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YMCA - Y We Dance
The YMCA Palmerston North is a community organisation based on family values which enable individuals and families to develop physically, mentally and spiritually and enjoy a healthy quality of... | |
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Virginia Jamieson has won the Manawatu Yellow Pages Group Art Award with her etch ' Manawatu Alphabet', which also took out $5000 third place in the national telephone book art awards.
The etch will feature on the cover of the 2008 Manawatu telephone book and is thoughtto be the first etch to be selected for a cover in the history of the competition.
Virginia specialises in printmaking. She has work at Hang Ups Gallery in Russell Street, Palmerston North during November 2007, in an exhibition based on the life of Wilkie Mardon and his sister Winifred, Virginia's grandmother.
Exhibition images include a family flaxmill at Rangiotu, the local school and local marae Te Rangimarie. Virginia imagined the lives of the Mardon youngsters at Rangiotu and reflected on the past nine years when she has been resident in the Manawatu. The exhibition is supported by Palmerston North Community Arts Council.
Virginia spent seven years working with exhibitions and special projects in the museum and art sector, including at Te Manawa from 1998 to 2005. A printmaker since 2004, she is an active member of the Central Print Council of Aotearoa New Zealand, recently being involved in the 'Endangered Species' poet -printmaker project exhibited and auctioned at Bowen Galleries, Wellington. She illustrated Greg O'Briens poem ' Where You Stand'.
Future projects include a puddings recipe book and a Manawatu myrioama.
Virginia operates PUHiPRESS from her base in Palmerston North, Manawatu.
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Puhi Press
PO Box 817
Palmerston North 4440 |
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