Symphonic Sights
3am Banger – Jesse Watson
Symphonic
Sights
Feb 12 – March 6
Symphonic
Sights at the Southern Cross Artist Gallery
spotlights new work from Jesse Watson and Dan
Wilkinson, brought together as part of the New Zealand
Fringe Festival 2010.
Both artists have developed unique ways of portraying the pulse and patterns found within their environments, acknowledging and capturing the rhythms found behind the scenes. These two artists are each presenting a series of paintings synchronised by energies often unseen.
Jesse Watson graduated from
Auckland University of Technology in 2002 with a Bachelor of
Visual Arts majoring in painting. Since then he has spent
time painting in Melbourne, London, Salzburg and Amsterdam.
He recently returned to New Zealand in August to his forth
solo show with Seed Gallery in Newmarket, Auckland. Watson
has been selected as a finalist in the Wallace Art Awards
each year from 2006 to 2009.
Dan
Wilkinson graduated from The Learning Connexion in
1999, studying under respected artist Robert Franken. Since
2000 he has taught alongside Franken at The Learning
Connexion as a senior drawing tutor. Wilkinson has been an
active part of the wellington art scene over the last ten
years, showing his own work as well as organising and
curating group exhibitions. In 2009 Wilkinson sent two works
to America as part of a show with American artist Patrick
Kemal Pryor. His studio is situated at the Nautilus Studios
in Owhiro Bay.
To explore this visual symphony, visit The Southern Cross on Cuba Street anytime during the Wellington Fringe Festival. Preview opens 6pm Thursday 11th February. The show will run everyday till the festival ends on the 6th of March.
For more
info:
www.seedgallery.co.nz
www.tlc.ac.nz
ENDS