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The Women’s Health
Collective Art Auction.
Support a great Palmerston North cause.
Catalogue 2019
MacDiarmid Gallery, Te Manawa
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Nau mai, Haere mai,
Welcome to The Women’s Health Collective
Art Auction Exhibition
Me aro ki te Hā o Hine-ahu-one
Pay heed to the Mana of Women
This is the first time that Te Manawa has partnered with a community group for
a charity art auction. We treasure this wonderful gift.
The Women’s Health Collective Art Auction is the main event for our crowd
House Rules
funder which has the overall crowd funding goal of raising $90,000. Our urgent On the night!
need is due to the MidCentral District Health Board cutting our main women’s
health contract (although they continue to contract us to provide cervical 1.
screening clinics). This loss of funding is over $90,000 which is more than half
Many of these artworks will be sold
our annual operating budget. We are determined that we are not going to let
in a live auction.
this be the end to our mahi which is very much needed. We are working to raise
short-term funding that will give us enough time to work to organise permanent
replacement funding for 2020 onwards. 2.
We chose September 19th, Women’s Suffrage Day for our special art auction For other works there will be a
event. This is also the first anniversary of our relaunch incorporating our gifted silent auction that will end at
Te Reo Māori name of Te Hā o Hine-ahu-one. 8.30pm.
Our Collective has offered free health services for more than 30 years.
We provide health information, some personal health services and act as 3.
navigators for around 6,000 women and their whānau each year - offering a Payment by cash or EFTPOS must
safe place where they can access our health services, talk to one of our friendly be made before you leave the
community health workers, and get support around other healthcare and auction.
social agencies that they might wish to access. We’re often assisting vulnerable
women during some of the toughest parts of their lives, so that they can go on
to have brighter futures. We want the Collective to be able to continue to do 4.
this for future generations. Art purchased to be collected on
the night.
We are proud that the art auction exhibition includes a diverse array of art,
showcasing many different art forms, and many differing abilities. It includes
the art of those for whom art is an important aspect of therapy and healing
journeys, as well as creativity.
A massive thank you to all the artists for their generous art donations (we have
been absolutely bowled over by your generosity), and also to supporters who
have donated artworks they owned. Our heartfelt thanks to our sponsors and
supporters including Te Manawa who jumped on board to help, providing the
venue, artist contacts, installation and catalogue; Shaun Kay, local personality
- ‘arts ambassador’, who has helped us to co-ordinate and promote it; Mayor
Grant Smith who has sponsored the refreshments for the event through the
Mayoral Fund; MUSA (Massey University Students’ Association) who have
given a generous donation towards hosting the auction; Black Sheep Design
who provided ongoing assistance for the crowd funder work, designed our art
auction poster and assisted with printing it; Iain Lees-Galloway for being our
auctioneer; and Dr Farah Palmer for being a spokesperson for us, and opening
and supporting this event. Our aroha and appreciation to you all for your giving.
We will work hard to pay it forward.
Jean Hera (Manager and Community Health Worker)
Te Hā o Hine-ahu-one
Palmerston North Women’s Health Collective
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The Women’s Health
Collective Art Auction.
Catalogue 2019
Live auction
1. Olga Hedwig Krause (Leafa Wilson)
Ja
Work on paper
“It’s just a portrait of a very lovely family friend who was going out with Faith years ago.
Ja is German for yes obvs. It was about a kind of reversal of perception attached to being
masculine - Mary, Mother of Jesus said “yes” and so this is a kind of gentle portrait of Sam.”
Based in Kirikiriroa, Hamilton, Leafa Wilson is a conceptual artist, whose practice embraces
multimedia, installation and curatorial projects.
Leafa graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Art from Otago Polytechnic School of Fine Art in
1986, seeing much success as an artist and curator. Messing with her Samoan, German
heritage, a large part of Leafa’s focus is scrutinising ideologies that shape our social
conduct or cultural expectations and providing a subaltern voice. “...I find myself in liminal
spaces where discomfort is the most evident state of being and a place that I feel most
comfortable. I enjoy the comfort/discomfort and sense of displacement that often occurs.”
Leafa has worked on a variety of collective projects in Kirikiriroa, Hamilton, with the
UNDERWATER COLLECTIVE - in a stencil art show entitled ‘Post-digital Primitive’ and with
the New Friends Contemporary Art Space she was the subject of scrutiny as a savage Loga
Erasuk in her show ANTRHO.101 which was a performance based work including Dr Nichola
Harcourt and Faith Wilson acting as anthropologists and religiolists. Other exhibitions
during include Still, Like Air, I’ll Rise, ST PAUL St Gallery, Auckland, 2017; Fa’amanaia,
Artstation, 2014; Ich Helsse Olga Hedwig Krause, Burke Museum, University of Washington,
Seattle, Sofa Gallery, Christchurch, 2006; Delineate, Chartwell Gallery, 2006. Leafa also
works as Contemporary Art Curator at the Waikato Museum Te Whare Taonga o Waikato.
