Nau mai, haere mai, welcome to EyeContact. You are invited to respond to reviews and contribute to discussion by registering to participate.

 

pd
Winner: Sarah Ziessen, You and Me: The Weight of History.

2018 National Contemporary Art Award

WAIKATO MUSEUM TE WHARE TAONGA O WAIKATO

Hamilton

 

National Contemporary Art Award
Selected and judged by Reuben Friend

 

4 August - 28 October 2018

Winner: Paint as garment

pd
Rachel Hope Peary, A Quiet Meal, A Glass of Red Wine, A Heavy Chat. Photo by Holly Russell

Abstraction for a New Generation

LAREE PAYNE GALLERY

Hamilton

 

Chelsea Pascoe, Nicholas Megchelse, Rachael Hope Peary
No Holiday

 

26 April - 12 May 2018

Non-Objective Art at Weasel

pd
Installation view of 'White Rainbow' in Ramp, April 2018

Hanging Paintings on a Painting?

RAMP

Hamilton


Group painting exhibition
White Rainbow


April 23 - May 23 2018

Painted Support; Painted Surface


pd
Niki Hill, Blush 2

Examining the Feminine Ideal

TACIT GALLERY

Hamilton

 

Group show
Renegotiating the Feminine Ideal


10 March - 24 March 2018

Looking closely at values

pd
Roger Key's exhibition Minor Events as installed at Wallace Gallery

Roger Key’s History Paintings

WALLACE GALLERY

Morrinsville

 

Roger Key
Minor Events

 

3 February - 25 February 2018

Cocking a Snook

pd
Tiger Murdoch, Great North Road, plywood.

2017 National Contemporary Art Award

WAIKATO MUSEUM TE WHARE TAONGA O WAIKATO

Hamilton

 

Selected finalists
National Contemporry Art Award


29 July - 5 November2017

Interactive and ‘ethical’.


pd
Geoffrey Clarke, Vernacular, 2017, ink on synthetic canvas, 1600 mm x 1900 mm.

Flippant Abstraction

WALLACE GALLERY

Morrinsville

 

Geoffrey Clarke
Vernacular

 

1 June - 29 June 2017

Clarke’s demurral

pd
Joseph Scott, Charisma (go into all the World), 2017, mixed media

Passing Foxes

SKINROOM

Hamilton

 

Joseph Scott

You are passing another fox

 

18 March - 31 March 2017

 

Joseph Scott in Hamilton

pd
Bryan Hobbs-Crowter, HEEL!! Mummified opossum, collar, lead.

Serious Fluff

SKINROOM

Hamilton

 

Group show
Fluff

 

24 February - 11 March, 2017

Waikato Surrealism


pd
Andrea du Chatenier, Bearded Prophet, ceramic and textile.

Du Chatenier Survey

WAIKATO MUSEUM TE WHARE TAONGA O WAIKATO

Hamilton

 

Andrea du Chatenier
Being Andrea du Chatenier

 

2 December, 2016 - 22 January, 2017

Spoofs of masculinity

pd
Cara Fotofili, Experiencing a Significant Shortfall of Gravitas, watercolour on 300 gsm paper, 1400 x 5200 mm

Deflating the Spiritual

GALLAGHER ACADEMY OF PERFORMING ARTS GALLERY

Hamilton

 

Cara Fotofili
Small changes

 

17 October - 9 December 2016

Eschewing the divine

pd
Sorawit Songsataya, Good Kisser, 2016, two 3D printed vases (plastic particle) wooden plant stand.

Hamilton’s Contemporary Art Prize

WAIKATO MUSEUM TE WHARE TAONGA O WAIKATO

Hamilton

 

Group exhibition

 

National Contemporary Art Award 2016

 

3 September - 4 December 2016

3D printed vases by winner


pd
Lonnie Hutchinson's Light My Fire at Ramp. Photo: Geoff Ridder

Lonnie Hutchinson in Waikato

RAMP

Hamilton

 

Lonnie Hutchinson
Light My Fire

 

8 August - 31 August 2016

Revisiting the female nude

pd
On the wall, Abigail Jensen's Big Black Painting.

Black

SKINROOM

Hamilton

 

Abigail Jensen and Eliza Webster
Creep

 

8 July 8 - 23 July 2016.

Rough and brutal

pd
George Hajian's Silver, Tinted, Pink at Ramp

Male Objectification

RAMP

Hamilton

 

George Hajian
Silver Tinted Pink

 

24 March - 12 April 2016

Homo-erotic perving over Ken


pd
Visesio Siasau, Onotu' ofe'uli - Onotu'ofekula, 2014, tapa cloth

Wallace Awards in Morrinsville

WALLACE GALLERY

Morrinsville


Selected Finalists
Wallace Art Awards 2015

 

20 February - 24 April 2016

Last year’s winners

pd
Shigeyuki Kihara's Undressing the Pacific at Waikato Museum Te Whare Taonga o Waikato. Photo: Kevin Dornauf

Shigeyuki Kihara in Hamilton

WAIKATO MUSEUM TE WHARE TAONGA O WAIKATO

Hamilton

 

Shigeyuki Kihara
Undressing the Pacific

 

14 November 2015 - 29 February 2016

A fa’afafine deconstructs the colonial gaze

pd
Glenn Burrell's Destination: Liquid Sunshine as installed at the Wallace Gallery, Morrinsville.

Collapsed, Deflated and Made of Paint

WALLACE GALLERY

Morrinsville

 

Glenn Burrell
Destination: Liquid Sunshine

 

7 October - 27 October 2015

Glenn Burrell’s eviscerated forms


pd
Mark Curtis, The Jackson Experiment as installed at the Wallace Gallery, Morrinsville. Courtesy of the Wallace Trust

Curtis Does Jackson

WALLACE GALLERY

Morrinsville

 

Mark Curtis
The Jackson Experiment

 

24 September - 4 October 2015

Glitter, sexuality and worship

pd
Bronwyn Holloway-Smith, Pioneer City Flag, Winner 2015 National Contemporary Art Award

2015 National Contemporary Art Award

WAIKATO MUSEUM TE WHARE TAONGA O WAIKATO

Hamilton

 

Group exhibition
National Contemporary Art Award


18 July - 1 November 20015

Aaron Kreisler’s selection

pd
Karl Bayly, Instructions for further development, video, 5min, looped

Counting Off the Waves

CASBAH GALLERY

Hamilton

 

Karl Bayly

Nineth Wave Theory


27 June - 11 July 2015

Watching the horizon