Opening: The Art of Peculiar Thought

Opening: The Art of Peculiar Thought

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
28 MARCH - 3 APRIL 2011
the art of peculiar thought: eryn gribble and bridget lee.

OPENING: 7.00 - 9.00pm Monday 28 March.
OPEN: 10.00am - 6.00pm Tuesday - Sunday.

Eclectic, eccentric and slightly odd. We will showcase a wide range of our works from a variation of mediums including but not limited to - marionette puppets, junk sculpture, assemblage art, paintings, print making, and sculpture.

Bridget Lee
is currently studying at The Learning Connexion, for her Diploma in Art and Creativity, Honours. She is heavily influenced by anything retro, 1960s and 70s mainly, from the DIY crafts, hippies, music to paisley and geometric prints. She spends her time perusing 2nd hand shops looking for the elusive glimpses into times gone by, and of course searching for materials, of which are mostly recycled items, from unpicking a crazy coloured cardigan to dismantling the widest and oddest army of objects. Bridget’s art is about taking things that make people nervous, and displaying them in a friendly, cuddly or even more menacing manner. It certainly gets a mixed bag of reactions.

Eryn Gribble
Eryn Gribble is a young artist in her final semester at The Learning Connexion working towards her Diploma in Art and Creativity, Honours. She enjoys experimenting with most media but has a fondness for folk art, assemblage, junk sculpture and all things crafty! Due to her student budget, she has a love of working with found items and recycled materials. More recently she has been influenced by the folk art scene, and this exhibition will show (among other works) some Mexican influenced shrines that depict a colourful spirituality. Her work has been described as a playful kind of strange.

Up Next
4 - 10 APRIL 2011
DIVERSE DIVAS.

OPENING: 5.30 - 7.30pm Monday 4 April.
OPEN: 10.00am - 6.00pm weekdays, 10.00am - 7.00pm weekend.

Four creatively different Diverse Divas exhibiting their works in one place at one time.

Kayla Pritchard believes her creativity comes from an intuitive reaction to respond to an urge within, to create something from herself. Kayla is inspired by our creation, by colour, by organic details and the challenge of using pigment as a natural organic medium.

Michele Courage will delight you with large, modernistic canvases. Her work hangs in private collections throughout the world, in London, Cape Town, New York, Ireland, San Paulo and Canada. Michele's paintings, within the undefined borders of the abstract world and sweeping lines created by paint in motion, render a visual expression of time, space and energy.

Rosie Harper paints mainly figurative, narrative subjects with a lot of detail and colour in a mixture of Art Deco, Nouveau and Surrealism styles. Music plays an important part in her work and often Rosie will capture song lyrics within a piece.

Susan Skelton is one of New Zealand's contemporary artists known for creating abstract and landscape pieces with elements strong in texture, warmth, and colour. She also has a great passion for painting the beauty of the female form.

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

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