The Artful Four: 40 Shots - A Schools' Art Competition 12th April - 10th May 2021 - Welcome Swallow Gallery and Gifts
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THE WELCOME SWALLOW GALLERY The Artful Four: 40 Shots A Schools’ Art Competition 12th April – 10th May 2021
The Artful Four: 40 Shots
This exhibition at the Welcome Swallow There are a number of compositional
Gallery bears little or no resemblance to narratives that inter alia include
those that have gone before. For the first structures, wildlife and landscapes,
time the Gallery is investing in New however the vast majority of these
Zealand’s future artists and the future of pieces contain either direct or indirect
art itself. Our walls are resplendent with references to portraiture. Exploration
40 submissions from four local high of self or subjects that may represent
schools. Hamilton Boys High, Hamilton personal interest, is a standard entry
Girls High, Rototuna High and Sacred point for most artists. Many of these
Heart College. compositions are innovative,
challenging, powerful and in some
These compositions are ostensibly
cases decidedly fantastical.
entered in a competition between the
schools and the artists themselves. Witnessed here also, is an implicit
Although there are prizes that relate to visual reference to the great Canadian
this competitive endeavour the real novelist Margaret Laurence who
winner is art itself and its certain future. implored humanity to, “try to see in
your heart’s core, the reality of others”.
The judging panel consists of Board
These young artists are more than
Trustee and Gallery artist Sandra Barlow,
capable of holding their audience to
panel Chair, Nancy Cagier, Chair of MESH
this test. Between them they represent
Sculpture, Hamilton and Andrew
some of the finest young artists in our
Unternahrer, Dealer Principal at Ebbett
community.
Audi, our signature exhibition sponsor.
It is a privilege for the Welcome
The forty pieces on display employ all
Swallow Gallery to be able to host this
media in the playbook. Flip through this
competition. The overall winner will be
Catalogue without a close inspection of
invited to join a future gallery
the actual gallery curation and you will
exhibition alongside our established
easily distinguish the sheer youth that
artists, who have their works in many
announces itself on every page.
international collections.
Vibrancy, boldness, fearlessness,
brashness and many other adjectives As you browse through this catalogue,
besides, easily come to mind. Beyond we encourage you to enjoy these
the cursory glances provided by this special art pieces in the comfort of
Catalogue a deeper critical encounter on your own surroundings. These young
the gallery walls reveals genuine artistry the artists and the cause are well
and insight. There is much to be admired worthy of your investment.
here. ACCCT Board, April 2021
1. 2.
Emma James Emily Crabb
Fracture Mushroom Mind
Acrylic, paint on card Acrylic, paint on card
297x420mm 420x297mm
Price: $100 Price: $100
3. 4.
Sara Arain Qazzandrav Gines
She’s Looking Pumpkin
Acrylic, paint on card Digital Print
420x297mm 297x420mm
Price: $100 Price: $100
5. 6.
Chloe Sutherland Ciara McLeod
Tui with Kowhai Performance
Watercolour Pencil on card
420x297mm 297x420mm
Price: $100 Price: $100
7. 8.
Katherine Janphanich Daya Rasic
Space Girl Jedna ali dve (‘one but two’)
Mixed Media Photography
420x297mm 420x297mm
Price: $100 Price: $100
9. 10.
Zoe Aitken Johanna Vreede
Wandering Waihi Blind
Photography Acrylic, paint on card
420x297mm 420x297mm
Price: $100 Price: $100
12.
11.
Sarah Nakayama-Mattingly Shaniya Shibu
Wild Angel Conserve
Graphite and Colour Graphite, Compressed charcoal
Pencil and Acrylic
210x297mm 210x270mm
Price: $100 Price: $100
13. 14.
Leah Smith Emily Brown
A Trip to the Sunflower Patch Untitled
Acrylic Acrylic
300x225mm 405x405mm
Price: $100 Price: $100
15. 16.
Ava Parker Cora Engel
Aroc About Face
Pen, Ink and Acrylic Oil
250x210mm 405x200mm
Price: $100 Price: $100
18.
17.
Nattatida Jiengprasertkul Aguinaya Ananayo
Peoples’ Perspective The Great Koi
Graphite and Colour Pencil Pen, Ink and Watercolour
210x297mm 350x265mm
Price: $100 Price: $100
19. 20.
Jessie Li Xylia Soul Liddell
Palace Hamilton Gardens
Acrylic Pen and Ink
270x210mm 200x150mm
Price: $100 Price: $100
22.
21.
Eunie Park Sammy Cooke
Lizard Eye Confidence of Line
Oil Pastels, water paint Paint, Charcoal, White Pen,
320x445mm Dye, Colour Pens
Price: $100 220x270mm (each)
Price: $100
23. 24.
Rachel Wu Amy Hou
Marcus Aurelius Eirene
Ball-point pen, Acrylic Wash Oil
445x320mm 450x510mm
Price: $100 Price: $100
25. 26.
