11 minute read
ARTS & CULTURE
Studio shot 15/8/22
@ OREXART, PONSONBY
Tony Lane – Circle of Light 6 September – 1 October
Nobody paints like Tony Lane; his landscapes speak of journeys, isolation, connection, meditation, and devotion. The view carries us in stages, lifts us visually, emotionally, and always towards the light.
Rendered in Italian gesso on panel, and set in hand gilded frames, the paintings merge the symbolic with the personal, the experimental with the magical. PN
Email us for catalogue and list.
OREXART, 221 Ponsonby Road, E: rex@orexart.co.nz www.orexart.co.nz Aureole (Into the Light), 835 x 1250mm, oil on gesso
@ BERGMAN GALLERY
Benjamin Work TO’A MOTU 27 August - 17 September ←
Raymond Sagapolutele Aua E Te Fefe 24 September - 22 October Opening Saturday 24 September, 2pm, all welcome ↓
Instagram and Facebook @bergmangallery
Tuesday – Saturday 10am - 5:30pm. 3/582 Karangahape Road (Entrance via 2 Newton Road) T: 021 024 614
benny@bergmangallery.com www.bergmangallery.com
Raymond Sagapolutele, Fonua, digital giclee matt print on dibond, 800x1300mm, 2022
@ {SUITE} GALLERY, PONSONBY
An inconveniently timed lockdown in Auckland in August 2021 disrupted Arie Hellendoorn’s opportunity for his first solo exhibition at {Suite} Ponsonby.
For the duration of the show the works were only visible through the gallery windows and online, not ideal for an artist whose high level of detail and intricate technique benefit from in person viewing. Thanks to everyone who stopped by and took the time to view the show.
Therefore we are pleased to present Arie Hellendoorn's latest series of work, ‘Future Days’, a title drawn from the name of an album by 1970s German experimental progrock band CAN. This exhibition sees Hellendoorn move his subject matter away from an abstract figurative narrative to more formally constructed interiors which provide scope for his musings on a myriad of subjects such as the everyday, history, the future, time and space.
The highly patterned surfaces, intensely detailed, stippled surfaces created with a thin liquid acrylic paint and brush or painting stick are unique to Hellendoorn and have been refined over many years. Don’t miss it.
Sunday 18 September @ 2.30pm Conductor: Michael Joel Soloist: Helene Pohl
You can expect magnificent ‘give- it-all- you’ve-got’ playing from violinist Helen Pohl.
Helene Pohl started the violin at the age of 4½ (Suzuki method) later adding piano, viola, clarinet, baritone saxophone and guitar. At 17 she studied at the Musikhochschule Cologne, then joined members of the Cleveland Quartet at the Eastman School of Music and at Indiana University.
Between 1988 and 1993 Helene was first violinist of the San Francisco based Fidelio String Quartet and since 1994 she has been first violinist in the New Zealand String Quartet. In 2001 she became artistic director, with fellow quartet member Gillian Ansell, of the Adam Chamber Music Festival. Helene plays a Pietro Guarnerius violin made in Venice in 1730.
Michael Joel is currently music director of St Matthew’s Chamber Orchestra and has worked on the music staff of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden as duty conductor on productions of Tosca, La Bohème, La Traviata and Carmen, assisting big names like Placido Domingo.
St Matthew’s Chamber Orchestra is an accomplished orchestra performing a wide repertoire of music and is dedicated to providing performance opportunities for New Zealand musicians, composers and conductors. www.smco.org.nz
TICKETS: Eventfinda or Door sales. EFTPOS or Cash.
Adults $30 Concessions $25 children under 12 free. Student Rush on the day $15.
NB: attendees will need to comply with any Covid-19 protocols in place at the time of the concert.
ST MATTHEW-IN-THE-CITY corner Wellesley & Hobson Streets, T: 09 379 0625, www.smco.org.nz
Sun 18 September
at 2.30pm
PROGRAMME Ritchie, J Aquarius, Suite No 2 for String Orchestra Beethoven Violin Concerto Op 61 in D Sibelius Karelia Suite Op 11 Grieg Peer Gynt Suite No 1 Op 46 SOLOIST Helene Pohl CONDUCTOR Michael Joel
ST MATTHEW-IN-THE-CITY
Cnr of Wellesley & Hobson Street, Auckland City
HOMESICK FOR PONSONBY?
