Wellington: sliced and worshipped
Wellington artists Paul Hardy and Lorraine Tarrant will launch a collection of their latest paintings in a joint
exhibition called Slices of Wellington and Worshipping Wellington at re.SPACE on Tuesday 17 November at 5.30pm. The show will be open from 10am to 4pm until Monday 23 November. re.SPACE
Exhibitions and Events, 176 Victoria Street.
Background
An appreciative eye for the special characteristics of some of Wellington's ‘ignored’ buildings is behind an exhibition
by Wilton painter Paul Hardy.
Entitled Slices of Wellington, the collection of acrylics on canvas depicts what Hardy describes as Wellington's ‘un-noticed, ignored or forgotten’
buildings or structures.
‘I've painted slices, not the whole buildings,’ says Hardy. He's always loved old buildings, and appreciated
architectural styles and what he calls the ‘art of architecture’.
It has taken him almost three years to produce the nine or 10 images in the exhibition, because he has had to balance
his painting with work demands. ‘When I come home at night after a day's work, I'm knackered, quite frankly, and the
last thing I feel like doing is painting. So it takes a long time to produce enough work to stage an exhibition.’
Walking the streets of Wellington became an obsession with Kelburn artist Lorraine Tarrant, leading to an intrigue in the many and varied places of worship dotted around our capital.
‘I like that most people will have visited these places, attending functions and services, funerals and concerts,
christenings and weddings’, she says.
A prolific artist, Tarrant uses her own quirky style to produce a series of 20 original works called Worshipping Wellington, again depicting some of our local Wellington treasures.
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