Past

Reading Rooms is an exhibition of literary artworks by Catherine Macdonald, Sophie Klerk, Katherine Claypole, Ana Terry and Julian Priest. Each artist has been invited to create a work that communicates ideas through language, discusses what language is or deals with the material of literary endeavour.

Exhibition Opening 8th September, 5.30pm

Showing 8th - 30th September

Opening hours Mon-Sat 10am-3pm

Midden explores our heavily saturated world of images, things and

signs through imagined artifacts of an archaeological dig.

Opening 5pm, Saturday, 25th June

Artist talk Tuesday, 5.30pm, 28th June

Showing from Monday 27th June - Saturday 2nd July 2011

INSIDE OUT WHANGANUI celebrates the youth of Whanganui by taking portraits of 96 young individuals and displaying large prints of their portraits in the windows of a central city building.

The project is part of the large-scale global participatory art project INSIDEOUT, that transforms messages of personal identity into pieces of artistic work.

Mike Marsh led a stencil workshop at the Green Bench,
Tuesday 26th April 2011, 1pm-4pm

People were invited to bring their own material and images.
At the end of the workshop the gallery walls were coved with the final stencils.

Overview

Registration is now open for Slowflow 2011, a trip down the Whanganui River, Aotearoa/New Zealand between Feb 3rd 2011 and Feb 7th.

Slowflow invites artists, technologists, writers and environmentalists on a 5 day journey down the Whanganui River waka, creating a setting for a flow of conversations - Te Ia Kōrero.

An exhibition of oil paintings, photographs, video and assemblage that explores relationships between art and oil. The exhition is timed to coincide with  Energetics and Informatics - the Ada Symposium 2010, Whanganui.

Sophie Jerram (Refined Life) .nz, Michael Marcovici (After BP) .it, Leigh Mitchell-Anyon (Gas Guzzling Cars) .nz, Felicity Priest (Exocet) .uk, Julian Priest (Plastic Drift) .nz, Superflex (Burning Car) .dk, Ubermorgen (Deep Horizon).de

Exhibition opening

Michael Poa (One River), Julian Priest (The Greenbench) and friends invite you to join us in a collaborative performance artwork documenting a hikoi that references the Whanganui story of the relationship between Ruapehu and Taranaki.

The performance will take place at:

2pm Sunday 27th June 2010
The Govett Brewster
Corner of King and Queen Street
New Plymouth

Exhibition Opening 18th June 2010, 5.30 - 8.00 pm

With a poetry performance by Ron Riddell, Saray Torres and Tessa Priest

Showing 19th June - 16th July 2010

Opening hours Monday - Friday 10am - 3pm

Exhibition Opening 30th April 5.30pm - 8.00pm
Showing 1st - 21st May 2010
Opening hours Monday - Friday 10am - 5pm

Open Studio 2010

The Green Bench is taking part in the 10th aniversary Whanganui Open Studios 2010

• March 20th - 21st 2010 10 - 4pm
• March 27th - 28th 2010 10 - 4pm (March 27th tbc)

Showing works on paper, photography and graphic art by Sophie Klerk.

Odd Sock Triage - a participatory piece by Julian Priest.

The Green Bench is also pleased to be taking part once more in 'Pay and Display' art in the parking places of Guyton Street.