What's
on
Stratford Village Quilters
21st Anniversary Exhibition
1 – 24 February 2019
In 2015 Sue Cooke, a Whanganui-based landscape artist, received a year-long grant from the Pollack Krasner Foundation in New York that funded drawing, research and development of proposals for artwork based on the past and current deforestation of New Zealand’s indigenous forests.
A SONGLESS LAND is one of the proposals that grew out of drawing in Northland’s Kauri Forests and Southland’s Beech Forests. Opening first at Percy Thomson Gallery in Stratford, Taranaki, the exhibition immerses viewers through the mediums of ink, canvas and paper in deforestation, regeneration and highlights natural beauty in order to focus the audience’s attention on protecting New Zealand’s small and ever-diminishing indigenous forest stock...
Coming
soon
Sue Cooke
A Songless Land
An Artist's Exploration of Beech, Kamahi and Kauri Forests
1 – 24 March 2019
In 2015 Sue Cooke, a Whanganui-based landscape artist, received a year-long grant from the Pollack Krasner Foundation in New York that funded drawing, research and development of proposals for artwork based on the past and current deforestation of New Zealand’s indigenous forests.
A SONGLESS LAND is one of the proposals that grew out of drawing in Northland’s Kauri Forests and Southland’s Beech Forests. Opening first at Percy Thomson Gallery in Stratford, Taranaki, the exhibition immerses viewers through the mediums of ink, canvas and paper in deforestation, regeneration and highlights natural beauty in order to focus the audience’s attention on protecting New Zealand’s small and ever-diminishing indigenous forest stock....
Upcoming
exhibitions
Sue Cooke: A Songless Land
Friday 1 March – Sunday 24 March 2019
Purely Pastel:
Members of the Pastel Association of New Zealand
Friday 29 March – Sunday 21 April 2019
Percy's
Place
Percy's Place is our boutique art shop featuring high-quality work by local artists.
Kia ora.
Welcome to Percy Thomson Gallery
Percy Thomson Gallery is Stratford's public art gallery and was opened in June 2002.
The gallery has developed and grown over the years, now receiving national recognition as a thriving and diverse exhibition space catering for all age groups and interests and involving the community at large.
New exhibitions start every three to four weeks, and vary between national, local and regional artists – established and emerging.
Address
Percy Thomson Gallery
Prospero Place
56 Miranda Street
Stratford
Telephone & Email
06 765 0917
Email
Gallery Director
Opening hours
10.30am – 4.00pm weekdays
10.30am – 3.00pm weekends
Closed Christmas Day, Boxing Day,
New Years Day, Good Friday,
Easter Sunday, Anzac Day
and between exhibitions
