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David Cox, Sing Out Spring - Yiyili Country, 2013, Chartwell collection; Gordon Barney, Gurndalngany, 2012, Private collection; Churchill Cann, Spring Creek, 2013, Churchill Cann, Yunurr, 2012, Tim Melville Gallery. Photo:Tosh Ahkit

Aboriginal Paintings from North-Western Australia

TE WAI NGUTU KĀKĀ GALLERY TWO

Auckland

 

Mabel Juli, David Cox, Lena Nyadbi, Churchill Cann, Gordon Barney, Phyllis Thomas and Shirley Purdie
Paintings from Warmun

 

25 September - 23 October 2015

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Glenn Burrell's Destination: Liquid Sunshine as installed at the Wallace Gallery, Morrinsville.

Collapsed, Deflated and Made of Paint

WALLACE GALLERY

Morrinsville

 

Glenn Burrell
Destination: Liquid Sunshine

 

7 October - 27 October 2015

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Installation of Megan Dunn's The Persistence of Memory in The Brain at Te Uru. Photo: Sam Hartnett

Positioned Videos and Neuroscience

TE URU WAITAKERE CONTEMPORARY GALLERY

Titrangi

 

Assorted video works
The Brain


14 August - 15 November 2015


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Seung Yul Oh: Noonmool, pvc, air; Puha, acrylic. Courtesy of the artist and Starkwhite. Photo: Sam Hartnett

Seung Yul Oh at Te Uru

TE URU WAITAKERE CONTEMPORARY GALLERY

Titirangi

 

Seung Yul Oh
HaaPoom

 

29 August - 8 November 2015

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Heather Straka's The Honeytrap, as installed at the Jonathan Smart Gallery

Baby Got Back

JONATHAN SMART GALLERY

Christchurch

 

Heather Straka
The Honeytrap

 

7 October - 31 October 2015

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Kathy Temin, The Memorial Project: Black Wall, 2015  5.5 x 12.5 m x 2.95 m. As installed at the Gus Fisher Gallery. Image courtesy of the artist. Photo: Sam Hartnett.

Temin’s Fur-lined Memorial

GUS FISHER GALLERY

Auckland

 

Kathy Temin
The Memorial Project

 

2 October - 24 October 2016


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Geoff Thornley, First sight No. 15, 2011, oil on canvas on board, 122 x 122 cm.

Nuanced Thornley

FOX JENSEN MCCRORY

Auckland

 

Geoff Thornley
Paintings

 

23 September - 17 October 2015

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Wunderrūma: New Zealand Jewellery, curated by Warwick Freeman and Karl Fritsch and installed with works on the walls from the Collections of Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki

Wunderrūma at AAG

AUCKLAND ART GALLERY TOI O TAMAKI

Auckland

 

Works from Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki’s collections
Wunderrūma: New Zealand Jewellery

18 July - 1 November 2015

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Gordon Walters, Gouaches and a painting from the 1950s, as installed at Starkwhite. Photo: Sam Hartnett

Walters Gouaches

STARKWHITE

Auckland

 

Gordon Walters
Gouaches and a Painting from the 1950s

 

21 September - 24 October 2015


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Antony Gormley, STAY, 2015.  Commissioned by the Christchurch City Council Public Art Advisory Group. Photo by Bridgit Anderson.

SCAPE 8 in Christchurch

SCAPE 8

Christchurch’s public art walkway



Atkins, Gormley, Jack, Kidd, Millar, Pohio, Rhodes

New Intimacies 

 

3 October - 15 November 2015.

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Martin Creed, Work No. 1701, 2015, still, digital video, 4 min 16 sec.

Martin Creed in Auckland

MICHAEL LETT

Auckland

 

Solo artist
Martin Creed

 

3 October - 7 November 2015

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Freedom and Structure at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki (Second gallery)

Six New Zealand Cubist Painters

AUCKLAND ART GALLERY TOI O TAMAKI

Auckland

 

Henderson, McCahon, Day, Weeks, Wallis, Tole

Freedom and Structure


16 May 2015 - 6 March 2016


JH
Installation of Joyce Campbell's Flightdream (2015) at Two Rooms. FD video with audio. Sound by Peter Kolovos. Duration 25 minutes looped

Joyce Campbell’s Evocative Film

TWO ROOMS

Auckland

 

Joyce Campbell
Flightdream

 

24 September - 24 October 2015

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Installation at City Gallery of Shannon Te Ao's two shoots that stretch far out, 2013-14, HD video, cinematography by Iain Frengley.

Searching for a Nonverbal Connection

CITY GALLERY WELLINGTON TE WHARE TOI

Wellington

 

Shannon Te Ao, Susan Te Kahurangi King
From the one I call my own

 

27 June - 8 November 2015

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Mickey Smith, installation of South, HD video, at Te Tuhi. Photo: Sam Hartnett

Carnegie’s New Zealand Public Libraries

TE TUHI CENTRE FOR THE ARTS

Pakuranga

 

Mickey Smith
Cultivate it as you will…

 

1 August - 25 October 2015


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Mark Curtis, The Jackson Experiment as installed at the Wallace Gallery, Morrinsville. Courtesy of the Wallace Trust

Curtis Does Jackson

WALLACE GALLERY

Morrinsville

 

Mark Curtis
The Jackson Experiment

 

24 September - 4 October 2015

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Ronnie van Hout, No Exit II, 2003, mixed media, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki.

Bringing The Outside In

AUCKLAND ART GALLERY TOI O TAMAKI

Auckland

 

Newby, Denny, Buchanan, van Hout, Connor
Inside Outside Upside Down



18 July - 1 November 2015

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Shannon Novak, Deep Concinnity, as installed at Te Tuhi. Photo: Sam Hartnett

Novak Wall Drawings

TE TUHI CENTRE FOR THE ARTS

Auckland

 

Shannon Novak
Deep Concinnity

 

1 August 2015 - 21 February 2016


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Brown Council, This is Barbara Cleveland, 2013, single channel HD video, sound (16:42). Photo: Daegan Wells

Performance and Documentation

THE PHYSICS ROOM

Christchurch

 

Brown Council, Emma Fitts, Alex Martinis Roe, and Newspaper Reading Club
Embodying the Archive

5 September - 10 October 2015

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Martin Thompson, Untitled, felt-tip on graph paper

Mathematical Wizardry

DUNEDIN PUBLIC ART GALLERY

Dunedin


Martin Thompson
Sublime Worlds

 

12 September- 29 November, 2015.

 

SVK
Dvd cover: “Alexis Hunter: Approach to Fear,” 2014, 12 min film directed by Lindsey Dryden

Alexis Hunter: The Feminist is in the Room

EyeContact Essay #11