What's on at The Dowse Nov 28
What's on at The Dowse Nov 28
News...
The winner of
our Knitted & Knitted
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Events...
Late
Lounge with Mara and The Bushkas Thurs 1 December | 7-9pm
| KOHA
The last Late Lounge for the year will see the
gorgeous sounds of Mara Simpson and friends on stage at The
Dowse. All galleries, shop, cafe and bar open until 9pm. The
Bushkas feature musicians from such bands as Fat Freddy's
Drop, Trinity Roots and Twinset. www.marandthebushkas.com
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Christmas Carol: Live with Dick Weir Sun 11 Dec, 1-2pm |
FREE
'Tis the season for storytelling and nobody does it
better than Dick Weir Weir is a veteran broadcaster and
children's show producer who is now well known as a master
storyteller. Join him for a retelling of this favourite
Christmas tale. IMAGE ATTACHED
NO BOOKING
REQUIRED
Little Sparks Tues 13 December 2011 | 1-2pm | $5
per child | 4 year olds & caregivers
A hands-on session
for creatively-minded four year olds. Little Sparks meet
once a month to chat about what they have seen at The Dowse
- and then get busy creating their own inspired artworks.
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BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL Santa's
Little Helpers Workshops 19 & 20 December | 10-11am & 12-1pm
| $5 per child | 5yrs+ BOOKING
REQUIRED Opening
Exhibitions... Local Knowledge 17 December 2011 - 22 April
2012 | FREE IMAGE ATTACHED: Ans Westra, Fathers
Queensgate Lower Hutt, 1989. Collection of The Dowse Art
Museum Media release: http://www.dowse.org.nz/News/Latest-News/A-Time-and-a-Place-for-Everything/ Closing
Exhibitions... Bedazzled Opens 26 November 2011 |
FREE Gordon
Crook: 18 Maritimes 5 November 2011 - 29 January 2012 |
FREE Hit The Wall: Sound Tracks From 5 October
2011 | FREE
T 04 570 6500 | E dowsebookings@huttcity.govt.nz
Those special little homemade
gifts are always the best and most treasured you will
receive. Get your children creating this Christmas with our
gift-making workshops. IMAGE ATTACHED
T: 04 570 6500 E: dowsebookings@huttcity.govt.nz
Get ready for Dowse-Time in The Hutt this
summer when Whanganui artist Julian Priest creates a unique
time-zone for The Dowse Art Museum. Defying the regulations
of timekeeping, Priest's installation of a clock on the
front of The Dowse is just one of the works in Local
Knowledge, an exhibition that deals with the specifics of
location and time, the connections between them, and what it
means to be at home. Other artists include Lower Hutt's
Veranoa Hetet and Ans Westra, Wellington's Mike Heynes and
Andrew Ross, Auckland's Joe Sheehan and Dan Arps and a video
work by UK artist Simon Faithfull. Chinese artist Zheng
Guogu is interested in mapping one location on another, as
in physical manifestation of a virtual realm-creating an
elaborate personal home from the online game Age of Empires.
Incorporated into the exhibition is Living Halls, a project
initiated by Auckland artist Fiona Jack that brings together
50 hobbyist and professional artists from around New Zealand
to commemorate their local War Memorial Hall in a unique
series of paintings.
2011 Wallace Art Awards 29 October - 4
December 2011 | Free
The annual Wallace Art Awards
Ongoing
Exhibitions...
Royal NZ Ballet Costumes Designed by Kristian
Fredrikson are on display at The Dowse over summer. The
exhibition includes gorgeous garments and detailed drawings
from nine ballets including Cinderella, Peter Pan, Swan Lake
and A Christmas Carol. Born in Petone, Kristian Fredrikson
was one of Australasia's most esteemed designers for dance
who created opulent costumes for both the New Zealand and
Australian ballet companies as well as The Sydney Dance
Company. Media release: http://dowse.org.nz/News/Latest-News/Be-Bedazzled-at-The-Dowse/
The Dowse pays tribute to the life of artist Gordon
Crook, 1921-2011. 18 Maritimes is a suite of small
tapestries depicting oceanic and nautical themes. The series
was purchased and first exhibited at The Dowse in 1996.
Crook took two years to complete the designs researching
pictures of fish, seaweed, or microscopic organisms. The
finished series, which also has supporting drawings, is a
significant body of work which exquisitely portrays Crooks
expressive design, his abundant use of colour, and his acute
attention to detail.These tapestries were inspired by 18
miniature collages using colour photocopying techniques
which Crook thought would really come to life in
tapestries.
100 Bikes Project: Part 1 | Scott Eady 8
October 2011 - 5 February 2012 | FREE
It's not very often
you get to not only touch but ride the artworks. Dunedin
artist Scott Eady has restored a collection of 50
children's discarded and thrown away bicycles, including
bikes, trikes and scooters. This exhibition is interactive -
allowing children (3 to 8 years old) to ride through the
gallery on a unique customised stead. Media release: http://dowse.org.nz/News/Latest-News/Scott-Eadys-Artworks-You-Can-Ride/
Images attached.
New Zealand typographer and graphic designer
Catherine Griffiths explores vowel sounds for the 'Hit The
Wall' space in the gallery. AEIOU emerges out of a network
of converging and overlapping white lines, tracking in
unison against a jet black background. Griffiths manipulates
her drawing through digital and analogue distortion -
printing, scanning and enlarging the image to produce
reverberating letterforms. Sound Tracks is the second
installation in the artist's AEIOU series. The first work -
a typographic sound sculpture (AEIOU, 2009) - is a
construction of five vowels in steel, stacked five metres
high on the first-level terrace of Cubana Apartments in
Wellington. Read more about it on today's blog http://thedowse.posterous.com/
http://dowse.org.nz/en/Exhibitions/Future-Exhibitions/Hit-The-Wall-Sound-Tracks/
Image attached: Catherine Griffiths, Sound Tracks,
2011.
Petone Settlers Museum...
Tatou Tatou
ongoing | The Esplanade, Petone | Wed to Sun 10am- 4pm |
FREE
To mark the 70th anniversary of the opening of its
building, the Wellington Provincial Centennial Memorial, the
Petone Settlers Museum has recently been refurbished and a
new exhibition, Tatou Tatou
settlers@huttcity.govt.nz www.petonesettlers.org.nz