AUT Visual Arts Graduating Exhibition Invite

5th floor of the WM Block at 40 St Paul St., Auckland.
Opening night: 12 Nov, 5-8pm
Laxmi Jhunjhnuwala is exhibiting – see www.laxmijhunjhnuwala.com

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Vincent van Gogh – The Letters

http://vangoghletters.org/vg/
The background to this edition: the Van Gogh Letters Project. All the surviving letters written and received by Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) are contained in this edition of his correspondence.

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New art gallery in Tairua

Paula MacNeill has opened ‘The Little Gallery of Fine Arts’ in Tairua’s main street. The jam-packed opening was on Saturday 24th, and all looks great. Two of my paintings are being shown and I will take down another for their stock this weekend coming. There is painters including Michael Smither, sculptors, weavers and jewellers. The [...]

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Art Classes starting soon with Peter Gibson Smith

“Vinyl Cutting for Artists” starts Thursday 15th October and there are still spaces available.  The next “Old School / New School” course begins Friday 30th October.  For details about these classes see: www.artmade.co.nz. Feel free to pass this on to anyone you think might be interested.
Also… the Bath Street Gallery group show I mentioned in [...]

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New Work at Bath Street

Just letting you know that Peter Gibson Smith is  showing some new work at Bath Street Gallery, 43 Bath St. Parnell, till October 10th. No opening for this one but if you’re over Parnell way,  drop by.
Hours: Tuesday – Friday 10.00 – 5.30,  Saturday 11.00 – 3.00
Peter Gibson Smith
Mob: 021 32 88 90

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art related happenings

A lot to post – it may all come in one go. I have just come from one of the Sunday talks at the Auckland Art Gallery that are happening while the Rita Angus exhibition is on. Today’s speaker was Principal Conservator, Sarah Hillary giving an illustrated account of her research into the diverse range [...]

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New art classes and website for Peter Gibson-Smith

Just letting you know that the next round of art classes is starting up on Thursday 17th September.
There’s now a website that has dates and details for the rest of the year. The address is…
www.artmade.co.nz
As well as ancient materials like egg tempera, gesso and encaustic, classes also encompass modern tools like computer driven plotters and [...]

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David Hockney

Back in June, The Sunday Telegraph London ran an article called Hockney’s Green revolution, by Catherine Milner. David Hockney’s new paintings, Just Nature, were on show at the Kunsthalle Würth, Schwäbisch Hall in Germany. They have great articles and writing on art in their papers.
Apparently after years of living the lifestyle in California David Hockney [...]

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Trust the Process

‘Errors are harbingers of original ideas because they introduce new directions for expression.’
So starts the chapter on ‘mistakes and distortions’ by Shaun McNiff called ‘Trust the Process – An Artist’s Way to Letting Go’.  This book is very easy to read through although I have only read this chapter and one on ‘The Many Ways [...]

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2009 TCAC Emerging Artist Award Winner: Linda Dixon

Linda was on the Painter’s Studio year at Artstation – so pleased to see that she won this award while I have been away in England with family. Excellent.  You can read more here..
Judges Comments
Linda Anne Dixon’s work is a beautifully articulated, subtle oil painting. I love the scale of this piece – it shows [...]

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