Come along to our
OPEN DAY

Sunday afternoon
12 July 2015
 
 from 2 - 5pm
with artists presenting from 2:30
 
Meet our resident artists

Melanie Carter Writer, from USA/Egypt

Ruth Taylor Animator and Illustrator, from The Netherlands

Auke de Vries  Animator, The Netherlands

 
Melanie Carter 
A Senior Instructor of composition and creative writing at The American University in Cairo, Carter was a recipient of AUC’s Excellence in Teaching Award in 2012. Her poetry has been published in The Gettysburg Review, Antioch Review, and Best New Poets as well as other journals, and her book manuscript was a finalist for the Yale Series of Younger Poets award.
 
Carter has held an artist’s fellowship at The Anderson Center for Interdisciplinary Studies (USA) and residencies at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre (Ireland) and the Hambidge Center for the Creative Arts and Sciences (USA).

Wairarapa Word has invited Melanie Carter to be a featured poet for National Poetry Day 2015 in the Wairarapa. She will share her poetry right next door at Pukaha Mount Bruce Wildlife Centre on Friday 28 August 28, at 7am, in a special event called "Birds & Words".
 
 
Melanie is working on two projects at New Zealand Pacific Studio — a poetic narrative and an essay that emerged from her experience at an artist's residency in Finland. Melanie Carter is the NZPS House Manager. 
 
Ruth Taylor & Auke de Vries
After years of working in the television industry in The Netherlands, animators Ruth Taylor and Auke de Vries are now traveling the world to spend more time on their personal artwork. New Zealand is the fourth stop of the seven countries they'll visit, each at a different artist residency.
 
Ruth Taylor
Ruth Taylor is an animator and illustrator.  At the art academy, she started mainly with illustration, but after a while considered that the possibilities of moving images were also very interesting. Animals and nature are a recurring theme in her work. She loves creating detailed illustrations, and the painstaking work of animation does not keep her from putting those details in a few seconds of animation, frame by frame.
 
Auke de Vries
Animator Auke de Vries graduated from the Art Academy St. Joost and uses a wide variety of animation techniques in his work, such as stop motion, mixed media, and computer animation. He strips down complex stories to tell their essence in a simple way and puts the real world in perspective by creating his own, usually with a bit of humour.
 
Follow Ruth andd Auke on their journey
 


  
 
 
 
 
 NZPS CALENDAR

  
 JULY
JULY 1-31 Ema Saiko Poetry Fellowship -- applications now being accepted for this Fellowship. Deadline July 31. See our Call-out on The Big Idea.
Janis Freegard was NZPS' Inaugural Fellow in 2014.
 
SUN July 12 - Open Day at NZPS, 2-5pm.
 
JULY 20-31 - "Writing to History", by the 2015 ANZAC Fellow
Connah Podmore, will be on display at Tararua College, Pahiatua.
 
AUGUST
SUN Aug 2 - Janis Freegard, the 2014 Ema Saiko Poetry Fellow at NZPS, will read from two of her new books at Wairarapa Word, Carterton Events Centre, 3pm.
 
FRI Aug 14 - NZPS Community Program Manager Madeleine Slavick will speak on Carterton Connections, Arrow FM Radio, 9:30am.
 
FRI Aug 21 - "Writing to History", by 2015 ANZAC Bridge Fellow Connah Podmore, will be on display at Aratoi Wairarapa Museum of Art and History, Masterton, until October 4. Open daily.
 
SUN Aug 23 - Open Day at NZPS, 2-5pm.

FRI Aug 28 - NZPS artist-in-residence Melanie Carter will read her poetry at Birds & Words, a National Poetry Day event, at Pukaha Wildlife Centre, 7am.
 
SEPTEMBER
WED Sept 2 - New Zealand International Film Festival opens at the Regent Cinema, Masterton, a benefit event for NZPS.  
 
"Writing to History", by 2015 ANZAC Bridge Fellow Connah Podmore, will be on display at Aratoi Wairarapa Museum of Art and History, Masterton, until October 4.
 
OCTOBER
SUN Oct 4 - "Writing to History" ends at Aratoi Museum.
 
The 2015 Friends of Aratoi Fellow and other NZPS artists may join the Kokomai Creative Festival (16-25 October). Watch this space.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
website: www.artistresidency.org.nz  
email: info@artistresidency.org.nz
facebook: /MtBruceNZ
NZPS also has listings on the main art portals,
such as The Big Idea, Res Artis, Artshub Australia and TransArtists

 
New Zealand Pacific Studio is located on State Highway 2,
two houses north of Pukaha Mount Bruce National Wildlife Centre,
Tel (06) 375 8441
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