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Continuing a series of installations in the style that has become her signature, Always Humming was characterised by a centrepiece of the same name involving the suspension of large horizontal panels roughly three metres below the gallery's ceiling. They

Newby at Gertrude Contemporary

GERTRUDE CONTEMPORARY

Melbourne

 

Kate Newby
Always Humming

 

17 July - 29 August 2015

JH
Oleg Polounine, Untitled, 2015, kauri, rimu, 4000 x 460 x 260 mm; Ian Peter Weston, Elsie returned from Porjus, Now in a museum, like the Dead Confederate Boy, 14, a spectacle, in these sights of death, paint on paper, paper card, glue, fasteners.

Polounine and Weston

RM

Auckland

 

Ian Peter Weston and Oleg Polounine
After the Shift

 

27 August - 12 September 2015

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Fiona Pardington, My Mother's Roses, Pomegranates and Silver Platter of Ihumoana, Ripiro Beach, 2013

Fiona Pardington’s Artful Photography

CITY GALLERY WELLINGTON TE WHARE TOI

Wellington

 

 

Fiona Pardington
A Beautiful Hesitation


22 August - 22 November 2015


JH
John Nixon's EPW: Selected Paintings, as installed upstairs at Two Rooms. Photo: Sam Hartnett

John Nixon’s Mini-Survey at Two Rooms

TWO ROOMS

Auckland

 

John Nixon
EPW: Selected Paintings

 

14 August - 19 September 2015

JH
Simon Morris, Colour Order, as installed downstairs at Two Rooms. Photo: Sam Hartnett.

Simon Morris’ Tonal & Chromatic Gradations

TWO ROOMS

Auckland

 

Simon Morris
Colour Order

 

14 August - 19 September 2015

APW

Pānoho’s ‘Māori Art’

David Bateman Ltd

Māori Art: History, Architecture, Landscape & Theory

Dr. Rangihīroa Pānoho,

Hardcover, 352 pp, 300 illustrations

Published by David Bateman, 2015


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The Occultation of the Sun

A comparative reading of Māori Art: History, Architecture, Landscape, and Theory by Dr. Rangihioa Panoho and Lisa Reihana: In Pursuit of Venus, edited by Rhana Devenport.

ZS
the installation of The Mechanic at Neon Parc.

International Mechanics

NEON PARC

Melbourne

 

Group show
The Mechanic


29 April 2015 - 30 May 2015

JH
g.bridle, black wedge 3. Image: Joe Prisk

bridle at Glovebox

GLOVEBOX

Auckland

 

g.bridle
Of the spoiling

 

13 August - 29 August 2015


JH
M.T.Woollaston, Tasman Bay, 1991, oil on canvas, 900 x 1200 mm. Courtesy of Wallace Arts Trust Collection.

Woollaston at the Pah Homestead

THE JAMES WALLACE ARTS TRUST

Auckland

 

Toss Woollaston
Woollaston: The Wallace Arts Trust Collection, 1931 - 1996

 

30 June - 6 September 2015

JH
Fiona Pardington's Childish Things at Starkwhite. Photo: Sam Hartnett

Cursive Pardington

STARKWHITE

Auckland

 

Fiona Pardington
Childish Things

 

12 August - 19 September 2015

BJP
Deanna Dowling, In search of gold, the stone was there all along (2015), video. Photo: Blue Oyster Gallery

Mapping the Mirage

BLUE OYSTER GALLERY

Dunedin

 

Deanna Dowling, Tomas Richards, Cobi Taylor, Robyn Jordaan
A Tragic Delusion


5 August - 29 August 2015


JH
Denys Watkins, Audubon Lagoon, 2014, acrylic on linen, 1200 x 1200 mm

Watkins Submerged

BATH STREET GALLERY

Auckland

 

Denys Watkins
Dissolving Empire

 

6 August - 29 August 2015

APW
Jo Langford, Calling the Deep, cement & bamboo skewers, at Jonathan Smart

Suspended Disbelief

JONATHAN SMART GALLERY

Christchurch

 

Joanna Langford
Calling the deep

 

28 July - 22 August 2015

JH
Installation of No Remedy, But More at Antoinette Godkin

Snow Curated Show

ANTOINETTE GODKIN

Auckland

 

Toby Raine, Ian Peter Weston, Diane Scott
No Remedy, But More

 

4 August - 1 September 2015


JH
Helen Calder, Stack, 2012, acrylic paint skins and steel frame; Marie Le Lievre, Black Mass (House), 2015, oil on canvas. Photo: Sam Hartnett

Echoing Colour, and More

TRISH CLARK GALLERY

Auckland

 

Calder, Novak, Le Lievre, Bambury, Amsel

Solid Colour Part 1



22 July - 11 August 2015

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Simon Denny, Secret Power as installed in the Marco Polo Airport in Venice.

Secret Power: Evaluating Denny’s Impact in Venice

56th Venice Biennale

Venice

 

Simon Denny
Secret Power

 

9 May - 22 November 2015

JH
Peter Robinson, Die Cuts & Derivations, 2015, as installed at Hopkinson Mossman

Dispersing Feeling with Pop Coloured Felt

HOPKINSON MOSSMAN

Auckland

 

Peter Robinson
Die Cuts & Derivations

 

31 July - 29 August 2015


JH
Richard Bryant, No Title, 2015, acrylic on fabric and pieced polyester film, 915 x 860 mm; Richard Bryant, No Title, 2015, acrylic on fabric, 750 x 700 mm

Richard Bryant Exhibition

IVAN ANTHONY GALLERY

Auckland

 

Richard Bryant
The Strata of Silence

 

22 July - 15 August 2015

JH
Georgie Hill, Eileen Gray folding metal lounger with Untitled (Textile design no. 111) by Frances Hodgkins, 2015, watercolour on paper, 440 x 510 mm

Georgie Hill Watercolours

IVAN ANTHONY GALLERY

Auckland


Georgie Hill
Semi - Supine view

 

22 July - 15 August 2015

JH
Karyn Taylor, Time Loop in 2 Parts, 2015, acrylic, 680 x 450 x 45 mm

Collecting and Emitting Light

SANDERSON CONTEMPORARY ART

Auckland

 

Kāryn Taylor
New Geometries

 

21 July - 9 August 2015