Join our "Home" Exhibition Celebration Day on Sunday, 1 December, from 11 am to 1 pm!

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Wintec Post Grad Group Exhibition
Curated by Tamsin Green

 19th November – 8th December 2024
Celebration Event – Sunday 1st December 11am – 1pm

Whakaaturanga Gallery – Morrinsville Gallery

Join our “Home” Exhibition Celebration Day on Sunday, 1 December, from 11 am to 1 pm. Visit us with your family, connect with our local art community, and enjoy complimentary light refreshments.

The idea of Home is a unifying theme across the broad range of creative practices that form this exhibition from recent graduates of Wintec’s Bachelor of Contemporary Art, Bachelor of Media Arts (Honours) and Master of Arts programmes.

Home can be a sanctuary and a place to rest, or it can be a site of uncertainty. In Gabriel Renner’s works familiar suburban streets are rendered as pop art stories, the ordinary is made vivid with line and unexpected colour. In the photographic works of Lillie Stewart, the once domestic spaces of an abandoned mill show how time eats in on what once was comfortable. This sense of the uncanny domestic is echoed in Jamieson Hudson’s treatment of the soft and inviting spaces of the bedroom cut through with a hint of uncertainty.

Homes are not always literal or direct. For Tristian Zhang the notion of home is complicated by distance and migration. And for Hayden Smith home is a nuanced idea of following your whakapapa lines backward and forward through pūrākau (stories), a journey which is paralleled in Desiree Ratima’s rendering of home as encapsulated in the vast ocean space of the Pacific.

Artists

Jamison Hudson (MA), Desiree Ratima (BMA Hons), Dejana Sveistrup (BCA),
Gabriel Renner (BCA), Summer Okey (BCA), Lillie Stewart (BCA), Ofa Madge (BCA),

Hayden Smith (BCA completing 2024), Julia Iti-Prendergast (BMA  Hons completing 2024)

Tristian Zhang (BCA), Ofa Ki-Vahafolau Mage, Lizzie Price (BCA)

About us

The Morrinsville Art Gallery is a place to celebrate the young artists in our district and New Zealand.

The Morrinsville Art Gallery is the leading art gallery in the Matamata-Piako District. We work to create a vibrant environment for all locals and visitors to Morrinsville and the Mighty Waikato Region. As a charitable trust run by two staff members and thirty-plus volunteers and overseen by our wonderful Trustees, we are constantly striving to create opportunities for our community to connect within an art context.

We are immensely proud to be a central player in Morrinsville’s role as a vibrant and creative hub for art and culture in rural and greater Waikato. We are committed to supporting local and national artists.
With a diverse programme of exhibitions and events, we aim to inspire and engage our community with the transformative power of art.

Contact us with your exhibition proposals or projects at info@morrinsvillegallery.org.nz we look forward to hearing from you.

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