Catalogue

A sneak peek of what's in store for your eyes next weekend! Put 4pm in your calendars to come and feast your eyes on new works by Katie Hallam and Louise Sutherland!

Image: Katie Hallam, Tomorrow’s Gods Will Lay Eggs (2020) mixed media on board

Exhibition extended! Don't miss out on squizzing these wonderful works by Tobias Gilsenan at Pennylane Records - all works for sale!

Ending very soon - call for expressions of interest from urban artists based in CHCH and under 25!

Want to see the whole work? Head down to Pennylane Records and check out the line up of new works on show as part of Cover to Cover - feat. Opawa 45s

Pictured are details of works by Gemma Syme, Lucy Hunter, Emma Dilemma and Martin Sagadin.

We have an open call out for young (

The opening of Cover to Cover - feat. Opawa 45s will go ahead tomorrow w added safety and hygiene elements.
Stay safe out there!

Local legend, theramin wizard, creator of beautiful films AND a stalwart in the NZ music scene, we are absolutely thrilled to be hosting a new work by John Chrisstoffels as part of Cover to Cover - feat. Opawa 45s

40 years in bands, 35 years making films. If you're not already familiar with John, have a listen to The Terminals for some context.

https://www.audioculture.co.nz/people/the-terminals

The Terminals - AudioCulture

Another multi talented artist featuring in Cover to Cover - feat. Opawa 45s is Stephanie McEwin.

Women gospel/jazz/blues singers undergird her practice and you can often find her singing the blues at 12 Bar.

A busy bee, you can also see more of Stephanie's work at Chambers until 22 August!

https://chambersart.co.nz/artist/stephanie-mckewin/

Stephanie McEwin - Chambers Art Gallery Stephanie McEwin 08/August/2018 My studio practice involves painting figurative motifs set within painted worlds. Genre painting has always interested me and in particular bathers as a subject. I graduated from Canterbury University with an MFA in 2016 and most of my work at University, was around t...

Meet another artist in Cover to Cover - feat. Opawa 45s!

Martin Sagadin is an acclaimed genderq***r artist and filmmaker. In 2018 they finished a Masters in Fine Arts - at the University of Canterbury and have also been teaching there. They are also a painter, a visual artist and have exhibited at a number of galleries in New Zealand: The Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū, Wellington Art Gallery, NEXT Gallery, Chambers Gallery, Absolution Gallery and others.

Here's what Martin has to say about their album of influence:
Olias of Sunhillow was one of my favourite albums when I was a kid -even before I knew English. Parts of the album are in a made-up language and it presents an intricate fantasy story. This album has only grown on me since with Jon Anderson's epic layered vocals and lush orchestration. Visually, this album has also impacted my painting practice.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CwwsINqF4Q

Jon Anderson - Olias of Sunhillow 1976 (Full Album) 1 of 2 I have no recollection of how I came to buy this album. I only know I liked the music. Track List : 1-4 1. Jon Anderson - Ocean Song (0:00) 2. Jon Anderson -...

Cover to Cover - feat. Opawa 45s features talented and driven creatives, did you know that Hollan Brabet is not only in a bunch of bands, but is an avid drawer as well? He is currently in BnP, Dracula Factory and Avon Dads to name a few!

The album What burns never returns by Don Caballero is a key influence on his music and arts practice.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26VOfPwgM_w

Don Caballero - What Burns Never Returns [Full Album] 01. 00:00 Don Caballero 3 02. 09:42 In The Absence of Strong Evidence 03. 14:18 Delivering the Groceries at 138 BPM 04. 20:17 Slice Where You Live Like Pie 0...

We're showcasing artists and musicians with a range of styles and approaches in their mediums. Next up in Cover to Cover - feat. Opawa 45s is Michael Leung.

Michael Leung shared with us a beautiful and influential track that's on steady rotation on his playlists:
"This tune has been on my playlist for at least the past 4 years of my life.
Although I mix and try to produce Drum and Bass, the slowed down lush selections have always been the ones to tickle my senses.
This album and this song have been with me through some pretty tough times and big changes in my life over the years and I think it is one that I will always come back to for many days to come."
Come and see how this translates visually next week!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1UhMdu53Ak

Om Unit - The Silence (feat Jinadu) (Taken from Threads LP) (Civil Music) Official Music Video Taken from Om Unit's debut LP "Threads". Get Vinyl/CD/download here http://civilmusic.com/buy/threads-19/ Released 28th Oct 2013 on Civil Music Download and ...

