The exhibition by Sam Foley at the Artist’s Room Fine Art Gallery is a collection of paintings in, of and around about Dowling Street. 

Having lived and worked on this street now for 15 years, Sam's idea was simply to celebrate this colourful, diverse and very Dunedin location. Every place portrayed is within a short radius of the studio and makes for a personal idiosyncratic look at what is probably the unofficial Arts precinct of Dunedin.

'With 4 or 5 galleries or other art spaces on this one street, I'm sure if you crunched the numbers it would most likely be the most densely populated arts area per capita in the country... a wild claim perhaps but a good argument nonetheless.

'I really have had a lot of fun putting this collection together. It's one those things where if you live and breathe a location, and have an idea for a painting, it can become so easy just to say, "I will do one that later..." as it's literally right outside the window or front door. This exhibition pulls together the many strands and ideas about this place I call home into one succinct survey.'