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Gisborne gallery makes a noise in the city

THOSE in Wellington claim that they live in the cultural Capital of New Zealand, but there’s a downside to that. Competition in the creative sector is hot and it’s hard for artists to get noticed.

Which is why the full-page visual arts review in today’s Dominion Post is so significant.

When Gisborne’s PaulNache gallery owner Matt Nache decided to take a collection of his works to show in the Capital, Wellington gallery Suite kindly loaned him space for a month.

And while it would have been easy to assume that Nache’s would be a tiny voice in the rowdy big-city arts scene, Dominion Post critic Mark Amery was listening.

Amery wrote a glowing review of both the concept of notoriously cut-throat dealer galleries helping each other out, and of the works included in the PaulNache installation in bustling Cuba Street.

Nache launched his “guerrilla” installation last week, having curated a show of works by artists including Peter Adsett, Valerie Bos, Dion Hitchens, Robert Jahnke, Joanna Langford, James Orms-by, Ben Pearce, Sanjay Theodore, Geoff Tune and Johnny Turner.

“Strong exhibitions of artists not currently represented in Wellington emphasise just how much we don’t regularly get to see here,” Amery writes.

“PaulNache represents artists with an association with Gisborne, but they’re as likely to be based in Wellington as they are there. That’s clearly testament to the mobility and strength of Nache’s business.”

Amery found sculptural works by Hawke’s Bay artist Ben Pearse and Wellington’s Johnny Turner to be of particular interest, as were paintings by Australia-based Peter Adsett – who has been exploring the Matawhero massacre in his work – and the “gangly comic energy” of an installation by Joanna Langford.

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