Amanda + Andrew | Wellington Wedding Video // The Dowse Art Museum, Lower Hutt
One of the best things about this job is getting to know the people. Not just the couple, but their people too. This is especially true for this fabulous couple who we had filmed before at the maid of honour’s wedding - what a privilege to be able to head on up to the capital to reconnect. Thank you for inviting us Amanda and Andrew, we loved every minute, especially those dance moves! This one’s for you ❤
Celebrant // Gail Hall
Photographer // Helen Lea - The Nomad Creative
Ceremony, Reception & Catering // The Dowse Art Museum, Lower Hutt
DJ // DJ Ben
Hair & Makeup // Roha - Meraki Creative
Wedding Dress // Kimberley Wilson Bridal
Bridesmaids Dresses // Tulle & Chantilly
Groomsmen Suits // Hallensteins
Bouquets // Em's Flowers
Cake // Homemade by the Bride's mum
Event Rentals // The Vintage Party
Decorations, including bunting // Handmade by the Bride
Wedding Coordination and Styling // Flock Celebrations
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Wellington Travel Guide - New Zealand beautiful Experience
Wellington Travel Guide - New Zealand beautiful Experience
Wellington (Te Whanganui a Tara in Māori) is the capital and second largest city of New Zealand. It is located at the south-western tip of the North Island, between Cook Strait and the Rimutaka Range. The Windy City is built on the foreshore of Wellington Harbour and ringed by mountains, providing the scenic home of many of New Zealand's national arts and cultural attractions.
Wellington offers a blend of culture, heritage, fine food, and lively arts and entertainment. Surrounded by hills and a rugged coastline, the city boasts a stunning harbour. Wellington’s charm is that it serves up a vibrant inner city experience with a slice of New Zealand scenery. And because of its compact nature, you can sample it all: boutiques, art galleries, trendy cafés and restaurants. Right on its doorstep is a network of walking and biking trails with beautiful wineries and vineyards just a few hours away. Wellington has an array of theatre, music, dance, fine arts and galleries and museums, and is home to one of the nation’s key attractions, the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa.
Wellington is known for its film tourism. It is the heart of New Zealand's film industry and main filming and production centres for films such as the Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit trilogies, Avatar, Tin Tin and District 9. Because it is the capital city, Parliament and the head offices of many Government departments and large businesses occupy central Wellington. This is especially true in the areas closest to Parliament Buildings - the northern end of The Terrace and Lambton Quay areas and the Thorndon commercial area.
Wellington is known as the Windy City. The prevailing wind is from the northwest but the strongest winds are southerly. The wind speed and direction can be seen by the flag being flown from the Beehive. A large flag is flown only on calm days, a small flag is flown when windy days are expected.
The core of Wellington is notably compact and vibrant, and is well-suited to exploration by walking. As dictated by geography, the core of the city is quite linear, with the classic commercial backbone known as the Golden Mile making for a diverting and pleasant walking route. This route runs from the Railway Station down Lambton Quay to its southern end at Willis Street. It then runs down lower Willis Street to Manners Street and the pedestrianized Manners Mall, and continues straight onto Courtenay Place. On the Manners Mall section, the route crosses Wellington's bohemian heartland of Cuba Street, which heads south into the core of Te Aro. While these streets mark the traditional core of the commercial city, the surrounding blocks also have plenty to be seen.
Another enjoyable and popular place to amble in the city core is the Waterfront, from the revitalized Kumutoto area in the north, past Queen's Wharf to Frank Kitts Park, and then through the Lagoon and City-to-Sea Bridge areas and on to the Te Papa museum and Waitangi Park. From here the waterfront curves northeastward along lovely Oriental Bay with its beach and promenade.
Wellington has many restaurants and cafes, in fact more cafes, bars and restaurants per head than New York City. Malaysian food is surprisingly popular and available in most areas. Wellington has a bustling nightlife, concentrated along Courtenay Place, one of the major streets running from the CBD. It runs through Te Aro and ends in Mt Victoria.