If you, your friends or family are missing Ponsonby, why not subscribe to New Zealand’s BEST read community magazine?
An annual subscription is only $49 and can be posted anywhere in New Zealand.
News + Local Politics + Fashion + Style + Celebrity + Eat, Drink + Be Merry + Travel + Living, Thinking + Being + Pets + Future Generation + Sports + Home + Real Estate + Arts + Culture
Visit ponsonbynews.co.nz or email jay@ponsonbynews.co.nz for more information
ARTS + CULTURE HOMESTEAD PICTURE FRAMERS HAS A PONSONBY CONNECTION
Natalie Edeson feels like Ponsonby and Grey Lynn are like her second home. For the last 20+ years she has worked in the area as a hairdresser, so her face is very familiar to so many, however in the last few years things have definitely changed.
After being forced to take on a new direction due to health issues, Covid-19 and the growth of her and husband’s picture framing business, Natalie has now sold her salon to become the full-time face and coowner of Homestead Picture Framers in Henderson.
Many will know of Homestead. It has been a thriving business for well over 40 years. In 2019 Richard and Natalie Edeson took over the business to let the owner have a well deserved retirement. They previously had businesses in Ponsonby, Herne Bay and Newmarket, so to bring the city vibe out west was a brilliant decision.
Homestead has always been renowned for reasonable prices with high standards. All of the staff are highly experienced and can frame anything from the most valuable artworks to university certificates, as well as object boxes, canvases, needleworks and sports jerseys. There really is not much that they can’t display to make into your latest artwork and with all the knowledge the team has they are always up for a challenge to create your own bespoke frame.
If you have an idea that feels impossible to achieve, these are your go-to guys to make it a reality. They have even had to frame Dan Carter's signed underwear, so no job is too small!
Working with an abundance of artists in both New Zealand and overseas, as well as many of the well known galleries using Homestead, they are rated as the No.1 framer by many. They are fast and efficient, using the highest quality archival products.
The team in Henderson are friendly and helpful and offer the best advice possible with a range of quality frames, matt boards and different glass options to suit whatever you are framing.
Always looking to expand, Homestead now offer a scan, retouch, digital print and artwork capture service, from old photos and posters to fine art prints. Homestead also has a pickup and delivery service for their corporate and gallery customers.
Natalie Edeson of Homestead Picture Framers
Dane Taylor framing two artworks for Flox
Check out the website www.homesteadpictureframers.co.nz or visit them 100 Railside Ave, Henderson.
Andrea Robinson at BSA Gallery. Photo Artsdiary
UPTOWN ART SCENE
There’s been a lot of colourful energy around the neighbourhood galleries during the wettest months of the year, from Wes Fieldhouse’s “provisional abstraction” at OREXART to Leigh Martin’s colourfields at Two Rooms.
With plenty on show by established artists, it is heartening to see less profiled artists having fun with confident exhibitions at our local art centres too. At BSA Gallery (part of Browne School of Art) last month was a lively show of paintings by Andrea Robinson.
Now a feisty 83, Andrea juggled raising a family with making art while studying at Elam in the mid-70s under Don Binney. Family life took her to Europe, and she felt unable to make art until she returned to New Zealand again at the age of 60. Her recent paintings are full of spontaneous, colourful gestures, sometimes dense and dirty; in other works the marks float sparse and airy.
Studio One Toi Tu has been exploding with exhibitions lately with, I’ve Made Up My Mind, curated with a maximalist feel by Phillip Tse. The walls teemed with colour and texture, artworks occupying every space, watched over by a tall sculptural form. Lee-Ann Sheather’s built-up ecosystems of threaded colour, beads and fabric were especially tactile and gorgeous.
In one of the adjoining galleries, A Small Conversation With Myself About Carpet, by Glen Armstrong, also used embroidery, often in combination with painted canvas surfaces. Other works were able to get a real sense of a close up relationship with patterned home furnishings through paint alone. Glen’s works have a lovely understated painterliness within the dead-pan humour of his show’s title.