(Text via http://www.tautai.org/artist/399/)
2. Nicola Gregory
Loss of Life (2003)
Oil on board
3. Nicola Gregory
Moment of Truth (2003)
Oil on board
Nicola Gregory is a practicing local artist. A catch phrase Nicola uses is ‘Follow your bliss’.
This comes from an inspirational quote from Joseph Campbell that Nicola displays on her
website.
These works were donated by a previous purchaser and date back to a Whanganui Student
Graduation Exhibition (some surface damage).
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4. Bridgette Murphy
Women’s Wreath
Made from freshly harvested home grown willow
Bridgette Murphy is Creative director of REACT Rangiwahia Environmental Arts Centre
(Please note some further drying may occur with this piece).
5. Gary Collins
Mars and Moth
Reserve $1,000
Gary Collins attended IIam School of Fine Arts, Canterbury University, he graduated in
painting in 1980.
Since then he has exhibited nationally. Alongside his painting career Gary has worked in
a range of roles in cultural institutions - Robert McDougall Art Gallery and Te Papa. His
work is in the Waikato Museum collection, the McDougall Art Gallery collection (now the
Christchurch Art Gallery), Suter Gallery Nelson, Te Manawa Art Gallery Palmerston North,
Canterbury University, and Lincoln University Christchurch and many private collections.
Image based on a sloe fruit tree next to the house he owned here. Looked like incredible
plums but soooooo bitter to taste. They are used to flavour some types of gin.
6. Emma Louise Pratt
Te Awahou Foxton Beach
Oil on canvas
Reserve $2,000
Born 1972, Taihape, Aotearoa New Zealand
Emma Louise Pratt studied at Ilam School of Fine Art, Canterbury University, New Zealand.
She was the runner up in the New Zealand Molly Morpeth Canaday Award (2005), and a
finalist in the Norsewear Award (2007) again in New Zealand, finalist in the Focus Abengoa
International Painting Prize, Spain (2014) and finalist in the Parkin Drawing Prize (2019) in
New Zealand.
Wandering Folk and Identity in a Global Present
Emma views herself as part of “the wandering folk.” Descendant of migrants, and a migrant
herself, she always finds herself in the position of the visitor, the outsider, the other. She is
known for her landscape based work where she explores specific landscapes that convey
significance to her either for their historical or personal importance, serving as they always
have, as a personal travel map.
With this knowledge and quiet observation of everyday life around her, she interweaves
her stories and stories of the land where she presently lives (Seville, Spain 2006-2017,
Cambridge UK since 2017). Her children began to collaborate in the making of her work as
a way of negotiating parenting and nourishing an arts practice. Echoes of their drawing and
mark making, either free of directed, can be seen in her more recent work.
Carrying this idea forward, where the studio is a state of mind rather than a physical space,
she began a relationship with a local school where she would create a pop-up art studio
once a week. Children were invited to come and draw with her. They drew beside her and
on her work. This year was a year of drawing. Given the upheaval of moving countries,
culture and language (again), Emma had decided to strip back her practice to drawing
as a way of easing into a new home, life and community. Due to the need for mobility,
immediacy, economy and accessibility, drawing also lent itself to her context.
Out of her experiences Emma has developed a workshop for teachers about drawing in the
classroom. This is aimed at teachers with little visual arts background with the objective of
helping them feel more confident about using drawing as a communicative tool in language
lessons.
Emma is involved with the Visual Arts Circle, a group of language teaching practitioners
with an interest in multi-modal literacy and explores the concept of being a teaching artist.
Emma has exhibited through Whitespace Contemporary Art in Auckland, New Zealand
since 2005. She began exhibiting her work in TJFA in Palmerston North in 2001.
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7. Nan Penhey
Golfers
Perth born Nannette Penhey has been drawing and painting all of her life, primarily an oil
painter, Nan has been an active participant in the Manawatū arts community over her 63
years in this country. Nan taught painting and drawing at the Community Learning Centre
for 20 some years, sharing her skills and enthusiasm for art.
8. Sue James
Mckenzie (2013)
Sue James is an oil painter and printmaker, she studied at Quay School of Art Whanganui
Ucol, graduating with a Bachelor of fine arts in 2015. Sue has exhibited work at Whanganui’s
Sargent Gallery Review, If It Weren’t for my Children; Edith Gallery, Is This All; Snails Artist
Gallery, Honour the Peacemaker as well as Space Studio and Gallery Whanganui, Is This All.
9. Nicole Arrow-Van Geet
Concrete (2019)
Marker on paper
Local artist.
“I helped lay concrete for a dog run. I really like the different patterns in concrete”.
10. Raemon Rolfe
A Universe of Atoms (2018)
Oil paint with cold wax, sand, collage and other media on canvas
Raemon has over 60 years of drawing and painting, 4 decades of exhibiting, and twenty
five years of teaching and practice across a wide range of disciplines including painting,
printmaking, photography, sculpture, digital art and art history have given her a versatility
of form and medium. Her studies in geography, the sciences and philosophy are a
continuing source of ideas.
