Welcome

Artbash is an online community of New Zealanders who love art and love talking and writing about art. Inside Artbash you will find forums of art criticism, a calendar of exhibitions, a guide to New Zealand art galleries and an online art store where members exhibit and sell their art online.

Prospect_040_jpg_940x2000_q85

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 6 Comments
 
2

Police Stencil Ads in Chch get Graffitied.

You can paint but we can't
Written by Artbasher 19 Jan 2012 in News 7 Comments
Newest Comment 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. ...
Written by ritaangusresiden 4 Jan 2012 in Press Releases
 
Ducks

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...
Written by Lyn 5 Dec 2011 in News 63 Comments
Newest Comment Formerly 19 Jan 2012 1:03 pm
 

Wheatfield with Crows hidden image?

A theory.
Written by Ryan.Bennetts 26 Nov 2011 in Art Theory and History 5 Comments
 
Beaver

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...
Written by Quinton Baker 1 Nov 2011 in Off-site Articles 2 Comments
 
Prefno2

DEFINITIVE CUTS Fabric Sculptures: Sebastian Reynar...

A review of Sebastian Reynard's recent Definitive Cuts exhibition at AS IS performance space in Dunedin
Written by Hana.Aoake 25 Oct 2011 in Artbash
 
Call_for_proposals_second_half_2012_small

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.
Written by blue 12 Oct 2011 in Press Releases
 
All Conversations
New Events
Web_close_encounters

Off the Wall

 
Moules_orig

Off the Wall

Ingrid Boot
at Artists Den and Art Gallery 20 Kitchener Road Milford
7 Feb 2012 - 3 Mar 2012
 
Web_the_best

Off the Wall

Nick Fedaeff
at Artists Den and Art Gallery 20 Kitchener Road Milford
7 Feb 2012 - 3 Mar 2012
 
To_watch_over_thee

Off the Wall

Monika Welch
at Artists Den and Art Gallery 20 Kitchener Road Milford
7 Feb 2012 - 3 Mar 2012
 
Current and future events | All events
New Comments
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 >>
 
benjamin 26 Jan 2012 10:28 am reply to Police Stencil Ads in Chc...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjoQHhsY7FA >>
 
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... >>
 
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. >>
 
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.... >>
 
benjamin 25 Jan 2012 11:30 pm reply to Police Stencil Ads in Chc...
they were done by otis frizzell and they are abhorrent >>
 
Formerly 25 Jan 2012 8:19 pm reply to Rob Hood and Peter Trevel...
I like, I like, easy peasy. >>
 
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... >>
 
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 1 Comment
 

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 3 Comments
Nudes_002 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...
A46 2 bodz by PAT KELLY brezier lines NFS
Tepapahires Te Papa by Neil Stewart Acrylic on stretched canvas NFS
Te Papa from Frank Kitts park. Hikitea in foreground.
Page_4_inks Robot Reveal by Jon-Paul Smith NFS
P1130897 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...
Dsc05350 River In Spring by Russell Phillips Watercolour NFS
Photo_on_2011-12-28_at_14.25 Blissfully Freckled by Sarah Atwood Oil paint on canvas $30
Oil Painting on unstretched canvas does not come framed
Sacrificial_lamb_2-2 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...