ROARski’s Wonderful World of the Carnivalesque!

19th January 2007
Media release: For immediate release

ROARski’s Wonderful World of the Carnivalesque!
Feb 15-3rd March
Grand Opening Thursday 15th Feb at 5.30pm
ROAR! gallery 55 Abel Smith St, Above Real Groovy
Contact
Sian Torrington 04-3857602 cell 021080540 roargallery@paradise.net.nz

Art emerges from the underworld with a troupe of Wellington’s finest artists and makers. Satisfy your curiosity…for art which goes far beyond white walls. ROAR! gallery brings together some of Wellington’s finest and most quirky makers in a wild carnival of dancing cats and dogs, acrobats swinging from the ceiling, bearded ladies, strongmen, lizard women, ladies squeezed into the tiniest speaker boxes, and creatures from the grotesque to the gorgeous.
This is a show not to be missed, a new experience in art and viewing pleasure.

ROARski’s proudly presents;

SAM BROAD; NZ print maker, weedy strongman and miraculous balancer of themes, cakes, meat packs and glorious Kiwiana.

MICHELE IRVING; A magical seamstress who works surrounded by piles of felt to reveal the secret carnival life of humble cats and dogs. See them transformed before your very eyes into dancers, conjurers and fortune tellers. Your comfy cat will never seem the same again……………………

VAL SUTHERLAND; Mother to nine by day, transforming into a wild creator at night, churning out the weird and the wonderful. Bearded ladies and papier mache fantastique creatures abound.

CARMEL MCSHERRY; Ex-fashion designer, now reincarnated as a doll maker. Her Victoriana acrobats are fearless, flying and swooping through the gallery with no regard for exhibition protocol or humble road rules.

ANITA WEBER; A brand new discovery from the underworld, Weber creates for you the true freak creatures; the toys which children threw out of the cradle to evolve in dark corners……………………

ALSO SHOWCASING;
Special effects makeup to transform you for the Cuba St Carnival by Christchurch makeup artist Leila Torrington. Come and recreate yourself for free and then scamper away with a Polaroid of your new self……………….
Vanessa Crowe artist in residence; we have captured a real live artist and we have her here for the duration of the show, making her strange habitat for you to view. Curiouser and curiouser………………..

ENDS

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