One Day.
Nicola Hansby
Anna Perry
Preview
Friday 31 January
5PM
.....vulnerability is an important touchstone here - the fragility of flowers, the imperfection of the never quite finished painting, the messy reality of our homes and internal worlds. That vulnerability finds resonance in the title One Day, suggestive of dreams and desires pending amidst the more immediate demands of day to day life. Simultaneously, it is a reminder of the transience of this one day, gone too soon, impossible to capture or stay. '
from an exhibition text by Kari Schmidt
Flotsam, Jetsam, Pearls and Thrums.
Summer Group Exhibition
Our final exhibition for 2024 includes works from Allison Beck, Charlotte Maguire, Michael Morley, Susan Ellis, Michael D Cooke, D.H.Gilmore, Maia Hetariki, Robert Scott, Louisa Baillie, Kathryn Madill, Peter Cleverley, Anna McLean, Ed Ritchie, Michael Greaves, Philip Madill, Oscar Mitchell, Jay Hutchinson, Sharon Singer, Frank Spiers, Thomas Lord, Murray Eskdale, Morgan Oliver, Beau Cotton, Lisa Perniskie, Philip Jarvis, Paul Faris, Lynda Cullen, Chris Schmelz, Inge Doesburg, Sian Torrington, Mark Rayner, Jackson Harry, Marc Doesburg, Paul Rayner, Brendan Jon Philip, Alastair Galbraith, Esther Bosshard, Anna Perry, Stuart Porter, Jane McEntyre, Justin Spiers, Marie Strauss, Matt Middleton, Victoria McIntosh, Pippi Miller, Nicola Hansby, Anya Sinclair.
Preview
Friday 6 December
5PM
New to Here.
Peter Cleverley
Preview
Friday 1 November
5PM
Please join us for the opening night preview.
The colours of the sea, the landforms of the North Otago region and the neighbouring coastline––have all exerted a major influence on Cleverley's aesthetic and thematic choices. An equally important influence has been Peter’s mother, Noeline, who died in 2023. These paintings offer a silent tribute to her influence and her support. An accomplished amateur painter, she introduced Peter, as a child, to painting in water colours and oils. A dream-like quality provides a thematic consistency to the paintings included in the exhibition, all of which feature heavily codified depictions of flowers.
The exhibition runs to November 27.
Anemoia.
Work by D.H. Gilmore and Philip Madill
Preview
Friday October 11
5PM
Please join us for the opening night preview.
Nearly a century ago David Hunter Gilmore created his first illustrated children’s book, Cuthbert the
Caterpillar. He went on to craft more stories and pictures of a unique miniature world peopled with
resourceful and adventurous insects. These captivating caterpillars, bumblebees, crickets, ants and many
other tiny creatures have charmed successive generations of children and their parents throughout
Australasia.
In this exhibition we bring original paintings and drawings from the archive of D.H. Gilmore and pair them with the works of his grandson, Dunedin artist Philip Madill and writing from his daughter Helen Gilmore.
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.
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: If you speak for the Wolf,
speak against him as well.
Olga Gallery Dunedin
August 23- September 12
2024
“I have been thinking a lot lately about relationships, on, of and in between things...”
Michael Greaves states this casually when probed about the intention and explanation of his most recent
collection of paintings exhibited at Olga Gallery in Dunedin, New Zealand (August 23-September 12,
2024). This response is not unexpected from the painter, who for much of his career has shifted modes,
explored multiple painterly outcomes, and will often delve into definitions of his practice that sit more in
an idea of meta painting.
To put this into context, painting today communicates in ways that adopts and co-opts historical motif
and trope, reusing and utilising symbolic references to disrupt the iconographic programmes that have
served paintings dominance as a meaning carrier in the premodern years. It is here where this body of
work sits, drawing on traditional modes of making, embedded in the landscape genre, a sublime
coastline, a kind of beauty that acts as a stage support for a selected collection of objects and spheres,
suspended but in focus, disruptive in their playfulness, seriously proposing an ambiguity and
unpredictability of meaning.
