Bookkeepers and the Blue Mine.
Kathryn Madill
Opening
Friday September 20
5PM
Please join us for the opening night preview.
The circle of life and death and the desperate sadness of loss are recurring themes in the practise of Kathryn Madill
The five paintings in Bookkeepers and the Blue Mine reveal the haunting beauty of the land, sky and sea and the fragility of human beings in an eternal landscape. The notion of being on a journey is central to the work.
Kathryn Madill, 'The Bookkeeper' oil on gesso board, 2024
If you speak for the Wolf,
speak against him as well.
Michael Greaves
Opening
Friday August 23
5PM
Please join us for the opening night celebration.
Michael Greaves, The Grey,
acrylic and oil on canvas. 690x795mm framed. 2024.
Pantomime
Marie Strauss
Opening
Friday August 2
5PM
Please join us for the opening night celebration.
Marie Strauss, Blue Donkey, porcelain and mixed media, 2024
An untitled landscape, six beers and your cheapest packet of smokes.
Jay Hutchinson
Opening
Friday July 5
5PM
Please join us for the opening night celebration.
Jay Hutchinson, 'Untitled Nelson Landscape May 2019' Hand embroidery on cotton drill panels, timber frame, screws, pins Dimensions variable
2019
Telos
Holly Aitchison
Opening
Friday June 14
5PM
Please join us for the opening night celebration.
Holly Aitchison, Target panic/don’t eat me. willow charcoal on paper 2024
Rehoming Lobsters
Hannah Joynt
Quirks
Tāwhiri Fowler
Opening
Friday May 10
5PM
Please join us for the opening night celebration.
Hannah Joynt, Rehoming Lobsters, oil on board, 2024
To Unpathed Waters
Meg Gallagher
Opening
Friday April 12
5PM
Please join us for the opening night celebration.
Meg Gallagher, Highs and Lows, pigment powder and acrylic on stitched indigo and white denim. Ecru tray frame
120 x 170cm 2024
Te Hauka Te Ahi
Allison Beck
Caitlin Rose Donnelly
Opening
Friday March 15
5PM
Please join us for the opening night celebration.
Allison Beck, Untitled, acrylic on canvas, 2024
Pippi Miller | Archetypes
Opening
Friday February 9
5PM
Please join us for the opening
Pippi Miller, Little Red, gouache on paper, 2024
Ben Webb | A Retrospective
Opening Friday December 8
5PM
Rayner Brothers Circus
with special guest
Beau Cotton
Beau Cotton
Mark Rayner
Paul Rayner
Jay Hutchinson
The exhibition Blind Trash features a limited edition of nine deluxe copies of Jay Hutchinson’s publication LANDFILL each sealed in a black plastic rubbish bag with a found piece of trash. Each piece of trash has a hand stitched version framed on the gallery wall. Purchase a book to see which embroidered piece of trash is yours!
We warmly invite you to preview two exhibitions
from Marc Doesburg and Murray Eskdale.
Marc Doesburg
A Selection of Works
Murray Eskdale
'When We Mean to Build'
Friday September 29
5PM
Murray Eskdale, Pylon from South Road, pigment print, 2023
Felix Harris
Silence in Paradise
opening
Friday June 2
5pm
Felix Harris, Death to the Dictator, acrylic on canvas, 400 x 300mm, 2023
Natalie Guy
Sandra Bushby
Blue Fleur
The Halloween Party
Pippi Miller
Runs to March 28
Pippi Miller, The Bacchanalia, gouache on paper, 500 x 690mm (frame) 2023
Anya Sinclair, Heading up Stream’, 1120 x 1370mm, acrylic on canvas, 2023
Sed non satiata
Anya Sinclair
Opening
Friday February 10
5PM
olga
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Anya Sinclair, Brendan Jon Philip, Briar Holland, Craig Easton, Ed Ritchie, James Thomson Bache, Jay Hutchinson, Lynda Cullen, Michael Greaves, Marie Strauss, Michael Morley, Philip Madill, Pippi Miller, Sharon Singer, Stuart Porter, Susan Ellis, Victoria McIntosh
Opening
Friday December 9
5PM
Victoria McIntosh, Pudding 3, found silverware, fabric, lemon squeezer, ribbon roses, paint, 2022
the magnificent
Rayner Brothers Circus
Mark Rayner
Paul Rayner
Sideshow alley featuring
Jay Hutchinson
Opening Friday November 11
BODY-MAKER
Ed Ritchie
Min-Young Her
Paul Johns
Sam Te Kani
Taarn Scott
val smith
Friday September 2
Curated by Robyn Maree Pickens
Paul Johns, Beverley (2), archival pigment print on Hahnemuhle paper, 2022
The Ladder is Part of the Pit
Saturday August 27
Midday
admission is free
An interrelation to Sympathetic Magic
as part of an ongoing series of sonic correlations
curated by Brendan Jon Philip
Sympathetic Magic
Marie Strauss
Opening
Friday August 5
Runs to August 30
"Strauss’s animals are both companions and guardians, but also
fearsome, nightmarish creatures that evoke our deepest anxieties"
Professor Federico Freschi, 2022
fearsome, nightmarish creatures that evoke our deepest anxieties"
Professor Federico Freschi, 2022
Marie Strauss, Untitled, hand built , Multi-fired White Porcelain Vessel, 2022
Dene Barnes
Jackson Harry
John Ward Knox
'Drowned World'
Opening Friday July 8
5PM
grass all the greener
Hannah Joynt
Absurdity, delight and humour continue to illuminate
the worlds created by Hannah Joynt in 'grass all the greener'
opening Friday June 10
Hannah Joynt, 'make your leisure your pleasure', oil on board, 1200 x 850mm 2022
The Promise... and the Fall
Michael Greaves
Zeuxis reached out and touched the surface,
he became the bird, and the grapes the curtained veil.
