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Kirsty Black's Midnight Conga

July 12th 2020 Kirsty Black Midnight Conga Acrylic on Canvas 915x1222mm (Diptych) Price: $1850 Read more

Exhibition launch takes off!

July 10th 2020 Despite a cold New Zealand winter's night, 100 avid art lovers gathered to celebrate the launch of, "It's all in the Mind" at the Welcome Swallow Gallery. CEO and Trust Chair, Dorothy Gilson noted Read more

A sneak peek at the new exhibition

July 8th 2020 Don't miss the launch, this Friday 10th July, from 5.30pm! Read more

It's that time again...

July 7th 2020 It just isn't right. If walls could speak they would surely comment on their unwelcome exposure to vacant stares. However, a sense of vulnerability is quickly tempered by the prospective new exhibiti Read more

A mix of contemporary art and politics

July 6th 2020 As the U.S. gears up for the 2020 Presidential election, the Welcome Swallow Gallery presents an iconic and unique historic composition not previously seen in New Zealand.  As a passionate Read more
Coming Together Again

Coming Together Again

July 2nd 2020 As the Gallery prepares for its first full exhibition launch since last February, Dr. Dorothy Gilson, Chief Executive of the Achieving Change for Children Charitable Trust (ACCCT) and Gallery Manager Read more
Catalogue Cover, "It's all in the mind."

Catalogue Cover, "It's all in the mind."

June 24th 2020 A stunning visual feast for Hamilton East "It's all in the Mind" If you like the challenge that abstract art presents to the viewer, this is the art place be. Opening night Friday 10th July from Read more

A New Zealand Story exhibition - last week

June 23rd 2020 Till the end of the month @ the Welcome Swallow Gallery, we have superb pieces of art on display and for purchase.  For those working at the Gallery the lock-down experience, was paced by this Read more

Fancy a dance?

June 18th 2020 The Welcome Swallow Gallery is about to open its doors to this evocative composition from Kirsty Black that echoes the strong gestural lines of Jackson Pollock's Mural painting, from 1943. This Read more

Beautiful roundels from Helen Cairney

June 9th 2020 Each individually painted works of art, these roundels from the brush of Wellington artist Helen Cairney delight and attract attention in the space that they occupy.  Read more

Whoa! The Welcome Swallow Gallery going Abstract?

June 3rd 2020 Taking a different turn, the next exhibition in the gallery embraces a very different genre where we open the imagination towards the unknown, the realm of personal insight. Abstract compositions Read more
DB Chartered Accountants Volunteers' Choice Award Winner

DB Chartered Accountants Volunteers' Choice Award Winner

June 2nd 2020 We are very happy to announce that Colleen Tetley's, Karangahake Gorge has won the Volunteers' Choice Award for the current exhibition, A New Zealand Story. The Award comes with a cheque for $250 Read more

A New Zealand Story, at the exhibition launch

May 23rd 2020 An artist and her work: Trish Harding Read more

Hanging with Pablo

May 21st 2020 A Welcome Swallow volunteer taking a break, quietly reading next to the Gallery feature, a Pablo Picasso composition, now residing in Hamilton East till end of June. Read more

New to the Permanent Collection

May 20th 2020 These two watercolours by Bernadette Parsons are both 470x700mm, Price: $3250 each. To the left is Haast, to the right, Glenorchy. Read more

Pablo Picasso at the Welcome Swallow Gallery

May 11th 2020 For the duration of the exhibition, A New Zealand Story, the compositions on display will have a guest alongside them. Although Picasso is primarily associated with the cubist genre, he retained a Read more

A New Zealand Story, exhibition opening 23rd May, 10am - 4pm

May 11th 2020 While the new wonderful exhibition, A New Zealand Story has been live and online since alert level 3, we are now able to look forward to a more traditional launch that takes place in the gallery. Read more

Ray Ching composition @ the Welcome Swallow

May 11th 2020 Currently the gallery only owns one painting. This is a superb Ray Ching composition called The Swallow & the Falling Leaf.  It represents the name of the gallery while profiling one of New Zealand Read more

Getting ready to open again

May 10th 2020 Sanitizer, gloves, masks at the ready. It's time... Read more

A New Zealand Story: Filming the exhibition

May 8th 2020 The Welcome Swallow Gallery has responded to the demands to create online experiences by photographing and filming the latest exhibition, making it possible to see the paintings both in situ and via Read more
A New Zealand Story exhibition online

A New Zealand Story exhibition online

May 3rd 2020 Our new exhibition, A New Zealand Story, is available for viewing online. Click on the photograph of the catalogue cover to take you there. The exhibition catalogue is also now available below. Read more
Birthday!

