Square Edge Arts Centre

Broom Stick Weaving
2023-03-25 | Square Edge Arts Centre, 47 The Square, Palmerston North, Select a State:, 4410, New Zealand
Join Angie to make your own ‘Wild Weaving’ broom stick. Class is held over two sessions.

Fringe Earrings Beading
2023-03-25 10:00 - 11:30 (Pacific/Auckland) | Square Edge Arts Centre, 47 The Square, Palmerston North, Select a State:, 4410, New Zealand
Create a fringe embellishment pair of earrings.

Landscape Impressionism
2023-03-26 10:00 - 15:30 | Square Edge Arts Centre, 47 The Square, Palmerston North, Select a State:, 4410, New Zealand
An art workshop for those with some creative experience…and an interest in capturing the landscape in an impressionist style in soft pastel. This medium offers an immediacy that other mediums do not. It also offers an incredible array of colour allowing the artist to evoke mood and atmosphere.

Palmy Arts with Darren Wallace
2023-03-30 15:15 - 16:15, 2023-04-06 15:15 - 16:15 | Square Edge Arts Centre, 47 The Square, Palmerston North, Select a State:, 4410, New Zealand
Ages 6-9 including a parent/guardian
Nine weeks of lessons in term 1 2023

Step by step drawing classes for children and parent/guardian to learn together. Each lesson will involve a 15 minute warm up, followed by the art lesson of the week.

Flowers in Soft Pastel
2023-03-30 18:30 - 19:45 | Square Edge Arts Centre, 47 The Square, Palmerston North, Select a State:, 4410, New Zealand
Keeping it simple – a relaxing step by step introduction to flowers using soft pastels. I will be taking you step by step through the process of creating a bright floral piece using soft pastels. All materials are supplied.

Clouds and Gold Leaf
2023-04-01 10:00 - 15:00 | Square Edge Arts Centre, 47 The Square, Palmerston North, Select a State:, 4410, New Zealand
Come and paint a dramatic sky, a simple landscape and have a play with gold leaf techniques.

Fun Florals
2023-04-02 10:00 - 15:30 | Square Edge Arts Centre, 47 The Square, Palmerston North, Select a State:, 4410, New Zealand
Summer is here and with it all the beautiful colours of summer flowers! Some experience is helpful but not a necessity for this workshop as I will be taking you step by step through the process of creating a bright floral fun piece. Techniques covered on the course: loose composition, layering, colour options and playful detail.

Click::RAND
2023-04-03 - 2023-04-30 | Square Edge Arts Centre – Main Gallery, 47 The Square, Palmerston North, Select a State:, 4410, New Zealand
Can random digit data be transformed and utilised as a sound installation that provides a
referential connection between a book and the electromechanical computer? What happens
when the text of A Million Random Digits with 100,000 Normal Deviates is ‘vocalised’ by an
electro-mechanical object? This book is the primary stimulus for the ideation of a nondeterministic sound installation, Click::RAND, the sonic articulation of a large set of true
random numbers produced by RAND Corporation. The work, an indeterminate sound sculpture
utilising relays as sound objects, is an audio-visual reinterpretation and representation of an
historical relationship between a book of random digits and electromechanical computing.
Click::RAND converts RAND Corporations book of random numbers into an audiovisual
series of binary sequences. The work presents these binary sequences as spatialised sound
patterns to complement the physical presence of the work. Click::RAND weaves together
quantified moments of binary sequences within a compositional framework based on Henri
Lefebvre’s Rhythmanalysis. This is comprised of a variety of rhythms that coexist and clash
categorised as eurhythmia, polyrhythmia and arrhythmia. Within this framework, each of
Click::RAND’s rhythmic forms are titled after Lefebvre’s characterisation of Rhythmanalysis.
Eurhythmia shows the smoother rhythmic but machine-like patterns of interwoven binary
sequences across multiple rows of relays. Polyrhythmia introduces the element of space into
the compositional form, both physically by the placement of sound blocks and into the work
as the presence and absence of sound. Arrhythmia’s tempo disturbs the work’s spatio-temoral
element through the presence and absence of sound as nonsynchronous binary sequences. As
such, Click::RAND explores the possibility of “embodying the notation of presence and
absence” as a method to expose the patterns of state transitions of binary sequences as a series
of rhythmic forms.

Cubism Landscape
2023-04-30 10:00 - 15:30 | Square Edge Arts Centre, 47 The Square, Palmerston North, Select a State:, 4410, New Zealand
Learn to paint your own cubism landscape and create a unique piece of work based off a landscape image you provide.

Resin Art
2023-05-20 10:00 - 13:00 | Square Edge Arts Centre, 47 The Square, Palmerston North, Select a State:, 4410, New Zealand
This is a fun-filled resin workshop where you get to make your own beautiful cutting board set. All materials will be supplied on the day. This class is beginner friendly.

Untold Stories - Exhibition Opening
2024-06-29 11:00 - 12:00 | Square Edge Arts Centre – Main Gallery, 47 The Square, Palmerston North, Select a State:, 4410, New Zealand
Untold Stories tells the personal stories of six families from Central, Eastern and Southern Europe who settled in Palmerston North after the Second World War. New Zealand wanted skilled labour and up to 5000 Displaced Persons came to fill that role. The stories cover their journey through war torn Europe, their stay at the Pahīatua Camp and their life in New Zealand. The project includes a film and book
