baker was not overly concerned with the accurate recording of the landscape form. In contrast with Heaphy and other early New Zealand landscape artists, his skill was not grounded in any art school tradition. He composed and created conventional paintings that would appeal to a wide audience, caring little for expressing any personal creative flair or style abstract to his mainstream landscape themes. His work was accessible to the general public both in content and in cost and quickly became popular. Baker has his work represented in the collections of numerous art galleries and museums in New Zealand including Auckland Art Gallery, Alexander Turnbull Library, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Christchurch Art Gallery, Canterbury Museum, Waikato Museum of Art & History, the Rotorua Museum of Art and History and at the National Library of Australia in Canberra. The Pataka exhibition features 90 of Baker's paintings, both oil and watercolours. A comprehensive catalogue has also been published for the exhibition and is available at the Pataka reception. The Lion, Milford Sound Booth College of Mission Collection

Maori Ladder, Wangaui River    Glover Collection     Brothers' Lighthouse, Cook's Straits (sic)   Oughton Collection     Near Wellington   Ferner Galleries

12 MAY –  12 AUGUST 2007
NEW PAINTING: DIGITAL AGE
Darryn George, Sara Hughes, Andrew McLeod, Kelcy Taratoa, Tim Thatcher

This exhibition showcases the work of a group of influential young
New Zealand artists who are pioneering a new relationship
between the painted and the digital image. Their perspectives
and approaches are varied and distinctive but the artists have in
common their investigation of the creative potential of the new
digital technologies available to them. They all use computers in
diverse ways to generate their artworks, yet they all continue to
use traditional painting methods. Computers are transforming
many aspects of their painting practice, opening up a new
world of image making.

The young artists in this exhibition make use of the virtual world as
well as the traditional painting studio. They are early adaptors
of the digital revolution. Computers and scanners are as important
to their work as stretched canvas and paint. Sara Hughes says,
‘I work both with computer programmes and paint brushes to
create paintings making links between the handmade and the electronic'.
Digital technology not only increases the efficiency and output of
their work, it also gives these artists the freedom to push the
boundaries of painting. Computer programmes provide the
artists with a technologically enhanced ability to distort and
manipulate imagery and to experiment in new ways with colour,
composition, perspective and scale. As Tim Thatcher says,
‘In some respects the computer has become an extension of my
imagination, just as my painting is an extension of reality'.
Contemporary painting practice in New Zealand has entered the digital age.

MORE

  Sara Hughes, Crash

 

Sara Hughes, Melissa    Kelcy Taratoa, Episode 0015 Andrew McLeod, A+ and Speak Easy

 

5 JULY - 5 AUGUST TURNINGS PLUS, Woodcraft produced by members of the Wellington Woodturners Guild. The 'Guild of Woodworkers, Wellington Inc.' consists of approximately 120 members from the greater Wellington Region.  The Guild's aim is to provide a forum for those interested in working with wood to meet together and to develop their skills and knowledge.  This is the 3rd year of the Turnings Plus exhibition, and the first year it has been held at Pataka.    For the duration of this stunning exhibition, the Wellington  Guild of Woodworkers will be demonstrating the use of lathes and woodturning techniques with in-gallery wood-turning demonstrations.  Do you know what a ‘Bodger’ is?  While in the forests, people in the UK set up pole lathes to turn freshly cut green wood into chair legs and other domestic items.  These people were known as ‘Bodgers’.  The Guild of Woodworkers will set up a pole lathe for you to try out.  Come and experience woodworking that is pre-industrial revolution style!

 

18 AUGUST - 16 SEPTEMBER JEWELLERY OCEANIA An exhibition of jewellery to coincide with our ‘Pacific’ season. 10 artists have been invited to produce Pacific inspired works with all works for sale.           Kijo, Cross Pollonisation                                          Kijo, GE                        Ngahina Hohaia, Te Whetu Taki Ata                  Margaret Tolland,           Best in Show - Blue Moon

22 SEPTEMBER - 21 OCTOBER
EMILY BULLOCK

Emily Bullock trained at the Sydney College of Arts
(Sydney University) majoring in jewellery.

In April 2007 Emily received a merit prize in the
Norsewear Contemporary Art Award. In 2002
Emily won the Bizarre Bra section in the World of
Wearable Art Show.

