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for last minute Christmas gifts
If you are sorting out those last minute presents here's a great suggestion... Take time out and spend a restful hour or so enjoying the December exhibitions at Northart.
Currently in the gallery until December 11th, is the end-of-year show for Graduates of Hungry Creek Art and Craft School. Last year we exhibited jewellery only; this year in addition to unique, alternative, hand crafted jewellery, there is intriguing work by senior painting and sculpture students too.
Most of the work will be for sale, so who knows, you may even manage to pick up that special gift and cross another name of that list!
Opening to the public on December 5th is one of North Shore’s favourite annual exhibitions: the Northart members’ 12 x 12 Show.
Sponsored by Gordon Harris – the Art and Graphic Store – all of the works in the show are on 12 inch by 12 inch (30.5cm or 305mm square) stretched canvases. The exhibition is open to all Northart members, be they established artists or beginners, and there will be around 100 works covering a huge variety of subjects and themes. Despite the diversity of the works, the show is tied neatly together by the uniform format.
Textile art also makes an appearance at Northart in December. On the Surface: an exhibition of 20 selected quilts from the Biennial Quilt Challenge for the Aotearoa Quilters opens on December 17th. Again the quilts are uniform in size, 500mm high by 1000mm wide, and each artist interprets the theme “on the surface” in a carefully considered manner, using fabric, colour and stitch to enhance the overall visual impact of the work. On the surface is a touring exhibition with Northart being the only host venue north of Waikato and south of Whangarei.
Northart closes on Sunday 18th for the Christmas and New Year break, reopening on January 9th. On the Surface continues until the 18th of January The 12 x 12 Show until the 15th.
Towards the end of January we will be hosting an exhibition of painting and ceramics by Korean artist Jisu Jeon to celebrate the Lunar New Year and a display of photographs of the past ten years of Chinese New Year celebrations in Northcote. In the meantime, we are looking back with satisfaction at the highlights of 2011, looking forward to the 2012 programme, and enjoying
the spring, with the promise of summer to come. Have a safe and happy
festive season.
NorthArt
Northart, Norman King Square, Ernie Mays Street,
Northcote Shopping Centre
Phone 09 480 9633 northart@ihug.co.nz www.northart.co.nz
Northart is supported by Auckland Council and the
Birkenhead Licensing Trust and is open 10am – 4pm daily, evening viewings by arrangement. Admission is free.
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