2011 Calendar by Tim Denee

If you’re a bit late in get­ting your 2011 cal­en­dar sor­ted out, you could do worse to down­load and print out Wel­ling­ton graph­ic design­er Tim Den­ee’s lovely (and free!) design. Get it over at his web­site.

PhotoChop III

On this week at Thistle Hall is the bien­ni­al Pho­toChop exhib­i­tion, centred around the art of col­lage. It’s all about tak­ing the ordin­ary paper mater­i­als, and with scis­sors and glue, turn­ing it into some­thing new, with a selec­tion of fine works includ­ing repur­posed post­cards, a scen­ic Uruwera set­ting for Wil­lie Api­ata and a couple of […]

JUST GOOD STUFF is back for 2010

Craft mad­ness!  Cre­at­ive cre­ations!  6 days to solve all your Christ­mas shop­ping needs, while sup­port­ing loc­al cre­at­ives – it’s prac­tic­ally guilt-free! Fea­tur­ing JUST GOOD STUFF from: Genevieve Pack­er, Gabby O’Con­nor, Lucy Adams, Phil­lipa Cow­drey, Ala­nah Gib­son, Wendy Neale, Ngaere MacKin­non, Flora Way­cott, Isel Greta Jane, Her­mon & son, Flora Gray, Tess & Gab, Mary Adams, […]

TAWA5 Best Art Experience

Art exper­i­ences often don’t require wordy explan­a­tions, but whatever these exper­i­ences could be classed as, they def­in­itely moved us.

Jewels of Whitireia

On Thursday night the Annu­al 2010 Whitireia Stu­dent Con­tem­por­ary Jew­ellery Auc­tion will be held at Mighty Mighty with Nation­al Radio presenter Kim Hill con­trolling the ham­mer as auc­tion­eer. Donated con­tem­por­ary jew­ellery is being sent from all over New Zea­l­and for the event includ­ing pieces from con­tem­por­ary jew­ellery prac­ti­tion­ers Peter Deck­ers, Mat­thew McIntyre Wilson and Owen […]

Somewhat mixed up

On Wed­nes­day night, Mix & Mash was launched at the City Gal­lery, ask­ing people to use data to make new things. Of course, our Tom has been doing that for years, but pain­fully by hand, I believe. That should­n’t put you off enter­ing, rather it should inspire you. In fact, you should go read the […]

Oh Baby, Baby

This Fri­day and Sat­urday night, film maker Julie Hill (who’s name you may recog­nise from her work at Radio New Zea­l­and and on Front­seat ) is screen­ing the premiere of her doc­u­ment­ary, Baby where are the fine things you prom­ised me? at the Film Archive. The doco fol­lows loc­al act­or Steph­en Bain and his protest […]

Art Monsters

If you’re yet to ven­ture down into the cata­combs of Mygalaxi gal­lery at 39 Dix­on St, this week­end might be a good oppor­tun­ity. To go with their scary (but not too scary, unless you have an aver­sion to steam­punk, tikis, creepy-cute jew­ellery and retro robots) Mon­sters exhib­i­tion, they’re run­ning a Hal­loween Mar­ket on Sat­urday and […]

Review: Inuit Time

While the Wells Group’s pro-unem­ploy­­ment install­a­tion piece con­tin­ues to anger and bewilder ordin­ary, hard­work­ing Kiwis, artist­ic mas­ter­mind Tao Wells con­tin­ues to, er, work. In addi­tion to the Let­ting Space install­a­tion, Wells is present­ing two per­form­ances of his theatre show Inu­it Time, once described as “an insult to the fun­da­ment­als of theatre”. The first per­form­ance was […]

The Beneficiary’s Office

Artist and pro­vocateur Tao Wells is caus­ing a mighty ruck­us with his new art install­a­tion pro­ject, The Bene­fi­ciary’s Office. As part of the Let­ting Space pro­gramme – which pairs artists with unused com­mer­cial spaces – Wells has estab­lished a cor­por­ate office for the Wells Group, a PR com­pany which argues that the unem­ployed are more […]