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Still from Marcus Coates, The Directors: Lucy (2022) Single channel HD video on loop, projection, 21 min, 24 sec--⁠presented at Yellow Brick Road, courtesy of Artangel.

Attempting to Describe the Experience of Psychosis

Te Tuhi /Auckland Arts Festival

5 inner city sites


Marcus Coates
The Directors


24 February - 24 March 2024

Articulating mental disintegration

JH
Ava Seymour, Manhole, 2023, Maribu solvent screen-printing ink on aluminium, 1120 x 910 mm, unique.

Maternal Appurtenances

COASTAL SIGNS

Auckland

 

Ava Seymour
Heels of Mothers


14 March - 13 April 2024

Desirably worshipful tootsie-wear

JH
Installation shot of Michael Morley's exhibition, After the War, at Sumer

In Spite of the World

SUMER

Auckland

 

Michael Morley
After the War


6 March 2024 - 6 April 2024

Embracing pleasure


JH
P.R., Te Atakura, 2024; C.P., Vierkantrohre Serie DW, 1967; P.R., Easy Action Painting, 2023; P.R., Ki Uta Ki Tai, 2024; P.R., Driftwood 1, 2023.

Priorities’ Sculptures: Ineffective Due to Metaphor?

ARTSPACE AOTEAROA

Tamaki Makaurau

 

Charlotte Posenenske & Peter Robinson
Priorities


10 February - 6 April 2024

 

Tropes permitted or blocked by Davidson?

JH
Installation view of Hugo Koha Lindsay's exhibition, The Plimsoll Line, at Gow Langsford. Photo: Sam Hartnett

Layered Meanings

GOW LANGSFORD GALLERY

Auckland

 

Hugo Koha Lindsay
The Plimsoll Line


14 February - 9 March 2024

Clever interpretative possibilities

JH
Installation view of Julian Hooper's exhibition, Talking Pit, at Ivan Anthony Gallery.

Speaking in Tongues

IVAN ANTHONY GALLERY

Tāmaki Makaurau

 

Julian Hooper
Talking Pit



10 February - 9 March 2024

Meanings that compete


JH
The installation of Ken Friedman's 92 Events at Ngutu Kākā, in Gallery One. Photo: Stephen Cleland

Friedman Survey

TE WAI NGUTU KĀKĀ GALLERY

Auckland

 

Ken Friedman
92 Events


8 December - 28 March 2024

Is a gallery necessary?

JH
Installation view of Patrick Lundberg's exhibition, eybodey, at Ivan Anthony Gallery.

Lundberg Still Surprises

IVAN ANTHONY GALLERY

Tāmaki Makaurau

 

Patrick Lundberg
Eybodey

 


10 February - 9 March 2024

Paintings and sculpture

JH
Erin Lawlor, Ariadne and the Minotaur, 2023, oil on canvas, 200 X 410 cm

Evocatively Churning & Pulsing Lawlors

FOX JENSEN MCCRORY

Auckland

 

Erin Lawlor
Ariadne’s Thread


9 February - 9 March 2024

Paint moving beyond paint


JH
Installation view of Ella Sutherland's Still Life with Argot, at Sumer, Auckland.

Inventive and Complex Sutherland Paintings

SUMER

Auckland

 

Ella Sutherland
Still Life with Argot

 

2 February 2024 - 2 March 2024

Colourful codification of lesbian sensibility

JH

Community Art on the Streets

Urgent Moments (Art and Social Change: the Letting space Projects 2010-2020)

Mark Amery, Sophie Jerram, and Amber Clausner: editors

Discussions of Letting Space projects.
Apart from the editors, there are also 35 other writers.

Softcover, generously illustrated, 352 pp
Massey University Press, 2023

Spurning the Galleries

JH

Tomislav Nikolic’s Insistently Lavish Presences

Tomislav Nikolic: Invocations of Consciousness
Sixty-five colour images 
Texts by Clemens, Engberg, Ewington, Jensen and a conversation between the editors.

Edited by Nikolic and Soni

MER, Ghent, 2023

A book about his painted, symmetrical, rectangular wall sculptures


JH
Bill Culbert: Hut II, 2013, fluorescent tubes, ballasts, casings, metal fixings, electrical components,  2800 x 3500 x 2400 mm; Ten Photographs Taken Between Sunrise and Moonrise on One Day in Winter, 1974/75. C-type Prints on Cotton Rag Paper.

A Fresh Look at Culbert

TE URU WAITAKERE CONTEMPORARY GALLERY

Titirangi

 

Bill Culbert
Blue Cloud, Green Waterfall

 


9 December 2023 - 11 February 2024

Surprises revealed

JH

Pocketable Portable Lye

Len Lye and Roger Horrocks
Len Lye’s Art that Moves


Introduction by Roger Horrocks, the editor

 

Softcover 72 pp 

 

Govett-Brewster Art Gallery and Len Lye Centre, 2023

An easily absorbed intro from the indefatigable Roger Horrocks

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Nearest work: Francis Upritchard, Sisyphus, 2021, balata rubber, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki, gift of the Patrons of Auckland Art Gallery, 2023.

Dazzling AAGToT Collection Show

AUCKLAND ART GALLERY TOI O TAMAKI

Auckland

 

16 national and international artists

Portals and Omens: New Work from the Collection
Curated by Natasha Conland

 

21 October, 2023 - 7 July, 2024

Exciting & accessible International line-up


JH
Promotional card image for Ardit Hoxha's lost dream[s] Te Tuhi billboard project

Hoxha’s Recontextualised W.L. Robertson Text

Te Tuhi Billboards

Pakuranga

 

Ardit Hoxha

lost dream[s]

 


12 November 2023 - 28 January 2024

Selected portions of a manifesto

JH
Installation of Tomislav Nikolic's Being's Believin' at Fox Jenson McCrory

Recent Colourful Nikolic Paintings

FOX JENSEN MCCRORY

Auckland

 

Tomislav Nikolic
Being’s Believin’


25 November - 16 December 2023

Careful spatial intervention

JH
Louisa Afoa, Essential Household Items, 2023 (detail). Image courtesy of the artist

Louisa Afoa’s Still-Life Photographs

TE TUHI CENTRE FOR THE ARTS

Tāmaki Makaurau

 

Louisa Afoa
Essential Household Items

12 November - 28 January 2024

The power of memory and family


JH
Wu Tsang, One emerging from a point of view, 2019, 2-channel overlapping projections, 5.1 surround sound, 43 minutes. Courtesy the artist; Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi,Berlin; Cabinet, London; Antenna Space, Shanghai.

Unravelling Entangled Moving Imagery

TE TUHI CENTRE FOR THE ARTS

Auckland

 

Wu Tsang

One Emerging from a Point of View


12 November 2023 - 28 January 2024

Uncertainty through overlaps

JH
Helen Calder's exhibition, The Tidy Behaviour of Matter, as installed upstairs at Two Rooms. Photo: Sam Hartnett

Almost Insupportable Flexible Paintings

TWO ROOMS

Auckland

 

Helen Calder
The Tidy Behaviour of Matter


17 November - 22 December, 2023

Planar without stretchers

JH
Richard Stratton, V&A after Notkin (False Gods), 2023, wild clay thrown and altered with black terra sigillata underglazes and coloured slips. 130 mm x 230 mm x 80 mm, red

Wildly Playful Stratton

ANNA MILES GALLERY

Auckland

 

Richard Stratton
Reverse Monopoly Big Wigs



28 October - 16 November 2023

Pushing the boundaries of tea-brewing functionality