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JH
Will Cooke, Every Wall Is A Door (Gate), 2020, primer and acrylic on aluminium, 1216 x 1016 mm

Slyly Complex Cooke Paintings

STARKWHITE

Auckland

 

Will Cooke
Every Wall is a Door

 


15 January 2021 - 9 February 2021

JH
Claudia Kogach,i Obaachan during the lockdown, Wahiawā, Hawaiʻi, 2020 (installation view) tufted rugs commissioned by Te Tuhi, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland. Photo by Sam Hartnett

Tufted Rugs Present Domestic Narrative

TE TUHI CENTRE FOR THE ARTS

Pakuranga

 

Claudia Kogachi
Obaachan during the lockdown, Wahiawā, Hawai’i



5 December 2020 - 7 February 2021

JH
Darcell Apelu, A Death of Prosperity, 2020 (installation view) Perspex, timber, water--commissioned by Te Tuhi, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland. Photo by Sam Hartnett

Darcell Apelu’s Satirical Fountain

TE TUHI CENTRE FOR THE ARTS

Pakuranga

 

Darcell Apelu
A Death of Prosperity


5 December 2020 - 7 February 2021


JH
Finn Ferrier, Soft Garniture, 2020, detail, knitted cord

Finn Ferrier’s Knitted Goblets

TE URU WAITAKERE CONTEMPORARY GALLERY

Titirangi

 

Finn Ferrier
Soft Garniture


5 December 2020 - 14 February 2021

JH
Still from Angelica Mesiti, Mother Tongue, 2017, 2 channel video installation. Duration: 18 minutes.

Angelica Mesiti Video Installation

AUCKLAND ART GALLERY TOI O TAMAKI

Auckland

 

Angelica Mesiti
Mother Tongue

 

19 December 2020 - 7 February 2021

JH

Songsataya’s Fishy ‘Murmurations’

The Lightship (Bledisloe Wharf)

Auckland

 

Sorawit Songsataya
Come Up For Air

 

10 December 2020 - 4 February 2021.


RP

An Email to a Friend: Notes from the Fallout

EyeContact Essay #42

NF
In the centre: Rawiri Ma, George Floyd (Hamiltonians marching for Hope and Justice), photographs on canvas, readymades, mixed media

Xmas Arbor Art at Kirikiriroa

Meteor Theatre

Hamilton

 

Community project

Trees at the Meteor

 

13 December- 18 December, 2020

GB
Cheryl Lucas, White Maze, ceramic, 240 x 170 x 170 mm. Photo: Sarah Rolands

Cheryl Lucas Ceramics

THE NATIONAL

Christchurch

 

Cheryl Lucas
Sod Off

 

17 November - 5 December 2020


JH
James Ross, Vista (2), 2020, oil on 3 panels, 47.5 x 55 cm. Photo: Sam Hartnett

Ross Gives Thanks

TWO ROOMS

Auckland

 

James Ross
Constructed Forms - After Mondrian

 

27 November - 23 December 2020

JH
Jonny Niesche, Poikilos, installtion view, Starkwhite, November 2020. Photo: Sam Hartnett

Jonny Niesche Installation

STARKWHITE

Auckland

 

Jonny Niesche
Poikilos


17 November - 15 December 2020

JH
Roger Boyce, In My Tiny Village, 2020, oil on board, 300 x 350 mm

Peopleless Spaces; In Forum about Meaning

{Suite} AUCKLAND

Auckland

 

Roger Boyce
Arena


18 November -  12 December 2020


TH

What Went Down at Mercy Pictures.

EyeContact Essay #41

JH
Kimsooja, A Needle Woman, 2009, video performance, 25 mins, loop. Still. Courtesy of FMAC, Axel Vervoordt Gallery and Kimsooja Studio

Foot on the Brake

TE TUHI CENTRE FOR THE ARTS

Pakuranga

 

International group show of sixteen artists
DE-celerate



5 September - 29 November 2020

pd
Dick Frizzell, Man Digging, 2008, oil on board, 55 x 55 cm

Frizzell Show & Book

AESTHETE GALLERY

Hamilton

 

Solo survey
Dick Frizzell


6 November - 28 November 2020


JH
Installation of Joyce Campbell's 'On the Last Afternoon',  looking Galleries Two, Three and the Foyer. Photo: Sam Hartnett

Compact Joyce Campbell Survey

TE URU WAITAKERE CONTEMPORARY GALLERY

Titirangi

 

Joyce Campbell
On the Last Afternoon: Disrupted Ecologies and the Work of Joyce Campbell


19 September - 22 November 2020

JH
Wayne Youle, the nurturer, 2020, mixed media, collection of the artist. Photo: Sam Hartnett

Youle on McCahon and Art History

TE URU WAITAKERE CONTEMPORARY GALLERY

Titirangi

 

Wayne Youle
Elevation


26 September - 29 November 2020

JH
Installation of Rebecca Wallis' With the Absent Other at Scott Lawrie.

Wallis Abstractions

SCOTT LAWRIE GALLERY

Auckland

 

Rebecca Wallis
With the Absent Other

 

31 October - 21 November 2020


JH

Hoist That Rag

MERCY PICTURES

Auckland

 

Mercy Pictures
People of Colour


16 October - 7 November 2020

pd
Denys Watkins, Frisky, 2020, watercolour on paper, (framed) 321 x 398 x 38 mm

Denys Watkins at Weasel

LAREE PAYNE GALLERY

Auckland

 

Denys Watkins
Nancy’s Big Day Out


22 October - 21 November 2020

JH
Alicia Frankovich, AQI2020, (performance documentation), 2020. Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, commissioned 2020. Supported by the Contemporary Benefactors of Auckland Art Gallery.

Frankovich Performance

AUCKLAND ART GALLERY TOI O TAMAKI

Auckland

 

Alicia Frankovich
AQI2020


21 October - 8 November 2020