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Shane Cotton, Eden to Ohaeawai, oil on canvas, 1998-2000. Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, gift of the Patrons of the Auckland Art Gallery, 2012

John Hurrell’s Twenty-One Picks

AUCKLAND DISTRICT

Highlights of 2012.

John’s personal choices

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Poster made from a still from Sean Grattan's HADHAD, 2012, film

Humans Will Conceptualise the Future of Their Own Demise

TE WAI NGUTU KĀKĀ GALLERY

Auckland

 

Justene Williams
Turnstile Heaped on Pour Down

Sean Grattan
HADHAD

 

8 August - 7 September 2012

The evolution of humanity

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Alex Monteith, 2.5 Kilometre Mono Action for a Mitage, 2011, super 16 mm/35 mm/digital video, colour, sound, 4.30 mm, detail

Website for NZ Film and Video Artists

CIRCUIT website

 

Curated by Mark Williams

 

Online

Exciting new moving image site


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Sean Grattan, Carmen San Diego: Out OF Work And On The Run, 2011. Part of installation at ARTSPACE. Photo by Sam Hartnett.

Abrupt Movements and Sounds

ARTSPACE AOTEAROA

Auckland

 

Atkins, Grattan and Sofo
Sudden gestures or noises
Curated by Caterina Riva

 

21 October - 26 November 2011

Two films & an installation-collection

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Sean Grattan at Newcall

NEWCALL

Auckland

Looking at you with contempt
A film by Sean Grattan

29 July - 16 August 2009

What is striking about Grattan is his confidence with a ‘European’ sensibility. His interests are unusual for a New Zealand director. It will be interesting to see if that changes in California, how he intellectually grows.