Arts Press Releases

Hamurana Lodge successfully hosted the Art & Soul event last weekend and have confirmed another event for Sunday 25th March 2012. The Art Trail featuring sculptures and pieces from renowned arts remains as an exhibition, open daily to the public.

Opening Friday December 9th, 5.30pm DT as he’s known to many. Defined by all in the New Zealand street art scene as an iconic artist and described by TV3’s John Campbell as a premier graffiti artist, DT shows exclusively at Taupō Museum Gallery – opening Friday 9th December. The Taupō Rulz exhibition is open to public from December 10, 2011 to
January 10, 2012.

Taupō has truly broken its conservative reputation with the creation of 18 unique and vibrant large scale murals, created by a selection of New Zealand’s leading street artists who descended on the Central North Island town over Labour Weekend.

Tracey Tawhiao, a rising star of New Zealand Arts with exhibitions nation wide and Internationally has allowed her significant piece ‘Like Water’ to be on loan to the Taupo District Council.

Taupo based arts company th’ink principal Eleazar Bramley has successfully returned images from archives at the South Australia Museum in Adelaide…

th’ink & ARTIVIST : creative are now preparing for the paste up event on the 14th October 2011 in the Taupō CBD… the location will be revealed soon as consideration is being made for the fantastic support from the Taupō Library & Museum & the various individual artists & administrators involved in the project.

The PELAGO Art Exhibition is opening at the TSB Wallace Arts Centre in Auckland.

An international street art action is scheduled to make a mark on Taupo in October. The Inside Out Project Taupo is a group submission by Taupo based street art organisation ARTIVIST.

Three New Zealand curators will learn about the contemporary arts scene in China and Korea after being selected to participate in a three-week curatorial tour supported by Creative New Zealand and the Asia New Zealand Foundation.

The Polish community in Christchurch understands what it means to rebuild a city and restore lost heritage so they have organised a concert to fundraise for the restoration of the Art’s Centre. Acclaimed pianist Dr Anna Kijanowska is flying out from the US to join flautist Adrianna Lis and soprano Olga Gryniewicz in a programme of uplifting classical pieces from Chopin, Beethoven, Schubert and Saint-Saëns in a concert entitled Ode to Joy. Christchurch composer,Anthony Ritchie, has composed a piece for the event called Polish Dances.

Taupo Museum is setting some new boundaries with two impressive exhibitions. The exhibitions involve fine art shows from Tuwharetoa artists, specialist artists talks and installations: Nga Hauwahine e Whitu (our seven sisters) and Nga Mata Kaka (beacons of light). The two shows feature some of the highest achievers in contemporary Maori art.

The Wellington Asia Residency Exchange (WARE), an arts exchange programme run by Wellington City Council and Asia New Zealand Foundation, is now accepting applications for this year’s round.

For three weekends in May, 30 Coromandel artists will open their studios to the public for the 6th annual Great Coromandel Arts Tour. The annual open studio event, which includes artists from Thames at the base of the Peninsula, Coromandel Town and right up to the remote settlement of Colville, is a unique opportunity to meet local artists, find wonderful hidden art studios and get a taste of the creative process first hand.

The streets and venues of Wellington will be alive with a rich array of arts and entertainment during Rugby World Cup 2011 thanks to the Festival of Carnivale, launched this evening (Wednesday 13 April) by Wellington City Council.

Training and event facilities provider Cliftons has launched its Art Prize, and is seeking entries from emerging artists from across Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong and Singapore by 27 April 2011.

The Lighthouse Keeper’s Lunch runs at the Pumphouse Theatre, Takapuna from 11 – 30 April. The show marks 20 years of children’s theatre for revered children’s theatre company Tim Bray Productions.

The boys are off on the trip of a life time to Europe – they just have to make it to the airport and then they’ll be away laughing. What could possibly go wrong?

Wellingtonians have the opportunity to see Te Papa’s latest temporary exhibition – The European Masters – on Thursday 3 February for free, thanks to Wellington City Council’s sponsorship of the museum.

Ron Mueck becomes the most popular paid-entry exhibition to be held in Christchurch since a public art gallery was first established in the city in the 1930s.

A new kind of art is being displayed at Parnellʼs latest store. Jujube have imported mouth- watering wall decals from Blik – a leading designer in the US, and maker of innovative, removable surface graphics. Parnellʼs latest store features art, but not art as you know it.