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Art and Soul the annual show from Te Whare Marama Te Whare Marama is a non profit organisation which supports emerging artists who live with the experience of mental illness. Their motto is "creative living for mental health"
Te Whare Mara is part of Take 5, a community care centre that provides workspace, materials and support for artist with mental health needs. The art space provides a place where artists can be creative with a variety of visual art mediums. It caters for artists at all stages of development, and three qualified tutors give individual attention to participant’s specific areas of interest. Friday workshops are a part of the program, in mediums such as paper-craft, sculpture, textile arts, glass painting and print-making.
Resonance New works by Kirsten Julian
First and foremost Kirsten is musical. Her music career began at the age of 4 with piano, and this led on to a variety of other instruments, including viola and clarinet. She went on to gain a Bachelor of Music (majoring in music history and composition) from Victoria University. Unsurprisingly, musical themes have long been a part of her visual art practice.
Opus 2 is Kirsten's second exhibition with a musical theme. Conventionally her work has stylistically been quite ‘tidy’ abstraction of both natural forms and landscapes. Straight lines, geometric blocks of colour and outlines are overlaid across the complexity of plants, hills and seascapes. These new works reveal a looser painterly style, with initially experimental watercolour on canvas developing into a new expressive medium. The resultant swirling effects represent the resonance of sound. |
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