Past Events

The Combined Exhibition Opening of Kushana Bush: All Things To All Men & TEN: Elam MFA 2010 Graduates.

Kushana Bush: All Things To All Men 24 April - 1 July, Drawing Room, Ballroom, Morning Room
Artist Talk: 24 April, 1-2pm, Audio Visual Room
A Hocken Collections touring exhibition.

TEN 24 April - 24 June, Long Gallery
Artist Talk: Saturday 5 May, 1:30-2:30pm, Long Gallery
Gerry Copas, Hayley Green, Matt Heays, Nicola Holden, Anita Levering, Jessica Pearless, Scott Satherley, Matthew Teirney, Emma Topping, Sarah Williams

Debbie Stenzel's presented an Artist Talk on her installation in the Little Gallery, Starshake: 5928. Starshake: 5928 references abandonment of vehicles within the Christchurch CBD as a result of the magnitude 6.3 earthquake on 22 February 2011 in which 183 people lost their lives. 

                   "I describe my work as the systematized expression of a chronotopic process".
                                                                                     
                                                                                                                       Debbie Stenzel

Combined Exhibition Opening, Monday 26 March, 6 - 8pm.
Shannon Novak  I  Tone Connections  &
  Paul Redican  I  Urban Topographies

A thorough and insightful Artist Talk ocurred alongside our exhibition Twenty Years of Winners: The Wallace Art Awards Paramount Winners 1992-2011.

Artists Peter Gibson Smith and Susan Jowsey talked about their Paramount Award winning works, their practices and their experience of the Wallace Art Awards.

Curator Jo Mears and exhibiting artists Kristin D'Agostino, Renee Bevan, Nadene Carr, Cath Dearsley, Sharon Fitness, Ross Malcom and Shelley Norton discussed RETROSPECT and contemporary jewellery.

Throughout 2012 the Jade String Quartet will present a series of concerts on Sundays at the Pah Homestead, with a focus on famous composers last works written for the string quartet.

Concert One  I  Sunday 26 February 2012

Jade String Quartet
Maurice Ravel - Quartet in F major, 1903
Jonathan Besser - Decision time, Eve of Yum Kippur, In Seven Heaven, Wynyard Quarter
Russell Garcia - Star Dust (Hoagy Carmichael), All the things you are (Jerome Kern)
Ludwig van Beethoven - Quartet no. 16 in F major, op. 135 

Pah Homestead Writer in Residence Michael Harlow and fellow writers Kevin Ireland & Riemke Ensing read from current and published work, participated in a Q+A session and signed books.

The Wallace Arts Trust celebrated the opening of  'Twenty Years of Winners: The Wallace Art Awards Paramount Winners 1992-2011', Monday 13 February 2012. With a turn out of almost 500 people, Twenty Years of Winners opened with a bang.

The accompanying catalogue, available from the Pah Homestead Gallery Shop contains a foreword and introduction by Sir James Wallace, and information about each winning work. The catalogue features information about the Terry Stringer trophy that the Trust commissions each year for the winning artist. Also featured in the catalogue is Peter Gibson Smith’s wooden sculpture Roll Call. Each year, the painted image of a spine of a book inscribed with the winner’s name and the title of their

Exhibition dates I 14 February - 22 April

This significant exhibition describes twenty years of Paramount Award Winning works from the Wallace Art Awards.

The Paramount Award is a premier prize for New Zealand Artists who are awarded with a six-month residency at the International Studio and Curatorial Program in New York (ISCP). The Award has given significant creditability and prospect to the winning artists who have all gone on to successful artistic careers, both nationally and internationally.

Pritable Reality & the Wallace Arts Trust celebrated their one year anniversary at The Pah Homestead in the garden & on the verandah with a beautiful Summer garden party.

In Voice + Music and and array special guests presented an afternoon of fine verse, performance, music, live art, fashion, food...and good times!

12-3pm
Free event!

For this special occasion the Pah Cafe had a SPECIAL DEAL for the day: With every main meal purchased receive a complimentary glass of  Brancott Sparkling (not exchangeable for any other product).

