Whanganui Happenings: What s on this week
31 Jan, 2021 11:49 PM
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Wanganui Midweek
When: Thursday, February 4. Preschool 9.30-10.30am; 5-7yrs 3.45-4.45pm; 8-10yrs 5-6pm.
Where: Whanganui Boys and Girls Gym Club, Springvale Stadium.
Details: No cost. No need to register just turn up!
QUAY ART EXHIBITION
What: A lively collection of recent work by this innovative group of artists. Includes personal portrait sketches on the spot for just $10.
When: 10am-4pm, until Monday, February 8.
Where: Community Arts Gallery, 19 Taupo Quay.
BOOK SALE
When: February 6-8, 10am-3pm each day.
Where: St George s Hall, Patea.
HOW FILMS IMPACT OUR SPIRITUALITY
Wit and whimsy at Whanganui s Red Door Gallery with Dolly Good Show
1 Feb, 2021 04:00 PM
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Julz Coffey s exhibition Dolly Good Show opens at the Red Door Gallery on Friday.
Photo / Lewis Gardner
Whanganui artist Julz Coffey remembers her brother dismantling the walkie talkie doll she owned as a child. I didn t mind that much because I didn t really enjoy playing with her but I did like making things for her, Coffey says. She was never put back together but I did keep the head and I have collected a number of dolls heads over the years.
Some of those small heads have been given unique bodies that combine Coffey s talents as a sculptor and painter to feature in her latest exhibition Dolly Good Show , which opens at the Red Door Gallery in Putiki Drive this Friday.
Printmaking extends skill base of Whanganui artist
20 Dec, 2020 04:23 AM
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Peter Shepherd and his work is the subject of the Red Door Gallery s January exhibition. Photo / Paul Brooks
Paul Brooks is editor of Whanganui Midweek, in your letterbox every Wednesdaypaul.brooks@nzme.co.nz
Peter Shepherd is renowned for a certain style of art, one which involves the use of many different types of material and a knack for joining them together to make a functioning piece of creativity.
Now he s trying a whole new direction, one he considers more like art .
Peter attends harakeke paper-making and printmaking courses with local tutor Marty Vreede, and that has influenced a whole new range of artistic experimentation.