This work is one of a series of small works that were inspired by Richard Feynman’s poem, ‘I
Stand at the Sea’.
11. Emilie Geant
Bleed it Out
Ink on paper framed by TWB Framing + Art Supplies
Although life drawing is very aesthetic in itself, this piece – as the others from Far and
Beyond series – tries to go beyond the poetry of the curves. The idea is to find a way to
express one’s feelings at a particular moment without words and without sounds.
This nude painting represents another meaning of nudity. Doing a lot of sketching from
life, I witness how people stand and pose unconsciously. Unlike words, bodies don’t lie.
Nowhere to hide, nothing to fake, no way to escape to oneself.
12. Kirsty Porter
Why you gotta blame me all your troubles (2016)
Watercolour on paper
Kirsty is an artist and co-founder of Snails Artist Run Space.
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13. Robyn Laing
Flowers in Dutch Style (2019)
Oil on Gesso paper/card
Robyn is a Palmerston North artist located at Square Edge Community Arts Centre where
she has a studio. She studied at the ‘Auckland Institute of Technology’ and completed
a bachelor of Visual Arts. She is a figurative painter with a focus on portraiture but also
enjoys painting flowers and sketching.
14. Mark Tisdall
Be Free (2019)
I paint abstracts using encaustic medium; a combination of bee’s wax, pigment and
dammar resin.
Working in encaustic medium is both technical and creative. I manage the structure
and process of painting whilst the tension between the fluidity of the heated wax, and
the hardness of the resin mixed in the different colours encourages the emergence of
unplanned and magical effects.
Painting this way creates a very special texture and shine on the surface of the painting.
My inspiration comes from the natural world, poetry, cultural icons and current issues.
My purpose is to create a painting that will give you pause for reflection and that you will
always find interesting and beautiful to look at.
15. Nita Lyon
Dark Night (2019)
Currently based at Palmerston North but describing herself as a ‘nomadic gypsy’ Nita
expresses herself through painting and pottery. She describes her art as her ‘soul place’
and also her mental health escape. A lot of her work is about reflections in water, which
she describes as the place where she is in her element. Nita has a major chronic illness and
art is her outlet. She says that she loses her pain when painting.
16. Holly Charles
Dear John (2018)
Reserve $30
This is a photoprint which celebrates holding on to your inner beauty through dark and
rocky times.
Holly lives in Levin. She is an artist/poet/photographer and dreamer who has faced many
life challenges. She has struggled through abuse and addiction and has come out the other
side. Art is a source of healing, creativity and hope.
17. Holly Charles
Butterfly Dreams (2015)
Reserve $80
The butterfly is a glimmer of hope. The woven disc represents the web of life with scattered
goals for which the butterfly strives.
18. Central Districts MS (Multiple Sclerosis) Art Group
Gerberas (2018)
This work is a collaborative work by the Central Districts MS (Multiple Sclerosis) Art Group.
This is a weekly art group providing mutual support. The painting is based on an artwork by
Georgia O’Keefe, an American artist specialising in flowers.
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19. Manawatū Supporting Families Art Group
Collage on Canvas (2016)
20. Manawatū Supporting Families Art Group
Collage on Canvas (2014)
These two works are a collaborative work by the Manawatū Supporting Families Art Group.
This is a weekly art group providing mutual support.
21. Enid Roberts
Woodville to Ashhurst
Oil
22. Enid Roberts
Gateway to the Manawatū
Acrylic
Enid Roberts is from Ashhurst. She has had many exhibitions at FADAS in Feilding and
also shows her works in cafes in Ashhurst. Enid has been painting all her life. She went
to art school at West of England College of Art in Bristol, and also trained as nurse. She
did a psychology degree at Massey University as a mature student and has worked as a
psychologist.
23. Anton Parsons
Every Single thing (2019)
Reserve $900
Anton Parsons (b. 1968) graduated from the University of Canterbury School of Fine Arts in
1990. He has regularly exhibited in artist run spaces, dealer galleries, curated exhibitions
and institutional venues. His work is held in numerous public and private collections and
he has successfully realised commissions within the public and private sectors including
Numbers (Palmerston North), Invisible City (Wellington) and Passing Time (Christchurch).
24. Yvonne Wierzbicki
The Holy Trinity
Yvonne is a Feilding based artist.
25. Sarah Platt
Love Palmy (2019)
Printed canvas
Reserve $400
Sarah was born in Wellington in the 60s, raised in Wanganui and settled in the Manawatū
as an adult. She is well known for her paintings of streets and buildings which celebrate our
history, our places and our story. ‘Love Palmy’ is one such painting. She says that ‘trying
to encapsulate a town or city in one image with all the treasured icons’ is her challenge. A
background in patchwork quilting has influenced her design process. Sarah says she hopes
that her art invokes ‘gratitude, affection and pride for the places we call home’.
