Hemi Macgregor - Remote Control

Hemi Macgregor's incredible new exhibition, Remote Control, opens tonight (Tues 14th). Here are some installation images of his new sculptural works. Come along from 5:30pm, have a glass of wine and meet the artist.

2012

Page Blackie Gallery is proud to present 2012, a group exhibition featuring all our artists. The works in this exhibition represent what each artist is working on now; a snapshot of what is current.
Opening: Tuesday 17 July, 5:30pm - 7pm

Neil Dawson, Spires

 Michael Hight, Arahiwi

 Dick Frizzell, Dekko VIII

 Max Gimblett

 Star Gossage, Girl with Fish

 Hemi Macgregor

 Karl Maughan

 Sarah Munro

 Heather Straka

 John Walsh

Emily Wolfe

Ngatai Taepa

Justin Boroughs - Away to the South

Justin Borough's new exhibition, Away to the South, opens at Page Blackie Gallery on Tuesday 19 June, from 5:30pm - 7:00pm. Contact the Gallery for further details.

Page Blackie Gallery presents: Dean O'Gorman's photography

Page Blackie Gallery is proud to host Dean O'Gorman for a week long exhibition featuring Dean's photographic work.

Dean O'Gorman
19 - 23 June. 
Exhibition opening:
Upstairs space, Tuesday 19 June, 5:30pm-10pm

Page Blackie Gallery launches new Karl Maughan screen print

Karl Maughan's incredible painting, Plume, which has been in Charles Saatchi's private collection for over a decade has returned home. To celebrate, Page Blackie Gallery and Karl Maughan have created a silk screen print of the major painting:

Plume
Silk screen print
800 x 980 mm (paper size)
Edition of 100
$1850 each, unframed

New Heather Straka edition

To celebrate the conclusion of Heather's monumental installation, The Asian, which has toured the length of the country in public galleries, Page Blackie Gallery and Heather Straka have created a new silk screek print:

Heather Straka
Kia Ora
Silk screen print
800 x 600 mm (paper size)
Edition of 100
$1500 each, unframed.

Dominion Post article on The Asian by Heather Straka

Diana Dekker reports on Heather Straka's captivating exhibition, The Asian at Page Blackie Gallery, in today's Dominion Post (Saturday 9th June).
The Asian will run at Page Blackie Gallery through until Saturday the 16th June.

Hemi Macgregor exhibition at University of Waikato

Remix: Works by Hemi Macgregor 
14 May - 22 June 2012
University of Waikato, Calder & Lawson Gallery

Remix presents a survey of Hemi Macgregor's work, spanning a period 15 years. Working across painting, sculpture and mixed media this exhibition showcases Hemi's "dynamic art practice that mixes issues of contemporary youth culture with Maori concepts of knowledge, time and identity".

The exhibition is accompanied by a beautiful catalogue featuring an essay by Megan Tamati-Quennell.

Neil Dawson - orange zone

Emily Wolfe - New Paintings

Jensen Downes Picture Company presents "Station"

World Press Masterclass nominee photographer Tim J. Veling presents his perspective of the film, Station, with a release of limited edition photographs.

Each photograph is available in three sizes:

$950 for 22" x 27.5" (edition of 3 at this size)
$450 for 10" x 12.5" (edition of 5 at this size)
$135 for 5" x 6.25" (edition of 10 at this size)

To view all of Tim J. Veling's works click HERE.

Contact the Gallery if you wish to purchase, some editions are near selling out, so be quick!

Heather Straka Exhibition Opens

Heather Straka's exhibition Playdate is now on at Page Blackie Gallery. Join us for a glass of wine from 5.30pm this evening to celebrate the show opening.

For more information on this exhibition please contact the Gallery.

Heather Straka - PLAYDATE

Dick Frizzell, Yellow

We are in the last week of Dick Frizzell's exhibition Painting the Hunt.
As part of his collaboration with Sam Hunt, Frizzell has produced a limited edition lithograph titled Yellow.

Dick Frizzell
Yellow, 5/60, 2011
Lithograph
760 x 565 mm
Signed, dated and editioned below
$1,200

Contact the Gallery for further details.

Poetry in a new light

By Sarah Catherall

Take one of New Zealand's best-known artists and pair him up with one of our iconic poets and the result is a range of unique artworks that celebrate both their talents.

Since splashing Sam Hunt's poems over canvas, Dick Frizzell is now moved to tears when he reads his new friend's poems, which is an interesting confession for an expressionist pop artist who admits he's never been keen on poetry.

"I avoided it at school. I always thought, 'Poetry, poetry, what the f... is poetry'?," he laughs."But I've been converted to Sam's poetry. It's funny, when you spend a lot of time working with them, I can now hardly quote them without choking. They are so profound."

Frizzell's light-filled studio on the edge of the Haumoana shoreline is filled with art and graphic design books rather than literature.

But the Hawke's Bay painter pulls out one book that has consumed many of his hours over the past year – a complete collection of Hunt's poems. Frizzell has always been restless to produce new works and to challenge himself with new projects, and when The Dominion Post visited his home, the result of that energy graced his studio walls. An exhibition of Frizzell's efforts, Painting the Hunt, has just begun at Paige Blackie Gallery in Wellington.

But Frizzell and Hunt's collaboration only came about by chance. About three years ago, an advertising agency approached the artist about creating a new Kiwi icon for giant billboards similar to Frizzell's famous Four Square man.

That idea didn't take off, until one of the creatives came up with the idea of Frizzell painting a Hunt poem. Frizzell was also keen to capture the Kiwi spirit, rather than an image.
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Sam Hunt performing in Page Blackie Gallery

Karl Maughan - The Language of Flowers

Written by Sarah Catherall

For an artist who is renowned for painting splendid rhododendrons and gardens exploding with colour, Karl Maughan knows surprisingly little about flowers and plants. In fact, the Auckland home he shares with his partner, novelist Emily Perkins, and three children, is almost colourless. Green natives are dotted about, amid a cluster of sunflowers and cornflowers. "But it's a very green garden," he says.

Maughan is one of our most prolific artists who hasn't deviated from the flowers and gardens he has become renowned for, which he has been painting for almost 25 years since he graduated from art school.

His surrealist fantasy landscapes grace the walls of galleries in New Zealand and overseas, and they have increased in value over the years, now fetching more than $55,000 for large ones that fill walls.

His newest work is on show at Wellington's Page Blackie Gallery. Maughan is a towering 1.9 metres (6ft 3in) tall and wearing casual shorts and a comfortable T-shirt when we meet. He wouldn't look out of place in a garden, although you would expect to see him with a hoe in his hand rather than a paint brush. However, when he paints, he works off photographs of gardens.

That wasn't always the case. Until he shifted to London in the early 1990s, Maughan tried to paint in gardens, but the inclement weather and conditions forced him to his East End studio, and he is more comfortable painting inside today.

Read more here

Dick Frizzell - Painting the Hunt