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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
April 2024
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1 | 2 | 3 | Arts Central - Meet the Author: Ruth ShawThu, 4 April 2024 @ Doors open at 7pm for a 7.30pm start | 5 | Central Otago Regional Orchestra - "Autumn Romance" Alexandra and QueenstownSat, 6 April 2024 - Sun, 7 April 2024 @ April 6th at 7.30pm, April 7th at 2pm. | |
7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 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 | Entries Open Now - West Otago Art AwardWed, 28 February 2024 - Fri, 12 April 2024 @ Entries Open Now | 13 |
14 | Central Stories Museum and Art Gallery - School Holiday ProgramMon, 15 April 2024 - Sun, 28 April 2024 | 16 | 17 | 18 | Teviot Arts - "A Night in New Orleans" The River City Jazzmen.Fri, 19 April 2024 @ 6.30pm for 7.30pm start | Hullabaloo Art Space - "Memories from the Mantelpiece" by Tracey Morrow and Rebecca McKaySun, 31 March 2024 - Sat, 20 April 2024 @ 10am - 4pm Daily Central Otago Art Society - "An Acrylic Painting Adventure" with Jenny Chisholm - Contemporary LandscapesSat, 20 April 2024 - Sun, 21 April 2024 @ 9.30am - 3.30pm daily |
Central Otago Art Society - "An Acrylic Painting Adventure" with Jenny Chisholm - Contemporary LandscapesSat, 20 April 2024 - Sun, 21 April 2024 @ 9.30am - 3.30pm daily Central Cinema - "Mad About the Boy: The Noël Coward Story"Sun, 21 April 2024 - Wed, 24 April 2024 @ 21st April @ 5pm. 24th April @ 2pm. Queenstown Arts Society - Life Drawing with Kasia HebdaSun, 21 April 2024 - Wed, 19 June 2024 | Applications are Now Open - Michael King Writers Centre Australian ResidencyWed, 27 March 2024 - Mon, 22 April 2024 @ Applications Open Now | 23 | Central Cinema - "Mad About the Boy: The Noël Coward Story"Sun, 21 April 2024 - Wed, 24 April 2024 @ 21st April @ 5pm. 24th April @ 2pm. | 25 | 26 | 27 |
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