We love visitors to Waikaka, especially in November, and it will be awesome to see you at the exhibition.

Waikaka Arts Exhibition: Bringing Arts and Crafts to the rural heart of Southland.

About our Exhibition
​Our organising committee look forward to welcoming our exhibitors, invited guests and visitors.

This year we are honoured to have Jackie Ranken as our guest artist.
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Once again we anticipate a wonderful exhibition where everyone will be surprised, uplifted and wowed by the clever creations.

We pride ourselves on displaying artists work in a positive, interesting manner. We feel our exhibition is a great avenue for emerging artists.  We are exhibitor friendly with minimal entry and commission fees.

​Most of the arts and crafts featured throughout the exhibition can be purchased by members of the public during the week of the exhibition and are available for collection at the end of the exhibition. 

2020 Exhibition

LOCATION: Centennial Hall, Main Street, Waikaka.
OPENING NIGHT: Friday, 13th November from 7.30pm.
EXHIBITION OPEN: Running daily, 1pm - 5pm from the 14th to 19th of November.
LATE NIGHT: Wednesday, 18th November: 1pm - 8.30pm.

TICKETS
Opening Night: $15 for visitors (exhibitors complimentary)
Standard Entry: $5
Tickets available at the door.
Eftpos available on-site.

Guest Artist: Jackie Ranken

Jackie is a photographer, artist and teacher living in Twizel, New Zealand.

She learnt her craft through thirty-five years of continual practice, working within the photographic industry as a sports photographer, wedding photographer, commercial photographer and photojournalist. For the past twenty years, she has been able to share the accumulated knowledge she has through running landscape and travel photography workshops in New Zealand and Internationally with her photographic husband Mike Langford.

What Jackie loves most about photography is the making of impressionistic, abstract photographs that express the feeling of a place. 
She makes her images primarily through in-camera techniques. These include multiple exposures, intentional camera movements and stitched images made on my Tilt Shift lens.
In this year’s Waikaka Exhibition, she will be showing Photo Encaustic Artworks. This process allows her to apply an extra layer of texture, mark making and individuality to a photographic print. 

“We learn about the photographic process from the inside out. It starts from the heart when we photograph the things that we love and things that we love doing. As time goes by we can’t help but want to make better photographs, so we learn from others as well as learn from the mistakes that we inevitably make. Over time our photography improves but we want to keep getting better, so we search for new ideas and learn from the ‘doing of it’ and taking part in what is going on in the world”.

You can view more of Jackie's work on her website and instagram page.
jackieranken.co.nz
instagram.com/jackieranken

Exhibition Archive
2019 Exhibition
2018 Exhibition