Tea and Memories

Join Claire and Hand Held for Tea and Cake next Saturday 31st Oct. 2-4pm. Take the opportunity to meet the artist, have a chat and check out the work on show at Hand Held.

Some things to be remembered

There are things that we treasure, personally or as a community, for different reasons. There are objects that make us nostalgic for the past, for place or for people. Clair O'Halloran's pieces in her 'Keepsakes' exhibition are both reminders of the past; of time and place and objects that will inevitably become 'keepsakes' themselves.

Call to Artists

Bill Poster contemporary Poster and Postcard exhibition is back for its 2nd year in December.

Artists are encouraged to submit posters, images or prints in poster format - how that is interpreted as far as text, images, scale, shape, medium, multiple or one off, folding, rolling, binding etc. is entirely up to you.

Entry fee will be $10+ 10 postcard (A6 size) images of each item. Postcards will be sold in random groups of 10 by the gallery as part of the exhibition fee.

More info and expressions of interest - email me at littleredfishy@yahoo.com.au

KEEPSAKES

Dusty sills and white shelves

Jane Simon's exhibition shutter, sill, blind opened last Thursday eve at Hand Held.

shutter, sill, blind comprises 35 miniature light-boxes on 6 shelves like a miniature suburban television display, each one a subtle image of suburbia exploring the liminal spaces of domesticity between interior and exterior, positive and negative, public and private.

A limited addition artist book of hand printed (rizo print) images from the same series accompanies the installation.

Jane's other limited edition book is entitled Savage Cresent or an Oval Dream is a photographic documentary of Savage Cresent, a street in Palmerston, NZ. Savage crescent was a utopian state housing project of the NZ government in the 1930's. Each house was architecturally designed yet Jane's photographs capture the somewhat incongruous nature of the street's houses which seems more a 1930's display home development then a socialist inspired paradise of equality and harmony.

September at Hand Held

A reminder that 'Palm Reader' finishes up this Saturday 29th. Come along and see this lovely exhibition of artist books and objects which respond to the term 'Palm Reader'.


Opening September 3rd is Shutter, Sill, Blind
by Jane Simon.










A series of photographic objects documenting window frames, dusty glass, shutters, and views inside and beyond. The exhibition will include an artists’ book based on the series, and a collection of the artist’s other small books.

Palm Reader Exhibition

Our next exhibition 'Palm Reader' opens Thursday August 6th 6-8pm. We will also host an afternoon tea on Saturday the 16th 2-4pm with tea and cake. Our 1st birthday exhibition, inspired by our resident 'Palm Reader' and the Hand Held nature of our gallery, encouraged artists to respond to the term Palm Reader and the responses are varied and creative. Works range from complex artist books to simple sculptural works with artists from Queensland, W.A, NSW and Victoria involved. The exhibition will include works by Helen Malone, Glen Skien, Elke Ahokas, Quin Young, Megan Herring, Lorelei Clarke, Soxy Fleming, Margaret Manchee, Bridget Lawson, Penny Peckham, Kirsty White and Sasha Foley, Kimberly Young and Tricia Smout. (top image - Kirsty White and Sasha Foley, Below - Helen Malone, Glen Skien and Elke Ahokas)