A look at what's happening in the world of art this week.
Flying high
Dunedin airport will later this year stage a significant major solo art exhibition by leading Otago artist Kerry Fenton-Johns, who won the Otago phone book art award last year and was runner-up this year.
The art exhibition will feature a series of special pohutukawa works and runs from November 15 to December 10. Dunedin International Airport chief executive John McCall said the airport was keen to support the Otago arts community. "We know there will be a lot of interest in this event, which is great for Dunedin Airport."
Art Society winners
Winners in the Otago Art Society's 2010 annual exhibition were. -
Erin Anson, Mystique, 1; Avis Wilkes, On The Rocks, 2; Gay Webb, Easter 2010, 3.
Lula Currie Award: Kate Williamson, Cosmic Wonder.
Otago artists feature
Find a cause for change or conservation and there is likely to be an artist involved.
The New Zealand Academy of fine arts, in Wellington, is to hold an exhibition to showcase the passion, energy and political creativity of some of New Zealand's most celebrated artists.
"ARTISTS AS ACTIVISTS" is being curated by academy vice-president Ian Hamlin and will feature artists: Grahame Sydney, Sam Mahon, Brian Turner, Nick Dryden, Ian Hamlin, Michael Smither, Dean Buchanan, Jane Zusters and Don Binney.
It will run from August 21-September 12.
Students exhibiting works
Dunedin School of Art's second and third-year sculpture, jewellery and ceramics students are holding an exhibition in the old Rainbow Print shop at the corner of Moray Pl and Princes St.
The exhibition, "Found", runs until Sunday and features works by Joe Worley, Jacob Wright, Renee Hope, Lucy Noone, Jessica Kitto, Zehavit Darlington, Liam Anderson, Jane McEntyre, Don Myers, Matt Wilson, Krystle Staiger, Tomas Richards, Antonia Wood, Marjan Verstappen, Nyree Ingle, Carol Bungard, Damian Smith, Joshua Aberhart, Jem Rothery, Rachel Tiedemann, Philip Greenwood, Marianne Perry, Bianca Burgess-Heald, Brita Theewis and Chloe Idris.
It is open daily from 11am-6pm.
De Goldi gains fellowship
Wellington writer Kate De Goldi has been awarded the $100,000 Creative New Zealand Michael King Writers Fellowship to research and write a non-fiction book about children's literature.
De Goldi's project will investigate the extraordinary story of New Zealand historian, writer and researcher Susan Price and her efforts to encourage children to read, by giving them books.
The selection panel for the award, administered by Creative New Zealand, was Owen Marshall, Elizabeth Caffin and Gordon McLauchlan.
Exhibition opens
The latest exhibition at the Blue Oyster opened on Tuesday.
"Nice to meet you Eddie Clemens and Simon Lawrence" will run until Saturday July 10.
For this exhibition Clemens has developed new works which use simple processes to transform mundane objects and components into animated, idiosyncratic sculptures.
Meanwhile, Lawrence creates installations using contraptions and videos that begin fictitious occurrences.
Wakatipu inspiration
New Zealand-born, Australian-based Simon Taylor is a landscape painter, and his works will be exhibited at Amisfield Winery, at Arrowtown, until July 12.
The landscapes of the Wakatipu Valley are the inspiration for this series of 12 paintings, which use pigments mixed from clays and ochres found there.
