July 10th - Cook Island Artist's

Now Showing

whats on

Feature Artist  Tracey Williams

Stockroom show - June 10th  til July 11th

New Stock from Hungarian artist - Peter Lendvai, and recent new artists to join the gallery: Tracey Williams, Susan Haywood Smith and Kim Lowe 

The next exhibition is

Snapshot of Rarotonga - from past to present

by two cook Island artists - Kay George and David Teata

July 11th - 30th

 

New Mixed Media Paintings and Bronze Sculpture

May 2nd to 30th


 

 

RELOCATION


 WE HAVE MOVED ACROSS THE ROAD TO 268 JACKSON ST, IN THE OLD BNZ BANK -  NEXT TO THE LIGHTHOUSE CINEMA. 

Gallery Hours    

APPOINTMENTS       MON

11am  to  4pm        TUES

10 .30am  to 5pm    WED TO FRI

11am  to  4pm          SAT

CLOSED                 SUNDAY

If you wish to make an appointment for sunday or monday send us an email 

regards

the team @ LeSA Gallery and Louie 

Recent Exhibitions

Richard Hopkins

New Photography

November 22 – December 20

Hopkins has exhibited in a number of group exhibitions and this is his second solo exhibiton. Limited edition prints available.

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Cerisse Palalagi and Natalie Couch

 Red Thread  Nov 1  - 20

Blood ties to ones culture, language, family, the land   

These works represent our interpretations on the issue of language and cultural survival. 

 

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RECENT EXHIBITIONS

 

DEBORAH HOPE  September 6th - 25th  

Hoki Ki Te kainga   The Return Home   

 


This exhibitionis Deborahs first solo showing @ LeSA Gallery.

Deborah considers the spirituality of Maori art to reside within the sea, mountains, rivers, lakes, hills, forest and the sky. She spent several years living with her grandparents in Wairoa when she was exposed to the teachings of Tikanga Maori, the Waiau river, Tameterangi marae and the surroundings valleys.

Her new body of work celebrates her return home ,to live in Wairoa.

 

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RECENT EXHIBITIONS

may 3 - 22 2008

Vanessa Edwards / Beccy Feather
 
Kanohi ki te kanohi - Face to Face
 
Kanohi ki te kanohi is a well known Maori saying that means face to face. This show is exactly that, with Vanessa's tattooed ladies and Beccy's blinged up characters.
In this show both artists explore identity through popularisation of cultures.
Beccy looks at bling grillz and the adoption of this trend by young people all over the world, and Vanessa explores the rising popularity of taa moko as a national expression of identity.

Text is incorporated in both artist work. Beccy’s grills display slang words collected from her travels, whilst the moko kauae in Vanessa’s work feature familiar te reo Maori kupu that most New Zealanders would have some comprehension of.
As a result the works talk to each other creating a dialogue that the viewer then becomes involved in as you come ‘face to face’ with each piece.

Glossary

Grillz customized mouth jewelry made famous by US hip hop artists
Taa moko Maori tattooing
Moko kauae traditional maori female chin tattoo
Te reo Maori Maori language
Kupu word/text
 
 

Kiwianarama Panorama

april 5 - 25 2008

Ruth Green Cole / Annie Sandano


Kiiwianarama Panorama brought  together two dynamic and unique artists, interpretting their own identity of the New Zealand image.

Ruth Green Cole takes New Zealand cultural objects and re-contextualises them into a contemporary interpretation of traditional maori textiles.

Her art practise is multidisiplinary, merging elements of hand made print, paper construction, weaving and installation.

Annie Sandano uses familar New Zealand symbols in refreslingly modern and lively compositions.Her vivid and bold images are imbued with a sense of fun and playfulness, and bring to the foreground a clean and uncomplicated use of traditional wood cut printing techniques.

 

Andrea Mae Miller

March 15 - April 2 2008

A selection of prints and drawings 

Andrea Mae Miller is a New Zealand artist working predominantly as a Fine Art Printmaker.  Born in Whangarei in 1980, she grew up living at the beach on Northland's beautiful Tutukaka coast.  Andrea obtained her Bachelor of Fine Arts from Otago Polytechnic in 2002 and after graduation established her studio "St Peter's Thumb" in Petone.  In 2006 she spent a year living and working in Copenhagen, Denmark, taking time to explore the other side of the world, and to practise being a stranger.  Andrea returned to NZ in May 2007, setting up "St Peter's Thumb" again, this time in Eastbourne, Lower Hutt.