Taken from Mt Eden
Saturday, February 25
Sunday, February 19
Dream Catchers
A couple of South Americans travelling around N Z - selling their wares at Avondale Flea market
Saturday, February 18
Buttons and Bows - Lorne Street
Barbara Bailey from Waiheke Island, New Zealand Contact Barbara at her Studio/Gallery, 1 Taraire St, Ostend, Waiheke Island
New Art Gallery Auckland - Toi o Tamaki
Auckland Art Gallery has the most extensive collection of national and international art in New Zealand. A public art gallery located within two buildings, the main gallery and the new gallery, it exhibits work from its collection along with a programme of national and international touring exhibitions.
Oedipus Rex Gallery
Oedipus Rex represents established and emerging New Zealand artists. The gallery is located in Khartoum Place, across from the Auckland Art Gallery, in the heart of the city's thriving art district.
In its two exhibition spaces, the gallery presents a new show every three weeks and carries a wide selection of gallery artists' work in stock.
Women's Suffrage - Mural must stay says Hubbard
Auckland City Mayor Dick Hubbard has stepped in to save the tiled suffrage centenary memorial in Khartoum Place ahead of a visit today by Women's Affairs Minister Lianne Dalziel and several prominent Dames. The Dames, who include Catherine Tizard, Thea Muldoon, Dorothy Winstone and Georgina Kirby, are gathering to save the memorial, threatened by the council's redevelopment of Khartoum Place. Documents obtained by the Herald under the Official Information Act show council officers have spent $200,000 on consultants and a design competition for Khartoum Place. Entrants were told they could remove the memorial. None of the 12 entries kept the 2000-tile mural and water feature celebrating the struggle for the emancipation of women. 23.11.05By Bernard Orsman
Bernar Venet - Display in Lorne Street Auckland
Born on April 20 1941 at Chateau-Arnoux-Saint-Auban in the Alps of Haunte-Provence. His father, Jean-Marie Venet, a schoolteacher and chemist, dies at the age of 40, leaving his widow Adeline Gilly in charge of their four sons, of which Bernar is the youngest.1947-57School as Chateau-Arnoux-Saint-Auban. As a boy, Bernar Venet suffers from asthma, and is forced to spend long spells at spas and an aerium at Saint-Raphael.With the encouragement of a local artist, he is drawing and painting extensively by the time he is ten.At age 11, Bernar is invited to exhibit in the Salon de Peinture Pechiney on Paris.1958Works as a stage designer for the Nice City Opera. Period of highly stylized paintings described by himself as "symbolic".
Saturday, February 11
TARANAKI MEETING HOUSE 1957
The opening of the Taiporohenui meeting house near Hawera last May was attended by the Minister of Maori Affairs, the Hon. E. B. Corbett, who made this the occasion for his farewell speech to the Maori people of Taranaki.
The meeting house, named Whareroa, was dedicated by the Superintendent of the Methodist Maori mission, the Very Rev. G. Laurenson.
It stands on the site of a formerly very important Taranaki meeting house on the Taiporohenui marae.
The name Taiporohenui was originally given to a very large conference house—180 feet long—which was built in 1853 when the Maori King movement was first mooted. This building be came the first pillar of the movement; others being the beautifully carved storehouse (Pataka) at Wi Tako, Lower Hutt; another at Papawai, near Greytown, under the chief Potangaroa; and still another at Waihiki (Taradale) at the pa of Tareha There was another at Pukawa, Lake Taupo, the pa of Te Heuheu Iwikau.
Three other meeting houses of the same name (Taiporohenui) have been built since the original one was destroyed by fire.
The meeting house, named Whareroa, was dedicated by the Superintendent of the Methodist Maori mission, the Very Rev. G. Laurenson.
It stands on the site of a formerly very important Taranaki meeting house on the Taiporohenui marae.
The name Taiporohenui was originally given to a very large conference house—180 feet long—which was built in 1853 when the Maori King movement was first mooted. This building be came the first pillar of the movement; others being the beautifully carved storehouse (Pataka) at Wi Tako, Lower Hutt; another at Papawai, near Greytown, under the chief Potangaroa; and still another at Waihiki (Taradale) at the pa of Tareha There was another at Pukawa, Lake Taupo, the pa of Te Heuheu Iwikau.
Three other meeting houses of the same name (Taiporohenui) have been built since the original one was destroyed by fire.
John Duffill
Not just 'A local boy makes good'
John Alfred Duffill was not simply a local boy made good, but a local boy who created sound original structures that have stood the test of time.
He pioneered a completely new concept, that of building in permanent materials and his concrete buildings are forerunners to those being built today.
Duffill's work marked a whole new trend in thinking, design and construction and his safely-kept drawings will long remain a testimony to his remarkable talent and skill.
http://www.pukeariki.com/en/stories/businessandindustry/duffill.asp
Have a look at his buildings in Taranaki
John Alfred Duffill was not simply a local boy made good, but a local boy who created sound original structures that have stood the test of time.
He pioneered a completely new concept, that of building in permanent materials and his concrete buildings are forerunners to those being built today.
Duffill's work marked a whole new trend in thinking, design and construction and his safely-kept drawings will long remain a testimony to his remarkable talent and skill.
http://www.pukeariki.com/en/stories/businessandindustry/duffill.asp
Have a look at his buildings in Taranaki
Lantern Maker at Work
Auckland's most popular summer events, the seventh Lantern Festival will feature hundreds of beautiful lanterns, including brand new designs from China, to bring Chinese New Year celebrations to a glowing finale. There will be performers from New Zealand and overseas as well as crafts, fortune-telling, fireworks and martial arts displays.
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