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We are pleased to announce that Regan Gentry has been awarded the first Dalton Trust/Wharepuke artist residency. His work is well known throughout NZ and ‘typically depicts the relationship of people to their environment and how this is acted out’. We are very excited to welcome Regan and family to Wharepuke and will post up-dates of his project as and when it develops.
ART AT WHAREPUKE
APRIL 2 – MAY 1
Gallery Open 7 days 10am – 5pm
Elizabeth Dove’s projects utilise varied forms of print media, photography, and installation. She is a Professor in the School of Art at the University of Montana in Missoula, USA.
Dove maintains an active exhibition record, with solo shows at the Lessedra Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria; Prescott College Art Gallery, Arizona; DePree Gallery, Hope College, Holland, Michigan; and participation in numerous group shows including the International Print Center, New York; Cultural Centre Modern Gallery, Gornji Milanovac, Serbia; Lahti Art Museum, Lahti, Finland; and Kellogg Art Gallery, Pomona, California.
Her work is included in the publications Printmaking: A Complete Guide, Non-Toxic Printmaking, The Contemporary Printmaker, and the British journal Printmaking Today. She received her BFA from the Maryland Institute, College of Art, her MFA from Vermont College.
Paintings, prints and sculpture by Auckland artist Geoff Tune.
Exhibition March 9 to March 30
Gallery open 7 days 10 am – 5pm
PART TWO – FEB 11 – MARCH 6
Part two of the 4th International Open Submission Printmaking Exhibition features Margaret Ashman, Tom Baggaley, Richard Hricko, Carolyn McKenzie Craig, Miwako Nishizawa, Sumi Perera, Joseph Ryan, Mustafa Sidki and Ella Weber.
A finalists shortlist will be drawn up and our international judging panel will decide the overall winner of this year’s show.
The judges are:
Anthony Holmquist (USA) – first prize winner of Art at Wharepuke’s 3rd international open submission printmaking competition. Tony is an assistant professor in the Department of Art & Design at Fort Lewis College Durango, Colorado, USA, he visited Wharepuke as an artist in residence in May 2015 during his prize winning solo show Recurring Systems.
Chris Pig (UK) – Award winning artist Chris Pig specialises in relief prints. He is a member of the UK Society of Wood Engravers and was joint winner, with Hilary Paynter, of the Society’s 2009 competition.
Elizabeth Dove (USA) – Professor in the School of Art at the University of Montana.
Susanna Castleden (Australia) – Senior Lecturer and Director International in the School of Design and Art at Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia.
The winning artist will have a solo show at Wharepuke.
Part One
Jan 14 – Feb 7
The 4th Wharepuke Open Printmaking show features 25 artists from 12 different countries selected from open submission.
The exhibition is divided into two parts.
Part One runs from Jan 14 to Feb 7 and features work by:
Eman Al Hashemi (UAE)
Ximena Bórquez (Chile)
Neala Glass (NZ)
Melissa Harshman (USA)
Sallyann Hingston (NZ)
Amanda Kralovic (USA)
Jakob Lee (USA)
Steve Lovett (NZ)
LUCE (Belgium)
Julia Ludwig (Germany)
Judy Major-Girardin (Canada)
Mia O (Japan)
Kavita Nayar (India)
Hamish Oakley-Browne (NZ)
Ruth Simons (UK)
Sandra Williams (Australia)
Part Two will take place from Feb 11 to March 6 and will feature
Margaret Ashman (UK)
Tom Baggaley (UAE)
Richard Hricko (USA)
Carolyn Mckenzie Craig (Australia)
Miwako Nishizawa (USA)
Sumi Perera (UK)
Joseph Ryan (Ireland)
Mustafa Sidki (UK)
Ella Weber (USA)
For more information
When Dad died my brother and I found a drawer full of old 35mm slides dating from the early 1960’s to the early 1980’s, family snaps, holidays abroad and our time in Australia as Ten Pound Poms.
The slides have been digitised, manipulated and re-printed as acetates to be layered, like memories.
For more of Mark Gravers work go to Mark Graver
17 April – 15 May
MARK GRAVER
WILLIAM HEDLEY
GEOFF TUNE
Dust and Clouds: Dots and Pixels
Ian Brown and Paul Jones both share an interest in the same source material; images of elemental natural forces at work. Each has a fascination with the almost intangible nature of this phenomena where ‘dust and clouds’ of poetic beauty describe events of cataclysmic proportion.
For Paul Jones this is a touchstone connecting him to an interior world of the imagination, while in perhaps a more detached manner, Ian Brown is looking into the way we experience the act of looking. Dots and pixels act as the mediation between the real world, the photograph and its expression in print.
Both artists come together in this show of drawings and prints as Paul collaborates with Ian to convert and reconfigure some of his drawings into print, through the solar plate etching process.
Michelle Mayn is part way through a 3 month Artist in Residence program here at Wharepuke in Kerikeri NZ . Michelle is a New Zealand fibre artist using both natural and modern fibres.
Michelle Mayn uses traditional Maori weaving techniques often mixing materials to produce new and exciting textures and colour combinations on modern bags or highlights on more traditional kete (basketry).
In her latest works the subtle hues and textures of plant fibres such as tree fern, Kapok, rush and lichen are highlighted in a simple little rourou(food container) made of Harakeke/New Zealand Flax from fibres harvested here at Wharepuke.
Michelle’s blog can be found at Michelle Mayn
More about our Artist Residence options here at Wharepuke Kerikeri NZ
The Silvereye or Wax-eye here in the garden at Wharepuke in Kerikeri New Zealand are very cute. It took just a few days for the mother and young chicks to start feeding from our hand. They love banana and cherimoyas. There are so many young birds around here at our Kerikeri Accommodation. We have to close the curtains in a couple of the cottages as the Kingfishers attack their own reflection in the big sliding windows!