Another of our exhibiting artists that we are very excited to be showing at Cover to Cover - feat. Opawa 45s is Dawn Marble.

Ashlin/Dawn (they/she). They are a multidisciplinary artist from Ōtautahi. Their work explores hysterical pop fictions across photography, film, music, sound and writing. Currently they put creative energies in teaching at Lincoln High School.
"Live Through This, the album by Hole put the spark of messy femme in my heart. Told me I could be just as angry and gross as the grunge boys. First album I learnt on guitar and covered with my high school band."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cH_rfGBwamc

Hole - Violet (Official Video) Music video by Hole performing Violet. (C) 1994 Geffen Records

Who else do we have instore for your visual pleasure at Cover to Cover - feat. Opawa 45s? George Fraser!

George Fraser's work is based around a love of pop culture and iconography. Generally there’s at least a nod to social politics. Key influences are punk and music culture and a love of lowbrow imperfect objects. George uses found objects as a base for most of his works which are heavily based around using what’s in hand and creating a sustainable practice. Currently his mainly drawing based practice is evolving into a new direction using needle and thread to create embroidered pieces.
Teenage Kicks by the Undertones lends inspiration to his upcoming Cover to Cover work.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PinCg7IGqHg

The Undertones - Teenage Kicks (Official Video) John Peel's favourite ever song and not hard to understand why. Timeless teenage frustration in 2 and a half minutes of raucous pop punk heaven. Play it loud...

Next up in the artist line up for Cover to Cover - feat. Opawa 45s is Lucy Hunter.

Lucy Hunter is an illustrator, songwriter and part of Dunedin trio, Opposite S*x alongside her solo music practice.
Have a listen to her recent release, Love has a Terrible Way.
https://lucyhunter.bandcamp.com/track/love-has-a-terrible-way
We asked her about the influence on her work for the show:
Slade covered "Darling Be Home Soon" by John Sebastian on a live album. The line "For the great relief of having you to talk to" always stuck with me.

Love Has a Terrible Way, by Lucy Hunter track by Lucy Hunter

Time for us to introduce you to some of the artists showing in our upcoming exhibition Cover to Cover - feat. Opawa 45s!

First up is Gemma Syme.

Gemma Syme is a multi-talented, colourful force of energy. She's part of art rock band Fantasing, Femscrem and also produces solo under Instant Fantasy
Here's some words by Gemma about the song that's influenced her work for Cover to Cover:

" It reminds me of when I used to go out in Christchurch in the early 2000s. I also found the 12" single of it when I was in New York in 2005. I'm interested in playing around with how women are presented in music store spaces and in the music industry in general."

Loose Joints "Is It All Over My Face" (Original Male Version) This is way too obvious a song for me to be posting, but I incredulously found that no one had posted this unreleased, original, male vocal version yet and t...

Have you been down to Pennylane Records to see When I'm not sleeping - Irenie How? Don't miss out in these joyous colourful and lyrical works!

Another powerhouse of creativity that we're showcasing as part of Mixtape: Pride Exhibition Opening w/ PGX is the amazing Oona Verse/Bek Coogan.

From Palmerston North, based in Karori, Wellington, Coogan was recently described by the Audio Foundation’s ( AK) “Nowhere Festival ‘ – as “ NZ’s first lady of Rock’ n’ Roll Yodelling and a veteran of counter culture.”

Coogan likes to test what art is.

Coogan’s long-term desire is to rupture individualist neo-liberal consciousness with one collective yodel. ( kind of like a Joyous Rock Opera ).

Until then the yodel comes out the end of a vivid pen when hearing the call of the mystery solo.

