ArtBoot
ArtBoot by ArtAche
Friday 4th December
4.30pm – 8.30pm
Te Atatu South Community Centre
Seven local artists from the Henderson Massey area are filling their car boots with goodies from their studio!!
Art Boot is Art Aches new *post-covid* free range iteration. It’s Art Ache on wheels!
Perfectly aligned with West Auckland’s car lovin’ vibe, Art Boot runs alongside Food Truck Fridays on 4th December, 5-8.30pm.
The perfect after school/early dinner community gathering for everyone, with live music, DJ’s, a wood-working workshop, A CLOWN !!! Have a feed, listen to music, meet local artists and buy some of your Christmas gifts all in the one evening.
Artists include:
Bethan Hunter
Bethan’s practice questions what is considered familiar and its’ connection to the sacred. With emphasis on collecting and repurposing, she is drawn to the associations we attach to objects and images. Through her work she broaches these questions and exploratory investigations with the hope that each investigation exudes both the familiar and uncanny.
Gabriel Tiongson
Gabriel Tiongson’s manner as a visual artist belies his traditional, quiet upbringing. Born in the 80s in sleepy Iloilo City, Philippines, his interests ran the gamut of video games, popular cartoons, and Western pop culture. Initially drawing from these early influences, Tiongson’s art came to resemble funhouse mirror images of iconic cartoon characters.
His early work of free-hand, black and white illustrations expanded to include the use of fluorescent technicolor, slapstick, off-kilter character proportions, and distorted references to human anatomy. Marrying elements of innocence, childhood, and the grotesque.
Tiongson completed his Visual Arts degree and Masters in Creative Practice in Unitec Institute of Technology. Formal study shifted his art practice from primarily ink on paper to mixed media on canvas. He paints to construct and deconstruct his paintings to further feed into future work. Formal study also allowed him to criticize and reflect on his loss of identity and culture. This turmoil turned to opportunity when he was able to embrace his hybrid nature. His works are charged by his childhood affinities and presented through his experience of various cultures.
Greg Page
Greg Page is a painter who works with domestic materials. His work is owned by a wide range of people, from art collector James Wallace to comediennes French and Saunders.
Page was born in Palmerston North, studied in Hamilton and now resides in West Auckland. Page is also a well renowned film maker with Fish‘n clips.
Inga Fillary
Fillary’s uses organic materials such as clay, soil, rust and occasionally human biotics, along with acrylic to paint with. Fillary’s paintings are textural and visually tactile, challenging the notion of painting and aesthetic. Often dramatic in composition, the artist’s work explores the darkly weird and alludes to a burden of sorrow between the natural materials used and their symbology. Creating a melancholic allegory illustrating the separation between anarchy and order.
Inga Fillary holds a PGDipFA (Distinction) from Elam School of Fine Arts.
Rebecca Ter Borg
Ter Borg’s work often includes tangled natural elements and playful characters which reflect her interest in the natural world while adding a slightly fantastical twist. Her illustrations depict a quirky, dreamy and stylish alt narrative to every-day real life.
Based in Tāmaki Makauru, the artist works on commercial projects, murals and illustrations. Ter Borg has been exhibiting around Auckland for the last decade and belongs to the QuickDraw sketch gang.
Tashi Donnelly
Tashi Donnelly is an emerging New Zealand artist currently producing illustrations, comics and paintings. Donnelly’s work aims to make sense of beautiful and terrifying life experiences.The artists current series explores and exposes issues around mental health, feminism, gender identity, sex and LGBTQ+ through daily life.
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