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from out of the blue studio gallery A textile and fiber art centre focusing on slow making with ethical and eco friendly materials

17/06/2026

Our native flora are super special and Sue’s homage to the Kakabeak shows this in an enduring rendering. Handwoven tapestry created from Sue’s photographic image of the flower is stunning. It commands your attention in the gallery. Well worth a visit. Creative Fibre Creative Fibre NZ Creative Taranaki Visit Ōpunakē Taranaki NZ South Taranaki

Do you know the 1990’s Pop Group Verve that became ‘The Verve’? Dot has chosen to represent them and her local district ...
15/06/2026

Do you know the 1990’s Pop Group Verve that became ‘The Verve’? Dot has chosen to represent them and her local district of Wigham in her handwoven tapestry currently in our gallery. I love the way Dot reveals how tapestry weaving keeps her grounded and peaceful in her surrounding chaotic world but then she combines the image from the album A Storm in Heaven as part of her tapestry. Who says weavers don’t have a sense of humour!! Over this chaos are the words ‘progress with unity’ from the Wigan Borough Council Motto.
I really enjoy this layered personal and social comment.
Then my delight is extended even more by the sheer skill of the weaving. Truly a work of art in all senses. from out of the blue studio gallery

12/06/2026

Jackie Bennett celebrates life and movement in her work in the ‘Verve’ exhibition. She also bends some of the traditional woven tapestry rules by using wire for her warp. This has allowed her weaving to become multi-planar. Trained in England Jackie is one of the 15 British weavers in this beautiful exhibition. The other 15 are New Zealand weavers. Well worth an in person visit. Open Thursdays through Mondays 1-5 pm. @18 Halse Place, Ōpunakē 4616.

VERVE is a Tapestry Touring International exhibitionTapestry weavers from England and New Zealand come together in this ...
10/06/2026

VERVE is a Tapestry Touring International exhibition

Tapestry weavers from England and New Zealand come together in this fourth international touring exhibition of small format hand woven tapestries. Weavers come from a diverse range of creative backgrounds, from novice weavers to those with international reputations.

https://www.tapestrytouringinternational.weebly.com/
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This collection is now on display in the gallery. The works are beautifully woven and the artists have shared their thoughts very generously in the supporting statements. An exhibition worth travelling to see.

Weaving stories and telling the stories of her weaving, Matty Smith uses the ages old technique of hand weaving tapestry...
07/06/2026

Weaving stories and telling the stories of her weaving, Matty Smith uses the ages old technique of hand weaving tapestry combined with AI image manipulation. She seeks to capture the gift of her mind’s illusive thoughts or sensings and bring this into a visual reality. It is a capturing of the act of a creative imagination. The interesting part of this is such acts of the imagination can be very fleeting and transient whereas the act of creating a handwoven tapestry is one of many hours of intense focus and meticulous attention to detail.

Matty’s work is a part of VERVE is a Tapestry Touring International exhibition which is in the gallery now. It is one of 30 works investigating the word ‘Verve’. Each work is exquisite and the variety is fascinating. Well worth a visit. 15 weavers are from England, 15 from New Zealand.

This is a free event - very approachable for children, worth adding to your to-do list.

We are lucky and excited to be hosting these workshops with Toni Hartill leading us through miltiple book structures All...
05/06/2026

We are lucky and excited to be hosting these workshops with Toni Hartill leading us through miltiple book structures
All the details are on Toni’s instagram or her website.

05/06/2026

Raewyn Bucklow is a New Zealand tapestry artist who enjoys ‘painting’ in thread through the process of hand weaving. This work is her piece in the Verve exhibition that celebrates life through the works of 30 tapestry artists. 15 from Britain and 15 from New Zealand.

New workshops with the wonderful Toni Hartill
05/06/2026

New workshops with the wonderful Toni Hartill

Portrait weaving is quite complex on a fine scale such as we see in this work by Marilyn Rea-Menzies, on of the 30 tapes...
04/06/2026

Portrait weaving is quite complex on a fine scale such as we see in this work by Marilyn Rea-Menzies, on of the 30 tapestry weavers whose works are in ‘Verve’. The attention to thread by thread colour control gradually builds the total image. Marilyn is a master of this art. So too are the other artists on display - 15 from Britain and 15 from New Zealand. Check out Marilyn’s website to see more of her art. https://www.tapestry.co.nz/.

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