Arty facts

Flight (Chain Hill and the Middle Hills), by Bruce Hunt.
Flight (Chain Hill and the Middle Hills), by Bruce Hunt.
A look at what's happening in the world of art.

 

In very good company

Dunedin dance and film innovator Good Company Arts has scored another coup, with its film Matchbox being selected for a top Spanish film festival.

VAD International Video and Digital Arts Festival will hold the European premiere of the film in October.

The world premiere of the film is being held in the Metro Cinema in Dunedin as part of the 2008 Otago Festival of the Arts in October.

The 50-minute dance film features Dunedin performance artists Caroline Claver, Tim Fletcher, Kilda Northcott, Richard Huber, Courtney Poulier, Donnine Harrison and Daniel Belton.

The Good Company Arts film After Durer was also selected for the festival, which runs from October 15 to 19 in Girona, Spain.

Height of anticipation

Dunedin artist Bruce Hunt explores a remote series of valleys bordering the St Bathans Range in his latest exhibition, "Summit Fever".

"My paintings attempt to lay out a region's distinctive character and geography at the feet of the viewer," he says.

"They are manipulations of reality realised through arrangements of form and layers of atmosphere.""Summit Fever" opens at Milford Gallery at 5.30pm tomorrow and runs until August 27.

Bruce Hunt will attend a preview at 5.30pm tomorrow.

Riches of the Middle East

A Saudi Arabian Cultural Exhibition runs at the University of Otago Union Hall tomorrow and Monday and Tuesday of next week, between 10am and 5pm.

Musical performance, multimedia presentations, food, drinks and more.

Not strictly for the birds

Designers in the Novadown Fashioned Feathers Wearable Arts Show unveil their creations in the Otago Museum foyer from 8pm tonight.

Doors open at 7.30pm.

Proceeds from an auction will go to the Make-A-Wish Foundation of New Zealand.

Dig it

Bannockburn artist and archaeologist Megan Huffadine opens her first Dunedin exhibition tomorrow, "A cache of talismans", at Milford Gallery, of works sculpted in board.