AUCKLAND
WELLINGTON
Alphabet City
Adam Art Gallery
ARTSPACE
Enjoy Public Art Gallery
George Fraser Gallery
JJMorgan and Co.
71 Mt Eden Road, Grafton Ph: 09 365 2205 www.alphabetcity.org.nz
gallery guide / art insights / June - July 2011
gallery guide Victoria University of Wellington Ph: 04 4635229 www.adamartgallery.org.nz
300 Karangahape Road, Newton Ph 09 303 4965 www.artspace.org.nz
Level One, 147 Cuba Street Ph 04 384 0174 www.enjoy.org.nz
25a Princes Street, Central Auckland www.georgefraser.auckland.ac.nz
3 Cruickshank Street Kilbirnie, Wellington www.jjmorganandco.blogspot.com
Personal Best Gallery
ROAR!
456d Karangahape Road, Central Auckland http://personalbestgallery.blogspot.com
Cnr Victoria and Vivian Streets Ph 04 385 7602 www.pablosart.org.nz
Projectspace B431
The Film Archive medigallery
20 Whitaker Place, Central Auckland www.projectspaceB431.auckland.ac.nz
Corner of Taranaki and Ghuznee Streets www.filmarchive.org.nz Ph 04 3847647
Rm
Ground Floor, 295 Karangahape Road, Newton Ph 021 779 634 www.rm103.org
The Russian Frost Farmers 2 Eva Street, City www.therussianfrostfarmers.com
Satellite Gallery
Cnr St Benedicts Street and Newton Road, Newton Ph 09 307 6416 www.satellitegallery.co.nz
Second Story
CHRISTCHURCH ABC
337 Lincoln Rd, Addington, Christchurch www.abcgallery.net
The Physics Room
(Closed until further notice) Second floor, 209 Tuam Street Ph 03 379 5583 www.physicsroom.org.nz
215A Karanghape Road, Central Auckland contact.secondstory@gmail.com
The Depot Artspace
DUNEDIN
28 Clarence Street, Devonport Ph 09 963 2331 www.thedepotartspace.co.nz
Blue Oyster Gallery
Call for Applications
The McCahon House Residency now available to outstanding emergent artists
The McCahon House Trust is calling for applications from professional artists for the McCahon House Artists’ Residency Programme 2012-2013
Three residencies, each of three months duration, are available between March 2012 and February 2013.
Residencies are available to outstanding emergent or mid career professional artists. Artists receiving the residency live and work in the purpose built Pete Bossley designed French Bay house with attached studio.
Applications are now available to download at www.mccahonhouse. org.nz - Applications close Monday 8 August 2011. Successful artists will be notified early October 2011.
To find out more and download the application form visit www.mccahonhouse.org.nz
Contact: Please contact Chris McBride if you require additional information McCahon House Trust mccahon@mccahonhouse.org.nz
magazine. Visit http://www.artistsalliance.org.nz/ Rob Hood Docking, 2011, Two Honda Nifty Fifty scooters. Image courtesy of ABC.
For more on ABC see the latest edition of Art All, The Artists Alliance quarterly
the doors to ABC.
the show, which progressed into a working formula: five months later we opened
and through this process we found that we all brought different skills organising
University finished in 2010 we put together the group show Pig Sty / Toxic Pie
others and bring to Christchurch works that are critically engaging. Soon after
with the art world itself. In other words we wanted to keep the ball rolling, involve
of working on your own, drifting away from dialogue with peers and losing touch
none of us wanted to fall into the trap that occurs for a lot of post university artists
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Canterbury, within this time we threw about the idea of starting a gallery. I think
92 Second Avenue, Tauranga www.laps.net.nz
Through the years 2004 to 2010, the four of us studied at the University of
Laundromat Art Project Space
1 Ponsonby Road, Newton, Auckland Phone (09) 376 7285, Fax (09) 307 7645 Email: admin@artistsalliance.org.nz Website: www.artistsalliance.org.nz
Here Matt Akehurst discusses how ABC began.
TAURANGA
Sebastian Warne, situated at 337 Lincoln Road, Addington, Christchurch.
Academy of Performing Arts, Gate 2B, University of Waikato, Hamilton www.waikato.ac.nz/foundation/calderandlawsongallery. shtml
ABC is initiated and run by Matt Akehurst, Zhonghao Chen, Oscar Enberg and
Calder and Lawson Gallery
projects.
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Waikato Institute of Technology, Hamilton http://ramp.mediarts.net.nz/
and talks. The ABC programme is comprised of invited and proposal based
RAMP Gallery
2nd floor, albell chambers 127 lower stuart street www.riceandbeans.org.nz
contemporary art practices and ideas through shows, performances, publications
WAIKATO
rice and beans
and international backgrounds. The space aims to promote critical and engaging
University of Auckland Central Library Foyer, Central Auckland www.window.auckland.ac.nz
Project space & residential studios 24 Stafford Street www.none.org.nz/
projects each year, from emerging and established artists from local, national
Window
none
ABC is a space that brings together a selected number of exhibitions and
Level One, 300 Karangahape Road, Newton Ph: 09 3790688 www.filmarchive.org.nz
Basement, Moray Chambers 30 Moray Place www.blueoyster.org.nz
ABC - New artist initiated space in Christchurch
The Film Archive Auckland Exhibition Space
Personal Best Personal Best is an Auckland artist-run-space founded by Auckland based artists Zhoe Granger, Tom Henry, Sophie Bannan, Ashlin Raymond, Ryan Ballinger and Julia Lomas, and Christchurch artist Oscar Enberg. Here Personal Best discusses the philosophy of their organisation….
