20th June 2007

Our 2007 Auction was an awesome success! Raising nearly $20,000, it surpassed all our expectations and nearly doubled what we raised in our 2006 Wine Box Auction.

A special thanks to all the artists who have so generously donated their work to us, and also to our sponsor Riverside Wines.

Works Auctioned 2007

Listed lot numbers are in the order of the auction.

Live Kulture, Acrylic

Lot 18. Eddie Budd

"An impassioned psychonoaut, I have exotic visions to share. Surviving the various transitions between multiple realities, I have returned with something."

"The Legacy of fire
A Low - Brow divergence
Not of this Earth"

Eddie is a survivor of mental illness and his work draws its strength from his experiences of this process. He work has now been in a number of exhibitions in Hawke's Bay and he is currently working towards his second solo show at Mosaic Gallery.

More on the artist

Like a Bird on a Wire, Mixed Media

Lot 5. Liz Earth

Its like the Leonard Cohen song, one of my favorites, - "I tried to make the piece sing and I think it does"

Liz's multi media installations in the Hastings CBD are well known, as are her public sculptures at Hawke's Bay events. She has exhibited her paintings, ceramics, drawings and photography in many exhibitions throughout New Zealand.

This work carries on her successful theme of nests and nesting, most recently in a humorous way combining the theme with everyday home materials and contexts.

Jester, Paint

Lot 8. Gary Waldrom

Waldrom has had numerous solo and group shows through out New Zealand. His work is exhibited alongside other high profile New Zealand artists in the major centres. Waldrom's work features beautiful painted but slightly distorted figures in tensely arranged formal settings.

More about the Artist

Sponsor: Remax

Wine Shrine 2, Mixed media

Lot 20. Jo Blogg

"When a person is inclined to stick thousands of little things to other much bigger things, is it any wonder that a medicinal glass or two of wine is in order?"

Jo has been producing innovative sculptural work, paintings and prints for a number of years and exhibiting in solo and group shows. Her work was most recently selected in the 2006 Norsewear Award. An inventive sculptor and painter whose work combines interesting ideas, innovative uses of materials and a fastidious approach to detail.

Sponsor: Maison Therese