Art Exhibition & Sculpture Garden at St Margaret's College

                                                         
22 August 2016

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Art Exhibition & Sculpture Garden at St Margaret’s College

Gretchen Albrecht, Philip Trusttum, Miranda Parkes and Rebecca Rose among featured artists

Over 160 works of art by more than 80 New Zealand artists will be featured in the Art Exhibition & Sculpture Garden to be held at St Margaret’s College from 26-28 August. Organised by the school’s Parents’ and Friends’ Association to raise funds for the school, the event, in association with Principal Sponsors Craigs Investment Partners, is being curated by Penelope Jackson, well known art historian, curator and writer who is also presenting Collecting: A Personal Journey, a public talk on collecting art for personal or investment purposes on Saturday 27 August at 2pm in the Charles Luney Auditorium.

Among the art works on display in the Old Girls’ Atrium and Cranmer Quad will be artworks by Gretchen Albrecht, Philip Trusttum, Rebecca Rose, Darryn George, Philip Beadle, Jacquelyn Greenbank, Miranda Parkes, landscape painter Callum Arnold who is Head of Visual Arts at St Margaret’s College as well as up-and-coming artists and students from the University of Canterbury, Ara and St Margaret’s College.

“I wanted this event to be an opportunity for the Christchurch community to experience some wonderful artworks as well as raise funds for the school”, says current parent Nicky Averill, who is coordinating the event. “We have been delighted and humbled by the positive response from artists to present their work at the inaugural Art Exhibition & Sculpture Garden. All of the art is for sale and, with the large number of artists exhibiting, purchasing a piece of original art will be affordable for many people. A conscious decision was made to allow each artist to choose the level of commission for their work.”

The public talk on Saturday afternoon by Penelope Jackson is entitled Collecting: A Personal Journey. The award winning curator will share her experiences of collecting art and offer advice for those interested in purchasing art for personal or investment purposes.  This is not Jackson’s first visit to St Margaret’s College – teaching Art History at the school was her first teaching position following University and Teacher’s College. She won the 2013 Exhibition of the Year under $20,000 Museums Aotearoa with the sold-out Corrugations: the art of Jeff Thomson and her exhibition Lynley Dodd: A Retrospective is currently on tour in Australia. Jackson is also a Trustee of the NZ Art Crime Research Trust and presented at the inaugural art crime 15 symposium at City Gallery in Wellington.

The Art Exhibition & Sculpture Garden is free to attend and is open Saturday 27 August 9am-5pm and Sunday 28 August 9am-3pm. The public lecture by Penny Jackson Collecting: A Personal Journey is on Saturday 27 August at 2pm in the Charles Luney Auditorium, tickets are $10, door sales only. Maggie’s Café in Winchester Street will also be open from 9.00am-1.00pm over the weekend.

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For more information, please contact:

Nicky Averill, Coordinator

Ph: 0274 185 266

Email: caverill@xtra.co.nz

To contact Penelope Jackson:

Email: arthistorian@outlook.co.nz