Hello from City Gallery Wellington, 

We have one more week of the master tatau demonstration in the Deane Gallery here at City Gallery Wellington, plus, in a co-presentation with the New Zealand Film Archive, we present a series of three films all about architecture. 
 
As always please let me know if you would like any imagery or need any further information.
 
Have a great week!
Anna
 
EVENTS
 
Tufuga Tatatau Demonstration
(Revered master demonstration)
Paul Junior  Sulu’ape
Monday 27 August – Friday 7 September
Paul Junior  Sulu’ape will be on site to complete a pe’a and malu as part of Sui faiga ae tumau fa’avae in the Deane Gallery.

In partnership with the New Zealand Film Archive - three films on architecture 
Athfield Film Programme— Beyond the Geyser Room: NZ Architecture in the 1970s
Saturday, 8 September 2012, 4.30 pm
All three screenings at the New Zealand Film Archive, 84 Taranaki Street, Wellington.
Ticket price: $8 Public / $6 Concession
 
Presented by Christine McCarthy in association with City Gallery and the exhibition Athfield Architects: People and Place. From Victoria University’s School of Architecture, Christine presents a programme of excerpts from the 1970s, all drawn from the Archive’s collections with lively commentary. 
The 1970s is renowned as a time of experimentation - racial and sexual politics, and concerns about the environment. We experienced two oil shocks (1973 and 1979), car-less days (1979), and the introduction of colour television in 1973. William Sutch (well-known patron of Ernst Plischke's accomplished Sutch house in Brooklyn) was charged under the Official Secrets Act (1951) on suspicion of passing state secrets to the Soviet Union in 1974. The decade concluded with the grizzly images of the Erebus disaster, and inquiry. 
Programme highlights include glimpses from Expo 70 (1970), The Beehive Concept and Function (1978), Notes on a New Zealand City (1971), Motorway (1972) and the Draper Residence on Paritai Drive in Auckland (1971). The programme is liberally scattered with television commercials from the era.
 
Athfield Film Programme— Architect Athfield
Saturday 15 September, 4.30pm (55 minutes)
Directed by Sam Neill for the National Film Unit in 1977 Architect Athfield examines the frustrations and achievements of one of New Zealand's most lively and innovative architects. In 1975 Ian Athfield won an international competition directed towards providing housing for 140,000 squatters from the Tondo area in Manila. Ironically, Athfield had jumped to international prominence before any wide-ranging acceptance in his own country. This film examines Athfield's practical philosophy of architecture, and culminates in his trip to the Philippines, where he hopes to make his prize-winning design a reality.
 
Athfield Film Programme— Architect of Dreams
Saturday, 22 September, 4.30 pm
Originally presented on the television programme Artsville
Ian Athfield is a maverick. A celebrated, award-winning Architect, whose practice spans almost 40 years. His buildings and his personality have helped shape our cities and the world we live in. Athfield is opinionated, outspoken, passionate. He's one of New Zealand's great characters who brings a unique vision to all his work. 
This documentary on Ian Athfield captures the energy, spirit and intelligence of one of New Zealand's most influential creative forces. Apart from his own extraordinary house we explore a number of the houses and buildings he has designed including The Wellington Public Library, The Civic Square, Adam Art Gallery and Sam Neil and Allan Duffs' houses.
 

Athfield Architects Panel Discussion
Thursday 20 September, 6-7.30pm.  Gold coin entry.
Established in 1968, Athfield Architects continues to present architectural forms which respond proactively to the pressing challenges of our time: the need for sustainable design, quality social housing, public space which reflects its community, and collaborative practice. 
This panel discussion will be chaired by exhibition curator, Julia Gatley with Ian Athfield and John Hardwick-Smith, urban designer Graeme McIndoe and architectural historian Jessica Halliday.
15 CPD points are available for architects.
Doors open at 5.30pm with a cash bar by Nikau 
 
April Henderson Responds to Sui faiga ae tumau faávae
Thursday 27 September, 12.30pm, Free entry
Dr April K. Henderson, Lecturer and Programme Director of Pacific Studies, Va'aomanu Pasifika, at Victoria University of Wellington discusses the influence of hip hop on Samoan art and culture in relation to the exhibition Sui faiga ae tumau fa'avae.
Henderson’s PHD research studies the influence of urban music and culture on the Pacific, particularly the influence of hip hop on Samoan communities. This talk will explore aspects of her research in relation to the Samoan tatau (tattoo) exhibition Sui faiga ae tumau fa'avae in the Deane Gallery. This exhibition explores artists who practice  customary tatau and incorporate contemporary designs, resulting in a new art form that speaks to both one’s culture as well as the realities of urban life.


