Tooth and Nail Gallery

After opening the other week, Tooth and Nail is still in its utter infancy stage as a gallery. I checked it out the other day after hearing about the buzz of their opening party, and found it to be a pretty cool place.
The art mostly all comes from local artists, and varies from canvas paintings, to screen prints, to wood paints and hand drawn pieces. All of it’s on sale and you can grab the price list on the way in if you’re inclined to collect.
One cool thing about this art gallery (and perhaps a smart move economically speaking) is that the area that isn’t used for exhibiting new work is rented out to artists to make more art. When I went in there were a few folks beetling away upstairs on their work, and was a sweet novelty to be checking out great art while more of it’s being made just metres away from you.
There’s no official opening hours for Tooth and Nail but I was told there’s normally someone working away somewhere indoors and they keep the place open. My advice would be to head in the late morning or afternoon to catch it open.

Tooth & Nail Gallery had their official opening on 9^th December 2011 and long may it reign. Set up by the talented Jake 1 (otherwise known as Jake Holmes) this gallery space houses a collection of graphic artists, designers and painters who have all graduated from art school in the last few years and are looking to develop their work in a gallery setting.
The space is an old shed in the city — well ‘shed’ as in formally a garage, but now it has been made over to house the studio spaces as well as a deceptively large exhibition area.
Keep your eyes on this one folks; they may even be getting some performance art productions from well known blogging writer and actor David Jobling. Yes, it’s true.
I attended the opening night shin dig at Tooth and Nail and I must say it was a most interesting crowd of individuals who have all clearly got a lot going for them besides their youth and good looks.
The art work is a lot of fun (I took a lot of photos so check them out) and it challenges as well as amuses, so get along and check out their work.
There are also screen printing services and general printing and graphic design services available so if you are looking for that unusual fresh new look for your business, here is certainly one place worth visiting to find out which of these artists will provide you with a custom made look at a decent price for all.
The phone number listed here is the number for Jake; so that’s who you will call or leave a message with in order to check if the gallery and studio is open.