Tuesday, December 18, 2012

2013

I have a couple of exhibits early on next year the first is at MASTERWORKS in  PONSONBY from the 20th February and the second is at the SUTER GALLERY in NELSON Thursday 28th March–Sunday 21st April

http://www.itson.co.nz/2013/5090-nelson-suter-art-society-autumn-exhibition

Monday, December 10, 2012

New work

Repurpose




You can see these pieces at
The National - Christchurch

Respect Respond Prolong





The National 
KVETOSLAVA FLORA SEKANOVA / GILLIAN DEERY / SARAH WALKER-HOLTRESPECT RESPOND PROLONG
The National presents the work of three emerging artists, Kvetoslava Flora Sekanova, Sarah Walker-Holt and Gillian Deery whose practices push the physical possibilities and conventional notions of the materials they work with. Through their own distinctive exploratory practices these artists manipulate, rework and transform their materials, which are still imbued with their previous histories, to form new works which challenge these original associations. 

KVETOSLAVA FLORA SEKANOVA / RESPECT

'When I work with a material I often feel like I experience an intuitive identification with its origins or innate qualities. My ethics in making are to respect and honour this intuition in terms of what I do to the material.’

The word “Respect”, communicates the interaction between the artist and material during and throughout her practice. The intrinsic qualities of the materials, which include their previous contexts, are both respectfully considered and a source of inspiration in the development of her work. 

Flora’s work involves the modification of newspapers. ‘I am intrigued by its formal qualities and illusionary effect of variegated and patterned surfaces. I laminate the recycled newspaper multiple times, then carve it, layer it, hollow it out, reconstruct it, and manipulate its surface.’ She is interested in the way in which these old newspapers evoke subjective responses by individuals, especially considering such responses are often shaped by their cultural and personal experiences and memories.

SARAH WALKER-HOLT / PROLONG

‘I predominantly use objects that already exist in the world, that have generally been discarded until I have come along and seen a potential beyond what they currently exist as.’

The word ‘prolong’ seems to permeate every facet of the Sarah’s practice. Her work consists of mechanisms which allow the piece to physically pivot and lengthen. Sarah’s practice involves the recontextualisation of found objects beyond their original function and purpose through the alteration of their forms. 
Sarah has used items of domesticity, such as kitchen utensils, which she then deconstructs to ‘prolong’ their purpose, while also creating a new ornamental purpose for the object to enact, which rejects its initial utilitarian function, while still acknowledging its relationship with the human body, ironically as an extension of the body.

Sarah’s works acknowledges the role of the wearer, intrigued by the interaction between piece and body /wearer, extending her process onto the wearer, the piece enables wearer to take on the role of maker to reconfigure formations, engaging in a collaborative dialogue with the artist. Further extending the potential/possibilites of the work.
‘The definition of prolong below states that it can be to ‘lengthen in extent’. I see extent as being a range or level of jewellery practice that can push outcomes beyond what is preconceived or expected.’


GILLIAN DEERY / RESPOND 

“I work to construct objects out of sterling silver sheet and found objects, without using solder. Material play and pre-meditated action work in tandem to facilitate the transformation of two-dimensional sheet into a 3-dimensional form.

In this process I utilise a responsive and reflexive relationship between myself and the sterling silver, where, chance, nonchalance, material processes, risk, failure, time, my judgment and control as a maker generates and arrives at making outcomes.’

The word ‘respond’ suggests the correlation between artist and material, a reciprocal process where play, chance, and the inherent qualities of the medium informs the artist’s process. The physical manifestation of the work implies a collaborative process between artist and her chosen materials.
Gillian constructs her objects employing the use of an alternative approach to formulate and fuse various elements together. Utilising the historical associations of sterling silver metal specifically as a material which signifies wealth in traditional jewellery construction and adornment, Gillian addresses the traditional and historical notions of her materials, forming new objects which reference the initial associations within a reorganisation of its structures.

view more Prolong images on facebook

The National


Fingers annual Group Show

October 28th - November 16th















Tray#1, Button-hole Brooch, 2012
Wooden tray, Brass, Acrylic, Paper, Copper, Brass nut and bolt















Tray#2, Button-hole Brooch, 2012

Wooden tray, Brass, Acrylic, Paper, Copper, Brass nut and bolt



Fingers
2 KITCHENER ST (CNR KHARTOUM PLACE)
AUCKLAND CENTRAL

OPENING HOURS
MON - FRI 10AM - 5.30PM
SAT & SUN 11AM - 4.30PM


PH/FAX 64 9 3733974
email enquiry@fingers.co.nz

Monday, October 8, 2012

Objective Art Awards 2012

Mangere Arts Centre - Ngā Tohu o Uenuku

Exhibition: 13 October - 11 November
Opening:Friday 12 Oct, 6.30pm

I am happy to say that I have again been selected for Objective which is an annual event celebrating art with three-dimensional objects, including ceramics, glass, jewellery, wood, metalwork, craft and textiles.