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26. Joe McMenamin
Song of the Tui
Print
Joe McMenamin is a painter and printmaker and the flowing organic patterns that ripple
through his works have won him a following throughout New Zealand. Joe has a bachelor
of media arts from the Waikato Institute of Technology. As a secondary school Art teacher
for 14 years, Joe got lots of the ideas for his work through interactions with his students.
His students also experienced first-hand the different processes involved in his prints,
drawings and paintings. From the start of 2017 Joe has finished teaching and is now a full
time artist.
Joe’s recent paintings depict a range of subjects painted directly onto the medium of
plywood – it is a natural medium that attracts him and he makes the frames for each
piece by hand. He is interested in New Zealand native birds. Joe skilfully paints these birds
directly onto the plywood, which gives them a raw quality and showcases his photorealistic
painting technique. He often applies a layer of Danish oil overtop, which brings out the
grain of the wood and the jewel-like paint colours.
Joe and his family moved to Feilding at the beginning of 2017, where he has took up a one
year artist in residence position at St John’s Anglican Church. Joe has opened the Studio &
Gallery in Feilding’s town centre at 51a Fergusson Street, where he creates his art. There are
regular guest exhibitions in the gallery space. You can view his latest works on Facebook
and Instagram and also get in touch via email. If you’d like to commission a work of art, or
are interested in any of the paintings on this site, email Joe on: mrjoemcmenamin@gmail.
com
27. Michel Tuffery
Tangaroa Harakeke Ring from up the Whanganui River (2008)
Emboss Woodcut on Italian Cotton Paper. Editioned, titled and signed
Reserve $550
Born Wellington, 1966, Aotearoa New Zealand. Lives and works, Wellington.
Heritage, Samoan, Rarotongan and Ma’ohi Tahitian.
Tuffery exceeds the boundaries of contemporary media, collaborating on multimedia
installation and performance artworks that traverse cultural boundaries and defy concrete
categorisation. His emblematic works on paper, paintings, sculpture and carvings are the
artistic offerings of a keen historian and active participator in contemporary culture.
28. Dick Frizzell
Large Vase
Reserve $1,500
Dick Frizzell’s work has always been characterised by a highly skilled handling of paint
and an endlessly inventive range of subject matter and styles: faux-naive New Zealand
landscapes, figurative still-life, comic book characters and witty parodies of modernist
abstraction. His taste is conveniently broad and he has a penchant for fondly remembered
and well-worn clichés. His work also portrays a sense of exuberance, ironic humour and
baby-boomer nostalgia. An anti-traditionalist, Frizzell often makes a deliberate effort to
mix up the categories of high and low art - poking fun at the intellectualisation of ‘high art’
and the existential angst of much New Zealand painting in the art culture of his youth.
29. Fran Dibble
Small enchanted worlds (2016)
Watercolour on paper (unframed)
Fran holds a B.Sc. in Biochemistry and Botany, a M.Sc. (Hons) in Biochemistry and a BA in
Philosophy. Her interest in these disciplines informs her artistic practice, encompassing
both painting and bronze casting.
In 2007, Fran was awarded a Queen’s Service Medal for services to art, and in 2012 Fran was
made an Honorary Fellow of the Universal College of Learning, Palmerston North.
Fran is represented by Zimmerman Art Gallery in Palmerston North.
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Silent auction
30. Maree Wilson
Here is light (2019)
Reserve $200
Charcoal, oil and spray paint on wood
Maree Wilson’s works evoke water, atmospheric disturbance and erosion. Holes are
gouged and drilled through smooth polished layers of ground and subtle washes of paint,
disrupting the painted surface and moving the works from abstracted landscapes to self-
reflexive studies of surface and the process of making. The works celebrate the light and
dark of elusive memories, the moments before a storm kicks in, and the wonder of light
coming from the black. Born in Helensville and now living in Whangarei, Wilson continues
to reference the New Zealand coastline in her painting as she asks the viewer to consider
their place in the landscape.
31. Unknown
(1904)
Watercolour
32. Yvonne Long
3 Panel Poppies (2019)
Yvonne has always been interested in art, and after their new home was finished Yvonne
and Peter decided to participate in night school art classes. When the kids left home
Yvonne turned the spare bedroom into her art studio, her earlier works are signed under
her previous name, Yvonne Kiihfuss. Bright colours and 3D effects are prominent in her
latest works. Recycling also plays a big part in her work, vinyl records, glossy junk mail,
and old prints, damaged or used canvases are regularly used. She often spends a couple
of hours in her studio before she goes to work and in winter when she can’t get into the
garden you will find her creating larger than life works. Paper mache and paper pulp have
got her creative juices flowing and her love of flowers have inspired her to create flower
shaped bowls taking 1 hour to make one small poppy and 8 months to make a large one.