Feathers are Emily's paint. Over the last ten years
Emily has developed her own technique and
style using feathers. Recently, she has moved into a
new source of feathers. she has been trapping
and killing the registered pest, the Indian Mynah bird.
With these feathers Emily made Mynah Collie 2007,
(dog flu series), and it was awarded a merit prize in the
Norseweart, the New Zealand Contemporary Art Award.

 

 

9 AUGUST - 28 OCTOBER THE MIGRATING KITCHEN   The kitchen is the hub of the house, the heart of the home - a place where families and friends are fed, stories are told, memories rekindled. The Migrating Kitchen exhibition, featuring some of New Zealand's multi-cultural communities, celebrates food, families and festivals. It is an interactive visitor experience for young and old -  the chance to step inside our neighbours' kitchens - to hear their stories, taste their food and take away their recipes. This exciting installation will include Samoan, Greek, Chinese, Somali, Russian and Burmese community stories. It runs for three months in the Bottle Creek Gallery at Pataka and each Saturday afternoon there will be talks and cooking demonstrations, accompanied by song and dance.

18 AUGUST - 15 SEPTEMBER
KIMBO: Stone figures from Western Province, Solomon Islands.

Few figures carved from stone in the Solomon Islands have been
recorded in the literature which is quite sparse given the range and
diversity of local art forms in the Western Solomons. However a sizeable
collection has now been made of small, free-standing, stone heads locally
known as kimbo.  Some of these stone heads are similar to the well
known nguzungazu figures carved in wood, but kimbo seem to be a
distinct traditional art form that was once spread widely throughout the
western Solomons. They date back well before Christianity and have
been given a variety of meanings.  These examples came to light in
1998 when the collection was put together in Honiara. 

     

25 AUGUST - 18 NOVEMBER
NAUTILUS WHISPERS
An installation by VIRGINIA KING.

In 2006 I visited the British Museum where Text into Art
was exhibited in three interconnected gallery spaces, a collection
of beautiful two dimensional works containing Islamic texts.
The works had a profound effect on the silent visitors in the
galleries. Many of us quietly wept because the essence of the
translations, expressed with intense beauty carried many messages
of universal peace and hope. The scrolling script reminded me of
spirals and shell forms.  Although I have used text in my work for
many years this exhibition felt like a life changing experience.
My response was to imagine works that integrate text and extend
the traditional concept of beauty.

Nautilus Whispers is based on one of the most exquisitely
delicate and rare shells, Pupu-Tarakihi - the shell or cradle
that carries the eggs of the female Paper Nautilus
(Argonauta tuberculata.)  As the concept progressed,
I collected phrases – assembling words about peace and the sea.
I wanted the text to resonate and evoke responses from others
and I felt the work must have an identity, to be partly narrative
and to include some of my personal history.  Mostly I hoped
viewers would pause and reflect.

Virginia King

 

 

Virginia King, Nautilus Whispers

 

1 NOVEMBER - 19 NOVEMBER
MANA ARTS SOCIETY

An exhibition of work from the Mana Arts Society.

The Mana Arts Society was founded over 21 years ago
with the aim of promoting interest and participation in the
visual arts in our communty. 

The Society organises and is involved with clubdays,
workshops, classes, exhibitions and social events. 

For more information on the Society contact:
Julia Spinks (President) 237 9105
Dorothy Shea 233 1921

 

Natalia Firsova, Afternoon Light 25 AUGUST - 25 NOVEMBER FIRST CONTACT MICHEL TUFFERY - Paintings, drawings, prints and sculptures along with his latest project, a multi-media projection installation.   First Contact gives a 21st century view of 18th century Pacific history. The exhibition brings together Michel Tuffery’s recent paintings, drawings, prints and bronze sculptures, along with four of his much-admired life-sized bull sculptures, gathered together for the first time and given a new context within the exhibition. Also included is his latest project - a major multi-media installation composed of Tuffery’s images and archival footage of material from Cook’s voyages to the Pacific. The story of the first contacts between European explorers and Pacific Islanders has been told overwhelmingly by Europeans. Tuffery illustrates the stories through a Polynesian prism. ‘The stories are real, part of our history and I love them,’ he says, ‘I want to re-ignite the stories so that we can reflect upon their significance and relevance today’.1 Renowned as a printmaker, painter and sculptor, Wellington-based Michel Tuffery has exhibited extensively in New Zealand and participated in many important international exhibitions, most recently Paradise Now in New York. Prolific and multi-talented, Tuffery often extends his art practice outside the gallery space, with multi-media installations and performances. His work is shaped by his research into, and encounters with, his Polynesian heritage and significantly, he also makes use of Maori designs in his work.        Michel Tuffery and O le Povi pusa ma'ataua, 2005 Cookie Huahine, 2007 New Zealand Man in Cook Strait, 2007                                                                                                             Night Dance in Christkeke, 2007

