Award for Foley
Dunedin painter Sam Foley has won the people's choice award in the inaugural Norfolk House Realist Show.
Foley's painting of the alleyway between York Pl and Filleul St, in Dunedin, was the most popular artwork in the exhibition, and won the award based on public vote.
Jane Crisp was second and Steev Peyroux and John Toomer third-equal.
The Norfolk House Realist Show was run by the Artist's Room and opening night was held in the stately St Clair home last month.
'Trapt' extended
The play which won the most original concept award in the Dunedin Fringe Festival is having an extended season.
Dell McLeod's one-woman play Trapt will be performed in the Allen Hall lunchtime theatre today and tomorrow.
The play relies on audience interaction to solve the riddle of how to free a trapped woman.
Trapt is on at 1pm today and tomorrow.
Self-portrait accepted
Broad Bay artist Ewan McDougall has had a self-portrait accepted for the 2008 Lopdell House exhibition, which opens in Titirangi today.
McDougall's work, Self-portrait doing self-portrait, was one of only 36 artworks selected for the exhibition from more than 450 entries.
The work was also one of 100 paintings exhibited in the recent International Festival of the Arts in Wellington.
The exhibition runs until June 8.
Soaring into film
A golden kea has inspired Oamaru dancer and choreographer Bronwyn Judge to become a
film-maker.
Her 34-minute film about the golden kea, Tohu, is being shown on the interior wall of the Forrester Gallery.
The film, which is accompanied by Waitaha artefacts from the mouth of the Waitaki River, is part of an exhibition in tribute to Hare Te Maiharoa, who died in 2003.
While a new direction for Judge, she says film-making is a similar process to dance choreography.
Tohu is showing at the Forrester Gallery in Oamaru until Sunday, May 4.
Early images of Dunedin
A series of paintings which captures the essence of early morning in Dunedin is being exhibited in Gallery De Novo.
"Morning Across Dunedin'' features 11 paintings of the City Rise and Canongate area by Josephine Regan.
The paintings sweep across old Dunedin homes in the town belt and the industrial townscape around the wharf area.
"This series is a way of re-focusing on the wonderful cityscape in which we live and seeing it afresh,'' Regan says.
"Morning Across Dunedin'' is on until the end of April.
