On Now
Simon Olsen paints to celebrate the beauty around and within us - to inspire gratitude for what shouldn’t be taken for granted. He says: “Gratitude is what creating art requires of me, and fosters in me, including for how miraculous our human, natural and spiritual natures are.”
Olsen’s practice explores techniques where he applies paint in multiple layers, with the canvas rotated for gravity to work it in different directions. This creates texture, and an illusion of movement.
His exhibition and practice are grappling with questions such as: “Why might we need things to appear more surreal, bold or colourful, to remember how wonderful they actually are?”
EVENT
FREE public painting co-lab - open for the duration of the exhibition. Anyone can add brush strokes to a large canvas. A collaborative painting will emerge, to engage people in a creative process that values diversity, unity and connection.
CONTACT
Email: simonolsen@gmail.com
Instagram: @simonsverreolsen
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Up Next
This installation is a self-portrait made up of 100s of things found on the streets that I have walked on in my life. The start of the installation is things I collected when I was a child, mainly in Helensville (where I grew up) and the surrounding areas. This then flows into the things that I have found as an adult living in Wellington. The tail end of the piece are things that people have found on the street and given to me. The installation takes its form from the Kaipara River that runs through the centre of Helensville. I moved to Wellington 3 years ago to study Arts Management, and although I really love living here, no matter how long I stay I will never have the same connection to it that I do to Helensville.
CONTACT
Instagram: @mmmorgan.dean
An exhibition of visual art using a wide variety of genre/media presented as a Museum with gift store. A didactic celebration of environment focussed in kaitiakitanga o te taiao. Artworks and pseudo-artifacts curated to entertain and reinforce values of humankind's interconnectedness and place within environment. Sculpture, painting, cabinetry, embroidery, masks, installation, costume combine to form a museum-like space that can educate alongside a gift shop of handmade clothing, skincare, tote bags, aprons... We are here, it's a surprise, let's uplift, be grateful and celebrate each other.
EVENTS
Artist talk each day at 1pm
Thursday 21 August, 5:30pm
Pizza Event
CONTACT
Website: www.jamesharcourt.co.nz
Email: ijamesharcourt@yahoo.com