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17-23 NOVEMBER 2014
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beauty in the bay
Welcome to the New Zealand Garden & Art Festival, 2014 This is our ninth biennial festival celebrating the beauty and diversity of our Western Bay of Plenty region’s gardens and the variety and creativity of our artists. This year our festival activity starts at the festival hub, The Lakes Expo Pavilion.
Speaker Series door sales available
Not only will you find exciting displays and exhibitions, speakers, workshops
Long Lunch at Ataahua
and a café, but also all the information you need to embrace everything this
Book by email only: john@nzgardenandartfest.co.nz
festival has to offer. Gardeners are very generous people; they’re generous with their souls,
Garden Trail only
their seeds, their time and their knowledge. Thanks to them we bring
Palmers Bethlehem
Cnr SH2 & Bethlehem Rd
Palmers Welcome Bay
1 Ohauiti Rd, Welcome Bay
representing a huge range of creative endeavour will not only show in gardens
Decor GardenWorld
165 Moffat Rd, Bethlehem
but in Artstops along the trail and in other special art orientated events.
Pacifica Garden Centre
112 Tara Road, Papamoa
The Sculpture Symposium this year moves to the Mount Maunganui waterfront.
Te Puke Florist
66 Jellico St, Te Puke
Other exciting events and exhibitions are outlined in this festival preview.
Wendys Boutique
158 Eleventh Ave, Tauranga
On behalf of the entire festival team I wish you a wonderful week of
Unichem Matamata Pharmacy
54 Arawa St, Matamata
indulging and enjoying.
KatiKati Vets
2 Sheffield St, Katikati
Te Puna Vets
15C Minden Rd, Te Puna
you a Garden Trail to savour with many enhancing experiences. Art work
John Beech
Festival Director
Garden trail
The gardens are divided into four areas:
Monday 17 November - Sunday 23 November
ONE Katikati • Pahoia • Omokoroa
Gardening is a form of autobiography and the gardens on our
TWO Te Puna • Bethlehem • Tauriko
garden trail tell many a story and express many a personality in their huge variety of form, function, flamboyance and fantasy. This
THREE Tauranga • Oropi • Pyes Pa • Ohauiti • Welcome Bay
festival showcases the creativity of at least 100 gardeners who in their individual gardens or by group efforts have been part scientist, part artist, part philosopher and part ploughman. They all display
FOUR Mount Maunganui • Papamoa • Te Puke
perennial patience and a process of nurturing that has made the gardens you will savour during the festival possible. The garden trail starts at Katikati and wends and winds its way though country communities and local villages, through urban Tauranga,
ONE
which has an exceptional diversity of gardens in this festival, and into the hills before covering the coast, taking in Te Puke and making it as far as Maketu. More than fifty percent of the gardens on the Garden Trail are new to the festival, providing an excellent mix with former favourites back for another showing. If one theme is coming through it is that flowers are back in favour, but the overall impression will be to confirm yet again what gardeners have always known; no two gardens are the same and no two days are the same in one garden.
“Gardening is landscape painting.”
two
four three SPonsored by
The Art The melding, mixing and matching of gardening and art is what makes this festival unique and the garden trail is where you will find artists exhibiting in gardens and in their own studios or grounds. The ARTSTOPS on the trail cover the full gambit of artistic expression – painting in a variety of media, sculpture, ceramics and many witty and winsome works that merge artistic styles. The use of recycled materials is evident with retro references often appearing. Gardens and artists have been matched to deliver artistic experiences that can be enjoyed on their own merit or in the context of the garden environment. Most of the work is for sale and the artists will be on site so you get to meet the makers!
“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.”
Each area is open for one day during the week. Then all areas open from Friday to Sunday. Your garden ticket comes with a comprehensive souvenir booklet describing all gardens and artists on display, as well as a map to get you around the trail. MONDAY Area One: Katikati • Pahoia • Omokoroa TUESDAY Area Two: Te Puna • Bethlehem • Tauriko WEDNESDAY Area Three: Tauranga • Oropi • Pyes Pa • Ohauiti • Welcome Bay THURSDAY Area Four: Mount Maunganui • Papamoa • Te Puke FRIDAY - SUNDAY - All areas Passes Earlybird or TECT Card
Garden hours:
1 DAY $29*
$25**
Monday - Saturday
2 DAY $55*
$48**
9.30am - 5pm
your group a lovely day out without worrying about driving or
3 DAY $68*
$60**
Sunday
navigating. The NZ Garden & Art Festival Team will be delighted
4 DAY $80*
$71**
9.30am - 3pm
to help you plan your itinerary. It is suggested these tours operate
7 DAY $130*
$120**
Monday to Thursday and therefore focus on the area open that day.
