Sep
5
to Nov 5

The Green Belt Invitational

The Greenbelt Invitational at Olveston Historic Home

This coming spring, over the months of September and October, Olveston will be hosting a specially curated exhibition.

20 years on from my first Dunedin solo exhibition I’m inviting over 20 local and nationally-based artists to respond to Dunedin’s town-belt, the same subject that inspired that inaugural show.

With an opening night party, there could not be a more appropriate venue to explore what will be a diverse and varied creative investigation of our civic conservation heritage. Expect a performance or two on the night, with top-notch refreshments to accompany this inclusive exhibition. I’m also partnering with City Sanctuary to facilitate a donation for their vital pest control work in and around our city.

Numbers are strictly limited to the opening event on Friday the 5th of September, with tickets going on sale in the coming weeks at $45 each. If you are interested in attending the opening night, please click here, with Greenbelt Invitational in the subject line and the number of tickets requested.

The show will also be free to view over the 2-month period, during normal business hours.

Please add this exhibition to your calendar. It will be a must-see.

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Mar
31
to Dec 9

Across the Tracks

Please join me at The Artist’s Room for the finissage of my latest series.

Thank you to everyone who has shown interest in the monthly release of each work. I will be dropping the final 2 large paintings in the collection, along with 12 small oil paintings. This event will coincide with the gallery’s Christmas Exhibition so expect a wide and varied viewing experience.

No. 2 Dowling St in Dunedin, at 12pm, on Saturday the 9th December.

click here To download the full exhibition catalogue

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Feb
25
to Mar 12

Last Light in the Garden

Opening night chat (courtesy of Emily Lucas)

Last Light, Dunedin Botanical Gardens, oil on canvas, 150 x 110cm

My new collection is drawn from the labyrinthian pathways that form the Upper Gardens of Dunedin’s Botanical Garden. The title 'Last Light in the Garden' refers to the mythological expulsion of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden. It's a meditation on my feelings of climate crisis anxiety. Wherever you look, across all forms of media, it appears we are facing the very real threat of compounding species extinction and therefore looming expulsion of the human race from Planet Earth. Last Light meaning Last Chance to fix the problems we all face. A dour topic, yes. I hope the works are beautiful but not without an undercurrent of apprehension, this immovable weighted shadow. Who's to say the end of the world wouldn't be a beautiful cataclysm anyway?

The exhibition is now closed at The Dowling St Studios and has moved to The Artist’s Room Fine Art Gallery until 26th March.

All inquires to michelle@theartistsroom.co.nz

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Sep
4
to Oct 1

A Forest

Bob’s Cove Loop Track, oil on canvas with digital projection, 170 x 100cm

Bob’s Cove Loop Track, oil on canvas with digital projection, 170 x 100cm

Artbay Gallery, Queenstown

This new collection titled 'A Forest' explores the Wakatipu Basin and the varied wooded areas within. In response to the wildfires that ravaged Australia recently, I want to celebrate the remaining unique and fragile natural wonders we are so lucky to have. Everyday it becomes more evident that our forests are so very important.’

Click here to view exhibition catalogue

https://www.facebook.com/SamFoleynz1

www.artbay.co.nz/collections/sam-foley

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Dec
10
to Feb 23

NOCTURNE - Selected Wanderings 2004 - 2019

(Maori Rd, Dunedin - 2014, Berlin Rock Bar 2018)Nocturne – Selected Wanderings 2004-2019 is a survey of Sam Foley’s night works, spanning sixteen years. It features eighteen paintings from public, private and artist collections. Since his first fora…

(Maori Rd, Dunedin - 2004, Berlin Rock Bar 2018)

Nocturne – Selected Wanderings 2004-2019 is a survey of Sam Foley’s night works, spanning sixteen years. It features eighteen paintings from public, private and artist collections. Since his first foray into the leafy monochrome of Dunedin’s Town Belt he has kept coming back to the theme of ‘Night’. From the alleyways of his hometown Dunedin, to a snow-swept hill in Edinburgh, to the friendly corner bar in Berlin, Foley explores darkness in all its various landscapes.

