DATE:    Friday 1 October 2010
TIME:    6.30pm - 7.15pm
COST:   $5 includes a glass of wine

 

 

Clare Purser and Robyn Gibson now in the Stockroom Gallery!

Here is a sample of their works.

Robyn's can be viewed here. Clare's can be viewed here.

New Work in the Stockroom Gallery!

Cheryl Wright has new work previously unseen.

Check them out here.

Robyn Gibson and Clare Purser in the Weekend Herald

Robyn and Clare's exhibition was reviewed in this weeks Weekend Herald. Pieces by both artists are available to purchase from the gallery stockroom and a full catalog of their exhibition is available on request.

New Work in the Stockroom!

Jo Barrett has a new piece in our Stockroom Gallery titled 'Divide'. Check it out here.

In Response to Art Week Auckland

When advised of Art Week Auckland last month we experienced some disquiet on a number of fronts.  The reasons for this disquiet are following:

• No clear raison d’etre for the event.

• What appears to be a fairly flimsy infrastructure given that it is mainly represented to date by a Twitter site.

• A very short lead in to what is being promoted as a significant event, given its comparison to Sydney Arts Week.  Other significant events like the Auckland Photographic Festival, Readers and Writers Festival and the NZ Book Week first established their foundations on which to build successful well attended programmes. Going West, which takes place in Sept, was promoted from the beginning of the year.

• Branding of the event as Art Week Auckland when:

• It relates only to the visual arts: Other events such as the Auckland Photographic Festival and Readers and Writers Festival are discipline specific in their branding or like Going West are region specific. Art Week Auckland is neither of these and lays claim to a generic title when it represents only the visual arts and inner city Auckland.

• It relates only to the inner city suburbs of Auckland: It coincides with the transformation of Auckland into a super city, yet its geographical girth extends only to the inner city.  This gives the impression of an existing arts hub of which greater Auckland is not a part.

• The community claimed to exist is indistinct: On the Twitter site, the event is described as involving the community.  Is this a pre existing community or created solely for the event?  We are not aware of a community existing or having been recognized as such before this.  As an arts community ourselves, over nearly 15 years, we have worked hard to define and live according to the values intrinsic to a community and thus this has no resonance with us.  A question we would ask is what is the community bond that draws these galleries together for this event?  Statements like ‘our favorite galleries’ (Twitter) imply both exclusivity and a lack of inclusive community ( “if you are not in, then you are out” ).

• Foundation of the Auckland Art Week insubstantial: A festival is not superimposed on a pre existing structure or programme.  It actually grows out of need or existing community of interest that is well established e.g. Photographic Festival and Readers and Writers Festival. Festivals arise out of something that is intrinsic to a culture.  As such they become embedded in that culture, valued by the participants as meaningful and valued to them.

In conclusion, we see no meaningful cohering substance pulling this event together.  There is no community apart from a geographic one made up of inner city suburbs.  No real attempt to explain thoroughly to would be participants the raison d’etre of the event, apart from a call out through email and Twitter.  There is no substantial promotion in place which is essential for the success of an inaugural event and it is less than six weeks away.  We wonder if such an ambitious event should be given more time in the planning, should embrace the geographic spread of Auckland and the other arts, and that events planned to take place during the week should be designed specifically for that week.

 

Satellite Gallery Hosts Eden Arts - Young Artist Award

Saturday 25th and Sunday 26th of September Satellite Gallery will host the Eden Arts Young Artist Award for the second year running. The competition gives artists between 16 and 25 years old, living in the wider Mt Eden area the chance to win prizes totaling $11,000. This years award will be judged by Adrian Jackman. For more information and an entry for visit the Eden Arts website.

Robyn Gibson and Clare Purser in the news...click to view.

Devonport Flagstaff, September 3, 2010

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Dean Buchanan makes the news

Dean Buchanan's exhibition was reviewed by T.J.McNamara in last weekends Herald.

"painted on a large scale with stylised vigour and potent driving rhythms, usually on unframed heavily textured canvas. The painting can be very exciting when it emphasises the dangerous steepness of icy slopes and the sense of abyss in crevasses."

Check it out online here

You can also download Denys Trussell's introduction to Dean's exhibition at Satellite here:

"In 1986 Dean Buchanan came to my house.  He was already an experienced interpreter of landscape and had developed his own style." 

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