These spheres, lit dramatically from a same or similar light source could be read as a stand in for people,
hermetically sealed, sometimes unformed or becoming, close, almost touching but never merging. The
eternal existential question of belonging, or aloneness in this world are rendered with Greaves’ intuitive
modulations of bronzes, greens and matte fawn like colours. Semi a work consisting of two such floating
spheres, one bronze/yellow atop a cadmium red/orange push hard towards the front of the painting mimic
a colon, a punctuation mark in language, typically used to introduce a sentence that clarifies, explains, or
elaborates on the sentence that came before it. A semicolon, on the other hand, is typically used to
simply connect two related sentences of equal importance. The tile of the work then is both descriptive
and elusive, proposing a connection, a relation, but also planting a seed of an expanded interpretation.
Titling has always been a consideration for Greaves, in the individual painting titles and in the collective
show titles. Recent shows such as we are not strong enough for rivers and stars (Melanie Rodger Gallery.
Auckland, New Zealand, February 2023) and Sullivan’s Objects (Five Walls. Melbourne, Australia,
November 2022), or the last exhibition here at Olga also in 2022 The Promise and the Fall all allude to how
the show is to be interpreted and read as a whole. Here is no different. When you speak for the Wolf,
speak against him as well hints at the duality inherent in any act of depiction, acknowledging the
subjective nature of interpretation. The paintings here, then, are not intended to convey a pre-
determined, fully formed idea to a passive, detached viewer. Rather this new work, a mature and resolved
collection, delivers an allegory in a non-literal sense and a proposal of a meditative pause, a moment of
repose to contemplate the weight and balance of a oneness and singularity of life.
This body of work marks a new and exciting turn in the painter's career.
James Leigh van Roche. August 2024
Pantomime
Marie Strauss
Opening
Friday August 2
5PM
In the exhibition Pantomime there is a unique fusion of eccentricity, ambiguity and absurdity. Strauss works across multiple media, from painting to ceramics to printmaking, her work united by an interest in animals, both real and imaginary, rendered in boldly expressive form.
Please join us for the opening night celebration.
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’s art practice continues to follow a psychogeography model as a way for exploring the urban and suburban environments through which he transverses daily.
In “An untitled landscape, six beers and your cheapest packet of smokes”, Hutchinson brings together seven new hand stitched works based on trash collected over the last five months. Showing alongside these works, is a piece that was shown in the exhibition “The Archeology of the discarded, forgotten and thrown away” at the Suter Art Gallery in 2019.
“Untitled Nelson Landscape May 2019” is Hutchinson’s largest hand stitched work to date. Based on a smashed up corrugated fence that he discovered in an alleyway behind a Nelson Warehouse, the work took months to complete and measures almost 7 metres in length.
Telos
Holly Aitchison
Opening night
Friday June 14
5PM
Rehoming Lobsters
Hannah Joynt
Quirks
Tāwhiri Fowler
Opening
Friday May 10
5PM
Please join us for the opening night celebration.
To Unpathed Waters
Meg Gallagher
Opening
Friday April 12
5PM
Please join us for the opening night celebration.
Te Hauka Te Ahi
Allison Beck
Caitlin Rose Donnelly
As adoptees we miss opportunities to know our whānau. Te hauka te ahi, meaning 'the stranger who stays
longer gets to know the host better' is pertinent for us.
This exhibition explores some of the whakaaro around finding your whakapapa and
connecting with whānau and whenua. We are celebrating who we are, proudly saying we are Māori.
Opening
Friday March 15
5PM
Please join us for the opening
Allison Beck
The works in this exhibition are made with found and gifted materials. This
kaupapa comes from a humble background and a joy found in reusing objects. The works are based
on a feeling of disconnection and the search for a unifying language.
They access emotions around being adopted and reach across
generations to korero with her dead.
Allison Beck (Kāi Tahu, Kāti Māmoe, Waitaha, Pākehā) is based in Ōtepoti.
