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Wild

administrativa — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 22:23:09 +0000

Andrea Gardner works in the realm of staged photography and mixed media sculpture.

For her photography she creates diorama-like set-ups in her studio which consists of old paintings, artificial plants, taxidermied animals, soil, insects and people. Both her photography and her sculpture explore our relationship with animals, nature and the environment.

Reading Rooms

administrativa — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 23:40:09 +0000

Reading Rooms is an exhibition of literary artworks by Catherine Macdonald, Sophie Klerk, Katherine Claypole, Ana Terry and Julian Priest. Each artist has been invited to create a work that communicates ideas through language, discusses what language is or deals with the material of literary endeavour.

Exhibition Opening 8th September, 5.30pm

Showing 8th - 30th September

Opening hours Mon-Sat 10am-3pm

Midden - a quotidian dig

svenja — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 22:42:47 +0000

Midden explores our heavily saturated world of images, things and

signs through imagined artifacts of an archaeological dig.

Opening 5pm, Saturday, 25th June

Artist talk Tuesday, 5.30pm, 28th June

Showing from Monday 27th June - Saturday 2nd July 2011

Inside Out

administrativa — Fri, 13 May 2011 00:55:50 +0000

INSIDE OUT WHANGANUI celebrates the youth of Whanganui by taking portraits of 96 young individuals and displaying large prints of their portraits in the windows of a central city building.

The project is part of the large-scale global participatory art project INSIDEOUT, that transforms messages of personal identity into pieces of artistic work.

Stencil workshop

svenja — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 03:02:03 +0000

Mike Marsh led a stencil workshop at the Green Bench,
Tuesday 26th April 2011, 1pm-4pm

People were invited to bring their own material and images.
At the end of the workshop the gallery walls were coved with the final stencils.

Slow Flow - Te Ia Kōrero - 2011

administrativa — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 02:39:03 +0000

Overview

Registration is now open for Slowflow 2011, a trip down the Whanganui River, Aotearoa/New Zealand between Feb 3rd 2011 and Feb 7th.

Slowflow invites artists, technologists, writers and environmentalists on a 5 day journey down the Whanganui River waka, creating a setting for a flow of conversations - Te Ia Kōrero.

Burn

administrativa — Fri, 26 Nov 2010 21:59:42 +0000

An exhibition of oil paintings, photographs, video and assemblage that explores relationships between art and oil. The exhition is timed to coincide with Energetics and Informatics - the Ada Symposium 2010, Whanganui.

Sophie Jerram (Refined Life) .nz, Michael Marcovici (After BP) .it, Leigh Mitchell-Anyon (Gas Guzzling Cars) .nz, Felicity Priest (Exocet) .uk, Julian Priest (Plastic Drift) .nz, Superflex (Burning Car) .dk, Ubermorgen (Deep Horizon).de

Exhibition opening

3rd Dec 201, 5.30pm -8.00pm

Showing 6th - 17th Dec 2010

Opening hours Monday - Friday 10am - 3pm

and by appointment

The Green Bench

67 Guyton Street

Whanganui

http://greenbench.org/project/burn

The Snow Line

administrativa — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 11:32:30 +0000

Michael Poa (One River), Julian Priest (The Greenbench) and friends invite you to join us in a collaborative performance artwork documenting a hikoi that references the Whanganui story of the relationship between Ruapehu and Taranaki.

The performance will take place at:

2pm Sunday 27th June 2010
The Govett Brewster
Corner of King and Queen Street
New Plymouth

The Future Network

administrativa — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 12:41:39 +0000

Video of slide presentation of The Future Network from Now Futures - Dialogues with tomorrow.

The Future Network from Julian Priest on Vimeo.

Talisman for the Mind

administrativa — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 23:45:18 +0000

Exhibition Opening 18th June 2010, 5.30 - 8.00 pm

With a poetry performance by Ron Riddell, Saray Torres and Tessa Priest

Showing 19th June - 16th July 2010

Opening hours Monday - Friday 10am - 3pm