Milky Way Bar

MILKY WAY BAR: New Wellington Artists

18 September – 17 October 2004
The Michael Hirschfeld Gallery

Recently the Wellington art scene has undergone a growth phase with new galleries opening, new urban arts projects starting up and new artists bursting onto the scene. In a recent arts review in The Dominion Post (20 August 2004), arts writer Mark Amery commented on the energy in Wellington’s emerging art scene, which he partly attributed to the establishment of the School of Fine Arts at Massey University’s Wellington campus. Milky Way Bar is the third new Wellington artist show at City Gallery Wellington’s Michael Hirschfeld Gallery and this year’s exhibition explores the work of eight young Wellington artists, connected by time and place. Featuring work by Marina Cains, Ryan Chadfield, Daniel du Bern, Regan Gentry, Kim Paton, Gregory Sharp, Marnie Slater and Louise Tulett, Milky Way Bar highlights the present moment: it’s about what these artists are making, thinking and communicating now.

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