Friday 17 December 2010

Rugby, Racing and Beer 3

 
 
 
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When I was just a little kid,
Knee high to a keg,
My Daddy took me on his knee.
He drained his glass and closed his eyes
And gave me very sound advice
On how to be a good Kiwi.

Rugby, Racing and Beer 2

 
 
 
 
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"Get to know your football sides
And learn to spell from Moore's race guides
And don't forget down under over here
Because of your great parentage
You have a national heritage
Of Rugby, Racing and Beer."

Rugby, Racing and Beer 1

 
 
 
 
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Rugby, Racing and Beer,
Rugby, Racing and Beer,
Down under we're mad over our
Rugby, Racing and Beer.

Rod Derrett

Sunday 15 August 2010

NZ HOUSE & GARDEN August

 
 
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A friend told me about seeing three of my NZR Cups in the August issue of NZ HOUSE & GARDEN, page 21 and 22. Great house and taste by the Wellington owners. What a nice surprise!

Sunday 1 August 2010

Crown Lynn T-Towels in HER magazine

 
 
 
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The Crown Lynn T-Towels are available online from our Pug Design Store

http://www.pugdesignstore.co.nz/products-page/crown-lynn-ttowels/

Price $20 each or $55 for the set of three

Monday 7 June 2010

Coimbra

 
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International Exhibition 2010, Surrealism Now, Bissaya Barreto Foundation, Coimbra, Portugal. May 20 - June 30, 2010

Sunday 23 May 2010

Portrait of wrestler Onno Boelee AKA Otto Mannheim

 
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This 1970's painting* is my portrait of one of my younger brothers, Onno Boelee. This work hung for many years in Shantytown a night club in Queen Street, Auckland, where Onno was the bouncer. If some of the patrons got angry with him, they used to throw their drinks at the painting rather then at him...... "The Inbetweens" were the fabulous disco band there at the time!

* The collection of Lennie and Julie Worthington (Oil on Whakatane Board, 1200 x 1200 mm)

ONNO BOELEE

height 6'1

Weight 125 kgs

Profile
I started wrestling for South Pacific Wrestling in 1970. I did my training at a very good gym in Mt Roskill, Auckland, New Zealand.

The promoters I worked for were Earnie Pinchers, Steve Rickard and Giant Baba.

I toured New Zealand extensively from 1971 through to 1976 for Steve Rickard.

I have toured internationally only to Japan in September, October and November 1974.

Opponents
The local and international wrestlers I fought were: Frank Lipnovich, Wild Don Scott, Bronco Barnes, Robert Bruce, King Curtis, Mark Lewin, Teddy Williams, Butch Miller, Bruno Becker, The Sheik, Jock Ruddock, Johnny Garcia, Big Bad John, Abdullah the Butcher, Al Hobman, Bulldog Brower, Waldo Von Erich, Merve Fortune, Del Adams and Andre the Giant.

My toughest opponent was John da Silva.

Opening Bissayo Barreto Foundation 3

 
 
 
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Images from the opening of the INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION 2010 SURREALISM NOW - Coimbra, Portugal

Santiago Ribeiro, artist and curator top image on the left, Isabel Horta e Vale, Director Bissayo Barreto Foundation bottom image on the right.

Opening Bissayo Barreto Foundation 2

 
 
 
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Images from the opening of the INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION 2010 SURREALISM NOW - Coimbra, Portugal

Centre image on the right:
Rudolf Boelee - My work in this show is the portrait of New Zealander Geoffrey Cox, who made his name in the english news paper world in the thirties, as the only remaining war journalist covering the siege of Madrid during the Spanish Civil War.from the radio tower in the middle of the battlefield * Ties in with the heyday of classic Surrealism. I am the only artist from Australasia included in this exhibition.

Opening Bissaya Barreto Foundation, Coimbra, Portugal 1

 
 
 
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Images from the opening of the INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION 2010 SURREALISM NOW - Coimbra, Portugal

Thursday 6 May 2010

The Byron of Burnside - Text

 
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The Byron of Burnside
RUDOLF BOELEE

