An Art Affair

An Art Affair March 2022

Published March 2022 Photography by ARTIS Gallery & Sam Hartnett

280 Parnell Road PO Box 37673 Auckland 1151 New Zealand T: (64) 9 3031090 E-mail:artis@artisgallery.co.nz

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Ray Ching

In A Forest Together they Danced and Sang Oil on panel, 970 x 1340 mm Signed lower right

Question Please by Josh Olley is currently on display outisde ARTIS Gallery, 280 Parnell Rd, Auckland.

Question Please was sculpted from a large boulder found near Wanaka. This particular stone is Piemontite. It would have been once sediment on the sea bed millions of years ago, then as a schist it was caught up in the uplifting tectonic plates in the southern alps, extreme heat and pressure has morphed it into a very hard durable stone.

Piemontite Pied (Foot), Mont (Mountain) is ironically (as the name implies) found in the foot hills of the southern alps of NZ. It occurs in a narrow band though the Mount Aspiring National park. Being unique to this area it is rarely seen, and even more rarely seen worked in art.

Once sediment under the sea, nearby submarine volcanic vents deposited manganese, giving it the purple colour, also the green type which is high in Chlorine mineral. The sedimentary layers can be seen like pages in a book Mica is the sparkling mineral seen from the face of the stone.

Glacial Erratic boulders During the early glacial advances, of which there have been several, chunks of rock were knocked off outcrops in the mountains and trapped in moving glaciers.

The boulders would have travelled for thousands of years in the ice, grinding against other rocks as they went. When the ice age receded, they may have sat there for thousands of years again, until another ice advance carried them further down the valley.

When the glacier receded, the boulders were left far from where they started, in a place they didn’t belong. They’re called “glacial erratic’s” – fitting, since the Latin root, errare, means “to wander”.

Josh Olley

Question Please Piemontite Stone, 1.8m high Signed

Brendan Burns

Kitekite Glen Esk Diptych Oil & wax on linen, 1370 x 3040 mm (diptych) Signed & dated verso

Andy Leleisi’uao

Equinox Afternoon Acrylic on canvas, 800 x 700 mm Signed

Ann Robinson

Rim Bowl Unite - Citrine/Chardonnay Cast glass - 45 % Crystal, 158 x 545 x 545 mm Signed

Liam Barr

Windshift Oil on linen, 1200 x 1400 mm Signed and dated 2021

Terry Stringer

Venus Bronze, 1790 mm high Signed & dated 2008

Bruce Hunt

East from Dromedary Hill Acrylic on canvas, 1300 x 1590 mm Signed verso

Nigel Brown

Passionate about New Zealand Acrylic on paper, 1020 x 660 mm Signed & dated 2013

Bronwynne Cornish

Owl Ceramic, 210 x 200 mm Signed

Fatu Feu’u

Ole Lamepa Acrylic on canvas, 1020 x 760 mm Signed

Sean Henry

T.P.O.L.R Bronze & oil paint, 810 x 300 x 230 mm Cast 2002 Edition 2/5 Series: The Path of Least Resistance

Peter Panyoczki

Particle Meditation Tainted II Mixed media on aluminium, 1200 x 1200 mm From the series: Re-Flections Signed verso

Llew Summers

Fun & games Bronze, 330 x 390 mm Signed AP

Marté Szirmay

Sun Spot Bronze, 320 x 290 x 110 mm Signed Ed. 3/3

George Baloghy

City Pastrol Oil on canvas, 600 x 1230 mm Signed verso & dated 2021

Aroha Gossage

Wahi tapu – Sacred Place Oils on board, 500 x 750 mm Signed & dated verso

Jim Wheeler

Five Fingers - Fruit Bronze, 530 x 330 x 330 mm Signed Series of five Each work unique

Justin Boroughs

Hawkdun Range Oil on board, 840 x 1480 mm Signed verso & dated 2022

John Blackburn

Triptych #1 – Green cups Mixed media on canvas board, 765 x 1530 mm Signed

ARTIS Gallery launches Bruce Hunt’s book TUSSOCK. Over the past 40 years, artist Bruce hunt has explored the ridgelines, hills and valleys of Otago and Canterbury – photographing the quiet grandeur of undulating foothills and braiding rivers. His deep connection to the land, and topographically accurate photographs, reveal a landscape untouched, in all its variable moods.

With a foreword by Sir Alan Mark, Emeritus Professor at the University of Otago, TUSSOCK is a homage to a landscape that is distinctly New Zealand.