Birthday!

May 1st 2020 The Welcome Swallow Gallery was opened a year ago today on 1st May. The aptly named opening exhibition, Celebration, brought together the artists who had prior exhibited with the Welcome Swallow Read more

COVID-19 Online Auction item for Women's Refuge attracts bids

April 30th 2020 To date, the online auction for the stunning composition by Bernadette Parsons, Aotea Harbour between Raglan an Kawhia, has attracted bids to $700. The auction closes on 11 May, leaving plenty of ti Read more
In Memorium

In Memorium

April 28th 2020 Grace Forbes was a fearless and dedicated volunteer. She was a wonderful storyteller and had experienced a very rich and interesting life. Grace was dedicated, cheerful, kind and resourceful and had Read more
Click and Collect now available

Click and Collect now available

April 27th 2020 If you have spent the last few weeks zooming in, seeing 'the lives of others' perhaps it might be time to provide new vistas for self and those who have virtually shared your own abode. The Permanent Read more

A New Zealand Story

April 24th 2020 Alert Level 3. Catalogue available shortly.  Click and collect.  Read more

Preparing for the next exhibition

April 22nd 2020 What could this photo below possibly mean!? Of course, it means that the new exhibition is upon us! Although the gallery cannot be open to public viewing at this time, we are currently able to put Read more

Buying your art online

April 18th 2020 COVID-19 frustratingly pegged back the length of our Waikato Watercolourists exhibition by 2 weeks. Until the new exhibition, A New Zealand Story launches, the Gallery has available the unsold Read more

COVID-19: Support for Women’s Refuge

April 16th 2020 While in lock down it is evident that the additional stress of domestic living has placed extra pressure on the services provided by Women’s Refuges in the Waikato. With this in mind the Trust is Read more
From the Permanent Collection VII

From the Permanent Collection VII

April 15th 2020 This composition is the 7th and final blog post to feature the Welcome Swallow Gallery Permanent Collection. As a watercolour artist, Denise White became intrigued with the way that international Read more

From the Permanent Collection VI

April 13th 2020 The Sanctuary Mountain project began with a dream to protect the diversity of plant and animal species living on Maungatautari. The community came together with an aim to restore and protect this Read more

From the Permanent Collection V

April 10th 2020 Robyn Ninnes's popular paintings graced the Welcome Swallow Gallery across three exhibitions before her work was placed in the Permanent Collection. Taking inspiration from a stylized or Read more

From the Permanent Collection IV

April 8th 2020 An artist from the UK, Gilian Hamilton’s graphite work creates powerful imagery. In this deeply moving composition, the artist allows us to access the private task-driven endeavours of a child from Read more

From the Permanent Collection III

April 7th 2020 First seen in the christmas in the gallery exhibition last year, Sandra Barlow presents an intense study entitled, Apple Blossom. While the white tinged luxurious red blossoms in full bloom are Read more

From the Permanent Collection II

April 5th 2020 One of the most striking compositions in the christmas in the gallery exhibition last year, was the finely crafted Tui and Jug, by Wellington artist, Helen Cairney. The unlikely juxtaposition of Read more

From the Permanent Collection I

April 3rd 2020 In order to curate more focused exhibitions in the gallery the Trustees decided to section off the front of the gallery from the main hall, thus enabling us to show a permanent collection from our Read more
What's in a name?

What's in a name?

April 2nd 2020 Every organization or entity that provides goods and services prefers to have instant name recognition that creates loyalty, repeat business and buying habits that become viral. For example, this is Read more

What on earth is that!?

March 30th 2020 The cubism of Picasso, the strong gestural lines of Tamara de Lempicka, the heretical religious provocations of Caravaggio, the Vienna Secessionists with Klimt challenging traditional artistic Read more

Hang Time

March 29th 2020 Is there anything more irritating than a painting in a gallery that is not level or out of alignment? The human eye is capable of registering less than 2 millimeters of misalignment, especially on Read more

Behind the scenes...

