Art on the Quay latest exhibition “Visualizing Effect”, paintings by Kathy-Lee Dixon

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Connected – New exhibition at Art on the Quay

The new exhibition at Art on the Quay is titled “Visualizing Effect”, and is paintings by Kathy-Lee Dixon.

Kathy-Lee Dixon is a Fine Arts Graduate having completed

her BFA (Hons) at the University of Auckland, Elam School

of Fine Arts. Kathy-Lee’s art is one of disclosure, using life

events as inspiration for her creativity. Her multi-disciplinary

practice offers a range of mixed media works from drawing,

painting, textile/soft sculptures and art installation.

Kathy-Lee’s art practice questions ‘what gives a domestic

place its specificity ~ being the quality of belonging or

relating uniquely to a subject or space.’

Kathy-Lee’s interest expands into the psychology of self and

identity, investigating intransitive activities and the tensions

that occur between thought, perception and visualising

affect.

KYDz Youth Art Exhibition

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An Art Exhibition with the theme ‘Kiwiana Summer Holiday’ organised by KYDz (Kaiapoi Youth Divisonz).

Participating schools; St Patricks, Kaiapoi North and Kaiapoi Borough Schools.

The exhibition will be on display in Art on the Quay, which is inside the Kaiapoi Library, from December 21st 2018 – February 6th 2019.

A must see over the Christmas holidays!

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Lisa Powers – Silence, Stillness, Solitude

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Lisa Powers – Silence, Stillness, Solitude
Latest exhibition is on show at the Art on the Quay gallery in the Kaiapoi library

Tell us about what sort of preparation went into your current show?

I started planning the show the minute the title came to me.  Everything seemed to fall into place from there.  Nearly all the images are either completely new, or re-worked. I started a series of still-life photographs of flowers, which I hadn’t done before.  I experimented with the different shades of Cyanotype, and   I named the series, “Even Flowers get the Blues”.  I developed a sepia colour that has an underlay of gold that I really like for my vintage-look images.

My helpers are always my faithful kitties. We work well together, and they remind me to take breaks. Otherwise, I’d work straight through days and nights.

I feel satisfied with the images I selected. I was anxious and fearful at the prospect of a solo exhibition, but as with anything else, I immersed myself in the work, and soon saw the exhibition taking shape.  An artist friend said to “imagine it finished, and it will be done!”  Good advice.

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