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Ella Sutherland's Boring month start to finish, the whole month, at North Projects.  Photo: Daegen Wells

Pondering the Puzzles Page

NORTH PROJECTS

Christchurch

 

Ella Sutherland
Boring month start to finish, the whole month

 

12 September - 17 October 2015

JH
Jenny Gillam & Eugene Hansen with Adrian McCleland, At a Distance of forty-two days, as installed at Te Tuhi. Photo: Sam Hartnett

Art and Entomology

TE TUHI CENTRE FOR THE ARTS

Auckland

 

Jenny Gillam & Eugene Hansen with Adrian McCleland
At a Distance of Forty-Two Days

 

1 August - 25 October 2015

JH
Phil Dadson, Anatomia Sonora da Camera, 2015, single channel video/audio, 18 minutes - as installed at Trish Clark Gallery.

Dadson Drawings and Videos

TRISH CLARK GALLERY

Auckland

 

Phil Dadson
Sound Anatomy

 

16 August - 2 October 2015


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The 'Black Passageway' from Vataulua, outside On the Spot ArtSpace. Photograph by Adam Douglass.

Nuku’alofa’s Liberated Zone

ON THE SPOT ARTSPACE

Nuku’alofa

 

On the Spot Arts Initiative
Vataulua

 

5 August - 1 September, 2015

APW

Tom Kreisler Film

Point of View Productions

Shirley Horrocks

Tom Who? The Enigma of Tom Kreisler

73 mins

Producer: Shirley Horrocks, Tony Green

Photography: Adrian Greshoff, Leon Narby, Ron Egozi

JH
Jos de Gruyter and Harald Thys, Der Schlamm von Branst, 2008, HD video, 20 min

Lugubrious’ Belgians and others

MICHAEL LETT

Auckland

 

International group exhibition
i) Duplex Cling Mob

26 August - 26 September 2015


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Alexander Laurie and Biljana Popovic, Moonlight Garden, 2015, mixed media, courtesy of the artists. Photo: Sam Hartnett

Feels So Real

ARTSPACE AOTEAROA

Auckland

 

International group exhibition
The Shadow of the Dome of Pleasure


4 September - 10 October 2015

BJP
Zina Swanson, Waterfall, 2015, brass taps, handblown glass rods

Ritual Ecologies

STATE OF PRINCES

Dunedin

 

Zina Swanson
Concrete Dirt Parfait

 

2 September - 19 September 2015

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Installation of Campbell Patterson's  new normal music at Michael Lett

Masochism and Play as Art

MICHAEL LETT

Auckland

 

Campbell Patterson
new normal music

 

26 August - 26 September 2015


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Bronwyn Holloway-Smith, Pioneer City Flag, Winner 2015 National Contemporary Art Award

2015 National Contemporary Art Award

WAIKATO MUSEUM TE WHARE TAONGA O WAIKATO

Hamilton

 

Group exhibition
National Contemporary Art Award


18 July - 1 November 20015

JH
Installation of Bianca Hester's movements materialising momentarily at St Paul St Gallery. Photo: Sam Hartnett.

Bianca Hester in Auckland

TE WAI NGUTU KĀKĀ GALLERY TWO

Auckland

 

Bianca Hester
movements materialising momentary

 

31 July - 11 September 2015

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Andrew Beck, Shadow Strips Cascades, 2015, 29 silver gelatin prints, 210 x 530mm each, 5.5 x 4.0m overall. Courtesy of the artist and Hamish McKay Gallery. Photo: Shaun Waugh

Scrutinising the Present Tense

ADAM ART GALLERY TE PATAKA TOI

Wellington

 

Andrew Beck, Colin McCahon, Keith Tyson, David Claerbout
The Specious Present


11 July - 20 September 2015


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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


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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.

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the installation of The Mechanic at Neon Parc.

International Mechanics

NEON PARC

Melbourne

 

Group show
The Mechanic


29 April 2015 - 30 May 2015

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

bridle at Glovebox

GLOVEBOX

Auckland

 

g.bridle
Of the spoiling

 

13 August - 29 August 2015