During Lockdown Level 3/4
Taking a cue from Holly Golightly, we are celebrating the joys of window shopping.
Audrey Hepburn, Breakfast at Tiffany, 1961. CBS PHOTO ARCHIVEGETTY IMAGES
While our movements are curtailed, we are taking advantage of our street front position and windows, and creating a little diversion. Every few days, we are placing a new piece in the window just to make life a little more interesting for anyone strolling along Ponsonby Road.
After all, where did Holly Golightly end up whenever she felt blue? Window shopping at Tiffany, of course! A fantasy place she loved because “Nothing very bad can happen to you there.”
Below we are posting our featured window works, starting with the most current. If you’d like to know more about any of these works, drop us a line.
Joon-Hee Park Happy Sweet Day 466 x 600 mm oil on board $3,800
Joon-Hee Park A Space Oddity oil on board 466 x 600mm $3,800
16 September Self-portraiture is a means for Joon Hee Park to explore her psyche. Her work draws content from a variety of sources: memories of a childhood split between two cultures; favourite toys, traditional festivals and Korean sweets; revisited dreams and a feverish imagination.
Philippa Blair Somewhere Else (diptych) oil and acrylic on canvas 1525 x 1015mm. $10,500
8 September One of New Zealand’s foremost abstract painters, Blair’s paintings are composed of light and fire, they are a bravura orchestration of excitement, control and expertise built up over a long and distinguished career.
Kathy Barber Absence acrylic and oil glaze on linen 1200 x 950mm $8,000
5 September Barber’s works are built gradually through multiple layers of transparent glazes. Their contents altered, effaced, reimagined so that the origin of the work – be it a place, a memory, a thought – remains only in traces, visible in the margins, like a shadow – an echo.
Tony Lane Halo oil and gesso on board 1250 x 1050mm $18,500
31 August A recent work from an ongoing series of paintings , Between Heaven and Earth, a series that arose from an extended visit into the King Country where the artist was inspired by the other-worldly landscape which at times seemed to float beneath the sky. More from Tony Lane here
Jacqui Colley Untitled No.4 oil pigment on canvas, 1200 x 1200mm $7,500 SOLD
27 August Wellington-based Jacqui Colley won the prestigious Parkin Drawing Prize in 2018. Judge Kelcy Taratoa said he couldn't take his eyes of the work - even when he attempted to ignore it, describing it as progressive, explorative and extending the boundaries of what drawing can be.
Colley has an exhibition coming up with us in early 2022 but in the meantime, we have a selection of key works, like this one, in stock.