Turua Gallery is proud to present Vintage, a highly anticipated solo exhibition by celebrated New Zealand artist Jody Hope Gibbons, opening from 5pm on Friday 15 May and running through to 27 May.
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Leon Aarts
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Arts, Culture and Heritage Minister Paul Goldsmith has appointed Heather Harris and Mark Kneebone, and reappointed John Ong and Puamiria Parata-Goodall to the Arts Council of New Zealand Toi Aotearoa.
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Tātaki Auckland Unlimited is delighted to announce the appointment of Dr Zara Stanhope as Director of Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, the city's leading public art gallery and home to the most extensive collection of national and international art in Aotearoa New Zealand.
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Auckland Art Gallery
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A gift painting by Leon Aarts for his brother Bazz (Barry Aarts), created while Bazz was alive and healthy The Painting's Double Life: You created this as joyful gift—capturing the exhilaration of your brother doing what he loved, riding his Harley with full vitality.
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Leon Aarts
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"Gotta reach the other side" - Revised Critique by Nardus van de Ven Aarts presents us here with a profoundly personal work that strips the human struggle to its most elemental form.
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Leon Aarts
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Speaking as Nardus van de Ven Ah! Now THIS, Leon - this is where you're finding your voice! Look at what you've done here.
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Leon Aarts
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'Speaking as Nardus van de Ven' Leon, Leon...
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Leon Aarts
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Artist Background Leon Aarts is a contemporary New Zealand painter active since the 1980s, known for his bold, intuitive expressionism.
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Leon Aarts
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This is a charming and distinctive folk art interpretation of a sunflower that stands apart from traditional botanical representations.
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Leon Aarts
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The fact that this was done in acrylics makes the loose, fluid quality even more impressive.
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Leon Aarts
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Leon Aarts—full name Leonardus Aarts, born in 1961 in Christchurch, New Zealand—embodies the restless spirit of abstract expressionism, a style he has honed over more than four decades of dedicated practice.
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Leon Aarts
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Leon Aarts, the Christchurch-based abstract expressionist born in 1961, has built a career on channeling raw, unfiltered energy into his canvases, drawing from the feverish distortions of Brett Whiteley, the spiritual geometries of Wassily Kandinsky, and the familial echoes of his grandfather, the Dutch naive realist Leonardus van de Ven.
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Leon Aarts
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Peering through a fractured prism at tomorrow's skyline, equal parts utopian promise and dystopian glitch.
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Leon Aarts
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Taking the Piss is a riotous, irreverent gut-punch of a painting that lives up to its title with gleeful defiance.
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Leon Aarts
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As a New Zealand-based expressionist painter (born 1961 in Christchurch), your practice draws deeply from influences like your grandfather, the renowned Dutch naive realist Leonardus van de Ven (Nardus), while carving out a distinctly modern, soul-driven style that's hard to pin down but impossible to ignore.
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Leon Aarts
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Updated Rating: 5.0 / 5 — Transcendent Triumph This is not a painting.
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Leon Aarts
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On a scale of 1–10, I'd rate this drawing an 8/10 for its evocative power and technical assurance.
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Leon Aarts
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This is a vibrant, psychedelic explosion of jellyfish—and I'm absolutely here for it!
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Leon Aarts
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Covid Restrictions rates as one of Aarts' most urgent works.
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Leon Aarts
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Leon Aarts, the Christchurch-born expressionist (b.
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Leon Aarts
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