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Gallery artist Rebecca Dowman-Ngapo pushes her quest to mix histories and memories using special devices to immerse the viewer. Such compositions offer insight and depth to what might otherwise simply be ‘interesting structures’.With Timeless: Cambridge Town Hall we are invited to witness that changes while being potentially dramatic are also incremental and perhaps slower than we might imagine....

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Sold from the Structure & Place exhibition, this outstanding watercolour, Beale House, by gallery artist, Rebecca Dowman-Ngapo, captures the timeless cadence of the oldest structure in Hamilton....

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As this contemporary composition, Pepper-Men, from gallery artist Debra Thompson naturally held dominion over the Pepper exhibition, the accompanying music of the Sgt. Peppers Lonely Heart’s Club Band album that played over the gallery sound system, reminded those present of the seminal contribution of this 1967 moment in popular culture.A few younger visitors unaware of the music, wondered who these men in the painting were. True. Typically, animated conversations with older visitors quickly ...

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Aston Greathead’s (1921-2012) work is represented by Fine Art Society New Zealand. A sign-writer by trade, his artistic prominence dates from 1966 when he won the Sir Henry Kelliher's Dawson Hallmark watercolour award. This propelled him to fame and brought him many commissions, particularly of rural setting including farms set within majestic New Zealand landscapes. His technique, derived from his signwriting days, often used only four colours thus presenting a soft, dream-like...

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By selling 97 Flat from the Pepper exhibition, new gallery artist Michele Rumney has established her artistry and technique in the face of the hot breath of the consumer. This exhibition celebrates the contribution of The Beatles to the art of music, yet this sale additionally suggests, via The Eagles that 'there's a new kid in town'. ...

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New gallery artists, Michele Rumney continues her  selling streak with the purchase of Citrus Monday from the Pepper Exhibition. A remarkable composition with origins that return the viewer to Derain's world in 1910 and the birth of the Fauvism movement and the use of strong gestural lines to imply both structure and content of composition. Only in this case, Rumney extends these lines to appear as the actual content that defines the subject matter. As a result her work presents dramatic im...

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Another Pepper piece from the exhibition of the same name has attracted a local art buyer who loves the ambience and feel created by gallery artist, Julie Mello. A beautiful post impressionist oil on board composition, In Their Own World, is lyrically connected to the Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band track, With a Little Help from my Friends. ...

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Elena Brambilla’s fine artistry with botanical watercolours is represented by her acorn series that has seen another sale; Acorn with Life Support I...

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Capturing a vivid scene from the 1930s, Hong Cumming expands the size of the steam train, crossing Victoria Street, Hamilton, to emphasise the sheer shock of just such an event. This magnificent majestic watercolour composition has elements of expressionism, impressionism and indeed photo realism. Sold from the exhibition, Street Stories, destined for a local Board room....

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Bernadette Parsons is the consummate impressionist watercolourists, again cementing her reputation as the ‘Turner of New Zealand', with her sale from the Winter Collection 2024 of the atmospheric watercolour composition, Vertical Vista. Board room bound....

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Rosanne Croucher, new artist to the Welcome Swallow Gallery has wasted no time in establishing her gallery credentials to go alongside her substantial footprint in New Zealand art. Nearing Hush - Lewis Pass, a highly (European) atmospheric oil on copper panel composition, has quickly sold from the Pepper exhibition. ...

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Hong Cumming's charcoal sketches that creatively visualise four tracks form the Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band Album were subjected to a swift onslaught of buying on the opening night of the Pepper exhibition....

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Sold on the opening night of the Pepper exhibition, Bernadette Ballantyne’s composition, Forgotten, in her signature soft pastel. A classic evocative rural piece of New Zealand real estate supremely depicted....

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New gallery artist Michele Rumney is quick off the mark with the sale of Take Five from the Pepper exhibition. With a very innovative super-evolved Fauvist style, Rumney’s compositions received strong interest from those attending the opening exhibition night....

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Sold from the Ambiguity exhibition, from gallery artist Diane Scott, is the geometrically mind bending mixed media composition, Fold. Scott's art challenges the whole concept of dimensions in time and space. It sells too....

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With his florid watercolours, Martin Necas has the ability to capture a moment in time. At the End of a Hard Day, is just such a composition. A tired bar that has seen many 'end of days' is presented with a strong European ambience, and timeless rituals that bond that create meaning for the viewer. The painting presents a beautiful balance of dark and light. ...

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Kirsten McIntosh's lovely oil on canvas, Settler's Track has only been in the gallery for a few days and now sold and on it's way to permanent location. ...

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Sold from the exhibition, A Journey with Chinese Art, is Jing Liu's absolutely gorgeous watercolour on silk in the claborate style, Glowing Orchid. Eye-catching and quite irresistible. ...

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Sold from the Winter collection 2024, gallery artist, Elena Brambilla's watercolour botanical composition, Acorn with Life Support, Beautifully painted in exquisite detail, art and science now on display for a very happy couple of buyers....

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The geometry of Gaen’s expressive composition, Good Evening,  works well as a representation of Auckland’s variegated topography and indeed as a metaphor for the city’s diaspora. Now sold from the Winter Collection 2014 exhibition the acrylic on board composition  received continuous complimentary commentary from our gallery visitors....

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Toni Kingstone's magical realism compositions typically invoke narratives that are both insightful and challenging. In the case of Wild Horses, now sold, one cannot help but recognize the prospects of leading, following - or lagging far behind. Poignant social commentary indeed. ...

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Gallery artist Maggie B. Sullivan continues to present intriguing, atmospheric compositions that are anchored in astronomic reference points. Her Postcards from Pleiades series offers immersive viewing; in this case inviting, Expectations of Hope.Now on its way to an Italian buyer....

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Cartography is the grand narrative of land. Art also presents breathtaking landscape compositions that help the viewer appreciate and understand the vast expanses upon which civilisation is built.The intersection between art and cartography goes far beyond the notion of design and illustration. Much like the landscape compositions of Rita Angus and Ralph Hotere, map-making contains multiple cultural and social reference points that together create distinct identities; an art form that enables on...

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Quite clearly, gallery artist Kirsten McIntosh is not able to keep her birds from flying away. Now, her composition Echoes of the Kokako has left the gallery, possibly in search of its Tui friend that took to wing not a week ago....

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Kirsten McIntosh's dark immersive composition, Tui's Song has quickly found favor with a local collector. After a short few days in the gallery this Tui has taken flight to a new home....