* service fees may apply
GARDEN TRAIL BUS TOUR ITINERARIES
A Garden Trail Bus Tour is a great idea for your special interest, retirement or lifestyle village group. By chartering a bus you give
Contact Festival Director John Beech: john@nzgardenandartfestival.co.nz
** early bird prices expire 30 September
www.ticketek.co.nz / 0800 842 538
Note: Children under the age of 14 are not permitted in gardens on garden trail.
EnviroschoolS
The Lakes Expo Pavilion
Proving our environment is in good hands and demonstrating the
Friday 21 - Sunday 23 November
green fingers of the future, the schools participating in the festival will be open on their area days. Be sure to slot in a school visit while you are on the Garden Trail. Area One, Monday: Matahui Road School Vegetable and flower garden.
Area Two, Tuesday: Bethlehem School A new community garden and a butterfly garden. Tauriko Primary School Traditional Maori gardening methods.
Area Three, Wednesday: Active Kids A second floor natural, all-year-round usable environment. New Shoots ECE Strong connection to nature for children 0-5 yrs. Gate Pa Pre-School Inspires creativity and imagination with huge variety. Gate Pa School A place for play, learning and enriching a Maori identity to place.
Area Four, Thursday:
This year the New Zealand Garden & Art Festival has a genuine hub. The Lakes Expo Pavilion will feature a huge marquee. Wildflower-bordered paths will help you navigate your way around the myriad exhibitions, installations and shows to be discovered. The hub will also play host to its own café by Delicacy Café. The Speakers and Workshop Series will be held at the marquee. The Expo Pavilion will be a vibrant, exhilarating, fun and informative place to visit. The Lakes, Tauriko (easily accessed from Tauranga, off the end of the Expressway)
Omanu Primary School Edible with more.
Open: Friday 21 and Saturday 22: 9am - 5pm; Sunday 23: 9am - 2pm
Child’s Wonder Pre-School Creates a sense of wonder and exploration.
FREE ENTRY: Bring the family!
Papamoa Coast Kindergarten Natural planting and lots of magic places for children. SPonsored by
FREE BUS: From Tauranga CBD on Friday 21 only See www.nzgardenandartfest.co.nz for more info
SPonsored by
Expo Pavilion
Wild with Flowers
Sponsored by
Wildflower World
In May The Lakes Expo Pavilion site was sown by Wildflower World with a wildflower
The Pavilion Garden Francine Thomas
mix of fourteen species. It was all carefully planned to flower into a stunning carpet
You’ll experience a red carpet arrival at
of wildflowers for the festival, which will (with the blessing of nature) have been
the Expo Pavilion with a floral wonderland
beautifully realised.
created
Exuberant Water
Sponsored by
by
our
own
internationally
acclaimed floral artist Francine Thomas. In
Aquatic Lifestyles
an extensive installation, Francine uses hard
The six metre floating fountain, which graces Lake Taurikura by The Lakes Expo
and soft landscaping and arches of flowers
Pavilion has been installed by Aquatic Lifestyles as yet another visual pleasure for
to create a walk of discovery into the realms
visitors to the Expo Pavilion. Fountains improve water quality thereby fostering a happy lake for a happy event!
of fantasy. Greenery and flowers transform everyday articles including a bed. It’s clear to
The Sculpture Walk
see why Francine has achieved international
While the sculptors in the Sculptor Symposium are busy creating new work, you can walk through examples of their incredibly varied styles displayed by the Lakes Expo Pavilion. Works by the artists in the Symposium will be joined by that of well known local artists Dave Roy and Chris Pointon.
INTERACTIVE CREATIVE EXPERIENCE
recognition for her teaching and judging. She was most recently selected as the New Zealand demonstrator at the World Flower Show held in Dublin in June.
Bay of Plenty Polytech
The inspiring range of interactive creative experiences designed by first year students at the Bachelor of Creative Industries Programme at the Bay of Plenty Polytechnic is supported by local creative industries. Expect the unexpected and discover what our future designers come up with!
