Bulls On Parade - Opening Tonight!

Bulls On Parade - Opening Tonight!

kelly spencer.jpgOPENING: 5.00 - 8.00pm Monday 30 May.

OPEN: 10.00am - 6.00pm Tuesday - Sunday.

Emerging local talent Kelly Spencer is back from her recent sell-out show with a whole new collection of works in watercolour and graphite. Bulls on Parade uses the iconography of war to examine our treatment of animals. Far from being preachy or aggressive, however, the show is a tender and peaceful meditation on the beauty of the creatures we share our islands with, and our responsibility towards them. These portraits are beautiful and engaging, while the symbolism creates a subtly unsettling undercurrent.

Her decision to follow art as her full-time passion has been rewarding for Kelly, with this being the second exhibition to be produced from her Mt. Cook studio this year. In addition to these shows, Kelly's distinctive style is starting to appear in all sorts of areas from apparel and merchandise to poster design. This most recent production maintains its imaginative innocence with brightly coloured and uncluttered figures, while hinting at a more intellectual approach to creating art.

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6 - 11 JUNE 2011

INSTAMATIC MOMENTS: PETRA STUEBEN.

petra stueben.jpgOPENING: 6.00 - 8.00pm Monday 6 June.

OPEN: 10.00am - 2.00pm and 4.00 - 6.00pm Tuesday - Saturday.

In this exhibition I display photographs from the '60s and '70s that I took as a child growing up in Central Europe. They were kept in an old family album, which travelled with me to New Zealand,

For this exhibition I took the album apart, selected some photographs, enlarged them 1 to 12 and arranged them in a different order. These photos can be seen as documents of their time and also the technical standard of the medium. The first part of the exhibitions title 'Instamatic' refers to this. The enlargement and the rearrangement links the 'moment' of observation into a contemporary timeframe. Questioning these images how far they are able to differentiate themselves from being merely a relic of a family photo album and how far they are able to bridge the past with the present time by leaving their individual character of origin behind, was what I seeked to explore.

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