Panorama – Gerhard Richter at Tate Modern

Back in London and the opportunities to see art are everywhere. A retrospective of Gerhard Ricter’s work spanning five decades is not to be missed. There is so much work, so different in style, size and technique – it really is a panorama. I’d love to go again and take another good look at everything. [...]

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Cascade installation and Pride

This reminded me of the Cuba Street fountain in Wellington. It’s a kinetic sculpture with nine buckets, which are suspended from the roof over a pool – each bucket has water poured into it until it tips, and every bucket is filling at a different stage. Fabrica is obviously an old church and it has [...]

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Back on track and back tracking… CURRENT in London

I have to back track a little as I haven’t written for awhile – internet access and all sorts disrupting the flow. Catching up since I last wrote – CURRENT: Contemporary Art from New Zealand and the Pacific 23rd June – 30th July 2011 at October Gallery in London. I went to the opening at [...]

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Nova Paul

An artist presentation by one of our art group, Amy McKinnon, on a New Zealand fim-maker Nova Paul.  Using a technique of three colour seperation, she made a beautiful, captivating film reflecting on domestic and public environments in New Zealand, ‘tracing little happenings’ within our lives. Nova Paul is a film-maker and senior lecturer at the School [...]

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Garry Currin and Dick Frizzell

The first of a series of presentations by everyone in the class on a chosen artist, currently exhibiting in New Zealand. Today we learnt from Ingrid Delamore about Garry Currin, who starts his paintings almost as rubbings – laying the unstretched canvas over rocks and capturing the texture to begin and inspire his painting. And [...]

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