More Exhibitions

Wallace Art Awards-Aotea Centre
I went to see the shortlisted ones that didn't make the final before moving on to the main ones I guess you would call them. Its a shame they weren't displayed in a bigger gallery, Amy's work was up so high on the wall that I couldn't see any detail, the same with other works which had awful lighting or were just overshadowed by other works. Who cares, i saw works from a lot of my old lecturers which was awesome! Jim Cooper, Michelle Beevors, Peter Cleverly AMY POTENGER! yeah! I loved the painting of the little boy with his arm cut off, the lighting and colour were tumeke. There were heaps of paintings come t think of it, in comparison to how many of my peers are painters anyway. I loved the lego tree made of pine, and the...rest of it, the paint skeleton was cool!! go and see the exhibition.

Forget me-Unitec
well... It really shined through that this was photography and not Fine Arts. I was a little disappointed with the exhibition not being enough like an exhibition, I can see now why we put so much emphasis on resolution and presentation. All of the photos were great, but they were all A4 sized so you couldn't see any detail, they looked amazing when a few of them were being projected but other than that they really didn't have much impact. Technically the photos were brilliant ron, and after talking to one of the students who explained the course I could see why the exhibition was the way it was. They are not encouraged to extend beyond the use of photography, presentation has to be in the same format obviously and this was so restricting!!! I also found that the images didn't really relate to each other or flow a lot of the time, they just pick a few technically beautiful photographs and put them on A4 mount on a shelf. i blame unitec and its air of insane asylum and wahine written on the toilet door. oh and the catalogue.... it was ll green!! it did look cool but i can understand why people were poo poo about it, why have it green when its a showcase of technical photography? What about the poor guy that spends hours getting colours right only to see it apple green and white in the catalogue???

Dust 1.2- AUT Gallery
Stopped in here passing by, there was a thing made from pig stomachs which i found FOUL, little shrivelled gloves made from piggy insides, no thank you.

'aren't these great?!'
'oh, the little globes inside the glass houses, yeah.'
'what do you like about them?'
'ummm, the glass is cut really nicely, it can be hard to cut glass straight'
(thinking back to cut feet in first year)

'aren't these great?!'
'no, they're shit. The paint job on those globes looks ridiculous, and the glass houses look manufactured they are so perfect'
'what do you like about them'
'nothing, it's a one liner... much like the inverse dog house from Site06'
*shit eating polite grin*

Gallery Visits

I spent a day in town last week looking around galleries in the central city and there were some amazing exhibitions on.
John Ward Knox 'Toward a still Life' was showing at the Tim Melville Gallery and was outstanding for me. I remember his work from one of the graduate catalog, that little ripple in the linoleum, so subtle that I didn't see it at the show!! When I walked in to the gallery I thought he had painted fabric on to the wall but it is actually carved straight from the wall. READ ALL ABOUT IT and see photos on his BLOG<----(click it) His drawings with biro pens are stunning!! dreamy detailed feathery not all there blobby fluffy strokes. yums. I visited Fingers and saw a lot of the same jewellers I had seen at the NZ jewellers show a couple of months ago. Maybe its just me but I always see a lot of NZ influence in jewellery, maybe its just this gallery and every other gallery I have visited but the influence seems to be very strong. There were some things i liked but I've lost the piece of paper I wrote the artists names on. fork. There were some really nice embroidered pieces and things that used a lot of textiles and sewing techniques which was good to see. Amanda likes this. Sandra Bushby is one of these artists, i love her embroidery and felt work! You can see some of her photos on the fingers website, I'm too scared to post pictures of NZ artists work because it's probably breaching copyright and it won't harm you people to click the link.

Oedipus Rex Gallery.. well, i loved the paintings in the second room, not to say I didn't enjoy the paintings in the first BUT the second room reminded me of Emma Catastrophic so naturally I was drawn to that. The Paintings were by Lorene Taurerewa and are muted colours and very simple figures. The empty space around them gives them an eerie ethereal feeling.Lorene Taurerewa

Story 3 (Detail)
Oil on canvas 122 x 122 cm