New exhibitions
Hirschfeld Gallery: Between the lines: Peter Gouge and Zoë Rapley
11 August – 7 October 2012
The works in this exhibition by Wellington artists Peter Gouge and Zoë Rapley are to some extent exercises in the art of making.
They are about measurement, materials, and time; they are about drawing one line and then another, and about that which emerges in the space between those lines.

Deane Gallery: Sui faiga ae tumau fa’avae
10 August - 7 October 2012
Sui faiga ae tumau fa’avae is a Pacific tatau (tattoo) exhibition featuring artists Tuigamala Andy Tauafiafi, Ismael Jaco ‘J’ Augustine Schmidt and Bryan ‘Juse1’ Visala. . This exhibition explores artists who practice  customary tatau and incorporate contemporary designs, resulting in a new art form that speaks to both one’s culture as well as the realities of urban life. Taupou Tatau and Killa Kutz will be performing tatau and hair styling demonstrations in the Gallery from Friday 10 August to Sunday 7 October 2012, excluding Sundays. 
>From Monday 27 August to Friday 14 September tufuga tatatau Paul Junior Sulu’ape will be performing ‘au ta demonstrations, the customary technique of tapping pigment into the skin using a comb chisel. Bookings can be made via email info@taupoutatau.com

THE WINTER SEASON continues - Free entry

Athfield Architects: People and Place
23 June – 7 October 2012
Curated by Julia Gatley, Athfield Architects: People and Place traces four decades of the firm’s dynamic history, presenting a vivid sense of the office and its vision.  Established in 1968, Athfield Architects continues to present architectural forms that respond proactively to the pressing challenges of our time: the need for sustainable design, quality housing, public spaces that reflect the community, and collaborative practice. This exhibition is long overdue for such a significant practitioner. Athfield’s voice continues to be at the centre of architectural dialogue around the country, most recently as part of Christchurch rebuild discussions. The exhibition sits alongside Gatley’s major publication Athfield Architects, to be launched by Auckland University Press in conjunction with the exhibition.

Supporting Partick Thistle: Paintings
Rob McLeod
23 June – 23 September 2012
Wellington painter Rob McLeod’s first  and last solo showing at City Gallery Wellington was in 1981, an exhibition of expressionist and minimalist abstraction. His paintings return to the gallery in 2012 utterly transformed. Rejecting their modernist origins and driven by an ever-pressing need to take new form and acquire new energies, McLeod’s paintings are now governed by a bawdy, cartoon-based figuration. These paintings heave with confounding imagery, amorphous figures and riotous crowds that have fled the frame and come off the wall to invade the physical and psychological spaces of the viewer. It’s all driven by McLeod’s belief that to remain relevant painting must push its own conventions and boundaries, that it can no longer sit quietly and reverentially on the wall.
 
Apocalyptic Intuition Rohan Wealleans
23 June – 23 September 2012
Apocalyptic Intuition, a new body of work by Auckland-based painter Rohan Wealleans, transforms the Gallery space into something other, magical and alien. Wealleans further pushes his investigations into the possibilities of paint as a life-giving physical substance and the act of painting as a transformative or shamanistic force that reaches far beyond rational explanation and purpose. This is a place of enchantment, spells, quests, and paint: layers upon layers of the acrylic house paint Wealleans uses to create these other realms and summon the characters that dwell there.
 
New Acquisitions Wellington City Council  
23 June – 7 October 2012
Investigations into natural and inorganic forms and energies link the artists represented in a new exhibition of recent acquisitions from the Wellington City Council collection. The art exhibited in this exhibition has been collected by the City Council over the past five years, and reflects the Council's commitment to acknowledging and supporting the vitality of Wellington arts and artists.
Represented artists include: Ngatai Taepa, Martin Thompson, Ben Buchanan, Peter Trevelyan, Sian Torrington, Brendan O'Brien, Diane Prince, Mary-Louise Browne, Arie Hellendoorn, Rob McLeod and Kate Small.
 

Attached image: Architectural detail of Civic Square model from Athfield Architects: People and Place. Photo: Kate Whitley 


 
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