This month at The Percy Thomson Gallery we received a very generous gift from the wife of artist, Graham Percy. A fascinating work from the 2012 exhibition, The Imaginative Life and Times of Graham Percy has been offered to the gallery on a permanent loan arrangement.
We have happily accepted this generous offer from Mari Mahr and the Graham Percy estate and look forward to receiving this work for our community to enjoy.
The Percy Thomson Gallery is proud to be hosting two graduate exhibitions. Portrait & Portrayal, is by our well respected former director, Sue Morton who has recently completed her diploma in photography from S.I.T. This show combines her life-long love of painting with a new passion for photography and puts a list of well-known Taranaki people in a revealing new light. Her subjects include the world's oldest usherette, Gwelfa Burgess, radio personality Bryan Vickery, artists Marianne Muggeridge, Roger Morris and Eltham's ultra-marathon runner Siegfried Bauer.
The joint exhibition, also showcases AUT masters candidate, Viv Davy, with her project, Liminal Sites: Materialising An Everyday, an 18-month creative chronicle of daily domestic life. Fascinated by what she describes as 'the inner workings of the everyday domestic setting' Viv Davy has spent a year and a half exploring her own home life and recording each day's happenings through different diaries, shapes and forms. This includes a fabric room constructed in the main gallery as well as large scale woven pieces made from the contents of a newspaper.
Please join us for our opening at Percy Thomson Gallery at 7.30 pm on Friday, September 18.
