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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 …


John Hurrell on ‘Friedman Survey’

Here is a particularly engrossing response to Dave Hickey's well known book on …


Ralph Paine on ‘Telling Stories i Niu Tirene’

Regarding the technical plane: why is it that neither muskets nor smart phones, …

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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

Articulating mental disintegration

Te Tuhi /Auckland Arts Festival

5 inner city sites


Marcus Coates
The Directors


24 February - 24 March 2024

Recent Posts

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

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

 

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

 

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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

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

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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

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

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


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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

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

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

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


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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

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Simon Denny, Optimism,2023, detail. Commissioned by Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki, 2023

Wicked Satellites

AUCKLAND ART GALLERY TOI O TAMAKI

Tamaki Makaurau

 

Simon Denny

 

Optimism

 

2 December 2023 - 27 October 2024

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

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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