Collective Practise

Catherine Davies-Colley, Ros May, Alex Moyse, Jolene Pascoe, Angela Rowe, and Linette van Greunen.

Collective Practise

We are a group of artists based in Whangarei, we work across a range of media including paper, ceramics, textile, printmaking, sculpture, installation and performance. We meet regularly and like to talk about contemporary issues in art and society and how these impact our practice.

We are; Catherine Davies-Colley, Ros May, Alex Moyse, Jolene Pascoe, Angela Rowe, and Linette van Greunen.

Wish you were here

Wish you were here is a group exhibition featuring new works by members of the art group Collective Practise in response to the object or idea of the postcard, it is curated by Angela Rowe. Each artist has created work to explore ideas around place, landscape, nostalgia, relationships, hopes and reality. The exhibition and associated events bring together their many varied responses to the ‘postcard’, and it includes a range of media; paintings, drawings, prints, ceramics  and textiles. Leading up to the opening of the exhibition postcards have been sent to the Yvonne Rust Gallery and between the artists, drawing attention to the experience of the object in hand and the slowing down of time between communications.

Collective Practise is joined by five other brilliant artists, we are:

Heath Bell, Catherine Davies-Colley, Ros May, Alex Moyse, Angela Rowe, Leigh Tawharu, Linette van Greunen, Megan White, Julie Wood and Tracey Willms Deane.

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Flying to you, Hurry home, Missing you, xxx, Over oceans and seas ~ Heath Bell.

Postcards are usually brief messages – often a long-distance hug, a shout, a “Look at me!”  My works in this postcard-inspired exhibition reflect these ideas: brief messages, deep emotions, strong bonds, carried across vast lands and oceans to loved ones.  These thoughts became sharply personal when I recently decided to move from Northland to Christchurch,…

by Angela Rowe

Wish you were here, Correspondence

Linette van Greunen For this exhibition my thinking was influenced by a piece of writing by Tim Ingold in his aptly named book “Correspondence”. “We inhabit a world of more than humans. For life to flourish, we must listen to the calls this world makes on us and respond with care, sensitivity, and judgement. That…

by Angela Rowe

Impossible Postcards

Meg White Impossible Postcards My postcards are representative of a living botanical entity, one which has evolved and is evolving over time. In a Landscape Architecture discussion paper written by Kees Lokman and Susan Herrington, Gardens as Migratory Devices, the relationship of natural botanical migration and human control is explored, in the sense of garden…

by Angela Rowe

Tracey Willms Deane

Wish You Were Here  June 2023 The phrase, ‘Wish You Were Here’  took on a new significance for me after my kids took wing and flew the nest. The importance to a mother’s heart of a brief note that lets me know they’re alive, even when it’s just a “like” or “heart” on someone’s facebook…

by Angela Rowe

Wish you were here ~ curatorial essay

New works by Whangārei art group, Collective Practise Collective Practise is; Heath Bell, Catherine Davies-Colley, Ros May, Alex Moyse, Angela Rowe, Leigh Tawharu, Linette van Greunen, Megan White, Julie Wood and Tracey Willms Deane. Wish you were here by Angela Rowe While on a solitary vacation by the ocean, the American writer and pioneering aviator…

by Angela Rowe

“A Letter to Love”   ~ a Wish You Were Here  community engagement workshop. ~ Tracey Willms Deane

Te Kowhai Print trust, The Quarry Arts Centre 1-4pm Sunday 25 June, 2023. Learn simple creative processes (don’t worry if you “can’t draw”) to make a postcard for someone you are missing. This half-day workshop will be about the process of accessing and releasing feelings such as Love, Missing, Worry, Loss, Anticipation of Reuniting, Enjoyment…

by Angela Rowe

Textile zine/visible mending with Leigh Tawharu ~ Fully booked!

Textile zine with Leigh Tawharu   **** Fully booked **** sorry folks! The Quarry10am – 1pm, Saturday 17th June, 2023 Join Leigh for a fun workshop of freestyle hand stitching to create a fabric postcard.  A wide variety of fabrics and materials will be provided from an avid collector’s retro stash to make that textile postcard…

by Angela Rowe

Avocado as a natural dye workshop with Angela Rowe

Avocado as a natural dye workshop with Angela Rowe Percy Street Projectspace 11am – 2pm, Saturday 17th  June, 2023. *** FULLY BOOKED *** Join Angela for an introduction to natural dye processes using avocado skins and seeds, you’ll learn about her process, tips for trying it yourself and have the opportunity to dye some of…

by Angela Rowe

One-page sketchbook workshop by Linette van Greunen

Wish you were here ~ workshops One-page sketchbook workshop by Linette van Greunen The Quarry Arts Centre, The Art Shed 1 – 3pm, Saturday, 24 June, 2023 A two-hour community workshop at The Quarry for up to ten people on how to create a sketchbook and incorporate drawing into your day. Participants will learn how…

by Angela Rowe
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