Maryrose Crook: In the Pines

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Tue 19 Jul ’11, 5:30pm–7:30pm	Saving
Wed 20 Jul ’11, 11:00am–5:30pm	Saving
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Where: Bartley + Company Art, 56a Ghuznee St, Te Aro, Wellington Show map

Restrictions: All Ages

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Admission: Free

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Bartley + Company Art

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Alison Bartley

Please join us and meet Maryrose Crook at the opening preview 5.30 - 7.30pm, Tuesday 19 July 2011.

Exhibition runs from 19 July - 13 August 2011.

Bartley + Company Art is pleased to present Maryrose Crook’s second solo exhibition with the gallery. Her distinctive surreal and metaphorical dreamscapes have established a strong following for their rich content, luscious surfaces and high degree of technical proficiency. Described as New Zealand’s Frida Kahlo she draws imagery from the subconscious to create surprising and highly original juxtapositions of nature and culture. Her paintings can be described as fantastical landscapes, a distinctive genre in New Zealand painting.

Crook started painting seriously in the mid 1990s and quickly attracted attention - within a year of showing her first paintings in a Dunedin café, she had an exhibition at the Dunedin Public Art Gallery. Since then she has exhibited widely and won a range of residencies and awards including the 2003 William Hodges Fellowship, the 2005 Waikato Art Award merit award, and the 2006 Wallace Development Award. The latter award gave her significant international opportunities in China, with the Red Gate Artist Residency, and in Berlin. Christchurch-based, she has continued to paint during the disruptions of the past ten months and the influence of this period as well as her travels can be seen to play out in her painting.

Performance from The Renderers, 7.15pm.
Maryrose Crook is also a singer songwriter and a member with her partner Brian Crook of the acclaimed band The Renderers. Maryrose and Brian will perform a quiet set in the gallery towards the end of the opening.

The Ghuznee Street Public Art Billboard
A new project by Vanessa Crowe
Also launching 5.30 - 7.30 Tuesday 19 July 2011

We are delighted to announce that Vanessa Crowe is the winner of the third billboard project in this series supported by the Creative Communities Wellington Local Funding Scheme. You are warmly invited to the launch of Vanessa’s project, which will take place alongside the above opening preview.