This year’s theme from Kingitanga's Princess Te Puea Herangi: “If I am to dream, I dream alone. If we all dream together then we shall achieve” - Princess Te Puea Herangi.
http://www.aucklandcouncil.govt.nz

Premier, 2011, Domestic implements, Brass, Vintage thread
Garden twine, Brass, Brass nuts & Bolts,Bone, felt, 36x18x5cm


"Comprised of multiple components that until this moment stood unaccompanied within another form, now evoke an unexpected unity that is complete" Sarah Walker-Holt 2012

Mangere Arts Centre - Ngā Tohu o Uenuku
Corner Bader Drive and Orly Ave,
Mangere
09 262 5789 
Monday-Friday 9am-5pm, 
Weekends 10am-4pm, 
Closed on public holidays


FUTURE BUILDING OR THE ART OF LIVING CREATIVELY

PAPAKURA ART GALLERY
EXHIBITION DATES : 13.10.2012 to 17.11.2012
Opening:10.30am Saturday 13 october 2012

SO GIVE ME THE NIGHT : THE ART OF RICHARD ORJIS and FUTURE BUILDING OR THE ART OF LIVING CREATIVELY, are Southside Arts Festival 2012 events. Both exhibitions feature the work of artists connected to South Auckland’s tertiary visual arts faculty at Manukau Institute of Technology.



FUTURE BUILDING OR THE ART OF LIVING CREATIVELY, curated by MIT School of Visual Arts head of school Grant Thompson, presents recent graduates from the School who are establishing themselves as professionals in the world of visual arts. The exhibition will present their work and stories; and will be accompanied by a panel discussion examining strategies and approaches to earning a living in the creative sector.


Sarah Dufty | Jessamyn Gemming | Julie Layzell | Sokpart Pao | Francis Pesamino | Bella Smith | Jackson Tavai | Loa Toetu’u | Sho Wada | Sarah Walker-Holt | Katrina Willcox

Curated by Grant Thompson

SO GIVE ME THE NIGHT : THE ART OF RICHARD ORJIS, surveys the works of Auckland based artist Richard Orjis; a multimedia artist well known for his hot-housed floral montages and his series of hand painted mud portraits. The work he produces revolves around three main intersecting and fluid connections: of nature, beauty and mortality. According to Orjis: “Nature can be seen as beautiful, pure, and intrinsically good, but also as dangerous and destructive, a spectacle of the devourers and the devoured.” A tense relationship of attraction and repulsion feeds into his work, exploring notions of beauty laced with an undercurrent of ugliness, or vice versa. Richard Orjis lives and works in Auckland. He completed his Master of Fine Arts at Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland, in 2006 having previously earned a BVA in 2001 at Auckland University of Technology. He currently lectures at MIT School of Visual Arts. Orjis has exhibited extensively, including shows in New York, Basel, Miami, Madrid, Barcelona, Paris and Auckland. 


PART OF THE SOUTHSIDE ARTS FESTIVAL 2012
http://www.southside.org.nz/

ASSOCIATED PROGRAMMES :
Saturday 13 October 11.30am: Artist Richard Orjis in conversation with Ron Brownson, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki Senior Curator NZ & Pacific Art.

Saturday 27 October 10.30am: A panel discussion regarding establishing a visual arts career. Speakers include artists, staff of the MIT School of Visual Arts and industry specialists.

Finger Knitting workshop with Sinead Jury. Monday 22 October, 1pm to 3 pm.
Koha.


Papakura Art Gallery 
10 Averill Street 
Papakura  
Monday to Friday
9am to 5pm 
Saturday 10am to 2pm
gallery@papakuraarts.co.nz
092977510
Papakura Gallery

Monday, August 27, 2012

'Work in Progress'

Presentation Winners Marzee Graduate Prize 2011

5 August until 29 September 2012



 


I am happy to announce that I have been invited to participate in Galerie Marzee's annual Graduation Show. I wish I could have been there for the presentations and would like to congradulate the 2012 winners;