The Pah Homestead, TSB Bank Wallace Arts Centre, 72 Hillsborough Rd, Hillsborough, Auckland

Courtesy of Emily Lucas

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Nov
22
to Dec 12

GRAFF - New Urban Landscapes from Home and Abroad

  • Dowling St Studios, 20 Dowling St (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS
1. Graff - Short for graffiti, ‘There is mad graff in Brooklyn.’Although graffiti and street-art have often appeared in my work, in the past it has been incidental to environment, whereas now this subject has taken front and centre. The new collecti…

1. Graff - Short for graffiti, ‘There is mad graff in Brooklyn.’

Although graffiti and street-art have often appeared in my work, in the past it has been incidental to environment, whereas now this subject has taken front and centre. The new collection explores the language of graff in multiple international and local urban environments, highlighting many similarities and contrasting the differences.

The Artist's Room Fine Art Gallery invites you to this exclusive launch 22nd November, 2017 5pm to 8pm.

Please note the opening will take place at the DOWLING ST STUDIOS, 20a DOWLING STREET, DUNEDIN.

Also viewing Sat 23rd, 12 - 2pm at the studio, then the exhibition moves to The Artist's Room from Tuesday 26th.

For information and pre-sale enquiries 03 474 1111 or michelle@theartistsroom.co.nz

Click here to download catalogue PDF
Click here to listen to Radio 1 interview with breakfast host Jamie Green



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Nov
10
to Nov 30

Dowling Street

'Rooftop Domestic, Back of Milford House', oil on canvas, 160 x 110cm

'Rooftop Domestic, Back of Milford House', oil on canvas, 160 x 110cm

Now 3 years since my last Dunedin show, this exhibition is a collection of paintings in, of and around about Dowling Street.

Having lived and worked on this street for 15 years the idea was to simply celebrate this colourful, diverse and very Dunedin location. Every place portrayed is within a short radius of my studio and makes for a personal idiosyncratic look at what is probably the unofficial Arts precinct of Dunedin. With 4 or 5 galleries or other art spaces on this one street, I'm sure if you crunched the numbers it would likely be the most densely populated arts area per-capita in the country. A wild claim perhaps but I think a good argument nonetheless.

I really have had a lot of fun putting this collection together. It's one those things where if you live and breath a location and have an idea for a painting, it can become so easy just to say 'I will paint that one later...' as it's literally right outside the window or front door. This exhibition pulls together the many strands and ideas about this place I call home.

Click here for exhibition invite PDF page 1 & page 2

Click here for exhibition catalogue PDF - Dowling Street

*Please note the show will open at The Dowling St Studios 6pm Friday 10th November and run there for the Saturday and Sunday 12pm - 2pm. From Monday 13th the show then moves to The Artist's Room, 2 Dowling St open 10 am to 5pm till November 30th.

All enquiries to -

THE ARTIST'S ROOM FINE ART GALLERY

michelle@theartistsroom.co.nz    +64 3 474 1111

Or click here to contact the artist

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May
14
to May 27

Rennande Vatn (Running Water), S9 Galleri, Oslo

                       Waterfall, Gudbransjuvet, Norway     Oil on canvas,      250cm x 150cm

                       Waterfall, Gudbransjuvet, Norway     Oil on canvas,      250cm x 150cm

After 3 years of solo wanderings, throughout various locations around central Norway, this collection of works will finally be show-cased together... under the one roof in Oslo city... at S9 Galleri.

All welcome.

Adr: Sverdrups gate 9, 0559 Oslo
Telefon: +47 980 41 778

http://sverdrupsgate9.no/

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Nov
28
to Feb 7

Sam Foley Moving Image Paintings: Past to Present

Intersection, Lachlan Ave and Queens Dr       Oil on canavs with digital projection      2008

Intersection, Lachlan Ave and Queens Dr       Oil on canavs with digital projection      2008

Sam’s solo exhibition in Pātaka‘s small gallery presents a selected survey of his paintings with animated projections as they have evolved over the last eight years. Most are urban nocturnes but there is also a work from 2010 of the Otira Gorge in which the sparkling water cascades down the canvas. The most recent works feature landscapes from the Porirua region.

Follow this link to Pātaka Museums website for more info

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