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Archive
2005-2007


Sebastian Vargas
August - September 2007
Click here for article in The Star, Thursday 9 August

Sebastian Vargas from Santiago, Chile was KOPUTAI Project Space Artist in Residence
from August-September 2007, also working in the Printmaking Department of the Otago Polytechnic School of Art, and None Gallery.

 

 

 

 
Sebastian Vargas
'Brain'

Sebastian Vargas
'Bird'

 

Sebastian Vargas
'Frogs'

Sebastian Vargas
'Untitled'

Sebastian Vargas
'Untitled'

Sebastian Vargas
'Turtle Migration'

Sebastian Vargas
'Untitled'

Sebastian Vargas
'Fasat Alfa'


Sebastian's work is a mix of logo and photographic images (illustration and comic) he uses painting and silkscreen techniques to work on many surfaces including paper, canvas, cars, and murals on the interior and exterior of buildings. All works above are silkscreen and paint on paper

 

 

 

 
 

Brigitte Kammlein, Tere Moeroa, Charlotte Maguire, Holly Russell, Phoebe Sales, Simone Scrivener,
Denise Albert-Mamea and Simon Attwooll
Fourth Year Students at the Otago Polytechnic School of Art working with Marilynn Webb present this exhibition to draw the public’s attention to the ecological issue's around the commercial harvest of cockles (tuaki/tuangi) in the Otago area.
Concerned this disruption could cause irreversible damage to the harbours ecosystem this exhibition invites you to come for a walk on the beach....

Click here for Star article

The fourth year printmakers and Marilynn Webb would like to thank:

 

Jan-March 2007

'Mapping Otakou..'
Rachel Stephenson Artist in Residence Project
The harbour, peninsula and hills were mapped on the gallery walls and floor with local clay, settlements and stories were added by gallery visitors. Thank you to all who participated so generously in this project.

Photographs by Rachel Stephenson and Chris Reid - click on an image to enlarge

 

 

 

 


Thank you to Huata Holmes, Rose McLeod, Antony Deaker, Phyllis Smith, Rachel Rucksthul-Mann and Adrian Hall for their support and generous contributions to this project. Also to the recordings of Edward Ellison, Ian Church, and to Bill Dacker for his work:
'Te Maemae me te Aroha'- The Pain and the Love: A history of Kai Tahu Whanui in Otago, 1844-1994
Published to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the sale and purchase of the Otago Block. Otago University Press, in association with the Dunedin City Council 1994.

With thanks to the support of :
Archive
2006

Flags..

KOPUTAI-PORT CHALMERS
Workshop with Port Chalmers Primary School and Rachel Stephenson
23 November-14 December

Emelia
Port
Paige
Sarah
Martin
Sarah

Tim
Arnika
Anam-Lee
Sarah Hill
Sarah Pye
Brenna

 

 

Crab Houses
And other crustacean havens..

Benjamin Smith

25th October - 1st of November
Hours Thurs-Fri 10-3pm Sat-Sun 11-5pm

.."My work has developed from an interest in the objects that make their way into the harbour and their 'journey'. While snorkelling in different areas of the harbour I have been documenting with video and photography, the flotsam and jetsam that I have found. This had led me to salvage various objects. Through combining and working with these found materials I have developed new objects that offer themselves as both art objects and as actual houses for crabs. It is ultimately my intention to return the objects back to the harbour for further documentation as they establish their own ecosystems and continue on their journey..."

Benjamin Smith 2006

 

LOCALE
from 1st October until the 22nd of October

Painting, sculpture, multi and digital media from twenty local artists
fill the walls, ceiling and spaces in between.....

Works by... Kim f Pieters, Madeleine Child and Philip Jarvis, James Robinson,Chris Reid, Chris Clements, Kathryn Molloy, Adrian Hall, Robert Scott,
Rachel Ruckstuhl-Mann, Pete Gorman, Grant Miller, David Good, Rachel Taylor, Annette Neutze, Aleta, Rachel Stephenson, Hector Hazard,
and Simon Kaan.

