Braithwaite, who was born in England and raised in New Zealand, supplied 16 oil paintings for her exhibition Goes Without Saying, which will be publicly previewed on July 27 at 5.30pm and opened the next day.
Senior art consultant Jac Byron said yesterday Braithwaite's paintings "turn the normal hierarchies of viewed and viewer, animal and human, the celebrated and the ordinary upside down, inviting us to question the validity and roles of our social signifiers and structures".
Braithwaite graduated with a bachelor of fine arts from the University of Canterbury in 1985 and went on to complete a MFA at the College of Fine Arts, Sydney, in 2000.
She was awarded the Olivia Spencer Bower Foundation Art Award in 1990.
She has lived in Sydney since 1999 and held many solo exhibitions in New Zealand and Australia. In 2005, her work was the subject of a major survey exhibition under the curation of Justin Paton, of the Dunedin Public Art Gallery, and Felicity Milburn, of the Christchurch Art Gallery.
Today
8pm: Les Alpes Restaurant hosts the Jive Pranksters, also known as Queenstowners Nigel Hirst on alto saxophone and Mark Wilson on keyboard, who play all styles for the Friday Jazz Club. Free.
Sunday
9pm: The Battle of the Bands National Championship begins with the first heat in Dux de Lux. Free admission. Bands can register via the Battle of the Bands website.
Tuesday
7pm: The touring 42Below Cocktail World Cup arrives in the World Bar to find the best bartenders in the country for their shot at a place on Team New Zealand. Free.
8.30pm: The Murderer Hides His Face (1966), an atmospheric Czech thriller, is screened to Queenstown Film Society members in Dorothy Brown's Cinema, Arrowtown. New members can join on the night.
