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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

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Impressive Julia Morison Sampler

TRISH CLARK GALLERY

Auckland

 

Julia Morison
In Hindsight

 

8 October - 17  December 2022

Enthralling mixture of projects


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Installation of Tia Ranginui's Gonville Gothic at Te Uru. Photo by Sam Hartnett. Courtesy of Te Uru.

Ranginui Photographs at Titirangi

TE URU WAITAKERE CONTEMPORARY GALLERY

Titirangi

 

Tia Ranginui
Gonville Gothic


10 September 2022 - 26 February 2023

Exploring the preternatural

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Roman Mitch at Te Tuhi

TE TUHI CENTRE FOR THE ARTS

Auckland

 

Roman Mitch (with Marcel Tautahi, Ngaroma Natalia, Mokopōpaki, Penelope Sue, Rangitauninihi, Ursula Christel, and Yllwbro)

Roman Mitch: Red Teddy


25 September 2022 - 13 November 2022

Mokopōpaki projects coalesced

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Installation view at Artspace Aotearoa, of Martin Sagadin, Garden of Clay, 2022, digital video, sound, 16.12 minutes

Legacies at Artspace Aotearoa

ARTSPACE AOTEAROA

Auckland

 

Edith Amituanai, Martin Sagadin, Sriwhana Spong, Ukrit Sa-nguanhai, Pati Tyrell
Legacies

Films commissioned and toured by Circuit

 

2 September - 22 October 2022

Five-part film programme


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Ava Seymour, I’m Here For The Butterflies, 2022 (installation view, Reeves Road), photo by Sam Hartnett

Seymour’s Feline Billboards

Te Tuhi Billboards

Auckland

 

Ava Seymour
I’m here for the Butterflies & Story of Love


25 September 2022 - 27 November 2022

Interpreting cat physiognomies

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Fiona Connor, Walls #1–#6 and #8 (featuring Rob Gardiner), 2022 (installation view--in centre of the floor), Commissioned by Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, 2022

Problematic Chartwell Show

AUCKLAND ART GALLERY TOI O TAMAKI

Auckland

 

Works from the Chartwell Collection

Curated by Natasha Conland
Walls to Live Beside, Rooms to Own


3 September 2022 - 26 March 2023

Visually dazzling; politically dubious

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Sehgal has placed an embargo on documentary images of his performances. He wants them to be experienced directly in the gallery space.

Sehgal Returns

AUCKLAND ART GALLERY TOI O TAMAKI

Auckland

 

Tino Sehgal
Yet Untitled, 2013

 

1 October - 13 November 2022

Dancing and singing re-invented


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Four Roger Horrocks books; recent and not so recent

Four Roger Horrocks publications:

A Book of Seeing (Atuanui, 2022)
Song of The Ghost in the Machine (VUP, 2015)

 

Culture in a Small Country (Atuanui, 2022)
Re-Inventing New Zealand (Atuanui, 2016)

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Installation of John Ward Knox's exhibition 'Old Words' at Ivan Anthony.

John Ward Knox’s Ocular Challenge

IVAN ANTHONY GALLERY

Auckland

 

John Ward Knox
Old Words


10 September - 5 October 2022

An unattainable resolution

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Shiraz Sadikeen, Plume, 2022, acrylic and incense on canvas,  200 x 250 mm

The Final Phut

COASTAL SIGNS

Auckland

 

Shiraz Sadikeen
Ends


15 September - 22 October 2022

Contemplating transience and decay


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Julian Hooper, Glossolalia, 2022, acrylic on unstretched canvas, 1400 x 2250 mm

Julian Hooper’s Enigmatic Signs

IVAN ANTHONY GALLERY

Auckland

 

Julian Hooper
New Paintings


10 September - 5 October 2022

Subtle hints of Surrealism

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Frieze block from the Tomb of King Mausolus, marble, Halikarnassos, Turkey, about 350 BCE, length 215 cm. Courtesy of the Trustees of the British Museum.

Those Fascinating Greeks

MAKI PAENGA HIRA AUCKLAND MUSEUM

Auckland

 

 

Items selected from the British Museum Collection

Ancient Greeks: Athletes, Warriors and Heroes

 


11 June - 6 November 2022

Artefacts from the British Museum

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Simon Denny and Karamia Müller, Creation Story Cable Harness 2, 2022, detail. Courtesy of the artists and Michael Lett. Photograph by Sam Hartnett

Diagrammatic Merging of Multiple Historic Trajectories

GUS FISHER GALLERY

Auckland

 

Simon Denny & Karamia Müller, and fifteen other artists

Creation Stories

 

5 August - 22 October 2020

Blending Sāmoan and German-speaking European connections


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Installation of Dane Mitchell's 'Unknown Affinities' downstairs at Two Rooms. Photo: Sam Hartnett

Witty Surrogates for Absent Bones

TWO ROOMS

Auckland

 

Dane Mitchell
Unknown Affinities


12 August - 10 September 2022

‘Taxonomies’ of avian armature

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Installation of Anne Noble's Ratanui 1978 /2021 upstairs at Two Rooms. Photo: Sam Hartnett

Chattering Trees

TWO ROOMS

Auckland

 

Anne Noble
Ratanui 1978 / 2021


12 August - 10 September 2022

Arboreal communication

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Suji Park, Meonji Soojibga | Dust Collector 2022, ceramic (mixed porcelain stoneware and local clays), glaze, ceramic paints and epoxy clay and resin, Commissioned by Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, 2022. Photographer: Paul Chapman

Suji Park Terrace Installation

AUCKLAND ART GALLERY TOI O TAMAKI

Auckland

 

Suji Park
Meonji Soojibga / Dust Collector



2 July, 2022 - 2 April, 2023

Painterly highly textured ceramics


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Elsewhere and nowhere else, 2022 (installation view) curated by Vera Mey. Left: Kah Bee Chow, Portals, 2022. Right: Yuk King Tan, Eternity Screen, 2019, photo by Sam Hartnett

What’s There Is Here Too

TE TUHI CENTRE FOR THE ARTS

Pakuranga


Kah Bee Chow, Li Ming Hu, Yuk King Tan
Elsewhere and Nowhere Else


12 June — 4 September 2022

 

What is not here is not there either

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Jennifer Mason, Four Figures, 2021, oil on board (framed)  1170 × 1730 mm

Pondering Mason’s Prone, Supine & Recumbent Nudes

MELANIE ROGER GALLERY

Auckland

 

Jennifer Mason
Wholeness, Harmony and Radiance


27 July - 20 August 2022

 

Horizontal with gravitas

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Gary McMillan: Scene 52, 2022, acrylic on linen, 65.5 x 86.5 cm; Scene 49, 2021, acrylic on Bristol Board, 51.5 x 62.8 cm

Gary McMillan Paintings

FOX JENSEN MCCRORY

Auckland

 

Gary McMillan
Outside

 

21 July - 20 August 2022

Meteorological and urban