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Affordable Arts Sale
Members' Exhibition 26th November - 20th December |
The Kumeu Art Awards 2018
November is here meaning another much anticipated Kumeu Arts Awards, recognising and celebrating New Zealand artists and linking Kumeu to wider arts communities. Prizes of up to $1,000 in value, generously donated by local businesses were awarded by Linda Tyler at a prestigious ceremony on November the 3rd. This year we had another great response to our call for entries and a large number of works submitted of an incredibly high standard. The exhibition, on now until the 24th of November includes over 80 works from locally, regionally and internationally acclaimed artists. All works are for sale in our gallery.
November is here meaning another much anticipated Kumeu Arts Awards, recognising and celebrating New Zealand artists and linking Kumeu to wider arts communities. Prizes of up to $1,000 in value, generously donated by local businesses were awarded by Linda Tyler at a prestigious ceremony on November the 3rd. This year we had another great response to our call for entries and a large number of works submitted of an incredibly high standard. The exhibition, on now until the 24th of November includes over 80 works from locally, regionally and internationally acclaimed artists. All works are for sale in our gallery.
Michelle Durrant -Stunning Landscapes and Incredible Astro Photo
October 16th - 27th.
Opening Night - Friday 19 October 2018, 5pm - 7pm
We are privileged to have 2017 NZ National Geographic Photographer of the Year Finalist Michelle Durrant exhibiting at Kumeu Arts Centre. This will be your opportunity to view and purchase prints by this emerging, fine art landscape photographer.
Michelle Durrant Photography brings you New Zealand Landscape rarely seen before.
"I travel our beautiful country, "Aotearoa", in pursuit of the "One" image that stands out in the crowd. I describe my style as more of an artist with technical skills with an eye for a different perspective of our unique landscape."
https://michelledurrantphotography.com
Michelle Durrant Photography brings you New Zealand Landscape rarely seen before.
"I travel our beautiful country, "Aotearoa", in pursuit of the "One" image that stands out in the crowd. I describe my style as more of an artist with technical skills with an eye for a different perspective of our unique landscape."
https://michelledurrantphotography.com
Reach Out Art Exhibition
This week we are very proud to be part of Mental Health Awareness week with an exhibition of work by people involved with Connect Supporting Recovery group. Connect have weekly classes here. This exhibition is a chance to express mental health health awareness through the creativity of art. Today the group held an opening and Karakia then took part in a Harakeke workshop. Come and show support from now until Friday 12pm and add to the shared canvas in our gallery.
This week we are very proud to be part of Mental Health Awareness week with an exhibition of work by people involved with Connect Supporting Recovery group. Connect have weekly classes here. This exhibition is a chance to express mental health health awareness through the creativity of art. Today the group held an opening and Karakia then took part in a Harakeke workshop. Come and show support from now until Friday 12pm and add to the shared canvas in our gallery.
Class of Amber Emm- Exhibition on now until Saturday Oct 6th.
Works in oil, acrylic, watercolour and pastel produced by participants in Amber's weekly classes held at Kumeu Arts Centre.
Free exhibition. All works for sale.
Works in oil, acrylic, watercolour and pastel produced by participants in Amber's weekly classes held at Kumeu Arts Centre.
Free exhibition. All works for sale.
Land Drawings - Kiri Abraham
Now until Sep 22nd
Opening Friday Sep 14th. 6-8pm
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This collection of drawings and paintings are part of an ongoing exploration of the personal relationship between one person (artist, Mother, Pakeha, small town dweller..) and Nature. They investigate connection and disconnection, form and time. The processes used to create these works have become a part of the subject matter as well, encouraging a mindfulness of the Earth’s complex yet fragile systems, within which, life flourishes.
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Ceramics 2018 with paintings by Alice Springford-Gough
Waimauku School Exhibition
7-18th August 2018
A collection of works by the talented students at local school Waimauku. This colourful and creative display will brighten up your day.
7-18th August 2018
A collection of works by the talented students at local school Waimauku. This colourful and creative display will brighten up your day.
