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Justine Walker, 28 Days, 2017, video, 9 min 33 sec. Image courtesy of play_station, photographer Hugh Chesterman

The Vulnerability Superpower

play_station

Wellington

 

Justine Walker
Where our bodies hit the world

 

5 October - 28 October 2017

JH
Phil Dadson: Notation  Series #6 (961), painting; Tonethrone, instrument; HEADSUP@961: 23.8.16, projection

Dadson at Headlands

AUDIO FOUNDATION

Auckland

 

Phil Dadson
Shiver Me Timbres: Solos and Collaborations with a Multi-Voiced Instrument

 

5 October - 28 October 2017

JH
Alexis Hunter, Untitled, undated and unsigned, ink and watercolour on paper, 275 x 380 mm

Alexis Hunter Sampler

TRISH CLARK GALLERY

Auckland

 

Alexis Hunter
Estate

 

6 October - 11 November 2017


JH
Michael Stevenson, Inside the keep Out Shed', c.1988, graphite on paper, 112 x 149 mm

Michael Stevenson Drawings

MICHAEL LETT

Auckland

 

Michael Stevenson
Inside the Keep Out Shed

 

4 October - 4 November 2018

Still from 'The Square'. Director: Ruben Östlund. 2017. Image C/- NZIFF: www.nziff.co.nz

Utopian, Player, Radical, Other

EyeContact Essay #21

Representations of Artists in the NZIFF

JH
Installation of John Yau and Kathy Barry's Midway, at Objectspace, Auckland. Photo: Sam Hartnett

Collaborating Artists’ Book

OBJECTSPACE

Auckland

 

Kathy Barry & John Yau
Midway: A Collectif Génération Collaboration

 

30 September-26 November 2017


JH

Frances Hodgkins Fellowship

Priscilla Pitts & Andrea Hotere

Undreamed of…50 years of the Frances Hodgkins Fellowship

Essays, multiple biographies and foreword by Priscilla Pitts, Andrea Hotere, Joanne Campbell, Sharon Dell


Otago University Press, September 2017

JH
Christopher Braddock and Olivia Webb, Skull Acoustics, 2017--part of the AUT Symposium: Art and Performace held at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki. Photo: Olivia Webb

The Vagaries of Communication

AUCKLAND ART GALLERY TOI O TAMAKI

Auckland

 

Chris Braddock and Olivia Webb
Skull Acoustics

 

7 October 2017: 12.20 pm

wf
Tony de Lautour, Modern Letters 7, 2017, oil & acrylic on canvas, 2500 x 1900 mm, courtesy of the artist and Nadene Milne Gallery

De Lautour at Milne

NADENE MILNE GALLERY

Christchurch

 

Tony de Lautour
Letters of Intent

 

23 September - 14 October

 


APW
Martin Awa Clarke Langdon, Untitled (mediated view)

Ngāi Tahu Strut Their Stuff

CENTRE OF CONTEMPORARY ART TOI MOROKI

Ōtautahi/Christchurch

 

Ngāi Tahu artists in Residence
Paemanu: Nohoaka Toi

 

8 September - 26 November 2017

JH
Installation of Campbell Patterson's Nau Sea works at Michael Letts.

Moods of Infinity

MICHAEL LETT

Auckland

 

Campbell Patterson
Moods of Infinity

 

2 September - 30 September 2017

Xun Cao, Untitled [detail], inkjet on paper. Courtesy of the artist. On view in the exhibition The Tomorrow People, Adam Art Gallery Te Pātaka Toi, 22 July – 1 October 2017. Photo: Emil McAvoy.

Futures Trading

ADAM ART GALLERY TE PATAKA TOI

Wellington

 

National survey of millennial artists
The Tomorrow People


22 July - 1 October 2017


JH
Luke Willis Thompson, autoportrait, 35 mm silent b/w film, as installed at Hopkinson Mossman

Luke Willis Thompson at Hopkinson Mossman

HOPKINSON MOSSMAN

Auckland

 

Luke Willis Thompson
autoportrait

 

15 September - 11 October 2017

wf
Aaron Beehre and Jon Campbell, Afternoon Delight, 2017, wall painting, canvas and musical performance at Ilam Campus Gallery

Jon Campbell Installation and Book

ILAM CAMPUS GALLERY

Christchurch

 

Jon Campbell
Afternoon Delight

 

13 September - 5 October 2017,

MA
Lorene Taurerewa and Leo Bensemann works as presented in Occulture: The Dark Arts at City Gallery Wellington, 2017.

The Occult in NZ Art

CITY GALLERY WELLINGTON TE WHARE TOI

Wellington

 

Group exhibition
Occulture: The Dark Arts

 

12 August - 19 November 2017


APW
Michael Armstrong, Closed System, acrylic on canvas, 1240 x 1310 mm

Bricoleur of the Apocalypse.

CITY ART DEPOT

Christchurch

 

Michael Armstrong
Preaching to the Disconcerted

 

28 August -16 September 2017

JH
Geoff Thornley: Anterior #6, 2016, oil on canvas on board, 65 x 65 cm; Anterior #1, 2016, oil on canvas on board, 70 x 70 cm.

Spatially Layered Thornley

FOX JENSEN MCCRORY

Auckland

 

Geoff Thornley
Anterior

 

22 August - 9 October 2017

JH
Lisa Crowley, The Incandescents, 2017 (video still)

Lisa Crowley Installation & Publication

TE TUHI CENTRE FOR THE ARTS

Auckland

 

Lisa Crowley
The Incandescents

 

12 August - 22 October 2017


APW

The Art Criticism of Robert Hughes

Robert Hughes

 

The Spectacle of Skill

Alfred A. Knopf 2015

JH
Daniel von Sturmer, Electric Light (facts/figures/starkwhite) as presented at Starkwhite. Detail.

Von Sturmer Installation

STARKWHITE

Auckland

 

Daniel von Sturmer
Luminous Figures

 

2 September - 30 September 2017

RP
Maori god symbols, etching, 19th Century.

Gifts and Theft

EyeContact Essay #20