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Affordable Arts Sale 2022
Both galleries Nov 29th - Dec 23 This was a stunning show with 115 artworks entered by 41 local artists. With everything under $400 work began selling before I could finish hanging |
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The Kumeu Arts Awards 2022
Both Galleries 1st - 26th November |
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Through the Lens of a Quirky Imagination- A Phantasmagorical View of Pandemic Life by Kathy Servian
Pod Gallery. 4-22 October “This exhibition is a personal reflection on nearly three years living with Covid. Each surreal tableaux vivant image is a metaphor designed to encourage thought, reflection, and discussion on our personal and shared experiences.” |
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Arwen Flowers - Paper Dolls
Main Gallery 4-22 October Opening night: October 7th 5-7pm “Through the use of pattern and mixed media materials, I explore intersections and parallels between the cultures of my European ancestry and those of the South Pacific, which have surrounded me since my birth in New Zealand. Patterns and creative designs have long been used to decorate our bodies and clothing, elevate everyday objects, tell stories or record history, and create a sense of identity and belonging through their familiar shapes and attached meanings. The expressions of culture around us can create a sense of belonging, or alienation. By choosing the symbol of the paper dolls as a reference to humanity I examine notions of belonging, and the process of becoming culturally and socially inclusive people, while also affirming diversity.” |
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Inked - Printmaking in the Pod
A Members Printmaking Exhibition Weds 14th September - 1st October 2022 Pod Gallery Opening night: Friday 16th September 5-7pm An exhibition celebrating printmaking in all its forms. Image - woodcut by Holly Manning |
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NEW WORLD
Jesse Smith Tes 13th September - 1st October 2022 Main Gallery Prolific local artist Jesse Smith bangs out art like his life depends on it. His work is fresh, free and raw. Teeming with explosive energy. Paint runs and drips over solid colour blocks - lyrical like Nas is to hip hop. Lines jump around as playful as a child in the sand - experimental as jazz. Ripped up, unabashed, paintings as punk as the Pistols. Sticking two fingers up to conformity and pretty pictures on gallery walls. Sometimes pieces spill off the confines of a canvas- splattering onto his garage walls or a friend’s shoes. Yet don’t be fooled! This unconstrained, emotive approach, whilst expressive, is cleverly considered finding balance between the chaos and the calm both internal and materialized. Kumeu Arts proudly presents this first ever solo show. Wake up Jesse Smith is here! https://www.instagram.com/7__6_2_26/?hl=e n |
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Get Fired 2022
A Members Ceramics Exhibition Main Gallery 17th August - 10th September 2022 Opening Event: 19 August. 5-7 pm. |
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Triumphant Regression
Yvonne Abercrombie Pod Gallery 17th August - 10th September 2022 Opening Event: Friday 19th August 5-7pm 'Triumphant Regression’, an anticlimactic and contradictory title, however attune to the context of recent works by Yvonne Abercrombie. The act of regressing, going backwards, returning to previous states, holds negative connotations, however not within the narrative of Yvonne’s work. Her characters are champions of the stigmatic notion that ‘backwards is defeat’. Triumph, moving forwards and overcoming, possessing a personal gain. .Abercrombie’s fanciful paintings whimsy explore the tension of returning to what once has been. The fraught and contentious figures subside in the comfort of their colourful surroundings of lavishly buttered oil paint. Expressive strokes creating a living quality to the canvas and to an otherwise stagnant picture. |
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Trash2ART
Timatanga Community School 19th July - 13th August Main Gallery Inspirational for teachers, parents and children, this exhibition will present new and exciting ways to turn household rubbish into playful, original and beautiful works of art. Supported by Trash to Fashion expert Sue Scarf, the tamariki (Year 1 through to Year 7), worked for a term to explore various trash materials and experiment with ways to transform them. The juniors combined different art processes in single artworks, and the Year 4-7 students created a range of collaborative and individual works. Interested students worked with Sue to unify collaborative works into installations. https://www.timatanga.school.nz |
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Containment
Leanne Rogerson 19th July - 13th August Pod Gallery "The theme of my work largely centres on women’s issues and my interpretation involves using discarded items, repurposing them into 3D assemblages. I believe that it is important to acknowledge the women who have been instrumental in my journey, the ones who have carried my creative spark when I couldn’t. Also the ones who nurtured me as I transitioned through my expected roles. I want to include them and invite them to submit one piece that reflects their understanding of what the empty nest means to them." Instagram: @leannerogerson Website: plrogerson2.wixsite.com/stitchnburn |
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MARIA OWENS - Light and Dark
