Second Thursday of every month

Late Night Art on Thursday September 9, 2010 has galleries on Parnell Road open until 7.30pm.

Take an art (de)tour before dinner in Parnell tonight! Parnell galleries are serving up a tempting smorgasbord of New Zealand art - the perfect entrée to a night in Parnell.

ARTIS Gallery

Close to Home - Peter Siddell, Emily Wolfe, John Radford
till 18 September, 2010

Exploring the work of three artists who use houses as a central subject matter.
- The images Siddell constructs in his paintings have an element of the surreal about them with the artist as the omnipotent being creating the idealised landscape.

- Emily Wolfe's interiors appear to have been abandoned for some time; the dust has well and truly settled, the wallpaper has begun to fade and lift at the corners, rooms have been cleared of all but a single discarded item.

- John Radford's villas are also subject to the chaos of nature. Neat 90° angles and symmetrical windows relinquish to the crush of the natural world in Housing Slump.

• open: Mon to Fri 10am - 5.30pm; Sat 10am - 4pm; Sunday by appointment.
• address: 280 Parnell Road phone: 09 303 1090
• web: www.artisgallery.biz

Jonathan Grant Galleries

Peter O'Hagan - Night and Day, Day and Night
An artist of spontaneity, passion and vibrancy, Peter O'Hagan has successfully established himself as an artist of international repute through his regular exhibitions over the last two decades.

Having spent a prolonged period of time painting abroad during the 1980s, O'Hagan settled in Australia , drawing on his travels as inspiration for his works. As well, his early career as an architect and curator for the New Zealand Historic Places Trust, combined with his taste for the 'finer things' in life, are elements that influence his painting.

O'Hagan's work is currently held in numerous public and private collections internationally including those of Air New Zealand, the Hôtel de Crillon in Paris, the Government of Macau, Veuve Clicquot Ponsardin, the New Zealand High Commission in London and the collection of the New Zealand Parliament.

• open: Mon to Fri 10am - 5.30pm; Sat 10am - 4pm; Sunday by appointment.
• address: 280 Parnell Road phone: 09 308 9125
• web: www.artis-jgg.co.nz

Alvin Pankhurst Gallery

Realist and surrealist in style, Alvin Pankhurst was the first NZ resident to have work accepted into the Royal Academy of London's Summer Exhibition, in 2001. With his work fetching a tidy sum at Webb's Auction house recently, Alvin is a fervent artist who is available in-house to chat about his work.

• open: 11am to 4pm 7days a week
• address: 305 Parnell Road phone: 09 307 0155
• web: www.pankhurst.co.nz

Parnell Gallery

LISA WISSE: Enchanted Moments
1 - 13 September 2009

• open: Mon - Fri 9.30am - 5.30pm; Sat - Sun 10am - 4pm
• address: 263 Parnell Road phone: 09 377 3133
• web: www.parnellgallery.co.nz

Pierre Peeters Gallery

Anya Whitlock -in Hot Persuit of a Tale

PREPARE TO BE ENTICED, SHOCKED, TITILLATED AND PERHAPS EVEN DISTURBED .... just a little.

The Pierre Peeters Gallery would like to invite you to view its debut exhibition of a much talented and outstanding young emerging artist, Anya Whitlock. This exhibition features a series of grand scaled acrylic works on oval Meranti, Birch, Gaboon and European Beech panels with highly alluring and powerfully charged nude female characters who each take their lead from ancient cautionary tales that are reworked with a contemporary twist. They also reference the artist herself at differing points in time where through her own personal struggles she could directly relate to the ancient wisdom and truths revealed in these tales.

Whitlock's images are curiously disturbing, arresting both visually and in scale, provocative at times, and confronting in their directness of gaze. They are without any doubt strong women who have no hesitation in wishing to warn you about the dangers of the world and the consequences that may befall you if you do not heed the wisdom within.

• open: Mon - Fri 10.30am – 5pm
• address: Habitat Courtyard, 251 Parnell Road phone: 09 377 4832
• web: www.ppg.net.nz

Sanderson Contemporary Art

Ray Haydon - Superstrucutre
24 Aug to 12 Sep 2010

Ray Haydon is a vocational artist whose practice continues to develop in fresh ingenious ways. The work in his upcoming exhibition Superstructure maintains an immaculate sense of proportion together with an ongoing investigation of space, light and form. 

Haydon's most recent explorations involve interpretation of 20th century modernism in architecture, painting and sculpture. Working in highly innovative ways with copper, cedar and American white oak, Haydon explores the potential of positive and negative space. Importantly his new work emphasises simple horizontals and verticals which are organised asymmetrically within an overall theme of harmony and balance. 

As a sculptor Haydon is interested in revealing the infinite possibilities his materials offer. What excites him is confronting the raw state of the material and its slow transformation into a complex arrangement of light, space and shadow.

• open: Mon to Fri 10.30am - 5.30pm; Sat 10.30am - 5pm, Sun 11am - 4pm
• address: 251 Parnell Road phone: 09 374 4476
• web: www.sanderson.co.nz

Sense Art Interiors

Budi Zulbakri opens his own art gallery at 395 Parnell Road, at the top of the rise, in February 2010. Budi has always loved art and has specialised in large sized canvases painted in an abstract style with splashes of colours applied in thick strokes in oil and acrylic. Budi's gallery also carries beautiful wooden furniture from all over.

• open: Mon - Wed 10.30am - 5pm; Thurs - Fri 10.30am - 6pm; Sat 10.30am - 5pm; Sun 11am - 4pm
• address: 395 Parnell Road, phone: 09 373 2755
• web: