Ogle Gallery

Read about our upcoming and current exhibitions in our Main Building's Ogle Gallery - visit and sit down with a cup of coffee from the Cafe! 


Lines and Colors - Chinese Children Art Group Show

Friday 26 January 2024 - Friday 2 February 2024

Lake House Arts is pleased to present:


Lines and Colours
Chinese Children Art Group Show

Ogle Gallery

Friday 26th January - Friday 2nd February

 

'Lines and Colours' is a selection of recently completed drawings by young artists, all living on the North Shore, and between the ages of six and thirteen years old. They are students of Lake House Arts tutors Xinli and Shay Xie Deng art classes.


 


Rachael Smith & Gerard Emery - Echoes in Time

Saturday 28 October 2023 - Friday 17 November 2023

Echoes in Time

Rachael Smith & Gerard Emery

Ogle Gallery

Saturday October 28th - Friday November 17th

Opening Celebration: 4pm Sunday October 29th

 

Artist Talk: 11am Saturday 4th November

 

Lake House Arts is pleased to present 'Echoes in Time', a photographic exhibition by Rachael Smith and Gerard Emery.

Juxtaposing histories through imagery from a German Concentration Camp and New 
Zealand Postage stamps.

“Echoes in time” invites the viewer to explore a unique and thought-provoking collection of 
work highlighting the striking contrast between two seemingly disparate, yet inextricably 
entwined narratives. Imagery created using subjects from the same era, this exhibition 
showcases the divergent paths taken by humanity during a pivotal period in history. The 
careful selection of archival photographs capturing the starkness inside a concentration 
camp, juxtaposed with the vibrant colours of New Zealand pictorial history, a landscape 
untouched by the immediate physical devastation of war, but deeply impacted by conflict. 
We invite you to engage in a visual dialogue that challenges our perception of history and 
interconnectedness.


Patterns of Memory:Korean Moshi Jogakbo Patchwork Art

Sunday 15 October 2023 - Friday 27 October 2023

Moshi Jogakbo is a traditional Korean patchwork technique with deep cultural significance. It involves creating vibrant textiles used as wrapping cloths for various purposes, symbolising connections between givers and receivers. These clothes were passed down through generations and carried meanings through colours, patterns, and stitching techniques. This Korean jogakbo exhibition is an exhibition where people who love traditional Korean gyobang(women's life in Joseon) crafts gather to share their stories.

Opening Celebration: Sunday 16th October 4pm Ogle Gallery


Matthew Son - In Search of Ordinary Life

Saturday 30 September 2023 - Friday 13 October 2023

Matthew Son

In Search of Ordinary Life

Ogle Gallery

September 30th - 13th October

Opening celebration: 4pm Sunday 1st October

 

What does the “ordinary” mean? Humans always long for something special. 

          However, its speciality is just an illusion. After reaching the speciality that humans  

          have pursued so much, the speciality is no longer special. 

          This is because humans seek out another speciality. 

          

          The future’s speciality is an illusion. Enjoying the mediocrity of the present, that  

          could be missed due to the illusion, will be the best happiness humans can have.  

 

          After all, enjoying everyday ordinary life is a already enjoying the special life that  

          you have dreamed of. 

          Ordinary daily life in this sense will always be the main theme of my artworks.

 

Artist Biography: 

        

           My name is YG Matthew Son. I was born in Korea in 1952 and immigrated to NZ with     

           my family in 1992.   I currently live in Takapuna, North Shore.  

           I majored in graphic design at Chung-Ang University in Seoul, Korea, and  

           after graduation, I was in charge of advertising design and advertising production for       

           various companies for about 10 years at a large inhouse agency.         

           After that, I became independent and ran a private advertising production company   

           for 7 years. Even though I worked so passionately, I wanted to paint someday.  

           When I came to NZ, I had to work on my livelihood, so I couldn't start painting until I 

           was over 60 years old.    

           I started learning painting at Lake House Art Class for two years.   

           I participated in the 8th group exhibition and another small group exhibition  

           of 3 artists as a member of the Korean Art Association in Auckland, NZ.