Sponsored by
SPonsored by
Expo Pavilion
Floral Spectacular BOP Area Floral Art Society of NZ Floral Spectacular is an exhibition of winners and entries by members of the Bay of Plenty Area Floral Art clubs affiliated to the Floral Art Society of New Zealand Inc. Colour, creativity and outstanding floral effects are the focus for this biennial exhibition, which demonstrates talents in creating to themes
The Signature Homes walkway: Suspended Forest The Suspended Forest by Pickled Whimsy envelops the edge of the Pavilion. It will involves a path above which whimsical examples of Kokedama (a Japanese method of preserving plants and trees as objects) are suspended. Coraleigh Parker creates Kokedama of varying size, intricacy and delicacy. This is a ‘forest walk’ with a definite difference and demonstrates a skill many have never seen before. Sponsored by
that include ‘Hang On’, ‘Rustic Romance’, ‘Horn of Plenty’, ‘Standing Tall’, ‘Stumped’ and in the novice section ‘Celebrate the Supported by
Season’. The Bay of Plenty Designer of the Year 2014 will be contested under the theme of ‘Showing Off’.
Awards night (by invitation) Thursday 20 November, 6 pm Friday 21 and Saturday 22: 9am - 5pm; Sunday 23: 9am - 2pm Gold Coin entry
THE ART OF KOKEDAMA Coraleigh will demonstrate the art of creating kokedama in the Speakers Pavilion. Friday 21: 4pm - 4.45pm, $12* Door sales or www.ticketek.co.nz 0800 842 538 *booking fee may apply
Expo Pavilion
NZGAF Flora Fashion Succulent Sculpture
Proving recycling, up cycling and reinventing can be fun and
fashionable!
Ten
local
designers
have
accepted
the
Brian Collecutt
challenge to take garden materials and transform them into
You may have seen Brian Collecutt and his succulent sculptures
wheelbarrow and in the rubbish take on new lives as garments.
‘fashion’. Materials you might be more used to seeing in the
on TV One’s Seven Sharp. The NZ Garden & Art Festival has
This eclectic repertoire coordinated by Holly Hill will be displayed on
commissioned Brian to create a body of work – up to ten
mannequins at The Lakes Expo Pavilion.
sculptures – for display and sale at the Expo Pavilion. Brian is
Designers: Christopher Huia Woods, Kerry Funnell, Holly Hill, Mig McMillan, Natasha Postill, Wendy Pederson, Kirsty Skipp, Judy Green, Chikara Green, Angela Thompson
a quirky character who got the floral bug from his Mum who owned a florist shop, then took it way outside the square. He spends hours creating his frameworks before ‘planting’ hundreds of succulents in them to create living works in a myriad of shapes – dinosaurs, animals, monster figures – that continue to grow and take on their own life well afterwards. They are confident
THE TRICKY BOX 8 Lipika Sen & Prabhjyot Majithia International
contemporary artists, Lipika Sen and Prabhjyot
conversation pieces that will make a witty statement in any
Majithia create conceptual multi-dimensional works that include
garden, courtyard, or poolside.
3D installations, acrylic on canvas, digital drawings, words, sound,
Sponsored by
music and film. Their signature series of curious experiential art installations, ‘The Tricky Box’ has been intriguing visitors at galleries and exhibitions around NZ. Each work is unique in philosophy, subject and form and tells an original story. The latest, The Tricky Box 8, has been especially created for this festival, inviting viewers to become a part of its story at the Lakes Expo Pavilion.
SPONSORED BY
Expo Pavilion
THE GREAT LAKE LUNCHTIME PICNIC
School Conceptual Gardens
The NZ Garden & Art Festival invites families to visit the Lakes
@ The Lakes
Expo Pavilion as part of the Family Picnic by the Lake. Bring a picnic and enjoy the festive atmosphere while you discover a fun fantasy setting created by artists from The Incubator. Promising to excite and challenge children, when last spotted these artists were hatching plans for a Day of the Triffids theme with giant Venus Flytraps.
