Andrew Turner is a Scottish artist raised in Dubai, who moved to New Zealand in the late eighties. His brightly coloured abstract shapes are a style Turner has been working on for some time, citing Wellington artist Robert McCleod as a mentor who taught him a lot and influenced him even more.

Join us Monday 31 Aug 6.30-9pm for a meet & greet with Andy.

Each girl strains to present the perfect angle of herself to the viewer so he’ll find her desirable and the others will want to be like her. She wrestles between thoughts of self-obsession, vanity and loathing. She knows it’s irrational but cannot help herself, I think she might even know her motives are ugly but it’s beyond her control. 

Their determined poses are disconnected and faceless because there is nothing beyond the desire to be preserved as beautiful, there is no candid grin, laugh lines or double chins. She wants to be admired from a far, I’m not sure she even has a voice. She would die if anyone knew what she was thinking, aching to look casual, every hair and bone over thought.

What made her like this? Too many fashion magazines, a Mother could be sister; Daddy didn’t say she was lovely – a bit of a cliché… 

Each asks who is she? She has no idea?

We're hosting a wee gathering this Friday to celebrate with Camila as we showcase her artistic talents on our walls. Please join us!  Friday 15 July 5.30-8pm.

con·tem·pla·tion - The action of looking thoughtfully at something for a long time; Deep reflective thought.

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Huia presents a collection of her bright, bold, textured work. After her journey to Peru this year, she plunged into creating more vibrant pieces inspired by the Peruvian colours and her experiences exploring her conscious landscape. This collection also combines her Maori heritage and the vivid palate of nature, inspired by the beauty of Waitakere Ranges and the Coromandel Peninsula. 

Her pieces are full of fine brush detail, much like the pen work of her koro Rei Hamon (grandfather) and her artist father Awanui Hamon. She grew up around family art galleries with paint and carvings being created around her at all times. Huia is also a singer songwriter and vocal producer at her music studio - Kog Studio.

John Campbell - this will be John's second exhibition at Crave, following a very successful debut in May last year.

John specialises in watercolour painting of New Zealand and Australian landscapes, capturing the rural scenes of old buildings, letterboxes, mountain scenery and boating. He is excited about his forthcoming exhibition at Crave! Emigrating from the UK in 1964, he has lived in Christchurch, Whanganui, Hawkes Bay, and many years in the Auckland districts.

Currently residing in Westmere with his partner, John's first love is painting. He also enjoys sailing, philately, collecting Kiwiana and working at the Auckland Zoo as a volunteer.

Celebrating New Zealand Sign Language (NZSL) Week 2014, Crave proudly presents an exhibition of two prominent Deaf artists - Rachel Coppage and Abbie Twiss. 

Rachel was brought up orally, when sign languages were banned. She never knew that the Deaf community existed until a one year stay with a Deaf host family; returning home as a new person with increased self-esteem and more confidence. Rachel uses her art as a ‘cultural bridge’ to inform the public about the beauty of sign language through hand shapes that symbolise an English word – parallels of two languages – that everyone can understand and access in a visual medium.

Abbie grew up encouraged to use sign, but this was before NZSL was well developed and long before it became one of NZ’s three official languages. So from the time she was small, Abbie learnt lots of Signed English language and had brilliant homemade picture books with printed signs. 

Abbie says "art gives me a way of expressing my feelings, happiness, sadness or solemnity, and my view of the world, just as happens with other artists. A lot of my paintings have a social/political purpose. I also often put in deliberate strangeness, a touch of mystery". Abbie's iconic work uses comic book and pop culture imagery, with acrylic, oil based enamel and water based enamel, or enamacrylic mediums.

"This exhibition includes some of the many hundreds (thousands even!!) of photographs taken while working in Christchurch as a structural engineer. Originally, I worked as a Civil Defence volunteer for the Christchurch City Council starting about two weeks after the February 22nd Magnitude 6.3 earthquake that caused so much damage throughout Christchurch and took the lives of so many people. I had, on two occasions prior to this, visited Christchurch after the September 4 magnitude 7.1 earthquake and took a few photos of what was then seen as fairly significant damage. 

"I took many photos as an engineer but also as a photographer/artist of images that were dramatic and likely never to be seen again (certainly not likely in my lifetime). This exhibition includes some of the most notable. I consider myself privileged to have had the opportunity as an engineer and as a photographer to witness the effects of the earthquake in the Christchurch CBD and beyond first hand." - Roger Twiname