News, exhibitions, workshops, talks, updates and project information relating to Mark Graver and Wharepuke will be added here with links to the galleries and works as they are planned.

2015

January NZ – Solo show Umbra Sumus at Solander Gallery, Wellington – Jan 24th – Feb 21st

July UK – RE:Print/RE:Present Ruskin Gallery, Cambridge, UK

The opening event for RE:Print/RE:Present will be held at the Ruskin Galllery, Cambridge, UK on July 9th

Oct – Parallel Prints Australia

The next phase of the Parallel Prints Project is underway.  The NZ/Australia version of the project will be shown at the Art Gallery of Ballarat in October 2015.

The artists involved are:

Mark Graver

James Pasakos

Bruno Leti

Martin King

David Frazer

John Neeson

Antoinette Covino-Beehre

Deborah Klein

Deborah Williams

Melissa Smith

Jodi Heffernan

Susanna Castleden

Art Park

Plans for a new Art Park/Sculpture trail for Wharepuke have begun.  We aim to have the first exhibition of sculpture/outdoor art works at the end of the year.

An open submission call will be sent out for interested artists to submit work

2014

July

Group exhibition

Combinations – curated by Mark Graver at the Centre for Contemporary Printmaking, Seacourt Print Workshop, Bangor Northern Ireland. Opens Wed July 9th.  Show runs until July 31st

Exhibition – Two Cities,  Jinling Museum of Art, Nanjing, China. A Chinese showing of the Parallel Prints Portfolio with a selection of Chinese printmakers alongside the UK artists

June

Solo exhibition – Umbra Sumus at Port Jackson Press, Melbourne, Australia June 3rd – 30th

April

Solo exhibition – Umbra Sumus at the Wallace Gallery, Morrinsville, NZ – April 9th to May 6th

2013

Dec 2013 – The Parallel Prints portfolio is now in the collection of the Whangarei Art Museum, NZ

Parallel Prints Project – NZ/UK – August – October 2013

After presenting the Parallel Prints Project as an Open Portfolio at Impact 8 – Borders and Crossings – Dundee, Scotland in Aug 2013 the folio will be exhibited in France and Germany in October with an exhibition in Nanjing, China to follow in 2014