Old stables home for new stable of artists

Old stables home for new stable of artists

A bright red neon artwork on a courtyard wall in Ghuznee Street Wellington has been drawing attention to the transformation of a historic little building into an exciting new contemporary art gallery.
 
‘Red words on a grey background’ is a new neon work by Mary-Louise Browne in the inaugural exhibition at Bartley and Company Art – Wellington’s newest art gallery. Like much of Browne’s work ‘Red words’ has multiple references and readings – it plays off abstract painting, conceptual art and popular culture drawing from the Neil Young line – ‘purple words on a grey background’ in the song ‘Cowgirls in the sand’.
 
Glowing in the courtyard between the street and galley, the work attracts the attention of passers by and serves to draw them into the gallery. Housed in a building originally built as a stables in the late 19th century, the converted stables is now home to a ‘stable’ of artists – the term used in the art world for the artists represented by a gallery.
 
The smart fit-out of the gallery has been designed by Allistar Cox, well-known, in Wellington particularly, for his design of the Matterhorn restaurant and Mojo cafes. Two key features are dramatic gates and a new glass box front door, which protrudes out from the old building.
 
Bartley and Company Art joins several galleries in the area, cementing the street firmly as the heart of the Wellington art scene.
 
 
Future exhibitions

Feb 24 – March 21                                            Andre Hemer – The Bang-Bang Painting Collective
March24 – April 18                                              Group exhibition of recent Massey graduates
April 21 – May 13                                                       Niki Hastings-McFall
May 19 – June 13                                                       Rachael Rakena
June 16 – July 11                                                       Roger Mortimer
July 14 – August 8                                            Group show Hard Tactics featuring Robyn Irwin glass
August 11 – September 5                                      Marcia Lyons
September 8 – October 2                                           Group exhibition New painters curated by Andre Hemer
October 6 –31                                    Brett Graham
November 3 - 28                                                       Anne Noble
December 1                                       Group exhibition

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