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Photograph on page 4 of The Black Islands. Bohane's note reads '"Warlord" Harold Keke (centre, praying) and his GLF (Guadalcanal Liberation Front) guerrillas pray on a beach before patrolling, along the Weathercoast, Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands 2013.'

Praying and killing

Waka Press

Ben Bohane

 

The Black Islands

 

Vanuatu, 2013

 

Grant Stevens, Sky, 2016, in Pacific Real Time. Courtesy of Starkwhite. Photograph: Emil McAvoy

Cloud Funding

The Cloud

Downtown Auckland

 

Forty dealer booths representing galleries from New Zealand, Australia, the Cook Islands, and Chile

Auckland Art Fair 2016

 

26 May - 29 May 2016

JH
Elisabeth Vary, Untitled, 2015, oil colour on cardboard, 28 x 26 x 10.5 cm; Tomislav Nikolic, Vestige of Now:5, 2015, acrylic, marble dust and 23.75 ct platin gold leaf on linen and wood, 63.5 x 80 x 3 cm; Elisabeth Vary, Untitled, 2009, 25.5 x 32 x 10 cm

Tripartitism

FOX JENSEN MCCRORY

Auckland

 

Tomislav Nikolic, Elizabeth Vary, Aida Tomescu
Chromoffection

 

3 June - 20 July 2016

JH
Andrew Barber and Bill Culbert, The Key to the Fields, as installed at Hopkinson Mossman.

Barber - Culbert Pairing

HOPKINSON MOSSMAN

Auckland

 

Bill Culbert and Andrew Barber
The Key to the Fields

 

24 June - 23 July 2016

JH
Tom Kreisler: Leitmotif, 1990, acrylic on canvas, 1625 x 1520 mm; Caminito Series, screenprint on paper, 390 x 360 mm. Photo: Sam Hartnett

Tom Kreisler in Auckland

BOWERBANK NINOW

Auckland

 

Tom Kreisler
Two to Tango


22 June - 23 July 2016

JH
Sorawit Songsataya, Bronies, 2016. Photo: Sam Hartnett

Intervening Agents

TE TUHI CENTRE FOR THE ARTS

Pakuranga

 

Mathieu Kleyebe Abonnenc, Dorota Broda, James Richards, Sorawit Songsataya
The Non-Living Agent

 

11 June - 24 July 2016

JH
Janet Lilo's Status Update, in Gallery Three, top floor of Te Uru. Photo: Sam Hartnett

Janet Lilo ‘Survey’

TE URU WAITAKERE CONTEMPORARY GALLERY

Titirangi

 

Janet Lilo
Status Update
Curated by Ioana Gordon-Smith

 

28 May - 28 August 2016

APW
Paul Cullen's Provisional Arrangements at installed at Ilam Campus Gallery. Photo: Nicholas Glen

Pataphysical Speculations

ILAM CAMPUS GALLERY

Christchurch

 

Paul Cullen
Provisional Arrangements

 

8 June - 30 June 2016

PI
The exhibition Treasury: A Generous Legacy as installed at Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu. Photo: John Collie

Curiouser and Curiouser

CHRISTCHURCH ART GALLERY TE PUNA O WAIWHETU

EyeContact Essay #14

JH
Mason Vincent: You're out of touch, 2016, Oamaru stone, stained glass; I'm out of time, Oamuru stone, stained glass; Easy target, 2016, Oamaru stone, stained glass. Photo: Sam Hartnett

The Obscene and the Sacred

GLOVEBOX

Auckland

 

Mason Vincent
Sorry, I can’t, I’ve made other plans

 

7 June - 25 June 2016

JH
Sarah Smuts-Kennedy, Star circuit : Heart circuit (Events within Boundaries), 2016 as installed at RM. Photo: Sam Hartnett

Sarah Smuts-Kennedy at RM

RM

Auckland

 

Sarah Smuts-Kennedy
Star circuit : Heart circuit (Events within Boundaries)

 

9 June - 25 June 2016

JH
John Lyall & Haru Sameshima, Twin trunk, Weeping style (Mapou), unique print, 950 x 630 mm

Sameshima / Lyall Combo

WHITESPACE

Auckland

 

Haruhiko Sameshima & John Lyall
Bonsai

 

31 May - 18 June 2016

 

JH
Fiona Pardington, Sanguine Unicorn, 2016

Colourful Pardington

STARKWHITE

Auckland

 

Fiona Pardington
100% Unicorn

 

24 May - 25 June 2016

JH
Harum Farocki, Their Newspapers, 1968, 16 mm film transferred to video. 17 min. (Courtesy of Harun Farocki GbR). Photo: Sam Hartnett

On the Beach

ARTSPACE AOTEAROA

Auckland

 

International Group exhibition
Beachhead’s PIECE OF MIND


5 May - 25 June 2016

JH
Trent Clarke's The Camera as God: Street Portrait Series, as installed at Two Rooms. This is the lefthand wall. Photo: Sam Hartnett.

Urban Anomie

TWO ROOMS

Auckland

 

Trent Parke
The Camera is God: Street Portrait Series

 

3 June - 9 July 2016

PI
Installation of New Zealand Photography Collected, 2016. Photo: Mike O'Neill (c) Te Papa.

Performance

TE PAPA TONGAREWA MUSEUM OF NEW ZEALAND

Wellington

 

A selection from the national collection of 165 years of photography
New Zealand Photography Collected

6 November 2015 - 7 August 2016

JH
Cover of Pauline Rhodes: Dark Watch. Photo by Daegen Wells

Pauline Rhodes’s Dark Watch Publication

Pauline Rhodes: Dark Watch
Co-edited by Abby Cunnane and Charlotte Huddleston

Foreword and essays by Christina Barton, Charlotte Huddleston, Ash Kilmartin and Rebecca Boswell

Published by St Paul St Gallery, AUT, 2016.

SH
Tanya Edwards, Me'akai 2, ngatu

Art in a Weimar Kingdom

ON THE SPOT ARTSPACE

Nuku’alofa

On the Spot Arts Collective
Tenth Anniversary Celebration
22 April 2016

 

Tanya Edwards
Me’akai, four new ngatu
22 April - 22 May 2016

PI
Works by Robyn Kahukiwa and Andrea Hopkins in Waitangi Wahine, at the Tairawhiti Museum, Gisborne

Agitating Acutely

TAIRAWHITI MUSEUM

Gisborne


Robyn Kahukiwa, Tracey Tawhiao, Andrea Hopkins, Linda Munn and Suzanne Tamaki
Waitangi Wahine



15 April - 26 June 2016

JH
Suji Park, Zahra Killeen-Chance, Solomon Mortimer, Serruria Carmen, 2015-16, archival inkjet print, ed of 3 +1 ap, 1100 mm x 890 mm

Fascinating Collaborations

BOWERBANK NINOW

Auckland

 

Zahra Killeen-Chance, Solomon Mortimer, and Suji Park
647nM

 

11 May -18 June 2016

JH
Tony Garifalakis's Bloodline as presented at Sarah Scout Gallery's booth.

Attempting More than Commerce?

The Cloud

Downtown Auckland

 

40 dealer galleries from New Zealand, Australia, Cook Islands and Chile.
Auckland Art Fair 2016

 

25 May - 29 May 2016

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