Black Asterisk

About...

Name

Black Asterisk

A bit about

Black Asterisk is a new gallery joining Auckland's creative community. The love child of artist Stuart Broughton, Black Asterisk originally started its life as a pop up gallery that had a successful sojourn on Jervois Road in early 2009. Buoyed by the success of creating a temporary exhibition space, motivated by the ongoing frustration of securing suitable temporary venues to show his work, and tempered by a desire to settle down to more permanent exhibiting, led to Broughton taking the plunge into a committed gallery operation. After much searching, finally in the winter of 2011 Broughton found a large, ugly duckling in the form of No. 10 Ponsonby Road to transform. Upon signing the lease, Black Asterisk as a permanent operation became a reality.

Because Black Asterisk aims to be exhibition orientated, its primary mandate is getting a whole lot of very good, largely unseen art in front of the public and available for sale. There is a steady rotation of exhibitions; both solo and curated group showings where new artists have their work hung alongside their more established peers and an exciting programme of original art events.

The gallery also operates as an attractive, well-lit event space for launches and art related community events, which bring the work to an even wider audience. Art works will also be able to be viewed and bought on an online gallery and Black Asterisk will offer a range of other art-associated services from framing to consultancy.

Contact Details

Organisation name

Black Asterisk

Physical Address

10 Ponsonby Road, Auckland

Email

info@blackasterisk.co.nz

Phone

09 378 1020

Organisation Website URL

http://www.blackasterisk.co.nz

Facebook URL

http://www.facebook.com/BlackAsterisk

Twitter URL

http://twitter.com/#!/@Black_Asterisk

History

Member for

26 weeks 5 days

Connected With

Visual Arts

Auckland

Gallery

Painting

photography

sculpture