4
Feb
New Zealand: Gordonton – Tea Worker Sculpture, New Zealand
You get an idea of the work involved in bringing tea to the table at the Zealong Tea Estate in Gordonton, NZ. Here the sculptures are getting some help from the travel media.
4
Feb
New Zealand: Waikato – Sculpture at Zealong Tea Estate
Along the sculpture walk at the Zealong Tea Estate in NZ, you learn that the world imbibes at least a billion cups of tea a day. It’s the world’s favorite drink (after water of course).
28
Jan
New Zealand: Gordonton – Zealong Tea Estate
You can visit the Zealong Tea Estate in New Zealand, walk the sculpture walk, take a tea tour, sip tea in the tea house of, of course, shop in the tea retail shop.
28
Jan
New Zealand: Auckland – Big Belly Solar Rubbish Bin in Auckland, NZ
How cool is this? A rubbish bin which also compacts the garbage and tells the contractor when it’s full. So they know when to come and empty it. We could learn from the Kiwis.
21
Jan
New Zealand: Auckland – Colin McCahon Foremost Artist in New Zealand
1919 was the centennial year of artist Colin McCahon’s birth so the Auckland Art Gallery set up an full exhibit of the breadth of his work, McCahon said of his work, “My painting is almost autobiographical. It tells you where I am at any given time” His type of art shifts as he moves to new locations. McCahon was a driving force for art in NZ; He helped run the Auckland CityArt gallery, installed exhibitions, taught art classes and painted too.
20
Jan
New Zealand: Auckland – NZ Artist Colin McCahon Word Paintings
Starting way back in the 1950’s New Zealand artist Colin McCahon used words to create paintings. Many of these word paintings related to his faith and take texts from the bible. To emphasize thoughts, he uses capitalization, density and cursive writing, to suggest to you how you might read the text. This painting is thought to be his last one as it was found upside-down on the floor after he died.
20
Jan
New Zealand: Auckland – Graphic Art by Colin McCahon, New Zealand
Born in 1919, Colin McCahon was a driving force for art in NZ. The Auckland Art Gallery set up an full exhibit of the breadth of his work, McCahon said of his work, “My painting is almost autobiographical. It tells you where I am at any given time” He lived in 3 different geographic areas of New Zealand and you can see his art shift when his eye meets a new location.
20
Jan
New Zealand: Auckland – Guerrilla Girls Collection at Auckland Art Gallery Toi oTamaki
In 1984 an exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art in NYC was an International Survey of Recent Painting and Sculpture. Of the 165 important paintings and sculptures mentioned, only 15 were created by women. The furor of this inequity started the Guerilla Girls movement to end gender and racial discrimination in museums everywhere . They created defiant and humorous pamphlets, videos, books and posters shown around the world. This call to action was to erase the double standard.
15
Jan
New Zealand: Auckland – Guerrilla Girls Exhibit at Auckland Art Gallery Toi oTamaki
Founded in New York City in 1985, the Guerilla Girls movement has been challenging feminine bias in art, politics, film, and pop culture since then. The catalyst was a 1984 exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art in NYC which was an International Survey of Recent Painting and Sculpture. Of the 165 important paintings and sculptures mentioned, only 15 were created by women. The furor of this inequity started the Guerilla Girls movement of defiant and humorous pamphlets, videos, books posters, posted around the world. They had had enough of gender and racial discrimination in museums everywhere. This call to action was to erase the double standard. It took the US film industry’s Academy Awards community until 2018 to get to the same place.
15
Jan
New Zealand: Auckland – Photo of Tattoo Artist (Tohunga) at work
