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COVID-19 Gallery Update
Physically closed at Level 3 but come visit us Online
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COVID-19 Gallery Update
Physically closed at Level 3 but come visit us Online
Due to Alert Level 4 - the workshop will need to be rescheduled - we'll let you know as soon as possible! Sorry - All booked out. "..Have fun experimenting with a range of media, including acrylic, ink, drawing and collage. Find your chosen medium to create your own style using layering techniques and watch your paintings evolve into something wonderful. During workshops, you will be encouraged to let go of expectations and have fun creating beautiful paintings. I'll guide your through layers of ...
Fresh and revolving exhibition of new works from Waiheke artists are often exhibited in the Annex Gallery. Due to Alert Level 4 the gallery is physically closed however Waiheke artists are gearing up to get ready for the 2022 ArtMap The Map is produced each year and features just some of the exhibiting artists, so be sure to visit the gallery. Artists are often available to talk about their practise so don't hesitate in getting in touch. Check out the 2021 Map and ...
We invite you to celebrate our 2021 Waiheke Artist in Residence Bronwen Newbury with a Long Sunday Fiesta Lunch at Casita Miro. 15 August beginning at 12 midday. $120 per person includes a Madame rouge cocktail on arrival, four course Casita Miro Mediterranean lunch and two short operatic performances by Elizabeth Mandeno (soprano) and Andrew Grenon (tenor) Elizabeth was the winner of the 2019 New Zealand Aria. She has been a Freemasons NZ Opera artist and a Freemasons Dame Malvina Major Foundation emerging ...
2021 Artist in Residence Bronwen Newbury from Western Australia, will present her artist’s talk on Saturday 24 July at 4pm Owhanake Barn, 57 Korora Road, Oneroa Thanks everyone - we're at FULL CAPACITY for this talk, keep an eye open for future events.
Members Show 2021 is here! What an incredible array of creativity from you all, the show extended into all three galleries....and extends online now until we come out of lockdown. Keep safe everyone! We're working on getting as many works up here online as able...it's also a great opportunity, if you had an eye on some fantastic local art, just send us an email at: director@waihekartgallery.org.nz
Cartooning Workshop Sunday July 18 at 11am - Create some fun Come along and have a go at cartooning with Nooroa Te Hira 11am Sunday - fun for all the family! Image: Emma Haas
Sunday July 4 We have two fabulous talks for you as part of our Matariki Enrichment series of talks, curated by @jeanineclarkinHope you can join us!Alex Stone at 11am Waiheke Marine ReserveAri Vanderschoot at 11:30 Eco ArtistAll Welcome!
Curated by Jeanine Clarkin. Here on Waiheke we take pride in presenting an annual Matariki exhibition where the Whakatoki or exhibition theme changes each year. Given our place in the Gulf, Te Kapa Moana, the Rahui recently put in place and development around our foreshore, our 2021 Matariki exhibition will focus on protection and enhancement of the Moana and waters of our country. The whakatauki for 2021 is He toi whakaaro, He mana tangata, translated this refers to art and people and how ...
Margaret Emsley presents new works in charcoal that explore the tension between light and shadow. Artists Statement: The transformation of a flower through it’s brief lifespan reveals the inevitable, inescapable process of change. As the colours fade and petals wither, she sees new possibilities emerge, an energy or life force that can’t be contained which she tries to express with charcoal on paper. This medium provides the ideal tool to explore the tension that is created between the opposing forces of light and ...
Sorry SOLD OUT! Enjoy an exclusive visit and tour of Northern Club art collection, with Linda Tyler, Associate Professor University of Auckland. Includes lunch in Members Dining Room, a choice of two options, with glass of wine, coffee and petit fours. Cost $95 per person. Meet 11am at the Northern Club 19 Princes Street, Auckland Central. (This ticket does not include Ferry ticket)
An exhibition for small works! This popular public exhibition is now open, please download an information/ entry form or pick one up at the gallery. Works can be no larger than 350mm in any direction, wall works, sculpture, jewellery, installation, small bronzes, ceramics we encourage you to look outside the square and have fun! Entry fee is $20 for up to four work submissions ($15 for current members). All works must be for sale. Get creating! Download Information and Entry Form HERE
Susan Garland presents a thought provoking suite of new works in the Small Gallery. Artist Statement: CITY CONSTRUCTS. These six paintings on sheets of perspex, using oil paint glaze medium and metal foils, were my response to moving from Palmerston North to an Apartment in Auckland city. I then had a view on two sides over the city, harbour, and Spaghetti junction. The works are not photographic representations of the views, but collections of elements and sensations of how I felt about my ...
