AGM and Lecture. Save the date. Federico Freschi - ‘Art is not snatched, but won by study’: Why art(s) education matters
In this lecture at the AGM, Federico Freschi considers the value of an art(s) education to a society that nurtures and sustains it and argues for the transformative role it plays in the creation of a more meaningful, functional, and sustainable world.
Grahame Sydney - From Here to There: an Otago Tale
The 2023 William Mathew Hodgkins memorial lecture by Sir Grahame Sydney is about the progress of a conventional middle class Dunedin boy from the Kew Hill, through to an unexpected lifetime career of professional art, nearly all of it spent in Otago. How did that happen? And what have I learned along the way ? Now aged 75, I'll talk about what I think matters and illustrate the journey with selected paintings from more than 5 decades of work.
Entry is free for Society members but a koha for non members.
Otago Art Society Members' Evening
OAS extends a warm welcome to DPAG Society members.
DPAGS President Ross Currie, judge of the Otago Art Society's 147th Annual Exhibition is the guest speaker and will discuss his selections and talk about his own experiences as an art collector. Also, several artists with work in the exhibition will talk about their art practice. The OAS Annual Exhibition will finish on 22nd July, so take this opportunity to see some quality artworks.
Coffee Morning Talk: Painting the Male Nude
Dunedin printmaker, jeweller and painter John Z. Robinson was inspired as a young art student by prominent English artists such as Francis Bacon and David Hockney, and acclaimed local artists such as Ralph Hotere, each of whom painted and drew from live models.. John will give a brief history of the male nude in art, and discuss how he came to incorporate painting nudes into his practice over many years. What are the challenges and rewards of working with a live model? What are the expressive possibilities of working with the human form?
Join us for a fascinating discussion. Free for Society members; $5 non-members.
A Body of Evidence - Linda Cook - Art in Law XX
April - November 2023
Faculty of Law, University of Otago
Curated by Marion Wassenaar
Dunedin School of Art
This series of paintings bears witness to a period of time, a time spent building a body of work as evidence of my Master of Fine Arts project, titled Incandescent Molecules.
The investigative nature of this painterly project was built upon found cardboard shapes, each selected and curated to locate awkward and unusual forms which exist within the found structure, whilst also considering the unpredictable elements of pleasure that just occur. I want the paintings to visually challenge, seeking out un-pretty relationships via the clumsy, squanky and confronting; actively looking for moments of attraction within the forms and colours that delight yet confront, these works step forward to reveal themselves. These are the moments when the extraordinary and unusual clunkiness in the painting begin to coalesce, delivering intrigue and pleasure. Each painting develops its own personality as the awkwardness and slippage of the boards, and the vibrant edges and viscous ooze within the layers, delivers dynamic visual pleasure. This mode of practice accepts the emergence of the unknown and celebrates the fact that materials are full of surprises.
In acknowledging that paintings have an independent presence, our thinking transitions away from anthropocentric concepts of making, raising an awareness that materials have agency in the process and that something new can emerge from the material. Working in this way, maker and matter merge.
DPAGS SITE VISIT
Tour of Northview Sculpture Garden
Join us at 61A Main South Rd, East Taieri at 10.45am, Wed 15 March, for a tour of this fabulous garden. Tucked under Saddle Hill, a block divided from original farmland has morphed into the beautiful Northview Garden. Featuring a selection of beautiful spaces with trees, shrubs, perennials, annuals, spectacular views over the Taieri Plain, and several large sculptures, including some by Bannockburn artist Odelle Morshuis.
Drive-on access with plenty of seats and flat spaces throughout.
Entry: $5 DPAG Members/ $10 non-Members
Meet at the garden (no booking necessary) at 10.45am
Lift available: please contact Dawn on 021 259 8571 (departing from the DPAGS Octagon office at 10.15am)
See you there!
Christmas Event
Join us as we celebrate with champagne, strawberries and Christmas nibbles. Gallery staff will be conducting members-only behind-the-scenes tours of the Gallery collection, featuring a private viewing of our major 2022 donation, Rita Angus' Lake Wanaka.
RSVP today to book your place on one of the tours!
Defying Biopower – a talk by Johanna Zelmer
DPAG Auditorium
Defying Biopower
Dunedin jeweller Johanna Zelmer is exploring how AI data collection and DNA sequencing are used as instruments of surveillance and control. Zelmer combines silver and gold with medical glass, rubber gaskets and other waste products from DNA sequencing to produce her astonishing, provocative range of collars and chokers. Can wearing a piece of jewellery also be an act of defiance?
$5 cash at the door for non DPAG Society members
Talk by Federico Freschi, Otago Polytechnic
It is with great pleasure that the Research Network in Cultures, Histories and Identities in Visual Studies at the University of Otago and the Otago Polytechnic Research Office announce the second talk in the 2022 series of Wednesday night research seminars.
Federico Freschi, Professor and Head of College Te Maru Pūmanawa | Creative Practice & Enterprise at the Otago Polytechnic will present on Wednesday, October 26, 5:30-7:00 pm.
For more information see the flyer below and also on our blog at: https://blogs.otago.ac.nz/visualstudies/
Paint, Practice and Power – a talk by Anita Desoto
Anita DeSoto in her recent works has appropriated the works she admires of Old Masters but bringing women to the foreground rather than accessories, victims and pawns to be bribed and seduced.
Flipping the narrative, men are obscured or removed to make her paintings womens’ stories, countering what she sees as misogyny in the earlier paintings represent.
A Dunedin Public Art Gallery Society Talk.
$5 cash at the door for non DPAG Society members
[image: Anita DeSoto The Sisterhood Advocating Vegetarianism, after Rubens (detail). Oil on signboard. Courtesy of the artist.]
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