Autumn: Call and Response   17^th March – 10^th June 2012

 Our next exhibition, call and response, curated by Kim Paton, will present works from emerging artists who must wrestle with the inherent challenges of the site, including the scale and natural beauty of the landscape. Kim has accepted proposals that demonstrate engagement with the physical and historical environment of the site as well as wider environmental issues. The exhibition will include various forms of work including sculpture, installation, ephemeral, performance and conceptual.

 Participating artists had the opportunity to apply for the Ebbett Prestige Environmental Art Award.  This year the funding provided will assist the following emerging artists to prepare their work for this exhibition.  The winners of the six awards are:

• Amber Pearson
• Laura Marsh
• Nik Blackburn
• Taarati Taiaroa
• Timothy Chapman
• Veronica Herber

 Come along and vote for your favourite work – the winning artist receives the Calder & Lawson People’s Choice Award when the votes are counted in June.

The Sculpture Park @ Waitakaruru Arboretum
207 Scotsman Valley Rd
Tauwhare, Waikato
15kms east of Hamilton
P: 07 824 0733
www.sculpturepark.co.nz

A group of diverse and talented artists from the Waikato, Hawkes bay and Nelson regions have gathered together and combined their creative talents to surprise, delight and amuse. We reflect on the good ol’ days when you put your glass milk bottles out at the gate for the milkman, cranked up your favourite vinyl on the record player, the picnic basket had regular use, the river and lakes were crystal clear and the box brownie was ready to capture those magic moments …

Featured artists 

 Daniel Kirsch, Carole Shepheard, Jenny Scown, Stuart MacKenzie, Jane Galloway, Chris Meek, Veronica Young , Jo Wilson & Adrian Worsley

Inspirit Studio & Gallery
360 Pencarrow Road, RD 3, Tamahere
Hamilton 3283
www.inspirit.co.nz
Ph Jenny 07 8563170

TOP CAMERA MOMENTS

• Get your picture taken with the icon of Cambridge, the bronze mare and Foal statue situated on Victoria Street outside the Town Hall.
  
• Visit St Andrews Angilcan Church on the corner of Victoria Street and Hamilton Road to view the stained glass windows depicting soliders in WW1 at Gallipoli
  
• Have your camera ready for an up close encounter of the Kaka kind when you time your visit during feeding time at the Southern Enclosure of Maungatautari Ecological Island enclosure.
  
• Snap the panoramic views from atop of the Maungakawa Scenic Reserve, it guarantees a great view of Cambridge and its hinterland.
  
• Find your horse of human hero embedded in the street pavements, mosaic tiles representing famous Cambridge horses are on Victoria street along with the towns heroes in brass plaques lining Duke Street
  
  

Keep an eye out for an interesting façade on the E H Leigh chemist building. This business was bought by Leigh from Harold Possenniskie in 1933. Possenniskie had bought from A Neilson Thomson in 1923. Thomson had bought from J F Brooks in 1917. Brooks had bought from Robert Jones Roberts in 1912. And Roberts had moved his shop from Duke Street in 1905. The shop is now part of Wrights’ Bookshop.

In 1937 Leigh had his son G Innes Leigh, of the firm Edgcumbe and White, design this  new two storey building. The contractor was D I Gate of Hamilton.. It was built of concrete with a modern shop front carried out in black vitrolite above and below the recessed display windows. It resembled many of the new buildings in Napier.

For more interesting Cambridge HIstory go to www.cambridgemuseum.org.nz

Or visit the Heritage Trail 

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