In the other Studio One Toi Tu galleries were exhibitions of strongly coloured, geometric paintings by Paul Darragh and Harinder Hajpal, completing the sense of a building packed with people making brilliant works in the grey of a wet Auckland winter. EVAN WOODRUFFE, Studio Art Supplies PN
Paul Darragh at Studio One Toi Tu
www.studioart.co.nz
ARTS + CULTURE BLESSING OF THE ANIMALS IS BACK!
After a Covid break, the much-loved blessing of the animals service returns to St Matthew-in-the-City. Timed to be near St Francis’ Day, this year it will be on Sunday 2 October at 12.30pm.
We are very pleased this year to feature the wonderful work of Mobility Dogs.
Mobility Dogs have been raising, training and placing assistance dogs for more than 10 years. Their primary goal is to assist people living with a physical disability by partnering them with a mobility dog to help in everyday tasks and to give them constant companionship and a sense of security. No disability or dog is the same, therefore each mobility dog partnership is unique.
Mobility Dogs are totally reliant on community funders and volunteers, who help raise and train the dogs. The dogs have full access rights under the Dog Control Act, which means they can go into most public places, on public transport, educational and employment and entertainment environments.
Mobility Dogs’ wider social initiative is the Puppies in Prison Programme, where people in prison are taught how to train our dogs. Positive outcomes from this programme include learning pro-social skills, the ability to work in a team, and the reward from the absolute love and care of a dog.
Come along with your animal, suitably leashed or restrained, and enjoy hearing about the work of Mobility Dogs. And bring your animal forward for a blessing from our animal loving clergy.
Media are welcome at the service.
For more information: Mobility Dogs – Jody Wilson 027 700 7017 St Matthew’s – Helen Jacobi 021 925 502
ST MATTHEWS-IN-THE-CITY, 132 Hobson Street, www.stmatthews.nz and www.mobilitydogs.co.nz
St Matthew-in-the-City, 132 Hobson Street, Auckland stmatthews.nz | mobilitydogs.co.nz
2 October, 12.30pm Free entry | All welcome
Celebrate our love for all animals, great & small. Bring your pets for a blessing, or simply enjoy this special service. For the safety of animals and people, please ensure all dogs are on a leash & smaller animals protected in a cage.
Patricia Piccinini, The Coup, 2012 © The Artist
@ SCOTT LAWRIE GALLERY
The Fall of Rome Saturday 27 August to 17 September, 2022
The Fall of Rome is a group show unlike any other held at the Mount Eden gallery space. The inspiration for the title comes from a W.H. Auden poem of the same name, written just after the end of WW2 in 1947. It’s quite dystopian and deals with an imagined place where people are striking, the workers are disgruntled, a pandemic seems to be happening, and some catastrophic weather events are making everything feel a bit gloomy - ring any bells?
But it’s the last stanza that has inspired the curation of this show: Altogether elsewhere, vast Herds of reindeer move across Miles and miles of golden moss, Silently and very fast.
The idea inherent in this stanza is one of liberation; that nature will move silently and with determination to fight back against rabid destruction because of rampant capitalism, corruption, and ignorance. Nature will ultimately win this battle, and the form of the show offers glimpses into this dynamic.
Each of the seven artists has responded to the brief in a different way, utilising their practices to address specific points about our relationship with nature, and how we experience it. Significant works from Patricia Piccinini, Andrew Rankin, Lisa Roet, Maxwell (George) Turner, Sefton Rani and Stone Maka make this exhibition powerful, but also nuanced.
Andrew Paul Wood has written a magnificent essay to celebrate this show, and it may be fitting that the last word should be left to him. “Perhaps, though, it is the artists who are the deer moving across the golden moss in this scenario, in which case maybe the world is better off under their stewardship when the old empire has dissolved away.”
This will be a unique show, designed for all ages to enjoy, and we look forward to welcoming you. (SCOTT LAWRIE, Director)
OPENING DAY Saturday 27 August 11am-5pm. All welcome!
SCOTT LAWRIE GALLERY, Shed 10, The Steelworks, 13 Coles Avenue (off Valley Road), www.scottlawrie.com
Maxwell (George) Turner, Voyage, 2021© The Artist
