EXHIBITIONS & EVENTS FEBRUARY 2009
It's been two years since we re-opened with a Big Bang! Our new show Common Ground is a street culture treat with a sweet heaped helping of FREE events that we hope you'll take part in. On Friday 13 Feb, enjoy the contrasting styles of the free NZSO concert in the Lower Hutt Town Hall, followed by LASERTAG - give your ears and eyes a surprise.
Common Ground
opens 13 February 2009In co-operation with Goethe-Institut and ZM
What happens when German design crew Via Grafik meet up with NZ street artists Cut Collective? Find out in this collision of stencils, graphics, wall paintings and sculpture. Street art spreads through the gallery, across the walls into the courtyard, and out into Lower Hutt via our jam-packed events programme aimed at igniting your creative spark.
Via Grafik, Spoilt (detail), 2006.
LASERTAG
Friday 13 Feb 8-11pmJoin Via Grafik and Cut Collective as they spray the walls of TheNewDowse... with lasers! In this NZ-first audio-visual block party, you can throw up live legal graffiti to the sounds of Olmecha Soundsystem with King Homeboy (NZ beatbox champ). Also check out pro skate demos, the chill-out courtyard and live box art creation in this celebration of all things street. Thanks to AVS, Red Bull, Empire Skate, Secret Level and Keep Hutt City Beautiful. Image courtesy of Graffiti Research Lab.
 Keep the Wall Grey & the Mind Will Follow / Sunday 15 Feb 3-4pm
Artist/writer Jo Randerson chairs this live panel discussion on the use of public space for creative expression. She's joined by street artists, urban designers/architects, media commentators, graffiti-eradication specialists and youth workers. Join in the debate and maybe have some of your own ideas challenged. Look out for more free public events including deck design / street mural workshops, and Sunday Scratch Sessions in the courtyard. Members of Via Grafik and Cut Collective.
Hit The Wall competition
Entries due 15 March
Open to 14-25 year olds - a chance to get your work shown on our walls, in conjunction with Common Ground. Cut Collective, supported by DAC Group, have produced a wall artwork as part of the ongoing 'Hit The Wall' series showcasing graphic design. We have reserved another Hit The Wall space for the competition winner - full details here (PDF 80kb). 
Letting Dwell
opens 16 February 2009
Tim Larkin won the 2008 Deane Award for Decorative Arts with an exhibition proposal based on the long-redundant, yet highly-efficient food safe. In Letting Dwell, Larkin, writer Luke Feast and photographer Pete McColl explore ideas prompted by the food safe in this design-driven show. Tim Larkin will give a exhibition floor-talk on Sunday 22 March from 11am-12noon.
Image: Tim Larkin, Folk Furniture Model (detail), 2007.
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