Depot Artspace Newsletter, July 2013

Depot Artspace Newsletter, July 2013

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REMEMBERING SNOWPLOUGH

This month we remember with love and sadness Snowplough the community cat, who died 3 years ago on July 2, after being run over by car in Clarence St. Snowplough was originally owned by Nic Russell, but chose life in the community, moving around the neighbourhood and making himself at home in the Depot Artspace and at Harcourts Real Estate. Snowplough attended most public events here, including concerts and political meetings, and enjoyed band rehearsals in Depot Sound. He features in our current exhibition in Outerspace Gallery, Making Community Happen.

- Linda Blincko

JULY EXHIBITIONS
28 Clarence St, Devonport, Auckland
www.depotartspace.co.nz
The Depot Artspace has three galleries in its Devonport base. We encourage you to come and be a part of the community.
All are welcome at Depot Artspace exhibition openings and events.

Making Community Happen in the Outerspace Gallery
Until 18 July
Outerspace Gallery

You are invited to participate in our very special project Making Community Happen.
Making Community Happen is an ongoing project celebrating the people and places of Devonport that contribute and have contributed to the Devonport community. Through your participation this project aims to explore the dynamics of community identity and the distinct and renowned character of the Devonport community. This exhibition in Outerspace Gallery is an introduction to a wider project to take place in 2014 and which begins here by creating a dialogue about how important community is and how it can be sustained.
Participation is easy! The Outerspace Gallery will feature simple ways to interact such as adding the names of people and places that make Devonport not just a place but a community to you. You are also invited to bring in photos, artwork and ephemera (such as newspaper clippings or objects) of meaning to you in relationship to this community.

Pelin Hall: 100 Days of Drawing
6 July - 18 July
Opening in the Main Gallery
Saturday 6 July 3 – 4.30pm

100 Days of Drawing is an illustrative performance. Just like a personal journal, Pelin Hall has created something every day for 100 days culminating in an exhibition at the Depot Artspace. She has also been documenting and publishing her drawings each day on her blog site.

Because of the diary-like nature of the project it will be a very intimate and perhaps confessional process. By the end of it Hall hopes to have learnt more about herself and her technical and emotional capacity. She believes drawing is a fundamental artistic skill, that it is a discipline like all other art forms not just a sketch or preparatory activity. Her drawings are finished works that stand in contrast to the perfect imagery we are exposed to in magazines and other media.

Dwight Booysens: Designing Ideas
6 July - 18 July
Opening in the Vernacular Lounge
Saturday 6th July 3 – 4.30pm

Inspired by Gifford Jackson’s New Zealand Industrial Design Pathfinder exhibition, designer and student Dwight Booysens has set up his own design show here at the Depot Artspace!

Designing Ideas is a demonstration of a young designer’s oeuvre which takes you through Dwight’s project based and exploration work, featuring his unique chair design ‘The Rail Chair’. Dwight’s work displays an alternative way of thinking and bold aesthetics. The exhibition offers a brief overview of his design process and initial design ideation; it is a show of his distinct design language and solutions for a range of very different contexts and fields.

Dwight Booysens, 22 years of age, is a young Auckland based designer and student.

Cristina Beth: Confession & Michelle Wilkinson: Micro
20 July - 1 August
Opening in the Main Gallery
Saturday 20 July 3 – 4.30pm

Cristina Beth is interested in the notion of embodied repetition. Beth’s work starts with the collection of discarded objects and materials from inorganic rubbish collections. The object that has become most representative of this reclamation for her is the fabric mattress cover. Once intimately private, it eventually becomes public and disowned; the mattress cover retains traces of wear and tear, traces of bodies and traces of absent identities. The stained or worn mattress cover represents a site where life and art, materiality and social form intersect.

Confession is an exhibition that focuses on the integration of place, self and each other. The mattress site carries within it the essence of our human fragility and becomes a confessional container for life’s dramas and emotions. Beth explores the relationship between fabric, intimate organisms and lingering memory by merging private and public boundaries.

Michelle Wilkinson’s work is based on observations of veiled beauty in the natural world. She is fascinated with the secret and unseen. Micro takes inspiration from elements in nature that are usually too small to be detected by the naked eye; objects that are often skimmed over and taken for granted. In this exhibition Wilkinson magnifies them to create jewellery that contains forms simultaneously familiar and unknown.

Looking to obsolete scientific theories and practices she focuses on the historic use of illustration to express scientific concepts. Her pieces are influenced by the descriptions and drawings in the pages of old scientific journals and biological keys

Carolyn Hyde: Entomology & Other Studies
20 July - 1 August
Opening in the Outerspace Gallery
Saturday 20 July 3-4.30pm

Entomology & Other Studies is an exhibition of new paintings from Carolyn Hyde. In this series, she combines aspects of scientific illustration with traditional still life.

Through her studies Hyde expresses her appreciation for the mundane and overlooked, things that are “hidden objects of beauty.”

Examining primarily Aotearoa, Hyde’s compositions are a combination of native flora and fauna and New Zealand artifacts.

