Christmas stop over in Wanganui

On the way home to Taranaki at Christmas, Rich and I stopped off for a night in Wanganui.

Wanganui is a town which seems to be a town that seems to get a lot of negative press - I don't think I'd even want to live there (it's a little too quiet for me!) but it's a nice little place and even has a fantastic Korean Cafe.

But the main reason for stopping there is visiting the Sarjeant Gallery.

I seriously love this gallery, they have the most incredible exhibitions here. My favourite exhibition this time was by an artist call Emily Valentine who completed all kinds of amazing sculptures with feathers. Amazing.

Platoon Kunsthalle

On Saturday Rich and I visited Platoon Kunsthalle in Seoul with friends- what is Platoon Kunsthalle you may ask? Well I'm still not entirely sure even after attending the "What the @#$% is Platoon" talk.

But I can tell you that Platoon Kunsthalle started in Berlin by a couple of guys who wanted to run a new kind of advertising company and created their office space out of some shipping containers in a vacant lot in central Berlin.

It seems that in a nutshell they support creative projects by accepting advertising jobs. It also seems that most people volunteer to be part of Platoon which ensures there is plenty of money for them to support creative projects.

The space in Seoul is pretty amazing and it's built from shipping crates - there are some artists works on display but it seems to be mainly and event space. There were some DJ's performing when we were there, and it seems that they regularly have other interesting events. I'm really looking forward to going to their night market next time it's on.

Basically it's a cool place to hang out and attend some events - looking forward to heading back there again soon.

Leeum Samsung Art Gallery

Recently Rich and I joined the Seoul Meet Up art group and the great thing about joining this group is that we have met a lot of really great people who are more than happy to travelling around Seoul's art galleries with us.

Over the Lunar New Years Holiday we were introduced to the Leeum Samsung Art Gallery by some meet up group friends and it's an amazing place, the only problem is that we arrived a little late and didn't get to see the whole gallery. But I really want to go back soon and spend some more time there, so many amazing works by both Korean and western artists.