There is art on display and for sale in Yvonne’s studio. Visit her Facebook page Yvonne Long
Artist.
33. John Foster
Picnic on the Beach series (1976)
Hand-made framed woodcut prints from an edition of 16
Reserve $450
John Ernest Foster (10 July 1942 – 19 August 2003) was a New Zealand artist and farmer.
He lived most of his life on his farm near Wellsford, north of Auckland, with several years
spent living at Mangawhai Heads. He was married to sculptor Pat Foster.
He was an artist for over 30 years, from the early 1970s till his death in 2003. He attended
four summer schools at the School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland from 1968 until
1971. His tutors included Sir Tosswill Woollaston and Colin McCahon. He maintained a
correspondence with these artists, as well as fellow painter Michael Illingworth.
34. John Foster
Picnic on the Beach series (1976)
Hand-made framed woodcut prints from an edition of 16
Reserve $450
John was a prolific painter and printmaker. During his lifetime he created 15 large murals
and several hundred small paintings, and made in excess of 1300 editions of prints. He had
over 50 exhibitions of his work at commercial and public art galleries, and his murals were
shown on television several times.
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35. Wilma Minnee
Leaf Fantasy (2018)
Medium sized quilt
Wilma is a member of Rose City Quilters which does charity work in the community. Wilma
has been quilting for 3 years. She is keen for people to enjoy quilting as an art and craft
form.
36. Neil Wallace
Babel in the Beehive
Reserve $20
A take on Bruegel’s ‘Tower of Babel’ (the smaller). The lower grills depict my whakapapa,
my culture sinking like the Celtic seabbond sunk into the Lisnacroghera Bay (Antrim)
Ireland (ca. 250BC) from where my ancestors come from. It is thought that the Towers
building was in response to man’s fall and his own knowledge of his fall, thus began
building a tower that God’s floodwaters could not reach. In our context we know that the
seas are rising yet all we do is babel in confused tongues.
37. Susan Artner
Celebration II
Decorative mirror
Susan Artner has lived in Palmerston North since 1971 and has taught art continuously
since that year. She has exhibited around New Zealand and has work in a number of
collections. Most of her work has been assemblage sculpture but she also enjoys drawing
from the figure, and decorative projects like the mirror she has donated. The frame is made
by ‘Art of Wood’, Ashhurst.
38. Phillip Andrews
FLAG IT! (Painted 2015, reworked 2019)
Golden acrylic and Windsor & Newton on CS10 archival illustration board.
With a Master’s degree in Design (Massey University) and currently a lecturer at UCOL PN
BCM (Bachelor in Creative Media). Phillip works in traditional and digital mediums across
character development, stamps, cover art and interactive.
The artwork addressed the National Flag debate from a rebel like Kiwi perspective resulting
in the title - Flag it! A slang phrase pertaining to a No Go. Additionally the work includes
a contemporary approach incorporating an AR (Augmented Reality) interactive element
playing on a Kiwi MEME which became popular in media - Laser Kiwi.
39. Shirley E Bowater
NZ native pigeon
Oil painting
40. B C Armitt
Kaikoura Coast
Oil painting
Art Auction Women’s Health Collective 1041. B C Armitt
Hay barn
Oil painting
42. P J Verbeek
NZ Waxeye (Tahou)
Oil painting
43. Helen Chong
Landscape 1
Aquarelle pencil
44. Helen Chong
Landscape 2
Watercolour
45. Helen Chong
Landscape 3
Pastel and aquarelle pencil
A member of Sue Artner’s ‘art enthusiast group’ since 2009.
46. Jean Young
Poppy (2019)
After retiring in 1996 my husband and I moved from New Plymouth to Tairua on the
Coromandel Peninsula. There I took art lessons from Paula McNeil, an abstract painter. She
taught a variety of mixed mediums and acrylic, and was particularly interested in the use
of colour. I have always been fascinated by colour and I greatly enjoyed her lessons. After
lessons with Paula, I joined an art group in Whangamata where I attended workshops with
Ben Hoe and Val Tubman. I became a member of the Thames Art Society and exhibited
and sold paintings in their Art Gallery. In October 2003 I held an exhibition at the Tairua
Information Centre.
In 2004 we moved to Feilding. I joined the Feilding and District Art Society and held
exhibitions at the Society Art centre in February 2010, 2016, and 2017.
I have attended several workshops with Vonnie Sterret in Palmerston North, and one with
Julie Grieg in Whanganui. I am currently attending Sue Artner’s “Art Enthusiast Group” in
Ashurst.
In 2004 I decided to try Pottery for the first time and really enjoyed the experience. I joined
the Manawatū Pottery Society, and I am still enjoying working and playing with clay!
Art Auction Women’s Health Collective 1147. Siân Torrington
Opening Nest (2019)
Pastel on paper, framed in oak
The passageway to creative practice is the body: a shifting gateway of processes and
actions. In this drawing, the moving body is traced through colourful pastels, charcoal and
lines that struggle against each other; supporting while they are also escaping. We are all a
collection, like flotsam bound together by living in a swelling, tumbling ocean of activity.
