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Gavin Hipkins, New Age, 2016, single chanel digital video and sound projection, digital formats, 9 min 35 sec, edition 3

Landscape as subject, backdrop, presence, or method

STARKWHITE

Auckand

 

Danie Mellor, Gavin Hipkins, Jin Jiangbo

Beyond Landscape

 

17 November 2016 - 28 January 2017

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Installation of Ann Shelton's A Library to Scale (2006) at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki

Ann Shelton Retrospective

AUCKLAND ART GALLERY TOI O TAMAKI

Auckland

 

Ann Shelton
Dark Matter

 

26 November 2016 - 17 April 2017

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Andrea du Chatenier, Bearded Prophet, ceramic and textile.

Du Chatenier Survey

WAIKATO MUSEUM TE WHARE TAONGA O WAIKATO

Hamilton

 

Andrea du Chatenier
Being Andrea du Chatenier

 

2 December, 2016 - 22 January, 2017


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You will have your own (perhaps very different) global list for 2016,

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Range of options for studio construction: Isobel Thom's ceramic models

The Planned Thom Studio

MALCOLM SMITH GALLERY

Uxbridge

 

Isobel Thom
 ILK

 

7 November 2016 - 14 January 2017

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Ralph Paine, After Blake

Sub-Urbanism

EyeContact Essay #18

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Shopping

Luncheon Sausage Books, in assoc. with PhotoForum, Auckland, 2016.

The Shops

5000 word essay by Steve Braunias
44 colour photographs by Peter Black

Hardcover; RRP: $40.00.

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Speech, Writing and Grief

MICHAEL LETT

Auckland

 

Zac Langdon-Pole
Oratory Index

 

30 November - 23 December 2016

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Toby Raine, Aleister Crowley with beard, 2014, oil on linen

Besotted Paint Drooler or Conceptual Artist?

GUS FISHER GALLERY

Auckland

 

Toby Raine
ManCrush

 

11 November - 17 December 2016

 


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Transformation & Impermanence: An Interview with Lee Mingwei

EyeContact interview #3

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Cover image: Wayne Barrar, Strew, including Arachnoidiscus (Ehr.) and girdle band from Oregon Coast. From a slide by E. H. Griffith, c.1875. (Photographed 2014, detail)

Glorious Diatoms

Whiti o Rehua, School of Art, Massey University, Wellington, 2016

 

Wayne Barrar: The Glass Archive
Photographs by Wayne Barrar

Essays by Kelley Wilder and Wayne Barrar,

Softcover, colour illustrations, 49 pp.

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Optimism and Possibility

ARTSPACE AOTEAROA

Auckland

 

Harry, Menzies, Nash, al Qadiri & Al Gharaballi, Rottenberg, Songsataya, Syms

Potentially Yours, The Coming Community

10 November - 22 December 2016


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Installation of The Devil's Blind Spot at Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu. Photo: John Collie

Emerging Photographic Talent

CHRISTCHURCH ART GALLERY TE PUNA O WAIWHETU

Christchurch

 

Nine emerging photographers
The Devil’s Blind Spot: Recent Strategies in New Zealand Photography


19 November 2016 - 12 March 2017

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Jealous Saboteurs: The Book

Gallery Wellington / Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne

Francis Upritchard: Jealous Saboteurs
Edited by Robert Leonard and Charlotte Day

Essays by Robert Leonard, Tessa Laird, and Megan Dunn.
Interview with Francis Upritchard by Brian Griffiths

Published by Donlon, October 2016

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Ruth Buchanan, The actual and its document, 2016, installation view at the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery. Photo: Glenn Jeffrey

Examining the Politics of Institutional Taste

LEN LYE CENTRE / GOVETT-BREWSTER ART GALLERY

New Plymouth

 

Ruth Buchanan
The Actual and Its Document


10 September - 4 December 2016


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Hannah Watkinson's Elsewhere exhibition at In Situ Photo Project

The Near Future

IN SITU PHOTO PROJECT

Christchurch

 

Hannah Watkinson
Elsewhere

 

22 November - 20 Decermber 2016

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Cara Fotofili, Experiencing a Significant Shortfall of Gravitas, watercolour on 300 gsm paper, 1400 x 5200 mm

Deflating the Spiritual

GALLAGHER ACADEMY OF PERFORMING ARTS GALLERY

Hamilton

 

Cara Fotofili
Small changes

 

17 October - 9 December 2016

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Installation of HANDBUILT: made in clay, in Two Rooms

O’Connor’s Choices

TWO ROOMS

Auckland


14 contemporary ceramicists
HANDBUILT: made in clay


16 October - 26 November 2016


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Installation of Set in Motion at the Len Lye Centre.

Recontextualising / Contemporising Lye

LEN LYE CENTRE / GOVETT-BREWSTER ART GALLERY

New Plymouth

 

Lye, Manning, Kempinas, Baumann, MacKenzie
Set in Motion


3 September - 27 November 2016

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Matt Henry: Untitled Dyad (C), 2016, acrylic on raw linen, cedar stretchers; Untitled Relief (5/6ths), 2016, acrylic primed linen, cedar stretchers. Courtesy of the artist. Photo: Bryan James

Matt Henry’s Govett Installation

LEN LYE CENTRE / GOVETT-BREWSTER ART GALLERY

New Plymouth

 

Matt Henry
Long Division


27 August -27 November 2016

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Ava Seymour, Mondo Gatto, at Rockies. Photo by the artist.

Kool Cats on Video

ROCKIES

Auckland

 

Ava Seymour
Mondo Gatto

 

11 November - 25 November 2016