Te Puna and, it follows, your Te Puna Correspondent was, alas, out of radio range of the Tiri in 1965. But the TPC is not too young to remember Tiri’s maiden voyage. Sending the TPC to watch “3 Mile Limit”, therefore, involved not just a fact-based appreciation of the retro qualities of the design and cinematography of the movie: there was also a lively appreciation of just how good it was, in 1964, to hear Dinah Lee belting out “The Blue Beat” in the first NZ pop record that sounded as if it really might have come from London. So…
Author: ARTbop
Te Puna Village You get into this little collection of cafe, shops and the vivid red and white of a childcare centre from the Te Puna Road off State Highway 2 aka Tauranga West Road. Nourish cafe now flourishes in the soild Tuscan-styled building. The morning I call in the place is humming with its diversity of human beings. Mums and children playing and enjoying morning tea; business meetings over coffee; stylish mature women reading morning papers. The food cabinet glows like art. There are jars of flowers positioned on a ladder shelf. On the walls there are quirky works…
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY BUILD April 2014 Welcome Bay If you can help on site or provide lunch for volunteers telephone Ann Dowman on 573 8541 TAURANGA ART GALLLERY 108 Willow Street, Tauranga Open daily 10am – 4.30pm www.artgallery.org.nz Email: office@artgallery.org.nz Phone: (07) 578 7933 LIGHTWAVE GALLERY 31 Totara St, Mount Maunganui Open Tuesday to Sunday and all Cruise Ship days, 10am – 4pm. Featuring the unique exhibition The early years of Nikolai Eaglestone AKA RayGun Rex and the exhibitions and work of associated gallery artists www.lightwavegallery.co.nz Phone 07 929 7573 GALLERY 59 9th Avenue, Tauranga, 3110 (enter through Prestige Framing).…
It takes about the same time to drive to Whakatane as it did for me to crawl down the Southern Motorway from the Southside to Auckland Central – the view is better down here. I’m going to Whakatane to see the Mataatua Wharenui – the House that Came Home and to have a look in the Whakatane Library and Exhibition Centre at the 2014 Molly Morpeth Canaday competition entries. Years ago, as a student I visited Whakatane and the older marae running along the strip of land facing the sea. Also years ago, I would spend hours in and around…
He’s absolutely unmissable as he walks towards us. It’s a black and white installation. The working-class hero flatcap is black and all over covered with large silver studs. There’s a black neckscarf tucked into what Jesse tells us is his white “shotgun tee”. You got it . They put the tee shirt on a bank and blast it with a shotgun. The tee is tucked into pure white combat pants which in turn are tucked into more than spit-clean black combat boots. He’s well known to the friend I am with and we stand and chat about his Mum…
We overuse the Wow – but WOW is what has happened to the Tauranga Art Gallery Atrium. Acid lime; hard stripes of red, orange and yellow juxtaposed against the huge canvas squishes of colour billowing out like circus coloured scrunchies. I was in the Gallery Atrium when the painters were installing this vibrant work. It’s a wonderful experience to observe exhibitions being changed and installed. There’s a buzz, a dynamism and a vitality – the real life and breath of the Gallery. During the formal exhibition opening I get taken ’round the back’ of the enormous floor to ceiling canvas…