Art in your city’s living room

A shipping container was hoisted up from beneath the water at Princes Wharf yesterday - the first item on this year’s eight-day Living Room art programme.
Once on the wharf and drained of its salty contents, the container was opened to reveal the photo-realistic portraits lining its inner walls to dozens of onlookers.
This is the work [...]

Crafts “werk” their magic in Auckland

St Kevin’s Arcade on Auckland’s K’ Rd was turned into a thriving marketplace of homemade wares last Thursday for Craftwerk, a fair for arts, crafts, music and zines.
Debuting in Auckland in August 2006, Craftwerk is a showcase for young alternative artists. Since 2006 there have been eight Craftwerk events from a mini market in AUT’s [...]

New space for K’Rd art collectives

Cross Street Studios has become an institution of the Auckland art scene since being lovingly banged together in the winter of 2006, and now a new partnership with Art Space is set to offer the K’Rd arts scene a new mecca.
The Cross Street collective, formed by former Elam students, is joining forces with a growing [...]

Misery in Newmarket

An art show featuring an energetic mix of the cute and the macabre is on show at Webb’s Art Gallery in Newmarket.

Auckland artist Tanya Thompson, aka Misery, is showing 68 pieces of artwork in a collection named Holly Melancholy and the Night That Saved the Day.

Misery says the collection is based on a fairy tale [...]