Existing Scenery: a Painting Exhibition by Yukari Kaihori

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
23 - 29 JANUARY 2012
EXISTING SCENERY: A PAINTING EXHIBITION BY YUKARI KAIHORI.

OPENING: 6.00 - 8.00pm Monday 23 January.
OPEN: 12.00 - 7.00pm Monday - Friday and 12.00 - 5.00pm Saturday - Sunday.

The works are inspired by a feeling of deep attraction and admiration towards nature. The pure beauty of organic shapes and the vivid colour of landscapes appear to me universal and abstract.

A painter, Georgia O'Keefe said:

"Nothing is less real than realism, Details are confusing. It is only selection, by elimination, by emphasis that we get at the real meaning of things".

Our surroundings go through metamorphosis: the environment we live in is fragile and ephemeral in nature. They change and transform the shapes and physicality, and what we have captured with our eyes becomes the past in a moment. Composing the picture is an exercise in re-constructing the narrative story.

Yukari Kaihori is a fine art painter originally from Japan. She has studied in the USA and UK, and is now painting in Wellington. For more information visit www.yukarikaihori.com.

Up Next
30TH JANUARY – 5TH FEBRUARY 2012
SNIPPETS, SCRAPS AND SPECTACLE: KARREN DALE AND JULIA MIDDLETON

OPENING MONDAY 30TH JAN 2012, 6-8PM

Sample the snippets, swoon over the scraps and spy the spectacle of works by Dale and Middleton.
Karren Dale, reeling from her last four years in the institutional studio setting, divulges her latest works.

Free from the shackles of endless critique with a renewed artistic headspace, what will be displayed will be sure to evoke endless wonder and hot flushes.

Julia Middleton’s angle comes from a year of near isolation in the Australian bush, with time on her hands and new materials to explore, works viewed may illicit spontaneous eye twitching and raised eyebrows.

Art jewellery is relatively young in its inception and both these emerging artists place their interpretations in a gallery setting, striving to tip the scene upside down.
Installation reviewed by the one and only Matt Middleton (‘The Aesthetics’ & ‘CRUDE’)

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

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