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Sculpture On The Gulf
Sculpture on the Gulf is a temporary outdoor art exhibition on a coastal headland on Matiatia Bay, Waiheke Island, New Zealand. It is a wikt:biennial, biennial event founded in 2003 by the Waiheke Community Art Gallery. History and format At the first event in 2003, there were two awards made: a "People’s Choice" and a "Premier" award. At artists' request the Premier award was discontinued in 2005 and a fee to each artist paid instead. A Premier award was reinstated in 2013 and 2015, but at the request of artists abandoned in 2017. By 2009 the exhibition took place over three, rather than two weeks, and included a programme for schools. Sculpture on the Gulf resumed in March 2022 after a break due to COVID restrictions. "Waiheke Island’s biennial Sculpture on the Gulf exhibition charts [New Zealand's] own rising interest in outdoor sculpture trails. In 2003, the first year it was held, the event attracted 12,000. Numbers attending rose to 32,000 in 2011, and 40,000 in 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Regan Gentry
Regan Gentry (born 1976) is a New Zealand artist and sculptor. He has held a number of artist in residence positions and his work can be seen in public spaces throughout New Zealand. His artworks are often constructed from recycled or repurposed items such as gorse bushes and road safety barriers. Education Gentry graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Otago Polytechnic School of Art in 2000 although some sources state that his degree was from Otago University. Career highlights An early career piece was ''Foot in the Door'', which has become an ongoing project to document the installation of a foot long ruler into the door of galleries across New Zealand. As the number of galleries that have allowed the artist to put ‘a foot in the door’ increases, so has the artist's reputation. As the William Hodges Fellowship artist in residence in 2006 he produced a major body of work, ''Of gorse of course'' consisting of a series of artefacts constructed from wood obtained from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Priscilla Pitts
Priscilla Pitts is a New Zealand writer and art curator. Biography Pitts was educated at the University of Auckland, gaining an MA in English and Art History. In the 1980s, Pitts co-founded the magazine ''Antic,'' which focused on literature and visual arts. She was also a frequent contributor to the journal ''Art New Zealand.'' From 1993 to 1998, Pitts was director of the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery in New Plymouth. She then moved to Dunedin and from 1998 to 2007 she was director of the Dunedin Public Art Gallery and Otago Settlers Museum. Between 2007 and 2014, Pitts had a managerial role at the New Zealand Historic Places Trust. Since that time she has worked as a freelance writer and curator, working from Lower Hutt. In 2017 she co-wrote a book on the history of the Frances Hodgkins Fellowship The Frances Hodgkins Fellowship, established in 1962, is one of New Zealand's premier arts residencies. The list of past fellows includes many of New Zealand's most notable artists ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chiara Corbelletto
Chiara Corbelletto (born 1956 in Biella, Italy) is an Italian-born New Zealand artist. Corbelletto's public sculptures in Auckland include ''Twins'' (2003) at the Grafton Campus of the University of Auckland, ''Numbers Are the Language of Nature'' (2005) at the Auckland Domain, and ''1001 Spheres'' (2023) at Monte Cecilia Park. Corbelletto has artworks in the collections of Te Tuhi and Te Papa. Biography Corbelletto was born in 1956 in Biella, Italy. She trained as an artist in Italy, studying at the University of Milan. She arrived in New Zealand in 1981, after which she spent the next six years working as an art restorer. Corbeletto moved her studio to the Corban Estate Arts Centre around the year 2004. In 2005, Corbelletto unveiled ''Numbers Are the Language of Nature'', a sculpture in the Auckland Domain commissioned as a part of Outdoor Sculpture 2001, to create a sculpture walk within the Domain. The maquette of the sculpture is held at Auckland War Memorial Museum. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lisa Reihana
Lisa Marie Reihana (born 1964) is a New Zealand artist. Her video work, ''In Pursuit of Venus nfected' (2015), which examines early encounters between Polynesians and European explorers, was featured at the 2017 Venice Biennale. Early life Reihana grew up in Blockhouse Bay, Auckland. She is of Māori (Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Hine, Ngāi Tūteauru) descent. Education Reihana began attending Elam School of Fine Arts at Auckland University in 1983, graduating in 1987 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts. She graduated with a masters in design from Unitec Institute of Technology Department of Design and Contemporary Arts in 2014. Career In 1991, Reihana was included in ''Pleasures and Dangers: Artists of the '90s'', a publication and documentary of the same name produced by the Moet & Chandon New Zealand Art Foundation showcasing "the work of eight exciting younger artists, most just now making their mark nationally and overseas". In 2006, Reihana was one of fifteen New Zealand artists, m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Zealand
New Zealand ( mi, Aotearoa ) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South Island ()—and over 700 List of islands of New Zealand, smaller islands. It is the List of island countries, sixth-largest island country by area, covering . New Zealand is about east of Australia across the Tasman Sea and south of the islands of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga. The country's varied topography and sharp mountain peaks, including the Southern Alps, owe much to tectonic uplift and volcanic eruptions. New Zealand's Capital of New Zealand, capital city is Wellington, and its most populous city is Auckland. The islands of New Zealand were the last large habitable land to be settled by humans. Between about 1280 and 1350, Polynesians began to settle in the islands and then developed a distinctive Māori culture. In 1642, the Dutch explorer Abel Tasman became the first European to sight and record New Zealand. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barry Lett Galleries
