Lonely Dog Gallery

Yesterday I was on a mission to view as many art galleries as I could in the city, honestly I didn’t get to many, considering the size of Auckland their isn’t actually a great deal around. I have heard that Wellington is the ‘art capital’ which I look forward to visiting one day.
So, Lonely Dog Gallery I heard about you from a previous Unilocal review and decided to go pay you a visit. The work here is thematic, comical, fine art and well presented. It is obviously in a specialised market which I am pleased to see does good business — I took note of quite a few red dots (art that has been bought). Plus being in such a good location next to Britomart’s transport centre in the hub of the city must mean a lot of tourism flow through. I was also relieved to find it easy to get to, unlike some other inner city galleries I couldn’t even find the bloody door to get inI d
Although I didn’t but any of the art I did buy one of the cards of the art, for my eldest sister in mind, (a big fan of dogs), $ 5.00 each or you can buy them in packs. They have a description on the back which added to the appeal.

Lonely Dog recently moved down Customs Street a few hundred metres closer to Queen Street. Otherwise, it’s still the exact same intriguing spot for a quick look as it’s always been. For those that don’t know, Lonely Dog is a sort of art phenomenon started by Kiwi artist Ivan Clarke who one day started adding human-​esque dogs into his dramatic landscape works. It’s a sort of weird comic book meets fine landscape art mix, and as such it makes for some pretty surreal stuff with all sorts of symbolic parallels drawn between the dogs and reality. Can’t say I’ve ever bought anything from here, but it’s a fun place to linger for a few minutes for a look if you’re in the area.