THE COUNTDOWN IS ON!

Welcome…We are less than two and a half months away from kick off to the 2011 Rugby World Cup.

This week our committee secured a prime exhibition venue in Auckland within the precinctof Eden Park for members to showcase New Zealand glasswork that will also be for sale on a split commission basis. This is a fantastic opportunity to have your work appreciated by an international audience looking for a piece of New Zealand to take home with them.

Thank you to those of you who have already responded to our previous request sending your intentions to exhibit to Jo Tricker our editor who has diligently been compiling a participants list. It is really important we gauge at an early stage how many people wish to participate in this event so we can plan accordingly and as you can imagine there is a lot to co-ordinate in our spare time.

The dates for the rotating exhibition including the grand final of the Rugby World Cup are Friday 30 September to Monday 24th October. We are requesting either one representative work or stock works that can be replenished as sales eventuate from members that wish to participate. We are looking for excellent professional images of work reflecting the type of work that will be for sale. CD’s containing images can be sent c/o New Zealand Glass Exhibition to 28 Nixon Street, Wanganui East, Whanganui asap. If you are sending images you are consenting to NZSAG using them for publicity purposes. Please note, we reserve the right to refuse non-professional images for the promotion of this event. The highest quality images will serve your work better.

We would also like to welcome to this event, any new glass bead makers. Sadly, the New Zealand Glass Bead Artists (NZGBA) group was dissolved this month. NZSAG has been conscientiously working with this group and has offered to continue promoting bead artists and their great work incorporating events they have initiated, particularly with fundraising for organizations such as the Cancer Society. NZGBA have generously donated cabinets to NZSAG for the promotion of glass bead and wearable art as well as gifting $1500 of funds
to our Society. Remaining funds have been gifted to the Cancer Society.

A most diverse and interesting display, well done

A superb collection – very talented

Fabulous

Perfect stuff

Passionate artwork

Interesting work, such clever artists

unexpected

nice

interesting and very clever

very nice

beautiful and interesting

beautiful

fabulous

Love the Pathways

Great diversity amazing craftsmanship

Very awesome exhibition, Pathways caught my eye, beautiful craftsmanship from all. Very informative.

Such creativity.

Lovely beads.

35 talented, NZ Art Guild members including our very own Holly Budge join together to illustrate that art is truly borderless. Through unique artworks and diverse medias that show that art is our one true global language. It has no boundaries, it crosses borders between nations and culture. It creates a dialogue between individuals, communication between communities and allows us to see and to listen to each other. Art lets us …imagine what is possible, it heals, reveals and transforms.

Please Join us at the Academy of Fine Arts, For the opening event Wednesday 16th 5:30 – 7:30pm
Free Entry, All welcome

Exhibition will run from Wed 16th – 23rd Feb 10am-5pm Daily

Hi, I just wanted to show you the caliber of artists exhibiting in the Artstation gallery… Nikki Hastings-McFall sets up her solo exhibition the day after we tear down Bead Archaeology.

You can check out her work and hear interviews at on number of websites, just type her name into a google search.

Milford Galleries represents her in Auckland and Dunedin and you can see some of her recent work here

Hi all,
You should be getting a copy of this in your mailbox by the end of the week, but below is a digital version of the invitation for you to forward to friends and family. Bead Archaeology is going to be a great show and it would be lovely to see you all at the opening.

Linley from Auckland Beads (one of our sponsors) put me in touch with Dan from Apparel Magazine who has agreed to publish an article about the exhibition in their February issue. Cool huh.