Dick Frizzell to highlight this year’s Kapiti Arts Trail

Dick Frizzell to highlight this year’s Kapiti Arts Trail

Dick Frizzell, one of New Zealand favourites Artists will be hosting a dinner at the Coastlands Kapiti Sport Turf on Saturday November 2nd, starting at 6.30pm.

In 2011, Greg Dixon writing in the New Zealand Herald described Frizzell as not just an artist. “He is not just an illustrator, or an art teacher or an author. Nor is he - though the bottles that bear his name and artwork - a winemaker. No, Dick Frizzell is something beyond his good works, he has become something more durable and probably more artistically risky. He is a brand, yes, as he proudly acknowledges, but this goes beyond sheer name recognition. What he is also, and perhaps uniquely in the New Zealand art scene, is a fully-fledged industry”

Chris Barber, Managing director of the Kapiti Company and one of the drivers of the Kapiti Coast Tourism sector said “having an event such as this in the middle of our very popular Kapiti Arts Trail is a great achievement. It gives us an opportunity to attract arts lovers to the district for the whole weekend, rather than just a day visit. With Dicks theme for the evening “Toe-ing the Line - About this line you're not meant to cross if you want to be taken seriously but which seems to move away everytime his toe gets anywhere near it.” you have to say, Frizzell is pretty awesome!

People can purchase tickets for this event at the Paraparaumu i-SITE on Rimu Road Paraparaumu. Phone 04 298 8195 or email paraparaumu@thekapiticompany.com

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