She won the excellence in printmaking award at the 2023
Cleveland Awards and recently joined the Paemanu collective.
www.paemanu.co.nz/about
Caitlin Rose Donnelly
'Buy MY grass' is a series of works made from grass and uku pigments from the whenua which the
artist lives. There is irony in the title as the artist has taken grass grown on a farm in pākeha
ownership to sell. The poem that is spread across the works concerns her placement amid these
worlds, past, present, Māori and Pākeha.
Caitlin Rose Donnelly (Kāi Tahu, Kāti Māmoe, Pākehā) is a multidisciplinary artist based in rural
Southland. Her practice analyses being Māori, an adoptee, a
mother, and a woman in traditionally male spaces. The whakataukī Ka mua, ka muri, meaning we
must look to the past to inform the future, centres her whakaaro and mahi toi.
She works for Paemanu Ngāi Tahu Contemporary Visual Arts Charitable Trust
and Blue Oyster Art Project Space. She holds a Master of Fine Arts from the Dunedin School of Art.
Pippi Miller | Archetypes
Opening
Friday February 9
5PM
Please join us for the opening
Ben Webb | A Retrospective
Opening
Friday December 8
5PM
Please join us for the opening
Benedict, (Ben), Webb (1976–2014, was an iconic figure on the Dunedin | Ōtepoti art scene during his lifetime. The son of the artist and educator Marilynn Webb (Ngāpuhi, Te Roroa, and Ngāti Kahu), and godson to Ralph Hotere (Te Aupōuri, Te Rarawa), he grew up in a world defined by New Zealand art. Though he died young, he left behind a significant body of work that signals his importance as an artist of his time.
Rayner Brothers Circus
with special guest
Beau Cotton
Opening
Friday November 17
5PM
Beau Cotton
Mark Rayner
Paul Rayner
Jay Hutchinson
Blind Trash
Justin Spiers
a view for dying
Opening Friday October 27
5PM
Marc Doesburg
A Selection of Works
Murray Eskdale
When We Mean to Build
Opening Friday September 29
5PM
Thomas Lord
Etheric Bodies
Opening Friday September 1
5PM
Philip Madill
Unreal Estate
Opening Friday July 28
5PM
Felix Harris
Silence in Paradise
Natalie Guy
Sandra Bushby
Blue Fleur
Opening
Friday April 28
5PM
In Blue Fleur free-standing metal sculptures, paintings and stained glass assemblages echo the bright opacity of writer and artist Joanna Margaret Paul’s stations of the cross at St Mary’s Star of the Sea in Port Chalmers, Dunedin.
Meg Gallagher
Recent Works
Opening
Saturday April 1
3 to 7.30PM
After 15 years overseas as a denim designer and a former iD Fashion awards finalist, Meg returns to
Dunedin to showcase her new discipline of painting. Using denim as her base and a strong focus on
textile manipulation, Meg Gallaghers' work showcases her blended worlds of fashion and art.
Honouring her past and present life in Ōtepoti, Meg views the local landscapes through a shiny
new lens. Thick leather like textures are layered over flowing inks to make familiar surroundings
seem almost other worldly. Appreciating that sometimes you have to go back to move forward.
The exhibition is presented as part of iD Dunedin Fashion Weekend.
Please contact the gallery for a catalogue.
