The Arts Centre Sculpture Festival
13 – 27 November 2020
With over 30 local artists, 21 events and around 225 works for sale, including ceramics and jewellery, The Arts Centre’s first-ever sculpture festival, curated by talented local Koji Miyazaki, is a feast for your senses. Get the full festival experience on a Saturday, Sunday or Canterbury Anniversary Day, where there will be workshops, demonstrations, food trucks and live music. Weekend ticket entry to the Great Hall and North Quad costs: Adult $15, Student $5 and Children under 12 are FREE. Workshops and demonstrations need to be booked separately.
FRIDAY 13 NOVEMBER SUNDAY 15 NOVEMBER
Ceramics BOOKINGS REQUIRED Ceramics Artist Talk Yi-Ming Lin Demonstration 11.00am - 11.30am | Great Hall SUNDAY 22 NOVEMBER Peter Collis In this artist talk, Yi-Ming will use images to illustrate the influence on his practice during his 24 year career, and the stories behind 11.00am - 11.45am | Maker Workshop some representative works. Let’s Make a BOOKINGS REQUIRED Come and watch one of New Zealand’s most experienced ceramic artists Peter Collis at work. Paper Bowl Workshop Cost: $10 per person Yvonne Hall Needle Felting for BOOKINGS REQUIRED 11.00am - 12.30pm | Maker Workshop Adult Beginners Workshop Make a bowl for your mantelpiece or desk by Glass Artist Talk Graeme Hitchcock Haney Zhai up-cycling paper. Cost: $20 per person | Ages 7 - 12 12.00pm - 12.30pm | Great Hall 11.00am – 12.30pm & 4.00pm – 5.30pm | Maker Learn about Graeme’s work and how he hopes it will make the Workshop observer smile, laugh, question and most of all, feel. Learn everything you need to know to begin needle felting a basic project from New Harakeke (Flax) Artist Talk Robyn Webster Zealand wool. 12.00pm - 12.30pm | Great Hall Musical Performance Naomi Ferguson Cost: $30 per person | Suitable for adults only. Robyn’s practice has evolved out of many years exploring harakeke 1.00pm - 2.00pm | North Quad as an ecologically sound and culturally rich material for art making.
Musical Performance Carmel Courtney Ceramics Artist Talk Peter Collis 1.00pm - 2.00pm | North Quad Musical Performance Elizabeth Braggins 2.00pm - 2.30pm | Great Hall 1.00pm - 2.00pm | North Quad Hear how Peter’s work responds directly to the forms and distinct colours of the Californian environment and LA art world. Cardboard City BOOKINGS REQUIRED Building Workshop Ceramics Artist Talk Jane McCulla 2.00pm - 2.30pm | Great Hall Yvonne Hall Ceramics Artist Talk Katie Gold From her studio in Diamond Harbour, Jane creates textured, 2.00pm - 3.30pm | Maker Workshop 3.00pm - 3.30pm | Great Hall stretched, stoneware clay forms - fluid textures suggesting geology, Create a house or building using only Katie will talk about the inspiration behind the archaeology and mankind’s marks on the landscape. cardboard, glue and a black pen. leaves work in the festival and will be happy to answer any questions. Cost: $20 per person | Ages 8 - 12
Flax Earrings BOOKINGS REQUIRED Workshop Kahu Collective SATURDAY 21 NOVEMBER 3.00pm - 4.30pm | Maker Workshop Create unique earrings using harakeke and SATURDAY 14 NOVEMBER Faces from the BOOKINGS REQUIRED basic weaving skills in this workshop. Earth Clay Making Workshop Cost: $30 per person Jeweller Artist Talk Ailish Roughan Hannah Wilson 11.00am - 11.30am | Great Hall 11.00am - 12.30pm | 6 - 8 year olds Ailish’s work explores ideas that have an emotional connection, 3.30pm - 5.00pm | 8 - 12 year olds often expressed through hidden elements found in nature. Maker Workshop DURING THE FESTIVAL Children’s Workshops: create fantastic faces and learn clay slab techniques in the process. Working with BOOKINGS REQUIRED Cost: $20 per person Permeable BOOKINGS REQUIRED Flax Workshop Installation and Robyn Webster Performative Dance 11.00am - 12.30pm | Maker Workshop The Arts Centre Stonemasons Robyn Webster/Fleur de Thier This workshop will provide an introduction Demonstration Weekends | 4.00pm - 4.30pm to working with this wonderful plant - touching, Cai Stevens/Tom Stevens (performative dance) | South Quad smelling and experiencing the leaves with 11.00am - 1.00pm | North Quad An installation made of harakeke is suspended your hands. Watch our stonemasons demonstrate their between stone buildings on display during Cost: $30 per person | Suitable for adults only age-old craft. the entire festival. During the weekends, a performance sculpture-dance will see dancers weave in and out, animating the sculpture. Musical Performance The Response 1.00pm - 2.00pm | North Quad Musical Performance Carmel Courtney 1.00pm - 2.00pm | North Quad Miscellany Exhibition Grace Campbell, Brita Corbett, Bleuette Sculpture Artist Talk Hille, Carissa Ptacek, Emma Turner Working with BOOKINGS REQUIRED Barry Clarke 13 – 21 Nov | 10.00am – 5.00pm | Pūmanawa 3.00pm - 3.30pm | Great Hall Stained Glass Demonstration Gallery Working fulltime as an artist and jewellery Jinx Otago Polytechnic Long Distance Graduate maker since 1986, hear how Barry began to 2.00pm - 2.45pm | Maker Workshop Ceramics Show, Miscellany, explores facets make boat sculptures over 10 years ago. of how we construct ourselves. From the Watch a stained glass piece come to life and construction of narrative through gender, get an insight into the process of cutting glass, pattern, cycles of nature, social support systems copper foiling and soldering. and cognitive storytelling. Cost: $10 per person Ceramics BOOKINGS REQUIRED Demonstration Artwork in Progress Bruce Stilwell Jane McCulla 13 – 15 Nov | 10.00am – 4.00pm | North Quad 2.00pm - 2.45pm | Maker Workshop Mixed Media artist Bruce Stilwell produces technically meticulous Jane McCulla creates textured, stretched fibre works with velvet and threads. Through his work, Stilwell stoneware clay forms - watch her demonstrate explores the mathematical beauty that underpins the structure of how she works. our visual world. Watch Bruce Stilwell create a string design on a Cost: $10 per person 3-metre wide trampoline frame.
The Arts Centre Sculpture Festival is supported by the Farina Thompson Charitable Trust, proudly managed by Perpetual Guardian.
Book tickets and find out more at artscentre.org.nz All events are wheelchair accessible. artscentre.org.nz