comely

c o m e l y
a ceramics exhibition at our house...
1/155 symonds street, eden terrace, auckland

xin cheng
sarah gruiters
amelia harris
richard orjis
suji park
richard parker
alexandra savtchenko-belskaia
erica van zon

exhibition opening: friday 2 september, 5.30-8pm
open house: saturday 3 september 11-1pm

new/old

kay ambrose classical dances & costumes of india, raspberry stitch scarf in progress, gustave flaubert l'education sentimentale.

and here is the recipe for the infamous raspberry stitch:
 
-- you need to cast on a certain amount of stitches, this number must be a multiple of four plus an extra two: for example 22 or 26.
-- this stitch is made up of a pattern of four rows which you then repeat


-- for the first row: purl all stitches
-- for the second row: knit one stitch, (then knit one, purl one and knit one into one stitch), purl three stitches together. repeat this until you get to the end of the row where there will be an extra stitch, knit this.
-- for the third row: purl all stitches
-- for the fourth row: knit one stitch, purl three stitches together, (then knit one, purl one and knit one into one stitch), repeat this until you get to the end of the row where there will be an extra stitch, knit this.

-- repeat this pattern to your heart's content.
-- to knit one, purl one and knit one on the same stitch is a bit difficult. the trick is to do all three stitches and not slip the stitch off the needle until after the last one. (there are tutorials online if this does not make sense!)
-- to purl three stitches together just jam three stitches on your needle at once instead of one.

other things to do

things to do rather than sit for very long periods of time at a computer:

watching the fire, playing cards, going for walks and picking flowers that hang from people's gardens over the footpath, knitting and knitting, making biscuits, reading diaries, strolling, drinking water, buying vegetables for dinner, eating raisins, brewing tea in the special tea-pot, re-arranging the furniture in my house and having afternoon naps.

the sound a bird makes in korean & other tales

suji park's figurines are rather special. it was lovely to see them at personal best. it is a completely different space in the daytime, with windows and light and awesome 1970's plasterwork.

aside from this, suji's figurines were deftly displayed on discarded decorative pieces of wood and hung high. one had to stand on one's toes and peer upwards to see them.

at times quite dark and sometimes sweet with rosy cheeks. touch and hold-able, most definitely.

suji park
may it come to pass
personal best
456 karangahape rd
12-26 august, 2011

images:

suji park
jaekjaek, 2011
graphite, watercolour and stone pigment on clay

suji park
amimitl, 2011 & huh, 2011
graphite, watercolour and stone pigment on clay

peter stichbury

do go and see the "peter stichbury" exhibition the next time you are in our nation's capital. it is a concise but neat little show on level six of te papa. airy with ample light, there is much about the pedigree of new zealand studio pottery and some charming ceramics by nigerian women from stichbury's collection.

peter stichbury: a potter's world
until june 2012
te papa tongarewa
wellington

auckland art fair picks

Patrick Lundberg, Suji Park, Campbell Patterson

ume

plums & honey, honey & plums... dacia at miller's on cross st makes a novel concoction known as ume. it is lovingly crafted from particularly fine plums and alpine honey, brewed for six months to a year before it is made into a syrup that one drinks with soda water. according to dacia two glasses a day keep the heartburn away, additionally it is fizzy and frobscottle-esque.

ume
miller's
31 cross st
auckland
open 7.30-12.00