Thistle Hall: Upcoming Events

Thistle Hall: Upcoming Events

Thistle Hall is a vibrant community centre in the heart of New Zealand's cultural capital. We provide a community hall, meeting room and Wellington's only community gallery showcasing a range of artists and crafts people, from the established to the emerging. Thistle Hall is located on the corner of Cuba and Arthur streets. The shows on at Thistle Hall Community Gallery are run by the artists who hire it.

On Now
9 - 16 MAY 2011
ETERNAL CITY: MELISSA MCDOUGALL.

OPENING: 6.30 - 8.00pm Monday 9 May.

Eternal City is a celebration of 20 years of painting the city. These cinematic atmospheric works are indicative of a lifelong interest in themes relating to the city and how people inhabit urban spaces. Common themes in my work include nightscapes, shop windows, lights and waifish female figures inhabiting mysterious city streets. I have a particular love of Japanese prints (Kunisada especially), the French Surrealists, Gothic writing, Film Noir, Ferris Wheels, Ludwig Kirchner, and Nick Cave. This show includes approximately 15 new works and 15 retrospective works dating from 1992, which allows the viewer to see the development of an entire practice over 20 years.

Up Next
17 - 21 MAY 2011
RED PLANET: HELEN REYNOLDS.

OPENING: 5.30 - 7.30pm Monday 16 May.
OPEN: 10.00am - 6.00pm Tuesday - Sunday.

Wellington artist Helen Reynolds has an intense interest in the processes by which landscapes emerge. In this exhibition she extends this "off-world" and creates a vision of a 'Red Planet'. Helen's canvasses and complex topographical drawings reveal stripped back landscape systems that are like, yet unlike, the landscape systems of Mars. The work follows the processes that have created the incredibly deep chasms, the craters shaped meteorite impacted permafrost and the dunes created by the ferocious, nearly eternal wind storms on Mars.

Helen is a former Teaching Fellow in Landscape Architecture at Victoria University. Her background includes a diverse range of influences; years spent in Asia and degrees in mathematics and Chinese as well as Landscape Architecture and a Master of Design. This diversity combines with a sharp artistic sensibility to create her fresh take on ‘landscape art’. Helen's academic research has focused on the application of complexity theory to landscape design, and she characterises her art as being "interested in looking at the landscape as the physical evidence of nature’s complex processes, rather than as a romantic view".

www.helenreynolds.co.nz

http://helenreynolds-imageaday.blogspot.com
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http://cyborglandscapes.blogspot.com/

Please see http://www.thistlehall.org.nz
for more information

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