18 AUGUST - 25 NOVEMBER
STOPOVER - A Story of Migration
Photographs by Bruce Connew

Bruce Connew is one of New Zealand’s leading documentary
photo-journalists. His work records and addresses many of the
issues and events that continually make headline news around the
world. Since the 1980s, Connew has photographed wars, coups,
famines, terrorism and rebellions from places like Kosovo, Burma,
South Africa and Vanuatu.

Stopover – A Story of Migration investigates the story behind
the Indian-Fijian sugar-cane workers on the main island of Viti Levu.
It records their plight after the Speight coup of May 2000, which
brought down the then Indian-Fijian lead government.

    
 

 

25 AUGUST - 2 DECEMBER
KANAKART, Ancestral Body
Traditional and contemporary indigenous art from New Caledonia

To help foster a new understanding of Kanak culture, PATAKA
premieres a major exhibition of contemporary and
traditional art from New Caledonia, Kanakart- Ancestral Body.

This groundbreaking exhibition, developed by the Museum of New
Caledonia and the Tjibaou Cultural Centre in partnership with Pataka,
links traditional Kanak art and culture to contemporary expressions of
Kanak art. Opened in 1998, the spectacular Tjibaou Cultural Centre is
dedicated to the preservation and continued development of Kanak
cultural traditions.

Vibrant, dynamic and diverse traditional art works, including dramatic
ceremonial masks and sacred objects of great significance from the collection
of the Museum of New Caledonia provide a rare insight into Kanak culture.
Some are startling, such as the mourners’ masks made with human hair,
while others are iconic, like the roof top carving from a ceremonial
house in Tiouandé.

Contemporary Kanak sculpture and paintings are exhibited alongside
heritage items, to demonstrate the continuity of Kanak culture.
All the contemporary Kanak artists selected for this exhibition create
new expressions out of traditional visual forms. The re-use of tradition
in contemporary Kanak art parallels similar developments in
contemporary Maori art.

Contemporary Melanesian art is defined by both its hybridism
and modernity. Despite the strong influence of Western culture,
introduced by the French in New Caledonia, indigenous Kanak
art is alive and well. The art of wood carving was revived during
the last quarter of the twentieth century, along with the traditional
art of engraved bamboo.

The figurative art of traditional bamboo engraving  continues to inspire
Kanak artists today. Painting and installation art, primarily by women artists,
is a more recent development. A unique feature of Kanak art is the continuing
significance of the ancestor figure; the connection to the ancestral figure remains
as strong today as ever.

Helen Kedgley
Co-curator, Kanakart

Proudly supported by the Government and Provinces of New Caledonia
and France through the Fonds Pacifique

   
   Yvette Bouquet, Profile Art

 

Roof Finial from Tiouande           Maryline Thydjepache, Pacific Palisade

Doorpost / Jopwo,            collection of the             Museum of             New Caledonia    Ceremonial Axe,    Northern New  Caledonia        Mourners Mask Face,         collection of the         Museum of         New Caledonia

27 OCTOBER - 2 DECEMBER
PARROT FASHION
Parrots of the Pacific Rim
GRANT TILLY

This exhibition is a personal selection of parrots from the
Pacific rim.  It includes New Zealand’s native Kakariki and
the ancient Kakapo, Australia’s loud and boisterous Rosellas
and Lorikeets, the colourful inhabitants of the Pacific Islands
and the beautiful and flamboyant Conures and
Macaws from the Americas.

After working the last couple of years with native New Zealand
birds as an inspiration, Tilly wanted to spread his wings a little and
take on the majestic world of parrots. Tilly quite liked the idea that
an exhibition could be called Parrot Fashion.  They fascinate him
with their glorious colours and their cheeky characteristics. 
The Pacific rim is particularly rich in examples of these intriguing birds. 
It also seemed appropriate that they should exist alongside the major
Pacifica exhibitions season that Pataka has mounted.

