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Photo by Mike Glover

Ian Hunter & ANZART

Ian Hunter obituary

A spirit now lacking in art

JH
Olafur Eliasson, Yellow versus Purple, 2003. Tate: Purchased with funds provided by the 2003 Outset / Frieze Art Fair Fund to benefit the Tate Collection 2003. Photo: Tate.

The Tate’s Light Show

AUCKLAND ART GALLERY TOI O TAMAKI

Auckland

 

Touring international collection show supplemented by a few works from Auckland collections.

Light from the Tate: the 1700s until now

1st March, 2023 - 25 May, 2023

Mixture of art methodologies

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Peter Robinson, Die Cuts and Derivations, 2015. Cut wool felt. Private collection.

Presenting Installation as Drawing

CHRISTCHURCH ART GALLERY TE PUNA O WAIWHETU

Christchurch

Peter Robinson, and 25 artists represented in the CAG Collection
Die Cuts and Derivations


11 March 2023 - 2 July 2023

What is a mark? What is a space?


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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

Apocalypse now

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John Bailey, Notes for the well-tuned piano, 2021, flash and charcoal on paper, 850 x 650 mm (framed dimension)

Sneakily Subversive Bailey?

SCOTT LAWRIE GALLERY

Auckland

 

John Bailey
GYMNOSPHERE / Notes for the well-tuned piano


25 March 2023 - 8 April 2023

Interpretatively enigmatic formalism

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Barbara Tuck: Delirium Crossing (installation view), Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū, 2022-23. This exhibition has been developed as a partnership between Anna Miles Gallery, Ramp Gallery and Te Pātaka Toi Adam Art Gallery.

Barbara Tuck in Christchurch

CHRISTCHURCH ART GALLERY TE PUNA O WAIWHETU

Christchurch

 


Barbara Tuck
Delirium Crossing

Curated by Christina Barton, Anna Miles and 14 invited art historians, writers and curators



15 October 2022 - 26 March 2023

Interpretation textually over determined?


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Still from Laresa Kosloff, New Futures TM, 2021, 4K video, made from commercial stock footage, 4.37 mins

Detecting Sentience & Cognition

TE TUHI CENTRE FOR THE ARTS

Auckland

 

International group show
Who can think, what can think

 

18 February 2023 - 7 May 2023

Correcting neural disadvantage

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Installation of Koen Delaere's exhibition 'White Light White Heat' at Fox Jensen McCrory.

Spectacular Paradoxical Delaere

FOX JENSEN MCCRORY

Auckland

 

Koen Delaere
White Light White Heat


11 February 2023 - 18 March 2023

Fragile and muscular

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Cat Fooks at Anna Miles: Sour Orange Summer, 2023; Brittle Star, 2023; Pocockiella, 2023;  Kobold, 2022. Photo: Sam Hartnett

Typically Exuberant Fooks

ANNA MILES GALLERY

Auckland

 

Cat Fooks
Terebella


18 February 2023 -16 March 2023

Restlessly frenetic adder-on of colours and bits


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John Nixon: Untitled (Orange Monochrome), 1997, metal disc and enamel on mdf, 555 x 555 mm; Untitled (Black Monochrome), 1997, enamel on mdf, 600 x 600 mm.                                               Photo: Sam Hartnett

John Nixon’s Painting Passion

TWO ROOMS

Auckland

 

John Nixon
Works 1990 - 2014



10 February 2023 - 11 March 2023

Posthumous NZ exhibition

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Installation of Shannon Te Ao's 'Tīwakawaka' exhibition at Coastal Signs.

A Moody Chromatic Infusion

COASTAL SIGNS

Auckland

 

Shannon Te Ao
Tīwakawaka


16 November 2022 — 28 January 2023

Shannon Te Ao’s photographic installation

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Installation on Starkwhite's lefthand wall of five Gordon Walters canvas paintings

A German / New Zealand Pairing

STARKWHITE

Auckland

 

Gerold Miller & Gordon Walters
Miller to Walters

 


8 December 2022 - 31 January 2023

Different supports; differently finished surfaces


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Xi Li, The Transcendence Labyrinth of Idols, 2022 (installation view), photo by Sam Hartnett

Sardonic or Sincere Guidance Towards Enlightenment?

TE TUHI CENTRE FOR THE ARTS

Pakuranga

 

Xi Li
The Transcendence Labyrinth of Idols


4 December 2022 - 29 January 2023

Mocking a spiritual path?

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Daphne Simons, Peach Teats at the Dude Ranch, 2022 (detail), image courtesy of artist

Daphne Simons’ Peach Teat Billboards

TE TUHI CENTRE FOR THE ARTS

Pakuranga

 

Daphne Simons
Peach Teats at the Dude Ranch


4 December 2022 - 29 January 2023

Shrewd multiple interpretations

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Robin White, Fish and chips, Maketu, 1975, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, purchased 1975

Robin White Survey

AUCKLAND ART GALLERY TOI O TAMAKI

Auckland

 


Robin White
Te Whanaketanga / Something is Happening Here

 


22 October 2022 - 30 January 2023

The pleasures of depicted space and surface


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Interactive Eddie Clemens at AUT

TE WAI NGUTU KĀKĀ GALLERY

Auckland

 

Eddie Clemens
Resolution Venture


17 November -16 December 2022

Ruminating over Tongan history

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Frida Kahlo, Diego on my Mind (Self-Portrait as Tehuana), 1943, oil on Masonite, 76 x 61 cm. The Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection of 20th Century Mexican Art and the Vergel Foundation. Photo credit: Gerardo Suter

Magnificent Kahlo

AUCKLAND ART GALLERY TOI O TAMAKI

Auckland

 

Works from the Jacques & Natasha Gelman Collection
Frida Kahlo & Diego Rivera: Art & Life in Modern Mexico

 

15 October 2022 - 22 January 2023

Looking at Mexican culture and history

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Mark Francis, Jericho, 2022, oil on canvas, 183 x 244 cm

International Plastic Soul

FOX JENSEN MCCRORY

Auckland

 

International group show
Plastic Soul


19 November - 17 December 2022

A fresh presentation of bodily abstraction


JH

Crop Circle Ruminations

Emil McAvoy
Soft Launch: An Exopoetics of the Crop Circle Phenomenon

Coloured photographs by Emil McAvoy
Essay by Chelsea Nichols

PUFF PIECE x Bad News Books 2022

Might the rings be art?

JH
Installation view of etchings in Elizabeth Thomson's Cellular Memory in Gallery Four of Te Uru's top floor. Photo by Sam Hartnett, courtesy Te Uru.

Thomson @ Titirangi & Arch Hill

Te Uru & Two Rooms

Elizabeth Thomson

Cellular Memory (Te Uru)

24 September - 4 December 2022

 

My Titirangi Years (Two Rooms)

21 October - 19 November 2022

Clear rippling water vs darting shadow

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Installation of Nikau Hindin's Manu Aute: Rere Runga Hau at Season. Photo: Seb Charles

Nikau Hindin Kites

SEASON

Auckland

 

Nikau Hindin
Manu Aute: Rere Runga Hau


8 October 2022 - 19 November 2022

Contemplative objects for indoors