Past

Exhibition Opening 30th April 5.30pm - 8.00pm
Showing 1st - 21st May 2010
Opening hours Monday - Friday 10am - 5pm

Open Studio 2010

The Green Bench is taking part in the 10th aniversary Whanganui Open Studios 2010

• March 20th - 21st 2010 10 - 4pm
• March 27th - 28th 2010 10 - 4pm (March 27th tbc)

Showing works on paper, photography and graphic art by Sophie Klerk.

Odd Sock Triage - a participatory piece by Julian Priest.

The Green Bench is also pleased to be taking part once more in 'Pay and Display' art in the parking places of Guyton Street.

Introduction

The Green Bench took part in the electrosmog festival of sustaianable immobility. http://electrosmogfestival.net

The electrosmog festival is an international media arts festival where all the participants stay in their home town.

As part of the deep local session we set out onto the Whanganui river to present to the conference - 10am - 12pm in Europe/10pm-12am in Aotearoa/New Zealand.

What do the earliest perceiving organisms and simple robots have in common?

Talk and Workshop at The Green Bench

14th December 2009 5.30 - 9.00 pm

Works from the 2009 "Slow Flow - Te Ia Korero" residency on the Whanganui river.

Andy Slater (uk), Angus Leech (ca), Brit Bunkley (nz), Dhyana Beaumont (nz), Julian Priest (nz), Nigel Brooke (nz), Sonja Van Kerkhoff (nl), Stella Brenan (nz), Sue James (nz), Tom Ang (uk), Hannah Rainforth (nz)

Showing 31st Jan - 28th Feb 2010

Overview

Slowflow 2010 was a trip down the Whanganui River, Aotearoa/New Zealand between Jan 21st and Jan 31st 2010. Slowflow will be run again in 2011 dates to be announced soon.

Slowflow invited artists, technologists, writers and environmentalists on a 10 day journey down the Whanganui River by double hulled 22 person waka haurua (canoe) and bicycle, creating a setting for a flow of conversations - Te Ia Kōrero.

Opening 5.30 Friday 20th February 2009

Energy Hike is a series of photographs and ruminations on the relationship between energy and environment inspired by the industrial ecologies of energy rich South Alberta.

PAPERWORK is a collaborative exhibition by Sophie Klerk and Katherine Claypole. PAPERWORK evolved from weekly studio sessions held by the two artists over the last few months involving discussion of ideas and experimentation with different processes and media. The work shown is a meeting point, a contexture, a merger of both artists' individual styles that have now become interwoven.

B.Y.O was the opening night of The Green Bench. This invitation was sent out and Green Bench curated the pieces that people brought along, throughout the Whanganui Open Studio week.

Invitation

Please 'bring your own' to The Green Bench 5.30 til 8.00 pm
28th March 2008, 62 Guyton Street, Whanganui

Overview

Slowflow is a trip down the Whanganui River, Aotearoa/New Zealand first run between Feb 10th and Feb 16th 2009.

See the Slowflow 2010 pages for this years trip here.

Slowflow invites artists, technologists and environmentalists on a 6 day journey down the Whanganui River by double hulled 22 person waka haurua (canoe) and bicycle, creating a setting for a flow of conversations - Te Ia Kōrero.