James Wallace Art Collection

Fantastic news! I was privileged to have a tour of Rannoch in Epsom, where the collection is now, and so fantastic to see all that New Zealand art in one place, and what a gift for New Zealand.
The $50 million art collection of businessman James Wallace,  more than 4000 New Zealand modern works, has found [...]

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2009 The New Zealand Painting and Printmaking Awards

I see my tutor from Artstation for the last three years has won a merit award at the 2009 The New Zealand Painting and Printmaking Awards! Congratulations Matthew!
Judge Dr Robin Woodward selected artist Frances Van Dammen as the 2009 winner of the NZ Painting and Printmaking Award.  For ‘Daisy’, an acrylic painting on canvas, [...]

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Wolf Kahn again…

After last year’s exhibition, someone mentioned that I should look at some of Wolf Kahn’s art work as mine reminded them of his. I’ve just done this and a little shocked. Back in 2007,  I used Wolf Kahn’s work for an exercise called ‘Conversation with an Artist’ – we had to paint one of our [...]

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Jean Fairburn New Zealand artist

I was successful in bidding for a piece of art on Trade Me yesterday for a 1991 work by an accomplished amateur artist, Jean Fairburn.  Jean was the wife of Geoffrey Fairburn (brother of ARD Fairburn). A friend of Michael Smither and exhibiting in the same gallery back in the ’70s, with Jean’s work reminiscent [...]

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the Kunsthaus Graz

I was thinking of this gallery building in Graz after my last post on Auckland Art Gallery. I visited it nearly three years ago in the snow and winter.  A stunning building sitting right beside the river amidst the buildings of the ‘old town’. It was an amazing sight, and also a great art gallery. [...]

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