The Secret Lives Of 3 Cooks And A Kitchen Hand

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 on 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
16 - 22 MARCH 2009

THE SECRET LIVES OF 3 COOKS AND A KITCHEN HAND
Anita Sarginson, Mason Chidgey, Georgina Bates and Kristen Clarke

The Secret Lives of 3 Cooks and a Kitchen Hand: traditional and contemporary works from people on the other side of the counter.

Anita Sarginson - textile artistry
Mason Chidgey - photography
Georgina Bates - paintings
Kristen Clarke - mixed medium acrylics

Assorted handcrafts will also be available.

Opening 17 March at 6.00pm, then open daily 9.30am - 6.00pm.

Up Next
23 - 29 MARCH 2009

BLACK WHITE COLOUR:
A SELECTIVE COLOURING PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION
Frits Swanepoel

Open Monday 23 - Friday 27 March
5.30pm - 7.00pm
Closed Tuesday
Saturday 28 - Sunday 29 March
10.00am - 5.00pm

Award winning photographer, Frits Swanepoel brings his photographs of Southeast Asia to New Zealand. Using selective colouring, he creates additional emphasis of his subject matter. The photographs have been printed on limited edition scrolls and are available as prints

The scrolls are 29.5cm x 67cm. The prints are available in a variety of sizes.

About me and my photography:
I got into photography during my first year at university when I bought a second hand SLR. I joined the photographic society and found out that darkrooms and me didn't get along. After university I stopped taking photographs since my job took up so much of my time and drained my energy and creativity. Then I went to Taiwan, which is like the promised land of photography and I jumped back into my dream with wild abandon. Film, processing and printing is cheap and fast. There are lots of things to photograph, not only in Taiwan, but in the surrounding countries too. It is a place where inspiration is waiting around every corner. To display your work you don't need to be a recognized artist; you just need to enjoy your medium and put in the work. This series of photographs all started with a cow. I was taking some pictures of one when I was told that I should not bother, since everyone has seen a cow. They are too common to make a good photograph. That statement has bothered me for a long time, since it is obviously false but widely believed. Just because you look at something everyday, does not mean you see it, and just because something is common does not make it less special. This series is about emphasizing the common in our surroundings. I took all of the photos in this series while backpacking through South East Asia for 7 months. I used "The GIMP" www.gimp.org to edit these photos. Special thanks to my muse, whose ideas I purloined (stole is such a dirty word), without whom this series would never have been put together.

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

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