Thursday May 12 - June 1
(Opening event Thursday May 12 5-7PM)
Michael Greaves, 'Covered in a fine brown dust'. Pigment and oil on canvas. 30x40cm, 2022
Sound Art supporting the exhibition Gethsemane.
Music/Sound/Drone from some of Dunedins' finest exponents.
Midday Saturday May 30.
All welcome!
Gethsemane
Brendan Jon Philip
April 15 - May 3
Brendan Jon Philip, 'The Walled Garden' mixed media on board, 2022
“and feather falling”: a tribute to Marilynn Webb
This exhibition brings together a group of five hand-painted prints and one water
colour by Marilynn Webb from a private collection, complemented by a large
atmospheric work on paper by Brendan Jon Philip and a photograph of the interior of
Marilyn Webb’s home, taken just before her death in 2021 by Adrienne Martyn.
durham street - as she left
Photography by
Adrienne Martyn
Opening Night January 28 5pm
Adrienne Martyn, durham street # 3, pigment print, 2021
Soft Stones
Madison Kelly
Motoko Kikkawa
Exhibition runs to December 24
Madeleine Child
Mark Rayner
Paul Rayner
Exhibition opens October 22
Madeleine Child, Kronkelen, ceramic
Mark Rayner, Mexican wrestler, ceramic 2021
Immanence
Neil Lowe
Opening
Friday August 6
5PM
A series of Etudes (studies) expressed as three dimensional assemblages of found ideas.
Part painting, part sculpture, part print, these Etudes are improvisations of the here-and-now on themes from Sergei Lyapunov’s 12 Transcendental Études (Op.11).
Neil Lowe, Etude in Obsidian (Elegy)
Folded, perforated aluminium, aerosol, acrylic, patinated brass,
patinated copper, 2021
Hemlock Grove
Anya Sinclair
Tara Meredith
Opening Night
Friday July 16
5PM
Engraved
your books, my photos
Dallas Robertson
Jenny Hjertquist
Opening Night
Friday June 18
5PM
Low Chroma
Eliza Glyn
Opening Night
Friday
May 28
5PM
Low Chroma is a world of echoes. It is a dimension that exists after you leave the classification
of landscape behind. The forms remember that once they were part of a landscape; and that
landscape has transformed itself to an idea. The recognizable forms are leftover vapors from
land shapes observed here in Dunedin. The visual mood and colour draws on memories of
science fiction worlds seen in films and television shows from my childhood (Total Recall, Star
Trek, Blade Runner and 2001: A Space Odyssey.) The worlds also suggest a link with the
imagined interior realms of video games like Tetris and PacMan. Ultimately, there is a collision
of dreamscape and memory that joins with my current observations on the way humans divide
and alter Land. Eliza Glyn 2021
Viewfinders
Opening Night
Friday April 30
5PM
Simon Attwooll
Philip Madill
‘Viewfinders’ draws together works from artists Simon Attwooll and Philip Madill.
Each interrogates the indexical nature of photography, historical truth, tensions between analogue and digital technologies and the relationship between the viewer and the viewed.
Simon Attwooll "Documentary Shadows" Acrylic and screenprint on ACM panel in custom frame. 315x415 2020/21
Escape
from
New York
Friday April 2 - 28
Petra Leary
Jay Hutchinson
Tim D
Jay Hutchinson, Dunkin Donuts, hand stitched embroidered cotton, 2020
Exquisite
Corpse
March 19 - 30
Exquisite Corpse is a surrealist game where participants contribute to a collective drawing without the knowledge of others' additions, resulting in strange and wonderful composite figures.
