NEWS
ROBERT PIGGOTT ART GALLERY: (April 8th 2016)
Robert has finally opened the doors to the Robert Piggott Art Gallery at 8 Jetty St.
After months of renovating and preparing the gallery space, it is now ready-‘enough’!
The first Exhibition Opening event is titled “DARSANA, -Stars of Buddha’ and shows a selection of meditative watercolours.
To complement Robert’s own work, fine contemporary art by local, national and international artists will occasionally be shown. Artists are welcome to contact Robert with expressions of interest here.
HOURS: SAT: 1-4 pm, SUN: 1-6 pm
https://www.facebook.com/RobertPiggottArtGallery/
VORTEX GALLERY: (Oct 2015)
Robert has opened a new ‘pop-up gallery’ exhibition space at 104 Bond St , Dunedin.
This new gallery will be open for weekend viewing of larger works and shows, and for special events such as ‘Music in the Gallery’
HOURS: SAT: 1-4 pm, SUN: 1-6 pm
www.Facebook.com/VortexGallery
...Around the corner, at 8 Jetty St, the ROBERT PIGGOTT ART GALLERY is planned to open as a gallery with adjacent studio & printmaking workshop, as soon as renovations are ready.
STUDIO SHIFT:
2015 has been a year of significant change.
Robert has made the massive shift from his previous Top-Floor ‘Carpet Court’ studio of the past 21 years! The new premises is located at 8 Jetty St.
-It is intended to be a studio/gallery combination, with access to the public.
Robert hopes to have his new space “VORTEX GALLERY” open in Spring, perhaps sometime in September.....
GUEST ARTIST and JUDGE: OAS, 3rd - 25th JULY 2014
Rob has been invited to exhibit as the Guest Artist, and also to be judge of the awards for the Otago Art Society exhibition “Abstract Audacity” at the OAS gallery ‘Art Station’, Dunedin Railway Station.
VISIT FROM RON MOSS: June 26th 2014
Haiku poet and creative artist Ron Moss, from Tasmania, visits Rob’s studio to connect and share philosophies and artistic approaches.
BRATHWAITE CENTRE ART AUCTION: June 17th 2014
Rob has donated three framed screenprints to raise funds for resources for the special-needs students of the learning centre. These three early works are from his formative period and dated 1982 -83.
“Maui catches the Sun”
“Legend of the Pacific”
“Pacific Flower”
HEART-FOUNDATION ART AUCTION: March 2014
Rob has donated three framed watercolour paintings to raise funds in the Heart-Foundation Art Auction at the Otago Art Society, Art Station on the evening of Friday 14th March.
‘Today or Tomorrow?’
‘Jubilee Park’
‘Positive Shift’
WHEN NORTH MEETS SOUTH: Nov 2012
Rob is a participating artist in the “When North Meets South” exhibition, creating a visual response to Haiku poetry written by North Island poets.
Ruth Arnison writes of the artist interview and impressions of her visit to Rob’s studio prior to the exhibition...
READ: http://whennorthmeetssouth.wordpress.com/artists/rob-piggott/
SEE: http://whennorthmeetssouth.wordpress.com/exhibition/eyes-closed/
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6pm, Thursday 6th September, 2012: ART AUCTION
ALL WELCOME:
Write-up: http://whennorthmeetssouth.wordpress.com/2012/09/07/the-braithwaite-centre-auction/
Rob has donated two works to the KVC, Brathwaite Center Fundraising Art Auction:
- “Sweet Amber”, and “Within V”
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Rob has donated a watercolour painting “Macandrew Bay, ’99” for the community group ‘RockSolid’s fundraising auction “Diamonds on the Inside”, to be held at the
Dunedin Railway-station on June 28th, 2012, at 7pm.
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EXHIBITION
“LOOP SERIES”
Works: 1999 - 2012
Dunedin Community Gallery, 20 Princes St, Dunedin
15th - 29th FEBRUARY, 2012
The ‘Loop Series’ paintings are a delightful interplay of rhythmic-line, spatial-shape and juxtaposed colour.
‘LOOP SERIES’ at the Dunedin Community Gallery this February will present a ‘window’ into the consistency of Piggott’s exploratory development of this dynamic, and colourful, body of work over the last thirteen years...
READ REVIEW: “Finding the Loophole” by Beaurey Chan
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Exhibition
“SUMMERLAND”
Dunedin Community Gallery, 20 Princes St, Dunedin
9th - 20th JANUARY, 2012
Rob Piggott’s “SUMMERLAND” exhibition presents two series of works from this dedicated Dunedin-based New Zealand abstract artist.
His recent Wanaka Paintings on canvas are to be complemented by the earlier oil-pastel and dye Daybreak Series.
The bold Wanaka Paintings in their linear graphic ‘grid-like’ style, and airy colour, make reference to the land, sky, lake, and Summer sun of the Wanaka region.
In contrast the Daybreak Series, with their triangular wedge-like motif, provide an expressive force of colour, exploring the contrast and transitions between night to day, and from light to dark.
Piggott’s “SUMMERLAND” promises to be a strong exhibition, with a positive glow.
READ ARTICLE:
Otago Daily Times: “Wanaka becomes abstraction”
http://www.odt.co.nz/entertainment/arts/194040/wanaka-becomes-abstraction
READ REVIEW: Otago Daily Times: Summerland Review, by James Dignan
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Four works by Robert are included in the “Spring into Art” Exhibition at Columba College, Dunedin, Nov 4th - 6th, 2011.
View Works:
From Port Chalmers - 1999............FrmPC.jpg
Outram - 2000..................................Outram-.jpg
Middlemarch - 1999.........................Middlemarch-.jpg
Over Blue Ridge - 2000...................OverBR-.jpg
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Rob has donated four, framed, works on paper for the “Classy Art’ auction to help raise funds for the students of the Brathwaite Learning Centre, at Kaikorai Valley College, Dunedin.
The auction will commence at 6.30 pm on Thurs Sept 22nd, 2011... All Welcome!
View works:
Rose Garden - 1999: Rose Garden -.jpg
Morocco - 1999: MOROCCO.jpg,
May - 2000: May.jpg
Quartet 4 Good Fourtune - 2000: QUARTET......jpg
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7 May - 25 June, 2011, Hocken Library Gallery, Dunedin
Rob Piggott’s work “WISH” is included in the exhibition “ORE STRUCK”.
The exhibition, which marks the sesquicentennial of gold being discovered in Otago, includes work by Russell Moses, Ralph Hotere, Milan Mrkusich, Max Gimblett, Julia Morrison....(others).
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Dunedin International Airport:
“PRESENCE: Lines, Loops, and Light”,
-an installation of fifteen large canvases by Piggott is on display until 25th March 2011.
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‘Layers Of Gold’, Dunedin Heritage Festival Event, Exhibition:
“PRESENCE”, Rob Piggott (http://www.dunedinheritagefestival.co.nz/events/exhibitions)
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-Arts feature article written by Charmian Smith, Otago Daily Times, 27-1-2011
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Please Note: The cover of ASIAN ART NEWS
has a misprint with Robert’s surname misspelt with one ‘t’:
“Piggot”, instead of Piggott.
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CONTACT: art@robpiggott.com
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Robert Piggott
2010
‘Macandrew Bay’
1999
Watercolour
Framed: 62 x 65 cm
