Past ArtSpeaks

Rob Garrett

Monday 4th Aug, 7pm
Rob will be speaking to the T [error] exhibition by the Habeas Corpus Collective, including Bernie Harfleet, Jude Nye, Dustin Rabjohn and Donna Sarten.

Florian Habicht & Warwick Broadhead

Monday 1st Sept, 7pm

Innovative filmmaker Florian Habicht and renowned performing artist and director, Warwick Broadhead in conversation about Habicht’s latest film, Rubbings from a Live Man; an intimate portrait of Broadheads extraordinary life and work.

Emily Perkins

Monday 29th September, 7pm

Emily Perkins, acclaimed New Zealand writer, will be talking about her latest book, Novel About My Wife and the challenges of pursuing a literary career. Novel About My Wife has been described as ‘dark, sensuous and utterly compelling… a sexy, chilling novel about the secrets that lie at the heart of every marriage’.

Copies of Novel About My Wife will be available for sale at the talk.

Warwick Brown

Monday 4th May, 7pm

Join us to hear Warwick Brown, renowned art critic and writer, contextualise artist Andrew Tolhurst’s work within the great tradition of geometric abstraction.

Andrew’s exhibition aims to reach people on several different levels. Awareness of the environment around us is paramount. The Neo Pop-cultural fallout is up there too. This style of artwork is a reaction, if not, a development of the injection moulded, plastic fabricated, on the go, throw it away society we have created for ourselves.

The artist, troubled by the rubbish accumulating on the streets of his home in Piha, has collected the discarded and well known packaging and has reproduced and manipulated the branding, making identification elusive but strangely familiar.

Selina Tusitala Marsh, Serie Barford and Doug Poole

Wednesday 16 September, 7pm

Waitakere City Samoan poets speak to the Spirit of the People - New Melanesian Art exhibition. Selina Tusitala Marsh is the author of Fast Talking PI, published in 2009. Serie Barford is the author of Tapa Talk and Doug Poole is the editor of poetry e-zine Blackmail Press as well as author of Pouliuli.

In association with okaioceanikart and Going West Books and Writers Festival.

Edith Amituanai

Thursday 25th March, 6:30pm

Edith Amituanai will discuss her new series of photographs with Allan McDonald, photographer and Lecturer of Design and Visual Arts at Unitec.

Melissa Anderon Scott

Thursday 22nd April, 6:30 pm

Melissa Anderson Scott, Artist John Lyall, and other ‘sitters’ will meet to discuss the process and concept behind Under Scrutiny.

Notes on this artspeak are available on our blog PROJECTSPACE

The Vigneron

Thursday 28th October, 7pm

ARTSPEAK AND WINE TASTING to accompany The Vigneron exhibition by Alt Group.
Corban family descendents, Alwyn, Brian and Ben will speak about Najib Corban (Brian’s father, Ben’s Grandfather) and the award winning book. A tasting of a selection of wines from the Ngatarawa winery (owned and operated by Alwyn Corban & Brian Corban) will also be on offer. Free entry.

Tea Party

SATURDAY 14 MAY, 2PM.
$6 per person Includes artist’s talk, a complimentary designer cupcake and unlimited tea! More cupcakes will also be available for purchase.

Afternoon Tea Party with artists Audrey Coles, Holly Roach and Jo Mclean speak about the artworks in their exhibitions; These things define me…and Bird Speak. While viewing the art you can partake in a selection of Twining’s teas and a designer cupcake or two (or three)!
Numbers will be limited so bookings essential:
Ph 838 4455 or email: info@ceac.org.nz

Tea proudly supplied by Twinings

Salt Group and Evan Woodruffe

SATURDAY 29TH OCTOBER, 2PM
FREE ENTRY

Members of the Salt Group, Mary Botica, Alison Granville, Ann Palmer and Jayne Thomas talk about their different painting techniques and the advantages of working as a group studio. Evan Woodruffe will give a talk about the huge array of artists’ materials that are available to artists today, and how these directly influence the end result of an artwork.
Evan Woodruffe is an exhibiting artist and respected tutor of artists’ materials and techniques. He was awarded the 2011 Molly Morpeth Canaday Award, the 2003 Becroft Foundation Premier Award and has works in significant collections, such as the Wallace Art Trust. His work is represented by OREXART Gallery in Auckland.