March 26th 2020 Across all our social media platforms there are literally hundreds of photographs of the Welcome Swallow Gallery. We pride ourselves in presenting a beautiful space worthy of the artists' work that Read more

Retrospective

March 24th 2020 As all gallery and gift operations move online, our blog space will review some of the highlights of the past year while also presenting some of the exciting things that we will be doing when we are Read more

Shutdown

March 23rd 2020 As Covid-19 challenges our way of life, the title of our next and now postponed exhibition, A New Zealand Story, remains apposite, albeit for somewhat different reasons. Understandably, the gallery a Read more

An iconic pairing

March 20th 2020 A New Zealand Story, exhibition 3rd April - 31st May 2020 Read more

Featuring...

March 10th 2020 Read more

To build a gallery...

March 5th 2020 Cleared Read more

Watercolour New Zealand Newsletter, March 2020

March 1st 2020 Watercolour New Zealand has published an article by Trust member Clive Gilson that reviews The Waikato Watercolourists exhibition and the origins of the paintings on display that come from the work Read more
Congratulations to Rebecca Dowman-Ngapo

Congratulations to Rebecca Dowman-Ngapo

March 1st 2020 At the Welcome Swallow we are intensely proud of the work that our artists show in our gallery. Even better when one of them is further recognized on the national stage. Watercolour New Zealand Read more

Remarkable!

February 25th 2020 A New Zealand Story, the next exhibition at the Welcome Swallow Gallery is barely a month away... Read more

Hot Damn!

February 23rd 2020 The recently launched Waikato Watercolourist Exhibition @ The Welcome Swallow Gallery has attracted wide publicity. A half page article that features the exhibition with additional references to the Read more

Likes

February 20th 2020 Read more

The Waikato Watercolourists launch night - A packed gallery

February 14th 2020 As temperatures soared, so did the number of attendees at the launch night of the Waikato Watercolourists. MC Mark Kilgour member of the Trust Board paced the evening, pointing out that the gallery w Read more

The Six Waikato Watercolourists Artists

February 14th 2020 L- R: Denise White, Bernadette Parsons, Paulette Bruns, Diane Mayson-Hewitt,  Sandra Barlow, Rebecca Dowman-Ngapo Read more

The Waikato Watercolourists Exhibition 14th February - 31st March, Catalogue now available

February 14th 2020 Read more

Francis Hodgkins in the Welcome Swallow Gallery

February 13th 2020 Alongside the Waikato Watercolourist exhibition 14 February - 31st March, the gallery has a special exhibit of four Hodgkins compositions, not seen together before. See pdf below for further details. Read more

Rita Angus in the Welcome Swallow Gallery

February 13th 2020 During the Waikato Watercolourists Exhibition 14 February - 31st March, the Gallery is displaying a beautiful watercolour by Rita Angus, entitled Wainui mid-summer Banks Peninsula (1943). The pdf bel Read more

Advanced article on the Waikato Watercolourists Exhibition, in STUFF NZ by Mike Mather

February 11th 2020 Read more

Our Committed Volunteers

February 11th 2020 After hours, the volunteers from the Achieving Change for Children Charitable Trust (ACCCT) that runs the Gallery and Gift Shop, attend regular sessions where our progress as a Trust is put under the Read more

The art of art

February 4th 2020 Ever wondered how paintings take shape? Where does an artist start? What happens between a blank canvas and the finished product? Click on the link below and Rebecca Dowman-Ngapo, one of the artists Read more

Volunteers Wanted!

January 30th 2020 Read more

Follow the Gallery on Instagram

January 24th 2020 https://www.instagram.com/wsgalleryandgifts/ Read more

The next Catalogue from The Welcome Swallow Gallery

January 22nd 2020 Full catalogue available at the Exhibition launch 14 February 2020 Starts at 5.30pm. Not to be missed. Read more

The Waikato Watercolourists Exhibition Coming Soon 14 February

January 19th 2020 There is some super art coming our way in the watercolourists exhibition. See below a preview of three pieces. Read more

Come and see

January 11th 2020 Our Prints in the Gallery exhibits are now available for viewing starting Monday 12 January. Read more

Fine Flint prints now on display

January 9th 2020 The special Prints in the Gallery exhibits from 12 January till 12 February contains two major prints from Sir William Russell Flint that are now on display. Left to right they are, Slipway, Read more

Prints in the Gallery

December 27th 2019 From 12 January to 12 February 2020, in partnership with the Jonathon Grant Galleries in Auckland, the Welcome Swallow Gallery is featuring prints from Sir William Russell Flint together with a range Read more

Trust adds new members

December 9th 2019 As our Gallery and Gifts property continues to expand its activities, the Achieving Change for Children Charitable Trust (ACCCT) has strengthened its Board by appointing Sandra Barlow with Ailene Read more

