Top Art

Three weeks and three exhibitions at the Geoff Wilson Gallery.

The Geoff Wilson Gallery is overflowing with photography that challenges our traditional perceptions of landscape by Tessa Paton, contemporary whakairo artworks by Mike Leuluai and the folios of NZ/Aotearoa’s best high school art students.

‘Top Art’ opens on Thursday 24 September and features artboards from thirty six NCEA Level 3 students and covers five streams of visual arts; design, painting, photography, printmaking and sculpture. Come in and see the amazing work being produced by our secondary school students, including Kerikeri High School student Elijah Molloy-Wolt who was awarded Painting - Top Subject Scholar for 2019.

‘Interplace’ focuses on natural places and how we exist within them. Familiar places are captured as unfamiliar, creating playful combinations of images that connect in some places and destroy logic in others. “I encourage the audience to make their own associations between their representations and envisage places differently” says photographer Tessa Paton.

‘Mautohora a Manaia’, by Mike Leuluai, awakens the sentiments of the natural and spiritual world and reverberates the call of indigenous peoples, today. Mautohora invites all nations and individuals to examine global and local systems from an indigenous perspective.

If you visit our gallery during the Arts Open Day, on Wednesday 30 September between 1-3pm, we will organise a tour of the visual Arts, digital arts and maori arts facility for you.

The gallery will be open Wednesday Friday 10 am - 4 pm.

gallery@northtec.ac.nz
09 470 3805