Each month the Estuary Arts Gallery brings you a new, fresh and exciting Curated Exhibition featuring many styles of artwork. Every month a new group of artists are selected to exhibit their artwork, in various mediums such as oil painting, watercolours and acrylics, sculpture, fibre, metal, photography and other creative mediums.

Current Exhibition

6th - 30th Nov 08

Opening Event: Thursday 6th Nov, 6 - 8pm

SOUL EXPRESSIONS

Featuring Terry Haines with fellow artists John Ferguson, Jayne Thomas, Jarrod Seaton and Ursula Cranmer.

Award winning sculptor Terry Haines will be the feature artist exhibiting in Soul Expressions. This is primarily a sculpture exhibition with the focus on large freestanding works. Haines recently won a Gold Award at the Waikato Home and Garden Show and his winning sculpture "Freedom" will be on display. Other artists in this group show include fellow sculptor John Ferguson and painters Jayne Thomas, Jarrod Seaton and Ursula Cranmer. Each of the painters explore individual themes, but all paint in a contemporary style using bold, vibrant colours and highly textured surfaces. Both Haines and Cranmer were part of the collaboration team for Sensational Art.

"SENSATIONAL ART": PLEASE TOUCH!

Sensational Arts promises to provide a 'sensory' exhibition that will encourage people from all age groups, ethnic groups and disability groups to participate in a fun gallery experience. It is an interactive installation collaboratively designed and created by a group of local artists and parents from the Motuora Special-Needs Awareness group. Viewers are encouraged to interact with the installation through sight, touch and sound. Each construction has aesthetic appeal in its textures, colours and compositions and many 'unwanted' materials such as oddments, off-cuts, samples and surplus stock have been creatively transformed. By physically engaging with the sensory aspects of these constructions, art can become relevant to all members of the community.

At the conclusion of the exhibition, the boards will be donated to the Motuora Special Needs Unit at Red Beach School. This installation has been funded by a Creative Communities Grant and supported by donations of materials from numerous local businesses.