Olivia Spaans Melissa DuPlessis
Nosy Nestor Roots
Acrylic on canvas Clay, Wire, Wood
510x405mm 350x280mm
Price: $100 Price: $100
27.
28.
Ellen Li Tamsyn Monrad
Red Roses Space Wonderland
Watercolour and Pencil Spray Paint
445x320mm 300x400mm
Price: $100 Price: $100
29. 30. Ria Chand Crystal Deng Mandala Art Dog in the smoke description Ink Colour Pencils 445x320mm 510x390mm Price: $100 Price: $100 31. 32. Daniel Fang Shaheer Shabbir Untitled Untitled Acrylic on board Acrylic on board 600x600mm 600x600mm Price: $100 Price: $100
33. 34.
Kevin Liang Nathan Dinan
Untitled Untitled
Acrylic on board Acrylic on board
600x600mm 600x600mm
Price: $100 Price: $100
35. 36.
Jordon Gedye Cade Harris
Untitled Untitled
Acrylic on board Acrylic on board
640x450mm 600x600mm
Price: $100 Price: $10037. 38.
Nieran Draper James Macdermid
Untitled Untitled
Acrylic on board Photography
600x600mm 300x420mm
Price: $100 Price: $100
39.
40.
Benjamin Trotter Seamus Foly
Untitled Untitled
Photography Photography
300x420mm 300x420mm
Price: $100 Price: $100The Exhibition Schools
Sacred Heart Hamilton Boys
The ten submissions from our Hamilton Boys’ High visual arts
College show the great power that students have undertaken an
creativity has to express who we individual inquiry into portraiture.
are and what we think and feel. It Students were guided through a
is through Art that we find our wide range of pictorial,
Hearts. And what a rich, diverse compositional and mark making
and powerfully beating heart we techniques, reflecting on and
have at our school! drawing inspiration from different
Entries have come from students fields of art, such as conceptual
in year 9 right through to year 13 and traditional art.
and explore a wide range of Each work aims to evoke an
themes and styles. Realistic and emotional response in the viewer
surrealistic paintings sit beside through a range of contemporary
austere conceptual drawings. portrait techniques and methods.
Fantastical scenes mix with precise
formal mark making and muted Digital manipulation of depicted
hues are used adjacent to figures creates a sense of mood
expressive and emotive colours. and drama, while physical mark
The theme of entries was making explores the symbolic use
deliberately left open to provide a of tone and colour within the
space for students to showcase painted surface. In many of the
their own interests. paintings there is an intimate
relationship between content,
Our aroha to the Art Department colour, and surface.
at Hillcrest High School who
helped Jessie Li produce her work
“Palace”.The Exhibition Schools
Hamilton Girls Rototuna High
Visual Arts education at HGHS is “Art is a place for children to learn to
centered around developing visual trust their ideas, themselves, and to
literacy and creative thinking. All learn what is possible.” MaryAnn F.
students benefit from the visual art Kohl This quote conveys the
curriculum in that they develop and principles that inform the art
establish creative habits of mind. Our experience at Rototuna High.
students also learn a wide variety of art-
making processes from traditional From inception, our focus is on art
through to digital. exploration where students are given
opportunities to work with a variety
Students can explore various media and of inspirations, mediums, techniques
processes, such as painting, printmaking, and themes with the goal of
photography, design while learning the journeying towards finding their own
key elements and conventions that make artistic voice.
up a work of art. In addition to the
practical and formal properties of Art is taught within “modules” that
artwork, students are encouraged to integrate curriculum areas, so art
consider the more significant questions may be paired with technology or
of why artists make artwork and how English. Within this framework
works are interpreted, viewed, and students go through art-making and
valued in various contexts. design processes, in addition to
exploring what art is and can be!
HGHS encourages an authentic learning
environment where the students choose Our ten submissions are from
and develop their themes and ideas students in years 8 to 12. In line with
while using established practices our art principles, we kept the
relevant to their desired outcome. An themes open so that students had
independent exploration into the the option to explore their own
creative art-making processes and interests.
ongoing problem-solving is a crucial
component of their learning.GALLERY EXHIBITION LIST
1. Various Artists, Celebration with
Celebration- Redux, 1st May – 1st
August 2019
2. Various Artists, Threads of Life, 9th
August – 20nd September 2019
3. Various Artists, Raglan Art with Risk,
27th September – 27th October 2019
4. Various Artists, Christmas in the
Gallery, 1st November – 10th January
2020
5. Various Artists, The Waikato
Watercolourists, 14th February –
31st March 2020
6. Various Artists, A New Zealand
Story, 3rd April – 31st May 2020
7. Various Artists It’s all in the Mind,
10th July – 30th August 2020
8. Various Artists, A Welcome Swallow
Exhibition, 18th September – 5th
January 2021
9. Various Artists Joy of Humanity:
People and Place 15th January – 26th
March 2021
10. Schools’ Competition, The Artful
Four: 40 Shots 12th April – 10th May
2021
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