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More interesting stories from the New Zealand contemporary art scene. If you know of a story that is not listed here, please let us know.
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Sculptors in final nine of South Island competition
Claire Beynon returns to Antarctica
Jonathan Mane-Wheoki on William Holman Hunt
The Curator: IAM online magazine launched
Richard Robinson releases MasterClass instructional videos
Auckland Fringe Festival registrations open
Dunedin Fringe Festival registration open
Dates announced for IAM Encounter 2009
The CIVA biennial conference
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Three sculptors who have all previously exhibited in Chrysalis Seed group shows are finalists in the sculpture competition/exhibition Meridian Heartland Sculpture Challenge.
Helm Ruifrok, Anna Korver and Rob d’Auvergne are among nine South Island sculptors whose submissions were selected for the inaugural event. Their sculptures – Stele, Tern and Icthys – have been installed in Temuka, Pleasant Point and Timaru (respectively).
The competition has two awards – a judged award and a people’s choice, which will be decided by text-voting. View images of the sculptures in our image gallery, and vote for your favourite by texting "Alpine" for Helm, "Trust Aoraki" for Anna or "Polytech" for Rob to 3689. Texts cost 50c.
Images, locations and further details on the competition website
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After an inspiring residency in 2006, from which emerged the exhibition Not EMPTY, not SILENT, not WHITE, Claire Beynon has returned to the ice.
She has started a blog of her time there. She writes: "It's still in its early stages, but I'll be adding meat to bones as the season's work progresses. Once I'm out at Explorers Cove and our various projects start taking shape, I'll be posting video clips and sounds bites along with photographs and musings."
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Te Papa Tongarewa's director of art, Jonathan Mane-Wheoki, has contributed a substantial essay on The Light of the World to a new book, William Holman Hunt and the Pre-Raphaelite Vision. The publication accompanies an exhibition of the same title, currently touring England.
William Holman Hunt and the Pre-Raphaelite Vision is published by Yale University Press.
ISBN13: 9780300148329
ISBN10: 0300148321
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The Curator is the new quarterly web publication of The International Artists’ Movement (IAM).
In keeping with IAM's belief that artistic excellence, as a model of "what ought to be", paves the way for lasting, enduring humanity, The Curator seeks to encourage, promote, and uncover those artifacts of culture – those things which humans create – that inspire and embody truth, goodness, and beauty.
Check out The Curator
Visit IAM’s website
Join the IAM facebook group
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Richard Robinson has started producing a series of high quality instructional videos, available for download on his website or for purchase as DVDs.
Robinson has been a professional artist for 6 years, painting mainly landscapes in oils. He offers a free 30 minute lesson about atmospheric perspective to get people interested and is "trying to give it away to every painter on the planet, and their neighbours." It has some valuable knowledge in it, including seven pages of printable notes.
If you're happy painting like a paint-by-numbers artist the lessons aren't for you – these lessons get technical. If you're a beginner with a passion to learn or a professional artist with a need for more understanding and stimulation they will give you the skills to paint better – sooner.
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Applications close 14 November 2008.
Auckland Festival and THE EDGE are working in partnership to establish a fringe festival in Auckland between 27 February and 22 March 2009.
The Auckland Fringe is an open access arts festival across Auckland that aims to provide a platform for independent practitioners to present their work in an environment of artistic freedom and to enable audiences to access eclectic arts experiences.
Any person, group or organization can present a work during the Auckland Fringe providing they pay their registration fee and are able to provide a venue and the technical requirements they need.
Registration fees: $100 if your event is free or a donation/koha is requested. $150 if your event is ticketed or has an admission charge.
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Applications for Festival-run venues and funding close: 7 November, 2008
Event registrations close: 5 December, 2008
Artist registrations are now open for the 2009 Dunedin Fringe Festival, which will take place from 26 March – 5 April next year.
The Dunedin Fringe Festival showcases work in all art forms by artists from throughout New Zealand and overseas. It focuses on presenting high quality innovative and experimental work by emerging and established artists. The Festival is a great opportunity for artists to present new work, push their boundaries, develop new audiences, and meet other like-minded artists.
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26-28 February 2009
Registration opens 1 November
The 2009 International Artists' Movement (IAM) Encounter will feature philosopher Nicholas Wolterstorff, PhD (author of Art in Action), Makoto Fujimura (IAM founder) and other artists and creative catalysts, as well as workshops, festival performances and more.
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June 18-21, 2009
Christians in the Visual Arts (CIVA) returns to its birthplace for the 30th anniversary! The CIVA biennial conference will be held in Minneapolis/St. Paul. It will be hosted in the Twin Cities by Bethel University.
As Christians with vocations in the arts, how should we view our relationship to "culture?" Should we attempt to transform culture? Engage? Avoid? Discern? Subvert? Fill in the blank...
The conference will seek to establish a vigorous dialogue among artists, scholars, theologians, historians and pastors from a variety of theological and aesthetic traditions in order to learn from one another as these issues are explored in the conference ___ing Culture: Cultivating a biblical discourse on the arts, the artist and "culture."
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