Five Bay of Plenty schools have accepted the challenge to plan, design, create and develop a garden that will express one of the themes - New Zealand, Edible, Recyclable, or Fantasy Garden – and will feature one structure supplied by Spruce Up garden design company. Evident in each is the children’s artistic and green fingered creativity. There is no limit on imagination here,
Lake Taurikura, The Lakes, Tauriko (near the Expo Pavilion) Saturday 22: 10am - 2pm
nor on props, artwork, sculpture or, of course, plants! Tauriko Primary School
Supported by
DESIGN GARDENS AT THE LAKES
Te Mahinga Kai o Te Kura o Tauriko
Michelle McDonnell Landscape Design, Boffa Miskell, and Décor Gardenworld
Tauranga Intermediate School
Take three very different approaches to landscape and garden design by three very different companies, and marvel at the results. Michelle McDonnell Landscape Design, Boffa Miskell, and Décor Gardenworld were each given a patch to create a garden. Come and see how each expressed their expertise and individuality in the Design Gardens beside The Lakes Expo Pavilion.
Otumoetai Intermediate School
Supported by
What Goes Around Comes Around In Our Backyard Bellevue Primary School
Eat Love Play Omanu Primary School
Edible With More
Sponsored by
Expo Pavilion
Enchanted Fashion Show by Wendys Boutique Join us for an enchanted evening showcasing Wendys Boutique on a couture catwalk where you will find yourself front row. Glass
Living Walls
of bubbles in hand we will transport you into another realm where
Living Walls or Vertical Gardens are becoming an accepted and very attractive way to add interior interest to homes or businesses, green up urban spaces, or add lush growth where there might otherwise be hard surfaces. Natural Tree Products demonstrate with their Living Walls that you can create an instantly lush vertical garden in any environment. They will have three walls on display, plus some unusual standing floor plants. Their Woolly Pockets (made from recycled milk bottles) will also be on display, which keep walls dry and protected - ideal for smaller spaces where there is no room for a garden. GREEN WALLS Cameron Walker from Natural Tree products will speak about creating effective vertical vegetation in the Speakers Pavilion.
Sunday 23: 11am-11.45am, $12* Door sales or www.ticketek.co.nz 0800 842 538 *booking fee may apply Sponsored by
fantasy becomes reality. To tantalise your taste buds we will be enticing you with hand crafted decadent deserts as our little treat from us to you.....
Harrison Grierson SPEAKER & WORKSHOP SERIES
Geoff Brunsden: Be Bee Friendly
11am
Jenny Coker: The Joyful Trio // Art, Home & Garden
12pm
Maggie Thompson: Floral Cake Design
1pm
Elaine Clocherty: International Environmental Artist (outside)
Featuring Masterchef 2014 Winners Kasey and Karena • Geoff Brunsden • Andrew Boylan Elaine Clocherty • Jenny Coker • Ben Hoyle • Karl Maughan • Jo McCarroll Robert McGowan • Coraleigh Parker • Karen Summerhays • Francine Thomas Maggie Thompson • Cameron Walker • Steven Wells • Megan Wraight
1pm
Francine Thomas: An International Floral Affair
2pm
Ben Hoyle: Great Garden Design
3pm
Steven Wells: Gardens Are Good For You
4pm
Coraleigh Parker: The Art of Kokedama
Breakfast event
5pm
Karl Maughan: Life and Work
8am
Ben Hoyle: Great Garden Design (Breakfast Event)
9am
Elaine Clocherty: International Environmental Artist
10am
Megan Wraight: Landscape: Traces in Time
11am
Geoff Brunsden: Be Bee Friendly
12pm
Andrew Boylan: Growing Incredible Edibles
1pm
Jo McCarroll: Hot (and cool!) Garden Trends
2pm
Robert McGowan: How Our Plants Can Be Healers
3pm
Steven Wells: Gardens Are Good For You
4pm
Karen Summerhays: A Beautiful Collision in a Community Garden
5pm
Kasey & Karena Bird: What’s in the Garden?
11am
Cameron Walker: Greenwalls
Saturday 22, $25*
Ben Hoyle, Ellerslie Gold Medal Designer Great Garden Design Tickets to this event include breakfast and are available for purchase on the door or from Ticketek outlets.
