Next Arts on Tuesday
Arts on Tuesday, July 15th,
10:30 am to 12:00 pm
Matariki, Music and Masterpieces
Join our next 'Arts on Tuesday' event.
Matariki, Music and Masterpieces
Morrinsville Gallery Fundraising Committee proudly supports this monthly event, we envisage that you will enjoy in this instance enlightening conversation, music performances, a presentation on barbershop singing and a Q & A around the meaning of Matariki and ways we choose to embrace this special time of the year.
This music-themed event includes a wonderful performance by Keith Rodgers on clarinet and Jane Fergusson on our fabulous grand piano.
We are also excited to hear and see a presentation about barbershop singing, presented by Christine Hommell, a longtime member of the very accomplished and recently national award-winning singing group The Rivertones.
Other guest appearances are planned to give the whole event a varied and interesting program. A question-and-answer session about Matariki itself and suggestions on ways and reasons to celebrate is expected to be a part of the program also, along with a hand-out to keep.
A delicious morning tea of home baked treats (mostly gluten free) as always is an enjoyable part of the morning, along with fellowship and lively conversation.
Please consider coming over to the Morrinsville Gallery to celebrate this upcoming event and to take the opportunity to see the community wide Matariki in Morrinsville exhibition, a themed show that graces the Whakaaturanga Gallery. We would love to have you also enjoy the adjoining shows in the Awatea and Community galleries, a gorgeous explosion of creativity and colour from Matamata Intermediate and to also be wowed by stunning carvings from the annual Ngākau Carving Symposium, of Thames and impressive sculpture, ceramics, prints, weaving and stone work by members of the collective run Vessel Gallery in Pollen St, Thames.
Fundraising tickets for Arts on Tuesday are just $15 for adults or koha for children under 12 years. On top of the entertainment, you get a delightful morning tea and some wonderful and informative art conversation. Your contribution helps to create a better future for our local community, by supporting the taonga that is the Morrinsville Gallery we appreciate it.
Remember to mark your calendar and check our website regularly: we get together for Arts on Tuesdays on one Tuesday of every month. Looking forward to seeing you there!
We do not charge entry for visiting our exhibitions, though donations are always greatly appreciated.
'Arts on Tuesday' is back!
One Tuesday EVERY month at 10.30am to around 12pm.
Arts on Tuesday celebrates the people that make our community a vibrant place to live. Check the website or social media for up-to-date info. Or phone the gallery.
Join us on Tuesday, 11 March, at 10:30 am, as we host our second ‘Arts on Tuesday’ event for 2025, these monthly art events will be held at the Morrinsville Gallery, the events are supported by the Morrinsville Gallery Fundraising Committee.
Please check in on our social media (Instagram or Facebook), phone the gallery or see the website for the most accurate info or simply pop into the gallery. You could also sign up for our newsletter to keep up with current events. See the 'Contact Us' link for the newsletter sign-up page.
‘Arts on Tuesday’ tickets are $10 for adults and $2 for children. We appreciate your contribution, which helps to create a better future for our local community. We provide a lovely morning tea and entertainment.
Enjoy a conversation with artists who have current exhibitions in the gallery and/or enjoy live entertainment, it could be music or dance or something else, we have plans for a diverse program for the coming year.
Attending Art's on Tuesday is great value for money, you get a lovely morning tea (or coffee!), entertainment and conversation.
Information about each event will be listed beforehand on the website.
VIEW PAST ARTS ON TUESDAY
Arts on Tuesday, June10th,
10:30 am to 12:00 pm
Includes... Award winning photographer
Adrian Cook, also Waikato arts icon, writer/artist
Peter Dornauf
Join our next 'Arts on Tuesday' event.
Morrinsville Gallery Fundraising Committee proudly supports this monthly event, at $15 per ticket you enjoy enlightening conversation with Peter Dornauf regarding his witing and painting and his solo show Eden in the Waikato that is to grace the Whakaaturanga Gallery from May 27 to June 15.
Adrian Cook will also share with us about his amazing and engaging exhibition that honours volunteering via his thought provoking and expressive portraits.