CULTURAL ICONS
www.culturalicons.co.nz

Annette Isbey interviewed by Denys Trussell Part One:
"He didn't mind me painting...
as long as I got all the housework done first!"
In this first of two episodes Cultural Icons’ Patron Denys Trussell interviews painter Annette Isbey at her studio. She speaks of having grown up in rural New Zealand as the worst of the Depression in the 1930s and the spectre of World War II unfolded around her. Full of anecdotes of war, rural life, and an early fascination with art and literature we follow Annette from the Waikato, to Hokianga to Wellington’s Stokes Valley (where her family became close friends with writer Iris Wilkinson, AKA Robyn Hyde), Auckland’s Elam school of art, through to Australia and her eventual return to the homeland.

Annette Isbey interviewed by Denys Trussell Part Two:
"I'd like to feel my paintings are visual poems."
In this second installment of the interview between painter Annette Isbey and Denys Trussell we look at some of Isbey’s work as she explores the influences, processes and memories behind them. We discover the childhood that inspired her respect and later inclusion of animals in her work. She talks about the influence of a trip to Latin America, and some other remembrances from her life and the art theories (such as postmodernism) that have shaped her as an artist.
Help Us Keep the Cultural Icons Project Alive!
The Depot Artspace Cultural Icons project celebrates people who have contributed significantly to New Zealand’s creative landscape. It is an inspirational series of recorded interviews that share the histories, stories and experiences of some of our most significant visual artists, architects, publishers, entrepreneurs, writers, musicians, arts commentators and philanthropists.

Funding has so far come from a number of sources and is now expended yet we still have many Cultural Icons waiting to be interviewed. Boosted, the Arts Foundation crowd funding site, and the Depot Artspace have joined forces to try fundraise enough for 5 new interviews and YOU can help to keep this important project and resource alive! If we don't receive more funding soon, there will no longer be Cultural Icons to feature in this newsletter!

As a donor, the Depot Artspace will keep you informed on openings, exhibitions and happenings at our creative community. You will be the first to know about the latest Cultural Icons interviews, news from the Depot Artspace and special events.

COMING UP:
• Anthony Wilson (speaking about the life and works of his late father, Arnold Manaaki Wilson) interviewed by Ngahiraka Mason.

DEPOT SOUND

Dave has been busy in the Depot Sound Recording Studio this past month!

Listen to a cool track Dave mastered last week for a new electronic duo called Ophelia. Click through for high quality stream and a FREE download! He's currently working on their EP which will be out soon, we can't wait to hear it!

The Impossible Fifth have just released their debut single that they recorded at Depot Sound a few weeks ago. Have a listen and score a FREE download here.

The rehearsal room also has few free nights at the moment so if your band needs a place to practise without upsetting your neighbours contact Linda (linda.blincko@depotartspace.co.nz ) or Dave (dave@depotsound.co.nz)

SMALL DOG ARTIST BOOK READING

SMALL DOG GALLERY DEVONPORTABLES EXHIBITION

Devonportables
September 7th – 26th 2013
Small Dog Gallery

To celebrate the return of Small Dog Gallery, Depot Artspace also revisits one of its most popular members’ exhibitions ever, Devonportables.

In this exhibition Devonportables explores portability in all its permutations, reflecting on the notion that life’s journey entails transporting the things we gather as we go, be they physical, emotional, metaphorical or metaphysical.

Artists are invited to represent the means by which they move their belongings (articles/baggage) from place to place, over distance or time; in containers, vehicles, vessels, bags, bodies or brain cells. In the spirit of this exhibition artists may wish to make use of found objects.

Exhibitor Information:
• All Exhibitors must be members of Depot Artspace
• Entry Fee $20 per work
• 2D Work no larger than approximately 600mm x 600mm. For 3D work please let us know if it is larger than 600 x 600 x 600
• Please make sure all work is clearly labelled with a swing tag stating your name, the title of the work, the materials and the price. It is preferable and very helpful if you email this information to us as it makes it much easier to catalogue
• Please drop artwork to us at Depot Artspace 28 Clarence St, Devonport on Wednesday September 4th 10 – 5pm or Thursday September 5th 9.30 – 2pm
• Please collect artwork on Thursday 26th September 2 – 5 pm

JOIN DEPOT ARTSPACE
Join Depot Artspace and you’ll be joining a creative community that offers a range of opportunities. You will also be supporting the Depot Artspace and its objectives.

Membership means that you support the Depot Artspace and its objectives.
It entitles you to:
• Quarterly LOUD magazines and monthly e-newsletters
• Invitations to all exhibition openings and special events.
• Opportunities to exhibit in the Galleries.
• Get involved by becoming a Volunteer.
• Use of the Recording Studio (charges apply).

Membership Rates (for one year membership)
Individual $30 Family $40 Organisation $50 International $35 Youth (under 20) $10

To join Depot Artspace, email galleries@depotartspace.co.nz for a membership form, call 09 963 2331 or download one online via our website.

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