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While the format fitted in a year where Zoom performances became the norm, there was nothing quite like performing in front of a live audience, he said. “Fringe Shows are performed in small venues, they’re intimate performances and they feed off audience reaction. Seeing them live is a totally different experience.” There were many festival highlights to look forward to, Burton said. Fraser Hooper, one of the country s leading clowns, would be a treat for Nelson audiences, he said.
Solitude, a “beautiful” show about Annie Chaffey’s self-imposed exile in Kahurangi National Park’s Asbestos Cottage, was almost sold out.
Nelson artist Maggy J won distinction for her work,
Snakes and Ladders, illustrating the ups and downs of life with Covid, while New Plymouth’s Susan Imhasley won the Dame Suzie Moncrieff Merit Award for her piece,
Balance.
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The move to its Hardy St premises last year has unlocked a wider exposure of The Refinery Artspace to the public and engagement with those looking to showcase their works. Bailee Lobb of Wellington won the $5000 Supreme Award for
Restful Heart, while the Bernina Award for the most creative use of a sewing machine went to Paeroa’s Deb Shepherd for her large portrait using free-motion stitching.
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Nelson photographer Virginia Woolf makes some final tweaks to her exhibition MUSE stories and photographs of Nelson s multicultural woman at the Refinery Artspace in Hardy St, Nelson until the 20th of March. Woolf said she chose Muse based on its original definition of the nine goddesses who inspire and preside over the arts and sciences from Greek and Roman mythology. “I chose to only have female subjects as I felt more of a connection and saw a reflection on my own struggles and experiences growing up as a NZ-born Chinese and third generation Kiwi of Chinese descent.”
The Wellington Media Collective is a group of graphic designers and printers working from the late 1970s. . It was involved in the major social, political and cultural movements of the era, including the fight for a nuclear-free New Zealand, tino rangatiratanga, women’s rights, employment issues and the end to apartheid. An exhibition of their work was displayed at the Refinery last year. As part of the exhibition, it was decided to collaborate with local youth to provide a platform for their voices on current issues and to facilitate expressing them through art. “Youth have a lot of worries for the future. I hope this can find a way to change that from worries to hopes,” McBride said last year.