Tickle My Senses

Tickle My Senses

18 February 2011 - 1 May 2011

Have Your Senses Tickled at Lopdell House Gallery. A colour-coded treasure trove inspired by Dr Seuss, Tickle My Senses is an interactive exhibition of over 40 artworks from The Dowse collection. The show encourages visitors to respond to art in ways beyond just looking. By tickling our senses of touch, taste, smell, hearing and sight, visitors will enjoy a range of eclectic artworks in innovative and playful ways.

Concept developer Leanne Wickham says, "The show is a great way to discover how we learn about the world around us and how all our senses - not just sight - help us appreciate and understand art."

Touch boxes encourage children to feel how materials are different in texture and shape, and smell drawers allow children to explore how smells can remind you of a person, place or time. Beautiful light boxes glow and change colour, and the taste encounter shows how artworks can make you salivate! Visitors can also pick up a phone and listen to soundscapes attached to Don Binney's Mexico and Barry Brickell's Animotive I.

Using innovative and playful design elements Tickle My Senses is an exhibition not to be missed by anyone who enjoys a giggle when looking at art. So come and look, listen, touch, taste and smell for a really stimulating art experience.

Events

Rhythm & Verse
17 February 2011

Unwind with an evening of words and music on the top floor of Lopdell House, Titirangi.

Musicians: Chillele - Angela, Pedro and Mark

Poets: Sarah Cotter, Vivienne Plumb, Michael Morrissey, Greg Brimblecombe

Venue Top Floor Lopdell House, 1.30-3.30pm

Entry $5 entry. Cash door sales available, sorry no EFTPOS.

Booking phone 817 8087 x201 or call into the Gallery Shop

Robin Kewell Film Night
Palau -- The Rock Islands

7.30pm, Saturday 19 February

This film takes us to this amazing part of the Western Pacific where between 250-300 limestone islands, uninhabited by man, remain virtually untouched. Now famous for the underwater life in the surrounding reefs. Blue Corner (the wall) is regarded as one of the premier dive spots of the world, it provides home and safety for several kinds of jellyfish that have lost the need to sting. Film-maker Robin Kewell will be presenting this film and telling stories from behind the lens including the terrible story of what happened on the island of Pelilieu.

Venue Top Floor Lopdell House, 7.30pm doors/bar open at 7pm

Entry $10 or $7 for Friends of Lopdell House Gallery

Cash door sales available, sorry no EFTPOS.

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