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Freeman White is an artist from Wellington and Learning Connexion graduate, who is mostly known for his portrait and figurative work.
Last Light (detail)
He has been preparing for an exhibition of landscape paintings “This Land” at the Oedipus Rex Gallery in Auckland.
We catch up with him in his studio.
Exhibition runs from 4 -- 22 August 09.
For more info you can check out Freeman’s website.
Stage two student Fiona Sole has just finished work for her first solo show, opening at Deluxe café, this Monday, May 25th, at 6pm.
While Fiona has focussed on both painting and sculpture during her studies at The Learning Connexion, this show is all about her beautiful paintings. She has created a series of nine large scale portraits of characters from movies of the Eighties. Fiona worked in the film industry before she became a student and has always loved film, so working with these images made sense. She usually doesn’t work from posters, instead she prefers to play the films through and select individual frames to paint from.
She says she selected the films from favourites she has continued to love over the years, and there are many there which will be familiar. We all remember films like Ghostbusters, Bladerunner, and Star Wars, eagerly watched on the big screen if you were old enough, or in super hifi VHS if you weren’t. Actors like Kevin Costner, Sigourney Weaver, and Harrison Ford are some she has painted, in character, as the heroes that many of us would have dreamt of growing up to be.
That is what is so captivating about Fiona’s images, they are filled with nostalgia for the films themselves, but also for the time when you were watching them. Looking at her paintings I am reminded of watching Dances With Wolves with my sister, or how much I wanted an Ewok or when I finally saw the director’s cut of Bladerunner.
Fiona’s show is up for two weeks at Deluxe Cafe, Kent Terrace Wellington, or if you can’t make it, you can see her work online at
www.fionasole.wordpress.com.
You can watch a short interview with her here:
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