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Graham Kirk and Alby Carter talk to THE NOSE on the Saturday Breakfast show 24 April 2010 about their current exhibition at KINA gallery - KIRK & CARTER.

KIRK & CARTER: Paintings by Graham Kirk & Alby Carter.

KINA Gallery is delighted to host an exhibition of paintings by Taranaki artists, Graham Kirk and Alby Carter, opening Friday 23rd April 2010. This exhibition showcases new work from these artists that represent our Taranaki landscape in divergent ways.

This will be the first time Kirk and Carter have exhibited together, despite being friends for over 25 years. Although both artists exude very different signature styles, both have a deep-felt admiration for each others work. Kirk talks about how he and Carter work in different ways: “I combine elements – whereas Alby’s work is so elemental”.

Carter, who is known for his loose, expressionist style states his paintings “provoke thought by its demand for closer attention” - “I don’t paint the sea – I paint the feeling of the sea”.Kirk says he loves Carter’s “textural qualities, scumble highlights and the duteous use of colour”.

In contrast to Carter, Kirk’s paintings are based on the immediacy of the snapshot image, rather than painted in a traditional sense. When asked what Carter loves about Kirk’s work he stated: “he is a skillet for obtaining reality – but then he puts a superhero in, and it throws the whole thing”. He says that’s what he loves about Kirk’s work – “that juxtaposition”.

Don’t miss this special chance to celebrate Kirk and Carter’s artistic friendship in this joint show.

KIRK & CARTER is on show in the KINA gallery until the 19th May 2010.

Please call Kina (06) 759 1201 for further details.

Extra Curricular: Issue 2 - OUT NOW!

We are so excited to have just received Issue 2 of Extra Curricular!

Extra Curricular is a New Zealand magazine for and about people who get creative with their spare time. Issue one sold out - so don't miss out on purchasing Issue Two!

Extra Curricular is a magazine about people doing exciting creative projects on the side. Whether they have a 9-5 job, a fledgling business or a young family, the people profiled in Extra Curricular are connected by their passion for keeping the right side of the brain active in their off-hours. They do it for the love of it - driven by a creative urge, they stay up late and work weekends in order to complete their latest side project.

Extra Curricular is printed in full colour on beautiful recycled stock, and printed as a limited edition print run. Each magazine is hand-numbered.

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Harry Moores in the Taranaki Daily News

Melissa Young: Building Bridges & Harry Moores: Vivid

KINA Gallery is proud to host a joint exhibition featuring bronze works by Wellington artist Melissa Young in her show titled ‘Building Bridges’ and paintings by New Plymouth’s Harry Moores in his show ‘VIVID’. This joint exhibition opens Friday 26th March 2010.

Melissa Young’s bronze works have been described as ‘a social commentary on life, celebrating the lives of women past and present’. Her mantra this year is to ‘build bridges and move on’ and these pieces play with this theme.

Local artist, Harry Moores, describes his work as a contemporary look at portraiture. His work taps into the equivocal nature of abstraction, fusing this with lucid representations, and often, unmistakable familiarity.

BUILDING BRIDGES and VIVID is on show in the KINA gallery until the 21st April 2010.

Surreal Adornments for the Body & Mind

Fri 19th February – Wed 17th March 2010

Alongside Claire du Bosky's exhibition: BEING THERE: huts, barns & beehives, KINA Gallery was proud to showcase an exciting range of contemporary jewellery by ‘Surreal Silversmith’ Marty Jestin.

After working for many years as a manufacturing jeweller in both New Zealand and Philadelphia (USA), Marty set up his own studio creating his own signature style of contemporary jewellery and wearable art.

Marty explains his unique style of jewellery making as such:

Words for me have always been a ‘jingle jangle’ of pictures and symbols. I’ve always thought in pictures and words spoken to me are always interpreted as pictures.

This creates confusion as the images I see are always literal interpretations of the words spoken.

Working as a silversmith enables me to anchor these surreal pictographs from behind my eyes, by making them into 3-dimensional sculptures, to graphically illustrate to others that there’s more to words… than meets the eye and ear.

Using a wide range of recycled and found objects in his pieces, Marty’s aim is to encourage an alternative way of communicating, through art that is unexpected yet fascinating.

BEING THERE: huts, barns & beehives

KINA Gallery was proud to host the work of Claire du Bosky, in her solo show titled: BEING THERE – huts, barns & beehives which opened Friday 19th February 2010.

Du Bosky’s paintings capture the richness and uniqueness of the New Zealand landscape, depicting iconic landmarks –whitebait huts, barns and beehives - mostly from the Taranaki region.

Du Bosky completed a fine arts degree at Oxford University in 1983. She taught art in England for 18 years before moving to New Zealand where she continued teaching and practicing as an artist. She has exhibited on numerous occasions in England, Scotland and now in New Zealand.

Through her distinctive colour palette, awareness of light and fluid painting style, these pieces capture the charming nature of our sturdy, self reliant Kiwi culture.

BEING THERE: huts, barns & beehives was on show in the KINA gallery until the 17th March 2010