Saturday 22
Friday to Sunday, November 21 - 23
Friday 21
10am
www.ticketek.co.nz / 0800 842 538 *Booking fee may apply
The Lakes, Tauriko SPonsored by
Supported by
Sunday 23
The Lakes Expo Pavilion
Music in the Garden
Speaker Series Presenter – Kimberley Cleland
speaker series
What’s in the garden? Karena and Kasey Bird Winners of Masterchef 2014 Karena and Kasey Bird’s very popular Masterchef 2014 win has put Maketu on the map. The Masterchef winners are taking time out from their busy schedule and cookbook preparation to present an early evening session Saturday 22 November. What’s in the Garden? will demonstrate their almost intuitive skills using produce from Tauranga Farmers’ Market. SPonsored by
Cameraman – Franz Oliver
Saturday 22: 5pm - 6:30pm, $18* www.ticketek.co.nz / 0800 842 538 *booking fee may apply
speaker series
The Artful Garden Ben Hoyle International landscape design gold medalist Ben Hoyle’s accolades are many: six times International Show Garden gold medal award winner, Supreme Peace Award winner at the inaugural Gardening World Cup in Japan, and international exhibitor and judge with appearances on television shows and in columns in magazines. It all evolved from Ben Hoyle’s natural affinity for the outdoors and passion for plants and design. In 1998, aged 20, and with a freshly achieved Diploma in Horticulture and Landscape Design, Ben formed his own Landscape Design company on the Kapiti Coast. That year he won his first medal, silver at Ellerslie, kicking off a highly successful addiction as exhibitor. Ben shares his philosophy and secrets of great garden design. Friday 21: 2pm - 2:45pm, $12* Breakfast Event Saturday 22: 8am - 9am, $25* www.ticketek.co.nz / 0800 842 538 *booking fee may apply
speaker series
Life and Work Karl Maughan Renowned painter of hyper-real gardens
Saturday 22: 2pm - 2:45pm, $12*
Karl Maughan’s hyper-real paintings of gardens are instantly recognizable contemporary NZ art.
How our Plants can be Healers Robert McGowan
He paints
from photographs of gardens in New Zealand, Britain and Europe, collating the images into a new composite garden with all its interplay of light, colour and structure. Karl’s work appears as photographic realism; up close it is abstract. Karl’s illustrated
Robert McGowan, Pa Ropata, wise advocate of Maori medicine (rongoa) will reveal the healing properties of native plants and those commonly found in our gardens. www.ticketek.co.nz / 0800 842 538 *booking fee may apply
A Beautiful Collision in a Community Garden Karen Summerhays Saturday 22: 4pm - 4:45pm, $12*
talk will give you an insight into his life
Karen Summerhays, an Auckland Council
and his work.
Environmental
Programme
Advisor,
will
describe her culturally enriching project with a large group of newly immigrated elderly Friday 21: 5pm - 6pm, $12*
Chinese.
www.ticketek.co.nz / 0800 842 538 *booking fee may apply
www.ticketek.co.nz / 0800 842 538 *booking fee may apply
speaker series
Gardens are good for you Steven Wells Australian Gardener of the Year 2012 Steven Wells was named 2012 Gardener of the Year by Gardening Australia magazine for his creation of a 1,000m2 sensory and healing garden for patients at Austin Health’s Royal Talbot Rehabilitation Centre in Melbourne. Having grown up on a market garden and orange orchard he has ‘green blood’ and is a keen gardener who is passionate about plants and sharing the benefits of gardens, gardening and its therapeutic qualities. Steven will share his gardening ‘journey’, talk about the RTRC gardens, horticultural therapy, art in the garden, weaving stories of how patients, families and staff use the gardens and benefit from them.
Friday 21 & Saturday 22: 3pm - 3:45pm, $12* www.ticketek.co.nz / 0800 842 538 *booking fee may apply
speaker series
Landscape: Traces in time Megan Wraight
The Joyful Trio // Art, Home & Garden Jenny Coker
Award winning landscape architect
Jenny Coker shares highlights from her life
Friday 21: 11am - 11:45am, $12*
journey as a gardener, illustrator and artist,
“Landscape is about time, changing
as well as techniques behind her botanical
and evolving,” says Megan Wraight,
watercolour
founder of Wraight + Associates
Flemish oils.