Taste and experience Waiheke through your Festival Passport, which unlocks unique vineyard experiences in the form of a food pairing and tasting at participating vineyards, all enjoyed alongside on special showcases of art and live music. Transport between venues is included in your Festival Ticket via the hop-on hop-off festival shuttles. All you have to do is choose which vineyards you’d like to visit, hop-on one of our festival shuttles and enjoy the tastes and scenery of beautiful Waiheke. Get your tickets ...
Thursday, 29 April 2021 Meet at the Auckland Art Gallery at 10am. (take the 9am or earlier Ferry from Waiheke) Guided tour by knowledgeable gallery docent will commence at 10:30 followed by meeting with two of the exhibition artists coordinated by Jeanine Clarkin. To date, Brett Graham has been confirmed. This event is limited to 30 people and groups of 15 will be taken through the exhibition at a time. Cost is $75 per person. Please keep your receipt as proof of purchase.
New Plymouth artist wins New Zealand’s only small sculpture prize New Plymouth artist Volker Hawighorst is the winner of the 2021 Small Sculpture Prize, for his work Dimly #7, a sculpture created entirely from plastic bread tags. In talking about the work selector Hamish Coney mentioned the subtle colour shifts that pull the viewer back again and again, revealing connections to tukutuku and links to the works of Roasalie Gascoigne and English painter Bridget Riley. It successfully makes the jump from ...
Anna explores the essence of Renaissance painting. During the lockdown Anna had the impression that time stopped and the suddensilence was a great help in focusing on her work.She started a close conversation with European painters from Giotto to theRenaissance : Piero della Francesca , Titian, Rubens, Durer, up to some 18thcentury painters such as Fragonard and Boucher. She has seen their works manytimes in the Louvre, in Florence in Rome and every time is enchanted andhypnotized. In those paintings there ...
Book your tickets now for the 2021 Small Sculpture Prize Gala Award Ceremony. Friday 02 April 6pm Tickets $45. The Small Sculpture Prize is a National Award for an original free-standing or wall sculpture up to 800mm in any direction and has a Premier prize of $3000 and a Benefactors prize of $1500. Proudly sponsored by Perpetual Guardian and in association with Te Motu. The 2021 Selector and judge is Hamish Coney, founding managing Director of auction house Art & Object. Finalists and partners ...
SORRY SOLD OUT! The 2021 event is a sell out so pre - register now for 2022 Tickets now HERE The Wonderful Waiheke House Tour is on Wednesday 17th March 2021. Thirty-five minutes into the morning sun by fast ferry, you’ll arrive at beautiful Waiheke Island. Here stunning beaches, rural backdrops of vineyards and olive groves and spectacular views into the Hauraki gulf provide dreamlike locations for this tour of private Waiheke homes. This highly anticipated annual event has become much loved on Waiheke’s calendar and ...
Knowledge, artefacts, treasures that have transitioned from homelands to new lands. Tira Haere features 22 artists who have diverse cultural backgrounds that link to Hungary, Slovenia, Japan, Korea, South Africa, Holland, the Pacific and Aotearoa New Zealand and who are all residents of our nation. The exhibition will feature painting, sculpture, jewellery and ceramics within the themes of journey, voyaging and discovery. The exhibition has been curated to support Auckland's Summernova Festival. Included in the show in the Artworks Courtyard you will ...
Uliai presents a series of mixed media artscapes which reveal a tapestry of interwoven found objects. "...A series of mixed media artscapes, created on my partner Siddho’s photographic backgrounds of old walls layered by paint. These provide the timeline for a unique fusion of literally 100’s of added details of paper fragments. These fragments are interplaying and overlapping, they are stitches in space. And through further layering, veiling and enhancement with added paint and textural element, visual references are transformed into ...
Grand Gestures is the theme for this two day painting workshop on 6/7/ February, 10am - 4pm. Limited to 12 people. $185 per person. This is a fun workshop that is open to all skill levels. The focus will be on working outdoors, weather permitting. The second day will include music by Richard and Nigel Gavin.
Early in 2020 Peter Collis and his wife Julie relocated to Hollywood USA for Julie to further her acting career. During his upcoming exhibition Peter has agreed to talk to us about his life in LA, the experiences and encounters he and Julie had before their stay was cut short by Covid-19 and a necessary return to New Zealand.
The gallery is very excited to exhibit renowned sculptor Virginia King in the Main Gallery. "..Kauri: Spirit and Illusion The Waipoua Forest is not far from Ohaeawai in Northland, where I grew up. The forest was one of my favourite places and I loved to visit there with my dad. It always seemed to be summer with cicada song. I loved the dark green canopy blocking out the sky, the coolness of lush ferns and the leafy smell of the bush. I loved its ...
Peter, Richard and Cathy present a bright new exhibition of Ceramics, paintings and photography in the Small and Annex Gallery.
