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Artbay Gallery - Kate Bergin - 'The Pleasure of your Company'.
Location: Artbay Gallery, 13 Marine Parade, Queenstown
Region: Queenstown
Dates: Thu, 7 July 2022 - Sun, 7 August 2022 @ 11am - 5pm, 7days
One of Australia's most renowned artists, Kate Bergin’s fantastical oil paintings feature all animals posed on tabletops with spoons, guns, keys, spectacles, and rotary telephones.
While the artist was a student at the Victorian College of the Arts in the early 1990s, frequent visits to the National Gallery of Victoria had a profound impact. Bergin’s paintings riff on European still-life traditions and historical depictions of hunting and collecting.
In The Watchers (2015), she nods to a common motif in 17th-century Dutch vanitas paintings; the apple peel hanging over the table ledge recalls a perspectival trick popular among artists like Clara Peeters and Willem Claesz Heda.
The artist observes live animals at the zoo and museum taxidermy displays to create her realistic depictions. Yet, in her final compositions, the artist bends reality, allowing animals of various species to coexist. These surrealistic tableaux gently mock our concepts of a “civilized” society.
Location
Artbay Gallery, 13 Marine Parade, Queenstown
March 2024
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Arts Central - "ACE Exhibition"Fri, 1 March 2024 - Sun, 3 March 2024 @ Friday 3pm-9pm. Saturday 10am-8pm. Sunday 10am-3pm Central Stories Museum and Art Gallery - "Bannockburn - A Place to Stand" by Jan and Tim Hawkins.Fri, 1 March 2024 - Thu, 11 April 2024 @ 10am - 4pm Daily | Eade Gallery - "Unveiled" by Christine MaynardSat, 2 March 2024 - Wed, 3 April 2024 @ Daily | |||||
Arts Central - "ACE Exhibition"Fri, 1 March 2024 - Sun, 3 March 2024 @ Friday 3pm-9pm. Saturday 10am-8pm. Sunday 10am-3pm | Riverside Gallery - Ira Mitchell Artist in Residence ExhibitionSun, 25 February 2024 - Mon, 4 March 2024 @ Sun-Wed,12 noon-3pm. Thurs-Sat,11am-4pm | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 |
Hullabaloo Art Space - "Victorian Twist" by Debbie Neill.Sun, 10 March 2024 - Sat, 30 March 2024 @ 10am - 4pm Daily | The Central Otago Wellbeing Project - Shaping Tomorrow TogetherTue, 27 February 2024 - Mon, 11 March 2024 @ Respond to the Survey Now | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | Central Otago Art Society - Expressive Floral Painting Workshop with Megan HuffadineTue, 30 January 2024 - Sat, 16 March 2024 @ Register Now Register Now - Introduction to Coloured Pencil Drawing with Marion Vialade-WorchSat, 16 March 2024 Clyde Theatre Group - "Canoeing for Beginners" by Mike YeamanSat, 16 March 2024 - Fri, 22 March 2024 @ 16th - 22nd, 7.30pm. Matinee 17th, 4pm. |
Central Stories Museum and Art Gallery - "Echo" by Jillian Porteous and Odelle MorshuisMon, 19 February 2024 - Sun, 17 March 2024 @ Daily | 18 | Central Stories Museum and Art Gallery - Studio 5 Art ExhibitionTue, 19 March 2024 - Sun, 14 April 2024 @ 10am - 4pm Daily | 20 | 21 | Clyde Theatre Group - "Canoeing for Beginners" by Mike YeamanSat, 16 March 2024 - Fri, 22 March 2024 @ 16th - 22nd, 7.30pm. Matinee 17th, 4pm. | Register Now - Introduction to Drawing with Marion Vialade-WorchSat, 23 March 2024 - Sun, 24 March 2024 |
Register Now - Introduction to Drawing with Marion Vialade-WorchSat, 23 March 2024 - Sun, 24 March 2024 | 25 | 26 | Applications are Now Open - Michael King Writers Centre Australian ResidencyWed, 27 March 2024 - Mon, 22 April 2024 @ Applications Open Now | Central Otago Art Society - "Art in the Lodge" Easter Exhibition.Thu, 28 March 2024 - Mon, 1 April 2024 @ Daily | 29 | 30 |
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