Gallery hours:
11-5pm Wednesday to Friday
11-2pm Saturday

PaperGraphica
192 Bealey Avenue
Christchurch 8013

0064 3 366 8487

‘The Byron of Burnside’ new works by Rudolf Boelee
In 2009 I found a book ‘The Letters of A.R.D. Fairburn’ at a church fair in Christchurch. It was one of those inspired finds that can make that sort of activity so worthwhile and has been such a big part of my practice as an artist. Rex Fairburn (1904-1957) was one of our first major poets, also a satirist and critic whose varied career (insurance clerk, free-lance journalist, Farmers-Union secretary, radio scriptwriter, craftsman, English tutor and art lecturer) gave but a bare indication of the range of his interests. Reading this fantastic book opened a window into his era and was the beginning for this new exhibition ‘The Byron of Burnside’. The new show follows on from my national touring exhibition ‘Exiles’ (2007 -2010), featuring portraits of Charles Brasch, Robin Hyde, Dan Davin, Rewi Alley, James Bertram, Geoffrey Cox, and John Mulgan. I selected these characters as homage for their ability to see beyond boundaries and the confines of their homeland and from a personal angle, because they were of my father’s generation and shared similar left wing political beliefs. Of the ‘Exiles’, Dan Davin and Sir Geoffrey Cox remained in England, Rewi Alley in China, Robin Hyde and John Mulgan died young and only Charles Brasch and James Bertram returned to New Zealand after the Second World War to contribute to a new era in New Zealand literature and art..
As a relatively new society in the inter war years (1920-1940), there were limitations in some fields of New Zealand life and culture. New Zealand took decades to achieve cultural independence and emerge as a nation in its own right, with the specialized occupations of an urban culture. Initially a rural people, New Zealanders were often ambivalent toward intellectual or artistic aspirations. Writer Katherine Mansfield (1888–1923) was one who felt stifled by the drudgery and conservatism of colonial life, and like many others she left for Europe as soon as circumstances allowed. Writing from Cairo during the Second World War, John Mulgan expressed this wanderlust: ‘New Zealanders … spend their lives wanting to set out across the wide oceans that surround them in order to find the rest of the world’. At the end of the Second World War a new nationalist spirit about the New Zealand experience emerged with poets Allen Curnow, A.R.D. Fairburn, Denis Glover and Charles Brasch who saw themselves as the new ‘do it yourself’ guardians of High Culture. They set up independent presses and publications: Landfall, Caxton Press, Nag’s Head Press, Pelorus Press, Pilgrim Press, Here and Now, among others.
Being a Christchurch resident for thirty years, many of the titles in ‘The Byron of Burnside’ refer to or are associations with Christchurch. For instance, it was the then Christchurch poet Denis Glover who dubbed author and publisher Bob Gormack the 'Byron of Burnside' (a suburb of Christchurch). The figures portrayed in these works are of the much maligned ‘Good Keen Man’ era, usually with an even more capable ‘Good Keen Woman’ as back-up. All portrayed either were friends or knew each other well, in other words, the ‘New Zealand Way’, where everyone sort of knows everyone else!

Rudolf Boelee

Enter without Knocking

 
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Philip Smithells. Eric Lee-Johnson, Charles Brasch, Archie Fisher, Denis Glover, Irene Lowry, Bob Lowry

Hahnemuhle Etching Paper 305gsm

Giclee Print

$600

Here and Now

 
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Dr G.M.Smith, Lord Freyberg, Denis Glover, Bob Lowry, Ron Mason, Rex Fairburn, Allen Curnow, Antony Alpers


Hahnemuhle Etching Paper 305gsm

Giclee Print

$600

Caxton

 
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Denis Glover, Rex Fairburn, Bob Lowry

Hahnemuhle Etching Paper 305gsm

Giclee Print

$600

No New Thing

 
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Ron Mason, Rex Fairburn

Hahnemuhle Etching Paper 305gsm

Giclee Print

$600

The Byron of Burnside

 
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Jocelyn Mays, Frank Sargeson, Antony Alpers

Hahnemuhle Etching Paper 305gsm

Giclee Print

$600

Sunday 2 May 2010

The painting of Geoffrey Cox in 'Surrealism Now' exhibition.

 
 
 
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Santiago Ribeiro INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION 2010 SURREALISM NOW

Bissaya Barreto Foundation,Coimbra, Portugal, EU.

20th of May until the 30th of June 2010

Participating artists in Coimbra:

Otto Rapp, Oleg Korolev, Daniel Hanequand, Ton Haring, Viktor Safonkin, Peter van Oostzanen, Hikaru Hirata, Patricia van Lubeck, Dean Fleming, Christhopher Klein, Sergey Barkosky, Larkin, Carlos Aguado, Sonja Tines, Gerardo Gomez, Lv Shang, Alessandro Bulgarini, Pedro Diaz Cartes, Elizabeth Pantano, Egill Ebsen,Octavian Florescu, Dan Lydersen, Pavel Surma, Krzysztof Wlodarski (Kali), Shahla Rosa, Sampo Kaikkonen, Miguel Ruibal, Jo Rizo, Ludmila, Lourenço Gonçalves, Sergey Tyukanov, Mehriban Efendi, Carlos Godinho, Victor Lages, Meme, Hector Pineda, Gromyko Semper, Slavko Krunic, Adam Scott Miller, Roland Heyder, Vu Huyen Thuong, Santiago Ribeiro ...more:Fernando Araujo, Carel Verelgh, Maciej Hoffman, Nadide Gürcüoğlu, Rui Cunha, Francisco Urbano, Mirek Antoniewicz, João Duarte, Nazareno Stanislau, Rudolf Boelee, Madrigal Arcia, Ignacio Casanovas, Dijana Iva Sesartic.