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View information about our current exhibitions below.
You can also find out how to submit an exhibition proposal.
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Janneen Love, Manuere,
mixed media, 2009 |
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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
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Monique Redmond,
"Living in Mt Albert" |
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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 >>
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| Wendhi Gale, DOG, 2008 |
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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
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| Julie Downie, Untitled |
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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
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Daniel Munn, Biz Collection Kiwi
Silver, polo shirt with digital
transfer print, 2008 |
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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.
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| Andrew de Freitas, 2009 |
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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?"
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| Is there anybody here? |
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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
