Programme December 2007 - February 2008
December 2007 - February 2008 | |
 | Fiona Pears New Zealand virtuoso violinist and composer Fiona Pears started performing as a soloist with orchestras at the age of 12. She performs a mix of Celtic, Gypsy, Latin and Classical music. Fiona will be performing with Ian Tilley - Piano and Peter Fleming - Double Bass. For more information please contact the Ashburton Art Gallery. |
 | Summer Pottery Show (cash & carry) What better gift than an original piece of pottery by a New Zealand artist (gift wrapping service available). The exhibition will feature works by more than 20 New Zealand potters including Neil Hey, David Brokenshire, Dave Walker, Michael Michaels, Amy Michaels, Gaye Morton, Graham McEvoy, Marie Rusbatch-Dawson, Averil Cave, Linda Pringle, Rosemary Thompson, Gill Gane, Sally Connolly, Dianne Register-Stout, Darryl Robertson, Ngaire Van Grondelle, Royce McGlashen, Linda Pringle, Shona Clarkson, Peter Stewart, Ann Pullar, Hugh Rickard, Frederika Ernsten and more. (Image: Centurion bowl by Neil Hey) |
 | Olav Nielsen Long dusky shadows, a cool lone breeze and a warm amber glow, one feels a sense of solitude, of journeys traveled and of a future yet unknown. Mystery lurks in every dark corner and crevice, the viewer is privileged to capture glimpses of unoccupied interiors that speak of a human presence which has recently departed. Nielsen utilises the burnished aquatint and more recently the mezzotint printmaking process to capture the careful and labourious architectural detail in the works. Both techniques are based on the principal of working manually into a textured surface. On completion of the drawing the plate is inked and printed onto paper. Nielsen comfortably moves between the traditional and the contemporary emphasising that one is shaped by history, by the experiences and memories which are retained and reconstructed in order to navigate a possible future. |
 | Kathryn Mitchell Holy Shop 8th December- 27th January 2008 Opening & Artists Talk Saturday 8th December 1.30pm Having worked in the gallery sector over the past eight years and from both a public and a "grass roots" vantage point I have become interested in the way art galleries are evolving. One works with an ongoing process of justifying the functions and value of art galleries in communities. "...Alana Heiss, a pioneer of alternative viewing spaces and currently the director of MOMA's P.S. 1 in Long Island City, wants the museum/gallery 'to make you feel as if you're in the presence of God.' " "In the late 1970s, Richard Rogers and Renzo Piano, the architects of the Pompidou Center in Paris, described the new institution not as a museum but as a centre of 'information and entertainment.' " Art & the Power of Placement by Victoria Newhouse |
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