There will be plenty of food for thought and visual delight next month when an exhibition combining costume making, body casting, painting and drawing will fill the New Zealand Steel Gallery at Franklin: The Centre.

Interconnection, featuring work by Auckland artists Vjekoslav Nemesh, Sean Hurst, Wendy Worley and Mark Wiegandt-Goude, runs 2-21 November. There will be plenty of food for thought and visual delight next month when an exhibition combining costume making, body casting, painting and drawing will fill the New Zealand Steel Gallery at Franklin: The Centre.

Interconnection, featuring work by Auckland artists Vjekoslav Nemesh, Sean Hurst, Wendy Worley and Mark Wiegandt-Goude, runs 2-21 November.Demonstrations by the artists in the Foyer of Franklin: The Centre will run 11am-3pm on Saturdays throughout the period.

The idea is simple: a group of artistic friends show their diverse individual works plus create some new pieces jointly for the show, and discover the results. With unique backgrounds yet common threads running between each artist, those results are sure to be exciting, promised organizer Nemesh.

"The artists have been spending time in the last few months creating pieces of work together that have a completely different dynamic when compared to our individual styles," Nemesh said. He is keeping a visual journal of the exhibition's development on his website, www.nemeshart.com.

The artistic combinations are indeed thought-provoking. Nemesh, a veteran painter raised in the former Yugoslavia, will pair with a relative newcomer to the medium, Aucklander Wendy Worley. She transferred her interests in textile design to painting after studying with Nemesh in 2004. Now Wendy's paintings burst with energetic colour and symbols, while Nemesh's canvases reflect emotions and mystery while pushing boundaries of light, dark and colour.

Englishman Mark Wiegandt-Goude worked as a special effects make-up artist in London and developed a particular talent for life casting, or taking moulds directly from a human body. Now settled in Maraetai, Mark uses the medium to express the power, uniqueness, and beauty of the human form - or those of Nemesh and Sean Hurst, to be precise.

Sean's own speciality, making costumes and props for television and other presentations, finds a unique expression in the jackets and handbags which he fashions from painted canvases. A 2002 graduate in Visual Arts from Auckland University, Sean has won success in the Trash to Fashion awards and participated in a number of group shows. For Interconnection Sean and Mark will combine their talents from the TV/film industry, with fantastic results.

When: 2-21 November 2007
9.30am-4.30pm Monday-Friday, 9.30am-2.30pm Saturdays
Where: Franklin: The Centre

24/10/07