Almost all of the parrots depicted are ancient creatures in the earth’s
evolutionary time-scale and deserve our respect and attention.  
Tilly's works are not intended to be a textbook exploration of
parrots, nor an exhaustive list, but rather they should be seen more
for their decorative qualities.  At least that’s what he's tried to do.  
Tilly has also tried to work the doors of the triptychs into being an
integral part of the main panel.  This is a step on from the fixed triptych
panels he created in his Birds in Paradise series which Tilly exhibited
at Pataka last year. 

 

Grant Tilly, Pacific Islands Dawn, closed.                                        Grant Tilly, Pacific Islands Dawn, open.

WHITIREIA EXHIBITIONS

24 NOVEMBER - 9 DECEMBER
EXTRACTED

Whitireia Design Undergraduate students exhibiting in the Spine,
featuring work from the Diploma in Digital Design and Multimedia
Certificate in Digital Design students. 

     Danny Rimoni

 

Alan Tawhi, Amopiu

 

WHITIREIA EXHIBITIONS

24  NOVEMBER - 9 DECEMBER
ORIGINS
An exhibition from Whitireia Visual Arts Undergraduate students.                                     
 

Deborah Davey, All is Roses on the Outside 13 DECEMBER - 6 JANUARY HIKAKA ANA TE MANAWA! Exhibition from the students and tutors of Te Waananga-o-Raukawa, Otaki.                Sonia Snowden, Matariki Design Kete

 

8 DECEMBER 2007 - 13 JANUARY 2008
THE PROS AND CONS OF GOING STEADY
Exhibition of 4th year students work from Wanganui's UCOL.
            Keith Grinter, After Hartung

    
                                       Jes-ci Singh Nagra

1 DECEMBER 2007 - 10 FEBRUARY 2008
ANIMATED FILMS FROM GERMANY

Breathing life into lifeless material, inventing and creating a world
with laws of its own - film animation is every creative spirit's dream
come true. Animated films from Germany  is an exhibition
showcasing 15 short animated films, telling 15 stories in 15 different
personal styles. The exhibition highlights some of the processes and
artwork that make up each film. 

In animated film the viewer is presented with a kind of individual
"dream factory", starting with literary material, creation myths or
private experiences and often blurring the distinction between
reality and fiction. Animated films are definitely not the outsiders
in the film industry any more. Whether they are full length films or
just feature films with a high proportion of visual effects - it is no
longer possible to imagine contemporary cinema without them.
Animated film-maker's in Germany are now expected to be at
all the major international festivals and win significant prizes.

When we look at the films from this show, we are aware of a
panorama of private myths, of world angst, criticism of the age,
of politics and art. As film animators have such a markedly individual
approach to their themes, and are scarcely touched by television
editing, it is still possible to make discoveries in this field. That is how
these films seem, self-confident, unusual, provocative and often
notoriously untouched by current trends. 

With computer-generated images now being part of any animated
film-maker's repertoire, every film still starts with the development
of drawings, collages, paintings, objects and figures. These elements,
along with the 15 films which last between 4 and 15 minutes each,
make up the core of the exhibition and give us a glimpse behind the
scenes of the animated films. Animated films from Germany 2004
provides an artistic overview of German animation film makers.  

 

Jan Thuring, Terminal Paradise                                            Lars Henkel, The Patchwork Queen                                        Thomas Voigt, The Moment                               Gil Alkabetz, Rubicon

8 DECEMBER - 6 FEBRUARY
UNKNOWN RENAISSANCE PORTRAITS
Hamish Tocher

Kate Moss, Lennox Lewis, Keanu Reeves, Michael Stipe,
Shania Twain, P. Money, Raphael, Michelangelo, Giotto,
Caravaggio, Helmut Newton, Gucci, Prada, Dolce &
Gabbana at Pataka?

Hamish Tocher's exhibition, Unknown Renaissance Portraits, 
places together the fashion world and the art world, revealing
some intriguing similarities. More than thirty photographs compare
images from fashion magazines with famous paintings. How is
|celebrity created? Why do people love the Old Masters?
How does fashion keep on being new and fascinating,
every season? How does art and fashion change when it
comes to New Zealand? Tocher's photographs raise these
questions, and entice you to compare the world of fashion
and some well-known images from art history. You'll never look
at a magazine (or a masterpiece) the same way again.

 

Unknown Renaissance Portraits (front cover) 2004  Untitled from Illuminated Books 2007

WHITIREIA EXHIBITION

24 NOVEMBER 2007 - 3 FEBRUARY 2008
SIGHT, SITE, CITE
He kitenga, he kainga, he kiangaThe Whitireia Visual Arts Graduation Show,
exhibiting in the main gallery, featuring work from the Bachelor of Applied Arts,
Diploma of Applied Arts and Diploma of Jewellery Design students.