Jonathan Hens, Kateřina Matěchová, Juliane Noack,
Penka Arabova and Alexander Friedrich,
Richard Elenbaas, Eva Girbes, Louise Payjack-Guillou,
Évelie Mouila and Laurie Schram

http://www.facebook.com/#!/media/set/?set=a.260207774095778.59394.100003196713897&type=1

http://www.marzee.nl/galerie/

Galerie Marzee
Lage Markt 3
6511 VK Nijmegen
The Netherlands


Phone
+31 24 3229670
Fax
+31 24 3604688

Friday, June 8, 2012

Portrait of an Artist/Sophie Merkens

Hum Salon
6 June - 19 June
123 Grafton Road, Grafton, Auckland


Earlier this year I was approached by an awesome emerging photographer called Sophie Merkens, who told me she was taking panoramic photos of Auckland Artists in their studios and would I mind if she paid me a visit. Of course I said yes and now here we have it an extremely long book of 30 Auckland Artists. Sophie has some of the images on show and 100 limited edition books........, go check it out! 

Sarah Walker-Holt Studio/Sophie Merkens 2012
Sophie is a great photographer, she made me feel extremely at ease as I babbled away to her while she did her stuff. It's amazing how the distortion of taking a panoramic close up, in a small space, makes it look larger than it is. This is the jewellery making area of my studio and behind me, up the steps, is my semi-industrial sewing machine, art books and 2D area with a large table for me to spread out on. In the centre of the image, next to me you can see a ladder which pulls out and leads to a mezzanine that I use for storage. My studio is still a work in progress - getting it set up. It is an awesome space that my husband built especially for me out of predominantly demo materials, he's a gem!

http://www.sophiemerkens.com/

http://www.photographyfestival.org.nz/programme/detail.cfm?exhibition_id=1612&exhibition_date=1 june 2012
  

Thursday, June 7, 2012

Neckware 9

Masterworks
77 Ponsonby Rd
Ponsonby
Auckland
+64 9 378 1256

Debbie Adamson Vanessa Arthur Becky Bliss Mary Curtis
Ilse-Marie Erl Sharon Fitness Victoria McIntosh Karen Michaud
Brendon Monson Tania Patterson Cheryl Sills Sarah Walker-Holt Kathryn Yeats Raewyn Walsh 

Neckware 9 displays fourteen exquisite pieces that where selected by Finn McCahon Jones and Masterworks owner Eloise Kitson. In Jone's opening speech he indicated that the ideas these works shared was one of a domestic or personal realm and that the stories expressed, accordingly, in each artist statement suggested they could all easily be kept by the makers as memento mori.




The Purpose of Things, Neck-piece, 2012

"The chop sticks you put in your handbag when you buy sushi but use your fingers instead; the electrical wire your husband retrieves from a public rubbish bin after he tells you it won’t be there when you have finished your shopping; the 40 year old reel of vintage thread that your mother brought over from Britain when your family emigrated as a child; the jars of beads that you have collected from taking apart broken wooden life drawing models and massage car seat covers that a friend thought you might use at some point; the neckware that initiates relationships between artist, wearer and viewer." Sarah Walker-Holt

Tuesday, March 20, 2012

The Ringmaster

The Ringmaster, an article by Mark Amery in the New Zealand Listener (March 10-16 2012) is an overview of our Contemporary Jewellery scene and the part that Peter Decker’s fulfils as a leader and his ability to present the emerging jewellers with opportunities in this field of creativity.

Monday, January 30, 2012

JEMPOSIUM: JEWELLERY OR WHAT

http://www.jemposium.co.nz

International Jewellery Symposium: 10 - 13 February 2012
Whitireia NZ Performance Centre, 25 Vivian St, Wellington

Premiere opening followed by two days of themed presentations, panel-led discussion, PechaKucha 20x20, Masterclass sessions and Pin Swap

Speckers
Atelier Ted Noten (artist, Netherlands)
Manon van Kouswijk, (artist, Netherlands/Australia)
Karl Fritsch (artist, Germany/New Zealand)
Fabrizio Tridenti (artist, Italy)
Liesbeth den Besten (art historian, Netherlands)

Topics
Ideas into materials; Materials into ideas; Distribution

Exhibitions;
PHOTOSPACE
1st floor, 37 Courtenay Place
Wanna Swap your ring – Atelier Ted Noten
30th January – 15th February
You are invited to exchange your ring for a pink Mis Piggy ring

Night’s Plutonian Shore – Julia deVille
7th –15th February

THISTLE HALL
293 Cuba Street, Te Aro
Situational Personalities – Sarah Walker-Holt
Tuesday 7th February – Sunday 12th February 2012
Opening: Tuesday 7th February 2012, 6.00pm
http://www.thistlehall.org.nz/gallery.html

NEW ZEALAND ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS
1 Queens Wharf
Selected Masterclass participants

