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Janneen Love, Manuere, mixed media, 2009
Janneen Love, Manuere,
mixed media, 2009

Current exhibitions

Pūmahara

Curators: Natalie Couch and Janneen Love

24 June to 18 July 2009
Opening: Tuesday 23 June 5-7pm

Pūmahara is a community Matariki installation in partnership with the Auckland Museum, curatored by Natalie Couch and Janneen Love.

Matariki marks a time of communion with ancestors and other realms. It is also a time for art making and sharing.

Little Eye refers to our tipuna/the whetu and/or the vortex through which the korero is passed/shared. Matariki referred to as small eyes - Matariki kanohi iti. Speak as in a kind of communion; a reo of sorts. Communion with our Tipuna. Artist's expressions to complement this potent season and to act as conduits into the worlds of Te Ao Maori.

This collective installation will include art works made in the recent Artstation wananga, featuring fired raku clay works, silkscreen prints and other printed works.

The community will be invited to add Tiki, Manaia, and Manu to this month long exhibition made at Action Stations within the Auckland Museum and holiday programmes at Artstation. These are significant creatures to Matariki as they travel between the realms.

Pūmahara is part of Auckland's regional Matariki Festival 09. For information on all the events and activities happening during the festival visit the Matariki website (www.matarikifestival.org.nz).

For information on Matariki Action Stations at the Auckland War Memorial Museum visit their website (www.aucklandmuseum.com/1028/celebrate-matariki).


It's a Draw

Monique Redmond, "Living in Mt Albert"
Monique Redmond,
"Living in Mt Albert"

Artists include: Mark Braunias, Karl Chitham & Emma Smith, Gina Ferguson, Simon Gamble, Kristy Gorman, Frances Hansen, Miriam Harris, Hadley Hodgkinson, Lonnie Hutchinson, Susan Jowsey, Karen Krisp, Esther Leigh, Toni Mackinnon, Allen McDonald, Kim Meek, Miranda Playfair, Marie Shannon, Monique Redmond & Janet Lilo, Mandy Thomsett-Taylor, Sam Walters, Marcus Williams

29 July to 15 August 2009
Opening night: Tuesday 28 July, 5pm to 7pm

'It's a Draw' brings together a diverse range of drawing practitioners including photographers, painters, sculptors and animators.

This multi talented group of artists will highlight 'drawing' as an individual component in any art practice regardless of the artist’s particular genre.

The parameters of drawing are stretched by the wide range of methods and approaches used.

To coincide with 'It's a Draw', artists Toni MacKinnon and Mandy Thomsett Taylor will run a dynamic drawing workshop on Saturday 8 August.

See Painting and drawing (283) to for more information >>


Wendhi Gale, DOG, 2008
Wendhi Gale, DOG, 2008

Motion Arts Festival Winners

In association with Expat Arts

19 to 29 August 2009
Opening: Tuesday 18 August 5pm to 7pm

Motion is the theme for this painting, photography and sculpture exhibition. This mixed media exhibition will show case eight winners chosen by the public at the Motion 2009 Festival.

Motion will be interpreted in many different ways. "For the expat artist it could mean the idea of moving through different cultures and lands while for New Zealand artists it could be interpreted through shape, colour and form," says organiser, Edward Pye.

Expat Arts is an international online magazine and arts oriented community.

For more information on the Expat Arts Motion 2009 Festival, visit the Motion Festival website (www.motionarts.co.nz/Home.html).


Past exhibitions

Julie Downie, Untitled
Julie Downie, Untitled

Artificialia, Naturalia & Mirabilia

Artists include: Julie Downie, Heyes Johnson, Faye Norman and Haruhiko Sameshima

3 to 20 June 2009
Opening: 5pm to 7pm, Tuesday 2 June 2009
Artist talk: Saturday 13 June 2pm 2009

Artificialia, Naturalia & Mirabilia is a group photographic exhibition that refers to the classifications of early museum collections. The artificial and the natural, along with the marvellous were used as ways to categorise objects in such collections.

Each photographer in this exhibition takes a different approach to these three classifications, by looking at the display and arrangement of objects. Thus, putting into question ways of looking and thinking about objects.

Join exhibitors Julie Downie and Faye Norman in a conversation about the exhibition, on Saturday 13 June at 2pm. This exhibition is part of the Auckland Festival of Photography 2009.


Daniel Munn and Aaron Smith

Daniel Munn, Biz Collection Kiwi Silver, polo shirt with digital transfer print, 2008
Daniel Munn, Biz Collection Kiwi
Silver, polo shirt with digital
transfer print, 2008

13 to 23 May 2009
Opening: 5pm to 7pm, Tuesday 12 May 2009

Daniel Munn and Aaron Smith present new works in sculpture, video and painting that comment on popular culture and tourism.

"Aucklanders are constantly introducing their city to visitors and international communities," says Munn. Munn's work responds to Auckland's highly visible tourism industry by adopting commercial objects such as the light box sign and the screen-printed polo shirt.

Similarly, Smith addresses popular culture by reworking popular visual devices such as logos, magazine covers and video. Smith's works references the universal task of creating a unique identity out of the multitude of images and experiences encountered in everyday life.


Andrew de Freitas, 2009
Andrew de Freitas, 2009

Aotea Square hoardings artwork project

Artists include: Joy Chang, Chae Hyon Cho, Andrew de Freitas, Jane Lee, Lucy Tien and John Ward Knox.

15 to 21 April 2009

The Public Art Team at Auckland City Council invited recent Elam graduates to propose artworks for the hoardings around the Aotea Square redevelopment. The challenge was to provide proposals for a surface of 2 x 25 meters. They received seven proposals, of which two will be selected for realisation. These proposals are on display at the Artstation gallery.


"Is there anybody here who'll listen to my story?"

Is there anybody here?
Is there anybody here?
A story telling project

26 March to 8 April 2009
Opening: 5pm to 7pm, Wednesday 25 March 2009

"Is there anybody here who'll listen to my story?" is an installation made up of thousands of images, an experiment in telling moving stories.

This project engages with story telling through imagery. "When images are parted from the backgrounds they have been caught in, sense shifts in unpredictable ways. They become moving images. Our stories are set in motion, as are our past/present/future," says artist, Trish Scott.

You are very welcome to take part in this installation by adding, making or rearranging the image stories, you find in the gallery.


Updated May 2009

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