(Wa), Landscape Architects. Widely regarded
for
innovative
award
winning design of public spaces and strong advocacy for waterfront redevelopment
that
harnesses
natural and cultural narratives, Megan will discuss the application of this approach through the design process Wa has employed on projects from rural farms to civic waterfronts. Saturday 22: 10am - 10:45am, $12* www.ticketek.co.nz / 0800 842 538 *booking fee may apply
paintings
and
luminous
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Floral Cake Design Maggie Thompson Friday 21: 12pm - 12:45pm, $12*
Maggie Thompson of Florabunda & Cafe will demonstrate how to make sugar blossoms and how to use berries and fresh flowers to make a cake a visual centrepiece. www.ticketek.co.nz / 0800 842 538 *booking fee may apply
speaker series
International Environmental Artist Elaine Clocherty International environmental artist Elaine’s work draws on our relationship with the environment in a regenerative and restorative context. She aims to highlight that environmental protection is arguably the single most important issue we face today. She creates spaces for interactions that develop ecological awareness, creative communities and sustainable thinking. Elaine will create a work especially for the festival from examples of nature unique to this area, inspired by the landscape and incorporating local significant garden design aspects. Her talk will describe her history, including her environmental activism and how she has expressed it artistically over the last 12 years, as well as her favourite environmental artists. Friday 21: 1pm - 1:45 (Outside) $12* Saturday 22: 9am - 9:45am, $12* www.ticketek.co.nz / 0800 842 538 *booking fee may apply
speaker series
Hot (and cool!) garden trends Jo McCarroll Editor of New Zealand Gardener magazine NZ
Gardener
magazine’s
Be Bee Friendly Geoff Brunsden Friday 21: 10am - 10:45am; Saturday 22: 11am - 11:45am, $12*
Geoff Brunsden of Wildflower World will share his passion for the power of flowers editor,
Jo McCarroll, will be sharing some of the key gardening trends she’s seen at recent garden shows in
and knowledge on what home gardeners can do to support bees and prosper pollination. www.ticketek.co.nz / 0800 842 538 *booking fee may apply
New Zealand and overseas. Come along and steal ideas from some of the world’s best garden designers. Jo’s a popular speaker at festivals and clubs throughout New Zealand and a fanatical home gardener herself.
Growing Incredible Edibles Andrew Boylan Saturday 22: 12pm - 12:45pm, $12*
Andrew Boylan of Katikati Nursery, Incredible Edibles, has expert advice to help you grow your own fruit and berries no matter the size of the garden or experience of the gardener.
Saturday 22: 1pm - 1:45pm, $12* www.ticketek.co.nz / 0800 842 538 *booking fee may apply
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festival events
An International Floral Affair Francine Thomas
Garden Photography Day Out with Jo Miller
International Floral Designer
After an enlightening introduction by professional photographer
Francine Thomas’s skill at turning
especially selected for their photogenic qualities. Jo will be
flowers
fantasy
hovering to offer advice and answer queries to help you take more
and fun earned her selection by the
effective garden photos and improve your photography overall.
Floral Art Society of NZ to attend the
Each day caters for all levels of experience and any style of camera.
into
theatre,
art,
World Flower Show in Dublin. There she demonstrated a large design to
represent
New
Zealand,
and
and tutor, Jo Miller, participants will travel by bus to gardens
Transport, morning tea, lunch and late afternoon wine and nibbles included.
also competed in the competitions. Francine will share her international experience, her know-how and her renowned sense of humour.