Siân Torrington explores relationships of interconnectivity, and interdependence, through
an expressive language of colour, mark making and structural props that hold drawings
and sculptures together, as we are held together. Her work has been commissioned for
public art institutions, including ‘Soft is Stronger than Hard’ at City Gallery Wellington, and
‘The way you have held things’ for Christchurch Art Gallery, as well as for festivals, and by
the Public Art Fund, Wellington. She has held artist residencies in Samoa at Tiapipata Arts
Centre, and Shanthi Rd, India through the Asia New Zealand Foundation. Siân graduated
with an MFA with distinction from Massey University in 2010, has had numerous solo and
groups shows, and works from a studio in Wellington.
48. Brenda Wallis
Painting of Echinacea
Painting
Brenda’s lifelong participation in art has taken various forms. For many years her focus was
in portraiture and in 2016 she became finalist in the ADAM ART AWARD. She has a large
garden and this painting was from a phase of using her garden flowers as subjects. In the
last 2 years she has moved from painting to printmaking, producing both relief and intaglio
works. She finds printmaking to be a demanding but satisfying medium and will no longer
be producing work such as this picture.
49. Kylie Wardlaw
Seated Nude
I love colour and the process of painting. I paint abstracts, figures and landscapes.
You can usually find me in my art studio with a large canvas on the floor, expressing
an internal reality in strokes of paint and other mark-making media. I like to convey a
powerful meaning about my subject matter through a spontaneous, free, painterly and
instinctive approach. My favourite –isms are abstract expressionism, post-impressionism
and fauvism. My favourite artists include Wassily Kandinsky, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Paul
Cezanne and Willem de Kooning.
Part of the beauty and joy of abstract art for me is that everyone has their own
interpretation they can bring to a piece of abstract art so I don’t like to be too prescriptive
about the meanings of my paintings. However I have quite often returned to the theme of
the female figure in my art as a way of exploring identity, self-image and emotions relating
to my experience as a woman.
50. Pania Molloy
Day at the Beach
Art Auction Women’s Health Collective 1251. Pania Molloy
Day at the Beach II
Pania Molloy has an eclectic approach to her art, but with a common thread that draws it
together-community. Over the years she has been involved in many art projects that have
the spirit of people at their heart.
Pania’s art can be seen on the street’s of the city she is so dedicated to, numerous bold and
vivid murals and Chorus cabinets including Linklater Reserve toilet block and dog washing
facility. Beats, Bites & Brushes, (2017) where she got involved in public festival of arts mural
event in Berryman lane.
She spent time as an intern at Te Manawa, utilising her skills while picking up some new
ones along the way.
Her skills are varied, painting, drawing, sculpting, street art and weaving are part of the
long list of tools in her kete. Her new adventure as a tattooist under the name Snobby Goth,
is a passion unknown until now, she is dedicated in the pursuits of all artistic knowledge.
Pania is a warm and inclusive artist, whose approach is to share, teach, create and learn
and along the way she has established a vast network of arty souls that she helps keep
connected.
There are no pretensions with Pania and her art and her teachings are a direct reflection of
the generous soul that she is.
52. Naga Tsutsumi
Untitled #1
(Charcoal on paper)
53. Naga Tsutsumi
Untitled #2
Naga Tsutsumi, born in Japan in 1967, has lived in Palmerston North for more than a
decade. Working from a small studio beside his home, Naga’s meticulously rendered
figurative works meld influences from his Japanese ancestry with imagery from Western
culture and history. He has a passion about charcoal drawing and has been making his own
charcoal from local totara trees, which has been funded by Earle Creativity Trust.
From a Samurai family, the artist is the last descendant of the main branch of the Tsutsumi
family. “But I don’t have any inheritance or family treasures like swords, amour or written
manuals about swordsmanship; my only legacy from the glory era is a family tree book,
made about a hundred years ago, and my name.”
Naga has had over 30 exhibitions in New Zealand, USA and Japan. He was selected Overall
Winner for the Manawatū Arts Review in 2011, and was a finalist in the New Zealand Portrait
Gallery’s Adam Award in 2012, and the Parkin Drawing Award in 2013.
Naga holds a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Iowa, USA.
54. Naga Tsutsumi
From Wonderland #1 (2018)
55. Naga Tsutsumi
From Wonderland #2 (2018)
Art Auction Women’s Health Collective 1356. Naga Tsutsumi
From Wonderland #3 (2018)
(Charcoal on paper)
A set of three square shape drawings, reflecting my nostalgia toward old SciFi and horror
films.
57. Naga Tsutsumi
Dance (1998)
Japanese paint pigments, acrylic, milk on paper mounted on panel
This work was done when I lived in Seattle, USA and was the only one of three works I took
with me when I came to NZ in 2002 (the other two were painted over, so gone).
