Art Sampler: Neil Perfect, Mystery Carnage & Philippa Wilson

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
18 - 24 JULY 2011
Art Sampler: Neil Perfect, Mystery Carnage & Philippa Wilson.

OPENING: 6.00 - 8.00pm Monday 18 July.
OPEN: 10.00am - 6.00pm Tuesday - Sunday.

A combined exhibition of the works of three artists - Neil Perfect, Mystery Carnage and Philippa Wilson. All three share drawing as a primary art form, combining pen, ink, charcoal and paper to record the ordinary and extraordinary.

Neil's works are drawn predominantly from life and the images have been collected through his travels in New Zealand, United Kingdom, France, Spain, Morocco and Italy. His drawings are rich, precisely detailed studies of a graphical nature. He has studied at the Learning Connexion and, like Philippa, has worked with Rosemary Stokell over some years.

Mystery's art is stylistically diverse with subject matter ranging from the mundane to preposterous. A self taught artist, she has worked as a graphic artist and sung in rock bands – and has kept her stage name since then. Her style echoes her graphic art background, depicting the commonplace with cartoonish, ominous whimsy, a gothic Hanna Barbera. She has exhibited in Sydney and Adelaide in group shows over many years.

Philippa has drawn all her life, studying with Rosemary Stokell after attending art school in England. Drawing runs in Philippa's family and she considers herself a veteran doodler. Her realistic studies are overlaid with brilliant primary colours.

Up Next
26 - 31 JULY 2011
RE-SET: RYAN MAYNARD AND VANESSA ARTHUR

OPENING: 6.00 - 8.00pm Tuesday 26 July.
OPEN: 10.00am - 6.00pm Tuesday - Sunday.

Re-Set: explorations in collage and contemporary jewellery.

Vanessa Arthur hunts the streets and urban wilderness, capturing discarded objects and materials - transforming and re-setting these into engaging wearable pieces. Drawing inspiration from travels throughout her surroundings…often un-noticed cycles of renewal and decay, architecture, street art, construction and advertising.

Her work has featured in exhibitions at Studio2017 - Sydney, The New Zealand Jewellery show and Pataka Museum of Arts and Cultures.

Ryan Maynard alters mainstream as well as bygone printed media material through the use of collage (cut & paste). Contained throughout the work are mechanical codes, texts and ideas that sit curiously hidden behind dark comical imagery. His work conveys objective manipulations of thought, announcing differing associable perspectives.

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

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