Weds 22nd June - Sat 16th July Main Gallery Opening night: Saturday June 26th 2pm - 4pm Maria Philipsen Owens is from Denmark, but has called New Zealand her home for around 18 years. Sculpturing was her big passion in her early twenties, which she started up again in early 2020. Around the same time she began to explore abstract painting using acrylic, oil pastels and pencils. Maria paints intuitively and gets inspiration from her surroundings, music and the mood she is in. She paints to lose track of time, to be totally absorbed, to be mindful of shapes, colours and lines. https://www.mariaowensart.com @maria.owens.abstract |
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MATARIKI 2022 - Members work alongside a community Installation
Weds 22nd June - Sat 16th July Pod Gallery Opening night: Thursday 23rd June 5-7pm A Community Installation, alongside artists Riki Waugh, Rebecca Faull, Toni Tanner and Alex Jamieson, bringing together the Kumeu Arts community. This is a celebration of Kumeu Arts as Tūrangawaewae for the community, for the people by the people. A great time to acknowledge what has come before and where we are heading. Together we make Kumeu Arts great! Come and create a small artwork to contribute to Kumeu Arts Matariki Installation in the Pod Gallery. A selection of materials will be available throughout the exhibition in the Pod Gallery for this purpose. A section of the gallery will be blacked out and lit up with UV Black lights, highlighting the treasures that are displayed. Works will be added to the installation for the duration of the exhibition. All contributions welcome. |
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KUMEU IN FOCUS
A Kumeu Arts Members and Kumeu Photo Group Exhibition 25 May - June 18 Pod Gallery |
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The Auckland Festival of Photography 2022
NATURAL COLLABORATION: Gail Stent and Judy Stokes Main Gallery Exhibition: 25 May - June 18th Gail Stent and Judy Stokes are two creative photographers using photography as a form of self-expression and an outlet for their creativity. They both connect deeply with nature and their subject matter is often aligned to this connection. This exhibition creatively explores the natural world sometimes referencing man’s role and connection to it as well as the collaboration between man and nature. Gail and Judy are both experience teachers and in 2019 they joined together and created Wild Child Photography Weekend workshops which they hold around New Zealand. These workshops are to share their skills with others…and lead their participants back to their own “wild and creative selves” |
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Drawn-In
Annual Members Drawing Exhibition Main Gallery 28th April - 21st May 2022 This collection highlighted the value of drawing with a whopping 57 works on display by our members. The works demonstrated the breadth of processes, media and motivation involved in drawing. The show also included a 'drawing machine' live in action. |
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MULTIPLES
Alongside Fiona Campbell - 'Members Only' Both galleries 30 March – 23rd April 2022 Opening Night - Friday 1st of April. 5-7pm This exhibition featured art made by artists working in a series. It will span both our galleries. The selected artists will have produced at least 10 artworks that are connected through theme, scale and media. Artists: Alexandra Jamieson Jago Neal Emma Springford-Gough Julie Moselen Emma Jane Green Amanda Jakich Coral Noel-Yang Fiona Campbell Kyra Shaw-Toomey |
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This was an exciting group exhibition by nine artists who won awards last year at our annual prize giving event - the Kumeu Arts Awards. Due to Covid the 2021 Awards were held online and the winning artworks displayed in a virtual gallery. Our visitors were able to see them ‘in the flesh’ in our two galleries hanging alongside other new works.
Beside the works we displayed the comments that last year’s judge Virginia Were made along with a short biography about each artist. The Kumeu Arts Awards is held each November and prizes of up to $1,200 are awarded. |
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PIECE OF MIND - George Rakich
Pod Gallery 3-26 Feb 2022 Opening Event: 11th Feb 5-9pm Live Drawing Demos: TBC George clearly loves to draw. As he does he delves deep into the recesses of his mind and discovers companions, patterns, surreal, sometimes dark spaces and faces. Perhaps at times, even surprising himself, as his psyche manifests itself onto paper? His experimentation with line is intricate, obsessive, controlled yet dynamic. George creates worlds within the confides of his page - sometimes filling almost every particle with ink, at other times allowing playful spaces. He’s developed a visual language brimming with characters and motifs that sometimes transcend themselves into 3.D objects or onto other surfaces. Kumeu Arts are proud to host this, George's first ever exhibition. It’s taken about a year to get here but has been well worth the wait. It’s been an absolute privilege to witness this emergence from sketch book to wall, conception to reality. JN During the exhibition, each Saturday from 10am, George developed the large scale drawing live in the gallery. ‘Live Piece’ which was sold to the highest bidder at the close of this exhibition. |
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Our Aotearoa - Members exhibition
Main Gallery 25 Jan - 26 Feb Our first exhibition of 2022 saw 25 member artists enter 61 artworks into our fabulous 'summer show'. We held an opening (mid-way) event on Friday 11th Feb. 5-7 pm |
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