Drawn-In Exhibition
July 23 – August 4
Opening event Friday July 27. 5-7pm
This collection serves to highlight the value of drawing. There is a range of works on display by our members as well as local children which aim to demonstrate the breadth of processes, media and motivation involved in drawing. People draw for different purposes. For some there is no purpose – the process is everything. We draw to think, see, relax, connect. When I draw- I truly switch off from the endless chatter and become freer.
We have included drawings in this exhibition by local Children who attend classes here to serve as a useful reminder that as Picasso famously said “Every child is born an artist; the problem is how to remain one once we grow up.”
July 23 – August 4
Opening event Friday July 27. 5-7pm
This collection serves to highlight the value of drawing. There is a range of works on display by our members as well as local children which aim to demonstrate the breadth of processes, media and motivation involved in drawing. People draw for different purposes. For some there is no purpose – the process is everything. We draw to think, see, relax, connect. When I draw- I truly switch off from the endless chatter and become freer.
We have included drawings in this exhibition by local Children who attend classes here to serve as a useful reminder that as Picasso famously said “Every child is born an artist; the problem is how to remain one once we grow up.”
A Song of Land and Sea
An Exhibition by Samantha Stokes
1st–21st July
A Song of Land and Sea is a rich exhibition experience celebrating the wildness and beauty of our native animals and landscapes. Created by multifaceted artist and designer Samantha Stokes, large digitally created works explore the native animals of New Zealand. She shares her creative process in video content accompanying each artwork, providing a behind the scenes on her digital painting. Most happy when splitting her time between adventuring outdoors and creative pursuits, Samantha’s connection with our wildlife and landscapes is what inspired this series of work. Depicting some of our native animals that are endangered or threatened, Samantha is proud to support various conservation organisations in donating funds from works sold towards conservation efforts for those animals.
Accompanying workshops for Children
Alongside the exhibition are two day long, youth art workshops on July 13th and July 16th in conjunction with Creative Matters. These will be an opportunity to learn some interesting facts about some NZ native animals and the environment they live in, and hear from the artist about her artistic process and exhibition and respond with your own art making. Visit http://www.creativematters.co.nz/holiday-workshops-for-children.htmlto find out more about the workshops.
An Exhibition by Samantha Stokes
1st–21st July
A Song of Land and Sea is a rich exhibition experience celebrating the wildness and beauty of our native animals and landscapes. Created by multifaceted artist and designer Samantha Stokes, large digitally created works explore the native animals of New Zealand. She shares her creative process in video content accompanying each artwork, providing a behind the scenes on her digital painting. Most happy when splitting her time between adventuring outdoors and creative pursuits, Samantha’s connection with our wildlife and landscapes is what inspired this series of work. Depicting some of our native animals that are endangered or threatened, Samantha is proud to support various conservation organisations in donating funds from works sold towards conservation efforts for those animals.
Accompanying workshops for Children
Alongside the exhibition are two day long, youth art workshops on July 13th and July 16th in conjunction with Creative Matters. These will be an opportunity to learn some interesting facts about some NZ native animals and the environment they live in, and hear from the artist about her artistic process and exhibition and respond with your own art making. Visit http://www.creativematters.co.nz/holiday-workshops-for-children.htmlto find out more about the workshops.
Sara Shekarchi
June 18-30
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"Her flyer is unlike the others in the rack. It is torn, painted on, collaged - a juxtaposition of a designer’s delicate considered touch, alongside the artist’s raw experimentation. It is representative of the artistic qualities Sara imbues in her work.
Layers of paper suggest the layers of time,the exhibition revealing Sara’s artistic development and her personal and physical journey.Hand written words (some touchingly misspelled) are also reflective of this. “The Pilgrim disembarked from the bus. What a pure sky”. ...” There is honesty and accuracy in the purposeful mishmash of elements in this flyer, the same honesty is prevalent in Sara’s art, which makes it distinctive. Every surface is adjourned; canvases, furniture and objects are intricately decorated. You’ll find the gallery transformed into a visual feast of line, pattern and colour. A glimpse into a personal story- of learning, exploration and migration, tracing the steps of an artist and a life." JN |
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The Emanating Light - The Auckland Festival of Photography
May 28 - June 16th
Some photographers may find the light emanating from a window, from the horizon, the night sky, the rising sun, the surface of the ocean, or inside themselves. But, how will they capture this with their cameras?
