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Artbay Gallery - 'A Forest' by Sam Foley
- Telephone 03 442 9090
Location: Artbay Gallery, 13 Marine Parade Queenstown.
Region: Queenstown
Dates: Fri, 4 September 2020 - Sat, 31 October 2020 @ Daily.
SAM FOLEY
'A FOREST' EXHIBITION
Celebrating Natures Wonders.
Sam Foley’s exhibition ‘A Forest’ celebrates New Zealand’s lush native forest, which can so easily be taken for granted. His new collection explores the Wakatipu Basin and the heavily dense forest that frames many of its local walking tracks.
Sam’s paintings take you on a journey, the same journey that we often look for when we set foot on a weekend walk with loved ones. Sam has perfectly captured the golden light that dabbles through the trees and the sublime sun that lights the next bend.
“Every day it becomes more evident that our forests are so very important” - Sam Foley.
If you are a nature lover, environmentalist or just a dreamer, you’ll appreciate the peaceful mediative mood Sam has created with his latest body of work.
From a distance, Sam's oil paintings are extremely detailed and realistic but at a closer look, his distinct painting technique reveals meticulous layers of colour and texture that gives his work such magical light. You get a glimpse of a new softer colour palette in Sam's latest series, that is absolutely stunning.
A feature that's exciting in ‘The Forest’ exhibition will be two works that showcase Sam’s recent focus, creating ‘Moving Image Paintings’, by combining the two mediums of oil painting and digital projections. These paintings shift and change due to the complex use of projected light and texture. Adding another layer of time & place to his works that evokes the sense of being in the moment or triggering past memories.
“In response to the wildfires that ravaged Australia recently, I want to celebrate the remaining unique and fragile natural wonders we are so lucky to have.” Sam Foley.
Sam is a coveted award-winning New Zealand artist, who has spent the last decade between Dunedin, Berlin, Switzerland, and Norway.
Location
Artbay Gallery, 13 Marine Parade Queenstown.
September 2020
Sun | Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat |
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Queenstown Writers Festival - Short Story Competition.Fri, 5 June 2020 - Tue, 1 September 2020 @ Entries Close 1st September 2020. | 2 | 3 | Artbay Gallery, Queenstown - A Forest by Sam FoleyFri, 4 September 2020 @ 10am - 5pm daily. Arts Central - Chamber Music, Lara Hall and Rachael Griffiths-Hughes.Fri, 4 September 2020 @ 7.30pm. Artbay Gallery - 'A Forest' by Sam FoleyFri, 4 September 2020 - Sat, 31 October 2020 @ Daily. | Central Stories Museum and Art Gallery - Denis Kent Retrospective Exhibition.Sat, 5 September 2020 - Mon, 19 October 2020 @ 10am - 4pm daily. | ||
6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Central Cinema - National Theatre Live: Present Laughter.Thu, 10 September 2020 - Sun, 13 September 2020 @ 10th September at 2pm. 13th September at 5pm. | 11 | Wakatipu High School - All Shook Up.Wed, 9 September 2020 - Sat, 12 September 2020 @ Daily. |
Central Cinema - National Theatre Live: Present Laughter.Thu, 10 September 2020 - Sun, 13 September 2020 @ 10th September at 2pm. 13th September at 5pm. | 14 | 15 | 16 | Kids Circus Classes - Alexandra.Thu, 23 July 2020 - Thu, 17 September 2020 @ Thursdays; 3.30-4.30pm and 4.45-5.45pm. | 18 | 19 |
20 | Aotearoa Poster Competition 2020 - Entries Open.Tue, 18 August 2020 - Mon, 21 September 2020 @ Entries Open Now. | 22 | 23 | Central Otago Art Society - Blossom Festival Art ExhibitionTuesday Thu, 24 September 2020 - Fri, 2 October 2020 @ 10am - 4pm Daily. | 25 | Central Stories Museum and Art Gallery - Landscape Painting Demonstrations by Denis Kent.Sat, 26 September 2020 - Sun, 27 September 2020 @ Daily. Central Stories Museum and Art Gallery - Book Launch, 'Unmooring' by Bridget Auchmuty.Sat, 26 September 2020 @ 4pm - 6pm. |
27 | 28 | 29 | Alexandra Musical Society - A Musical Degustation, All the Best Bits Exposed.Wed, 30 September 2020 - Sat, 3 October 2020 @ Daily. |