Performances from:
Kirsten Warner
Siobhan Harvey 
Tim Heath
Michael Botour
Rosetta Allan
Callum Gentleman
Riemke Esling
Anna Keye 
Jeremy Roberts
Alexandra Fraser
gus Simonovic
Michelle Bolton
Kotaro Nishishita
Kiri Piahana-Wong
Jim Carraher 
Anya Whitlock
Peter Brierlay-Millman
Anna Bensky
Jenny Walker and YBE Fashion
The White Wall - Kinetic Sculpture Ensamble 
and more ....

Cachaca Duo - Belinda Carrigan (violin) and Johannes Dimyadi (guitar) delivered soothing bossa nova, stirring tangos, and a samba or two at The Pah Homestead Sunday 29 January.

For more infomation on Cachaca Duo who are likely to perform at the pah again later this year visit:

www.cachacaduo.com

Short + Sweet Dance Festival Teaser at The Pah

Three, 10 minute dance performances amidst the Pah Homestead artworks.

Short + Sweet Dance Festival, in association with STAMP at THE EDGE, presents a celebration of the hottest short dance works in New Zealand, 7-11 February 2012 at The Concert Chamber, Auckland Town Hall.

For bookings go to www.the-edge.co.nz or ring 0800 BUY TICKETS
and for more information visit www.shortandsweet.org

Curator Miriam Harris discussed  'A Playful Movement: Younger Generation Czech and Polish Animators, and Privatisation' in a public curator's talk on the December 7.

For more information on this exhibition click here

Exhibition dates: 7 December 2011 - 22 January 2012. 

 'A Playful Movement: Younger Generation Czech and Polish Animators, and Privatisation' opened December 6th 2012.

Exhibition dates: 7 December 2011- 22nd January 2012.

Curated by Dr Miriam Harris and coordinated by Deborah Lawler-Dormer

To follow on from part one of this exhibition 'Czech and Polish Mid-careerist and Vetaran Animators', the work of fourteen talented Czech and Polish animators from the younger generation is examined in this part of the show.

Grae Burton's Residency Retrospective Exhibition opened on Monday 28 November.

Exhibtion dates: 29 November 2011 - 15 January 2012

In March 2011, artist, actor, director and writer Grae Burton was invited by Sir James
Wallace to become Artist in Residence as an art photographer at Rannoch. By Easter
Burton had created the two triptychs called Easter Island Waiheke. During the past
six months Burton has flourished in art photography creating six series of work
containing over 50 images, most of which you will see in this Residency
Retrospective exhibition.
 

An afternoon of fine verse and delightful music at The Pah Homestead.

In VOICE + Music is presented monthly at The Pah Homestead by Printable Reality, the organisation committed to promoting poetry and the spoken word.

Special Guests who performed at the November installment: Maris O'Rourke, Anna Kaye & a collaboration between Carolina Moon and Veil and The Bedlambs (aka Celine Sumic), 'The Dance of the Interval'.

Jade String Quartet with Adrianna Lis (flute) and Bridget Miles (clarinet).

Jade  welcomed Adrianna and Bridget to join them for their final concert at The Pah Homestead for 2011.

For more information please visit  Jade String Quartet

SOUTH AUCKLAND COMES TO THE PAH HOMESTEAD

Pacifika poetry and jazzskat hiphop music feature at In VOICE + Music on Saturday 22 October,       2-4pm. Performers include  Clara Jane Sione, Dietrich Solokai, Marina Alefosio and Zane Scarborough from South Auckland Poets Collective.

In VOICE + Music is presented monthly at The Pah Homestead by Printable Reality, the organisation committed to promoting poetry and the spoken word.

The opening of the 'Philip Trusttum Survey' Exhibition and Book Launch occurred on Monday 17 October at 6pm.The opening event also featured a Q & A session with Philip Trusttum, hosted by Dr  Robin Woodward, an art historian from Auckland University, and the principal author of the book.

