Check out the front window installation at Snake Pit of Fiona Wilson's 'Almost a a Vessel'  ceramic work.  It mimiics (in a a playful and ironic way) many shop window displays  you see of ceramic or glassware - but here there are sinuous shapes of white and brown objects which almost seem to be organically growing up, out and around the white plinths. ... Read more...

Take a look up and down Ponsonby Road - a persistent little figure bravely struts his stuff on walls, lamposts - with very silly but very wise expressions!  A bit of fun and amusement added to the often boring street scene.... Read more...

Soho Square in Ponsonby now has a white perimeter fence - and work has progressed.  A great combined artistic effort from "Askew", Adrian Jackman, Karl Maughan, Dan Tippett, Otis Frizzell and Darryl Thompson are gradually transforning it - with a little side action to deal with from some taggers ahead of them father down the wall.  Not your traditional (if you ever could call it that) graffitti art, not a mural eithe... Read more...

Tane Mahuta, God of the forest, a majestic tree standing in the depths of the Waipoua Forest.  There is really no subsititute for journeying and seeing for oneself.  The smell of the forest, tangle of vegetation, birdsong, the soaring heights......you don't just walk by it. A.D. Shierring in the Bledisloe Light Boxes (2011) wanted to bring great Tane Mahuta to the Auckland CBD. In I would say an unusua... Read more...

When I had a conference to attend in Brisbane I was especially delighted as it coincided with the Matisse exhibtion in GoMA The Gallery of Modern Art. Three of us took Sunday afternoon out of the conference taking a delightfull ferry ride down the rver to South Pier then a short walk to GoMA. It is always a pleasure to stand before the great masters: I was so looking forward to getting inside past cloakroom ticketing etc to see this exhibition. Alas I was to be some what dissapoi... Read more...