Upcoming Events At Thistle Hall

Thistle Hall is a vibrant community centre in the heart of New Zealand's cultural capital. We provide a community hall, meeting room and Wellington's only community gallery showcasing a range of artists and crafts people, from the established to the emerging. Thistle Hall is located one the corner of Cuba and Arthur streets. The shows on at Thistle Hall Community Gallery are run by the artists who hire it.

On Now
28 OCTOBER - 2 NOVEMBER 2008

Music Materialised
Massey Textile Students

Opening night performance 6.00pm Tuesday 28 October.

Then open daily 10.30am - 6.00pm.

A creative collaboration between Massey University and the New Zealand School of Music culminates in the exhibition Music Materialised - a dynamic visualisation and celebration of music, material, colour, texture, pattern and form.

Up Next
4 - 9 NOVEMBER 2008

TRAVEL RITE
New works by Michelle Donald examining the desire to travel

Opening night 6.00pm – 8.00pm 4 November.

Open daily 10.30am – 7.00pm 4 - 9 November.

In this latest body of work I have chosen to document/ritualise my own travel experiences with a series of mixed media works and installations.

While engaged in a journey of self discovery as we embark on an OE, we often remain an outsider, a voyeur, a tourist in each place we pass through.

Significant moments embedded in our psyche can change our outlook on life as a whole, but once the journey is complete, what are we left with? Maybe a tick list of countries, places and sites we have always dreamed of visiting. Perhaps a collection of memories represented by an assortment of memorabilia, tickets, maps, brochures, and photos that are seldom looked at yet seemed so important at the time. Images that lose their reference to time and place, each significant moment blurring into each other.

We become hunters of the authentic experience, collectors of images that are other than our own daily existence. For the intrepid traveller there can be an awareness of our own luxury, wealth and waste, when faced with situations and ways of life that we find difficult to understand and often challenge preconceived romantic ideals of travel, exploration and tourism.

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