On now: Toycology

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.

On Now
22 - 29 MAY 2007

TOYCOLOGY
Adi Brown
Preview with the artist 5.30pm Tuesday 22 May, then open daily from 1pm.

Toycology is a photographic investigation into the darker side of toys.

Adi Brown was born in Christchurch and is currently a Wellington based artist. She studied Fine Arts at Canterbury University and has a Bachelor of Visual Arts from the Wellington Institute of Technology. She also holds a Bachelor of Resource Studies.

She was a finalist in the Norsewear Art Award and the CoCA Anthony Harper Art Award in 2006, and in the prestigious Painting and Printmakers Award in 2007. Her photography was exhibited in the Birds exhibition at Pataka Gallery, Porirua in 2006 and selected for the Birds exhibition at the Sargeant Gallery in Wanganui in 2007.

Adi currently tutors on the Bachelor of Visual Arts programme at the Wellington Institute of Technology.

Up Next
1 - 10 JUNE 2007

INTERACTIVE ABSTRACT FOLKSONOMY
Shen Mansell
A collection of paintings from the last year and a half. Pure abstract, pixel, religious iconography, general iconoclasm and traditional land and sky scapes. Something for everyone, and everything for a select few. Visitors will tag paintings with post it notes describing the feelings, ideas and reactions that they invoke.

About the Artist Shen Mansell was born in America and spent his childhood in Canada. His parents moved with him to New Zealand when he was 12, and he has lived here for the last 18 years. A career in computer programming, and a hobby of video game design and creation lead him to painting as a form of creativity that can be understood and enjoyed by all sections of the community. His art aims to allow the viewer to create a narrative, and look good on walls

Please see http://www.thistlehall.org.nz for more information

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