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Brian Campbell's Hoof versus Hand as installed at Gisborne's  Tairawhiti Musem.

Campbell’s Kingdom

TAIRAWHITI MUSEUM

Gisborne

 

Brian Campbell
Hoof versus Hand


17 April - 28 June 2015

A satirical vision

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Super Wairua's installation of The River Goblin "Te Awa Tupua" at WHMilbank Gallery

Packing a Punch

WHMILBANK GALLERY

Whanganui


Isiaha Barlow, Tia Huia Ranginui, Aaron Te Rangiao and Sonny Barlow
The River Goblin “Te Awa Tupua”: a Super Wairua production

 

6 March - 21 April 2015.

Super Wairua collective

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John B Turner image from Te Atatu Me

Marilyn’s “Friend”

Turner Photobooks (Beijing) and PhotoForum Inc (Auckland) 2015

 

John B Turner
Te Atatu Me: photographs of an urban New Zealand village

essay by historian Grant Cole
176 pp, 168 photographs

157 images selected from 20,000


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Greta Anderson, Day for Night fence, Takapuna, 2014/2015. Image courtesy of McNamara Gallery

Heart of Darkness

McNAMARA GALLERY

Whanganui

 

Recent photographs by Greta Anderson
Day for night (stills for The Members, a film about a benign cult)


6 February - 27 February 2015

Stills for an imaginary movie

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Mr Who?

Mr Turner, a 2014 film by Mike Leigh, in general release.

Looking at Mr. Turner.

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Canon Hakaraia Pahewa, Untitled photograph, not dated

Collecting the Evidence

TAIRAWHITI MUSEUM

Gisborne

 

Canon Hakaraia Pahewa
Cameraman with a Mission


25 October 2014 - ongoing

NZ photographs from first two decades of twentieth century


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Photo by Julian Ward

Streetwise

Epial publications

Photographs by Julian Ward

 

Wellington Streets

 

Wellington, 2014

Julian Ward’s fourth book

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Installation of the Portage Ceramic Awards 2014 at Te Uru. Photo: Sam Hartnett

Cubism in Titirangi

TE URU WAITAKERE CONTEMPORARY GALLERY

Titirangi

 

Mitchell & Stout


The Te Uru building

Waitakere’s new gallery

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The Social Life of Things at Auckland Art Gallery, Ground Floor corridor

Life, The Universe and Everything

AUCKLAND ART GALLERY TOI O TAMAKI

Auckland

 

Photographs from the Gallery Collection and the Chartwell Collection
The Social Life of Things


18 September 2014 - 7 June 2015

Profiling photography


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Samantha Matthews, Door, Senior Citizens Centre Balclutha, 2012

Photography’s Spaces

SPACE STUDIO & GALLERY

Whanganui

 

Samantha Matthews
Don’t quite belong

 

20 September - 3rd October 2014

The room as subject

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Installation of Peter Peryer: A Careful Eye at The Dowse Art Museum. Photo: John Lake

Carving the Granite

THE DOWSE ART MUSEUM

Lower Hutt

 

Peter Peryer

A Careful Eye

 

23 August - 23 November 2014

Master of the obvious / poet of the elusive

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Greta Anderson, Steamroller, 2000, pigment print

Making the Cut

TWO ROOMS

Auckland

Adams, Anderson, Boreham, Clarke, Hartnett and Makea-Pardington

Outer Space


22 August - 20 September 2014

The ‘glue’ of photography group shows


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installation shot showing five glass works by Dominic Burrell, 2014

Lifelike

Quay Gallery (upstairs at 31 Taupo Quay)

Whanganui

Work by graduates of the UCoL/Whanganui School of the Arts and School of Design
Degrees of Remembrance

1 February - 10 August 2014

At the temporary Sarjeant location

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At Rest, Capt Matt Gauldie, 2006, oil on canvas, New Zealand Army Art Collection

Commemorating WW1

NEW ZEALAND PORTRAIT GALLERY

Wellington

 

Historic works
Facing the Front: New Zealand’s enduring First World War

 

12 June - 24 August 2014

Dubious pumping of ‘national identity’?

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History in the Taking: 40 Years of PhotoForum - installed at Gus Fisher. Curated by Geoffrey H Short and  Nina Seja. Photo by Sam Hartnett.

PhotoForum Survey

GUS FISHER GALLERY

Auckland

 

Group show
History in the Taking: 40 years of PhotoForum

6 June - 28 June 2014

Four decades of nurturing photography


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Installation of winter/winter in Plaza. Photo: Sam Hartnett

The Hand of Man

PLAZA

Auckland

 

Conor Clarke and Sam Hartnett
winter/winter

 

5 June - 21 June 2014

Two photographers

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JK Russ, Drawing with Legs, 2014, cut paper wall installation. Courtesy of PaulNache Gallery

$ticking It

PAULNACHE

Gisborne

 

JK Russ
$nake Bite Ki$$

 

1 May - 24 May 2014

Collage in Gisborne

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McLeavey Sat Here as installed at City Gallery. Installation photo: Shaun Waugh

Playing to the Gallery

CITY GALLERY WELLINGTON TE WHARE TOI

Wellington

 

Group exhibition
McLeavey Sat Here
Curated by Robert Leonard

 

5 April - 15 June 2014.

The role of the curator


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Andrea Gardner's Picnic as installed at Corben Estate Art Centre.

Weird and Wonderful

CORBAN ESTATE ARTS CENTRE

Henderson

 

Andrea Gardner
Picnic

 

18 April - 18 May 2014

What kind of photograph?

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Graham Wilton and Michael Bajko's Onslow College Sports Day 1967 at Photospace

School Snaps

PHOTOSPACE

Wellington

 

Graham Wilton and Michael Bajko
Onslow College Sports Day 1967

 

4th April - 29th April 2014

Back to March ‘67

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Paul Johns, Akaroa  30. 09. 2012     Jessie Buckland,   Akaroa  Protected  30. 9. 11

Memory & Commemoration

McNAMARA GALLERY

Whanganui

 

Paul Johns
Christchurch likes to call itself “most English city”

 

7 March - 28 March 2014

The work of Paul Johns in Christchurch