This is what we do

December 8th 2019 We are extremely pleased that we are able to support the Waitomo/Waipa Women’s Refuge services.  The refuge runs two safe houses for women and children victims of domestic violence in the Waikato Read more

Welcome Swallow Gallery artist, Ailene Cuthbertson's YouTube tribute to local Galleries

November 24th 2019 In this video blog, Ailene features three local Galleries that are celebrating Christmas with their art. In the section that covers the Welcome Swallow, Ailene interviews Trust member, Clive Gilson Read more

Launch night: christmas in the gallery

November 1st 2019 More than 175 people turned out to the opening night of christmas in the gallery. Board Chair and Chief Executive, Dorothy Gilson outlined how ongoing art exhibitions enabled the Trust to raise funds Read more

New Exhibition! christmas in the gallery

October 16th 2019 Read more

Huge Huge turnout for exhibition launch night, 27 September 2019

September 27th 2019 Standing shoulder to shoulder, over 200 people attended a very special launch night for the exhibition, Raglan Art with Risk. The Raglan Art community together with People of Fire, put on a spectacul Read more

Feature of the month for October 2019

September 26th 2019 This is one of only two known art deco handkerchiefs that were given to attendees at the world premiere of Gone with the Wind, 15th December 1939 at the Loew’s Grand Theatre in Atlanta. Reputedly Read more

New Exhibition! Raglan Art with Risk

September 9th 2019 Read more

SOLD!

August 27th 2019 We are delighted to share that this week the Gallery saw the sale of one of its most iconic pieces, Homage to Jasper Johns by Marilyn Rea-Menzies. Since the launch of the Exhibition threads of life, Read more

Fabulous night @ the Welcome Swallow Gallery!

August 9th 2019 "...thoughtful, provocative, technically fascinating, aesthetically beautiful and thoroughly enjoyable". Sam Edwards, Arts Critic for the Waiktato Times 13 August 2019 The launch of the new exhibiti Read more

The Threads of Life catalogue is online, below

July 29th 2019 Read more

Threads of life exhibition opens 9 August, sponsored by Ebbetts Audi

July 12th 2019 Read more

The Humble Handkerchief…

July 6th 2019 Amid the clamour for a more sustainable lifestyle, the choices that we make on a daily basis cannot escape the reusable, recyclable mantra. The good old fashioned handkerchief appears to be making a Read more

Feature of the Month: July - 2019

June 29th 2019 On loan from a private collection; the artist, Catherine Abel was commissioned to produce a Tamara de Lempicka-inspired acrylic that represents a classic art deco style from travel in the 1930s. Read more

Launch date at Welcome Swallow Gallery! New exhibition!

August 9th 2019 Read more
SOLD!

SOLD!

June 22nd 2019 As art works from the celebration exhibition continue to sell, one of our important paintings, Marilyn by Jos Coufreur has recently been sold to a local collector. Marilyn was very much part of the Read more
Just arrived!

Just arrived!

June 22nd 2019 Native wood boxes made by KTY crafts of Te Awamutu.  The woods are kauri, pohutakawa, walnut and puriri.  Some are plain and some cabochen with various gem stones.  We have small and large lidded Read more
Gifts for Men

Gifts for Men

June 9th 2019 Gifts for men including New Zealand skin care products, sponge and pouch bags for toiletries and computer accessories, silver fern mugs, playing cards, Robyn Ninnes tiles, journals and note books, Read more

For updated celebration online catalogue, indicating art works SOLD, click below

June 2nd 2019 Read more

celebration - redux new preview pieces

May 25th 2019 As we prepare for the celebration - redux opening on 14 June, profiled below are two outstanding art pieces, just received that will be shown in the exhibition. Read more

Call for new Board Members

May 16th 2019 The Achieving Change for Children Charitable Trust (ACCCT) that manages the Welcome Swallow Gallery and Gifts is looking for new Board Members with expertise in the following areas: Marketing Public Read more
Press coverage of the celebration exhibition, Waikato Times 14 May 2019

Press coverage of the celebration exhibition, Waikato Times 14 May 2019

May 14th 2019 We are delighted and encouraged that the opening celebration exhibition of the new Welcome Swallow Gallery on 1st May 2019 has attracted significant press coverage that includes an 'across the page' Read more
celebration redux

celebration redux

May 10th 2019 The celebration exhibition launch on 1st May 2019 was a great success! Many of the items in the Catalogue were sold on the night with several more pieces being snapped up in the days after the Read more
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