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Artist: Poet: Artist
Gregory O’Brien and John Lyall: an exhibition featuring two artists and their poetry.
Poetry & Art have had a long tradition inspiring each other and partnering together.
GREGORY O’BRIEN is a painter and writer of poetry, fiction and non-fiction. Described as ‘highly original’ and ‘constantly surprising’ his poetry and his artworks are very much interlinked. O’Brien combines his love of uncovering the histories and stories about locations and events with the sheer joy of his own first hand experiences. His is whimsical approach. His poems may be presented in written forms but also pictorially and often his artworks are interwoven with text.
The show will include new works following his recent travels to Raoul Island, in the Kermadecs, as one of nine artists invited to visit the island and develop a body of artworks which will be exhibited later this year at Tauranga Art Gallery to raise awareness to the need to care about our oceans and environment.
Alongside will be earlier artworks inspired by summers on Waiheke, and travels to Fiordland as well as new suite of etchings for which O’Brien collaborated with fellow artist and poet John Pule.
For artist JOHN LYALL poetry is “a way of trapping things that would otherwise drift away.” It allows him to “remember, reminisce, and tease out”. Not all of his poems are written at the time of an event; by looking back or re-writing later he has found he often contextualizes the event differently.
The writing which begun in his school days has become for Lyall a poetic autobiography – be it an idiosyncratic one. The poems provide for us an insight into the artist and his experiences, be they from his travels to participate in an exhibition in Sarajevo, or a response to his own artwork.
Do join us at the opening National Poetry Day Friday 22 July 6-7.30pm and enjoy listening to readings
from three local poets – Bob Orr, John Pule and John Lyall.
Viewing: Wednesday – Friday 10.00am - 5.30pm and Saturday 10.00am - 3.00pm
By Appointment - Monday, Tuesday
Address:Jane Sanders ART Agent, Level 1, Blackett's Building, cnr Shortland and Queen StreetsDate:22/07/2011 to 13/08/2011Phone:09 358 2625Website:View Website
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