Sole Project

Sole Project is on now at Artstation, 1 Ponsonby Rd, til August 4. There's some awesome art worth checking out. A very cool collaboration between artists acting as mentors to teenagers, put together by Sarah Longbottom and Nga Rangatahi Toa Creative Arts Initiative....

from the exhibition catalog, one of the young rangatahi talks about the project... Eroni Vesikula: "... working with Darryl [DLT] has been mean. It's the first time for me doing art with spray cans. He's taught me heaps. He's cool and he's honest. He makes me feel valued.

'" I've learnt when doing tapa designs, especially from your culture, to put all of your heart into it. I don't really think about my future much but listening to Darryl is making me think about things."

Darryl DLT Thomson: "This week has been like being with my family, laughing, joking and being serious all in the same breath. It's like going home, really. In a city full of upstarts, it's good to connect, y'know." Their collaboration is pictured below....

 Art by Eroni Veikula and DLT

"Come check out the ka rawe works created by our amazing rangatahi and their mentors, incuding Otis Frizzell, DLT, Dan Tippett, Cerisse Palalagi, Shona Tawhiao, Rongotai Lomas, Joah Paki, Salome Tanuvasa, Chris Ryan and Cora-Allan Wickliffe.

This week Artstation is buzzing with creativity - all works are created over 25 hours of one-to-one mentoring, you will be blown away by the mahi that has been done.

All artworks will be for sale for under $500. Proceeds of from the sale of the artworks are reinvested back into Nga Rangatahi Toa Creative Arts Initiative to help fund future projects and assist our rangatahi transition into tertiary art study...."

L-R: Otis Frizzell, DLT, Dan Tippett. Photo by Peter McLennan