Ken Wright

Ken Wright - Journal

Papamoa, NEW ZEALAND

Keb Mo visits The Cargo Shed

Posted about 1 month ago

Taking time out to relax after the 50th anniversary of The National Jazz Festival I Tauranga, Keb Mo strolled along The Strand and ventured in to The Cargo Shed. The stall holders were enthralled to meet The Grammy award winning blues singer who had taken time to chat with the artist about their work and purchased numerous gifts to take back to Tennesse.

Marie Cooper had time to talk to him about…

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The Cargo Shed ~ Art Shed ~ Tauranga NZ

Posted 3 months ago

A unique venue for artists and crafts people to showcase their talent. Located on Tauranga’s busy waterfront, a short walk from the CBD and The Strand, The Shed is open on Saturdays, Sundays and cruise ship days. If you are ever lost for something to do at the weekend and you enjoy the arts, this is the place for you! Most of the artists work at The Shed, so you can talk to them directly about t…

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Matapihi Railway Bridge - Morning, Noon and Night

Posted 9 months ago

I was asked by Creative Tauranga to present an idea for a piece of art for the new TECT Arena at bay Park to Tauranga City Council, a small number of artists and photographers were invited, lucky for me the idea was accepted.

Matapihi Railway Bridge – Morning, Noon and Night – The Concept

This work originates from a small seed of an idea, I had to photograph a panoramic view of the M…

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Parehua Luxury

Posted over 2 years ago


My Palliser Bay limited edition canvases are on display at one of New Zealands’ premier luxury country estates PAREHUA

Contemporary and classic Parehua is set in world-class Wairarapa wine region just a few minutes walk from the charming historic Martinborough wine village, New Zealand. Enjoy wine and food escapes, celebrations, weddings, honeymoons and corporate entertaining and retreats. …

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New book published

Posted almost 3 years ago

I produced a book of all the canvases in my first show, these were done as gifts for a couple of very important people, they received a lot of comments on the night so I have now made them public and available in the blurb store

Coastal lightwaves

Its 44 pages and contains 40 seascapes, 12’’ square.

check it out,

Ken.

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My First Exhibition

Posted almost 3 years ago

Welcome to COASTAL LIGHTWAVES

For all of you that can’t be in Upper Hutt, New Zealand on Friday 31st July for my opening night at Archibalds.

This is my first exhibition, it runs from saturday the 1st of August to the 18th of September, an exhibition of around 40 seascape canvases, to be opened by Lance Lawson (guest speaker), professional photographer and friend.

This has been a long while…

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First Display Ever!

Posted over 3 years ago

Well, how lucky am I, my friend and workmate Edward told his good friend Amanda about my work, Amanda runs the ideal home expo in Petone, she took a shine to the images and said that I could use some of the empty space to exhibit my work, WOW! what an opportunity.

All that said, the next thing was to come to terms with investing the money to buy framed art from redbubble, canvases from a place i…

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