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December 2016 - January 2017
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Egmont Street murals


Despite dynamic conditions over the past few weeks, three artists have completed murals at Egmont Street.

Kelly Spencer has painted a unicorn with a luscious mane on the garage door between two hair salons. The unicorn is in memory of a horse that died in the laneway as, "surely horses become unicorns when they die", she says. Stephen Templer has represented a tale of burglary-gone-wrong. A couple of burglars broke into a chicken factory and tried using dynamite to break into a safe. They managed to escape with 15 shillings only. The work is titled The great egg heist of 1924. Stephen uses the word "egg" as a play on the name "Egmont" too.

Ruth Taylor and Rachael Gannaway have also commemorated the dead horse - depicting a horse skull surrounded by a tea-flower wreath. The tea flowers represent the tea factory that was situated down the laneway too. Auckland artist, Charlotte Hawley will be painting her mural, Urban Library from 16 December on the garage door at the Ghuznee end of Egmont Street.

  Masons Screen
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Kate Woods
Water Feature (2016)

Friday 9  December 2016–Tuesday 24 January 2017
Masons Lane


Water Feature presents four New Zealand landscapes into which the artist has digitally "installed" Nam Jun Paik’s TV Garden (Korea, 1974). Referencing a local survey that recommended water features be added to art gallery entrances, Woods complements each scene with gushing fountains. The resulting installation playfully sites Masons Lane at the intersection of nature, culture and popular opinion.
 

Supported by Wellington City Council and programmed by CIRCUIT Artist Film and Video Aotearoa New Zealand, Masons Screen presents a new artist’s work each month.

The screen is located on Masons Lane – a pedestrian walkway between The Terrace and Lambton Quay.




Pictured: Still from Water Feature 2016 Kate Woods. 2 minutes 27 secs Digital Video, Sound.

  Public art opportunities
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Courtenay Place light boxes – call for proposals

Wellington City Council is calling for curators and artists to propose a new light box exhibition for our 2018 programme.

We are looking for two to three exhibitions that will run for up to six months each, from 3 April 2018. See the call for proposals here.

Deadline for proposals: Monday 20 February 2017
 

Public Art call for proposals

Public art activities play an important role in distinguishing Wellington as a sophisticated, tolerant, dynamic city with creativity at its heart.

For public art enquiries please contact an arts advisor.

Deadline for proposals: Monday 20 February 2017



Pictured: Sarah Jane Parton It's love, isn't it? 2014

  Te Whare Hēra Residency Exhibition

Claire Healy and Sean Cordiero
Harbouring

Thursday 8–Saturday 17 December
Te Whare Hēra Gallery, prow end Clyde Quay Wharf

Opening 6.30pm, Wednesday 7 December
Gallery open 1pm–6pm, Tuesday–Saturday


In Harbouring, Claire Healy and Sean Cordeiro present two linked projects that share commonalities of time, memorialisation, and expanded painting.

Daddy Danse Macabre is a project inspired by the intricately painted skulls of Hallstatt Beinhaus. Claire and Sean’s painted skulls commemorate the dates of new words [walkman, vajazzle, mullet] added to the Oxford English Dictionary, highlighting the varying time lags between a word's invention and its inclusion in the OED.

Their second project began as a direct response to the environment of the Te Whare Hēra studio, which Claire describes as the "most beautiful residency in the world,” consequently Claire and Sean were drawn to experiments in landscape painting. The duo have sourced landscapes from New Zealand horror films and reproduced these via an exaggerated four-colour separation process which is then painstakingly filled in with pigment.

Pictured: Black Sheep detail 2016 Claire Healy and Sean Cordiero. Water colour on canvas.

  Courtenay Place light box project

Shannon Novak
Modulation

Saturday 10 December 2016–Monday 3 April 2017


Shannon Novak’s Courtenay Place Park light box project Modulation demonstrates his ongoing interest in the ways we perceive shape, space, colour, rhythm, energy and sound. He creates chromatic and compositional relationships that respond to both visual references and the energy of an object, site, or body.

This project creates a dynamic experience that is engaging and interactive. Through the use of mobile technology, it encourages new audiences to experience traditional forms of art. It activates another dimension of the light boxes, extending their reach into virtual space. The light boxes build awareness of the phenomenon of synaesthesia and its potential for creative exploration, as well as (re)connecting the disciplines of visual art, music and moving image/animation.

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Mosaic in the making – Picking up the Pieces


Mosaic artist Rachel Silver is "picking up the pieces" after the 14 November earthquake. She is asking for donations of broken ceramic and china to use in a community mosaic. Rachel has already collected a box of broken antiques from Relics, three bags of beautiful broken china from T2, and a smashed, much loved vase from an artist.

Rachel would like to host workshops for those who have been affected by the earthquake in some way and use the process of making mosaic work to bring people together, share stories and design a large-scale piece that acknowledges these stories and celebrates the beauty and the function of the broken pieces.
 
You can find out more and contact Rachel through her Facebook page. 
 
If you have pieces that you would like to donate please deliver them to Toi Pōneke Arts Centre, 61 Abel Smith Street.
 

  On at Toi Pōneke Gallery

Kōhikohiko

Until Saturday 10 December


This exhibition is a collaborative audio-visual installation between five Wellington artists – Alexandra Batley, Dave Matthews, Adrian McCleland, Eugene Hansen and Shannon Te Ao. Featuring a pair of 600 watt sub-woofer speakers and video projections, Kōhikohiko explores conflated socio-political interests and multi layered tensions that underpin New Zealand culture. 

Pictured: Hiirautia 1 2016 Alexandra Batley. Digital image.

  On at Toi Pōneke Gallery

The Toi Two Hundy

Toi Pōneke's Annual Residents' Show

Opening: 5.30pm, Tuesday 13 December
Exhibition dates: Wednesday 14–Thursday 22 December

 
Building on the success of their first Toi Two Hundy show, the artists of Toi Pōneke Arts Centre are once again giving Christmas shoppers a chance to grab a last-minute art bargain for $200 and under.

The Toi Two Hundy 2016 will feature new works from 25 diverse artists in a range of forms including abstract pieces, zines, watercolours, landscapes and mosaics.

  Summer Residency at Toi Pōneke Gallery

Octophonic/Ambisonic
Thomas Voyce

Exhibition Dates: Friday 13 January–Saturday 4 February


Environmental sound composer Thomas Voyce brings an 8-channel (octophonic) speaker system to Toi Pōneke Gallery for an immersive surround sound listening experience.

Using the ambisonic recording technique developed by Michael Gerzon in the 1970s, Thomas presents a collection of recordings, electroacoustic compositions and collaborative fixed-media works, including recent works created during his PhD research, alongside new recordings to be made as part of his tenure as Toi Pōneke’s first Sound Artist in Residence.

Though Thomas has been working with environmental recordings as a source for composition for more than 20 years, Octophonic/Ambisonic represents his first public installation outside of an electroacoustic studio environment.

Stayed tuned into Toi Pōneke's facebook page for performance updates.

Pictured: Fanfare for Spring Denis Murphy.
Toi Pōneke HUB, Gallery and Offices will be closed from the afternoon of Friday 23 December - Monday 9 January. We wish all of our community a safe and happy holiday.
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