The Centenary Art Auction will be held on Friday 5 May at 6pm in the Medbury Centre, below is our catalogue featuring emerging and well known artists across a range of media, on the evening a selection of these works will be auctioned in a live auction as well as works available in a silent auction. If you are not able to attend our auction, you are able to either leave a maximum absentee bid or phone bid by contacting victoria.tait@medbury.school.nz 

Claire Elizabeth Turner

Working predominantly with oil paints I produce collections of works, as well as pieces for commissions. I am inspired by the natural environment and express this through what I feel is emotive motion in paint. I don't tend to name my works because I like people to be able to assign meaning to them based on their own individual impression. I think that how they may make a person feel or think is what is important and I don't want to define or restrict that for them.

Dimensions: 1000 x 1200mm  

Heavenly Garden

Heavenly Garden, framed watercolour by Svetlana Orinko

Svetlana Orinko  is a leading master of watercolor and oil mediums. She has been at the forefront of the New Zealand Art scene for over twenty-five years. As a young woman, she has received a Classical Art Education in Ukraine before immigrating to New Zealand in 1992. Since that time she has enjoyed an amazing success and a growing reputation as one of the country's top artists and tutor. She has won numerous Art Awards and has a strong national and international following

Dimensions: 90 x 109cm 
Estimate: $4,500.00 

Revival - Ballantyne House

A cropped acrylic painting of Ballantyne House, Tondo work on Board . By Lucy Mackie 

Lucy Mackie is an artist, Art teacher and mother of three. She teaches Art and Photography at St Margaret's College, where she educates young girls across all ages. Having graduated with A BFA in Graphic Design, Lucy loves to create in any media, from Design and illustration to Acrylic paint and printmaking. Her work often features the subject matter she knows; Iconic Otautahi buildings feature regularly in her work and she loves to explore mixed media and archival imagery also.

Dimension: 30cm diameter

Estimate: $600.00 

Henry Hargreaves

 'Mafia No Fear.'

This series looks at the banned children's names in New Zealand. 

 Every year the department of Internal Affairs publishes a list of the names it rejected from being issued a birth certificate because names 'must not cause offence to a reasonable person, be unreasonably long, or include or resemble an official title or rank.' Here are some of the ones that didn't make the cut. 

 The cakes come from the Australian Women's Weekly cookbook which was the cake bible for kids growing up in the 80's and 90's. I wanted to combine these two elements to celebrate birthdays for the kids in New Zealand who will never be able to rejoice under their first given name.

Dimensions: 

Estimate: $2,500.00 

Oli Aikawa

'Hagley Run' 

Back in 2017, Oli won a best exhibit prize at the NZ Institute Science & Technology Fair for his "Power of Packaging".  Since then we have seen his art and design skills in oils, water colours and sculpture in a variety of public art exhibitions and competitions.  Oli has been extremely busy and productive.  This works is part of a collection of art he is working on right now. "Kā Pākihi-whakatekateka-a-Waitaha" Canterbury plains,  where he looks at  lots of different Canterbury location. 

Dimensions: A4

Estimate: $500.00 - $600.00  

R.M.Inkster

Offset reproduction of dinghy boat, from the Medbury School Art  Collection.

Dimensions: 450 x 390mm 

Estimate: $100.00 -$120.00  

Vase of Roses

Vase of Roses, oil framed by  Svetlana Orinko

Svetlana Orinko  is a leading master of watercolor and oil mediums. She has been at the forefront of the New Zealand Art scene for over twenty-five years. As a young woman, she has received a Classical Art Education in Ukraine before immigrating to New Zealand in 1992. Since that time she has enjoyed an amazing success and a growing reputation as one of the country's top artists and tutor. She has won numerous Art Awards and has a strong national and international following.

Dimensions: 66 x 87cm 
Estimate: $3,750.00 

Dreaming of Peonies

Dreaming of Peonies  framed watercolour by Svetlana Orinko 

Svetlana Orinko  is a leading master of watercolor and oil mediums. She has been at the forefront of the New Zealand Art scene for over twenty-five years. As a young woman, she has received a Classical Art Education in Ukraine before immigrating to New Zealand in 1992. Since that time she has enjoyed an amazing success and a growing reputation as one of the country's top artists and tutor. She has won numerous Art Awards and has a strong national and international following.

