Parnel :: The Creative Quarter

Late Night Art, Parnell

Second Thursday of every month, next on March 11, 2010

On Thursday, March 11 take an art (de)tour before dinner in Parnell.
Parnell galleries are serving up a tempting smorgasbord of New Zealand art and live music - the perfect entrée to a summery night in Parnell.

March's late night includes a new gallery, Sense Art Interiors, at 395 Parnell Road - almost at the top of Parnell Road.

On Thursday March 11, other Parnell stores staying open late include:
paper-art-sie.com, for fabulous handcrafted stationery, at 327 Parnell Rd

ARTIS Gallery

John Blackburn: The Muriwai Paintings
10 March 2010 - 3 April 2010

Distinguished British painter John Blackburn has a rich career as an artist that began in the summer of 1959 with his first professional exhibition at the Auckland City Art Gallery . If was at local visionary Les Harvey's suggestion that he returned to England where he was to find recognition as a British modernist. Blackburn 's profile rose to the point that he was linked with leading British abstractionists Peter Lanyon, William Scott and Roger Hilton. Read more on this wonderful artist.

Musicians play outside the gallery

  • 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

Bath Street Gallery

Jacqueline Fahey EXPOSE
March 3, 2010 - March 27, 2010

Distinguished Auckland artist, writer and personality, Jacqueline Fahey is especially known for her paintings of domestic and suburban life. Does miss her talks at Bath Street Gallery at 10am Thursday, 18th and 10.30am Friday, 19th March. EXPOSE recalls Porirua in 1962.

 

essenze

New Crackled Glazed Ware by Peter Collis

Crackle ware, has a long history in Asian ceramics. In producing this work, Peter has taken the South Chinese Kuan ware as a starting point, because they used one of the most sophisticated crazing glazes used in China . His fascination with being able to use the infinitely possible grazing effects as gestural decorative elements, on a variety of thrown forms has opened up a whole new range of possibilities for his work. He is presently exploring the crazing effects that one gets when you adjust and try and control a set of given parameters. The variations possible ensure each piece is truly an individual, unique piece.

  • open: Mon to Fri 10am - 6pm; Sat 10am - 4pm; Sun 11am - 4pm
  • address: 285 Parnell Road phone: 09 300 6238
  • web: www.essenze.co.nz

International Art Centre

Parnell's first gallery commenced business in 1971. Representing over thirty leading New Zealand artists, the gallery also exhibits selected works from six Italian-based artists along with the sculptures of Mike Norris. Delivery worldwide.

Jonathan Grant Galleries

Susan Wilson: The Anguish of Departure

An exhibition of paintings by London-based New Zealander Susan Wilson, including a variety of still lifes and landscapes which draw on Wilson's New Zealand origins and overseas travels.

Musicians play outside the gallery

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

Mana Gallery

Award winning photographer and architect, Lucy G, showcases graffiti images on canvas. “My architectural career fits in well with the photography because at the end of the day you have to have an understanding of the same things - composition, colour and space - and both require constant creativity and design.” When designing interiors, Lucy will I often custom design photographic artworks that fit in with the space, colour sheme and theme of the design. She loves to experiment with architectural photography she completes.

  • open: Mon - Fri 9.30am - 4.30pm; Sat - Sun 10am - 4pm
  • address: 323 Parnell Road, phone: 09 377 0417
  • web: www.managallery.co.nz

Pankhurst Studio 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.

Alvin 's self-titled gallery features three new works - The Maori Mermaid, Spiritual Journey, and Frosty Morning. You can't miss Pankhurst's new Maori Mermaid, so drop in this Thursday to talk to the artist or watch him at work.

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

Parnell Gallery

Established by Sally Souness in 1976, Parnell Gallery is one of New Zealand 's leading contemporary art galleries. It is situated in the heart of Parnell and specialises in contemporary New Zealand paintings, limited edition prints, sculpture and framing.

Exhibitions are held in the upstairs space approximately every four weeks. Downstairs, works are permanently displayed by established and emerging artists

  • 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 (Formerly the Aesthete Gallery)

Pierre Peeters Gallery (formerly Asthete Gallery) welcomes you to “A Tribute to Peter Sauerbier,” a group exhibition of four artists paying homage to the master of assemblage and constructor extraordinaire, the late Peter Sauerbier.

For over 40 years Sauerbier created fascinating artworks out of materials and specially selected objects sourced from markets, building and demolition sites as well as second-hand haunts around Auckland . In his workshop these objects would undergo a dramatic transformation as a result of reconfiguration and construction by the master craftsman, and would reappear as creatures, figures and other fantastical creations.

Sauerbier has inspired and influenced many artists including our four exhibiting artists who are Felix Delux, Keiran Donnelly, Andrew Hall and Sean Kerrigan. These artists are very knowledgeable about Sauerbier's work and three knew him well.

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

Sanderson Contemporary Art

Sanderson Contemporary Art's infamous 150 x 150 x 150 exhibition is on again in March for five days only! The 150 x 150 x 150 show of 2009 saw patrons queuing for hours outside the gallery to be first in line to secure artworks worth up to ten times more than their $150 price tag. In 2009, over 40 works sold in ten minutes. This year, between 160 – 200 works of art from a range of Sanderson's artists are on offer.

Opens 5.30pm, Tuesday 9 March and runs for five days until Sunday 14 March at 4pm.

Musicians play in the courtyard

  • open: Mon to Fri 10am - 6pm; Sat - Sun 11am - 5pm
  • address: 251 Parnell Road phone: 0800 568 327
  • 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 on Wednesday 10 February and is anotehr addition to Late Night Art.

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:

Warwick Henderson Gallery

Joanna Upperton: Intrepid
Tuesday March 2, 2010 - Mar 27, 2010

Waiheke based artist Joanna Upperton's whimsical paintings capture the determination and imagination of this young painter as she sets about her journey as an artist. Flying buses and ships, hot air balloons and penny farthing bicycles reveal a focus on travel, leaving the past behind and moving forward. The paintings are frequently set in narrow urban streets with elaborate buildings, lamps, fences, roses and awnings, depicting the artist herself going about every day tasks in an extraordinary way, each of the works reflect a vivid imagination and fun-loving personality.