Fundraising tickets for Arts on Tuesday are just $15 for adults and koha for children, for this you get a delightful morning tea and some wonderfully entertaining and informative art conversation. Your contribution helps to create a better future for our local community, we appreciate it.
We do not charge entry for visiting our exhibitions; however, donations are deeply appreciated.
Remember to mark your calendar and check our website regularly: we get together for Arts on Tuesdays on one Tuesday of every month. Looking forward to seeing you there!
Music and a lively chat!
Join us this Tuesday, 8th April 2025, at 10:30 am as we are hosting our Arts on Tuesday - April event, with the wonderful support of the Morrinsville Gallery Fundraising Committee.
We have an exciting program planned, featuring a music performance by Keith Rodgers from Cambridge and an engaging conversation with four artists currently exhibiting their work in the Morrinsville Gallery.
We are excited to have Yvette O'Neill chair this artist talk, bringing a fresh format to our Arts on Tuesdays. The three artists from the exhibition 'Perspectives' will talk to their work in the Whakaaturanga Gallery and share insights about their practices and inspirations. Diane Scott, Jay Drew, and Keirryn Hintz have displayed a wonderful mix of contemporary photography, painting, and exquisite urban landscape line drawings.
This event is particularly special as photographer Francisca Edwards celebrates her first solo exhibition at the Awatea Gallery. She will join us to discuss her experiences as an artist inspired by her two homes, Peru and New Zealand. Her exhibition, titled 'Fragments of Aotearoa and Peru—An Ode to the Two Lands I Love,' also includes a generous initiative to raise awareness about mental health. Francisca will donate 50% of her artist commission to a cause close to her heart, the Mental Health Foundation of New Zealand.
We hope you also check out the newest addition to our gallery - the removeable hanging gallery walls that successfully give us the flexibility to separate the Awatea space. This initiative was designed by our own curator Liz Borrows and kindly constructed by The Morrinsville Menzshed and one of our wonderful volunteers Brian Torrey. The 'walls' are constructed from donated parts from Specialised Crane Services Ltd and partly with recycled materials from the old shop wall. A wonderfully economical and stylish solution.
Fundraising tickets for Arts on Tuesday are just $10 for adults and $2 for children, and they include a delightful morning tea. Your contribution helps to create a better future for our local community, we appreciate it.
We do not charge entry for visiting our exhibitions; however, donations are deeply appreciated.
Remember to mark your calendar: we get together for Arts on Tuesdays on the second Tuesday of every month. Looking forward to seeing you there!
Tartan II & III, shown above.
Tessuto di Vetro - Glass Fabric
Dermot Kelly
- Glass Artist
We are proud to present this vibrant exhibition with examples of woven glass work Tessuto di Vetro - Glass Fabric. A reference to the origin of the material, Venice Italy.
Last Days, don't miss this extraordinary show
Awatea - Shop Front Gallery
4 February - 4 March 2025
Extended by two days
Dermot has an incredible pedigree when it comes to his artistic career. He has predominantly worked with glass since learning how to retore stained glass using the leadlight process at Creative Stained Glass in Perth in the mid-late 80's. His thirst for artistic direction took him into bronze casting, life drawing, harakeke weaving, ceramics, glass etching, glass design and studying for a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree at Elam (Auckland University) 2010 - 2012.
He has exhibited in dozens of group and solo shows over that time, mostly in Auckland, Northland and in more recent years in the Waikato. He currently has two wonderful pieces showing at Waitakaruru Sculpture Park. He created public and private commissioned pieces far and wide.
We are very excited to have Dermot present this show of mostly new works within our new window front gallery. We hope that you can come along to the combined opening with Larry Abreno's Coffee Art show and the 7 Artists show, Now and Then. The opening is to be held on February 9th from 11am, though the exhibitions will be open to the public from the 4th of February.
There is no registration required for the opening, and we have no entry fees, all are welcome. Please sign up for our newsletter to receive up-to-date info about all of our shows, past, present and upcoming.