Bath St Gallery is excited to announce the release of a limited edition series of Future Postcards by Peter Gibson Smith.  View the editions here.

Peter’s 2007 exhibition The History of Future Painting  included a group of 26 Future Postcard paintings, which drew on such varied sources as: postcard stamps, shipping containers, science fiction illustration, museum artefacts and origami to name a few.  All 26 paintings have been re-drawn 1/3 their original size and grouped into 4 separate compositions.

The editions are limited to 5 copies each and are available individually, unframed for $1200 each or as a complete set of 4 for $4000.  All editions are numbered, signed, dated and made by the artist.

Future Post #1, #2, #2 and #4 are available for viewing at Bath Street Gallery from Friday April 11.

Denys Watkins Delhi Drawings exhibition opens at the Gus Fisher Gallery Friday 11 April at 5.30pm until May 24, 2008.  The works for the show were produced in 2003 while Denys was in Delhi, India undertaking a Creative New Zealand residency.  Denys will be discussing his residency and the iconography of India referenced in this exhibition on Saturday 19 April at 1pm at:

Gus Fisher Gallery

74 Shortland St

Auckland Central

Alice Blackley has recently completed a four week residency at the Vermont Studio Center in Johnson, VT, USA. The Center holds a residency program for 50 international writers, poets, sculptors, photographers and visual artists each month.  Alice was awarded an American Grant to attend.

Louise Purvis will be working on a fabulous sculpture out at The Farm, which will be auctioned at the following event:  Experience at the Farm – an afternoon of sculpture & opera Saturday 8 March 2008   Price:  $300 per ticket.  To purchase tickets phone Jenny on (09)5758039 or Chanelle (09)5299980.  This will be an amazing event in support of The NBR New Zealand opera.

James Ross has two major international group exhibitions, Refractions Shadows opening in Cornwall on 22 February and ULTRAMarte opening in Hong Kong on 19 March 2008.

James Robinson We have new works in the gallery which James produced during his McCahon residency last year – these are very important works in his career. James is currently in New York where he has taken up the Wallace Art award residency which he also won last year.   

Peter Panyoczki has an exhibition at the Kauri Museum Church Road, Matakohe, Northland which runs until 9 March.

Charlotte Fisher and Leon van den Eijkel both have works in ShapeShifter opening Friday 22 February – Sunday 16 March.  The venue is exactly opposite The New Dowse, Central CBD, Hutt City.

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 a 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.  

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.