Michael Morley, Fontana, watercolour on paper, 2020
Please join us to view our first exhibition for 2021
The Absurds
Hannah Joynt
"In this new work I use humour and an illustrative aesthetic to contemplate our
dysfunctional relationship with nature, landscape and the environment" HJ
Hannah Joynt, Water Boatman, oil on board, 190 x 150mm, 2020
Please join us to preview our final exhibition for 2020
Campbell Patterson
Cold Lake
Running to January 26
Campbell Patterson, Unsure, 2015 oil on canvas, 500 x 500mm
Untitled, Dunedin Landscape, May 2020
Jay Hutchinson
Hutchinson’s latest work follows on from his exhibition ‘On the way to work’ which showed at Olga in 2019. The previous exhibition consisted of 20 small hand embroidered works based on the trash Hutchinson found during his journeys to work. This work however is a singular piece that echoes Hutchinson’s fascination with psychogeography, the forgotten and discarded. Hutchinson conceived this work to follow the current show at OLGA ‘The Yallop and Smith Memorial Exhibition’ by utilising the damaged walls from the installation of over 100 works.
Exhibition runs November 21 - 28
OLGA
32 Moray Place
Dunedin
The Yallop & Smith Memorial Exhibition 2020
Opening with a shared lunch
Saturday October 31
12PM
Runs to October 20
Mark Rayner
Paul Rayner
Philip Jarvis
Opening
Friday
October 9
5PM
Anya Sinclair
Everything Must Go
Opening
Friday
September 11
12 - 7PM
Adrienne Martyn
Artist Portraits 1981-89
Opening
August 7
Runs to September 9
Artist Portraits 1981-89
Opening
August 7
Runs to September 9
Henry Turner
Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day
Opening
July 3
5PM
Henry Turner, Hill of Monkeys, gouache on paper, 430x315, 2020
Metiria Turei
Hiwa
Opening
Friday
June 19
5PM
Metiria Turei, 'Hiwa Teko' pigment print, 215 x 655mm, 2020
A Spontaneous Art Event
Can You See It?
Hamish Kilgour
Kim Pieters
Matthew P Schobs
April Dolkar
Saturday June 6
Open 11-3PM
Projection:Art:Performance:Music:Sound
Sandra Bushby
Rachel Zanders
Selected Work
Rachel Zanders Together, Woodcut print, 42 x 59.5 cm, 2016-2018
Sandra Bushby, Let it Bleach Blue--, Oil on linen 45 x 30 cm, 2019
Stella Corkery
Year of the Head
Stella Corkery, Guru Guru, oil on canvas, 910 x 610mm, 2019
The launch of Exquisite Corpse this Friday has been cancelled.
In line with current advice from government and health authorities, OLGA is acting to protect the health and wellbeing of its staff, artists, audiences and wider communities responding to the threat of novel coronavirus COVID-19.
The gallery will maintain its regular opening hours so please visit the exhibition during the week.
Exquisite Corpse
We've been playing Exquisite Corpse, the chance-based, surrealist game where participants contribute to a collective drawing without the knowledge of others' additions, resulting in wondrous composite figures. A revelatory exhibition, the moment of truth comes when the previously secret compositions are unveiled.
Participating artists include: Aroha Novak, Kirsten Ferguson, John Z Robinson, Sharon Singer, Emma Chalmers, Peter Cleverley, Anna Perry, Guy Howard-Smith, Michael Greaves, Rosa Cameron, Felix Harris, Lynley Workman, Grant Ramsay, and Nicola Hansby.
Sat/Sun 10-2PM T/W 10-5PM
As part of the Dunedin Fringe Festival
Eliot Coates
S o f t F i e l d
Please join OLGA and Eliot for closing drinks on
Friday February 21
5PM
Eliot Coates, Union ll, oil on aluminium, 1000 x 1150mm, 2019
Olga reopens January 7 2020
Artists include...
Craig Easton Anya Sinclair Esther Bosshard Joyce Huang
Jay Hutchinson Metiria Turei PJ Hickman
William Field Sharon Singer Anna Muirhead Michael Morley
Miranda Parkes Henry Turner L$D Fundraiser Philip Madill
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Friday December 6 - 24
LATERAL re BOOT
James Cousins
William Field
Opening November 15
5pm
James Cousins, Pl 116.5 (Untitled), oil and acrylic on canvas, 500x550mm, 2019
William Field, Red Noise, oil, acrylic and graphite on canvas, 420 x420mm, 2019
The
Never
Quartet
Michael Morley
November 15
6.30pm
An exploration of the sonic possibilities of the acoustic guitar as
a pure resonant amplifier of sound..
Madeleine
Child
Miranda
Parkes
the new nice
Running to October 23
Miranda Parkes "a private boat for max" (acrylic, gold and silver foil, varnish, nail polish, wrapping paper on book page, 230 x 247mm) 2019