The inaugural Braveheart Art Exhibition on 28 - 30 May 2010 was a resounding success! It featured more than 600 artworks for viewing and for sale. The 200+ artists, both emerging and well-known, came from all around New Zealand. The emphasis was on quality and affordability, a rare combination achievable only through the experience of curator, Liz Caughey.
Liz Caughey began collecting contemporary New Zealand art over 20 years ago, and has worked as an art advisor for the past ten. Over the past 12 years, she has authored the five volumes in the ‘Contemporary New Zealand Art’ series (four with John Gow, Auckland gallery director) for publisher David Bateman Ltd, compiled ‘NZ Art Today: 60 exhibiting New Zealand artists’, contributed to The Encyclopaedia of New Zealand and edited ‘Virginia King: Sculptor’ (both David Bateman publications). She also maintains an independent website to promote New Zealand art www.nz-artists.co.nz and has curated four highly successful fundraising art exhibitions since 2003.
Proceeds from the Art Exhibition will fund the reinstatement of The Right Track education programme in the central Auckland Youth Court.
