Diverse Divas

On Now 4 - 10 APRIL 2011 DIVERSE DIVAS.

OPENING: 5.30 - 7.30pm Monday 4 April. OPEN: 10.00am - 6.00pm weekdays, 10.00am - 7.00pm weekend.

Four creatively different Diverse Divas exhibiting their works in one place at one time.

Kayla Pritchard believes her creativity comes from an intuitive reaction to respond to an urge within, to create something from herself. Kayla is inspired by our creation, by colour, by organic details and the challenge of using pigment as a natural organic medium.

Michele Courage will delight you with large, modernistic canvases. Her work hangs in private collections throughout the world, in London, Cape Town, New York, Ireland, San Paulo and Canada. Michele's paintings, within the undefined borders of the abstract world and sweeping lines created by paint in motion, render a visual expression of time, space and energy.

Rosie Harper paints mainly figurative, narrative subjects with a lot of detail and colour in a mixture of Art Deco, Nouveau and Surrealism styles. Music plays an important part in her work and often Rosie will capture song lyrics within a piece.

Susan Skelton is one of New Zealand's contemporary artists known for creating abstract and landscape pieces with elements strong in texture, warmth, and colour. She also has a great passion for painting the beauty of the female form.

Up Next 12 - 17 APRIL 2011 CONSUME THIS: ANTI-CONSUMERIST OBJECT ART MADE OUT OF FRENCH KNITTING.

OPENING: 6.00 - 8.00pm Monday 11 April - BYO (fresh local produce to munch on supplied). OPEN: 10.00am - 5.30pm Tuesday - Sunday.

With this exhibition I aim to introduce the general public to the damaging effects of fashion production. I offer an alternative through the pieces I have made and highlight the fact that change will come through consumer demand.

I make durable, functional and fashionable garments (and other objects suitable to the material) out of french knitting. French knitting is generally used for rug making due to its durable qualities and is recognised as a favoured activity from many childhoods, giving an instant sense of nostalgia and creating a long-lasting garment that the wearer will never want to throw away and never need to replace. Each piece is broken down to its simplest necessities and I allow the unpredictability of the material to determine the outcome, leaving aesthetics up to chance. All of the knitting is completed by various friends and family and uses only scrap wool which is donated to me by nanas nation-wide. On most of the garments I leave the knitting spool attached which the wearer can use to either continue adding on to the garment or can chop off and start creating a new piece of their own. The knitting spools and buttons are all turned by my uncle out of untreated, scrap wood.

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