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SHEEP - NZ Icons in Art
18 September - 23 January 2011
At a time when the dairy industry is flourishing, maximising exports and earning record prices and in some cases taking over pastoral farms, it seems an appropriate time to recognise and celebrate the contribution that SHEEP have made to this nation's development.
Major New Zealand artists including painters, photographers, printmakers and sculptors have all created works depicting sheep. Many of their works and the subjects they depict are now iconic in that they are seen as an integral part of New Zealand's cultural heritage.
  
Images from left to right: Trevor Moffitt Southland Series II, no.19, Rutherford Collection, Aratoi Museum.
Gregor Kregar Mathew 12:12, private collection.
Brit Bunkley Just Before Snow, private collection.
WHITE GODDESS
11 September - 6 February 2011
The archetype of the White Goddess will be explored in a series of wedding dresses designed by Kerrie Hughes, along with elaborate head dresses by milliner Liza Foreman.
The White Goddess, a symbol of fertility, regeneration and hope, has become a universal symbol appropriated by brides in many countries thoughout the world.
  
NGA KAKAHU: Change and Exchange: Jo Torr and Roka Ngarimu-Cameron
18 September - end of January
Above left, Roka Ngarimu-Cameron. Above right, Jo Torr
Nga Kakahu: Change and Exchange. A celebration of cross cultural expression in New Zealand that explores the art of Maori weaving from both a Maori and Pakeha perspective. Sculptor Jo Torr and weaver Roka Ngarimu-Cameron have chosen costume as a medium to explore this theme, drawing attention to the way both benefited from the exchange.
The works of both artists play off each other. Torr's suite of hybrid garments, made from recycled blankets, focus on the relationship between Maori cloaks and European blankets, while Ngarimu-Cameron's installation of finely woven contemporary cloaks and tartan kilts, created using a western loom, are a metaphor for the blending for the two cultures themselves.
Torr's garments are inspired by Alfred Burton's photographs of groups of Maori dressed in combinations of Maori and European dress - often European gowns with imported woollen blankets alternating with fine cloaks.
9 September - 26 September
Mouth and Foot Artists
An exhibition of paintings from the ASSOCIATION OF MOUTH AND FOOT PAINTING ARTISTS.
The Mouth and Foot Painting Artists is a self-help organisation which gives disabled people the opportunity to fulfill their creative ambitions while still maintaining financial independence.
 
Above, Kerrin Tilley
30 September - 17 October
The ‘Inventor Next Door Expo’
An exhibition designed to assist New Zealander’s in celebrating their ingenuity and innovative nature.
This Expo is calling all inventors from all over the New Zealand to come and show their innovations and inventions.
A total of 20 places have been allocated to inventors or innovators, the exhibition is free to all who wish to display their inventions and the organisation responsible for the Expo, Kiwi Ingenuity, are doing so to increase the awareness of New Zealand inventors within the community.
Kiwi Ingenuity is a company that “recognises that there is little being done by government to promote invention in NZ. Kiwi Ingenuity knows that it is inventions that make life easier as they are created in response to a need that has been seen.” (Kiwi Ingenuity, 2009)
In a bid to increase awareness of Kiwi inventors, exhibitions are organised every year so that the latent hidden talent of so many New Zealanders can come to the forefront. This time the main theme of the exhibition is Transportation and it is being held in the Pataka, Bottle Creek Gallery Porirua City.
21 October - 14 NovemberTradition & Colour
Bindi
The Indian Dot
The bindi is arguably the most visually fascinating of all forms of body decoration and an inseparable part of the Indian woman's identity. Also known as 'tika', 'pottu', 'sindoor', 'tilak', 'tilakam' and 'kumkum', a bindi is usually an eye-catching round mark made on the forehead as adornment.
18 September - 17 October
TARANAKI 5 - Works in Clay, Fibre and Paint
TARANAKI 5 Showing the work of five artists from Taranaki: Joyce Young, Bev Rea and Maria Brockhill work with clay, Waldo Hartley paints in acrylics and Sally Johnson creates with fibre. The artists have conveyed their own style and expression in their art, and all consider that their works, either in clay, fibre or paint, reflect the strong influences of our mountain Taranaki, the landscape and the tidal areas where the land and sea meet.
Maria Brockhill, clay artist. I make sea-themed bowls and organic sculptural shapes and have developed vivid and glossy glazes to highlight my work and bring out texture.
Waldo Hartley. I paint in acrylic and find influence in the human condition and the landscape and roadways of Taranaki. I like to incorporate a little drama and humour in the painting.
Sally Johnson. Following an inherent passion for fibres, textiles and textures, my foray continues with a collection of art dolls inspired by a journey into cronehood, and a celebration of Life Itself.
Bev Rea. Member of NZ Society of Potters New Plymouth Potters Honorary Life Member.
When I began potting in Dunedin over 40 years ago I was fortunate to fire with Oswald Stephens, a founder of NZ Potters. His influence involving chemistry of glazes and colour. I began with reduction stoneware in oil fired, then natural gas fired brick kilns then specialised in salt glazing in a large wood fired kiln. Recently I am using electric firings at lower firing temperatures and experimenting with glaze interaction and texture.
Joyce Young, potter. My pottery involves my environment on the Taranaki Coast, reflecting on volcanic rocks along the foreshore.
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