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Community Art on the Streets

Urgent Moments (Art and Social Change: the Letting space Projects 2010-2020)

Mark Amery, Sophie Jerram, and Amber Clausner: editors

Discussions of Letting Space projects.
Apart from the editors, there are also 35 other writers.

Softcover, generously illustrated, 352 pp
Massey University Press, 2023

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Jasmine Togo-Brisby and John Vea, Outcast, 2923. Installation view. Photo: Sam Hartnett

Togo-Brisby and Vea at Gus Fisher

GUS FISHER GALLERY

Auckland


Jasmine Togo-Brisby and John Vea
Outcast


20 October 2023 - 27 January 2024

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Tomislav Nikolic’s Insistently Lavish Presences

Tomislav Nikolic: Invocations of Consciousness
Sixty-five colour images 
Texts by Clemens, Engberg, Ewington, Jensen and a conversation between the editors.

Edited by Nikolic and Soni

MER, Ghent, 2023

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Bill Culbert: Hut II, 2013, fluorescent tubes, ballasts, casings, metal fixings, electrical components, 2800 x 3500 x 2400 mm; Ten Photographs Taken Between Sunrise and Moonrise on One Day in Winter, 1974/75. C-type Prints on Cotton Rag Paper.

A Fresh Look at Culbert

TE URU WAITAKERE CONTEMPORARY GALLERY

Titirangi

 

Bill Culbert
Blue Cloud, Green Waterfall

 


9 December 2023 - 11 February 2024

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Pocketable Portable Lye

Len Lye and Roger Horrocks
Len Lye’s Art that Moves


Introduction by Roger Horrocks, the editor

 

Softcover 72 pp 

 

Govett-Brewster Art Gallery and Len Lye Centre, 2023

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Nearest work: Francis Upritchard, Sisyphus, 2021, balata rubber, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki, gift of the Patrons of Auckland Art Gallery, 2023.

Dazzling AAGToT Collection Show

AUCKLAND ART GALLERY TOI O TAMAKI

Auckland

 

16 national and international artists

Portals and Omens: New Work from the Collection
Curated by Natasha Conland

 

21 October, 2023 - 7 July, 2024

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Simon Denny, Optimism,2023, detail. Commissioned by Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki, 2023

Wicked Satellites

AUCKLAND ART GALLERY TOI O TAMAKI

Tamaki Makaurau

 

Simon Denny

 

Optimism

 

2 December 2023 - 27 October 2024

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Promotional card image for Ardit Hoxha's lost dream[s] Te Tuhi billboard project

Hoxha’s Recontextualised W.L. Robertson Text

Te Tuhi Billboards

Pakuranga

 

Ardit Hoxha

lost dream[s]

 


12 November 2023 - 28 January 2024

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Installation of Tomislav Nikolic's Being's Believin' at Fox Jenson McCrory

Recent Colourful Nikolic Paintings

FOX JENSEN MCCRORY

Auckland

 

Tomislav Nikolic
Being’s Believin’


25 November - 16 December 2023

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Henry Fuseli, Study for the Three Witches in Macbeth, ca.1783, oil on canvas.420 x 537 mm. Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, purchased with funds from the M A Serra Trust, 1980

Gothic Art Survey in Auckland

AUCKLAND ART GALLERY TOI O TAMAKI

35 works from the Collection

 

Gothic Returns: Fuseli to Fomison
Curated by Sophie Matthiesson & Kenneth Brummel

 

2 September 2023 - 31 August 2025

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Louisa Afoa, Essential Household Items, 2023 (detail). Image courtesy of the artist

Louisa Afoa’s Still-Life Photographs

TE TUHI CENTRE FOR THE ARTS

Tāmaki Makaurau

 

Louisa Afoa
Essential Household Items

12 November - 28 January 2024

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Wu Tsang, One emerging from a point of view, 2019, 2-channel overlapping projections, 5.1 surround sound, 43 minutes. Courtesy the artist; Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi,Berlin; Cabinet, London; Antenna Space, Shanghai.

Unravelling Entangled Moving Imagery

TE TUHI CENTRE FOR THE ARTS

Auckland

 

Wu Tsang

One Emerging from a Point of View


12 November 2023 - 28 January 2024

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Helen Calder's exhibition, The Tidy Behaviour of Matter, as installed upstairs at Two Rooms. Photo: Sam Hartnett

Almost Insupportable Flexible Paintings

TWO ROOMS

Auckland

 

Helen Calder
The Tidy Behaviour of Matter


17 November - 22 December, 2023

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Richard Stratton, V&A after Notkin (False Gods), 2023, wild clay thrown and altered with black terra sigillata underglazes and coloured slips. 130 mm x 230 mm x 80 mm, red

Wildly Playful Stratton

ANNA MILES GALLERY

Auckland

 

Richard Stratton
Reverse Monopoly Big Wigs



28 October - 16 November 2023

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Octavia Cook, M (Mermaid) brooch, 2022, acrylic, Mother of Pearl shell, silver, copper (freckles). 89 x 93 x 6 mm--front

Octavia Cook Brooches

ANNA MILES GALLERY

Auckland

 

Octavia Cook
Mint Prose

 


28 October - 16 November 2023

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Installation view of Georgie Hill, Venus Marina / The Roses Came Roaring, at Sumer.

‘Drawn’ Georgie Hill Paintings

SUMER

Auckland

 

Georgie Hill
Venus Marina /The Roses Came Roaring

 

27 October - 2 December 2023

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Installation shot of Clinton Watkins' 'Depth of Field' at Starkwhite.

Evocative Watkins Video

STARKWHITE

Auckland

 

Clinton Watkins

 

Depth of Field
20 October - 19 November 2023

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Installation shot of Bonco's 'Star Stare Start' at Starkwhite.

Checking the ‘Chequerboards’

STARKWHITE

Auckland

 

Bonco
Star Stare Start



20 October - 19 November 2023

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Michael Harrison, Low Voices, 2001-2023, acrylic on paper, 297 x 210 mm

Romantic Feline Pairings

IVAN ANTHONY GALLERY

Auckland

 

Michael Harrison
Ruler & Eraser


13 October - 11 November 2023

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Barbara Tuck, and/or III, 1990, oil on cardboard.

Order & Disruption / Possibilities of Edge

ANNA MILES GALLERY

Auckland

 

Barbara Tuck, Kristy Gorman, Adrienne Vaughan, Vita Cochran
and / or


11 October - 27 October 2023

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Barber’s ‘Flood Damage’ Installation

TWO ROOMS

Auckland

 

Andrew Barber
Thin Atmosphere

 


6 October - 4 November 2023

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