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Programme June - September 2006
August 31, 2008 by kmitchell
june - september 2006 | |||
 | Ashburton Society of Arts 42nd Annual Exhibition | ||
 | Ana Terry | ||
 | Rainy McMaster A Short History of Right Now 22nd July-27th August 2006 Artist talk Saturday 29th July 1.30pm Rainy McMaster is a text installation and photographic artist. One of McMaster's major thematic concerns is language and dialog - especially digital-age communications. She often opens up a conversation with the viewer, using text to communicate directly to them, or allowing them into her world through diary-esque style works. This mode of communication, seeming at first candid and transparent, has a subtle but undeniable aura of loneliness and secrecy. | ||
 | James Robinson God and Death 29th July-10th September 2006 Artist talk Saturday 29th July 1.30pm “I’ve played and experimented with the organic and physical here to make abstract landscapes that also open up into cosmic vortexes of energy roaring through the universe and in a microcosm of this universal through us. They can be read as landscapes or disaster scenes… cosmic astrophysical speculative dreamtime narratives or however the viewer can draw images out of with their mind and feelings. The meaning is for the viewer to find for themselves. I just offer an element of what goes on inside me...and share it in my art. God and Death is about portraying the tensions of life, the state of being alive in the universe and the wonder of the sheer complexity of the metaphysical concerns of being in an abstract sense. The words god and death are symbolic words used to approximate the relationships between the universe and my being… and the inspirations in the contemplation of these core concerns of my practice.” James Robinson | ||
| Kirsten Lovelock The Show 9th September-6th October 2006 Artist talk Saturday 30th September 1.30pm The Show features a series of narrative paintings that celebrate the shows, fetes, races and hunts of early South Canterbury society. This is Kirsten’s third solo exhibition in New Zealand and her first in Canterbury. Since she began painting professionally she has won three art awards, the first place in the Fortune Art Awards, first place in the DIAL Awards and most recently second place in the South Island wide Hope and Sons Competition and Exhibition. The works in The Show offer an imaginative response to the early period in Mid and South Canterbury but also provide an insight into the foundations of contemporary New Zealand identity. | ||
Auction night Saturday 17th June 7pm Come along and support the Ashburton Art Gallery’s fundraising event. There are over 50 garments available by some of New Zealand’s most well known artists and designers. Tickets are limited to 150 so get yours now! Silent bids for all garments are being accepted now. Silent bids may be made up until 4pm on Saturday the 17th of June.
Participants include Sabatini, Anna Ross, Urbanshell, Silkbody, Pink & Blue, Gabrielle Jones, Brian Molyneux, Caroline Church, Kouldja Kids, IPG, NG Design, Earth Sea Sky, 102 Design, Nice & Clean, Lonely Hearts Club, Peter Cleverley, Valda Niederer, Marilynn Webb, Bing Dawe, David Elliot, Mary McFarlane, Nigel Roberts, Kathryn Madill, Ewan McDougall, Margaret Digby, Kirsten Lovelock, Barbara Jaine, Tessa Watson, Rececca Scott and more… Thank you to all the participating artists and designers who contributed to the event. Thank you to the Ashburton Spinners and Weavers for the use of their mannequins. Thank you to Todd’s Ashburton and Derlen Bakery for their sponsorship support. Thank you to all the businesses who have supported the event by purchasing catalogue advertisements. Thank you to all the volunteers who have contributed towards the Signify exhibition/event-your support is much appreciated! | |||
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 | At Cactus Jacks… 209 Willis Street Artworks by local artists Janelle Medlock & George Coppard. COMING SOON... | ||
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