What's on at The Dowse Nov 28

What's on at The Dowse Nov 28

News...

The winner of our Knitted & Knitted craft competition is Petone's Olive Brown with Ma'a Nonu.

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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 http://www.myspace.com/marathebushkas http://dowse.org.nz/en/Events/Events/Late-Lounge-Mara-and-The-Bushkas/
A 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. IMAGE ATTACHED

BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL
T 04 570 6500 | E dowsebookings@huttcity.govt.nz

Santa's Little Helpers Workshops 19 & 20 December | 10-11am & 12-1pm | $5 per child | 5yrs+
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

BOOKING REQUIRED
T: 04 570 6500 E: dowsebookings@huttcity.govt.nz

Opening Exhibitions...

Local Knowledge 17 December 2011 - 22 April 2012 | FREE
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.

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...
2011 Wallace Art Awards 29 October - 4 December 2011 | Free
The annual Wallace Art Awards marks its 20th anniversary this year and The Dowse will showcase the winners and most of the finalists. The Dowse is the only Wellington venue to host this outstanding awards exhibition; the awards are the longest running of their type in New Zealand. With prizes amounting to over $165,000, the awards were presented by Auckland Mayor Len Brown at The Pah Homestead, TSB Bank Wallace Arts Centre on Monday 5 September. The 2011 Paramount Winner is Akiko Diegel who receives a 6 month-residency at the International Studio and Curatorial Program in New York, USA. Akiko's work is Cure, 2011, made up of disprin packets fashioned into bulldog clips.
Ongoing Exhibitions...

Bedazzled Opens 26 November 2011 | FREE
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/

Gordon Crook: 18 Maritimes 5 November 2011 - 29 January 2012 | FREE
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.

Hit The Wall: Sound Tracks From 5 October 2011 | FREE
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 celebrates the history of the local area with a contemporary visitor experience. The exhibition commemorates the historic meeting of the great Maori Te Atiawa chiefs, Te Wharepouri and Te Puni, and the first British settlers, on Pito-one's (Petone) shores in 1840.
settlers@huttcity.govt.nz www.petonesettlers.org.nz

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