Opening Monday: Snippets, Scraps And Spectacle

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
30 JANUARY - 5 FEBRUARY 2012
SNIPPETS, SCRAPS & SPECTACLE: KARREN DALE & JULIA MIDDLETON.

OPENING: 6.00 - 8.00pm Monday 30 January.

Photography – Exposition – Contemporary Jewellery Exhibition.

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 elicit 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.

Opening night guests will be spoilt with freshly ground and brewed 'Peoples Coffee', and 'La Boca Loca' sustainable cuisine. Thank you to our generous sponsors. Wellingtonians make sure to visit 'La Boca Loca', Miramar and 'Peoples Coffee', Newtown.

Up Next
7 - 12 FEbRUARY 2012
SITUATIONAL PERSONALITIES: SARAH WALKER-HOLT.

OPENING: 6.00 Tuesday 7 February.
OPEN: 10.00am - 6.00pm Tuesday - Sunday.

Sarah Walker-Holt reconfigures collected materials to create jewellery that consists of multiple components, which she terms Situational Personalities. These components engage the wearer by offering numerous discoveries as to their combinations, wear-ability and connection to the garment. She aims to initiate an intimate relationship between the wearer and the object.

Avoiding traditional jewellery fastenings, the wear-ability of Walker-Holt's works is not immediately obvious. Elements within the work suggest a function and fit that the viewer may not see or understand unless shown, so that what each viewer brings to the objects is individual and due to their own learnt subconscious. A bricoleur, she utilises materials that are at hand; the non-precious materials and their construction test the perceptions and limits of jewellery, suggesting that it is not the materials that make jewellery into jewellery, but how we perceive the object.

- exert from BEST IN SHOW 2011 at OBJECTSPACE

In conjunction with JEMposium, Situation Personalities is an exhibition of Sarah's graduate work from 2010. www.jemposium.co.nz.

http://sarahwalker-holt.blogspot.com/

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

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