City Art is a conservation framing workshop and gallery offering a range of museum-standard picture framing and art care services to artists, art collectors, museums and galleries. In operation since 1989 we have established a reputation for providing practical solutions for the framing, display, installation, transportation or long term storage of works of art and artefacts. Our products include custom-made and replica frames, archival Solander storage boxes, artists’ stretchers and purpose-built crates. We use the highest quality archival materials and conservation framing procedures to ensure that your artwork is protected and displayed to the best advantage and to the highest safety standards. The City Art gallery is an exhibition space representing a range of new works from leading artists from New Zealand and overseas

Featured Artist : Kathryn Madill

Crossing the Divide by Kathryn Madill
(25 November - 20 December 2008)

Following Kathryn’s successful show in 2005 of paintings based on her trip to Antarctica, Crossing the Divide comprises six large oil paintings on traditional gesso panels, each incorporating a silent progression of travellers on the cusp of an unidentified journey – poised at the water’s edge or on a mountain pass, fleeing for their lives or crossing into a darker realm. A strong sense of myth and a theatrical sense of isolation permeate these unspoken tales of flight. The artist’s use of rich, gleaming colour, the fading light, the inherent symbolism, the surreal cast of characters, the bleakness and the beauty of these paintings make Crossing the Divide a remarkable collection of new work.

Gallery:

Peter Adsett
Mark Braunias
Peter Carson
Stephen Clarke
Allen Cox
Michael Dell
Andrew Drummond
Guy Frederick
Michael Hamblett
Jeffrey Harris
Roger Hickin
Maree Horner
Kathryn Madill
Michael Reed
Zina Swanson
Philip Trusttum