Artistic Manoeuvres Art Exhibition

Ranfurly Activity Centre is celebrating all that is artistic on Friday March 30^th at our annual art extravaganza. Ranfurly Hall at 52-56 Ranfurly Road will be bursting at the seams with paintings, prints, mixed media art, sculpture, pottery, mosaics, crafts, photography, scrapbooking and loads of surprises to delight the hearts and minds of all who visit.

Don’t be surprised to find yourself lost in amongst an artistic orchestra or find you have been transported to Egypt with pyramids and hieroglyphics. Visitors will be treated to a flock of peacocks fluttering and strutting their beautiful plumage only to turn a corner to find they are in a New Zealand forest discovering the history of the Hauraki Basin through dance, costume and set design.

A miniature theatre with handmade puppets will be on display along with many amazing mosaic art pieces. Let’s just say we’ve been round the world and back in time bring you Artistic Manoeuvres! Exhibition will be open for one night only between 6.30pm and 8.30pm with some tempting nibbles from our creative culinary artists.

We're looking forward to seeing you there. 

Spring Glorious Spring

To celebrate the arrival of Spring and the warmer weather we have been creating paintings of colorful leaves and cardboard sculptures of flowers. 

Egyptian Creative Process

It has been quite a process creating these Egyptian inspired works so we thought we would show you the different steps involved. The following work is still in process. The artist Christie is working hard to finish it. Here is the process as she has completed it so far.

Step 1: Drawing the hieroglyphics 

Step 2: Create a print block

Step 3: Print 6 images

Step 4: Draw Egyptian face inspired by photographs of Egyptian art works

Step 5: Create the Egyptian face out of clay

Step 6: Paint and varnish clay face

Step 7: Glue background together and create a frame with cardboard, tinfoil and shellac

To be continued...

Egyptian Inspirations

The Ancient Egyptians are an interesting culture to study and we have been looking closely at their art work to get inspiration. Each student has looked through lots of pictures and chosen one Egyptian face to draw and then model in clay.  We have been having a go at copying some of the hieroglyphics to create print blocks. This writing is the background for the clay profiles. The final stage is to make a gold frame using tinfoil and shellac for the piece. We are loving the elaborate hair decorations and makeup.

Artist: Frances

Artist: Rachel F 

Artist: Clare O 

Artist: Carolyn  

Artist: Emma

Artist: Alex

Artist: Kezia 

Artist: David

 

Artist: Sam

 

Artist: Gail