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Installation of Candice Breitz's 'I'm Your Man (A Portrait of Leonard Cohen) at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki. Gift of the Friends of Auckland Art Gallery, 2020

Candice Breitz Looks At Leonard Cohen

AUCKLAND ART GALLERY TOI O TAMAKI

Auckland

 

Candice Breitz
I’m Your Man (A Portrait of Leonard Cohen)


31 August 2020 - 6 December 2020

AK
Installation of Terminal, City Gallery Wellington, 2020.  Photo: Harry Culy

Collective Dreaming

CITY GALLERY WELLINGTON TE WHARE TOI

Wellington

 

International Group Show
Terminal



15 August, 2020 - 14 February, 2021

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Museum of True History (MOTH) in collaboration with Karl Chitham: Ipu korikori; Ipu pohutukawa; Ipu ngutu kākā-- all 2020, found placemats, watercolour, acrylic, 190 x 217 x 4 mm

An Unusual ‘Collaboration’

LAREE PAYNE GALLERY

Hamilton

 

Museum of True History (MOTH) in collaboration with Karl Chitham, & Emily Rumney

Nature Machine


30 September - 24 October 2020


JH
Installation of Gemma Smith's Thin Air at Starkwhite. Photo: Sam Hartnett

Glorious (Almost Undetectable) Paint

STARKWHITE

Auckland

 

Gemma Smith
Thin Air


6 October - 7 November 2020

JH
Installation of Kate Newby and Paul P.'s  As Long As It Goes on street level Michael Lett

Newby and P. Installation

MICHAEL LETT

Auckland

 

Kate Newby and Paul P.
As Long As You Want


2 October - 31 October 2020

JH
Gary McMillan's Transmission as installed at Fox Jensen McCrory

McMillan’s Loop

FOX JENSEN MCCRORY

Auckland

 

Gary McMillan
Transmission


8 October - 14 November 2020


JH

Constructing Selves as Brands

Anthony Byrt
The Mirror Steamed Over: Love and Pop in London, 1962


Paperback, 312 pp,
Colour and b/w illustrations


Auckland University Press, June 2020

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Charles Buenconsejo, 2016 – 2020, 2020 (installation view) digital inkjet print, detail, commissioned by Te Tuhi, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland. Photo by Sam Hartnett

Mosaic of Documentation Thumbnails

TE TUHI CENTRE FOR THE ARTS

Pakuranga


Charles Buenconsejo
2016—2020, 2020


5 September - 29 November 2020

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Winner of the Award: Reece King, Good Socks, 2020, acrylic/enamel on canvas, 1000 x 800 x 40 mm

Avoiding Enfeeblement

The Atrium Waikato Wintec

Hamilton

 

Selected Entries

The New Zealand Painting and Printmaking Award 2020

 


3 October - 5 October 2020


JH

Zac Langdon-Pole Publication

Zac Langdon-Pole: Constellations
Art Journey #5

 

Ed. BMW Group Munich
Essays, introductions and interviews


Published by Hatje Cantz 2019

JH

Layered ‘Abstraction’

Te Tuhi Billboards

Pakuranga

 

Ella Sutherland
Keys to The Book of the City of Ladies

 


6 September - 29 November 2020

SH
A view of Wenderholm, from near the summit of Maungatauhoro. Photo by SH.

Waiting In The Wood

EyeContact Essay #40


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Productless (Unconsciously Political) Advertising

Three digital billboards in central Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland

 

Meg Porteous

The Gift

 

28 September - 25 October 2020

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In centre, Wesley John Fourie, Blankets for Angels 2 (2020), mixed fibres on wool blanket.

Blissful Amorous Ecstasy

NEVER PROJECT SPACE

Hamilton

 

Alice Alva and Wesley John Fourie
Into the Centre of Love with You


28 August - 19 September 2020

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Elisabeth Pointon, MADE YOU LOOK., 2020, illuminated LED sign, 360 x 230 x 70 mm

TO NOWHERE?”

JHANA MILLERS

Wellington

 

Elisabeth Pointon
WHERE TO FROM HERE

 

10 September - 2 October 2020


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Emil McAvoy, The National Basement, Old Government House, University of Auckland, Image: Archives New Zealand, The Department of Internal Affairs Te Tari Taiwhenua: AAQT6401-A51176

Marketing a Mythical ‘New Zealand’

Old Government House (in the University of Auckland)

Auckland

 

Emil McAvoy
The National Basement



27 July - 25 September 2020

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Installation of Kim Lowe's The Silence of the Brush at Ilam Campus Gallery

Silent Calligraphy

ILAM CAMPUS GALLERY

Christchurch

 

Kim Lowe
The Silence of the Brush

 


17 July - 14 August 2020

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Installation of Thinking about Thinking about the Future at Te Uru. Photo: Sam Hartnett.

A Post-Covid Future?

TE URU WAITAKERE CONTEMPORARY GALLERY

Titirangi

 

Group show
Thinking About Thinking About the Future

 


27 June - 27 September 2020


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Installation of Simon Ingram's GAN Painting at Gow Langsford. Photo: Sam Hartnett

Gloriously Ambiguous Ingram

GOW LANGSFORD GALLERY

Auckland

 

Simon Ingram
GAN Painting


9 September - 26 September 2020

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Installation of Grace Wright's Alpha Paradise exhibition at Gow Langsford.

Exuberantly Rococo Wright

GOW LANGSFORD GALLERY

Auckland

 

Grace Wright
Alpha Paradise

 

9 September - 26 September 2020

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Tyne Gordon, Crag, 2020, oil on aluminium, pewter frame, 278 mm x 230 mm x 18 mm. Image courtesy of Weasel Gallery, photo by Mark Hamilton

Romantic Murk

LAREE PAYNE GALLERY

Hamilton

 

Tyne Gordon
Yore


2 September - 26 September 2020