Use of the phrase ‘No use crying over spilt milk’ refers to their attitude towards art making by embracing their mistakes. Those involved with YAC are; Laura Robertson, Amy Potenger, Blake Beckford, Jessamyn Gemming, Gandhali Bapat and Clio Brooks; + Julia McColl, Sam Ovens, Sinead Jury, Darshini Arunasalam, Samantha Weston, Hugo Lindsay, Dominique Marriot, Elena-Jean Scott, Sharlene Forde, James O’Connor, Lindsay Sigg, David Tevita Siufanga, Grace Tai, Morgan Cannon, Sean Medland-Parker, Katrina Lynch, Holly Dorizac, Chloe Pinel, Jordan Stent.
Spilt Milk came about through the forming of Artstation’s Youth Art Committee, YAC, is made up of three students and three graduates of art and design who felt the need to show the public the work of their peers. For their first project, the committee was offered 10 days in the Artstation gallery and so invited 19 people (from high school to new grad) with promising art practices to include their work in a cash and carry show. The committee wanted to merge the feel of a gallery and a market with this show, keeping the ease of acquiring work from the market and a curatorial sensitivity towards the exhibition, from the gallery. All work was priced $250 and under.
To find out more and keep up to date with shows: personalbestgallery. blogspot.com/
Spilt Milk was a project that aims to showcase work happening in Auckland by people under 25 and make it accessible to a wide audience including other youth; it took place in Aucklands’ Artstation gallery on Ponsonby Road from May 18- 28, 2011.
Visit Personal Best: 456d Karangahape road. Friday & Saturday 1-4 pm.
Spilt Milk! An Exhibition
Personal Best acts a space for all disciplines surrounding Fine Arts including painting, printmaking, sculpture, photography etc. We also use the space for film screenings, music, sound dance and interdisciplinary works. We hope to start a reading room where our collected source of books and texts will be available for public viewing during gallery hours. Personal Best will also soon exist as a space online for artist to realize online projects. We will conduct openings for the online projects in offsite areas around the city.
There will be more YAC projects to come! Keep an eye on Artstations website: www..aucklandcity.govt.nz/whatson/arts/artstation/default.asp
Images courtesy of Laura Robertson
Personal Best offers a gallery for artists to show work outside of commercial and institutional boundaries. We hope to serve the Auckland art community by allowing opportunities for local artists to show alongside international and national artists. Each exhibition is seen as a project, therefore an open and comprehensive dialogue is encouraged between the artists and the space. It is important for us to feel like the artist feels part of the space.
Tell me about some of the upcoming projects you are excited about? I’m most eager just to open our doors and welcome people. I’m so excited to have a space for people to have access to letterpress and book binding equipment so they can realise their own projects. The Alphabet City calendar is already starting to fill up with workshops and events. I’m
Alphabet City Alphabet City is a letterpress, zine and book arts gallery and creative space opening in June 2011 at 71 Mount Eden Road, Eden Terrace, Auckland, New Zealand. Michelle Beattie visited Erin Fae one of the minds behind Alphabet City:
personally quite excited about our monthly letter writing club (3rd Thursday of every month) and having open studio time when anyone can come and work on their projects. We have a number of events planned in conjunction with the Auckland Zine Fest in July, including the launch of our Zine Library which we are busily cataloguing. National Poetry Day is also in July, and we’re planning an event called ‘Hands on Poetry,’ which will include listening to new poems, reading zines, and encouraging visitors to take part in the creation of a collaborative poetry zine.
Alphabet City is going to have a community focus, both on a local and international level. How do you aim to engage such a wide audience? As I am from New York City and Moira Clunie (co-director), is from Auckland, we’re very aware of being a bi-national organization. Between us, we have a lot of contacts in both places, and beyond. We’ve both been involved in zines for over a decade, and have met tons of people through our involvement in zines, book arts and letterpress. The community that arises around these arts is very much a global one, as so much connection happens through the post and online.
You can contact Alphabet City in all sorts of ways: Post us a letter: P O Box 7754, Wellesley Street, Auckland Email us: info@alphabetcity.org.nz Follow us on Twitter: @alphabetcitynz Like us on Facebook: AlphabetCityNZ Be our friend on We Make Zines: Alphabet City
We’re reaching out and making further contacts, and are already planning collaborations with other spaces and artists in New Zealand and around the world. Further down the road, we’ll have a residency program where people from anywhere can apply to spend some time at Alphabet City and create new work during their stay. I can see that Alphabet City is enthusiastic about letterpress printing and other manual technology. Tell what you love about the hand-made and how that is going to play into Alphabet City? I’ve always loved things that you can hold in your hands, slip into your pocket or share with someone you love: I’ll hold this, then you’ll hold this. I’m personally very excited about small handmade books and zines, prints and quilts. These are all items that are easily shared and passed from one person to the next. In terms of Alphabet City, Moira and I are both interested in different ways of publishing and duplicating words in book, broadside or zine format as well as through online publishing. Even though you cant hold something online, it’s often about sharing and passing on information. Moira also works for a blindness organisation and is passionate about access to information for people who can’t read print – we’re expecting braille and spoken word to feature at Alphabet City at various times as well. There are lots of different ways of duplicating and sharing ideas. Alphabet City is not a space that values false dichotomies, such as zines versus blogs. We’re excited about creative work presented in a multitude of formats.
Images coutesy of Artists Allianec and Alphabet City (cover image).