Showing ceramics
Ceramics artist John Parker will open an exhibition of new works at Milford Galleries, Queenstown, this weekend.
"Black + White + Red" shows works based on Parker's enduring dialogue between the traditional values of the handmade versus production, and of form versus function.
The exhibition opens at 11am on Saturday and runs until March 17.
Leonard goes solo
Matakana artist Virginia Leonard is opening her first solo South Island exhibition in Queenstown tonight.
"My Life in Glass" opens at 5.30pm at the Artbay Gallery in the Mountaineer building and runs until February 28.
Leonard will attend the opening.
Gimblett in Arrowtown
New York-based, New Zealand-born painter Max Gimblett will attend his latest exhibition, which opens in Arrowtown tomorrow.
Gimblett moved to the United States in the mid-1960s and became an American citizen in 1979, but frequently returns to New Zealand, which he describes as his "spiritual home".
" I am 'remagnetised' by New Zealand," he says.
In New York, he befriended experimental New Zealand filmmaker and kinetic sculptor Len Lye and in 1990 he became a trustee of the Len Lye Foundation.
Gimblett exhibits widely in Europe, the US and Asia and was selected last year to exhibit in group show "The Third Mind: American Artists Contemplate Asia" at the Guggenheim Museum in New York.
"Pacific Shrine", by Max Gimblett, opens at 7pm tomorrow at the Nadene Milne Gallery in Arrowtown and runs until March 10.
Bringing baroque to Otago
Czech harpsichord player Edita Keglerova and Christchurch Symphony Orchestra associate principal cellist Tomas Hurnik bring baroque chamber music to Otago next week.
The hour-long show will see them play Domenico Gabrielli's Sonata in A major, Johann Jakob Froberger's Suite C major, Johann Sebastian Bach's Suite No 1 G major for solo cello and Fantasia and Fugue in A minor, with Francois Francoeur's Sonata E major as the finale.
It will be Keglerova's first visit to New Zealand.
"I am absolutely delighted to have this opportunity to visit beautiful New Zealand and present these wonderful programmes with my dear friend Tomas," she said from her home in Prague.
Edita Keglerova and Tomas Hurnik perform at 7pm on Sunday at St Peter's Church, Queenstown, and at 7pm on Monday at St Paul's Cathedral, Dunedin.
Scottish songstress at Settlers
Scottish songstress Emily Smith performs at the Otago Settlers Museum tomorrow night.
The Scottish Singer of the Year in 2008 and 2009 returns to Dunedin with her husband, New Zealand-born fiddler Jamie McLennan.
The pair will perform a mixture of traditional Scottish songs and contemporary folk music.
Emily Smith and Jamie McLennan perform at 8pm tomorrow at the Otago Settlers Museum.
Tickets $20.
