Woom~2 was a bit of a mammoth effort involving no less than seven artists. Our feature artist was Jamie Noble from Auckland, brother of local painter Geoff Noble. Jamie represented with amazing grafitti wild style painting in the lobby downstairs at woom and contributed a large body of work to the show, including paintings on a blazer and fridge door. We filmed Jamie bombing reception, and we should be posting that at some stage, so check back.

In his first gallery outing, Nelson's Symen Hunter showed three oil paintings on board of his unusual and symbolically charged figures. I was particularly taken with 'Helmet Boy' and had to add it to my collection, but his best piece, a larger untitled work remains unsold. I would like to see it go to a good home, so view the slideshow and email me if you want to own it. (It's the pic with the one eyed octopus in it!)

Lou-Darcie Lewis also put in a big effort with her large painting titled 'Beautiful stories for ugly children', considering she was working towards another show as the featured artist at The Suter Gallery.

It was good to see Yvette Byrd's sensitively handled series 'The Tomorrow People' depicting small scenes of global paranoia tinged with a bit of hope for the future. Adi Tait's large oil-stained works on paper were likewise highly admired. She used repetitive motifs of bombs, planes and missile shapes to form floral patterns that disguise the sinister undertones in her paintings. Two very talented local artists producing interesting work.

Stefan Lamb and Emma Maree rounded out the show, Stefan with some of his typical creative oddities in acrylic, on found objects. Emma's work, large, colourful digital prints on canvas, was a continuation of her recent exploration of paradox and the binaries of good/evil etc.

Enjoy the online show!