Live auction
58. Vivian Leung
From Womb to Birth
Reserve $380
Vivian is an award winning Feilding based artist (Premier Award in 3D art in FADAS 2011 –
Feilding and District Art Society. All her pottery works are hand built, each one is unique,
and each one is a one-off piece.
59. Vivian Leung
Man of Quiet Confidence
Reserve $220
Some pieces may try to convey some messages while others may have certain characters
or personalities that make them more interesting. ‘From Womb to Birth’ celebrates
womanhood, and the second piece is ‘Man of Quiet Confidence’ which seemed appropriate
close to Father’s Day. Vivian’s works have been on exhibition in galleries in New Zealand,
including the New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts in Wellington.
60. Daniel Ryland
Jurassic Crochet (2019)
Daniel Ryland (Jurassic Crochet) has always loved dinosaurs. One day seven years ago he
stumbled across a crochet pattern of a Triceratops and realised that he could make his
own, so he taught himself to crochet and has been at it ever since, in Council chambers,
conferences, meetings, and anywhere really. These critters have since been as far as
the World Amigurumi Exhibition in New York, and locally at Wooly Riot installations. We
have such a tiny glimpse of these critters that once walked were we did so many aeons
ago, what they did, what they looked like, and what could have been. With these wee
crochet versions, he wants to capture that dinosaurs are far more than a shorthand for
huge monsters and that what we know is a tiny slither of what dinosaurs were - and that
may well be wrong. In general though, he makes these for the fun of creation (and a bit
of procrastination from his PhD!), but if they are able to bring some smiles all the better! I
hope that these ones are able to enjoy good homes, and in the process, support Te Ha o
Hine-ahu-one.
Art Auction Women’s Health Collective 1461. David Traub
Fused and Slumped Platter (2019)
Reserve $300
David grew up in New York and has worked in glass for 46 years. Self taught as a glass
blower his work is featured in public and private collections both here and abroad. In 1995
David moved to Whanganui to lead the glass program at the polytechnic, and in 2006
opened his current studio. His work can be found in dealer galleries around the north
island or from his studio in Whanganui. He has over the years received numerous awards
and his work has been featured in major exhibitions and publications.
62. Paul Dibble
Swimming Hole at Kahuterawa (2017)
Bronze, Single edition (unique)
Reserve $2,500
Paul Dibble studied at Elam School of Fine Arts in Auckland, graduating with a BFA (Hons)
in Sculpture. In the 1970s Paul taught art in various secondary schools, before taking up
a teaching position at Massey University in Palmerston North. By the year 2000, Paul left
teaching to begin working fulltime in his own studio.
Paul was awarded a New Zealand Order of Merit in 2004, an Honorary Doctorate in Visual
Arts from Massey University in 2007, and was made an Honorary Fellow of the Universal
College of Learning (Palmerston North) in 2012.
Paul Dibble’s sculpture is derived from a larger work first created in 2006. Then called
“Narcissus at Kahuterawa Swimming Hole”, the sculpture originally included the prominent
presence of a man - the narcissist - who self-indulgently sprawled out on the water’s edge.
A short distance away from him, a woman tentatively tested the waters into which she had
begun to wade, under the shadow of an ominously large leafless tree.
Paul is represented by Zimmerman Art Gallery in Palmerston North.
63. Kirsty Gardiner
Rabbit Onesie (2018)
Ceramic
Wairarapa artist Kirsty Gardiner’s ceramic sculptures are influenced by her childhood,
natural history, and the collections with which she came into contact while working as a
gallery technician at Aratoi Museum of Art and History in Masterton.
64. Kirsty Gardiner
Lamb Onesie (2018)
Ceramic
A regular exhibitor since 1997, Kirsty’s show Portmanteau: A Cabinet of Curiosities was
exhibited at Te Manawa in 2013. In 2010, Kirsty received the top award at The Portage
Ceramic Awards, New Zealand’s premier ceramics event.
Kirsty is represented by Zimmerman Art Gallery in Palmerston North.
65. Gunhild Litwin
All in the Family (2019)
Glass globe Assemblage mounted on American Beechwood Stand (Museum
Quality), Plastic figurines, acrylic paint, dried moss and grass, adhesive,
metal wire.
All in the Family tells the story where King Kong and Fay Wray live happily ever after,
decided to amicably split and pursue their own dreams. Kong ran away with the cricus, Fay
became a successful writer, met another sweet man who stayed home and looked after the
kids. Now that everyone is older and settled, Kong’s and Fay’s paths crossed again (thank
you, internet, for making reconnecting easy) and every summer they rent a cottage in the
Isle of Wright (cause its not too dear), and Fay’s grandchild runs rings around them.
Creating alternative worlds is what Gunhild enjoys most when making assemblages. Colour
and visual absurdities delight her, and since we live in scary times politically, she feels a
playful reimagining of reality is what we all need a bit more of.
