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John Hurrell on ‘This Year’s Walters Prize’

Congratulations to Ana Iti, the winner of the 2024 Walters Prize. The judge …

Ralph Paine on ‘This Year’s Walters Prize’

Yeah, the “international judge,” along with all his proclaimed expertise and stature… “Bonaventure …

John Hurrell on ‘This Year’s Walters Prize’

I notice that the 2024 Walters Prize judge, Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, was …

John Hurrell on ‘Shanley’s Raw Ceramics’

Too 'woo-woo' huh, Julia? You might even be right, though I'm not sure …

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Stuart Shepherd, Chicago street scene, 2019, watercolour on paper, 600 mm x 450 mm

Stuart Shepherd's Paintings on Paper

Venturing into Imaginative Narrative

CHRIS MEEK STUDIO GALLERY

Raglan

 

Stuart Shepherd
Paintings

 

27 September - 6 October 2024

Recent Posts

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Exhibition entrance. Photo: Norman Franke

Sue Roots at Artspost

ARTSPOST

Hamilton Kirikiriro

 

Sue Roots

Where the Wildflowers Are

 

27 September — 27 October 2024

JH
Michael Mahne Lamb, Structure 1 (23002-11) detail, courtesy of the artist

Optical & Spatial Ambiguities Galore

TE WAI NGUTU KĀKĀ GALLERY ONE

Auckland

 

Michael Mahne Lamb
Through Points


26 July - 12 October 2024

 
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Ruth Watson's Other Worlds (2018-2024) steel, polystyrene, cement/fibreglass mix, paint, 4435 x 2000 x 2000 mm, at Auckland Botanic Gardens. Courtesy Auckland Council Public Art. Photo credit: David St George

Pondering Our Planetary Globe

Auckland Botanic Gardens (Café Miko)

Auckland


Ruth Watson
Other Worlds


2 September - 14 October 2024

JH
Tom Kreisler, The Rowing Boat, 1997-98, acrylic on canvas, 152 x 112 cm. Courtesy of the Tom Kreisler Estate and Sumer gallery.

Out Rowing

SUMER

Auckland


Tom Kreisler
Misrepresentations


26 September - 26 October 2024

 

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Ana Iti's installation, A resilient heart like the manawa, 2024, kauri timber, steel, rust, audio field recordings. At Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki.

The Goddess: Ana Iti at the Walters Prize

EyeContact Essay #54.

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Séraphine Pick, Rider Instinct, installation view, Te Uru, 2024. Courtesy of the artist and Te Uru. Photo by Sam Hartnett.

Fabulous Loosey-Goosey Pick

TE URU WAITAKERE CONTEMPORARY GALLERY

Titirangi


Séraphine Pick
Rider Instinct


31 August - 27 October 2024

JH
From Scratch poster

Celebrating From Scratch (with the help of Justin DeHart)

AUDIO FOUNDATION

Auckland

 

Justin DeHart, From Scratch, Reuben de Lautour, Phil Dadson



Elemental 


13 September 7.30 pm

JH
Billy Apple, Billy Apple® Self-Portrait, 2020. Full colour digital print on Ilford Galerie Smooth Pearl 310gsm. Framed: 88h x 65.50w cm--as installed at Starkwhite with 5 ' 7 1/2", 1964 above it on the wall.

Young and Old Apples

STARKWHITE

Auckland

 

Billy Apple®
Progressives and Other Self-Portraits


31 August - 5 October 2024

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Installation view of Billy Apple, Institutional Critiques, Ann and John Hercus Gallery, Suter Art Gallery, 2018.

Billy Apple and The Suter Art Gallery Te Aratoi o Whakatū

EyeContact Essay #53

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Richard McWhannell, A Horse with No Name, 2018-19, oil on linen on board, 1220 x 1540 mm

Compelling Facial Physiognomies

SEASON

Auckland

 

Richard McWhannell

Songs to the Suns

 

28 August - 21 September 2024

JH
Simon Morris, Pot form !, 2024, clay, variable

Playing Around the Perimeter

TWO ROOMS

Auckland

 

Simon Morris & David Thomas
We move through life…perceiving

 

23 August - 28 September 2024

JH
Installation view of Rain at Fox Jensen McCrory

A Meteorological Thematic

FOX JENSEN MCCRORY

Auckland

 

Eight artists
Rain


17 August - 28 September 2024

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John Nixon, Black Monochrome With Violin, 1993, enamel and violin on hardboard. Chartwell Collection. Courtesy of Te Uru. Photo by Sam Hartnett

Sonic Art from the Chartwell Collection

TE URU WAITAKERE CONTEMPORARY GALLERY

Titirangi

 

A dozen artists
Milkstars: Sound Constellations in the Chartwell Collection



17 August - 20 October 2024

JH
Front cover

Curnow on Lye

Bouncy Castle and Govett-Brewster Art Gallery

Auckland

 

Wystan Curnow
Stopped Short: Writings on Len Lye

 

Edited by Robert Leonard

 

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View of Richard Killeen's Sampler (9391), 2024; Sampler (9392), 2024; Sampler (9393), 2024 as installed at Ivan Anthony Gallery.

Ten Oblongs Dense With Killeen Images

IVAN ANTHONY GALLERY

Auckland

 

Richard Killeen
Sampler



3rd August - 31st August

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On the floor, Sung Hwan Bobby Park, BTM Ding Deng Dong, 2024. Paintings by Reece King on the walls. Both part of Aotearoa Contemporary, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, 2024 (installation view)

The New Tāmaki Makaurau Triennial

AUCKLAND ART GALLERY TOI O TAMAKI

Auckland Tāmaki Makaurau

 

Twenty-eight national artists
Aotearoa Contemporary

 

6 July - 20 October 2024

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Brett Graham, Ka Wheeke, 2024, as installed at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki.

This Year’s Walters Prize

AUCKLAND ART GALLERY TOI O TAMAKI

Auckland

 

Brett Graham, Owen Connors, Ana Iti, Juliet Carpenter
2024 Walters Prize


6 July 2024 - 20 October 2024

JH
Installation view of Nichola Shanley, The Agnes Dei Collecion, upstairs at Two Rooms, Auckland. Photo: Sam Hartnett

Shanley’s Raw Ceramics

TWO ROOMS

Auckland

 

Nichola Shanley
The Agnes Dei Collection

 


19 July -17 August 2024

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Installational view of Marie Le Lievre's Loot isms exhibition at Two Rooms, Auckland. Photo: Sam Hartnett

Liquid Motion on Hold

TWO ROOMS

Auckland

 

Marie Le Lievre
Loot isms



19 July - 17 August 2024

APW

Andrew Paul Wood looks at Ian Wedde’s latest Collection

Wellington

 

Ian Wedde

The Social Space of the Essay 2003-2023


Te Herenga Waka University Press 2024
RRP $50

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Installation view of Bill Culbert: A Bright White Light. at Fox Jensen McCrory

Glorious Light and Shiny Dark

FOX JENSEN MCCRORY

Auckland

 

Bill Culbert
A Bright White Light

 

6 July - 10 August 2024

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Phil Dadson, October Mantra - 31 Praise Names, 2023, acrylic and graphite on acid/lignin-free 300gsm cold pressed cotton fibre paper,31 sheets, 415 x 595 mm. Photo: Sait Akkirman

Dadson Paperworks, Sculpture and Videos

TRISH CLARK GALLERY

Auckland

 

Phil Dadson
It’s Never All Black and White


12 July - 7 September 2024

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