Leading Wellington art gallery {Suite} is presenting two pop-up exhibitions at 95 Willow St, Tauranga.
Strive Towards Your Destiny group's three painters exhibited together for the first time in 2008 at City Gallery in Wellington. Irene Ferguson, Arie Hellendoorn and Douglas Stichbury draw their influences from a diverse range of
sources, such as portraiture, motivational slogans, geometric abstraction and the principles of academic history painting.
Ferguson was a finalist in The BP Portrait Award at the National Portrait Gallery, London, in 2006, and won the New Zealand Portrait Gallery/Adam Award in 2008. She holds an MFA from the New York Academy of Fine Art, New York.
Hellendoorn and Stichbury studied Fine Arts at Massey University, Wellington.
The second exhibition features prints from Ans Westra's seminal 1963 series Washday at the Pa. Originally published as a journal for primary schools, Washday at the Pa followed a day in the life of a rural Maori family awaiting relocation to a state house in the city. Following protests by the Maori Women's Welfare League the book was controversially withdrawn.