           I will be opening my first private exhibition at Lake House Art Center in 

           Takapuna. The period is scheduled from September 29 to October 13. 

 


Stephen Perry - Climate Resistance

Saturday 16 September 2023 - Friday 29 September 2023

Stephen Perry

Climate Resistance

Photographic Exhibition

Ogle Gallery

Spetember 16th - 29th

Opening celebration: 4pm Sunday 17th September

 

The work is about the futility of hard constructions to hold back the daily tides and weather that is marking climate change. It's almost a metaphor for the climate denialism that persists.
 


Introduction to Mātauranga for Artists

Monday 18 September 2023 - Monday 18 September 2023

Elevate your artistry through cultural immersion at the "Introduction to Mātauranga forArtists" workshop, a collaboration guided by Natanahira Pona. This transformative experience welcomes artists of every stage to explore the profound realms of Mātauranga Māori. Unveil narratives and symbolism that resonate through brushstrokes and forms. Whether a novice or expert, join us for an enriching journey where tradition meets innovation, fostering a richer artistic narrative inspired by Māori tikanga.


Journey with Mātauranga - Staff & Ambassadors Exhibition

Saturday 2 September 2023 - Friday 15 September 2023

Journey with Mātauranga

Staff & Ambassadors Exhibition

Ogle Gallery

3rd - 17th September

Opening Celebration: 4pm Sunday 3rd September


Copyright and IP for Creatives - Free Workshops

Thursday 7 September 2023 - Thursday 7 September 2023 - 21:00

Copyright and IP for Creatives Free Workshop
Curious about copyright?
One of the challenges we creative people face is that common knowledge of copyright is sometimes at variance with the actual law, leading to misunderstandings, infringements and confusion.
Supported by Manatū Taonga Ministry of Culture and Heritage, and presented by Copyright Licensing New Zealand (CLNZ), Karen Workman will be giving us an overview of our rights as creators, building our basic understanding of Copyright and guiding stronger business practices. Let's demystify the Copyright Act, and learn how to "do the right thing" as we sharpen our business acumen and build a stronger creative platform.

Lake House Arts - Community Photo Challenge

Saturday 27 May 2023 - Friday 9 June 2023


Opening celebration


4pm Sunday 28 May


Lake House Arts' Community Photo Exhibition returns for the fourth year in a row, featuring photographs taken by Lake House Arts' members.

Spanning over a variety of styles and techniques – from the volcanic landscapes of the North Shore, to animals and fleeting moments of the everyday – the community photo exhibition caters to all ages and abilities.

Open to current Lake House Arts members to submit an artworks. To submit your photograph, please email Hannah at arts@lakehousearts.org.nz

 

Photos must be a minimum of 2MB, 300 dpi is recommended. A3 prints may be scaled down due to file quality.

Submissions due until 12pm Friday 26th May.
 


Thursday Art Club - Group Exhibition

Saturday 29 April 2023 - Friday 12 May 2023

Thursday Art Club

Group Exhibition

Joanne Mortimore, Louise Sillitoe, Penny Adams, Shan Craig, Cynthia Archer, Pauline Feltham

'The Thursday Art Club' took its name from Richard Osman's 'The Thursday Murder Club'. There are five of us - all great fans of Richard Osman's books. Mostly we paint in watercolours, but sometimes an acrylic or two might appear.

We meet on a Thursday and can easily spend the day painting and enjoying each other's company. In between, we set the world right commenting back and forth on the news of the day and what is happening on the global spectrum.

Elizabeth Warde paints portraits and landscapes using her photography to reflect details and shapes for trees and water.

Penny Adams paints landscapes, yachts, tree - anything with lots of colour and contrast - and paints it very well indeed.

Shann Craig is very good with animals and landscapes - subjects close to her heart from her native South Africa. Her paintings of giraffes are to die for!

Louise Sillitoe paints landscapes and still life - anything that has plenty of colour and contrast.