Dimensions: 900x1030mm 

Estimate: $4500.00 

A.A Deans 

Peter Mardon 

Local artist Peter Mardon is well known for his landscapes. A winner of the Keliher Art Competition. He spent more than 50 years capturing scenes in New Zealand and overseas.  

Painting wasn't Peter's full-time job as he was a career firefighter for over 30 years. He and his wife live in Christchurch, and he has been kind enough to donate two of his paintings to this Art auction at Medbury. Year 7 pupil Bryce Hooper is Peters great great nephew.

Watercolour 

West Coast painting was a derelict property near Hari Hari. There was a mother pig and 3 piglets in the shed, but they wouldn't come out to be included in the painting.

Kaori Uemura

'The room with a blue clock' Oil on canvas by Japanese artist Kaori Uemura from the Medbury School Art Collection. Oil on board. c 1995

Dimensions:  1160 x 900mm 

Estimate $1000.00 -$1,500.00 

Burman Cat 

Burman Cat, watercolour framed by Svetlana Orinko 

 Svetlana Orinko is a leading master of watercolor and oil mediums. She has been at the forefront of the New Zealand Art scene for over twenty-five years. As a young woman, she has received a Classical Art Education in Ukraine before immigrating to New Zealand in 1992. Since that time she has enjoyed an amazing success and a growing reputation as one of the country's top artists and tutor. She has won numerous Art Awards and has a strong national and international followin

Dimensions 48 x57cm

Estimate: $950.00.

Peter Mardon 

Mackenzie country painting was done on the road into Mt Cook. Back in the day it was a shingle road. It was painted on an overcast day. 

Local artist Peter Mardon is well known for his landscapes. A winner of the Keliher Art Competition. He spent more than 50 years capturing scenes in New Zealand and overseas.  Painting wasn't Peter's full-time job as he was a career firefighter for over 30 years. He and his wife live in Christchurch, and he has been kind enough to donate two of his paintings to this Art auction at Medbury. Year 7 pupil Bryce Hooper is Peters great great nephew.

Estimate: $850.00

The Cricket Match 

Unframed, Giclee Print 10 by Kelvin McMillan. 

Estimare $600

Paul Deans 

Donated by Lesley Ballantyne 

Paul Deans, son of Austin Deans  is a sculptor and portrait artist. He lives and works his art in Christchurch, New Zealand.

"Growing up with an artist as father instilled in me a passion for creating beautiful things and so, by the age of four, I knew that's what I wanted.  However, that heritage was also daunting and it took me a long time to concede that this is how I want to work and live."

Sandra Johnson 

A selection of ceramic coffee cups and bowls  made and donated by Sandra Johnson. 

Sam Mahon 

Untitled (Barristers' conference) 1987.  Offset reproduction, from the Medbury School Art Collection. 

Dimensions: 970 x 380 mm 

Estimate $200 -$300.00 

Water Lilies

A framed water colour by Svetlana Orinko 

Dimensions: 45 x 52

Estimate: $950.00

Torellese Range

"Torellese Range", oil on board by Svetlana Orinko   

Svetlana Orinko is a leading master of watercolor and oil mediums. She has been at the forefront of the New Zealand Art scene for over twenty-five years. As a young woman, she has received a Classical Art Education in Ukraine before immigrating to New Zealand in 1992. Since that time she has enjoyed an amazing success and a growing reputation as one of the country's top artists and tutor. She has won numerous Art Awards and has a strong national and international followin 

 Dimensions 32 x 41cm 

 Estimate: $1,200.00

Asher Etherington

Joesph and His Coat of Many Colours AI powered text-to image generation by Asher Etherington. 

Sue Hale

Collection of Butterflies 

Donated by Jo Keleghan, we have six individual butterfly arrangements.  

Dimensions: 210 x 297 
Estimate: $25.00 - $35.00