Culture / Visual Arts
The Outgames will provide a rare and exciting opportunity to see works from many of New Zealand’s top lesbian and gay artists on show at the same time, and all within easy strolling distance!
Michael Parmenter by Rebecca Swan
Rebecca Swan's art practice has richly and beautifully reflected sexuality and gender identity for over fifteen years. Many of the subjects in her portraits are, or have become, icons within the queer community in New Zealand, Australia and America.
Her sexual imagery foregrounds the viewer’s sexuality through the reading of, and erotic response to, the subjects. She presents Sweat for the Outgames.
Les 2005 by Anna-Marie O'Brien, oil on board
Mary Newton Gallery
Gavin Hurley, Anna-Marie O'Brien, Lonnie Hutchinson, Lauren Lysaght, and Jim Cooper among others will present an exhibition of work at Mary Newton Gallery. The Spice Girls Come-back Tour will include works in a range of media that share the subtext that 'gay' identity is a many-faceted and fluid notion.
Louise Purvis
Geoff Dixon, Louise Purvis and Paul Rayner will show at Bowen Galleries.
Geoff lives and works in Cairns, Queensland, but he was born in Bluff, at the southernmost-tip of New Zealand’s South Island. Many of his recent works focus on issues of survival and adaptation.
Louise Purvis has worked and studied in Europe and completed a number of large public commissions, including Seismic, a 2006 work for Wellington.
English-born Paul Rayner moved to New Zealand in 1973. He now works solely on his pottery.
Please contact the Arts Convenor for more information.
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