Local As | Exhibition
Tue, 13 May
|Tairawhiti Museum
An Exhibition about life in Tairāwhiti, past and present.
Time & Location
13 May 2025, 10:00 am – 27 Jul 2025, 8:30 am
Tairawhiti Museum , 10 Stout Street, Whataupoko, Gisborne 4010, New Zealand
About the event
Local As (locals only) – Life in Tairāwhiti past and present.
Scott Gardiner, Gene Paul Walker, Jason Braybrook.
Local As will bring together, for the first time, three artists with a strong connection to the Gisborne / Tairāwhiti region.
Scott Gardiner has a diverse art practice encompassing painting, photography, printmaking and sculpture. His interest in surfing has him forever tied to the Gisborne region, local surf breaks, and people and from this interest ideas spill over into his work directly and indirectly.
Gene Paul Walker has held a significant presence in the local Tairāwhiti art community and nationally. In 2004 he contributed to the establishment of the Paul Nache Gallery in Gisborne. Since his departure from the gallery, Gene has found time to work on his own methodology within the media of painting and sculpture.
Jason Braybrook, works primarily in paint enveloping a wide variety of themes but more recently…