18 Dec 2022

14 Daytime Classes & Activities

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We offer 14 different weekly art classes and activities, most of which you can jump into anytime. All our art classes and activities are either free or cost between $3.50-$5 per class.

There are free kids art classes for Inner City East kids, free art classes for everyone on Saturday afternoons, art classes that teach you drawing skills or painting with oils and acrylics, Maori arts and crafts, art for wellbeing, two specialist classes for older folk, one in dance and the other in arts and crafts, a multicultural art class offering different art styles from around the world, a creative writing class and a printmaking class.

The only classes that you have to enrol for are the free kids art classes (by semester) and Multicultural Art (enrolments are topic by topic which usually means month by month). The rest are drop-in, although it’s a good idea to book ahead. This is simply to ensure that you don’t come along to a class only to find the room full already. Our classes are popular so we’d hate you to miss out! You can book up to month in advance or just week by week if you’d prefer by emailing arts@tewhare.org or phoning 03 981 2881.

Click on class images below for more details about individual classes.

Please note that we don’t offer any classes that are suitable to bring children under 6 years old.

Some classes are suitable for children aged 6-14 but they must be accompanied by a caregiver (except the free kids classes which do not require this). Please check the specific class you’re interested in before bringing children.

Classes made possible through funding support from Manatu Taonga Ministry for Culture and Heritage.

The Linwood Community Arts Centre (Linwood Arts for short) is a project of Te Whare Roimata Trust.

28 Nov 2022

Alchemy of Place: 28 November – 17 December 2022

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Gemma Syme, Jann Lenihan, Catherine Day and Pat White have been friends since their student days at Massey University’s School of Fine Arts, fifteen years ago. Together they present a show that is both varied and lively, with each artist relating in their own way to the environment and the times in which they live, locating themselves through process.

Eastside Gallery, Linwood Arts, 388 Worcester Street, Christchurch, free parking onsite.

Open: Tuesday-Saturday. Galleries 12-5pm.

7 Nov 2022

Port Levy’s Got Talent: 7-26 November 2022

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Opening Event: 5.30-7pm Monday 7 November 2022.

“Port Levy’s Got Talent” is a collection of works by six artists residing in the beautiful Port Levy community on the Banks Peninsula.

Although they explore a diverse range of media and creative expressions, they all have one thing in common: they are inspired by the love of their unique environment, believing that they capture the spirit of a time and place.

“Port Levy’s Got Talent” showcases the diversity and artistic integrity that has developed largely due to their isolated rural location; if necessity is the mother of all inventions, then isolation is the bearer of creativity.

Potter Jim Barribeau, Weaver Karyn Davis, Sculptor Maria Lee, Multimedia Artist Verity Scarlett, Glass Artist Emily Napolitano & Painter Jacqui Gibbs-Chamberlain.

Jim Barribeau first started working with clay decades ago after he walked across Cornwall as a student and visited the Leach Pottery in St. Ives. The aesthetic that Leach and Hamada promoted with both classic Asian forms and glazes linked with the English tradition and this informs Jim’s work. Jim is particularly interested in ash glazes and experiments with locally sourced ashes; cabbage tree, walnut, flax, and manuka, for example.

Karyn Davis has been fascinated by textiles for many years; the colours, textures, patterns, and the interplay between these. Karyn recently began to weave and has been exploring these aspects from a creator’s point-of-view as opposed to a observer’s point-of view. Karyn finds inspiration in nature and from travelling to regions where textiles have been produced for hundreds of years – Kashmir & West Bengal, India and Laos.

Maria Lee has continued to push the limits of the stone, in both form and finish, while also exploring the boundaries between raw rock and smooth manipulated polished finished stone. Maria’s early stone works were purely functional pieces but as her skills developed, she has been exploring female sensual forms and positive expressions of sexuality. Sensual softness juxtaposing the rigidity of stone; the strength and violence required to create a piece that appears soft and invites touch.

Verity Scarlett takes inspiration from nature, real life observations and a passion for natural objects turn into art. Verity has been drawing, painting and sculpting from very young and has exhibited in her country of birth, New Zealand, and in the UK where she lived for 19 years. Verity is passionately committed to daydreaming and it is during this time that she creates and designs her next project, painting, or subject matter.

Emily Napolitano moved from Chicago to New Zealand in 2010. Emily has explored the limits of soft glass in creating glass beads in a variety of shapes and sizes, recently creating a series of Day of the Dead Sugar Skulls, looking at the relationship between our bones, our life essence, and the transition to the Other Side.

Jacqui Gibbs-Chamberlain’s series is a development from previous work as she layer colour and charcoal to create a multi-dimensional, translucent look. More than ever, Jacqui has let the charcoal take centre stage – in it’s perfectly undone form. With the theme of “unprecedented times” in mind, this series is the expression of the questions, hopes and dreams that have been left to linger over the last two years of covid.

10 Oct 2022

Arts Canterbury Juried Show: 10 Oct – 5 Nov

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Opening Event: 5.30-7pm Monday 10 October 2022.

Arts Canterbury members are encouraged to submit their best artworks for the annual juried exhibition. This year three independent jurors have selected 33 artworks from 23 local artists.

The jurors for 2022 are:

Jenna Ingram – Jenna is the Co-owner and Director of Fiksate Gallery, New Zealand’s leading urban contemporary art gallery. Jenna has a BFA in Painting and creates abstract portraitures under the alias ‘Jen Heads’, a style and character which she has developed over six years and continues to explore.

Jon Salton – Originally from Edinburgh, Scotland, Jon is a fine art panoramic landscape photographer. Jon runs F-stop Image & Frame, specialising in photo restoration, printing and picture framing.

Gwyn Hughes – Gwyn is an artist specialising in portrait and landscape art. He has won several awards in New Zealand for both landscapes and portraits. In 2020 he won ‘Peoples’ Choice’ at the Adam Portraiture Award and more recently was ‘Runner Up’ in the Adam Portraiture 2022.

The jurors will each be selecting one artwork to receive a ‘Juror’s Award’.

Eastside Gallery will be selecting one artwork to receive the ‘Eastside Development’ award.

One artwork will be chosen by the jurors to receive an award for ‘Excellence in Fine Arts’.

These awards will be presented at the opening on the 10th of October.

The public will then have the opportunity to vote for the ‘Peoples’ Choice’ award.