(Bands: Dog Tooth Violet, Cortina, Full Fu***ng Moon, Fantasing, The Gorge, Bog Wolf, Sheville, Oona Verse )

Another peek into the workings of our wonderful Mixtape: Pride Exhibition Opening w/ PGX artists:

"Through my practice I experiment with objects and materials which mimic the feelings of bodily sensations and play off the desire to touch. My works utilise movements between textures – soft and hard, glossy and matte – to draw on the colours and forms of natural and physical source material. I aim to acquire a sense of the familiar becoming strange, or alternatively, the strange becoming familiar, through acknowledgment of the underlying grotesque which I perceive as prominent in everyday life." Timothy McLaughlin

A young, up and coming artist from Christchurch, LeRoy Odom works mainly in digital design and symmetry. We're looking forward to seeing a study in new materials for his practice at Mixtape: Pride Exhibition Opening w/ PGX
Don't miss out!

Louie Zalk-Neale is a q***r artist, costume designer and performer based in Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington. They use drawing and painting as a way of visualising and designing costume garments. The timelessness of faded old paper and dark ink rightfully suggests that gender non-conformity and q***rness have existed continuously throughout history, and will into the future. Louie transforms their drawings into wearable costumes, and performs in them, creating new logics to understand people's bodies – thinking of clothing, gender and movement. They aim to submerge the audience into their q***r lived experience to demonstrate the potential freedom from society’s limiting structures.

Join us this Wednesday at Mixtape: Pride Exhibition Opening w/ PGX to see their work.

"A river with no banks moving in an unknown direction at an indiscernible speed, underneath a starless sky."
Steven Park is the creative powerhouse behind 6x4 and has made a new work as part of Mixtape: Pride Exhibition Opening w/ PGX, we can't wait to share it with you.

A pillar of the rainbow community and no stranger to creativity - Akira Le Fevre is a Q***r Maori/Japanese artist who paints both canvas and face. Akira Works in sexual health education and volunteers in the LGBTQIA+ community. He believes in diversity, freedom of expression and identity.

We can't wait to share his work with you this Wednesday as part of Mixtape: Pride Exhibition Opening w/ PGX

This show brings together artists from around New Zealand and abroad. The multi-talented Priscilla Howe is an artist and designer from Christchurch, NZ currently based in Melbourne, Australia. Her work predominantly focuses on the supernatural, theatrical and phenomenology in the everyday.

Next up in our artist line up for Mixtape: Pride Exhibition Opening w/ PGX is Holly Aitchison - this self taught Southern Sappho is sending us a new work that's good enough to eat! Find more of her work on her artist page Holly Aitchison

Mixtape sees a range of artists from mid career to emerging and those currently studying or exploring their practices - a cross section of our community making fresh new works!

Tiffany Furness mainly makes use of water colours, and enjoys painting somewhat whimsical scenes with bright colours. She doesn't often use conventional canvases, rather preferring to paint on other media (rocks, plant pots, other people etc.).

Time to introduce you to some of the wonderful artists in Mixtape: Pride Exhibition Opening w/ PGX opening next week.

Aaron Kong is an art clown currently based in Christchurch. Working predominantly in sculpture and performance, his practice looks at digital space and revolves around the notion of identity as a performance, looking at the slippages between physical and online identity through the lens of pop and contemporary culture. Past works include painting himself green, a glory hole installation and bejewelled condom earrings.

Last chance to see Nick Lowry's exhibition at Pennylane Records this weekend. Don't miss out! And look out for info about the next show soon....

Have you popped down to Pennylane Records to check out Forest & Famine - Nick Lowry yet? Get down to see his new paintings before the show finishes!

A huge thanks to the amazing crew at The Fermentist for their support of Catalogue! We’ll be serving their delicious and carbon zero Kiwi Pale Ale at our openings - including tonight for the Forest and Famine opening! 5:30pm - come on down!

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Thank you so much to everyone who joined us last night for the launch of Catalogue and our first exhibition - Compilation.

Special shout outs to Dave, Tiffany, Lukas and the crew at Pennylane Records for hosting us and helping this all come together. Thanks to Ben Woods and his band for a marvellous gig and The Fermentist for sponsoring the tastiest IPA to help the good times flow!

Head into store to check out the suite of new works by a hot dozen local artists.

Tonight's the night! Join us at 5.30pm for Compilation exhibition opening - feat Ben Woods with some tasty beverages generously supplied by The Fermentist