June 2010

Emerging Artist Forum

Sunday's Emerging Artists was once more a great success. Details of future forums will be posted here in coming weeks.

Emerging Artist Forum

Satellite Gallery is once more hosting the Emerging Artists Forum from 2pm this coming Sunday 27th June. Yee 'Square' Lee, director of the Oryza Foundation will speak on intellectual property rights, Vera May from Artspace will talk about engaging and collaborating with public institutions and artist Sofia Minson will discuss the creative and business side of art.

Celebrating our Cultural Icons
Interviews with iconic New Zealanders who have shaped our arts & culture scene

Jam Radio, like Satellite Gallery, is an offspring of Depot Artspace. They are currently producing an invaluable asset to New Zealand’s arts sector with its ‘Cultural Icons’ programme; an accessible, informative and compelling series of interviews that will inspire generations to come.

In December 2009 Jam Radio received ARST (Arts Regional Services Trust) funding from North Shore City Council to create a series of interviews with iconic New Zealanders who have shaped the arts and culture scene over many years. The inspiration and impetus for the Cultural Icons project is to provide archives that capture the ideas, histories and personalities of these significant contributors. The project is ongoing, with audio and film from the interviews made accessible online.

The dialogues are between friends and contemporaries and so far form a fascinating cultural genealogy. Hamish Keith, writer, art curator, arts consultant and social commentator interviews his long-time friend, the artist and conservationist, Barry Brickell; Martin Edmond, noted NZ novelist, essayist and author of 'The Resurrection of Philip Clairmont’ (1999) interviews Philip Clairmont’s partner Rachel Power and poet, biographer, musician and ecologist Denys Trussell interviews friend Dean Buchanan, painter.

Warm, informed and often intimate, the interviews are a rare insight into these iconic kiwi’s creative journeys, their youthful ambitions, their hurdles, successes and their contributions within the New Zealand creative and cultural landscape.

Interviews completed to date include:
Nigel Brown interviewed by Denys Trussell
Barry Brickell interviewed by Hamish Keith
Martin Rumsby interviewed by Julian McCarthy
Dean Buchanan interviewed by Denys Trussell

Listen to these interviews and many more by clicking here.

Portfolio opportunity for Artists

Morph is an alternative, advertisement-free arts and culture magazine available online. Already providing opportunities to writers, columnists, reviewers, Morph has now introduced a ‘Portfolio’ section to showcase the project work of emerging visual or performing artists.

If you are a photographer, sculptor, painter, illustrator, installation artist, printmaker, digital artist, ceramicist, metal/glass worker….we want to hear from you! Visit for further details.

Our first featured artist is David Straight, photographer, whose book project The End of London has recently been shortlisted for the Photo Book Dummy Prize at the International Photo Book Festival in Kassel, Germany. See a selection of images from this project by clicking here.

Creative Communities Scheme funding changes
The Creative Communities Scheme (CCS) is a fund made available by Creative New Zealand to all local Authorities for encouragement of Arts activity within our communities.
Creative New Zealand has adopted new Criteria for the Creative Communities Scheme to be adopted from 1 July 2010. Under the new criteria this funding source is for you if your creative activity or event will encourage:
•    Broad community involvement – The project will create opportunities for local communities to engage with and participate in arts activities.
•    Diversity – The project will support the diverse arts and cultural traditions of local communities, enriching and promoting their uniqueness and cultural diversity.
•    Young people – The project will enable and encourage young people (under 18 years) to engage with and actively participate in the arts.
Please note, due to the local government amalgamation taking place this year, a change of timing means all Creative Communities Scheme grants for the 2010/2011 financial year are being allocated at this time. There will be no further funding allocations until the latter half of 2011.
For more information about these changes, please visit: www.creativenz.govt.nz/funding/creative_communities_scheme

Abby Storey's Opening night and the Photography Festival

It was great to see so many artists and photographers at the opening of Abby Storey's exhibition Touchstones, and to see people get involved with the Photography Festival. Especially nice to see photographers with their cameras to support and document the opening nights. A big thank you to Richard Smallfield and John B Turner.

Metonymy

Metonymy is an event aimed at encouraging collaborations between artists, writers and poets. artists will be paired with writers and over the space of two months create a collaborative artwork, the best of which will feature in an exhibition at the conclusion of the project.

There is just one week left to take part in this exciting opportunity to join a collaborative project with writers and visual artists.

For more information click here.

The Wallace Awards 2010

For all emerging artists out there don't forget to enter The Wallace Awards 2010 'the longest surviving and largest annual art awards of their kind in New Zealand'. Satellite Gallery had a number of past exhibitors make it to the finals last year and one make it to the exhibition of selected finalists that went on display in the Aotea Centre Auckland and The New Dowse in Wellington.

For more details on how to enter click here. Entries for the main award close on 12th August 2010.

A great review of the Satellite exhibition [v]erge on PhotoForum NZ news page.

Photoforum New Zealand has published glowing review of the show by Hamish Macdonald, Jenny Tomlin and Richard Smallfield. Check it out here.

Art News, Art Zone, and Art New Zealand in stock

We have the latest editions of all the major New Zealand art magazines currently in stock so make sure to pick up your copies next time you visit the gallery.