A lot to see in Wellington such as :
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
ZEALANDIA Ecosanctuary
Wellington Cable Car
Wellington Botanic Garden
Wellington Zoo
Matiu / Somes Island
Wellington Museum
Beehive
Cuba Street
Space Place at Carter Observatory
Wellington Interislander Ferry Terminal
Otari-Wilton's Bush
City Gallery Wellington
Mount Victoria Lookout
Lambton Quay
Wellington Harbour
The Weta Cave
Old St Paul's
Wellington Waterfront
Mount Kaukau
Courtenay Place
New Zealand Parliament Buildings
National War Memorial
Pencarrow Lighthouse
Wellington Wind Turbine
Belmont Regional Park
Makara Peak Mountain Bike Park
The Dowse Art Museum and Dowse Square
Cable Car Museum
Wrights Hill Road
Frank Kitts Park
Scorching Bay Beach
Pukeahu National War Memorial Park
Taputeranga Marine Reserve
Avalon Park
Nairn Street Cottage
Te Ahumairangi Hill
Miramar Peninsula
Orongorongo Track
East Harbour Regional Park
( Wellington - New Zealand ) is well know as a tourist destination because of the variety of places you can enjoy while you are visiting Wellington . Through a series of videos we will try to show you recommended places to visit in Wellington - New Zealand
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Wunderrūma: Interview with jeweller Ross Malcom
Jeweller Ross Malcolm talks about his work that features in the exhibition Wunderrūma: New Zealand Jewellery at Auckland Art Gallery.
Wunderrūma was developed and toured by The Dowse Art Museum, with the support of Creative New Zealand and the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa.
Until 1 November 2015
Level 1 – free entry
Ronnie van Hout's Fallen Robot at The Dowse
A giant metal robot is reclining in The Square outside The Dowse, his humungous bronze eyes and teeth radiating from his (soon to be) watery home. Designed by Melbourne-based New Zealand artist Ronnie van Hout, and commissioned by the E Tu Awakairangi Hutt Public Art Trust, Fallen Robot is a public sculpture that lies in a shallow pool beneath an artesian water tap.
Arcade: Homegrown Video Games at The Dowse (Room 2)
Arcade: Homegrown Video Games at The Dowse Art Museum, Lower Hutt, New Zealand.
This exhibition explores the graphics, concept art and storytelling of some of the best games developed in New Zealand, showcasing home-grown gaming companies' technical and creative skills. Arcade will also include never-before-published sketches, models, and works-in-progress for an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at the development and innovation of the 'art behind the games'.
The Dowse - Alex Monteith: Surface Movements 2013
Alongside our exhibition Alex Monteith: Big Wave Aotearoa, Surface Movements was an opportunity for novices to learn to surf with the experts.
Surface Movements transplants two surf schools, Pacific Surfari (Omaha) and Kiwi Surf Schools (Raglan) to Lyall Bay, Wellington.
Wunderrūma: Interview with Raewyn Walsh
Jeweller Raewyn Walsh talks about her work that features in the exhibition Wunderrūma: New Zealand Jewellery at Auckland Art Gallery.
Wunderrūma was developed and toured by The Dowse Art Museum, with the support of Creative New Zealand and the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa.
As Seen On NZ TV
Inside the Cadillac Diner & Cafe
After I checked out the opening of the White Cloud World exhibit at the Dowse Art Museum in Lower Hutt of Wellington I stopped in here for a bite to eat. I have some more photos on my facebook profile page in the Not Winter - Part 3 album. This restaurant was also part of one of those makeover shows called The Kitchen Job - worth a watch if you can stream it online.
Little Sparks at The Dowse
A hands-on session for creatively-minded four year olds. Little Sparks meet once a month to chat about what they have seen at The Dowse -- and then get busy creating their own inspired artworks.
Bookings Essential: T 04 570 6500 | E dowsebookings@huttcity.govt.nz
2017 ServiceIQ New Zealand Museum Awards
23 May 2017: A celebration of all the best museum mahi announced winners of the 2017 awards.
The judging panels have convened and finalists have been named - thank you to everyone who entered.
