Behind the walls of Wellington’s only arts centre

Behind the walls of Wellington’s only arts centre

The Residents Exhibition – Toi Pōneke Group Show 2014

Toi Pōneke celebrates nine years of providing artists with a place to work and develop their creative practice. This year, 21 artists across a range of practices come together to reveal an eclectic array of artwork that gives a snapshot of what happens behind the walls of Wellington’s only arts centre.

The Residents Exhibition is the final exhibition of the year and is organised by its resident artists. The exhibition includes paintings, photography, drawings, jewellery and pottery. Most of the work will be for sale, with a wide range of prices. There will be something for everybody who likes to peruse art fresh from the studio.

One of the exhibiting residents, Maria O’Toole, has recently earned a place as an artist-in-residence at the prestigious Draw International in France next year; she was also a finalist in the Parkin Drawing Prize this year. Maria’s drawing practice is a discovery of her everyday experience. Her current works explore her own sensory surveyor’s map.

Arie Hellendoorne is a painter with a focus on the conventions of portraiture and representations of the human form. He was a recipient of the 2014 New Pacific Studio Residency at Mt Bruce. He has exhibited nationally and internationally and is represented by {Suite} Gallery in Wellington and Sullivan+Strumpf in Australia.

Vaune Mason works with jewellery, textile art and small sculpture. Her style is diverse, and her materials range from traditional silver and gold to found insects, bird bones, fabric and fur. Her work is quirky, fun and slightly dark. She exhibits at Masterworks Gallery in Auckland, Quadrant Gallery in Dunedin and Toi Pōneke Arts Centre in her Workspace Studio.

Toi Pōneke Arts Centre was established by Wellington City Council in 2005 to house and support emerging Wellington artists. It has 3000sq m of space over a total of eight floors in two adjacent buildings. More than 35 local artists have studios and a number of arts organisations have offices in the complex.

The Residents Exhibition opens Tuesday 16 December at 5.30pm and is open to the public from Wednesday 17 until 5pm, Tuesday 23 December.

Artists exhibiting in The Residents Exhibition are:

Birgit Bachler: multi-disciplinary media art
Pamela Brabants: highly detailed pencil drawings, taking a fresh look at the horizontal figure
David Brown: geometric abstraction in consideration of the non-human animal
Shane Gallagher: stoneware ceramics, fired to 1220C with celedon style glaze
Griffin: paintings and posters, contemporary themes, broadly political
Arie Hellendoorne: paintings with a focus on the conventions of portraiture and representations of the human form
Jane Hyder: paintings of landscapes, still life and abstracts
Olivia Jackson-Mei: portrait paintings
Pam Jorgensen: realist and abstract paintings of landscapes and cityscapes
Nick Keller: fantasy and surrealist oil paintings
Annie Mackenzie: paintings
Vaune Mason: jewellery, textile art and small sculpture
Timon Maxey: factionalist landscape paintings on canvas
Maria O’Toole: drawings on repetitive everyday experience and of her own sensory surveyors’ map
Gary Peters: work from 52 weeks, 52 works, 52 colours
Tina Smith: landscape and super-hero paintings
Yon Yi Sohn: paintings seeking a sense of order through patterns, colours and shapes arranged in geometric format
Mark Tantrum: documentary photography
Stefano Tevaga: painter and sculptor using oil paint and found objects with oil paint
Warring: landscape, figurative and abstract oil paintings and drawings
Keri-Mei Zagrobelna: objects and jewellery exploring cultural diversity and the environment

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