The Halloween Party
Pippi Miller
Opening
Friday March 10
5PM
Sed non satiata
Anya Sinclair
Opening
Friday February 10
5PM
xx
Please join us for the opening of our final exhibition for 2022
Anya Sinclair, Brendan Jon Philip, Briar Holland, Craig Easton, Ed Ritchie, James Thomson Bache, Jay Hutchinson, Lynda Cullen, Michael Greaves, Michael Morley, Philip Madill, Pippi Miller, Sharon Singer, Stuart Porter, Susan Ellis, Victoria McIntosh
Friday December 9
5PM
Runs December 9 to January 1
Rayner Brothers Circus
Mark Rayner
Paul Rayner
Sideshow alley featuring
Jay Hutchinson
November 11 - December 7
BODY-MAKER
Ed Ritchie
Min-Young Her
Paul Johns
Sam Te Kani
Taarn Scott
val smith
Opening
Friday September 2
5PM
Runs to September 28
Curated by Robyn Maree Pickens
The Ladder is Part of the Pit
Special Performance
Saturday August 27
Midday
As part of an ongoing series of sonic correlations
curated by Brendan Jon Philip
Sympathetic Magic
Marie Strauss
Opening
Friday August 5
5PM
Runs to August 30
Dene Barnes
Jackson Harry
John Ward Knox
'Drowned World'
Opening Friday July 8
5PM
grass all the greener
Hannah Joynt
opening Friday June 10
The Promise... and the Fall
Michael Greaves
Zeuxis reached out and touched the surface,
he became the bird, and the grapes the curtained veil.
Opening Thursday May 12
5PM
Gethsemane
Brendan Jon Philip
April 15 - May 3
Opening April 15 4PM
Taking cue from the shadow cast by myth and allegory across the twin narratives
of art history and esoteric traditions the painting of Brendan Jon Philip seeks to actively detourn
and reanimate symbol systems through a gloss of pseudo-mystical abstraction.
of art history and esoteric traditions the painting of Brendan Jon Philip seeks to actively detourn
and reanimate symbol systems through a gloss of pseudo-mystical abstraction.
B-Sides, Rarities and
Treasures from the Dunedin
Public Art Gallery Car Park
Jay Hutchinson
Opening
Friday
February 25
Runs to March 18
durham street - as she left
Photography by Adrienne Martyn
Opening Night
January 28 5PM
A My Vaccine Pass is required for entry on opening night
Soft Stones
Madison Kelly
Motoko Kikkawa
Exhibition opens November. 26
more details soon
Madeleine Child
Mark Rayner
Paul Rayner
Exhibition opens October 22
the sunlight lies down across everything
Rebecca Hasselman
Georgina May Young
'the sunlight lies down across everything' brings together textile works by Georgina May Young
and paintings by Rebecca Hasselman. Both artists draw from their surrounding landscapes
and seek to express the sense of being in these places.
Exhibition opens September 15
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 (b. 1972, Zimbabwe) is a technologist, multi-
media designer and artist residing in Dunedin. He holds a
BA (Theory of Literature and Linguistics) and a BA
Honours (Multi-media Design), both with distinction, and
is about to embark on an MFA at the Dunedin School of
Art. His work has been shown locally and at the Museo
Reina Sofía in Madrid. Immanence is his debut solo
exhibition.
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 (b. 1972, Zimbabwe) is a technologist, multi-
media designer and artist residing in Dunedin. He holds a
BA (Theory of Literature and Linguistics) and a BA
Honours (Multi-media Design), both with distinction, and
is about to embark on an MFA at the Dunedin School of
Art. His work has been shown locally and at the Museo
Reina Sofía in Madrid. Immanence is his debut solo
exhibition.
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
Please join us for opening night
Viewfinders
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.
Please join us for opening night
Escape
from
New York
Friday April 2
(Good Friday)
5PM
Petra Leary
Jay Hutchinson
Tim D
In late 2019 two photographers based in Auckland and a Dunedin based sculptor travelled to New York. It was unknown to them that that within two months the world would be closed down due to a global pandemic. This exhibition brings together the work produced by the artists based on this trip, a snapshot before the end of the world.
Petra Leary is renowned for her aerial photography. Her work is simple yet bold in arrangement and composition. Belying this effortlessness are deeply honed technical skills, and a knowing iconoclastic eye for pop culture.
Jay Hutchinson is a Dunedin based artist who works with textiles. His practice follows a pychogeographical model where he recreates found structures and objects with fabric and thread. His work explores urban erosion and the waste and decay of capitalism.
Tim D. is a street/documentary photographer who's work comprises largely of documenting youth subcultures and changing urban environments.