Friday 21: 1pm - 1:45pm, $12* www.ticketek.co.nz / 0800 842 538 *booking fee may apply
Leaving at 9am from The Lakes Expo Pavilion and visiting three gardens including lunch, returning to the Lakes Pavilion for wine and nibbles around 5pm. Friday 21 November $125 (limited to 45) To book, Email: john@nzgardenandartfest.co.nz SPonsored by
festival events
Burley Attwood Law Sculpture Symposium
Wednesday to Saturday, November 12 - 22 The first event to kick off for the 2014 NZ Garden & Art Festival, the Sculpture Symposium opens on Wednesday 12 November below Mount Drury opposite Mount Maunganui’s Main Beach. On that morning 16 sculptors from the region and from further afield will be poised by their hunk of Oamaru or Maratoto stone, or slab of native timber. Following the official opening and powhiri (welcome ceremony) the sculptors go to work. Their mission over the next ten days is to reveal the shape within and turn their chosen medium into art under the interested eyes of the many who will visit the site. The inaugural festival Sculpture Symposium in 2012 was a huge success with spirited bidding for the works at the public auction. Most sold and went to both private and public collections. This event is worth attending for the spectacle and you may find yourself buying! Featuring Peter Cramond • Andrew Deadman • Nic Glegg Ashley Grant • Takutaimoana Harawira • Joe Kemp Pita Rua Lagan • Davey McGhie • Trevor Nathan • Jocelyn Pratt Hugh Prebble • Odele Rapley • Brian George Rikirangi Claire Sadler • Nigel Scanlon • Kawiti Wiremu SPonsored by
Opening and artists’ welcome: Wednesday 12 at 10am Twilight Picnic at Mount Drury: Saturday 15, 5pm - 7pm Public Auction: On site Saturday 22, 11am - 1pm Mount Drury, corner of Pacific Avenue and Marine Parade Free Entry
festival events
The Long Lunch Mary Lambie and Jim Mora
SPonsored by
Sunday 23 November Jim Mora and Mary Lambie have promised they won’t both talk at once as they share with the Long Lunch audience their lives and laughs as multi‑tasking media personalities. Jim Mora’s gentle humour has endeared him to listeners of Afternoons on Radio NZ’s National Programme. He’s also produced and narrated TV documentaries and is author of books and TV animations for children. Mary Lambie will be familiar for her time presenting Good Morning and as a broadcaster and columnist, not to mention marathon runner, Coast to Coast competitor, business owner and author. Marriage with three children and running parallel careers has not dimmed their light-hearted approach to life. The Long Lunch will be held at gorgeous celebration venue, Ataahua. Sunday 23 November, 11:45am - 2pm, $85
Ataahua Garden Venue 644 Pyes Pa Road, Tauranga To book: email John Beech,
john@nzgardenanadartfest.co.nz
festival events
Anya Sinclair
Home Grown An art installation by Graham Crow
New works from Dunedin artist Anya Sinclair feature in The
Graham Crow applies his unique
The Garden of Forking Paths
Supported by
Garden of Forking Paths, the exhibition title derived from a 1941 short story by Argentine writer and poet Jorge Luis Borges. Anya Sinclair’s works evoke both her upbringing in the rambling bush of Auckland’s Waitakere Ranges and also bring in the sensory experiences of her travels to Brazil. In the work Sinclair’s favoured lush and deep greens shine, in particular where nature has been somewhat tamed by civilisation then reclaimed its territory. Sinclair has exhibited regularly in both group and solo exhibitions since 2008. Her bringing together of gardens, nature and art makes this a perfect fit for the New Zealand Garden & Art Festival.
perspective to that which he can see outside his studio window. Inspired by the garden and the bush, he has created four substantial works, plus one large installation, which employ and evoke found, scavenged and upcycled materials or, as he puts it, “Turning rubbish into art.” Three dimensional in form this installation will “take over” Gallery 59 during
Supported by
the festival.
Untitled (2014), acrylic on canvas, 750 x 550mm. Courtesy of the artist.
Open 10am - 4:30pm daily
Tauranga Art Gallery Corner Wharf and Willow Streets, Tauranga
Opening Monday 17, 6pm Open Tuesday – Friday 8am - 5pm, Saturday 10am - 1pm
Gallery 59, 59 9th Avenue
festival events
Masterclass All Things Floral This very successful Exhibition returns to the
Greerton Village chalk art exhibition
most established and respected artists apply
Jamie Harkins, Constanza Tagini Nightingale and David Rendu
their perspective and their chosen medium to a
The Bay of Plenty’s first chalk art festival will showcase the work
painting where floral is the focus. Expect to see
of artists Jamie Harkins, Constanza Tagini Nightingale and
widely divergent subject matters and ‘takes’
David Rendu. This is the creative group who attracted attention
on the theme. All work is for sale so come on
and made national media last summer with their amazing 3D sand
opening night to get the best selection.
drawings in a bay below Mauao (Mount Maunganui), which they
festival for 2014. Nine of the Bay of Plenty’s
made using a rake and a couple of sticks to incredible effect. See
Artists:
Lynne Brown, Jenny Coker, Graham Crow, Doreen McNeill, Linda Munn, John Roy, Michael Sass, Richard Smith, Sharen Watson
Open 10am - 4pm Wednesday 19 to Saturday 22. Dive Crescent, Tauranga
shape from Wednesday of the festival and check out the finished works on Saturday. Wednesday 19 to Saturday 22
Greerton Village Square
Opening Tuesday 18, 6pm
The Cargo Shed
what they can achieve with chalk as you watch their creations take
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