Caley Hall (above and featured in Issue
14) has been working on this 2.5 metre
oil painting of Milford Sound for most of
the year. He will hand the painting over
to Captain Pete Bethune (left) at the Mint
Gallery in Dunedin, whereafter it will hang
in the Laneway Cafe until it goes up for
auction. Mint Gallery, generously donated
the space, and artist Daniel Anngow (work
below) graciously postponed his exhibition
opening for the handover on Friday 28th
October 2016.CALEY HALL:
EARTHRACE CONSERVATION’S FIRST EVER
ARTIST IN RESIDENCE
A
fter chatting to Pete Bethune
on Facebook, Caley Hall
decided to gift him this 2.5
metre oil painting of Milford Sound
to go towards fundraising for their
new Earthrace-2 conservation
ship which is being launched in- “Pete in return asked if I
would like to be Earthrace’s first
ever artist in residence and for
a guy from Invercargill I felt this
would be a huge honour to travel
with the conservation crew”. For
the next three years Caley will be
focussing on getting fit and being
able to paint and photograph the
remote places where the ship stops.
“Pete has been a huge influence
on me in the last two months and
I have already dropped 12kg in
eight weeks so I can try and get as
fit as possible. I want to fit in and
not be a hindrance to the crew.
I’d like to publish a conservation-
focused book on my artworks that
I will complete during and after
the experience. I’m handing the
painting of Milford Sound over to
Pete at Mint Art Gallery on the 28th
Oct. Then it will hang in Laneway
Cafe until it goes up for auction
through an overseas platform. It is
important to me to blend art and
conservation to create art history. I
also donated a very small amount
of money into the hugely successful
Earthrace-2 kick-starter campaign
just to get my name on the new
ship. As a mainly studio-based artist
with limited plein air experience
I look forward to the challenges
Some of Daniel Anngow’s work in the Mint Gallery in Dunedin. ahead.”