wall talking - walk up to a wall quite cautiously because some walls are very shy - politely introduce yourself and start talking to it as if it were listening to you
Painting: 'our rivers our lives', photo by Natasha Martin Timaru Herald
Its a nor'westa day in Christchurch. At last the first official day of spring after a cold wet winter. The first asparagus spears are up in my garden and I have been planting potatoes and strawberries. On friday I am driving to Timaru where thanks to Dr Fiona Ciaran, director of the Aigantighe Gallery "wall talking' is having a new incarnation 4 Sepember to 11 October. If you are heading south drop in to The Aigantighe Gallery, 49 Wai-iti Rd, Timaru. Same title and some of the works from the first exhibition at Quiqcorp earlier this year but Dr Fiona Ciaran has selected a completely new show with a focus on endangered birds and our threatened South Island rivers. It also features the largest painting I have done since 'Italian Journey' in 1985. 'our rivers our lives' is a 6 metre long canvas where the birds have been reduced to ghostly white blanks. The Mackenzie Country water hearings are about to begin and so you should come South to my exhibition and visit at the same time,this iconic landscape under threat of turning green through central pivot irrigators and dairy conversions.
wall talking is opening at the Aigantighe Art Gallery, Timaru on friday 4th September, 2009. Mike Armstrong is the guest speaker at the opening and Terry Johnstone will be launching his Mystery exhibition.
Aigantighe is pronounced 'egg and tie' and in Scottish Gaelic means 'at home'.This exhibition will run until 11th October.
Contact Details:
Aigantighe Art Gallery
49 Wai-iti Road,
Timaru.
Phone 03 688 4424
Fax 03 684-8346
gallery@timdc.govt.nz
This exhibition of Jane Zusters' paintings and photography was first shown 31 May to 26 June 2009
at Quiqcorp ART SPACE 155 High Street, Christchurch, NZ phone 0064 03 3417692