Escape
from
New York
Friday April 2
(Good Friday)
5PM
Petra Leary
Jay Hutchinson
Tim D
In late 2019 two photographers based in Auckland and a Dunedin based sculptor travelled to New York. It was unknown to them that that within two months the world would be closed down due to a global pandemic. This exhibition brings together the work produced by the artists based on this trip, a snapshot before the end of the world.
Petra Leary is renowned for her aerial photography. Her work is simple yet bold in arrangement and composition. Belying this effortlessness are deeply honed technical skills, and a knowing iconoclastic eye for pop culture.
Jay Hutchinson is a Dunedin based artist who works with textiles. His practice follows a pychogeographical model where he recreates found structures and objects with fabric and thread. His work explores urban erosion and the waste and decay of capitalism.
Tim D. is a street/documentary photographer who's work comprises largely of documenting youth subcultures and changing urban environments.
Please join us for opening night
Exquisite
Corpse
Friday March 19
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.
Join us on opening night for the great expose’!
Participating artists include: Aroha Novak, Peter Cleverley, Sharon Singer, Anna Perry, Guy Howard-Smith, Michael Greaves, Rosa Cameron, Lynley Workman, Nicola Hansby, Felix Harris, Hannah Joynt, Lucy Hunter, Saskia Rushton-Green, James Corbett Varga, John Ward Knox, Saskia Leek, Anya Sinclair, Mike Cooke, Spencer Hall, Rachel Isobela Taylor, Pauline Bellamy, Miranda Bellamy, Charlotte Parallel, Leben Young, William Henry Meung, Celeste, Jo Howard, Deirdre Newall, Motoko Kikkawa, Jay Hutchinson, James Buckner, Campbell Patterson, James Dignan, Hana Aoake, Rachel Allan, Ren Bartlett, Esther Bosshard, Phillip Madill, Brendan Jon Phillip, Sam Ovens, Taarn Scott, Gavin Ashworth, Veronica Brett, Felix Harris, Kiri Mitchell, Marie Strauss, Holly Aitchison, Phillip Jarvis, Robbie Motion, Madison Kelly, Jenny Hjertquist, Harry Freeth, Dallas Robertson and many more.
The exhibition is curated by Nicola Hansby as part of the Dunedin Fringe Festival.
Exhibition runs to March 31
Please join us for opening night
Michael Morley
Nick Harte
Aids for Black Magick
Sounds
5-6pm Mercedes Cambridge (Nick Harte) Adversary album premiere
6-7Pm Gate (Michael Morley)
Friday February 19
5PM
Recent paintings and sound
Please join us to preview
The Absurds
Hannah Joynt
Opening Night
Friday January 29
5PM
runs to February 17
“The absurd represents the convergence between the sense of alienation and the yearning for unity” Albert Camus
Please join us to preview our final exhibition for 2020
Campbell Patterson
Cold Lake
Friday December 4
5PM
Campbell Patterson was Artist in Residence at McCahon House in 2015 and awarded the University of Otago Frances Hodgkins Fellowship in 2017. He currently resides in Dunedin. We are excited to be exhibiting a selection of his most recent works alongside several from the last seven years of his practice.
Runs to December 24
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
Please join us for a drink on Saturday the 28th of November for the exhibitions' closing event from 1pm for a performance from L$D Fundraiser, Morgan Oliver (Fuck Chairs) and Jay Hutchinson performing together for the first time as Barnes, Hutchinson and Oliver.
Exhibition closing event
Saturday November 28
1pm
OLGA
32 Moray Place
Dunedin
The Yallop & Smith Memorial Exhibition 2020
Opening with a shared lunch
Saturday October 31
12PM
“The painting above (right), was the last painting completed by my friend Des Smith. It was based on his favorite placemat ( left) featuring the art work “Crossing the Bealy, 1882”, by artist John Gully. The placemat sat next to the board he was painting on the easel in his bedroom in 2006. Des worked on the painting for about six months slowly building up the composition in thin transparent layers. This was a process he had learnt at the Dunedin School of Art in 1937 where he studied painting alongside Colin McCahon. I visited often during this time as I lived across the road. Des would often usher me into a room to show me his progress on the painting… before Des’s partner Ray would pull me away, taking the placemat with him as he needed it for its intended use. Ray was always concerned that as an art student, I wouldn’t be eating enough. Ray was always making fuss and is still one of the best hosts I have ever met.”
