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Opening Exhibitions...
Gordon Crook: 18 Maritimes 5 November 2011 - 29 January 2012 | FREE
The Dowse pays tribute to the life of artist Gordon Crook, 1921-2011. 18 Maritimes is a suite of small tapestries depicting oceanic and nautical themes. The series was purchased and first exhibited at The Dowse in 1996. Crook took two years to complete the designs researching pictures of fish, seaweed, or microscopic organisms. The finished series, which also has supporting drawings, is a significant body of work which exquisitely portrays Crooks expressive design, his abundant use of colour, and his acute attention to detail.These tapestries were inspired by 18 miniature collages using colour photocopying techniques which Crook thought would really come to life in tapestries.

Closing Exhibitions...

Spectrum Until 13 November 2011 | FREE
An exhibition for children and their families that explores the colours of the rainbow and the essence of light with dynamic, colourful works from The Dowse collection. Children can get spinning with interactive colour spectrums, a light box that lets you make new colours and dazzling prisms to shine a light on. Spectrum encourages a deeper look at how artists use colour, and to discover that there is more to colour then meets the eye. Look out for fun, interactive activities that will accompany this exhibition.
Spectrum includes works by New Zealand artists John Parker, Milan Mrkusich, Doreen Blumhardt, Richard Parker, Dick Frizzell, Gretchen Albrecht, Gerda Leenards, John Coley and Gary Nash, among others.
www.dowse.org.nz/en/Exhibitions/Future-Exhibitions/Spectrum/http://www.dowse.org.nz/en/Exhibitions/Future-Exhibitions/Spectrum/ Image caption: Reuben Paterson, Perrier Jouet, 2003. Collection of The Dowse Art Museum

Knitted & Knotted Until 20 November 2011 | FREE
A new take on the handmade. Knitted & Knotted brings together the work of New Zealand contemporary artists, Liyen Chong, Jacquelyn Greenbank, Megan Hansen Knarhoi, Shelly Norton, Ani O'Neill and Erica van Zon, and features traditional handcraft techniques - crochet, weaving, knitting and knotting - in surprising new ways. Press release: http://www.dowse.org.nz/en/Exhibitions/Future-Exhibitions/Knitted--Knotted/ Image captions: Ani O'Neill, There's No Place Like Home, 1998. Courtesy of Sue Crockford Gallery

Ongoing Exhibitions...

2011 Wallace Art Awards 29 October - 4 December 2011 | Free
The annual Wallace Art Awardshttp://www.wallaceartstrust.org.nz/?s1=HOME marks its 20th anniversary this year and The Dowse will showcase the winners and most of the finalists. The Dowse is the only Wellington venue to host this outstanding awards exhibition; the awards are the longest running of their type in New Zealand. With prizes amounting to over $165,000, the awards were presented by Auckland Mayor Len Brown at The Pah Homestead, TSB Bank Wallace Arts Centre on Monday 5 September. The 2011 Paramount Winner is Akiko Diegel who receives a 6 month-residency at the International Studio and Curatorial Programhttp://www.iscp-nyc.org/ in New York, USA. Akiko's work is Cure, 2011, made up of disprin packets fashioned into bulldog clips.
Press release: http://dowse.org.nz/News/Latest-News/Wallace-Art-Awards-2011
Images attached: Visitors enjoying Peata Larkin's Pulse_2011. Photo: Mark Tantrum

100 Bikes Project: Part 1 | Scott Eady 8 October 2011 - 5 February 2012 | FREE
It's not very often you get to not only touch but ride the artworks.Dunedin artist Scott Eady restores a collection of 50 children's discarded and thrown away bicycles, including bikes, trikes and scooters. This exhibition is interactive - allowing children (3 to 8 years old) to ride through the gallery on a unique customised stead. Media release: http://dowse.org.nz/News/Latest-News/Scott-Eadys-Artworks-You-Can-Ride/ Images attached: Billy Melhuish from Worser Bay School enjoys Scott Eady's bikes

Hit The Wall: Sound Tracks From 5 October 2011 | FREE
New Zealand typographer and graphic designer Catherine Griffiths explores vowel sounds for the 'Hit The Wall' space in the gallery. AEIOU emerges out of a network of converging and overlapping white lines, tracking in unison against a jet black background. Griffiths manipulates her drawing through digital and analogue distortion - printing, scanning and enlarging the image to produce reverberating letterforms. Sound Tracks is the second installation in the artist's AEIOU series. The first work - a typographic sound sculpture (AEIOU, 2009) - is a construction of five vowels in steel, stacked five metres high on the first-level terrace of Cubana Apartments in Wellington. Read more about it on today's blog http://thedowse.posterous.com/
http://dowse.org.nz/en/Exhibitions/Future-Exhibitions/Hit-The-Wall-Sound-Tracks/

Petone Settlers Museum...

Tatou Tatou ongoing | The Esplanade, Petone | Wed to Sun 10am- 4pm | FREE
To mark the 70th anniversary of the opening of its building, the Wellington Provincial Centennial Memorial, the Petone Settlers Museum has recently been refurbished and a new exhibition, Tatou Tatouhttp://www.newdowse.org.nz/PSM/Exhibition/ celebrates the history of the local area with a contemporary visitor experience. The exhibition commemorates the historic meeting of the great Maori Te Atiawa chiefs, Te Wharepouri and Te Puni, and the first British settlers, on Pito-one's (Petone) shores in 1840.
settlers@huttcity.govt.nz www.petonesettlers.org.nzhttp://www.petonesettlers.org.nz/

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