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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

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Carl Sydow Publication

Carl Sydow
Sydow: Tomorrow Never Knows

Text: Peter Vangioni

Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu, 2017


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Kirsty Lillico, cotton, pine dowel, stainless steel cable, 1.9 x 1.3 m: Fig 1 & 2; Fig 3 & 4; Fig 5 & 6

Vicious Circles

TOINEKE ART GALLERY

Wellington

 

Kirsty Lillico
Vicious Circles

 

17 November 2017 - 9 December 2017.

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Michael Hight, Mount Hutt Station, oil on linen, 2014

Dunedin and the Art of Ruins

EyeContact Essay #23
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Chris McElroen, Troy Hourie, Box Collective, Static Apnea. Photo: Chris McElroen

The Arts and Free Diving In Dialogue

SILO 6

Auckland

 

Multi-media group exhibition

dEEP ANATOMY

 

25 November - 3 December 2017


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Installation of Denys Watkins' Dynamo Hum exhibition in the Gus Fisher. Photo: Sam Hartnett

Denys Watkins Painting Sampler and Book

GUS FISHER GALLERY

Auckland

Denys Watkins: Paintings 2004-2016
Dynamo Hum

17 November - 15 December 2017

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Mark Alsweiler, Positive Paths

Here Comes The Sun

PRECINCT 35

Wellington

 

Mark Alsweiler
The Sun Department

 

26 November - 9 December 2017

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Tanya Busse and Emilija Škarnulytė, Hollow Earth, 2013, HD video, 08:15, as installed at Artspace. Photo: Sam Hartnett. Image courtesy of the artists and Artspace.

Before It Happens

ARTSPACE AOTEAROA

Auckland

 

International group video show

Ex-ante


27 October - 22 December 2017


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Poster image

Thick Cinema

Screenings in three cities

Amundsen, Di Stefano, Pieters, Hamilton, Campbell

Thick Cinema

Christchurch Art Gallery, 25 August 2017; Embassy Cinema, Wellington, 1 November 2017; and Te Uru, Auckland, 12 December 2017.

 

 

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Roy Good - Diamond Matrix at Chambers

Good is Good

Chambers@241

Christchurch

 

Roy Good
Diamond Matrix

 

21 November - 9 December 2017

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Michael Stevenson, Serene Velocity in Practice: MC510/CS183, 2017. Commissioned by Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki with commissioning partners the Biennale of Sydney 2018 and Monash University museum of Art /MUMA. Photograph: Jennifer French

Michael Stevenson at AAG

AUCKLAND ART GALLERY TOI O TAMAKI

Auckland

 

Michael Stevenson
Serene Velocity in Practice: MC510/CS183


12 November 2017 - 6 February 2017