This year there are 42 Waiheke artists featured on the 2021 Art Map! Come along and check out a sampler of their work, pick up a new Art Map and plan your studio visits over the summer.
Auckland artist Teri Parat presents a new series of imaginative, detailed and unique portraits. Her portraiture is inspired by Pre-Raphaelite and Renaissance styles with her own intriguing twist!
In the Annex gallery Sue Hawker presents a selection of her new exquisite Pâte de Verre glass works. The name Pâte de Verre is French for glass paste, and the technique involves creating a paste from powdered glass and colouring agents and filling a fire-proof mould with this paste then firing it in a furnace to melt the glass. It is a complicated process and Sue is a master, we are so looking forward to the exhibition, don't miss it! For more ...
Waiheke Artists will be showing in the 'Annex' gallery. We will be bringing you an ever changing exhibition with more works and artist details in the Annex over the next few months. All works are available to purchase or delivery can be arranged. Please feel free to contact us on info@waihekeartgallery.org.nz
Proudly presented by Fullers, exercise your creative conscience - recycle, rework, re-purpose, recreate! This popular open exhibition is promoted widely throughout the community and always results in an inventive cornucopia of creations!It encourages the creation of innovative, useful, entertaining artworks containing at least 80% recycled materials. Download an Entry Form or pop into the gallery and pick one up, get stuck in and have fun creating. We can't wait to see what you come up with!
A Taxonomy The underlying idea for this work is thinking about loss and extinction. How I might look back and remember the pulchritude of objects sought and collected from fascinating places. Objects that are the ecological canary in the coalmine. How will we recognise future beauty? I am interested in the tension and exchange between science and art. The work appears as a Victorian amateur scholar collection of scientific specimens of natural curiosities, recognisable but slightly subverted objects of sea organisms. They are ...
And that's a wrap! - all bids CLOSED at 5pm Congrats to successful purchasers - Many Thanks from the participating artists, Artist in Residence Programme and committee and the Waiheke Community Art Gallery. THANKS FOR PARTICIPATING IN OUR ART AUCTION ONLINE. If you are interested in any of the unsold works please email support@waihekeartgallery.org.nz This year the Gallery was closed for four months and had to postpone its Artists in Residence Programme because of the Covid-19 pandemic. Now the gallery and artists need your ...
Hear from the author Catherine Bell about the inspirational education project Garden to Table and a signed copy of her award winning book.
The Walker & Hall Waiheke Art Award 2020 is proudly sponsored by Walker & Hall in association with Casita Miro Vineyard,The Skin Institute Waiheke, and the Waiheke Community Art Gallery. This is a National Award for two dimensional works in any medium and has a Prize of $5000 as the Premier award. The Selector and Judge this year is Richard Wolfe, New Zealand author, artist, museum curator. The Winner of the Premier Prize this year was Judy Woods with her work Jettyland ...
RETURN MAIL 1081 - Denis O’Connor THE WORLD EXISTS TO BE PUT ON A POSTCARD. This was the title of a show I saw at the British Museum in London last year that traced artist’s postcards from 1960 to the present. This letterbox scale little device covers broad territory. Political postcards, feminist postcards, satirical and altered postcards. Postcard invitations. A Gilbert & George exhibition invitation proclaims that ‘postcards are our shield, our swords, our emblems, our vision, our tombstone and our ...
The Walker & Hall Waiheke Art Award 2020 is proudly sponsored by Walker & Hall in association with Casita Miro Vineyard,The Skin Institute Waiheke, and the Waiheke Community Art Gallery. This is a National Award for two dimensional works in any medium and has a Prize of $5000 as the Premier Award. The Selector and Judge this year is Richard Wolfe, New Zealand author, artist, museum curator. Exhibition and Gala Award Ceremony commences at 6pm. (Award announcements at 7pm) $55 pp. Gala tickets include ...
It's that time of year again! If you have a studio or gallery on Waiheke and would like to be a part of the Waiheke Art Map, please see the attached booking form. You can also pick on up at the gallery. We have put together the budget and plan for the 2021 Waiheke Art Map. Thank you to everyone who was able to attend the meeting in August. After going over all of the options it was unanimously agreed that the 22 weeks of the map ...
Once a month on a Sunday, meet at the gallery (2 Korora Rd) and our guide will take you on a fascinating walk of discovery around the art and sculptures nearby, visit a couple of artists’ studios and conclude with delicious refreshments at the gallery with Directors insights on the current exhibitions. This is a fun relaxed activity which can also be designed to suit your requirements. Covid 19 protocols apply. $40 pp (max group size: 8) Enquire at info@waihekeartgallery.org.nz
Tickets are now available for the Wonderful Waiheke House Tour 2021
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