Sugar High, an exhibition with Suite Gallery in Wellington, presents a new branch of her work exemplified by Alchemy and the Iron Curtain, a decorative sliver muzzle.  This crushing new medium is a method used by Auburn to explore one of her favoured critiques – the impenetrable barriers to communication imposed by rigid censorship and secrecy, sometimes masked by beauty, sometimes by brutality.   This work surrounded by lacquered toffee apples of pearls, reds and golds reminds us that with the sugar high comes the inevitable crash…..

http://www.suite.co.nz/exhibitions/sugar_high

New Media and Legal Issues One Day Seminar – 15 February  $30
New media expert Lewis Bostock demonstrates how to use social media networking to expand your client base and promote your work.  David McLaughlin, entertainment lawyer specialising in the field of intellectual property, advises and answers your questions on issues of copyright and privacy.

ArtsLab workshops and seminars are held at Kerr Street Artspace, Devonport, Auckland.  To find out more about ArtsLab or to register your attendance please contact Lynn Lawton at pace@depotartspace.co.nz or (09) 9632328.

Vision to Viability Two Day Workshop – 29 February & 1 March ($80)
This interactive, intensive workshop will provide you with the tools to establish and maintain your creative vision.  You will learn about setting realistic and achievable goals, creative time management and speaking confidently and articulately about your arts practice. Guest speakers give practical advice on successfully taking on challenges and opportunities as a creative practitioner.

ArtsLab workshops and seminars are held at Kerr Street Artspace, Devonport, Auckland.  To find out more about ArtsLab or to register your attendance please contact Lynn Lawton at pace@depotartspace.co.nz or (09) 9632328.

Business of Arts Three Day Workshop – 12, 13, 14 March – ($150)
An intensive and lively programme in which artists learn how to set themselves up as a business.  Practical knowledge and skills in GST, tax, costing & pricing structures, book keeping, marketing and writing a business plan are provided with manual and XL spreadsheets.

The programme is facilitated by experienced and entertaining company director Frances Denz.

ArtsLab workshops and seminars are held at Kerr Street Artspace, Devonport, Auckland.  To find out more about ArtsLab or to register your attendance please contact Lynn Lawton at pace@depotartspace.co.nz or (09) 9632328.

An exhibition by the students from the year-long Artist Mentoring Programme exhibit their final work:

REALISING YOUR POTENTIAL

ARTIST MENTORING PROGRAMME (AMP)

Artists Anne-Sophie Adelys and Andy Tolhurst have teamed up to offer a mentoring programme that will take you to the next step in your arts practice.

AMP is an exciting 32 week mentoring programme, aimed at intermediate and experienced artists. Each term will cover one aspect of arts practice. Students will receive guidance and mentoring from professional arts practitioners, develop their concept and participate in a group exhibition at the end of term 2 and term 4. This course will encourage artists to develop a professional art practice, create a body of work, be better prepared to navigate the arts environment and understand its expectations.

Want to know more about the course, go to http://ceac.org.nz/classes-workshops/artist_mentoring_programme.aspx

PS: Corban Estate Arts Centre is at: 426 Great North Rd, Henderson. The entrance to CEAC is at the intersection of Great North Rd, Lincoln Rd, Swanson Rd, and Mt Lebanon Lane, in Henderson. Then see map below:

To launch their new exhibition space side way - www.facebook.com/sideway.yac – the Youth Art Committee will be staging a collaborative art making performance at Artstation.

Come to the print room to watch the artists as they are allocated various restrictions on their bodies and behaviour while they use found material to make small objects, sculpture and drawing.

Performance from 2pm, live music at 4pm and an official opening of side way at 6pm where some of the work made during the performance will be installed.
Any work not chosen for side way’s first show can be taken away by the audience after 6!

2pm live art making by YAC and friends
4pm live music

For more information on us - https://www.facebook.com/youthartcommittee
& the launch https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=243231482391652

“Life is between B and D and is C, B being birth and D being death and C being choice…”

- Jean Paul Sartre

The most perceptible common denominator among a group of individuals who share identical ethnicity is the ethnicity itself. To form a broader common core, cultural and social elements might add another layer over the ethnicity. However, given that the individuals are of divergent professions, life styles, and other backgrounds, it is difficult to discern other viable common denominators. Therefore, despite the superficial connections outlined above, there is a little that can be drawn as a common theme or concern. In the end, artists can and do only speak for themselves for the choices made.

Flora Jeoung, Hara Kang, Suhee Kang, Sun Hoon Kim, Yoon Kim, Isaac Lee, Yuna Lee, Byung Ryoo