 

Jerry-Kenna, Workings

 

 

BOTTLE CREEK GALLERY

 

10 JANUARY 2007 - 6 FEBRUARY 2008
LOVEART NEW ZEALAND

"LoveArt New Zealand (www.loveart.co.nz) is an online gallery exhibiting
the works of 17 New Zealand artists, most of whom are from the Kapiti
or Wellington area.  The site is owned and managed by Nicola Kane and
Kathryn Clark.  They decided to develop a unique on-line gallery to show
their artwork and then sought out other artists "with a difference" to join them. 
The site has been running since October 2006, and is well visited.  The range
of works on www.loveart.co.nz includes acrylic paintings, wood turning,
flaxworks, clayworks, wire art, contemporary jewellery, textile art,
watercolours, recycled rimu block prints, oil paintings, handmade silver
jewellery, woodcut prints, oamaru stone sculpture and photography. 
New works (and new artists) are added regularly to the site, so there
is always something fresh to entice viewers back."

 

Love4Sale Country Light

 

 

BLUE PACIFIC GALLERY

   EMERGING ARTISTS, LOCAL INTEREST GROUPS
AND MORE, THIS IS OUR GALLERY FOR THE COMMUNITY: 
 

19 JANUARY - 17 FEBRUARY
TIME LAPSE
Jean Loomis

Have you ever returned to visit a house where you grew up?

The ‘Time Machine’ by H G Wells and the last sequence
of images from Stanley Kubrick’s movie ‘2001’ explore the
human response to time. Time is the fourth dimension of space.
Movement occurs in time through memory.

Around us are the remnants of our collective past – the iron
gates on the wharf or the last remaining posts supporting a
veranda in Willis street. I researched images from the
Turnbull Library and the Wellington City Archives.
The camera has caught people in a moment in time -
like running across Willis Street in front of a tram or
enjoying the sun on Oriental Bay in the 1920’s. Some images
have historical significance like the 1913 wharf strike and the
arrival of the marines in 1942.

These artworks combine the past with the present at specific sites.
The people come and go but the land remains. These sites are replete
with meaning, which often we are not aware of. How will we treat our
space in the future? 

Jean Loomis

 

Oriental Bay 1930's Bathers Lambton Quay 1920's - Kirkcaldie and Stains Mounted Police 1913 Wharf Strike - Williston Street

1 DECEMBER 2007 - 16 MARCH 2008
OBSERVANCE
Portraits by Nicola Dove

Observance is a series of long exposure portraits and soundscapes of
people in a meditative state of prayer from a wide spectrum of spiritual
practices and faiths from around the world. Long exposures hark back
to the beginnings of photography, when film was slow and shutter-speeds
long, and when it was commonly believed that a photograph could
capture one's soul.

Some portraits seem to have an ability to capture more than just a two
dimensional representation of skin and bone. Nicola Dove realised this
when, in the hills of Nepal in 2003, she made a series of portraits of
Tibetan Lamas. On her return to London, a curator responded to one
particular portrait saying she could feel the energy of the Lama, as if
she were in his presence. The seeds for Observance had been planted.

Throughout history imagery has played an important role in many faiths. 
Often followers of a faith possess an image of their leader, their guru,
or their teacher - they have them in their homes, on their altars or tattered
in a wallet. In countries where certain forms of religion are not tolerated,
such as Tibet, to possess such an image can put one's life at risk.
Why do people put such faith in the power of a photograph?
What does this kind of image hold that is so precious?

This direct engagement is a central theme of Observance.
Each portrait is made with the sitter large in the frame, looking
directly into the lens, creating pathways of seeing, via the camera.
Each sitter was photographed whilst actively holding in mind a prayer
or mantra, and through the action of looking into the lens, this internal
activity is projected into the camera. Fifteen-second exposures provide
the window with which the film could capture that energy. 

Consequently these portraits are not split seconds decided upon and
captured by the photographer to reveal something of a character.
Rather, they are an intimate intention unfolding over time, creating an
opportunity for a more balanced meeting between the observer
and the observed.
 

 

Gijun, Shinto, Japan                             Israa, Muslim, Iraq                                Pere, Orthodox Christian, France     Lee, Taoist, Singapore