Justin Spiers: Castleland.

Posted 3:58am Wednesday 6th July 2011

Blue Oyster Project Space With the potential to both repel and capture the viewer, Justin Spires’ photographs in his Castleland exhibition enable the viewer to feel as though they are sneaking into and infiltrating an array of fortresses. Castleland is formulated around the purpose of a Read more...

Michaela Cox: Nightgarden

Posted 3:55am Wednesday 6th July 2011

Temple Gallery Climbing a wiry staircase, through a seemingly enchanted garden, one walks into the Temple Gallery. A former synagogue, Temple Gallery has a feeling of spirituality. This sensation is furthered by Michaela Cox’s romantic and mythical works in her current exhibition, Read more...

From Time to Time

Posted 1:24am Friday 1st July 2011

Director: Julian Fellowes, (2/5). Previously responsible for such thrilling titles as The Young Victoria, Gosford Park and Downton Abbey, writer and director Julien Fellowes delivers his second feature film, From Time to Time. Based upon the novel The Chimneys of Green Knowe by Lucy M. Boston, Read more...

Your Highness

Posted 1:23am Friday 1st July 2011

Director: David Gordon Green, (3/5). Despite the terrible reviews this film received, I convinced myself to go and see Your Highness for the mere purpose of seeing Natalie Portman’s ass. I was mildly amused by aspects of this film, although in saying this I am a person who is easily Read more...

Selected Works from Quadrant Gallery

Posted 12:43am Friday 1st July 2011

To enter Quadrant Gallery is to experience a serene, mesmerising atmosphere. Located on Moray Place, Quadrant showcases and sells jewellery, sculpture and other such objects. Immediately I was hypnotised by Nicole McLaren’s apocalyptic sculptures, which are constructed from ceramic, plaster and Read more...

Kidnapped by Mickey

Posted 7:47am Thursday 26th May 2011

Despite being at the bottom of the world, Otago students are attracting attention from the wonderful world of Disney. Last Monday Disney World recruiters visited Burns (the Arts building) to promote their range of Florida-based work programmes. Disney recruiters visited the University for the Read more...

SUJI PARK: That which opens.

Posted 6:10am Thursday 26th May 2011

BRETT MCDOWELL GALLERY. Closes May 26. The question which I often ask myself when encountering any ceramicist’s work is how have they transferred a medium which is thousands of years old and which always appears to me to be static into something dynamic.   Suji Park is an Read more...

Graffiti in Chernobyl

Posted 6:34am Thursday 19th May 2011

In the last few years, images have surfaced of street art in the abandoned city of Chernobyl, which was victim to a nuclear explosion in 1986 after a reactor malfunctioned. Like Hiroshima, the desolate landscape in Chernobyl highlights the city’s process of being moulded and manipulated, but in a Read more...

Fiona Amundsen: First city in history.

Posted 6:33am Thursday 19th May 2011

Dunedin Public Art Gallery At 2:45am on August 6, 1945 a B-29 under the command of Colonel Paul W. Tibbets, a twenty-nine year old veteran pilot, began to roll down a runway on Tinian Island to take off on its historic mission to Hiroshima.   The title of New Zealand artist Fiona Read more...

Obituary

Posted 11:56pm Monday 9th May 2011

On Monday May 2, Dunedin personality Larry Matthews was found dead in his George Street apartment. His death came as a shock to those who knew him, and he will be sorely missed both within the arts community and throughout wider Dunedin. Larry was an artist, designer, poet, writer, magician, Read more...