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Wunderrūma: New Zealand Jewellery, curated by Warwick Freeman and Karl Fritsch and installed with works on the walls from the Collections of Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki

Wunderrūma at AAG

AUCKLAND ART GALLERY TOI O TAMAKI

Auckland

 

Works from Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki’s collections
Wunderrūma: New Zealand Jewellery

18 July - 1 November 2015

Fritsch and Freeman’s recontextualised jewellery selection

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Moyra Davey, Les Goddesses, 2011, HD video, 61 minutes. Courtesy of the artists and Murray Guy, New York. Photo: Sam Hartnett

Narrative and Subjectivity at St Paul St Gallery

TE WAI NGUTU KĀKĀ GALLERY

Auckland

 

Moyra Davey, Dorine van Meel, Ruth Buchanan, Marie Shannon, Alicia Frankovich, lightreading, Hue & Cry

The things we talked about

 

12 June - 17 July 2015

Multi-layered Discourse

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"The Jewish Bride".  Photo credit: Rembrandt Research Project Foundation and Professor Ernst van de Weterin

Rembrandt Revised

New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts

Wellington

 

Rembrandt Remastered

 

05 June - 05 July 2015

 

 

Contemplating reproductions


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Tessa Laird, "House of Bats", installation shot.  Photo courtesy of Kathryn Tsui.

Laird and Thomas at Corban’s

CORBAN ESTATE ARTS CENTRE

Auckland

Tessa Laird

House of Bats

Sam Thomas

Serf Club

5 Dec 2014 - 8 Jan 2015

Unusual juxtaposition of exhibitions

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Kelsey Stankovich,  "Strata Apparatuses".  Photo credit: Hannah Valentine

Collaborative Revelation

LOFT

Auckland

 

Kelsey Stankovich & Joe Prisk

Plexus 

 

24 October - 24 November 2014

Ceramic sculpture

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Images courtesy of Objectspace

Visual Narratives

OBJECTSPACE

Auckland

 

Assorted books

Janus Press: The New Zealand Collection

 

17 October - 1 November 2014

The skill of book design


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Ben Clement, "Memorabilia #2". Sublimation". Print on recast polyethylene, sublimation print on aluminium composite panel; 540 × 330 mm.  Photo courtesy of Gloria Knight.

Blurred Boundaries

GLORIA KNIGHT

Auckland

 

Ben Clement 

The Right to be Forgotten

 

19 September - 4 October 2014

Identity and its morphings on the internet

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Sam Mitchell, "HRH Queen", 2014.  Ceramic, 40 × 335 × 220mm.

Sultry Nostalgia

MELANIE ROGER GALLERY

Auckland

 

Sam Mitchell 

One of Us Cannot Be Wrong

 

24 September - 18 October 2014

Tongue in Cheek Historiography in Ceramics

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Breckon, 'Real State', installation detail from 'Two Photographers', 2014. Image courtesy of Oscar Perry and Enjoy Gallery

Connotative Distortions

ENJOY CONTEMPORARY ART SPACE

Wellington

 

Breckon and Shaun Waugh 

Two photographers

 

3 September - 27 September 2014

Suggestive Photographic Manipulations


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Eddie Clemens: 'Wes Craven Marina', 2014, Hot-dip galvanized mild metal, printed vinyl, opal acrylic, casters, Samsung 51" F4500 USB movie HD plasma TV, SanDisk Ultra 3.0 flash drive, IEC right angle (Jug lead), 2890x2090x89mm.Photo credit: Sam Hartnett

Layers of Self-Reflexivity

GLORIA KNIGHT

Auckland

 

Eddie Clemens 

Wes Craven Marina 

 

17 July - 9 August 2014

Eddie Clemens’ video exploration and manipulation

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The Social Value of Art?

AUCKLAND ART GALLERY TOI O TAMAKI

Auckland

 

Denny, Leach, Thompson, ‘Uhila

The Walters Prize

 

12 July - 12 October 2014

The social conscience of the Walters Prize 2014

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RendeRED: Installation view. Andrew Topp, "Oi! (Let the Penny Drop)", oil on canvas, 760 x 1035mm.  Photo credit: Elise Sterback.

Chromatic Ambience

Basement Theatre in collaboration with The James Wallace Arts Trust

Auckland

 

RendeRED: An exhibition of works from The James Wallace Arts Trust 

 

5 August - 31 October 2014

The subjective experience of colour


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Light Cord installation view.  Photo credit: Hannah Valentine

Transient Materiality

LOFT

Auckland

 

Scarlett Cibilich, Priya Patel, Larissa Goodwin

Light Cord

 

26 July - 2 August 2014

Physicality and flux

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Emil McAvoy, "PRISMISM", 2014.  Installation detail.  Image courtesy of Oscar Perry and Enjoy Gallery

Political Abstraction

ENJOY CONTEMPORARY ART SPACE

Wellington

 

Emil McAvoy

PRISMISM

 

11 July - 2 August 2014

Critiquing surveillance

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Lauren Winstone, "Holding Holes", 2012 (Pair).  Stoneware, 135 x 400 x 110mm.  Photo credit: Jennifer French

Sculpted Corporeality

TWO ROOMS

Auckland

 

Lauren Winstone 

Pieces

18 July - 16 August 2014

Lauren Winstone’s organic ceramics


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Amber Wilson, "Beneath Ambient Eaves", insallation shot. Photo credit: Sam Hartnett.

Ephemeral Abstraction

ANNA MILES GALLERY

Auckland

 

Amber Wilson

Beneath Ambient Eaves


12 July - 9 August 2014

Ambient texture and tone at Anna Miles

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Soft Intensities: Installation view.  Jaako van Pallasvuo, "I Was the One Who Told Snoopy About That Mindfulness App", 2014.  Custom printed shower curtain. Yannick val Gesto, "Yu Yu Series", 2014.  Print on plexi, white coating; each 800 x 450 mm

Immaterial Materiality

GLORIA KNIGHT

Auckland

 

Rachel de Joode, Jaakko Pallasvuo, Yannick val Gesto

Soft Intensities

Curated by Tim Gentles

 

19 June - 5 July 2014

The destabilising world of the digital

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Janet Beckhouse, Portesa Rockpool, 2013.  Stoneware, 970x460x480mm.  Photo credit: Sam Hartnett

The Animated Inanimate

IVAN ANTHONY GALLERY

Auckland

 

Janet Beckhouse

 

28 May - 21 June 2014

Ceramics come to life at Ivan Anthony


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Sakiko Sugawa's "This Home is Occupied" (St Paul St, Gallery One onsite) Detail of wall images.  Photo credit: Tosh Ahkit.

Community Activism, Exhibition Interaction

TE WAI NGUTU KĀKĀ GALLERY

Auckland

 

Sakiko Sugawa

This Home is Occupied 

 

30 May - 25 July 2014.

The informative potential of gallery display

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Gleeson speaking at the AAG.  Photo credit: Tosh Ahkit.

Culture Curated

AAG Auditorium

Wednesday 18 June 2014, 6:15 pm.

 

Erin Gleeson

The Problem with Sunset


Keynote address

Cultural Reciprocity and Curatorial Practice

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Michael Zavros: The Greek, 2014, oil on canvas; Bad Dad, 2013, oil on canvas; Phoebe is Dead/McQueen, 2010, oil on canvas.  Photo credit: Sam Hartnett

The Allure of the Aesthetic

STARKWHITE

Auckland

 

Michael Zavros

Bad Dad

 

2 June - 28 June 2014

Visual Consumption and Michael Zavros’s “Bad Dad”