What's Coming Up At the Dowse: Kobi Bosshard Jewellery

Kobi Bosshard Jewellery Exhibition Opens This Weekend and What's Coming Up At the Dowse

Events…

Talk & Tour with Kobi Bosshard Sat 15 June 2013, 2pm | FREE

Meet Swiss-born New Zealander Kobi Bosshard and hear about his amazing life and practice as a one of our first, and finest, contemporary jewellers.

ECC Student Craft/Design Awards

Calling all tertiary design students and recent graduate. Here’s your chance to enter these prestigious annual awards hosted by Friends of The Dowse; first prize is $3000.  Previous winners have included Genevieve Packer who has these words for students consider entering: “Do it! There are not many local awards (if any) tailored specifically to student-based craft / design, yet allowing for broad interpretation and application within this. Especially if the work has already been created – not to enter is a huge wasted opportunity.” She says winning the SCDA in 2008 helped her career, “With the award came valuable recognition of the strength of the design, outside of the course context – the work holding its own ground outside the confines of a brief and an institution. My wallpaper design subsequently went on to be picked up and commercially produced by Pacific Wallcoverings as part of their Pasifika range.”  Image of Genevieve attached. Full details on The Dowse website

Late Lounge with The Uprights Thurs 4 July 2013, 7pm | Koha

A Wellington honky tonk trio with a mightly sound. More familiar as the rhythm section behind the infamous Roseneath Centennial Ragtime Band, The Uprights have no time for delicate background music – and no thought for holding back. Mike Jensen (drummer/composer), Dayle Jellyman (piano) and Dan Yeabsley (bass) bring energy far beyond their three-piece proportions. The result is a swinging show full of blues, energy and style; a small piano trio with a mighty sound. Image attached.

July School Holiday Workshop: The Magic of Mud  16, 17, 18 July 2013, 10:15, 11:15am & 1pm | 55 min workshop | 5 yrs+ | $5 per chil

July school holiday fun for children aged five and over - take a ball of clay and transform it into your very own creation by rolling, pulling and squishing. BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL T 04 570 6500 | E dowsebookings@huttcity.govt.nz

Opening Exhibitions…

Kobi Bosshard 15 June – 13 October 2013 | FREE | Objectspace Masters of Craft Serie

Kobi Bosshard is widely regarded as 'the grandfather' of New Zealand contemporary jewellery. This stunning exhibiton features a selection of his jewellery from the 1960s to the present; works loaned from public and private collections around New Zealand and overseas. Born in Switzerland in 1938, Kobi trained as a goldsmith as did his father and grandfather. In 1966, he came to New Zealand where he worked as an alpine guide. He established Fluxus (with Steve Mulqueen) in 1983 and continued working as a full-time jeweller up until his semi-retirement in 2001. Full details on The Dowse website. Images attached

Pic ‘n’ Mix 29 June – 1 September 2013 | FRE

This time, we’ve handed the reins over to you. To celebrate all the children who visit The Dowse, our new family show Pic 'n' Mix has been curated by a younger set of visitors. Nineteen local children have each chosen a favourite artwork from the collection. From a plane to a dog to a very large apple, Pic ‘n’ Mix is an eclectic show that highlights the unique perspective children bring to the world of contemporary art.  Image attached.

Homesewn: Original New Zealand Fashion 10 August – 24 November 2013 | FRE

Curated by Doris de Pont, New Zealand fashion designer and patron, Home Sewn is a retrospective of the home sewing revolution in New Zealand. At a time when off-the-peg fashion was scarce and expensive, home sewing provided many generations of women with a stylish wardrobe that reflected the current couture of the fashion capitals. Home Sewn is a touring exhibition from the New Zealand Fashion Museum. 

"It is a defining characteristic of mid century New Zealand that most women could sew and large numbers did so very skilfully," Douglas Lloyd-Jenkins.

The exhibition showcases an art form that is gaining renewed interest. It touches on the machines, the techniques, the patterns and the fabrics used to create beautiful clothes. Fashion illustrations, photographs, newspaper and magazine articles also feature in Home Sewn. Image attached.  More information.

Ongoing Exhibitions…

His Own Steam: A Barry Brickell Survey 4 May – 11 August 2013 | FREE

Visitors have been flocking to our Barry Brickell exhibition. A tribute to one of New Zealand's most important potters, His Own Steam is the first significant survey exhibition of Brickell's work, featuring over 100 pots and several ceramic murals. The works are drawn from both the sizable holdings of The Dowse Art Museum and Brickell’s own collection, together with key pieces generously loaned from museums and collectors throughout New Zealand.

Media release: http://www.dowse.org.nz/en/News/Latest-News/His-Own-Steam-A-Barry-Brickell-Survey/

Sorry I Am Out of Order 1 June – 15 September 2013 | FRE

This selection of works from The Dowse’s collection all suggest disruption of the usual order. In various ways they play up, act out and disturb us. Many of the works included in Sorry I Am Out Of Order are from a long-term loan to The Dowse by Wellington collectors Jim Barr and Mary Barr, demonstrating the spiky humour and playful contrariness that distinguishes their approach to collecting.

Kerrie Poliness: Big O 13 April – 28 July 2013

A series of giant black and white wall drawings by Melbourne artist Kerrie Poliness. Drawn directly onto the wall in marker pen, the works create vivid illusions of three dimensionality. To create the drawings, points around a circle must first be estimated. These points are used to create grids. The irregularities generate odd and distinctive distortions in the drawings, which are different every time they are made. Kerrie Poliness says that the three most important qualifications required to produce these works are the ability to understand the instructions in the manual, the ability to make accurate measurements and the ability to guess. The size of each version of Black O is variable, depending on the particular dimensions of the wall selected for the drawing

Alex Monteith: Big Wave Aotearoa 13 April – 28 July 2013 | FRE

Auckland artist Alex Monteith explores high performance surfing in this new video work. A collaboration with Doug Young and exponents of Aotearoa's Big Wave Surfing community.

"Big Wave Aotearoa demonstrates the relentless ambition and drive of high performance surfing and the endless search to ride the greatest wave of all," Emma Bugden, Curator.

Alex Monteith is a new media artist and academic whose work incorporates sound, performance, photography, film, video, kinetic and network components, while her practice explores the politics, freedoms and limits of consumer technology. Her large-scale works involve collaboration with specialists from outside the art-world including sheep-dog triallists and New Zealand racing motor-cyclists. No stranger to the surf community, for six years Monteith was a competitive surfer – she was the Irish National Women's champion in 2001 and represented Ireland in the 2002 ISA world surfing games in Durban, South Africa and the European Surfing Championships in 2001. She has also competed on the NZ national circuit.

Closing Exhibitions…

Myths, Monsters & Magical Things 9 March – 16 June 2013 | FRE

Discover bountiful beasts, fabulous fairies, elaborate elves and drowsy dragons in this new exhibition for children and their families. Featuring contemporary works that have myths, monsters, fantastical animals and magical creatures at their core, fairy tales and fables will take on a new light with characters inspired by a range of heroic journeys – from Maori taniwha to Irish leprechauns, Greek mythology to English legends.

Works range from jewellery to sculpture and painting to photography, drawn mainly from The Dowse Collection, by New Zealand artists: Lisa Reihana, Dave Copeland, Jane Dodd, Johnny Fraser Allen, Cliff Whiting, Hannah & Aaron Beehre, Edward Duant and Bob Gerrard; as well as Australian artist Louise Weaver's hand-crocheted golden bunny New Romantic (Golden Hare) and Indian painter Shanti Devi's The Bahagavad Gita.

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