Art Auction Women’s Health Collective 15Art exhibition and auction
Donated by Name of Artist Artwork Reserve
Live auction
1. Olga Krause Olga Hedwig Krause (Leafa Wilson) Ja -
2. Catherine Russ Nicola Gregory Loss of Life -
3. Catherine Russ Nicola Gregory Moment of Truth -
4. Bridgette Murphy Bridgette Murphy Women’s Wreath -
5. Gary Collins Gary Collins Mars and Moth $1,000
6. Emma Louise Pratt Emma Louise Pratt Te Awahou Foxton Beach $2,000
7. Nan Penhey Nan Penhey Golfers -
8. Sue James Sue James McKenzie -
9. Nicole Arrow-Van Geet Nicole Arrow-Van Geet Concrete -
10. Raemon Rolfe Raemon Rolfe A Universe of Atoms -
11. Emilie Geant Emilie Geant Bleed it Out -
12. Kirsty Porter Kirsty Porter Why you gotta blame me all your troubles -
13. Robyn Laing Robyn Laing Flowers in Dutch Style $300
14. Mark Tisdall Mark Tisdall Be Free -
15. Nita Lyon Nita Lyon Dark Night -
16. Holly Charles Holly Charles Dear John $30
17. Holly Charles Holly Charles Butterfly Dreams $80
18. Central Districts MS Art Group Central Districts MS Art Group Gerberas -
19. Manawatū SF Manawatū Supporting Families Art Group Collage on Canvas -
20. Manawatū SF Manawatū Supporting Families Art Group Collage on Canvas -
21. Enid Roberts Enid Roberts Woodville to Ashhurst -
22. Enid Roberts Enid Roberts Gateway to the Manawatū -
23. Anton Parsons Anton Parsons Every Single thing $900
24. Yvonne Wierzbicki Yvonne Wierzbicki The Holy Trinity -
25. Sarah Platt Sarah Platt Love Palmy $400
26. Joe McMenamin Joe McMenamin Song of the Tui -
27. Michel Tuffery Michel Tuffery Tangaroa Harakeke Ring from up the $550
Whanganui River
28. Dick Frizzell Dick Frizzell Large Vase -
29. Fran Dibble Fran Dibble Small enchanted worlds -
Silent auction
30. Maree Wilson Maree Wilson Here is light -
31. Judy Loo Unknown artist n/a -
32. Yvonne Long Yvonne Long 3 Panel Poppies -
33. Kath Foster John Foster Picnic on the Beach series $450
34. Kath Foster John Foster Picnic on the Beach series $450
35. Wilma Minnee Wilma Minnee Leaf Fantasy -
36. Neil Wallace Neil Wallace Babel in the Beehive $20
Art Auction Women’s Health Collective 16Art exhibition and auction
Donated by Name of Artist Artwork Reserve
37. Susan Artner Susan Artner Celebration II -
38. Phillip Andrews Phillip Andrews FLAG IT! -
39. Lesley Hurley Shirley E. Bowater NZ native pigeon -
40. Lesley Hurley B. C. Armitt (Bettie Armitt) Kaikoura Coast -
41. Lesley Hurley B. C. Armitt (Bettie Armitt) Hay barn -
42. Lesley Hurley P. J. Verbeek (Nel Verbeek) NZ Waxeye (Tahou) -
43. Helen Chong Helen Chong Landscape 1 -
44. Helen Chong Helen Chong Landscape 2 -
45. Helen Chong Helen Chong Landscape 3 -
46. Jean Young Jean Young Poppy -
47. Siân Torrington Siân Torrington Opening Nest -
48. Brenda Wallis Brenda Wallis Painting of Echinacea -
49. Kylie Wardlaw Kylie Wardlaw Seated Nude -
50. Pania Molloy Pania Molloy Day at the Beach -
51. Pania Molloy Pania Molloy Day at the Beach II -
52. Naga Tsutsumi Naga Tsutsumi Untitled #1 -
53. Naga Tsutsumi Naga Tsutsumi Untitled #2 -
54. Naga Tsutsumi Naga Tsutsumi From Wonderland #1 -
55. Naga Tsutsumi Naga Tsutsumi From Wonderland #2 -
56. Naga Tsutsumi Naga Tsutsumi From Wonderland #3 -
57. Naga Tsutsumi Naga Tsutsumi Dance -
Live auction
58. Vivian Leung Vivienne Leung From Womb to Birth $380
59. Vivian Leung Vivienne Leung Man of Quiet Confidence $220
60. Daniel Ryland Daniel Ryland Jurassic Crochet -
61. David Traub David Traub Fused and Slumped Platter $300
62. Paul Dibble Paul Dibble Swimming Hole at Kahuterawa $2,500
63. Kirsty Gardiner Kirsty Gardiner Rabbit Onesie -
64. Kirsty Gardiner Kirsty Gardiner Lamb Onesie -
65. Gunhild Litwin Gunhild Litwin All in the Family -
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