You are warmly invited to the opening of the next exhibition at Toi Poneke Gallery

Built Fabric

Mizuho Nishioka & Tane Moleta

Thursday 4 March, 5.30pm

Built Fabric is an exhibition of two different mediums - photography and architectural drawing. Both artists explore the idea that the constructed, or built, environments exist as representations of our value systems. Does the act of demolition and disposal ultimately indicate that our appreciation of the use of space constantly changes?

Built Fabric runs until 26 March 2010  

Open: Mon-Fri 9am - 7.30pm

Toi Poneke Gallery 

61 Abel Smith St 

Te Aro

Wellington 

Ph: 385 1929       

E: artscentre@wcc.govt.nz

You may recall (you should!) the launch of the Long Live the Modern book held by Arch Centre last year.

At long last, after Auckland, Napier, and Christchurch, Wellington (well, Lower Hutt actually) gets to host the touring exhibition. Its at the new Dowse in the Hutt, from 30 January Read the rest of this entry »

Opening 28 January at the City Gallery will be an exhibition on the long and distinguished career of Wellington architect S William Toomath. The exhibition, Liberating Everyday Life, will provide an overview of Bill Toomath’s work over the many years he has been around.

An early member of the Architectural Centre, still an active member, and still firing on all cylinders now, Bill will be speaking on Thursday night (28 January, 5.15 pm on) at the City Gallery in a discussion labelled “Morals of the Modern: Changing Values of Modern Architecture since Bill Toomath was a Boy”. Read the rest of this entry »

If you wanted to see the latest Pecha Kucha night in Wellington, then : apologies, because you’ve just missed it. I presume that you know what I’m on about? If not, then go here and discover all about it. A global phenomenom by now, running periodically in 248 cities now, it was Wellington’s turn tonight (and a mix of San Jose, Maastrict, Norrkoping, Orange County, San Diego, Aalen, Columbia and Denver tomorrow night, and Beirut, Charleston, Ghent and Nelson the next night). That’s possibly the only thing that Beirut, Charleston, Ghent and Nelson have in common. Yes, they have PK in Nelson now - apparently even in Hamilton. There truly are no limits now.

But tonight was special - of course - because it was in Wellington. Pecha Kucha, known for its egaliterian treatment of all and sundry, with 20 seconds for each of 20 slides, treats every one and every image the same. The line-up tonight was Read the rest of this entry »

Where: The New Dowse, Lower Hutt

When: till May 10

Tim Larkin won the 2008 Deane Award for Decorative Arts with a proposal based on the long-redundant, yet highly efficient food safe. Larkin, writer Luke Feast and photographer Pete McColl, have created a body of work that explores the food safe and its unique architectural position between the indoors and outdoors.

‘Letting Dwell’ is drawn from Martin Heidegger’s important text (for architecture) ‘Building Dwelling Thinking’. The work shifts scales, from models to full works, but also imaginatively, from the scale of furniture to that of architecture.

Location : Brittons Yard, Haywards Hill Road, Wellington and insert in Friday’s Dominion Post newspaper, Wellington

Friday 13 February 2009, 6.30-8.30pm

As part of the One Day Sculpture programme Lara Almarcegui critiques the practice of house moving from the perspective of sculpture, inviting questions on how the built environment is valued and manipulated.

Location : Around Wellington, beginning and ending at the carpark next to Enjoy, Swan Lane, off Cuba St

Thursday 12 February 2009, 00.00-24.00

As part of the One Day Sculpture Project Bedwyr Williams will be painting Wellington.