THE WORLD OF LEMEAD - Andy Leleisi’uao
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SEE THE PAINT MOVE - Pablos Art Studios and ROAR! gallery
11th - 27th August 2011
The World of Lemead
Inventive creatures take care of the universe. Andy Leleisi’uao is an artist from South Auckland who has exhibited widely since the 1990s. For his exhibition at ROAR! Andy has created an imaginative world inhabited by a series of strange but shy and loving cryptids. In describing the one called ‘Lemead’ Andy notes…
“Whether reading poetry to birds, painting rainbows on Rubik cubes and faded hearts, listening to a music box, hiding behind a mask, watering a flower or pondering over a missing piece of a heart, everything Lemead experiences is with gentleness and compassion.”
Other creatures perform mysterious and ‘o
wonder-filled’ tasks, painting stars in the sky, painting the moon and sun every morning and night or pumping clouds with air.
See the Paint Move
In addition Pablos Studios are holding their first water-colour exhibition to celebrate the relationship the studio has with well-known Wellington painter Brian Carmody. See the Paint Move includes work created during a recent series of workshops and describes the approach Brian has taken in helping artists to explore the medium in their own unique ways while paying attention to the qualities of the paint.
Charles Cunnigham
Heather Turner
Thursday 11th August
