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The Burns Memorial
Artwork by children
of the Waitaki District

12 June - 12 July

Every year school students have the chance to be great artists!
The Forrester Gallery asks all the schools and early childhood
education centres in the Waitaki District for 10 panels of artwork.

Paintings, collages, drawings, weavings, models, sculptures and much more are shown at the Gallery for up to four weeks. This year we have 24 contributing schools, and as always the exhibition is an explosion of colour and unabashed creativity!

This exhibition started in 1970 because Mr George Burns (1903 - 1970), who was born and went to school in Oamaru, thought it was important to encourage young people to make art.

Mr Burns used to work for a Christchurch newspaper, which at the time ran a schools’ art exhibition throughout the South Island. The Burns Memorial is held each year in his memory.

The staff of the Forrester Gallery would like to thank all the children and their teachers for all their hard work in putting this exhibition together.

 


Mary Horn - We are of the Gods


Mary Horn - We are of the Light

Pilgrimage
Mary Horn

20 June - 9 August

"In an over rational world we could all benefit from dreaming and mysticism and being nourished by the deeper levels of our psyche. Using visual images, poetry and mystical writing from Kerry, the land
of poets and mystics, Dominican 14th century writing, as well as Maori histories of this land, I offer something from my own 'God Quest',
which seems to resonate with these traditions.

The Pilgrimage panels and paintings using natural clays became a reflection, a sort of poetry, expressing the dreaming of our land that is found in the ancient legends of the Waitaha. I wondered if the theology and anthropology in, 'We are of the Void, of the Gods, and of the Light,' the writings of the Dominican Rhineland mystics, John Moriarty of Kerry and the Baxter writings from Aotearoa would sit comfortably together.
I leave you to decide and come on pilgrimage."

Excerpt from the introduction to Pilgrimage, the publication produced
by Mary Horn to accompany her exhibition.

In his dedication to ‘Song of Waitaha, The Histories of a Nation’
Pani Manawatu wrote:
...We journey with the vision that the traditions recorded in the land
will become the shared inheritance of all who call it home...

‘Song of Waitaha The Histories of a Nation’ Wharariki Published 2003


 


 

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