Joanne Mortimore's favourite subjects are South Island landscapes and occasional flocks of sheep.

Cynthia Archer paints birds and landscapes in both watercolour and acrylic.

Pauline Feltham specialises in painting bird life using both watercolours and acrylics.

 

 


Jessica Douglas - Unbounded

Saturday 1 April 2023 - Friday 28 April 2023

Jessica Douglas

Unbounded

Ogle Gallery

1st - 28th April

Opening celebration: 4pm Sunday 2nd April

Jessica’s practice investigates the complexity of human relationships which are inherently intertwined and interconnected, to acknowledge that we rely on each other for our physical and psychological well being and survival. She draws on the metaphor of the cell walls semi-permeable membrane to evoke the concept of separation and transmission simultaneously; conveying ideas of transference, seepage and flow between distinct separate entities. Application of paint brushed on in thin wash overlapping layers illustrate ideas of complex interconnections, proximity and exchange. Under and over layers are highlighted equally. Lines / edges act as barriers and bridges halting flow while at other times creating connecting channels. Similarly, colour oscillates between oppositional strident complementary combinations, and closely related colours sitting alongside each other to create vivid and hovering compositional colour plays. 

Her practice inhabits a transitional space that evokes an inner world revealing rational and irrational truths. Each painting emerges from the canvas through a meditative and intuitive decision making process, with mistakes and process visible, to create works that open up and evolve before the eye.

Jessica has recently had work in The National Contemporary Art Award 2022, The Aotearoa  art fair in  21 and 22, and  solo exhibition ‘Cells’ at Northart in 2021. She has a Masters of Fine Arts from Auckland University and has received the Sawtell-Turner Painting Prize, the Bickerton-Widdowson Trust Memorial Scholarship, University of Canterbury, and the Joe Raynes Scholarship, University of Auckland. Her work is held in several New Zealand collections.

 


Michael Angelo - Solo Exhibition

Saturday 4 March 2023 - Friday 17 March 2023

Michael Angelo

Solo Exhibition

Ogle Gallery

4th March - 17th March

Opening celebration: Sunday 5th March, 4pm

 

Artist statement:

"Carving is part of my Maori Heritage. My maternal grandfather, Pani Paora was Maori of full blood, Ngāti Wharekōkōwai, Ngāti Kahungunu and Tūhoe. He was a talented artist, poet and a very creative man. I learned my art at The Learning Connexion in Wellington and Lower Hutt. I graduated with a Diploma in Art and Creativity with Honours. In 1999 I met Tony Kāpua at Papaiouru Marae, Ohinemutu Rotorua, where my mother grew up with her Arawa whanau. After watching Tony carving for about an hour he invited me to try it. He drew a pattern on a piece of rimu, gave me a chisel and mallet and said “carve this”. Although I had never done anything like this before he was so surprised at how well I had done and he said to me “Don’t put the tools down!” He said I had a natural talent and most of his students would take months to achieve what I had; in less than an hour. Subsequently I spent 6 months further training at Mihiroa Marae, Pakipaki, tutored by Master Carver, Tūhoe Huata. I also worked with Te Maru Marsh at Te Poho-o-Tangiianui Marae in Napier. In this time I learnt the significance of the Tribal patterns/styles of different Iwi and Master Carvers. I now carve in my own unique style which enables me to combine my fascination with carving and colour. I don’t plan my carvings and painting, the inspiration just comes from my soul, guided by the spiritual aspects of nature. The happiest memories of my childhood were playing in the trees, surrounded by the birds, flowers, all living things and the way in which light and colour influenced my world."

- Michael Angelo


Spring Soirée - Members Mini Exhibition

Sunday 2 October 2022 - Friday 2 December 2022

Lake House Arts presents Spring Soirée 

An exhibition of mini-sized works to celebrate Spring in our Ogle Gallery.

Sunday 2nd October – Friday 2nd December, 2022 

Opening Celebration: Sunday 9th October, 4pm 

Open to all current members to enter. To update your membership, please login to your account and go to 'My Details', then 'My Membership'. On this page you can pay for another year of membership.

