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Lopdell House Gallery Newsletter - October

Lopdell House Gallery Newsletter

What's on @ Lopdell this October

The Portage Ceramic Awards 2013

Silo Park, Auckland Waterfront.
Open 10am - 6pm daily and 10am - 7pm Fri & Sat
Last few days! Exhibition finishes 20 October

Lopdell House Gallery and The Trusts Community Foundation are delighted to facilitate the Trusts Portage Ceramic Awards 2013. This annual award provides a vital platform to showcase the diversity of talented artists nationwide who work in a medium that wins the hearts of makers, collectors and the general public like no other.

Auckland Heritage Competition

In celebration of Auckland Heritage Week and the rich legacy left in New Lynn by Ambrico/Crown Lynn and LynnMall, we are giving away a weekend stay at the Bethells Beach Cottages situated on the original Bethells family farm. To enter, begin a quest into Crown Lynn design patterns and tell us the common link between Cleverley on Clay, 50 Years of Fashion and the Crown Lynn display at the New Lynn War Memorial Library. Email your answer to us or fill out an entry form in the gallery. Many thanks to Trude Bethell for this fabulous prize.

Cleverley on Clay

Exhibition runs 28 September-30 October
Design historian Michael Smythe and mixed media artist Helen Schamroth celebrate clay in the era of The Whole Earth Catalogue by considering two Crown Lynn patterns by designer Mark Cleverley.

Curiosity Cabinet Becky Bliss: Pentimento

Exhibition runs 28 September-30 October
The space left behind and the remnants of life are concepts that have informed Becky Bliss' practice for a number of years.

ENDS

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