Thursday, August 10, 2017

Bobbing along

While Wendy ponders the options for our new miniature acquisition, I took the opportunity to continue my (long standing) task of clearing out my laptop's hard drive before it declares itself completely full and falls over.

In the process I found a very large folder of photos I'd taken while in New Zealand in December 2015 (a trip that, it seems, didn't even rate a mention here. Perhaps that's the reason I didn't blog them back then?)

I wonder if another reason I didn't blog them was that some were rather fuzzy. But I've decided that fuzzy is better than not seen at all, and so, may I present an exhibition including the work of Bob Gerrard?
Selection of miniature wooden painted artist's arks on display in a gallery.
The Parental Units and I stumbled across this exhibition on our standard trip to The Dowse in Lower Hutt:
Gallery gallery explanation for Bob Gerrard, a self-taught artist.
The contents of the exhibition, although not quite my usual sphere of interest, were worthy of quite a few photos:
Two miniature wooden painted artist's arks on display in a gallery.
Miniature wooden painted artist's arks on display in a gallery.
Miniature wooden painted artist's arks on display in a gallery.
(I've since consulted Google and came up with some background information, which may be of interest...)
Two miniature wooden painted artist's arks on display in a gallery.
Miniature wooden painted artist's arks on display in a gallery.
Miniature wooden painted artist's arks on display in a gallery.
Miniature wooden painted artist's arks on display in a gallery.
Miniature wooden painted artist's arks on display in a gallery.
 Detail of a miniature wooden painted artist's arks on display in a gallery.
Also in the exhibition were a number of paintings that the artist had made 
Two people in a gallery, looking at a collection of naive art.
 some of which had a miniature bent to them...
Naive art painting, depicting a sinking ark.
And if that wasn't enough, we also found the following miniature works on display:
Miniature art piece with three figures around a table with a metal cake on it.
 Helen O'Connor, The Tin Years (2003),
Art work with a miniature figure in the centre, framed by a mat with doodles and phrases on it.
 Jim Cooper, Lovely Jesus (2006), and
Gallery display of a miniature clay figure, blue and white striped jug and pencil
 Kate Fitzharris, I'm listening (2013).
Close-up view of a gallery display of a miniature clay figure, blue and white striped jug and pencil

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