CREATIVECITY is a record of facades that exist within the peripheral. This close network of structures and advertisements lend themselves to a superficial replication of the inner Te Aro district.
Mackenzie Sutherland is an artist based in Te Whanganui-a-Tara experimenting with video and image capturing to produce works that present his inconspicuous viewpoints of cityscapes.
Please join us for the opening night at Hunters and Collectors With huge thanks to our wonderful, delish and generous sponsors Scapegrace Gin, Fortune Favours and Canape Company! Robbie Motion's practice begun in their later years of high school through creating pieces for album covers and shows within Dunedin’s local music scene and throughout New Zealand, working with acts such as Estere (art work created for live performance), Tom Scott (Avondale Bowling Club/Years Gone By Records logo), Ha the Unclear (album cover art: Invisible Lines (2018). Currently Motion’s practice continues to work through commissions in all fields throughout NZ while actively exhibiting their own projects. Artist statement: Employing experience from performing commissions and a degree in Art History, Motion's practice...
'Monarch Repurposed' provides a slower approach to garment construction. The Covid-19 pandemic has resulted in an inability to relentlessly consume and so forced upon us the need to live within our bubbles and only acquire essentials. This exhibition explores innovative methods of garment construction within the scope of this new world we are living in; incorporating scraps, second hand, damaged and repurposed materials into the work featured. This pandemic has taught us that, alike to a butterfly, we are living in a cycle of change. ‘Monarch Repurposed’ embodies this change and so provides an opportunity to harness what we have around us. As Mariah Carey once said, ‘Spread your wings and prepare to fly, for you have...
Hunters and Collectors are so proud to announce the final exhibition for this year! Opening night 5-7pm, 4th December 2020 Drinks from our wonderful and delicious sponsors Scapegrace Gin and Fortune Favours Ruthie Frank b.1988 is a ceramic artist from New Plymouth,Taranaki. She started working with clay in 2016 and studied UKU - hand building under Wi Taepa at Te Wananga O Aotearoa in 2017. Ruthie now works predominantly with liquid porcelain using a technique called slip casting. Her custom plaster molds are made from found everyday objects- creating a wide variety of shapes a usable pieces! Her porcelain ceramics are bright and fun with unique ‘water pipes’ too for your smoking pleasure! She hopes her pieces will bring you joy and become...
Erathem is a collaborative exhibition between Te Whanganui-a-Tara based artists Dayle Palfreyman (BFA) and Nick Shackleton (BSc). Combining Dayle’s conceptual art background with Nick’s Geological and Geophysical education, the two aim to present complex geological knowledge in an art context. Predominantly working in sculpture and installation, the show expands on the mediums the artists generally explore, including other ways to present this information. At the Southern end of the North Island (Te Ika-a-Māui) lies the Rimutaka-Tararua Ranges and the Hau-rangi (Aorangi) Mountains. Sitting on the slopes of Haurangis, extending west to the Wairarapa Valley, vast layers of conglomerate and soft mudstone (silt-stone) sit atop the deformed greywacke bedrock. Around 9 million years ago the Aorangi Mountains were islands as the...
