'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

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
  

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

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.

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/

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