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Ava Seymour's installation of Around the Day  in Eighty Worlds as installed at Mercy Pictures. Detail. Photo: Sam Hartnett

Seymour’s Feline Collages

MERCY PICTURES

Auckland

 

Ava Seymour
Around the Day in Eighty Worlds

 

10 February - 3 March 2018

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Christopher Ulutupu's The Romantic Picturesque at play_station

In Whose Eyes?

play_station

Wellington

 

Christopher Ulutupu
The Romantic Picturesque

 

24 January - 22 February 2018

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Stezaker in Codex

John Stezaker: Lost World


Catalogue for the touring exhibition curated by Robert Leonard

All touring works illustrated

 

Ridinghouse, UK, 2017


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Martin Poppelwell, Jerusalem III, 2018, paint on linen, 2000 mm x 1750 mm

Poppelwell in Christchurch

THE CENTRAL

Christchurch

 

Martin Poppelwell
 EFG

 

1 February - 4 March, 2018

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Carbon, as installed at Fox Jensen McCory

Elemental & Versatile Carbon

FOX JENSEN MCCRORY

Auckland

 

De la Mora, Umberg, Allen, Metlikovec, Levy, Albers
Carbon

 

7 February - 10 March 2018

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Roger Key's exhibition Minor Events as installed at Wallace Gallery

Roger Key’s History Paintings

WALLACE GALLERY

Morrinsville

 

Roger Key
Minor Events

 

3 February - 25 February 2018


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Tiffany Singh 's Collaboration is the Future as installed at Melanie Roger.

Singh at Roger

MELANIE ROGER GALLERY

Auckland

 

Tiffany Singh
Collaboration is the Future

 

31 January - 24 February 2018

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Role models, curated by Rob McKenzie, as installed at Hopkinson Mossman

Unpicking Identity

HOPKINSON MOSSMAN

Auckland

 

Bittenbender, Cantor, McCamley, Strau
Role Models


26 January - 24 February 2018

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Jacqueline Fahey: Say Something! as installed at Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu

Fahey Survey in Christchurch

CHRISTCHURCH ART GALLERY TE PUNA O WAIWHETU

Christchurch

 

Jacqueline Fahey
Say Something!


22 Nov 2017 - 11 March 2018


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Gary Peters, A Slow Take, 2017 (installation view) commissioned by Te Tuhi, Auckland. Photo by Sam Hartnett

Two Site-Specific Paintings

TE TUHI CENTRE FOR THE ARTS

Pakuranga

 

Gary Peters
A Slow Take

 

18 November 2017 - 25 February 2018

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Installation at Te Tuhi of Shannon Te Ao's With the sun aglow, I have my pensive moods. Photo: Sam Hartnett

Shannon Te Ao at Te Tuhi

TE TUHI CENTRE FOR THE ARTS

Pakuranga

 

Shannon Te Ao
With the sun aglow, I have my pensive moods


18 Nov 2017 - 25 Feb 2018

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Dame Cheryll Sotheran in 2007. Photo: Brett Phibbs. Image courtesy of NZ Herald

Dame Cheryll Sotheran: 11 Oct. 1945 - 30 Dec. 2017

Dame Cheryll Sotheran obit

Her contributions


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Kushana Bush's The Burning Hours at Re Uru. Photo: Sam Hartnett

Kushana Bush in Titirangi

TE URU WAITAKERE CONTEMPORARY GALLERY

Titirangi

 

Kushana Bush

The Burning Hours


25 November 2017 - 18 February 2018

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Anna Rankin’s Billboards of Innovative Poetry

TE TUHI CENTRE FOR THE ARTS

Auckland

 

Anna Rankin
hail to

 

18 November 2017 - 25 February 2018

A World Undone (2012). 
Single-channel video, HD, 16:9, colour, silent (12 mins). 
Chartwell Collection, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, purchased 2012. Image courtesy of the artist

Pay Dirt

THE DOWSE ART MUSEUM

Lower Hutt

 

Nicholas Mangan
Limits to Growth

 

19 August - 12 November 2017


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Gordon Walters: New Vision.  Installation Dunedin Public Art Gallery 2017.  Tautahi (1970) is on the left. Photographer: Iain Frengley.  Courtesy of the Gordon Walters Estate.

Difference and Repetition

DUNEDIN PUBLIC ART GALLERY

Dunedin

 

Gordon Walters
New Vision


11 November 2017 - 8 April 2018

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A City Is Not a City if…..

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Your Hotel Brain, installation image, courtesy of the Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu.

It Was Twenty Years Ago Today….

CHRISTCHURCH ART GALLERY TE PUNA O WAIWHETU

Christchurch

 

Group exhibition
Your Hotel Brain


13 May 2017 - 8 July 2018


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New Len Lye Anthology

The Long Dream of Waking: New Perspectives on Len Lye


Edited by Paul Brobbel, Wystan Curnow and Roger Horrocks

 

Canterbury University Press, 2017

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f*k u I’m #doingme: safe places for unsafe ideas

EyeContact Essay #24
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Installation view of Apparitions: the photograph and its image at Adam Art Gallery Te Pātaka Toi, Victoria University of Wellington, 14 October – 17 December 2017. Photo: Shaun Matthews

The Big Bang

ADAM ART GALLERY TE PATAKA TOI

Wellington

 

Group exhibition
Apparitions: the photograph and its image

 

14 October - 17 December 2017