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22 January / 25 March 2010
Nic Moon
A Jewel in the Crown
Nic Moon makes sculptures which incorporate the use of natural and ‘found’ materials to highlight the processes that we use to adapt and transform our environments. In this new body of work, produced while resident in Southland as the Southland Art Foundation’s 2009 William Hodges Fellow, Nic explores the impact of introduced mammals on ecosystems in Southland and the ways that people survive and prosper within these ecosystems. This exhibition reflects Nic’s engagement with the activities of environmentalists, predator pest trappers, hunters, foresters, flax millers, farmers and gardeners.
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12 February / 25 April 2010
Pacific Horizons
The ancestors of the Pacific Island people began to develop an extensive maritime culture between 3,000 and 4,000 years ago and by the time Europeans began to explore the Pacific every habitable island in the region had been colonised.
These early seafarers created open-sea sailing vessels capable of voyaging vast distances and developed a highly advanced and reliable navigation system based on observations of the sun, moon, stars, ocean, birds, and even whale migrations.
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26 February / 28 March 2010
Olwyn Dykes
Mostly Circles
Olwyn Dykes is an Invercargill artist, perhaps better known to us through her ceramic art. This exhibition will feature some ceramics though the emphasis will be on a presentation of gouache paintings. These have strong, clean designs which remind us of the abstractions of Bauhaus and Constructivist artists of the 1920’s. Most of these paintings have a centrifugal arrangement making a neat allusion to design for ceramic practice.
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9 March / 11 April 2010
John Husband
50 years of drawing around Southland
For twenty two years of his fifty years drawing around Southland John Husband’s richly informative pictures of architectural settings and structures were a regular feature in the Southland Times. John’s initial training was in commercial art and signwriting. Two of his most influential teachers were Karl Braniff, responsible for those extraordinarily fine posters which came out of the New Zealand Railways studios in the 1940’s and Russell Clark, the doyen figure of New Zealand book illustration. John’s exhibition will include his workbooks with their searching sketches and strong designs.
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Nic Moon - Provider Possum
Te tohunga: the ancient legends and traditions of the Maori.
Wilhem Dittmer 1907
Olywn Dykes - Mostly Circles No8, Mixed Media on paper
John Husband - Untitled 2003, Pen and wash on paper |
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