Amesbury School: Art Exhibition and Auction 7pm, Friday, 1 August, 2014

The first ever Amesbury School Art Exhibition & Auction is going to be held on Friday 1st August, from 7:00-9:00pm.

Some details are still to be finalised, but here's what we can tell you so far:

Tickets will be $5.00 per person, which includes light food refreshment. Don't forget to invite grandparents, aunts, uncles.

Please order tickets to this event by following this link to an online form.

This event will be R18, due to the presence of alcohol on site.

7:00pm: Arrival & Refreshments

Viewing of artwork from 7pm.

Refresments will be available free of charge. Hopefully there will be live background music.

Drinks will be on sale, including wine, beer, shandy, fruit juice & lemonade.

8:00pm: Auction commences

Student artwork: All students will have one piece of framed artwork up for auction. We will have "buy now" prices on all student artworks and a minimum price - to ensure we cover costs and make a small profit. All items will be available to purchase via a "silent auction" - you will be able to add your name and price to a bid list for selected artworks or you might begin with the "buy now" price to ensure no-one else purchases the piece of artwork you want.

We will also take commissions. If there is a piece of artwork by a student you particularly like but it has already been purchased, we will see if the artist is prepared to be commissioned to do one for you at the "buy now" price. In this situation, profit will be shared by the school and the student.

Artist-in-residence artwork: We are very fortunate that we will also have 20 pieces available for sale by Colin Gibbs, our artist-in-residence. These framed paintings (Italian oil paint on French Arches Huile (300gm) paper, finished with Damar Varnish) all depict the Churton Park landscape. The school will receive a 30% commission on sales. These artworks will also be sold through the silent auction. They will have a reserve price (see the prices below) and people can make bids above that price.

Artworks will not be available for sale prior to 8pm and unsold artworks will continue to be available for sale for the week following the auction.

The school will purchase or commission some artworks by students for display around the school.

At 8:00pm, a bell will sound and the serious business of the silent auction will begin!

9:00pm: Evening ends with lots of happy parents going home with awesome art work!

We will have details of other things happening on the evening closer to the date - watch this space....

G i b b s L a n g

contemporary art gallery and studio

mobile 027 2484884 www.gibbslang.co.nz

We are pleased to provide the paintings as follows for the Amesbury School exhibition at the reserve prices listed below:

(1) small Churton Park