Hard News by Russell Brown

A wall with reproduced works say Phillip Claremont's "I Hear My Tain A Comin - Room Full of Mirrors" - would be great.

Wonderful idea and brilliant execution so far. Hoping the series can also include works from Maori, Pasifika and other artistic traditions of this place.

Wonderful idea and brilliant execution so far. Hoping the series can also include works from Maori, Pasifika and other artistic traditions of this place.

And also encompass the greater city. I quite like the idea of it staying privately-funded. Declining to answer to the public art committee ain't a bad policy.

Askew, who too often works for little more than the cost of materials

Respect. And also for this.

Respect to all of them.

Is it just the dead who feature in this worthy series, or do the living get a look-in too? I'd love to see a John Pule wall, or a giant Westra.

Is it just the dead who feature in this worthy series, or do the living get a look-in too? I’d love to see a John Pule wall, or a giant Westra.

Why not? The main thing at the moment, I think, is to create some momentum.

There's a very fine artist who often paints on the side of the water tower at the Big King dog park. Eventually, though, the Council comes along and destroys it. I would love to know who the artist is - his work is stunningly good.

Wow. This is quiet. Everyone must be reading twitter.

It's great that in the link you've given, Tame Iti is described as one of New Zealand's "ingenious people"...

one of New Zealand's "ingenious people"...

Ha! Thanks, I missed that. I did notice that Juxtapoz has him as "Tame Ito", and that he's had "legal issues with the law".

Meanwhile, in Henderson, under the radar of the creative sterility police.

Phillip Claremont's

ahem, Clairmont
having spent an unconscionable amount of
impressionable time in a room with the
wall size hessian Hendrix Fireplace...
{: - )

having spent an unconscionable amount of
impressionable time in a room with the
wall size hessian Hendrix Fireplace

On an LSD HDTV screen?

visions…

On an LSD HDTV screen?

nah, with a rat named Ralph, in a bedroom,
of a rambling flat in Kilmore Street…

Phil was living in Peterborough St at the time,
he used to pay for all sorts of things
with paintings and drawings…

I used to visit a friend at the flat of one of his benefactors
who had this battered bartered bacchanal brooding on the wall
of his room – a room one would perhaps have called,
in more formal times, the smoking room…
I thought of it as the drawing room, it drew me…

( aside: The owner eventually went to Australia, but the
wall painting was too damn big to take over,
so he left it with another friend, to look after,
which they did for many years, until they sold it,
without telling owner, and trousering proceeds,
much bitterness ensues.

well that’s how the story goes, as I heard it

I think it’s in The McDougall, er CAG, these days.)

funny old game life, eh…

that one's shades of grey, so it's all good :)

It's a great fireplace. But the couch is better :) Best thing at Te Papa. YMMV.