Float a Wish: A community arts event for primary school children and their families led by

Artists: Hilary Johnstone and Clint Fern

http://floatawish.co.nz

The artist’s will work with self-selected primary schools to facilitate a community arts event Float a Wish to be held at 5.30pm on July 11th where several hundred primary school children, and their families will release floating lanterns onto the pond at the Queens Gardens containing a wish for their family or community. This project has many links to the school curriculum and

Space and Earth

Artists: Lori Davis with an outreach education programme for 5 teenagers.

http://www.loridavis.co.nz

In the dark of the Chinese Gardens during the Light Nelson festival there will be imagery of urban space life and objects that will glow and catch your interest and imagination.

This project is designed and produced by five under 16 teenagers from ‘At your potential educational charitable trust’.

The student are working alongside Lori Davis in her studio at Founders Park to create and complete large-scale images that will be unexpected, effecting the lives and consequent imagery of kids that are challenged by our traditional school and social structures.

The project will be realised in sign writer’s illumination vinyl on a black walls.

Enlightened

Artist: Maclean Barker

Photography literally means ‘drawing with light’. These pictures show how objects submerged in streams and in the sea take on a magical new life.  The images will be projected onto a shifting surface, giving an ephemeral quality to the work

Detritus

Artist: Prue Wilson

Inspired by falling leaves and our current climate of consumerism as well as the environmental effects of plastic bags and how they invade and disintegrate in the environment, this installation is constructed from torn fragments of supermarket bags hung in a mass, invading the gallery space.  Constantly changing colours reminiscent of nature are projected onto the work in a loop.