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Margaret Silverwood, Catherine Macdonald and Ben Reid

4 November - 28 November 2009

Catherine Macdonald's new series of works titled 'The Sky's the Limit' looks at the period of time between possibility and certainty. When things are 'up in the air' and there is still a chance of things turning out the way you hope they might. Macdonald's works continue to also explore our relationship between the animals that share our lives and the perspective they may have.

Margaret Silverwood presents two series of new work using 1967 House and Garden magazines, and the new suburbia they represented, as her starting point. Silverwood explores the push and pull between our obsessive control of our home surroundings, and the wild world just waiting in the wings. Her second series has come out of her love for Edward Hicks' Peaceable Kingdom paintings. These works are scenes from Silverwood's personal Australasian peaceable kingdom - a utopian vision of how things might have been.

Ben Reid exhibits 'A Bird in the Hand', a series of new prints exploring the many conflicting emotions he experiences when surveying the impact of human habitation on this country's fragile ecology. While he mourns the loss of some native birds he celebrates the hope that extinction is not the inevitable fate of our endangered birds: we can create alternative scenarios in our role as custodians of the country's natural heritage.

Catherine Macdonald, Only Now Would They See it All
Drypoint on Aluminium (695 x 420), from an edition of 10, 2009. NZ$310 incl GST.
Catherine Macdonald, It was the Best Place For it in the End
Pencil and Watercolour (framed) on 570 x 710 mm paper, 1 of 1, 2009. Contact gallery regarding availability.
Catherine Macdonald, At Last They Had Found the Perfect Setting
Pencil (framed) on 560 x 710 mm paper, 1 of 1, 2009. Contact gallery regarding availability.
Catherine Macdonald, You Look High and Low But Seldom Within
Pencil and Watercolour (framed) on 570 x 710 mm paper, 1 of 1, 2009. Contact gallery regarding availability.
Margaret Silverwood, Moss Kent Dickenson and Sugar Glider
Graphite (framed) on 445 x 400 mm paper, 1 of 1, 2009. Contact gallery.
Margaret Silverwood, Jane Tilley and Wombat
Graphite and Watercolour (framed) on 490 x 450 mm paper, 1 of 1, 2009. Contact gallery.
Margaret Silverwood, William Abbot and Tui
Graphite (framed) on 575 x 415 mm paper, 1 of 1, 2009. Sold.
Margaret Silverwood, Curtains
Graphite and Watercolour (framed) on 435 x 365 mm paper, 1 of 1, 2009. Contact gallery.
Margaret Silverwood, 101 Things To Do On A Rainy Day
Graphite and Watercolour (framed) on 540 x 365 mm paper, 1 of 1, 2009. Contact gallery.
Margaret Silverwood, Waiting to Inherit
Graphite and Watercolour (framed) on 390 x 530 mm paper, 1 of 1, 2009. Contact gallery.
Ben Reid, Mangere Island
Drypoint and Relief on 625 x 525 mm paper, from an edition of 10, 2009. Contact gallery regarding availability.
Ben Reid, A Bird In The Hand
Drypoint and Relief on 505 x 725 mm paper, from an edition of 5, 2009. NZ$735 incl GST.
Ben Reid, Hihi (Green)
Drypoint and Woodcut on 575 x 380 mm paper, from an edition of 10, 2009. Contact gallery regarding availability.
Ben Reid, Old Yellow
Drypoint and Woodcut (framed) on 585 x 855 mm paper, from an edition of 5, 2009. Contact gallery.
Ben Reid, Albatrosses
Drypoint and Woodcut on 785 x 585 mm paper, from an edition of 10, 2009. Edition now sold out.
Ben Reid, Time In The Sun, Chatham Island Shag
Drypoint and Relief on 515 x 765 mm paper, from an edition of 8, 2009. NZ$1305 incl GST framed; NZ$1155 incl GST unframed.
Ben Reid, Hihi (White)
Drypoint and Woodcut on 775 x 580 mm paper, from an edition of 8, 2009. NZ$1260 incl GST.
Ben Reid, Chatham Island Taiko
Drypoint and Woodcut on 655 x 525 mm paper, from an edition of 10, 2009. NZ$840 incl GST.
Ben Reid, Stepping Lightly
Drypoint and Woodcut (framed) on 975 x 715 mm paper, from an edition of 10, 2009. NZ$1750 incl GST.
Ben Reid, Steads Bush Wren
Drypoint and Woodcut (framed) on 930 x 695 mm paper, from an edition of 10, 2009. NZ$1620 incl GST.
Catherine Macdonald, She Sat Back and Waited
Drypoint on Aluminium (700 x 420), from an edition of 10, 2009. NZ$465 incl GST framed; NZ$310 incl GST unframed.
Catherine Macdonald, Soon Gone
Drypoint on Aluminium (700 x 420), from an edition of 10, 2009. NZ$310 incl GST.
Catherine Macdonald, Some Place to Rest
Drypoint on Aluminium (615 x 750), from an edition of 10, 2009. NZ$675 incl GST framed; NZ$475 incl GST unframed.
Catherine Macdonald, The Quiet Was Answer Enough
Drypoint on Aluminium (615 x 750), from an edition of 10, 2009. Contact gallery regarding availability.
Ben Reid, Brown Teal (Pateke)
Drypoint (unframed) on 360 x 650 mm paper, from an edition of 10, 2009. Contact gallery.