Overview: Studio visit with Sarah Walker-Holt

Recently Sarah was visited by The jewellers Guild of Greater Sandringham's

Sharon Fitness and Raewyn Walsh for their online, contemporary jewellery, magazine 'Overview'.

Overview is a fantastic periodical that is made by contemporary jewellers, specially for contemporary jewellers and anyone else who is interested in this field of artistic practice. 'Overview' was started in 2011 and continues to be a growing advocate for New Zealand's jewellery presence both nationally and internationally by encouraging critical discussion and communication in the field. The hard work and dedication this collective have for this endeavor is admirable and well appreciated.  

Below is the extracted interview, but I encourage readers to check out full versions of 'Overview' through The Jewellers Guild of Greater Sandringham's website: www.jewellersguildofgreatersandringham.com

and follow them or become a member on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/167264333370619/ 

or join their mailing list by emailing them at sandringhamjewellersguild@gmail.com

old items turn treasures

Howick Pakaranga Times, 2 Sept 2014

'Out of the Shed'

Friday 5 September - 14 October 2014

Opening: Thursday 4 September 6:30pm

Uxbridge, Howick's Creative Centre

35 Uxbridge Road

Howick

L Pierpoint, Untitled, Brooch, 2014

S Walker-Holt Rule and Divide, Brooch, 2014

S Walker-Holt, Hierarchy, Necklace, 2014
 

Lucy Pierpoint and Sarah Walker-Holt are 2 left-fielders that are in Uxbridge's coming show 'Out of the Shed'

"This exhibition will boldly go where few women have set foot... the iconic Kiwi man-cave... the Shed! Featured artworks are inspired by ordinary and unusual objects and materials commonly stored as essentials or treasures by Kiwi men. Each artist reinvents and finds new uses for everyday things that lie lurking in sheds all over the country. The result: unique works of art." uxbridge

Featuring Artworks by: Mia Hamilton, Kim Logue, Alexander Bartleet, Nicola Wright, Andi Regan, Margaret Johnson, Sarah Walker-Holt, Jeff Thomson, Bev Goodwin, Susan Wells, Mary Paton, Bruce McLachlan, Lucy Pierpoint, Marion Rose, Nic Clegg, Tara Murphy and Glen Hutchinson.

Monday - Friday: 9am - 4pm

Saturday: 9.30am - 2pm

Closed Sundays and Public Holidays

erika wolters: the art sale 2014

5-6 September 2014

10am – 8pm

Claudelands Events Centre

Exhibition Hall A
Cnr Brooklyn Road & Heaphy Terrace

Hamilton

theartsale.co.nz

Erika Wolters has announced she will have some of her paintings in the upcoming Art Sale in Hamilton...............

 

Am I Beautiful Yet? 2012

 

"The event's cash and carry concept will appeal to a wide range of buyers, from those purchasing their first piece of art to seasoned collectors."

To learn more about Erika's practice check out the Left-Field interview 'Erika's Move' from November 2013.

Opening night preview on Thursday 4 September

6.30pm – 9.00pm

LAST DAYS to see Lucy Pierpoint's work at ARTBASE.ORG

Lucy Pierpont's jewellery works on the premise of Defying Obsolescence is at;

Artbase.org
78 Coates Ave
Orakei
Until August 7.

https://www.facebook.com/artbase.org.nz

Caroline Griffin: New website

Be sure to check out Caroline Griffin's new website that gives a great overview of her work. Caroline has separated her work into the individual ideas she has been working with since 2009. Each idea has a collection of crisp images that are accompanied by a statement that supports her ideas, helping us understand what is behind the distinctive designs that are driving Griffin’s growing practice.

http://carolinegriffin.co.nz/gallery/5/

scallop finding, 2014, silver 925

Elle Anderson: Come to see my 3/4 of way through my masters in fine arts work..............

15th July between 4 - 7pm
Whitecliffe's
St Georges Bay Rd Gallery

Plants are present in our every day lives. Some, like those defined within a garden, engage our consciousness. But many we are not aware of. They are simply there; forming and changing backgrounds and textures in the world around us.

Through the process of collecting these incidental plants photographing, printing and installing them, I have been exploring the notion of view point; our attitudes towards certain plant groups and how our perceptions of them change in space and over time. Questioning how we consider these plants (as a resource, as irksome, as beautiful) and how those perceptions are formed and changed. This has led me to create new images of plants that, though barely present, are plentiful and vigorous within their own environment.

Cirsium bansheeii

Rubus phantomii

For these works, plants were gathered from the roadside, just outside my house. This is the main road into Hunua and was established in mid 1800s.  Along this piece of road there was the blacksmith, a general store and post-office, distributing goods from the city into the country. Now the water pipe for Auckland runs alongside this road, distributing the country's bounty back to the city. But the plants are constant.

Some of these plants gathered will have arrived at the time of construction of this road, bought here, intentionally and unintentionally, by road workers and the first settlers.

Gatherings (ongoing) - #1-15 Glass, screenprint, shelf. 2014	Shifting Sight # 2 (from a series of 15) Digital print on fine art paper. 2014
1 Cirsium spookii  2 Cirsium bansheeii  3 Cyperus dashii  4 Daucus soulii  5 Jacobeae faintii 6 Leucanthemum ghostii   7 Ligustrum glimmerii  8 Phytolacca hintii   9 Plantago impressionii 10 Raphanus presenceii   11 Rubus phantomii   12 Solanum spiritii  13 Sonchus whisperii  14 Ulex traceii  15 Verbena genieii (note the plates are not displayed in the order listed above) Elle Anderson July 2014