Ample array of art in south
January 24th, 2008, 4:08 am Hobbies News
Arrowtowns Toi O Tahuna Fine Art Gallery is hosting new works from Matakana Island artist Tracey Tawhiao.
The writer, poet, film-maker, stylist, music manager and artist with a law degree has used the unconventional art material of newspaper to demonstrate her version of news and express her identity as a Maori in a European-dominated society.
She combines aspects of customary Maori visual imagery with relevant news stories, using coloured oil pastels and graphic symbols to obscure certain parts of the text and highlight others.
Many of the graphic symbols that she uses in her work are related to Maori creation myths and Maori rock art.
Her use of newspaper as a media has evolved from her interest in the written and spoken word as well as being used as an extension of her performances in which she highlights Maori oral traditions.
Tawhiaos art holds strong messages of political and social injustices as well as a deep love for whanau.
%26bull; Invercargills Bank Art Gallery is hosting Grace Hill %26mdash; The Exhibition, a %26quot;one of a kind%26quot; blending of new works by Invercargill artists Lisa Grace and Wayne Hill.
%26bull; The loom, easel and kiln are the focus of an exhibition at the Riverton Community Art Centre that features Invercargill fibre artist Joan Hall-Jones and Colac Bay weaver Isobel Bates.
Hall-Jones passion is for hand-embroidered pictures of her own designs while Bates hand weaves anything from fine silk bookmarks to merino wraps to floor rugs.
Loom, Easel and Kiln also features artists including John Husband, Geoff Milne and Ray Willett and will be open until January 27.
%26bull; Wanakas Gallery thirty three is offering audiences the opportunity to journey through New Zealand from an artists perspective in their latest exhibition Of This Land.
New Zealand artists Don Binney, Alannah Brown, Don Driver, Wayne Seyb and Michael Smither harvest verdant terrain and omnipotent mountains, gather memories and recollect places that are at once familiar and distinctive interpretations of this land.
Of This Land closes on February 1.
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