The Wellingtonista and Art
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Dream a Little Bigger with This Year’s World of Wearable Arts
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- United States designer Grace DuVal (and seven time WOW finalist) has taken the Supreme WOW Award this year with her piece Curves Ahead. Built of bright orange road netting, road signs and bedecked with a mohawk of traffic cones, this piece is a blazing bright beacon amongst the rolling sea that is Dream Awake – […]
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The Grid – New Digital Art Space
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- Written by Nadia Freeman Wellington’s newest and potentially first digital art space opened this month, and I am deeply appreciative of the entrepreneurial spirit of Shannon Brosnahan Inglis and Delainy Jamahl. In an era when investment in the arts is dwindling, launching a venture of this scale and quality is inspiring. Initiatives like this infuse […]
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Meet Pepper Racoon – what a ratbag!
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- 1. Hello, who are you and what do you do? I’m Pepper Raccoon and I’m an artist and merch designer inspired by nature, magic, and internet culture. I design my own affordable art products, and produce a lot of them in my home studio as well, and have been in business for 8 years selling […]
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Nelson Designer Takes Out WOW’s Top Award for Second Time
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- Nelson Designer Gill Saunders was awarded The World of Wearable Art’s Supreme Award this Friday for her design, Earthling (pictured). Taking its inspiration from the rising popularity of adult colouring books and promoting mindfulness in a “world under increasing stress”, Earthling celebrates earth’s natural wonders in a beautifully crafted garment made from EVA foam, acrylic […]
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Review: Krishnan’s Dairy
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- Review by Talia Carlisle. A wise man once told me that real loves grows, and so does my love of Indian Ink’s now legendary tale of Krishnan’s Dairy that wound up its final season in Wellington this week. The production is a well polished gem in the crown of creative team Jacob Rajan and Justin […]
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Te Papa, 55, Cable Street, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Sex Workers of Aotearoa; A Day in the Life of exhibition
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- Back for the fourth year in a row – Sex Workers of Aotearoa; A Day in the Life of – is an annual art exhibition in which all art has been created by current or past sex workers. The artwork is for sale, showcasing various mediums; photography, ink, paint, mixed media, cross-stitch, sculpture, poetry and more. The […]
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Things are getting surreal at Te Papa
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- We might be stuck in New Zealand for a while, but that doesn’t mean the world can’t come to us (especially if they’re rich, apparently). That’s the cool thing about the new exhibition Surrealist Art: Masterpieces from Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen He Toi Pohewa: He Toi Marupō o Muhiama o Boijmans Van Beuningen. You’ll get a slice of Europe last century and get to get out of the wind of Wellington all at the same time.
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Te Papa, 55, Cable Street, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Toi Art at Te Papa – a first floor glimpse
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- Stepping into te Papa’s new Gallery space Toi Art be prepared for something a little different from your standard gallery experience.
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Te Papa, 55, Cable Street, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Maketorium – let the making begin
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- This weekend at Te Papa is going to be a grand one.
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Te Papa, 55, Cable Street, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Horseplay
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- We noticed the other day that Namastey in Dixon St had had a makeover.
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Dixon Street, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington Region, 6011, New Zealand
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Pablos Art Auction 2012
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- Pablos Art Auction — that gala highlight of the local art scene — is once again imminent, and this year it’s bigger and better than ever and in an all-new venue: Massey University’s Great Hall.
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Double-header imminent at Solander: Works on Paper
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- Solander Gallery: Works on Paper is Wellington’s contemporary works on paper gallery.
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Narrative Playgrounds group show at Pixel Ink Gallery
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- Narrative Playgrounds is a group exhibition at Pixel Ink Gallery of visual works by emerging and established New Zealand artists.
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The Beneficiary’s Office
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- Artist and provocateur Tao Wells is causing a mighty ruckus with his new art installation project, The Beneficiary’s Office. As part of the Letting Space programme – which pairs artists with unused commercial spaces – Wells has established a corporate office for the Wells Group, a PR company which argues that the unemployed are more [...]
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Music vs Art = Open City
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- Flying Nun artist Grayson Gilmour City Gallery is currently exhibiting Roundabout, a major collection of bold, bright and wicked-as works from emerging artists from around the world.
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It's a bird, it's a plane, it's A TREE
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- We love community, and we love art, so it's no surprise that we love community art projects.
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When is a shop not a shop?
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- Right now in Thorndon, Wellington's first Handmade Pop-Up Shop has arrived. It opened on the 13th of April and closes again on the 1st of May. Each day the shop features a different artist or crafter showcasing all their lovely creations.
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302 Tinakori Road, Thorndon, Wellington
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The rugby sculpture
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- A proposal was unveiled yesterday for a Weta Workshop-designed rugby-themed sculpture to grace the city, somewhere, In Time For The Rugby World Cup. The sculpture is highly symbolic, with the DomPost providing a list of all the symbolism, but what does the sculpture most resemble?
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I for one welcome our new mirrorball overlords
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- Te Papa's forecourt may look as if it's under attack by giant glittery space balls, but it's actually the start of a two-year kinetic sculpture installation called "The Mimetic Brotherhood", by Peter Trevelyan. There's not much kinesis evident at the moment, but once the installation is complete, expect the plinth-eating monsters to start pulsating in their full hydraulic glory.
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Kilbirnie gets some extra love
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- Someone (or someones) has got their outdoor knit on at Kilbirnie Park. Hurray for loves! I wonder what the council's take on this kind of graffiti is...
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Kilbirnie, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand/Aotearoa (OpenStreetMap)
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100 Dollar Bills Y'all
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- Tonight from 6.00 until 8.00pm Thistle Hall is holding their annual $100 art sale. Support the artists, the venue *and* get something unique for the important people in your life just in time for Christmas. Check out pictures of some of the pieces for sale here.
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The Smartest Snapper
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- Voted by you the public as winner in the smarten your snapper competition is wave by Yana from Chromatophobic.
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Humanising the City
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- Among the opening exhibitions at the brand spanking new City Gallery is Regan Gentry's installation Make Way.
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Day Tripper
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- Sometimes it takes the eyes of a visitor to shed a new light on the ordinary.
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Off the Hook
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- While the Hook of Maui has been scrapped due to cost overruns and problems with the frickin' laser, the Wellington City Council is still keen on the idea of a gateway sculpture, and indeed the competition will be re-run later his year.
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Spotacular
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- You'd have to have been living under a rock (by which I mean "not been in Civic Square for the last couple of weeks") not to have noticed the outbreak of spots all over the City Gallery.
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Te Ngākau Civic Square, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Smarten your Snapper - Voting starts
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- finally here they are. the top 15 finalists in the Smarten your snapper Competition as chosen by our panel of delightful judges, and you can now vote for the ultimate winner read more
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a tiki tour of craft fairs
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- the must be something about spring, and craft fairs as this saturday has 3 crafting events on in our fine city.
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Fence action
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- Right now you can check out the start of the Outdoor Knit fence action on the cnr of Vivian and Bute Streets As lovely as 3 hearts are, that fence is still pretty ugly.
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Smarten yer Snapper
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- Craft 2.0 are running the Smarten Your Snapper competition. All you need to do is make some sort of nifty cover, holder, or cosy for your Snapper card (or Snapper USB) and enter it into the competition for a chance to win a new Snapper card pre-loaded with $100. In addition, you'll win a table at the next Craft2.0 at the Dowse, giving you a place to market your creation.
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