Lockdown art will feature at Hangar
As one exhibition opens, another is closing soon
While many Northlanders spent lockdown bingeing on Netflix and eating too much, 25 Whanga¯rei artists got creative. Megan Squire, the owner of Hangar Gallery, decided to organise an exhibition to showcase lockdown creativity.
The pieces they have to show for their productive lockdown will be displayed in Hangar Gallery’s Lockdown Covert Art Operations exhibit starting tomorrow.
Squire said some artists who had approached her gallery for the exhibition had never exhibited art before but felt expressive during lockdown and began to create. However, other entrants are professional artists who have had their work exhibited at Hangar Gallery many times before.
Oil and water paintings, photographs and sculptures will all be on display and for sale.
While one lockdown exhibition starts this week, another is coming to an end.
Anastasia Parmson’s My Black and White World exhibition is coming to a close this Saturday, just a day after the Hangar Gallery exhibition opens.
Parmson’s exhibition is on display at Megan Dickinson’s Gallery on Rust Ave.
My Black and White World brings focus to the form of furniture and common objects found in the home.
Parmson whites out the household objects then highlights the form of each object with black lines.
Parmson’s style of work is influenced by the comics and colouring books she loved as a child.
Dickinson says Parmson’s black and white exhibition is meant to “transport us to another place where time becomes irrelevant”.
And it’s a welcome relief for the public from the current pandemic, she said.
New Zealand has been home to the award-winning artist from the Soviet Union since 2010 and she lives in Whanga¯rei.
Parmson will be talking to the public about her work at 11am on Saturday at the Megan Dickinson Gallery.