grass all the greener
Hannah Joynt
more details soon
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.
Opening Thursday May 12
5PM
Michael Greaves, 'The Hidden' pigment and oil on canvas, 90x120cm, (94.5 x 124.5 including frame), 2022
Gethsemane
Brendan Jon Philip
April 15 - May 3
Opening April 15 4PM
Brendan Jon Philip, 'The Roses of Heliogabalus ' mixed media on board, 2022
Brendan Jon Philip, 'Severity ' mixed media on board, 2022
Brendan Jon Philip, 'Mercy ' mixed media on board, 2022
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
Adrienne Martyn, durham street # 1, pigment print, 2021
Soft Stones
Madison Kelly
Motoko Kikkawa
Exhibition opens November. 26
more details soon
Madeleine Child
Mark Rayner
Paul Rayner
Exhibition opens October 22
Paul Rayner, 2021
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
Geogina May Young, From the sea, 2021, cotton thread on handwoven linen, 360x460mm
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.
Neil Lowe, Etude in Cerise (Dance)
Folded, perforated aluminium, aerosol, acrylic, laser engraving,
etched and patinated copper, 2021
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
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.
Simon Attwooll "Rail eroded" Acrylic and screenprint on ACM panel in custom frame. 315x415 (2020/21)
Philip Madill, The edge of Reason, graphite on paper, 2020
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.
Petra Leary, pigment print, 2019
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
Nick Harte, Wahine, 2020, acrylic & solvents on 12inch cardboard record cover
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
Hannah Joynt, Swanning About, oil on board, 600x600mm, 2020
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
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
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
Mark Rayner, Critters
Mark Rayner, Sick Mickey
Philip Jarvis, Glenorchy Blue, pigment print, 2020
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
Anya Sinclair, 66, acrylic on canvas, 2020
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