Critic Review

 

 




James Robinson

Winter Koputai
 (Womb of the Ocean- Port Chalmers)’, 2006.
Mixed media on canvas. Courtesy  Milford Galleries, Dunedin



Rachel Taylor

detail from
‘apologies and blessings’. 2006
Three drawings: Paint on vinyl backed paper

Adrian Hall

'Albatross' 2006
Ceiling mounted digital print

Madeleine Child and Philip Jarvis

Yellow Caravan 2006.
Ceramic
Robert Scott

‘Man on a Plain’ (Law of Things Cover). 1988
Acrylic on board

 

 

"ECLIPSE"
(The Second Coming)
An Installed Work by Adrian Hall.

19th. June - 9th July 2006

      

Dedicated to the people who helped save Aramoana from the smelter development twenty-five years ago.

......Commissioned by the Maritime Museum of Port Chalmer as a part of the 25th Anniversary of the anti-smelter campaign which prevented the building of an aluminium smelter at Aramoana. This project would have destroyed the community of Aramoana, and threatened the natural habitats of Otago Harbour.


'Eclipse' included images relating to the present Aramoana community, and an emblematic structure intended as a salute to the campaigners. This hints at the present peril the artist perceives to threaten Aramoana and many other parts of the South Island, through lifestyle developments and speculation.

Adrian Hall is a Cornish born artist of a peripatetic background, who first showed in Dunedin in 1983 at Red Metro. Later he made various time-based and installed works as a part of a residency at the School of Art, Dunedin in 2000. He has recently made his home at Aramoana, after some years in Port Chalmers. He has shown internationally, and in N.Z. at the N.A.G.N.Z., and other venues since being part the Barry Lett Gallery in Auckland in the early seventies.


 


NEW WORK

Gordon Hookey

Thurs 23rd March - Sunday 9th April.

     

All works made during Artists At Work residency, Otago Polytechnic School of Art 2006.

All works shown courtesy of the Nellie Castan Gallery, Melbourne Australia

      

Media Release


                                                                                                                                                  Photo: Hector Hazard 2006

 

 

ONWARD
Waitangi Day, 6 Feburary 2006

5 Feburary-26 Feburary

Window
Paint on canvas.

Rachel Stephenson

Archive
2005

MAARA

Cultural Bodies, Uncovering Other Histories
Nov-Dec 2005

Installed Work by Rachel Stephenson (2004)

Peat, glazed and unglazed ceramics
Sound recordings- courtesy of Te Reo Irirangi O Aoteoroa - Radio New Zealand National Programme.
Artist's Statement

   

 

 

Opening Group Show

Sept 23rd 2005

Michael Morley, Aliki Boufis, Kim f Pieters, Jim Cooper, Ryan Cockburn, Lilian Spender, Katrina Thomson, Ian Leeden, Chris Pryor, Georgina M Young, Jo Soster, Violet Faigan. Rotor + with thanks to Nigel Bunn for assistance.

Thanks to Otago Polytechnic Information Technology Services for sponsorhip of computer, and Robbie Burns for sponsorship of Opening night

 

  

"..Koputai Gallery and Project Space in Port Chalmers fills a void in the local art scene. ...Koputai's first exhibition showcases work by predomiantly local artists based in Port Chalmers and Aramoana, some of whom are masters students. If you enjoy art that makes you think, this gallery will definatley appeal..."by Joanne Campbell, taken from Art Review, Otago Daily Times Thursday 6 October 2005.

Jo Soster
'No 9 Dream' 2005
ceramic and encaustic

Philip Jarvis
'Someday my prince will come' 2005
Sand Cast Ceramics

Lilian Spender
'The One' 2005
Mixed media
Jo Soster
'Untitled' 2005
ceramic and encaustic

James Robinson
'God's Happy Unit'
1999
woodcut print

 

Click here for photos from the opening show       Click here for Otago Daily Times review

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