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Japan on March 11th once again reminded us of the fragility of life. Bath Street Gallery artist Kazu
Nakagawa has
watched from afar as his family and friends living in Tokyo have suffered great upheavals and he wants
to be able to
give those caught up in the recent tsunami something that will give them strength for what lies ahead,
something
tangible. I feel that while the basic needs will be taken care of, it is the emotional and spiritual
recovery of the people
that will need more support says Kazu.
Along with several friends, Kazu is organising a gathering on Waiheke Island to launch PROJECT
Chiyoni Japan.
He would like to invite you to a gathering on Sunday April 10th starting at Palm Beach at 9.30a.m. Full
details can be
found at www.chiyoni.org.nz
Andrea Gardner and Peter Panyoczki are exhibiting at The Pataka Museum of Arts and
Cultures, Porirua , 18
Sept 23 Jan 2011 for the SHEEP- NZ Icons in Art exhibition, Recognising and
celebrating the contribution that
sheep have made to this nations development, these icons are seen as an integral part of New Zealands
cultural
heritage. www.pataka.org.nz
Kazu Nakagawa, Chiara Corbelletto, and Leon van den Eijkel have been selected for Headland,
Sculpture on
the Gulf 2011 Waiheke Island, 28 January 20 February 2011. www.sculptureonthegulf.co.nz
Robert Jahnke - Te Manawa Gallery , Palmerston North, 3 July 10 October 2010.
The exhibition Tirohanga o
Mua Looking Back is a retrospective exhibition looking back at Jahnkes practice
over the last two decades since
his first solo exhibition in 1990. www.temanawa.co.nz
Gallery artist Mark Braunias has been awarded the Fullbright - Wallace Arts Trust Award
2010, for an
outstanding mid-career or senior NZ artist, to undertake a 3 month residency at Headlands Center for
the Arts in
Sausalito, California.
Gallery artists Geoff Dixon, Peter Panyoczki and Katie Thomas exhibited in the Tauranga
Art Gallerys exhibition
Surface Tension, 21 May 1 August 2010. It was an exhibition by contemporary New
Zealand artists who treat the
canvas like a sculpture. The artists explore texture and shape, treating the surface of the canvas similarly,
but each
using different processes with differing results. www.artgallery.org.nz
Congratulations to Leon van den Eijkel who has been selected to represent New Zealand at Sculpture
by the Sea,
Bondi 29 October-15 November 2009, 450 applied and just over 100 were chosen with 24 living outside
Australia.
Leons Smiling Windmills are at Avalon Park, Lower Hutt. The windmills
were proudly presented to the people of the
Hutt Valley by the E Tu Awakairangi Hutt Public Art Trust after the public fell in love with the vibrant
sculpture at the
Shapeshifter 2008 exhibition at the Civic Gardens.
Leons Wellington Urban Forest, 10 May 2007, is also on public display
as part of the Meridian Energy Wind
Sculpture Walk along the head of Evans Bay. These 3 meter high stacks of bright spinning cubes are a
culmination of a
two year collaboration between Leon and Hutt Valley engineer Allan Brown of Metallion Ltd. Wellington
Urban
Forest is an intriguing play on urban values in a very exposed and natural area.
Each stack of 5 cubes represents an
urban tree.
PETER PANYOCZKI has completed a successful exhibition in Switzerland Zunehmend
Undeutlich ,New Works,
30/5/2009 28/6/2009. Bath Street Gallery looks forward to exhibitiong his new works in
his forthcoming exhibition in
December.
Gregor Kregor has completed an Art Omi Residency in New York and has just exhibited a large
work in the second
annual show in Newark curated by Omar Lopez-Chahoud and a big project at Maiden Lane Exhibition space
in
downtown connected to Francis J Greenbourger Collection.
James Robinson has just completed a McCahon House Trust residency. James was the winner of
the Wallace Art
Award with his work Taniwha/Dragon, mixed media on paper and canvas. James goes to
New York this month to take
up residency.
Mark Braunius opens an installation work Visual Bank at the Tauranga Art Gallery. Visual
Bank is on exhibition in the
Gallery Atrium from Nov 2 March 9, 2008.
Kazu Nakagawa won an award for his Lost Property Variation II painting at the Walker
and Hall Art Awards in late
October 2007
An auction for Riduan Tomkins was held by Art + Object on 30 June 2007. Our grateful thanks
go to the former
colleagues and pupils of Riduan who so generously donated works, Hamish Meikle and Simon Ogden and to
Hamish
and Ben at Art+Object.
Thanks for the visit from our neighbours providing business management
software who made sure their offices looked
great with the help of Bath Street Gallery.
Louise Purvis and Leon van den Eijkel sculptures have been unveiled in Wellington as part of the
Wellington Sculpture
Trust. Leon van den Eijkel in collaboration with engineer Allan Brown has installed Urban Forest,
a 9m x 5m sculpture
on Cobham Drive. Seismic, a marble sculpture by Louise Purvis is installed in Bunny St.
Wonder-land will be shown at Bath Street Gallery in March in association with Auckland Festival AK07.
Originally
shown in Rome and then in Pingyao, China. Wonder-land is a collection of photographs revealing an intimate
and
complex make-up of New Zealand.
Gregor Kregar, Charlotte Fisher, Christine Hellyar and Gill Gatfield are all exhibiting in the NZ
Sculpture on the Shore
exhibition from 3-12 November at Fort Takapuna Historic Reserve, Vauxhall Road, Devonport
Alice Blackley, James Robinson and Kathryn Stevens are Wallace Art Award Finalists
Leon van den Eijkel and Louise Purvis have both been commissioned by the Wellington Sculpture Trust
to create work
for the city which will be installed by the end of the year.
James Robinson is in Europe and has recently exhibited in Berlin.
Eight new sculptures have been installed in the Auckland Domain. Chiara Corbelletto, Charlotte
Fisher, Christine Hellyar
and Louise Purvis are amongst the inaugural eight sculptors. See link at
http://www.aucklandcity.govt.nz/whatson/arts/publicart/sculpturewalk.asp
for more images and information about the sculptures.
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