olga
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