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.
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