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Rob Hood and Peter Trevelyan Rule
Trevelyan's work is fucking awesome. It's super delicate, constructed from mechanical pencil leads. The mechanical pencil is a modern invention, but seems ridiculously quaint in the age...
Written by
Artbasher
20 Jan 2012
in Reviews
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Quint Baker
26 Jan 2012 4:50 pm
Police Stencil Ads in Chch get Graffitied.
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benjamin
26 Jan 2012 10:28 am
Call for Applications--Rita Angus Residency 2012
Applications are invited for the Rita Angus Artists’ Residency for 2012. The Residency supports an artist to produce a new body of work that reflects upon the interplay between technology and culture. ...
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ritaangusresiden
4 Jan 2012
in Press Releases
Environmental Vision
Lynda Newman, Painter together with Julian Ward, Photographer, and Kathy Lunzman, Sculptor, are exhibiting their work at the Inglewood Community Gallery (ie Fritz Reuter Gallery by the FunHo Toy Museum...
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Lyn
5 Dec 2011
in News
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Formerly
19 Jan 2012 1:03 pm
Wheatfield with Crows hidden image?
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Formerly
3 Dec 2011 3:06 pm
Rugby World Shut Up
Read it God damn it and sober yerselves up!
Read it God damn it and sober yerselves up!
Read it God damn it and sober yerselves up!
Read it God damn it and sober yerselves up!
Read it God damn it a...
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Quinton Baker
1 Nov 2011
in Off-site Articles
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Formerly
2 Nov 2011 7:40 am
DEFINITIVE CUTS Fabric Sculptures: Sebastian Reynar...
A review of Sebastian Reynard's recent Definitive Cuts exhibition at AS IS performance space in Dunedin
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Hana.Aoake
25 Oct 2011
in Artbash
Blue Oyster Call for Proposals for Round Two 2012
The Blue Oyster Art Project Space is now seeking proposals from artists, curators and performers for its exhibition programme for the second half of 2012.
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blue
12 Oct 2011
in Press Releases
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Quint Baker 26 Jan 2012 4:50 pm reply to Rob Hood and Peter Trevel...
Looks like something you would find tangled at a construction site. And why is there so much swearing in your article? jk
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benjamin 26 Jan 2012 10:28 am reply to Police Stencil Ads in Chc...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjoQHhsY7FA
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Formerly 26 Jan 2012 10:00 am reply to Police Stencil Ads in Chc...
Are they abhorrent though? I know what the general public is likely to say and think about them, and I don't believe the response will be one of disgust and loathing. That makes what is important the c...
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Formerly 26 Jan 2012 9:26 am reply to Psychic Cat'z Sacrificial...
'...then I will kill myself.' I am quite certain you will go insane before death.
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Formerly 26 Jan 2012 9:05 am reply to Rob Hood and Peter Trevel...
What I like about the pencil leads is that they are a spindly yet arranged assortment of complex looking matter. But they loose my engagement at the material that has been employed to contain the form....
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benjamin 25 Jan 2012 11:30 pm reply to Police Stencil Ads in Chc...
they were done by otis frizzell and they are abhorrent
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Formerly 25 Jan 2012 8:17 pm reply to Police Stencil Ads in Chc...
I'm pretty sure it isn't a Banksy either. In fact I think if Banksy were to see this he would shake his head disapprovingly. It has however got something at the level that it operates, and lets not for...
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Up The Arts, by Andrew Paul Wood
Venice 2015
Send Neil and Fiona Pardington to represent New Zealand at the 2015 Venice Biennale. That is all.
20 Oct 2011 6:58 am
2 Comments
200 Years of Heinrich von Kleist - Why He Still Matters
This year 2011 marks the 200th anniversary of the death of Heinrich von Kleist, one of the great German writers of the nineteenth century. You can read his biography here but what I really want to c...
17 Oct 2011 10:34 am
2 Comments
This delightful and unexpected outburst occurs in the Epilogue of Robert Hughes new book Rome. Te Papa take note:
“Painting and sculpture are silent arts, and deserve silence (not phoney reverence, just quiet) from those who look at them. Let it be inscribed on the portals of the world’s museums: What you will se...
24 Aug 2011 2:19 pm
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WHY TALL POPPY SYNDROME IS A GOOD THING SOMETIMES
According to the Roman author Livy, writing about five centuries later, King Tarquin the Arrogant and his son Sextus Tarquinius (whom Classicists and Shakespeare scholars will recall would grow up to ...
24 Aug 2011 2:18 pm
3 Comments
Is Tintin gay?
Every time I read a movie magazine Peter Jackson seems to be raping my childhood. Lord of the Rings was bad enough, and The Hobbit will be worse – but not Tintin, please leave me that much.
It was b...
3 Jul 2011 8:42 am
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New Art in the Store
Nude form
by Scott Waters
Canvas
$110
Nude form done on canvas wrap. Make a great addition to any wall. Painted with airbrush using waterc...
2 bodz
by PAT KELLY
brezier lines
NFS
Te Papa
by Neil Stewart
Acrylic on stretched canvas
NFS
Te Papa from Frank Kitts park. Hikitea in foreground.
Robot Reveal
by Jon-Paul Smith
NFS
Natural Relief
by Euan Craig
Wood, Oil paint, clear coat protective finish.
$370
Natural Relief is a carved work designed to illustrate New Zealand plant life in a conceptual manner...
River In Spring
by Russell Phillips
Watercolour
NFS
Blissfully Freckled
by Sarah Atwood
Oil paint on canvas
$30
Oil Painting on unstretched canvas does not come framed
Psychic Cat'z Sacrificial Lamb
by Quint Baker
Compact Disc
$35
5 Comments
Follow up album to Quint Baker's 'Psychic Cat'z Golden Fleece' (2010) and most recent release 'Psych...