Jay Hutchinson
This exhibition is based on the enduring concept of friendship, community and inclusion. A chance to remember and celebrate the lives of two good friends, Ray Yallop (b.1934, d.2010) and Des Smith (b.1920 d.2009). The Exhibition is a salon installation in the style of their residence in Grant Street, Dunedin, New Zealand. Cluttered artworks of all kinds would vanish into a tapestry of colour, an endless sea of style, medium and form. Historical oil paintings would sit alongside bright coloured sketches, framed-photographs and quirky sculptures either given by the artists, purchased from local galleries or just picked up at bargain prices from local fairs. The collection represented an endless expanding community of artists that would meet at ‘Des and Ray’s Place’ at least once a year for unveilings of new works, birthday celebrations and even a wedding. It was a place that felt like home, where all were always welcome, and accepted for who they were.
The exhibition includes artwork by those that knew Des and Ray and those that possibly would have…don’t forget to sign the book
A joint Olga and agallerypresents.com exhibition
Interested in exhibiting in the Yallop and Smith Memorial Exhibition?
Please drop your artwork to OLGA before October 29
The exhibition will include artwork by Desmond Smith, Gary McMillian, Ruth Cleland, Robert Scott, Jenny Hjertquist, Catherine Cocker, Philip Madill, Eliot Coates, Michael Morley, Peter McLaren, Philip Jarvis, Sam Ovens, Craig Easton, Marion Mertens, Mark Rayner, Paul Rayner, Hannah Joynt, Murray Eskdale, L$D Fundraiser, Anna Muirhead, Katrina Thomson, Dallas Henley, Marilyn Webb, Luke Hancock, William Field, Ben Webb, Marco Dahlberg, Phillip James Frost, Celia Morgan, John Francis, Sharon Singer, Harley Jones, Holly Aitchison, Raimo Kuparinen, Lynda Cullen, Pamela Brown, Motoko Kikkawa, Justin Spiers, Rebecca Hasselman, Simon Attwooll, Julia Hutchinson, Miss Cherry Pie, Michael Lamb, Taarn Scott, Shaded Skull, Jonathan Waters, DDDCCXO, Hamish Jones, Ed Richie, Marion Mertens, Kathryn McCully, Jake Medary, Jay Hutchinson, Anya Sinclair, Michael Greaves, Iain Cheesman, Anita Desoto, Jonathan Waters, Esther Bosshard, Annemieke Ytsma, and many more to come.
Runs to November 20
Mark Rayner
Paul Rayner
Philip Jarvis
Opening
Friday
October 9
5PM
The return of the Rayner Brothers Circus
with special guest Philip Jarvis
Welcome to the low-brow, high-art world of Whanganui
and Dunedin based artists Philip Jarvis, Mark Rayner and
Paul Rayner's sculptures, ceramics, photographs
and latch hook rugs.
Exhibition runs to October 28.
Do not miss this exhibition
Anya Sinclair
Everything Must Go
Opening
Friday
September 11
4-7PM
Please join Anya for the opening of
Everything Must Go
A Spring Celebration at OLGA
Note, due to Covid 19 Level 2 restrictions the exhibition opening will be held over an extended period.
Visit anytime between 12 and 7PM on Friday
Drinks and nibbles with Anya between 4 and 7.
A maximum of 10 people in the gallery at any time.