Slow Art Day enables you to observe works at a deeper level to enhance your future experience of art. It’s a whole different experience when you actually take the time to stop and look at art  s l o w l y.

Take the less-travelled route and visit two of Auckland’s newest art galleries by joining the tour with Southern Gallery Express!

Bookings essential: Contact bookings@artweekauckland.co.nz

George Farrant, principal heritage consultant for the restoration of the Pah Homestead, gave a guided tour of the spectacular Homestead and its environs, including the usually off-limits turret, which was followed by a beautiful High Tea at the Pah Cafe.

The power of the word - Auckland Joins Largest Poetry Event in History

Auckland poets and musicians will link with poets and audiences across the planet on September 24 as part of 100 Thousand Poets for Change, the largest poetry event in history.

At the TSB Bank Wallace Arts Centre, Going West 2011 Poetry Slam winner Brad McCormick, poets Murray Edmond, Kirsten Warner, Callum Gentleman, Penny Somervaille and harpist Cathie Harrop are part of an eclectic line-up at In VOICE + Music.

A Guided Walk will commence at the Pah Homestead and then go through parts of Three Kings and Hillsborough. 

George Farrant, principal heritage consultant for the restoration of the Pah Homestead, will give a guided tour of the spectacular Homestead and its environs, including the usually off-limits turret. Visitors will learn about the Homestead’s rich and colourful history, the restoration and renovation process for its adaptation as the TSB Bank Wallace Arts Centre, and the fascinating natural heritage of Monte Cecilia Park.

A photographic display of local heritage images and an informative talk by local history expert Lisa Truttman on our local history.

The Wallace Arts Trust celebrated the final leg of the exhibition The Blue Room with an open discussion entitled Mixed Medium, lead by curator Pippa Sanderson and writer Jon Bywater, and featuring a special presentation by acclaimed New Zealand filmmaker Florian Habicht.

The Blue Room exhibition presents the work of twelve artists who were invited to respond to the idea of the house by the same name, where Spiritualists Clive Chapman and his niece Pearl Judd conducted séances in the 1920s. Through their individual reflections, the artists offer a wider view on perceptions of the paranormal in the contemporary world.

A Sense of Dislocation, the performance, was inspired by and a meditation on the performative nature of Jai-Yin Loo's digital media artwork also entitled A Sense of Dislocation.

An evening of jazz in the Drawing Room of the Pah Homestead, set up as a cabaret-style cafe.

Angela Franklyn-Lewis, a graduate of Yale University's prestigious Cabaret Conference Class of 2006, performed a repertoire of songs from the ‘golden age’ of music - America from the 1920’s to the 1950’s.

The sculpture garden at the Pah Homestead was transformed into a mystical landscape by artist Tanya Ruka on Saturday night with her artwork 'Tawhirimatea - God of the Wind' as part of the Auckland Arts Festival's White Night event.

Also on the night members of Etched Dance Productions presented Scape: A collaborative work expanding on ideas explored in their Fringe work Scribble Scape.

In “Emerge” children taught at Arioso Dance Studio as well as children from the audience transformed the garden into a field of butterflies, an underwater scene and more to classical music.

In “Re-Emerge” the studio director presented a few short solo dance pieces exploring the turbulence of being drawn back into dance, a life/world out of balance, finished by a joyful improvised finale.

An Open Talk on the history of the Pah Homestead by George Farrant, Principal Heritage Advisor at the Auckland Council, in conjunction with Chrissy Sun’s exhibition ‘The Wall’s Within…’ at the TSB Bank Wallace Arts Centre.

Award-winning novelists Catherine Chidgey, Kelly Ana Morey and Tracey Slaugter read from current and published work and shared their thoughts on one another’s writing, followed by questions from the audience.  Their books include novels, short stories and poetry.

‘For those who love books, Catherine Chidgey is a find.’ Times Literary Supplement

‘I have no doubt that she [Morey] will become a powerful new voice in the current crop of young New Zealand writers.’ 
Beryl Fletcher, Waikato Times

‘A promising new talent’  Siobhan Harvey, Dominion Post