Ron Hall
Waterfall $2,200 Status: Available - Upcoming Exhibition
Hive Waggle (diptych) $3,900 Status: Available - Upcoming Exhibition
Bee Hive Rivers (diptych) $2,500 Status: Available - Upcoming Exhibition
Bee Landscape $4,200 Status: Available - Upcoming Exhibition
Silver Day $2,500 Status: Available - Upcoming Exhibition
High Jive (diptych) $3,900 Status: Available - Upcoming Exhibition
Ron Hall Exhibition
We are pleased to invite you and your guests to meet Ron Hall at the opening of our first 2020 Wellington Exhibition
Opening January 23rd 2020 5-7 pm
Exhibitions Gallery of Fine Art
20 A Brandon Street, Wellington 6011
Phone 04 499 6356 or Ron 021 062 2072
rsvp: ron@exhibitionsgallery.co.nz
Artist Statement
My recycled beehive work is a reference to our NZ landscape.
The beehives have been in a specific NZ locality and climate and this has altered the painted surface. I quite often see this weathered surface in an abstract, poetical, musical way. The wooden hives, to me, are not simply a home of the bees but evoke various memories. These memories are triggered by the wonderful honey smell, arrangement of the wooden pieces and of course the textures of the weathered painted surfaces.
The woods include macrocarpa, the traditional shelter tree with its strong smell; the historic native wetland tree the kahikatia and the ubiquitous pine. All these types of woods add a cultural layer to my art work. The industry of beekeeping and the vital lives of our bees, also add another significant layer.
What really floats my waka is the wonderful textures of the painted, weathered, and repainted surfaces that challenge our idea of what painting is. How is it that such random painting carried out by apiary workers produce such unexpected beauty? – Ron Hall