Image Credit - The Emanating Light by Jago Neal (Above)
Steampunk
Members' Exhibition
7th - 26th May
This exhibition focused on Steampunk inspired art works. Members can enter up to three artworks. Accompanying Goggle Workshop will be held at Kumeu Arts Centre. Also a Steam Punk fashion show and fancy dress party will be held to celebrate the exhibition on Saturday the 12th of May at 5-8pm.
Members' Exhibition
7th - 26th May
This exhibition focused on Steampunk inspired art works. Members can enter up to three artworks. Accompanying Goggle Workshop will be held at Kumeu Arts Centre. Also a Steam Punk fashion show and fancy dress party will be held to celebrate the exhibition on Saturday the 12th of May at 5-8pm.
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Peter Purcell
Monday the 23rd of April - Saturday 5th of May Opening: Tuesday 24th April. 4:30 - 7:30pm "I have a friend who I anticipate conversing with. From an early age, I was mesmerised by this friends stories and fictitious elaborations. His ability to seduce one into believing his tales to be reality is remarkable. When I look at the work of Peter Purcell I feel lured into the same illusion. I’m joining in a good old yarn with the artist and being taken for a ride around his excitable imagination. These animated representations are a combination of memorabilia, and the colourful qualities that is Peters fictional (or non) interior narratives. The pleasure of looking at Purcell’s paintings is that the narrative keeps on playing. Like a good Shakespeare sonnet, it needs iterating to really come to grips with what is actually being said." Yvonne Abercrombie |
The Kumeu Arts Centre Expansion Fundraising Art Auction
7th – 21st of April.
Many will know of our plans to expand and improve our facilities. While the Rodney Local Board are currently reviewing the project, we anticipate that expansion will enable us to more of our services, including exhibitions, classes, workshops and performances, in a better, more functional building. Kumeu Arts Centre will be able to increase its capacity and offer a more diverse range of options to our community.
However, we are currently a long way from having the money to make this dream become a reality. Therefore, we are running this Art Auction to help fundraise. By purchasing artworks from this auction people can help our cause while acquiring quality Art works by prominent and local artists such as; James F Ormsby, Gavin Chai, Amber Emm (Artwork seen below), Trevor Parker, and Judy Stokes. Many of the artists who have generously donated works to this auction have been involved with Kumeu Arts Centre in some way, some for a long time, either through teaching, exhibiting or volunteering here.
7th – 21st of April.
Many will know of our plans to expand and improve our facilities. While the Rodney Local Board are currently reviewing the project, we anticipate that expansion will enable us to more of our services, including exhibitions, classes, workshops and performances, in a better, more functional building. Kumeu Arts Centre will be able to increase its capacity and offer a more diverse range of options to our community.
However, we are currently a long way from having the money to make this dream become a reality. Therefore, we are running this Art Auction to help fundraise. By purchasing artworks from this auction people can help our cause while acquiring quality Art works by prominent and local artists such as; James F Ormsby, Gavin Chai, Amber Emm (Artwork seen below), Trevor Parker, and Judy Stokes. Many of the artists who have generously donated works to this auction have been involved with Kumeu Arts Centre in some way, some for a long time, either through teaching, exhibiting or volunteering here.
Beyond Representation
Yvonne Abercrombie
“I don’t paint the thing, I paint the ‘idea’ of the thing.”
Yvonne’s approach to painting is with an affluent painting aesthetic and
vivacious subject matter. She intentionally forgoes the use of literalism, in
subject and context, to pursue imaginative inspiration as content for her work.
The anonymous figure typifies a more intellectual representation of the figure
rather than a physical portrayal. This gives the artist scope to produce a range
of narratives that are intangible, providing the viewer with the opportunity to
entertain multiple readings.
