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Summer Hang - Investment Art

What a great time to invest in art. Here is a collection of top quality artworks that will give you pleasure in the years ahead as well as being a family heirloom for lifetimes to come and offering the potential for strong investment value. 

We have selected from our stable of artists a variety who we believe at this particular juncture in their career to be worth investing in. Artists such as Don Binney, Michael Smither and JS Parker are always going to have security in value due to their well respected and established careers. JS Parker will have even more focus this year with an upcoming retrospective exhibition coinciding with a publication of his work to date. 

Others with strong profiles at present include Regan Gentry, the sculptor behind Christchurch's most recent public sculpture Flour Power at the corner of Hereford & Colombo Streets. Currently displayed in the gallery is Gentry's classically quirky group of silicone tyres Good? Yeah! Ceramic artist Mark Mitchell is gaining critical acclaim through his presence and status in recent awards, Mitchell won the OBJECTive Art Award late last year. Locally you can't go past artists Graham Bennett, Bing Dawe and Cheryl Lucas whose artworks we all know so well for their strong NZ voice but they are forever exploring something new and expanding their horizons with exhibitions near and far. 

As for artists discovering new frontiers, Claire Beynon has recently returned fully inspired from her second trip to Antarctica and has projects set up in the USA. Pete Wheeler too has an exhibition of works currently on display in New York. Wheeler is one of our highly driven younger established artists who are going from strength to strength with every brushstroke such as Thomas Elliott & Jane Mitchell or every weld of iron as does Hannah Kidd. Those also at the top of their game when it comes to quality are painter Richard Adams and sculptor Robert Hague who continue to astound us with their excellence. 

If nothing else a visit to the Arthouse is required just to see Paul Jackson's Self Portrait With the Last Huia, an exceptional example of portraiture that was recognised in the 2004 Archibald Prize and more recently in the publication New Zealand Portraits.

To learn more about investing in art contact the gallery