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August 2010: Jo Torr. Vahine. 2 July to 1 August 2010.
August 2010:John Kelman. 29 June to 8 August 2010.
April 2010: Ewan McDougall. I Must Not Use so Much Colour. 30 April to 7 June 2010.
April 2010: Diana Smillie. The Rose-Papered Room. 19 April to 7 June 2010.
The Real Art RoadShow (the black truck) For three days in the School Holidays a black expanding truck will be parked just inside the entrance to the Art Gallery Garden and open 10am to 4pm each day. This mobile 78sq m gallery and project by Fiona Campbell presents a wide selection of New Zealand artists’ work for people to enjoy. For more background check out www.realartroadshow.co.nz and Real Art Roadshow the Book. A lot of the artists also have works in Aigantighe’s collection so we will be having an exhibition called House Truck in the House part of Aigantighe featuring some of them at the same time.
Craig Freeborn. Old Traditions / New Positions Craig Freeborn was born in Timaru and completed a Diploma in Fine Arts at Aoraki Polytechnic. He paints from his Dunedin studio and teaches part-time at an Early Childhood Centre. Of his work he states: in my paintings I often use seemingly incongruous combinations of imagery and sensory overload to deliberately unsettle the viewer. The work reflects on an anarchic and pessimistic world view; a warning about the state of civilization or humanity. I've appropriated fragments from medical, political and marketing images. A Positioning in Radiography book was a main source of images which decompose in their new environment. The distortion of figure-ground relationship and different techniques of paint application in strongly contrasting colours all help to polarise the stability, familiarity and accepted meaning of these images.
November December 09: Andrew Craig. Geo-morph
Sam Mahon. Steal
Trust Aoraki Awards Polychrome August 09: Terrence Johnstone - Mystery Terrence Johnstone was born in Blenheim and worked for many years in a paua shell factory then a vineyard. He had enjoyed art at school and when he later moved to Timaru he found that his desire to paint blossomed. He says that he was on Caroline Bay one day and “it just clicked”. He knew he wanted to be a professional painter so he enrolled to study art at Aoraki Polytechnic. Artist statement: This exhibition is about the concept of Mystery. I want to get people to see beyond my paintings and to see what ’s in them. Sometimes what’s in them just happens and sometimes it’s conscious. Music inspires my painting. When I am playing classical music landscape scenes emerge in my work. I paint an undercoat and then a background colour. I paint on acrylic then add a bit of water and Indian ink and let them do their thing. | click here for photos of the opening...
Wall Talking by Jane Zusters
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School Holiday Programme's
PLUS!!! Every school holidays bring your kids to the gallery for Historic Painting Dress-ups, Colour Fairy, Clown and Jester Dress-ups. You can see Art Car and there are Colour Sweets to guess and win and a new Art Competition with great art pack prizes. Also a new Art Hunt every holidays. past exhibitionsArtarama 8th - 23rd August 2009 Melvin Day. Stabat Mater 13 June until 26 July 2009 Polychrome 6th - 22nd November 2008 Jane Venis Freakquent Viewing 2 September 2008 – 12 October 2008 Rua Pick Te Whare o Anupihi 6 December 2008 – 1 March 2009 Treasures of Aigantighe: The 50/50 Project Until 8 October 2008 Aboriginal Paintings from Central Australia November 2007 – March 2008 Mike Armstrong Regional Departures March 2008 – May 2008 Richard Pearse - Brian Pearson 6th March - 29th April 2008 Revenge - Geoff Cloake 12th June - 29th July 2007 Deidre Copeland Friday 31 August 2007 ARTACK ! 21 November – 5 March 2007 Generations 2 December - 5 March 2007 |
The Friends enjoy supporting the gallery. It is important to note that they are not involved with the management or curation. For all Aigantighe Gallery enquiries please contact: |
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Friends of the Aigantighe Art Gallery,
PO Box 780, Timaru, New Zealand |
School holiday programme's are hugely popular and keep families occupied for hours. Aigantighe ‘firsts’ include Art Hunt booklets which really get children looking at artworks and Chen Tse-Lung the 600 year old Chinese warrior sculpture who comes alive! Also on are Art competitions, Colour Costumes with treats for all and great prizes. Colour Puppets take over the Aigantighe in the holidays and invite children to see the art works through their “fantasy museum” eyes.