 

Works must be no larger than 30 x 42 cm - the size of an A3 piece of paper.

One submission per artist

 

To download the submission form, click here.


Auckland Plein Air Artists Inaugural Group Exhibition

Sunday 11 September 2022 - Friday 30 September 2022

Opening celebration: 4pm Sunday 11th September, Becroft Gallery

Artist talk: 11am, Saturday 17th September, Becroft Gallery

 

The Auckland Plein Air group of artists was originally set up by Russell Hollings and a few of his artist friends. The group is made up of both professional and student artists, meeting up once a month to paint at various locations around the Auckland area. The term plein air is a French term, which simply means “in the open air”, and was first used by the French impressionist movement, who preferred to paint in the open air to capture the true light, colour and atmosphere, something that is not achievable from photographs in a studio. This movement has now taken off around the world, and is recognised as one of the fastest growing movements in the art world.

Included in this exhibition are 10 artists from the group, with each artist exhibiting four of their most recent works. The exhibition is the group’s first, and it is intended that we will be making it an annual event to be held here at the wonderful Lake House Arts

 

Opening Celebration

Sunday 11th September 4pm

Across Becroft & Ogle Galleries

Lake House Arts

37 Fred Thomas Drive

Takapuna


'Our Matariki' An exhibition showcased by the schools on the Takapuna-Devonport peninsula

Tuesday 23 August 2022 - Thursday 8 September 2022

 

'Our Matariki' is an exhibition that showcases how the schools on the Takapuna-Devonport peninsula celebrated the months of Matariki in 2022. Alongside larger peninsula wide celebrations, many schools held their own community festivals and classroom activities. A cross section of these events and experiences are documented here through artworks, stories, photography and video.

Schools represented are:

Takapuna Grammar • Belmont Intermediate • Devonport Primary • Belmont Primary • Vauxhall Primary • Hauraki School • Wilson School • Bayswater School • Stanley Bay School • St Leo's Catholic School

Seven of these schools belong to the Devonport-Takapuna Kāhui Ako or Community of Learning. This exhibition has run biannually in different forms since 2017 and continues to create a visual focus and identity for the Devonport-Takapuna Kāhui Ako. In addition, it gives our ākonga the experience of displaying their work in a public space. For many of our young participants it will be their first time in such a show. 

Works will also be displayed in the upstairs gallery.

'Our Matariki' Community Celebration - Sat 27 August - Lake House Arts - 3-5pm


Wild About Colour : Catherine Mitchell & Diane Taylor

Sunday 1 August 2021 - Sunday 22 August 2021

Opening celebration: Sunday 1st August 4pm, Ogle Gallery

Capturing the colours of life can lead to many different expressions and feelings. Colour can be bright, invigorating and uplifting, or it can be subdued, quiet and relaxed. Depending on how we feel, can relate to the colours we like to surround ourselves. Colour has traditional definitions, White for purity, black for darkness, red being fiery, green being clean and eco-friendly. Blue can be cool and fresh like the sea and yellow, warm like the sun. We have created a mixture of feelings and expressions with this collection.


He Kākano Ahau and Te ao Mārama

Sunday 20 June 2021 - Friday 9 July 2021

Guest artist Ramari Tauroa-Tibble had her first solo exhibition in our cafe gallery in 2020, progressing to a dual feature exhibition in the Becroft Gallery for Matariki Festival 2021. She is joined by Lake House Arts whakairo (carving) students, under the direction of Natanahira Ponawho. The students will create beautifully carved finial, which will be exhibited on the gallery floor, complimented by Tauroa-Tibble's paintings on the walls. Upon completion of the exhibition the finials will be blessed and installed on the main building of Lake House Arts.


Autumn Rush - Free Members' Exhibition

Sunday 2 May 2021 - Friday 28 May 2021

Call for works: Free Members' mini Exhibition - Autumn Rush at Lake House Arts

Download the entry form here.