Barry Lett Galleries was a dealer gallery focused on contemporary New Zealand art that operated in Auckland in the 1960s and 1970s. History Barry Lett Galleries was opened in 1965 by Barry Lett (1940–2017), who had graduated from Elam School of Fine Arts the previous year, Rodney Kirk Smith (1938-1996), and Frank Lowe, who had run Ikon Gallery with fellow architecture student Don Wood from 1960 to 1964. In the early 1960s a new generation of dealer galleries (often short-lived) arose in Auckland, encouraging people to see and buy contemporary New Zealand art. Barry Lett Galleries filled a gap left in the Auckland cultural scene by the closure of Ikon Gallery (which had shown, among others, Colin McCahon, Don Binney and Pat Hanly), as did Kees and Tina Hos's New Vision Gallery. Barry Lett Galleries showed many of the leading painters of the 1960s and 1970s, including McCahon, Binney, Hanly, Milan Mrkusich, Gordon Walters, Ralph Hotere, Michael Smither, Michael Illingw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeff Thomson (artist)
Jeffrey Robert Thomson (born 16 August 1950) is a former Australian cricketer. Known as "Thommo", he is one of the fastest bowlers in the history of cricket; he bowled a delivery with a speed of 160.6 km/h against the West Indies in Perth in 1975, which was the fastest recorded delivery at the time, and the fourth-fastest recorded delivery of all time. He was the opening partner of fellow fast bowler Dennis Lillee; their combination was one of the most fearsome in Test cricket history. Commenting on their bowling during the 1974–75 season, ''Wisden'' wrote: "... it was easy to believe they were the fastest pair ever to have coincided in a cricket team". He was inducted into the Australian Cricket Hall of Fame in 2016. Speed and technique Thomson had an unusual but highly effective slinging delivery action that he learned from his father. In December 1975, after the second Test match against the West Indies at the WACA, he was timed with a release speed of 160.45& ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Bailey (artist)
Chris Bailey (born 1965) is a Māori sculptor and carver. Bailey studied Māori language and Māori material culture at the University of Auckland under Dante Bonica. He lives and works on Waiheke Island. Gravitating towards the harder stones of basalt and granite Bailey developed form driven stone works in a larger scale while also developing his carving skills working in totara alongside carvers of Piritahi Marae on Waiheke Island. Recognition Bailey has exhibited both nationally and internationally, winning the 2014 Wallace Arts Trust New Zealand Sculptor Award for his ''Bondi Points'' at the Bondi Beach, Sculpture by the Sea. He has received financial support from Creative New Zealand to produce works. In 2010, ''Ringa Whao'' a documentary about Bailey's practice was produced by Rongo Productions. In 2011, he completed a public commission of carved pou situated outside Britomart Transport Centre in Auckland. Recognised for starting the pou (carved timber pallisade post) mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sriwhana Spong
Sriwhana Spong (born 1979) is an artist and dancer from New Zealand. Spong grew up in Auckland, New Zealand, in a family of Balinese origin. She studied at Elam School of Fine Arts, graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 2001. Her first exhibitions were in not-for-profit spaces in New Zealand, Australia and Germany. In 2003 she had her first solo show, at the Anna Miles Gallery. Spong also holds a master's degree from Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Much of her work is in film and video, and reflects her training in classical ballet by focusing on dance and movement. In 2010 she presented a multi-dimensional film at Art Basel, a re-imagining of a lost ballet, George Balanchine’s ''The Song of the Nightingale''. The ballet was originally choreographed in 1925 however all that remains are fragments of a film of it, the score, and photographs of the costumes. Spong also published a companion book to her film. Spong obtained her doctorate from the Universi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brett Graham
Brett Graham (born 1967) is a New Zealand sculptor who creates large scale artworks and installations that explore indigenous histories, politics and philosophies. ''Snitch'' from 2014, in the collection of the Honolulu Museum of Art, references the The Walt Disney Company, Disney movie ''Lilo & Stitch''. It is an example of the artist's combining traditional Maori carving with contemporary themes. Brett Graham used recycled rubber tires and steel to make sculptures and they were called “Weapons of Mass Destruction”. Graham’s sculpture “Te Hokioi” was created because of the 2007 police raids on the Tuhoe community of Ruatoki. Education Graham is a Bachelor of Fine Arts (University of Auckland, 1988), a Master of Fine Arts (University of Hawaii at Manoa, 1991) and a Doctor of Fine Arts (University of Auckland, 2005). International exhibitions Graham's work was included in the following international exhibitions. * 1996 – Asia-Pacific Triennial, Asia Pacif ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tiffany Singh
Tiffany Singh (born 1978) is a New Zealand artist. Background Singh was born in 1978 in Auckland, New Zealand and is of Indian and Pacific descent. She graduated from the Elam School of Fine Arts with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 2008. Career Singh is an installation artist that explores community outreach and cultural preservation. Her work, ''Fly Me Up To Where You Are,'' received an award in 2013 from the Human rights commission, Human Rights Commission. In 2017 Singh received the New Generation Award from the Arts Foundation of New Zealand. Singh has received residencies at the Taiwan Artists Village (2017, from Asia New Zealand Foundation), Montalvo Arts Centre (2013, California), and McCahon House Residency (2014, Titirangi). Singh is represented by the Melanie Roger Gallery. Singh is a founding member of The Kshetra Collective. Exhibitions * 2017, The Journey of a Million Miles Begins with One Step, Headland Sculpture on the Gulf, Waiheke Island * 2017, ''Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