TOI PONEKE
The Wellington Arts Centre, 61-63 Abel Smith Street
Handshake: Prentice & Prodigy
Thursday 9th February – Sunday 19th February 2012
Opening: Thursday 9th February 2012, 5.30 - 7.30pm
http://www.handshakejewellery.com/

HAMISH MCKAY
1st Floor, 39 Ghuznee Street
Der Tiefenglanz – Karl Fritsch, Gavin Hipkins
Thursday 9th February – Saturday 3rd March 2012
Opening: Thursday 9th February 2012, 6.00pm
http://www.hamishmckaygallery.com/

Supporting Exhibitions;
WELLINGTON
BARTLEY + COMPANY ART
56a Ghuznee Street
Three jewelers: Lisa Walker, Areta Wilkinson & Sofia Tekela-Smith
Tuesday 31st January- Saturday 25th February 2012
Opening: Sunday 12 February, 5.30 - 7.30pm
http://www.bartleyandcompanyart.co.nz/

BOWEN GALLERIES
39 Ghuznee Street
Swatch – Warwick Freeman window exhibition
Friday 10th February- Friday 24th February 2012
‘Room 22’- Warwick Freeman
Monday 20th February- Saturday 10th March 2012
http://www.bowengalleries.co.nz/

MUSEUM OF WELLINGTON CITY & SEA
Queens Wharf, 3 Jervois Quayn
Host a Brooch – Jacqui Chan
Medals lecture
Telling Tales
http://www.museumswellington.org.nz/

{SUITE} GALLERY
108 Oriental Parade
Sugar High – Cat Auburn
Wednesday 8th February – Saturday 25th February 2012
Opening: Wednesday 8th February 2012, 7.00pm
Telling Tales
http://www.suite.co.nz/

AVID GALLERY
48 Victoria Street
Colonial Goose – Pauline Bern
Saturday 4th February - Wednesday 15th February, 2012

QUOIL
49 Willis Street
Members exhibition*
http://www.quoil.co.nz/

THE MUSEUM OF NEW ZEALAND TE PAPA TONGAREWA
55 Cable Street, Wellington
Collecting Contemporary
9 June 2011 – June 2012
www.tepapa.govt.nz/collectingcontemporary

THE DOWSE
45 Laings Rd, Lower Hutt
Cluster, collection exhibition
Saturday 11th February – Sunday 13th May 2012
http://www.dowse.org.nz/

PATAKA MUSEUM OF ARTS AND CULTURE
17 Parumoana Street, Porirua
Metadecorative – Mary Curtis
Saturday 28th January – Sunday 26th February 2012
http://www.pataka.org.nz/

AUCKLAND
FINGERS
2 Kitchener Street, Auckland (opposite Auckland Art Gallery)
Jewelism
Tuesday 7th February-Friday 24th February 2012
Opening: Tuesday 7th February 2012 5:30-7.00pm
http://www.fingers.co.nz/exhibition_program.htm

OBJECTSPACE
8 Ponsonby Rd, Ponsonby, Auckland
Manon van Kouswijk and Fabrizio Tridenti and Atelier Ted Noten
Wednesday 8th February – Saturday 10th March 2012
Opening: Wednesday 8th February 2012, 5.30pm- 8.00pm: Floor talk by Manon van Kouswijk and Fabrizio Trident
http://www.objectspace.org.nz/

THE PAH HOMESTEAD, TSB BANK WALLACE ARTS CENTRE
72 Hillsborough Rd, Hillsborough
RETROSPECT
The Pah Homestead, TSB Bank Wallace Arts Centre Wednesday 1st February –Sunday 15th April 2012 and Wallace Gallery Morrinsville Thursday 19th April – Sunday 10th June 2012
Opening: Tuesday 31st January 2012, 6.00pm
http://www.tsbbankwallaceartscentre.org.nz/

MASTERWORKS
77 Ponsonby Road, Ponsonby, Auckland
JEMposium Reflections
Monday 20th February- Saturday 10th March 2012
http://www.masterworksgallery.com/

CHRISTCHURCH
THE NATIONAL
158 High St, Christchurch
Octavia Cook
The Possession Obsession of Cocoa Vitako
Friday 17th February – Thursday 8th March 2012
Opening: Friday 17th February, 5.30pm

Thistle Hall Gallery

Situational Personalities
10.00am - 6.00pm Tuesday 7th - Sunday12th Febraury.
OPENING: 6.00 Tuesday 7 February.

Thistle Hall
CNR CUBA & ARTHUR STREETS
WELLINGTON
PH 3843088


OFFICE@THISTLEHALL.ORG.NZ.
http://www.thistlehall.org.nz/gallery.html

























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