Yvonne’s art practice is an outcome of continually challenging herself with the
physicality of paint, and with her connectedness to the subject.
Yvonne Abercrombie
“I don’t paint the thing, I paint the ‘idea’ of the thing.”
Yvonne’s approach to painting is with an affluent painting aesthetic and
vivacious subject matter. She intentionally forgoes the use of literalism, in
subject and context, to pursue imaginative inspiration as content for her work.
The anonymous figure typifies a more intellectual representation of the figure
rather than a physical portrayal. This gives the artist scope to produce a range
of narratives that are intangible, providing the viewer with the opportunity to
entertain multiple readings.
Yvonne’s art practice is an outcome of continually challenging herself with the
physicality of paint, and with her connectedness to the subject.
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Craig Humberstone, Felicity Swan & Madelaine Abey-Koch
Group Exhibition 12th – 24th March 2018 Opening: 1pm - 3pm, Saturday 17h March Fantasy & Abstraction The stimulation of the North Shore beaches of the mid 50’s to the 70’s, their natural detritus, wave motions and cavorting figures left lasting memories on these three artists. Some of these themes are found in their work. Craig Humberstone, Felicity Swan and Madelaine Abey-Koch are joining forces to exhibit their work under the title “Fantasy and Abstraction “ Each has developed their subjects from either mind or reality; the results give rise to fantastical images expressed in painting and ceramic sculpture. Felicity’s current approach is intuitive which has led to a unique form of abstract expressionism of colour, line and movement out of which figures emerge. Felicity has shown her work at Highwic and Northart Gallery and numerous galleries abroad. Craig’s paintings provoke us to view the natural world in a fresh light. Their detail and unusual composition deliberately push at the boundaries of our notions of nature. His work is regularly exhibited at NorthArt, Depot Artspace, and Highwic. One of his paintings was recently acquired by the Wallace ArtsTrust. Last year Craig entered a painting in 5th International Art Competition in Seoul for which he won the Bronze prize. Madelaine’s ceramics won a Kumeu Arts Award in 2017. The judge, Andrew Rankin described her work as a “beautiful example of… found material and ceramics”. Her work is sculptural and takes its themes from the sea and coast. http://craighumberstone.co.nz/ http://felicityswan.com |
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Evolving Aotearoa
Members Exhibition 19th February - 10th March Our members were asked to consider the title ‘Evolving Aotearoa’ and interpret it’s meaning. This amazing collection of work focuses on topics such as the changing N.Z landscape, ecology, threats, developments, even spirituality. Some of the artists themselves have moved to New Zealand and now consider themselves part of its evolution. |
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Dana Dadi
Solo Exhibition 5th - 17th February Dana was born in Persia. Since Immigrating to New Zealand Dana has created imaginative art work using symbols and sharp colours that create a magical world and challenge the viewer to spend time trying to gauge its meanings. |
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Arwen Flowers
Solo Exhibition 16th January - 3rd February Opening: 10am - 3pm, Saturday 20th January Journey - the last 10 years As I’ve moved forward with my art practice, over time I’ve had the tendency to think of completed work as not very good, wanting to put it away and finding myself uncomfortable with showing it in the public arena. This year a good friend encouraged me by pointing out that my older artwork is good, just different to the new pieces because I keep growing and learning. This exhibition is intended to present a creative timeline that spans a decade of my life — events including marriage, children, moving house, changing jobs and completing an artists residency have contributed to changes in my work. I have moved through investigating techniques and materials, wanting more energetic colour, added texture, greater abstraction, then less of all those and more realism instead. Recently I’ve been developing how I work in response to wanting to connect more meaningfully with my artmaking and the finished pieces, bringing new changes again. Through the experience of collecting my artwork together and displaying it closely in one space for this exhibition, I have become less critical of my past artistic creations, experiments, and experiences. I can see clearly how they are all important and valuable in their own right, as they have continued to show curious traces of influence in new work, making it uniquely mine. |