Opening Celebration: 4pm Sunday 2nd May at Lake House Arts

Lake House Arts are pleased to announce our next free member's show 'Autumn Rush', where members are invited to submit one small original artwork responding to this theme. 

Following in the spirit of our Great Art Sale, 'Autumn Rush' will be displayed in the Ogle Gallery, reception and hallways in a salon-style hang. Entry is free, however all works are to be presented in the parameters of 40 x 40 cm.

The size limit is 40 x 40cm for wall-works (including frames), or 40 x 40 x 40 depth for objects.

Please fill out the attached entry form, and tape to the back of your work when delivering on Friday April 30th.

Key dates:
Friday April 30th - Delivery of all artworks to Lake House Arts (9.30am - 3pm)
Tuesday May 4th - Artworks to be installed
Friday May 28th 2pm - Unsold artworks to be collected by artists. A reminder email to collect works will be sent out in the days prior to May 28th.
Important notes:
-All works must be exhibition-ready. This means all wall works must have a wire across the back, or d-rings installed to secure to our exhibition hanging system safely. If works are not exhibition ready, we can offer to install d-rings for artists for $7.
-All works are for sale, and are subject to Lake House Arts' 35% + gst commission.
 


Clare Woods - Member Exhibition

Friday 9 April 2021 - Friday 30 April 2021

Clare Woods
Member Exhibition
Ogle Gallery
7th - 30th April

About Clare Woods:

INTUITIVE ABSTRACT ARTIST

For as long as I can remember, painting and design have been a huge part of my life. As a child I was given free rein. My parents were super supportive of my creative streak. I have vivid memories of bright colours and patterns spilling over my walls from the water colours I’d painted on the windows. Other kids in the street couldn’t believe I was allowed to paint anything I wanted to in my space.

I studied various art forms, majoring in graphic design and my art career began as a junior studio artist for one of New Zealands most prestigious graphic designers. It was the beginning of an amazing pathway in design that lead me to work as an art director for several leading advertising agencies. During that time digitalised design became the new normal. A really exciting progression.

I started my own design company in 1999 and began specialising in childrens book design. I loved it. At the same time I started to paint for my boys, and that lead to my own childrens art brand.

I have always been making art of one kind or another including fibre art and I really love a good yarn bomb in the middle of the night!

For the last decade I have been designing for web. It’s such an interesting field. The projects are incredibly diverse and every day is a school day! I get a real kick out of interpreting a client brief and making it sing.

It’s when I paint, though, that I am in my happy place. I am in an intuitive botanical phase at the moment. It’s very free and yet organised. I have no magic statement to make. I just want the viewer to feel good.

If I’m not designing or painting, I’m walking with my husband and our black lab Louie.

www.clarewoods.co.nz


MINWHA - The Beauty of Korean Folk Painting

Sunday 31 January 2021 - Sunday 14 February 2021

MINWHA - The Beauty of Korean Folk Painting

In essence, Minhwa(Korean folk painting) is a genre of art created for the common people. The Korean folk painting illustrates the common people's freedom of expression and reveals their innermost thoughts and dreams. The art work of the common people (Minhwa) from bird and flower paintings, to the tiger and the dragon and the ten longevity symbols. Encompassing a variety of subjects and methods of expression, Minhwa was created through a strong adherence to the symbols and events of the everyday lives of Koreans. As a result, they are heavily invested with a uniquely Korean psyche in terms of both content and philosophy. The exhibition will give encouragement to students who learning Korean folk painting and to develop their social skills in diverse cultural background.
 


Mid-winter Minis Members Exhibition

Sunday 19 July 2020 - Tuesday 1 September 2020

Lake House Arts Members were invited to submit small artworks (under 30cmx30cm) for a mid-winter wall-hung mini art exhibition in the Ogle Gallery.  This is a salon-style exhibition in the Ogle Gallery (Lake House Cafe).  Members submit up to 5 small artworks.  Artworks will exhibit until Spring.

Members are still elcome to add to the exhibition - email manager@lakehousearts.org.nz .To become a member of Lake House Arts and take advantage of all the great benefits members have click HERE

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