Finalists in the ServiceIQ 2017 New Zealand Museum Awards:
Exhibition Excellence – Art
The Dowse Art Museum : Legacy: The Art of Rangi Hetet and Erenora Puketapu-Hetet
Te Tuhi : THE HIVE HUMS WITH MANY MINDS
Te Tuhi : Share/Cheat/Unite
Exhibition Excellence – Science and Technology
Locales / Stardome Observatory: Stardome Exhibition
MOTAT : The Innovators
Puke Ariki : BUGS! Our Backyard Heroes
Exhibition Excellence – Social History
Air Force Museum of New Zealand : 80 Years in 80 Stories
Auckland War Memorial Museum : Volume: Making Music in Aotearoa
Nelson Provincial Museum : Murder at Maungatapu
Toitu : Slice of Life: The World Famous Dunedin Study
Exhibition Excellence – Taonga Māori
Auckland War Memorial Museum : Kōrero Mai, Kōrero Atu
Nelson Provincial Museum : Mai | Hawaiiki Te Ahi Ka Roa
Tairāwhiti Museum : Ko Rongwhaakata
Waikato Museum : Te Whaanau Maarama: The Heavenly Bodies
Most Innovative use of Te Reo Māori
Auckland War Memorial Museum : Mana Aotūroa
MOTAT : The Innovators
Nelson Provincial Museum : 鸡年吉祥 | Good Luck for this Rooster Year | Ngā mihi nui mō tēnei tau o te Tamaheihei
Waikato Museum : Te Whaanau Maarama: The Heavenly Bodies
ServiceIQ Museum Visitor Experience Award
Mokau Museum : Save Mokau Museum
Dunedin Public Art Gallery : Yayoi Kusama: The Obliteration Room – Open Fun Day: Spot Ya
MTG Hawkes Bay : Somebody's Darling: Stories from the Napier Cemetery 1855-1917
Most Innovative Public Programme
Christchurch Art gallery : Good Vibrations
City Gallery Wellington : Bullet Time Education Programme
Sarjeant Gallery : The Tote Bag Project
Otago Museum : Yoga with the Butterflies
Museum Project Excellence Award
Pearson & Associates : Kaikoura Museum
The Suter : The Suter Art Gallery Te Aratoi o Whakatū Redevelopment Project
THE FILIFEST DANCE GROUP-DOWSE ART MUSEUM-RACE UNITY DAY
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Koraunui Stokes Valley Hub art creation @ Tui Glen School with The Dowse education team
Check out our amazing educator in action supporting the Stokes Valley Hub and Tui Glen School.
If you like what you see why not join one of our education team's events
Big Day Dowse trailer
Each March, The Dowse welcomes bands, artists, entertainers, craft and food stalls for a party in Dowse Square.
Big Day Dowse 2015 will be on Sunday 22 March.
dowse.org.nz/bdd
Dowse Art Museum 360
This is a 360 video, you can Play / Pause and rotate the view.
The Dowse Art Museum is a municipal art gallery in Lower Hutt, New Zealand. Opening in 1971 in the Lower Hutt CBD, The Dowse occupies a stand-alone building adjacent to other municipal facilities. The building was completely remodeled in 2013.
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Wunderrūma: Interview with jewellers and co-curators Karl Fritsch and Warwick Freeman
Jewellers and co-curators Karl Fritsch and Warwick Freeman discuss the newest iteration of their exhibition Wunderrūma: New Zealand Jewellery at Auckland Art Gallery.
Wunderrūma was developed and toured by The Dowse Art Museum, with the support of Creative New Zealand and the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa.
Until 1 November 2015
Level 1 – free entry
2016 Wellington Airport Community Awards - Shapeshifter Sculpture Exhibition
2016 Wellington Airport Community Awards Art & Culture regional finalist:
Shapeshifter Sculpture Exhibition (Rotary Club of Hutt City) - Hutt City
Shapeshifter is an outdoor sculpture exhibition, coinciding with the New Zealand Festival, held in Lower Hutt’s Civic Gardens. The event is a partnership between Hutt City, The Dowse Art Museum and Rotary Club of Hutt City volunteers. All proceeds are donated to charity, with up to $75,000 distributed per event.
shapeshifter.org.nz
Wellington Airport, in partnership with Wellington Community Trust, and the five local councils have joined together to recognise the work carried out by community groups in the wider Wellington region. The focus of the Awards is to reward the valuable contribution made by volunteers.
Areta Wilkinson - Ngā Ringa Toi o Tahu
Conceptual artist Areta Wilkinson designs and crafts jewellery reflective of both traditional Māori adornments and the histories and practices of New Zealand contemporary jewellery.
Each unique and beautifully crafted taonga represents an exploration of cultural values, of whakapapa and identity and craft methodology.
Over a career spanning 20 years she has built a reputation that sees her work in national public galleries and collections such as the third Auckland Triennial, City Gallery Wellington, Auckland Museum, Dowse Art Museum and Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa.
