My first experiment

to fold up the images from drawing

Pop-up Book Design

Pop-up book 80's arcade games by Ceyda Koc

Manukau Festival of Arts

Over then thirty events in 16 days- the biggest arts festival holding in Manukau. It is a feast of cultural delights from dance and performance to arts, fashion and music.

The third annual festival is loaded with a record number of events and kicks off on last Friday. This festival which included the variety of art activities, such as performing arts, dance group performance, fashion shows, and music performance.

However, it was the great experience to participate funniest and interesting art events. It is the wrathful activities which we can enjoy the different cultural events, and more understanding the different customs and culture behavior.

There is something for everyone that included some free events and it is all on Manukau’s doorstep. If people wanted to go to these events, there are some highlights of festival below:

Fashion
Villa Maria Cult-Couture: It is time for fashionist to Villa Maria Cult-Couture awards, a celebration combo of theatre, music, dance and fashion.

There will also be special performances form J Williams, Annie Crummer and ReQuest and more. And this event will be start on October 29, 8pm, Pacific Events Centre.

Performance
Strictly Brown: Kila Kokonut Krew is back for one night only with the sequel to last year’s hit Strictly Brown.

The show opens the festival and celebrates local talent performing alongside celebrity guests. They will also be plenty of giveaways, the event will be hold on 15th of October, 7.30pm, pacific Event Centre.

Reference from Manukau Courier,october 12,1010
Photo provided by Melissa Kinealy
Brith duo:(first) pil and Galoia Kollective reveal their self-titled shiw of art installations all the way from London.
Seaside story:(down) Atamira dance company creates a magical story honouring the life of a kuia in the show Taonga: dust,water,wind.

An Early Achiever and outstanding Artist- Yaniv Janson

While most 18 year olds boys and girls are beginning to think about what to do after school, Yaniv Janson is a working artist and a published author.

Yaniv’s journey is different than other normal kids, born with Asperger’s Syndrome, antism-spectrum disorder characterized by social awkwardness and difficulty in communication. He used to be high school student and has turned instead to expressing himself through his art work, painting and books.

Yaniv published his first book Portfolio which was the collection of his works from last year, and this year has completed his second book Changing the World one Painting at a Time. The second book was created with help by his lovely parents whom aim to help people to think about making life-style changes that will make a difference to global warming.

Moreover, Yaniv has contributed his several paintings with many public societies, such as Hamilton architects and he has gained the opportunity to create piece for the New Zealand Clean Energy Centre in Taupo and a banner for Microsoft NZ. In addition, Yaniv also designs the T-shirt which has been produced by Wellington-based Company Kowtow.

Now a day, Yaniv still working very hard as the professional artist, he cannot stop painting in his life, and he never give up because of his disability. As a matter of fact, he looks like the outstanding and a high achievement youngest artist in my mind.

Reference from Hamilton Press,September 1,2010
Photo by Shane Morton

Discovering Special Drawing

Today I have one day trip with my family in Auckland city, when we walked down through the Queen Street and saw an unfamiliar street artist Mark who I never seen before. He used the toilet paper to stain with the India ink and the sip of cooking oil to smear on the glossary photography paper, he only use five to ten minutes to finish each drawing. Also he used some yellow spread paint to spread on the background to make the effect of sunset.

However, I thought Mark was really great street artist who uses different medium to draw different landscapes of South Africa, and the nature environment. Overall, it was a great experience after we chatted about his works, and he gave me a valuable lesson about how to use those materials to make the beautiful compositions.

Discovering a Special Drawing

Today I have one day trip with my family in Auckland city, when we walked down through the Queen Street and saw an unfamiliar street artist Mark who I never seen before. He used the toilet paper to stain with the India ink and the sip of cooking oil to smear on the glossary photography paper, he only use five to ten minutes to finish each drawing. Also he used some yellow spread paint to spread on the background to make the effect of sunset.

However, I thought Mark was really great street artist who uses different medium to draw different landscapes of South Africa, and the nature environment. Overall, it was a great experience after we chatted about his works, and he gave me a valuable lesson about how to use those materials to make the beautiful compositions.

Wallance Arts Centre- Discovering the New Zealand Creative Arts

Today we have gallery visit to Wallace Arts Centre, it was an exciting experience that we can look through many New Zealand artists works and support the foundation of New Zealand creative art as a group.

To trace back the history of James Wallace Arts Trust and its collection, James Wallace began collecting New Zealand art in the mid-1960s, with a particular focus on the work of emerging artists. And he continues to add to the collections and provides support for the arts in New Zealand in general. Besides, Wallace’s original aim was to assist emerging artists through both patronage and promotion through exhibitions.

Furthermore, this arts centre hosts a changing programmed of free exhibitions curates from the James Wallace Arts Trust collection as well as regional touring exhibitions. The art centre will also run ongoing community education programmes which targeting around Auckland schools and the broaden public.

There are so many exhibitions and displays around the gallery first and second flours, such as different sizes of paintings, sculptures, jewels, installations, and creations. However my first impression was John Scoot who drew the men’s portrait by using the acrylic and oil paint on the large canvas, the concept which contains the emotion and similar to the three-dimensional picture, when I stood in front image it looks like the real giant pop out in front of me. Therefore, the artist has great drawing skills by using delicate drawing method and remarkable drawing technique to depict the portrait painting.

Overall, there have varieties of art displays and paintings that we can spend time to look through and can use whole day to enjoy the fascinating New Zealand creative arts in the exhibition, however, it’s the worthy of experience to discover the new of the New Zealand arts in this place.