Exhibition runs to October 1
Adrienne Martyn
Artist Portraits 1981-89
Opening
August 7
5PM
Please join us for the opening
Henry Turner
Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day
Opening
July 3
5PM
Henry Turner
Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day
Opening
July 3
5PM
Please join us for the opening
Metiria Turei
Hiwa
Opening
June 19
5PM
Sandra Bushby
Rachel Zanders
Selected Work

Rachel Zanders Together
Woodcut print
42 x 59.5 cm
Sandra Bushby/Rachel Zanders: Impulse-Interval/ Accent-Breath
“One winter, trying to appease myself, I whipped my bed every
afternoon with my uniform belt. ... whipping the bed with a belt, like a creature demented!—and I often began half-heartedly, but I did it daily, after school, as a desperate discipline.” That was Annie Dillard, using a simple structure to turn ir- ritation or elevation into an energy field. Managing her compulsions, spacing the ungovernable. Turning irritation or elevation into structure. That’s right, that’s painting, that’s writing, that’s homework, that’s making lots of things; finding ways of running the workshops of feeling. Project managing the sentiment. It’s the same as tried and true folk art, making and joining, crafting. Plaiting, putting in seams and darts, finishing off with the right kind of stitch, feeling the fabric between the fingers. Putting things in a sort of order, doing it for a long time each day. Allowing a flourish that only comes with practice. Annie’s desperate discipline applies to both Sandra’s and Rachel’s conjoint art for Olga. The tempos differ. What painting is about and is. And its being about is not translation, it’s re-presentation, it’s round about, round-abouting, going back over, falling into further relentless circling that shifts along by nudgings considered and nudgings imposed; worried currents that won’t let go that go away but won’t. The wayward shopping trolley with jammed front wheel. Steering catawampus oblique; it’s repeated presentation with slurs. With angles. And slants. Translation is alright too when ‘recessed’, recessional temporal loops diminishing as spatial nesting that never gets anywhere except differently, determinedly. This this that then that glissando, to arpeggiotic up or sideways climbing. Hermit crabs form “a hermit crab chorus line” waiting in line for accommodation changes in community preparedness. It’s unstoppable, but it stops and starts and jitters along—now slow, next furious, now faster than zip stitches or Quick Unpick tooling with tiny
red pellets, “Faster than fairies, faster than witches” “Fly[ing] as thick as driving rain ... Painted stations whistle by.” It’s manic it’s calming; it’s ornamented and reserved; retiring, compulsive, and convulsed by compulsions. See Sandra’s stone pillows, such nubilous lift, ornate play, fadings away in tumulose air, spaced and blurred. Jacob’s ladders accreting in reduced circumstances; bricks in the sky that can be counted often, mineral red slabs stacking, inferred if not, read off impressions. She sometimes has pelagic or bosky dreams in a small garden. Here it’s brick accents, brick steps ascending and descending on ladders in serial
heavens. Necessarily as an inexhaustible elegant step, counter-stepped dance display, Rachel shows sonic clatter, mineral clitter, rolling down and along, braced and end-stopped, nubs and capped staves, jointed continuums set in motion like games on the floor. Skewed formations with minds of their own. Primary school stick games on mats with time-clapped exchanges. Throw catch tap, spin swap and return. Glitches, self-notching task setting accents each session.
“An arpeggiotic thought escapes like an uncanny configuration of rocks. A slow blink between moments feels too serene to be coincidence.” But there’s much co-incidence; there’s also more. Like Marianne Moore’s “Hurry, worry, unwary/... never vary”, “It’s all like the never-ending/Ferris-wheel ascending/picket-fenced pony-rides (ten cents).” Or her favoured Swedish carriage, the “dolphin-graceful” carriage cart: “all/needles: from a green trunk, green shelf/on shelf fanning out by itself./The deft white-stockinged dance in thick-soled/shoes!” It’s Tristan Tzara’s “Cubist tinkle dance” performed on ladders.
With thanks to: Annie Dillard, Robert Louis Stevenson, Katherine Rundell, Animal Psi, Marianne Moore, Tristan Tzara
Allan Smith, February 2020
Sandra Bushby, Let it Bleach Blue--
Oil on linen 45 x 30 cm, 2019
Oil on linen 45 x 30 cm, 2019