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Hullabaloo - Gail de Jong
Location: Hullabaloo Art Space
Region: Cromwell
Dates: Sun, 9 October 2016 - Sun, 30 October 2016
Location, location, location
Our place, Central Otago has become prime real estate. More than 100 years ago the colonial painters came to New Zealand to paint the land,to advertise its charms to potential purchasers and their chosen imagery was the obvious beauty of the mountains, lakes, bush and bays.
The small works in this exhibition are selected vignettes of wild places around where I live in the hills beyond Bannockburn. Not the usual tourist meccas , but places discovered when roaming the hills and valleys, ordinary places. To highlight the precious character of these areas I have placed them in oval frames, reminiscent of time past. Each work is a cameo of places that are increasingly under threat by progress , and is a one off oil painting. They are not slick, but earthy works, reflective of the land they seek to represent, and each one has taken time to make. The frames too are custom made to compliment the work and the idea.
A way to describe my practise as an artist, is to say that in the production of my work I prefer to take the long way rather than the shortcut. Each layer of paint tells a story of discovery and, like the land I walk through, reveals stratas of memory and history.
Location
15 Melmore Terrace , Old Cromwell Historic Precinct
April 2025
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Hunt for History - The Museums Passport Challenge.Tue, 1 April 2025 - Wed, 30 April 2025 @ Daily | 2 | Book Launch. "Central Otago Couture: The Eden Hore Collection". Alexandra and Ranfurly.Thu, 3 April 2025 @ Alexandra, 1pm. Ranfurly, 6pm. | 4 | 5 | ||
6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Call for Entries: Central Otago Art Society 2025 Easter Cash and Carry Exhibition.Thu, 6 March 2025 - Thu, 10 April 2025 | 11 | 12 |
13 | 14 | Artbay Gallery - Charlotte Graham Exhibition.Tue, 15 April 2025 - Tue, 29 April 2025 @ 11am - 5pm Daily | 16 | Gallery 33 - "Dimensions" by Richard Adams.Fri, 28 March 2025 - Thu, 17 April 2025 @ Mon-Fri, 10am-5.30pm. Sat-Sun, 10am-4pm. Gallery 33 - "I’ll Meet You There" by Di Tocker.Fri, 28 March 2025 - Thu, 17 April 2025 @ Mon-Fri, 10am-5.30pm. Sat-Sun, 10am-4pm. Central Otago Art Society - Easter Cash and Carry Exhibition, Clyde.Thu, 17 April 2025 - Sun, 20 April 2025 @ Thursday 1pm - 4pm. Friday - Sunday 10am - 4pm. | 18 | 19 |
20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | Waiata Theatre Productions - "The Hunchback of Notre Dame".Thu, 24 April 2025 - Sun, 18 May 2025 | 25 | 26 |
27 | 28 | Artbay Gallery - Charlotte Graham Exhibition.Tue, 15 April 2025 - Tue, 29 April 2025 @ 11am - 5pm Daily | Clyde Museum - Winterstellar Astrophotography ExhibitionWed, 1 January 2025 - Wed, 30 April 2025 @ Tuesday - Sunday, 1pm - 4pm. Black Rabbit Cafe - Show Series, Amanda Griffin.Wed, 5 March 2025 - Wed, 30 April 2025 @ Daily Hunt for History - The Museums Passport Challenge.Tue, 1 April 2025 - Wed, 30 April 2025 @ Daily |