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D F on ‘Tending a Fire’

Hilarious.

John Hurrell on ‘‘Deconsecrating’ City Gallery so it reverts to being a library?’

Here is a terrific article by Mark Amery on the alarming City Gallery …

Ralph Paine on ‘Priorities' Sculptures: Ineffective Due to Metaphor?’

Vent, sieve, vortex, spiral, net, tube, tear, rent, hole, tunnel, screen, landscape, milieu, …

Ralph Paine on ‘Friedman Survey’

Hickey’s renegade aesthetic turn is sooooo late 20th century American, sooooo chain smoking …

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In foreground, Denise Ziegler, Mecki the Traveller, 2024, photographic print, plywood. Photo: John Hurrell

‘Take What You Have Gathered From Coincidence.’

Finland/Aotearoa partnership

GUS FISHER GALLERY

Auckland

 

Eight New Zealand artists and five Finnish ones


Eight Thousand Layers of Moments


15 March 2024 - 11 May 2024

 

Recent Posts

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Patrick Pound, Looking up, Looking Down, 2023, found photographs on swing files, 3100 x 1030 mm in 14 parts (490 x 400 mm each)

Uplifted or Down-Lowered Eyes

MELANIE ROGER GALLERY

Auckland


Patrick Pound
Just Looking


3 April 2024 - 20 April 2024

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Installation view of Richard Reddaway/Grant Takle/Terry Urbahn's New Cuts Old Music installation at Te Uru, top floor. Photo: Terry Urbahn

Collaborative Reddaway / Takle / Urbahn Installation

TE URU WAITAKERE CONTEMPORARY GALLERY

Titirangi

 


Richard Reddaway, Grant Takle and Terry Urbahn
New Cuts Old Music

 


23 March - 26 May 2024

 
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Detail of the installation of Lauren Winstone's Silt series that is part of Things the Body Wants to Tell Us at Two Rooms.

Winstone’s Delicately Coloured Table Sculptures

TWO ROOMS

Auckland

 

Lauren Winstone
Things the Body Wants to Tell Us

 


15 March 2024 - 27 April 2024

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Jae Hoon Lee, Mother and Child, 2024, inkjet on smooth pearl. 1500 x 1500 mm

Looking Through (or At) Jae Hoon Lee

IVAN ANTHONY GALLERY

Auckland

 

Jae Hoon Lee
Internal Landscape Part II


16 March 2024 -13 April 2024

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Outside installation of part of Shiraz Sadikeen's The Natural Rate, at Treadler. Photo: Alex North.

Sadikeen @ Treadler

TREADLER

Auckland


Shiraz Sadikeen
The Natural Rate


8 March 2024 - 23 March 2024

 

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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

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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

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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

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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

 

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Barbara Wheeler, Move Me , steel, willow canes, stainless steel, earth pigments, rafia, denim, botanicals

Outdoor Sculpture in Hamilton

Assorted Kirikiriroa Hamilton central city sites

Twenty-six artists

 

Boon Sculpture Trail 2024

 

February 3 - March 31, 2024

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Peata Larkin, What binds us, acrylic, pure pigment, transparent medium, mesh and flexiface membrane on LED Lightbox, ca. 64.5 x 62.6 x 8.5 cm.

Indoor Sculpture in Kirikiriroa

ARTSPOST

Kirikiriroa Hamilton

 

Group show
Our Place


3 February - 31 March

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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

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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

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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

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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

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An installation view of Traces, a group show by Peter Hsu, Arwen Flowers, Sybille Schlumbom and Teresa Martinovich, at Blue Gallery, Hamilton Kirikiriroa. Photo: Norman Franke

‘Traces’ in Kirikiriroa

BLUE GALLERY

Hamilton

 

Arwen Flowers, Peter Hsu, Teresa Martinovich, Sybille Schlumbom
Traces


27 January to 10 February 2024.

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Mata Aho Collective and Maureen Lander, Atapō (2020, installation). 2021 Walters Prize winner

Telling Stories i Niu Tirene

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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

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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

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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

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Jasmine Togo-Brisby and John Vea, Outcast, 2923. Installation view. Photo: Sam Hartnett

Togo-Brisby and Vea at Gus Fisher

GUS FISHER GALLERY

Auckland


Jasmine Togo-Brisby and John Vea
Outcast


20 October 2023 - 27 January 2024

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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

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