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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

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Octavia Cook, M (Mermaid) brooch, 2022, acrylic, Mother of Pearl shell, silver, copper (freckles). 89 x 93 x 6 mm--front

Octavia Cook Brooches

ANNA MILES GALLERY

Auckland

 

Octavia Cook
Mint Prose

 


28 October - 16 November 2023

The collective magic of letters


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Installation view of Georgie Hill, Venus Marina / The Roses Came Roaring, at Sumer.

‘Drawn’ Georgie Hill Paintings

SUMER

Auckland

 

Georgie Hill
Venus Marina /The Roses Came Roaring

 

27 October - 2 December 2023

Controlled emotional agitation

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Installation shot of Clinton Watkins' 'Depth of Field' at Starkwhite.

Evocative Watkins Video

STARKWHITE

Auckland

 

Clinton Watkins

 

Depth of Field
20 October - 19 November 2023

Unusual exploration of the sublime

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Installation shot of Bonco's 'Star Stare Start' at Starkwhite.

Checking the ‘Chequerboards’

STARKWHITE

Auckland

 

Bonco
Star Stare Start



20 October - 19 November 2023

Afterimages come & go


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Michael Harrison, Low Voices, 2001-2023, acrylic on paper, 297 x 210 mm

Romantic Feline Pairings

IVAN ANTHONY GALLERY

Auckland

 

Michael Harrison
Ruler & Eraser


13 October - 11 November 2023

Aching pussy-cat yearnings

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Barbara Tuck, and/or III, 1990, oil on cardboard.

Order & Disruption / Possibilities of Edge

ANNA MILES GALLERY

Auckland

 

Barbara Tuck, Kristy Gorman, Adrienne Vaughan, Vita Cochran
and / or


11 October - 27 October 2023

Paired foils

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Barber’s ‘Flood Damage’ Installation

TWO ROOMS

Auckland

 

Andrew Barber
Thin Atmosphere

 


6 October - 4 November 2023

Coated painting and walls as metaphor


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Installation of Robbie Fraser's Focus Fever upstairs at Two Rooms

Diagrammatic Spatial Exuberances

TWO ROOMS

Auckland

 

Robbie Fraser
Focus Fever


6 October - 4 November 2023

Fraser’s agitated abstractions

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Peter Robinison, Driftwood, 2023, installation view at Coastal Signs, Tāmaki Makaurau, Auckland

Ambiguous & Perhaps Cynical Robinson

COASTAL SIGNS

Auckland

 

Peter Robinson
Driftwood


30 September - 28 October 2023

A complex multi-meaninged exhibition

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Haumi, Te Wai o Ngutu Kākā Whakarākeitanga, pattern (detail),  acrylic on wall, 2021 /2023

AUT Gallery Rebranding

TE WAI NGUTU KĀKĀ GALLERY

Tāmaki Makaurau

 

Haumi

Te Wai Ngutu Kākā Gallery Identity presentation


22 September - 4 November 2023

Significant moniker change


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Installation of Jill McIntosh, Shifting Field, 2023, charcoal on Lanaquarelle paper. Photo by Victoria Baldwin

Jill McIntosh’s ‘Handless’ Charcoal Drawings

TE WAI NGUTU KĀKĀ GALLERY


Auckland


Jill McIntosh
Transitional Acts


22 September - 4 November 2023

A somewhat raw marbling technique for a new gesturalism

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Chia-En Jao, REM Sleep, 2011, installation view, three channel video. Photo by Samuel Hartnett

SE Asian Working Migrant Anxieties

TE TUHI CENTRE FOR THE ARTS

Pakuranga

 

Chia-En Jao
REM Sleep


20 August - 22 October 2023

A labour force’s nightmares

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Lynn Hershman Leeson, Logic Paralyzes the Heart, 2021, (installation view, Te Tuhi, 2023) single channel video, wallpaper, photo by Samuel Hartnett

Human-Cyborg Conversation

TE TUHI CENTRE FOR THE ARTS

Auckland

 

Lynn Hershman Leeson
Logic Paralyzes the Heart



20 August - 22 October 2023

Looking closely at Artificial Intelligence


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Raymond Zada, Barkindji people, At Face Value, 2013. National Gallery of Australia, Kamberri/Canberra purchased 2014. This acquisition was acquired in recognition of the 50th Anniversary of the 1967 Referendum.

Spectacular Indigenous Australian Survey

AUCKLAND ART GALLERY TOI O TAMAKI

Auckland

 

Indigenous Art from the National Gallery of Australia and the Wesfarmers Collection

Ever Present: First Peoples Art of Australia


29 July - 29 October 2023

Its contemporary art practices surprisingly varied

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Gerold Miller, TO 15, 2020, lacquered aluminium, 180 x 180 x 11.30 cm; Florian Maier-Aichen, Untitled, 2017, C-print, 79.50 x 95.50 cm

Exultant and Optimistic Abstraction

STARKWHITE

Auckland

 

International group show
Ümwelt


1 September - 30 September 2023

Exhilaratingly Celebratory Non-Objective Art

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Catherine Griffiths, 7/7, 14 Views, 2023, installation view, masked acrylic wall paint, photo by Samuel Hartnett

Catherine Griffiths’ Wall Drawing

TE TUHI CENTRE FOR THE ARTS

Auckland

 

Catherine Griffiths
7/7, 14 Views



20 August - 22 October 2023

Multi-layered semantically?


JH
Installation view of Richard Killeen's 'Stack and Tin Jar' exhibition at Ivan Anthony.

Loose Canvas Killeens

IVAN ANTHONY GALLERY

Auckland

 

Richard Killeen
Stack and Tin Jar

 

3 August - 2 September 2023

Two sorts, perhaps connected

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Installation view of Denys Watkins' exhibition IDLE MOMENTS at Ivan Anthony.

Watkins Overhead

IVAN ANTHONY GALLERY

Auckland

 

 

Denys Watkins
IDLE MOMENTS

 


3 August - 2 September 2023

‘Flatland’ painting with aerial views

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Richard Maloy, Palette (Painting 4), 2023, canvas print (framed), 67 x 82 cm

Richard Maloy’s Palette Photographs

STARKWHITE

Auckland

 


Richard Maloy

Raw



27 July -26 August 2023

Looking at representation and process