Riddiford Hotel, Lower Hutt, New Zealand, HD Review
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Riddiford Hotel offers accommodation in Lower Hut, 4 minutes' walk from Dowse Art Museum. Guests can enjoy the on-site restaurant. Free private parking is available on site.
Riddiford Hotel is 7 minutes' walk from Westfield Queensgate Shopping Mall. Hutt Hospital is 5 minutes' drive away.
All rooms come with a flat-screen TV. You will find a kettle in the room. All rooms are equipped with a private bathroom equipped with a shower.
The nearest airport is Wellington Airport, 9.3 miles from the property.
The Art of Remembrance_Warwick Freeman in his words_2018
Warwick Freeman is one of New Zealand’s most celebrated artists. Born in Nelson in 1953, he now lives and works in Auckland. His art is represented in major public and private collections including the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; Powerhouse Museum, Sydney; Auckland War Memorial Museum, Auckland; Dowse Art Museum, Wellington; Danner Stiftung, Munich; the Helen Drutt Collection, Philadelphia; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Te Papa Tongarewa Museum of New Zealand, Wellington. The Francoise van den Bosch Foundation, Stedelijk Museum, made him their 2002 Laureate. That same year Warwick was made a lifetime Laureate by the New Zealand Arts Foundation.
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Otti Binswanger - The Immigrant (1945) by NZ artist Douglas MacDiarmid | by biographer Anna Cahill
Often referred to as ‘The Immigrant’, this portrait of Otti Binswanger was painted by Douglas MacDiarmid in 1945 and has been celebrated as a statement on displacement. Otti and her husband Paul were highly educated German refugees who found sanctuary in Christchurch in WWII, yet struggled to find work and fit into the confines of a colonial outpost.
With his penchant for older, erudite folk, Douglas embraced them for their cultured outlook and thinking. Douglas did not want this painting to be called ‘The Immigrant’; it was a portrait of his good friend. Otti was a remarkable woman, a rhythmic gymnast, sculptor, author – so much more than an immigrant in what she gave to New Zealand in her few years in this country.
Here you have a strongly built woman, arms crossed defensively, in a living room with her coat on. A very un-New Zealand looking scene, it is a strikingly modern take on portraiture and social commentary at a time when faces were usually painted in very traditionally style.
The living room in which Douglas set Otti looked deliberately foreign from the usual kiwi parlour of the day. It was in fact the local home of another friend Dr Otto Frankel, a Viennese plant breeder and early wheat geneticist, and his New Zealand wife Margaret. The Frankels commissioned refugee architect, furniture designer and town planner Ernst Plischke to create their ultra-modern house at Opawa, a southern suburb of Christchurch.
Otti wrote a book And how do you like this country? Stories of New Zealand, while living here. It was republished in 2010 with a new preface by Professor Livia Käthe Wittmann (of Christchurch) to introduce the stories and the personality and life of its author.
This painting is part of the collection of The Dowse Art Museum, Lower Hutt, and appears in Douglas’ biography Colours of a Life on page 66. Otti’s portrait also features in the book Back and Beyond by Gregory O’Brien, an award-winning Wellington based polymath – painter, poet, curator and writer. Read the extract about his eye-opening journey of this painting in Book Extract: Back and Beyond 2008, reproduced with kind permission of Gregory O’Brien and Auckland University Press.
There is a poignant connection between Otti and another of Douglas’ early portraits Woman and child in a room at night 1946 – the little girl Juliet is her beloved god daughter.
The painting appears in current New Zealand Portrait Gallery exhibition Colours of a Life: Douglas MacDiarmid in support of the release of his biography of the same name. Here it sits within the context of a broader slice of Douglas’ portrait and figurative work, dating from 1945 to 2013. The exhibition continues at the Portrait Gallery until 23 September 2018.
Buy your copy of Colours of a Life – the life and times of Douglas MacDiarmid by Anna Cahill (2018) online or purchase it in person from the New Zealand Portrait Gallery in Wellington, Jonathan Grant Gallery in Auckland, or from all good bookstores across New Zealand. Published by Mary Egan Publishing (July 2018).
Visit douglasmacdiarmid.com to learn more about the life and times (and art) of Douglas MacDiarmid.
Image courtesy of Dowse Art Museum Collection, Lower Hutt, New Zealand.