Wheels Week Exhibition Celebrating Wheels

Mustang Sally

Wheels Week Exhibition Celebrating Wheels

16th April - 12th June 2011

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Image: Iain Henderson

The Ashburton Art Gallery is hosting an exhibition in celebration of Wheels Week 2011. This unique exhibition has an interesting variety of artists and collectors coming together to showcase the fabulous invention of the wheel. The wheel is everywhere on all of our cars, bikes, trains, planes, skateboards, the list goes on. The oldest wheel found in archaeological excavations was discovered in what was Mesopotamia USA, and is believed to be over fifty-five hundred years old!

'Mustang Sally' includes works from local artists, such as David Elliot, Ewan McDougall, Iain Henderson and Robin Arnst, John Lobb an Elvis Presley Collector, members of the community and even sport and skateboard enthusiasts. With such a eclectic mix of work available for viewing this show proving to have something for everyone to enjoy.

Iain Henderson has run a successful jewellery manufacturing business since the early 1980s. His jewellery designs have been purchased by clients in New Zealand and overseas. His work has appeared on the covers of magazines and he has received a number of awards nationally and internationally.

"I am an independent hand jeweller. Someone who designs and makes their jewellery from start to finish, thus creating a one off individual art piece." In so doing Iain uses stones and metals as the materials with the true value of the piece being in the artists worth.

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