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Signals as installed at Starkwhite. Photo: Sam Hartnett

Auckland’s Changing Constituency

STARKWHITE

Auckland

 

Group show
Signals

 

11 August - 6 September 2014

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Deanna Dowling, Tell Someone If Something Happens, hollow plaster tube, wall thickness 0.25 mm - 0.75 mm - diameter 25 mm, seeder shelf

National Contemporary Art Award in Hamilton

WAIKATO MUSEUM TE WHARE TAONGA O WAIKATO

Hamilton

 

Selected entries
National Contemporary Art Award


9 August - 9 November 2014

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Greta Anderson, Steamroller, 2000, pigment print

Making the Cut

TWO ROOMS

Auckland

Adams, Anderson, Boreham, Clarke, Hartnett and Makea-Pardington

Outer Space


22 August - 20 September 2014


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Installation of Miranda Parkes' Go-getter at Antoinette Godkin

Small Parkes Paintings

ANTOINETTE GODKIN

Auckland

 

Miranda Parkes
Go Getter

 

16 August - 13 September 2014

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The Social Value of Art?

AUCKLAND ART GALLERY TOI O TAMAKI

Auckland

 

Denny, Leach, Thompson, ‘Uhila

The Walters Prize

 

12 July - 12 October 2014

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installation shot showing five glass works by Dominic Burrell, 2014

Lifelike

Quay Gallery (upstairs at 31 Taupo Quay)

Whanganui

Work by graduates of the UCoL/Whanganui School of the Arts and School of Design
Degrees of Remembrance

1 February - 10 August 2014


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Don Driver, Duraband 10, 1988, mixed media, plastic webbing on plastic, 1300 x 2160 x 200 mm. Chartwell Collection, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki

Silent But Engaging Conversations

HOPKINSON MOSSMAN

Auckland

 

Barber, Connor, Driver, Keating, Perkins
When I Paint My Masterpiece

 

9 August - 6 September 2014

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The Walters Prize 2014: Bourgeois Merit Systems

AUCKLAND ART GALLERY TOI O TAMAKI

Auckland

 

Denny, Leach, Thompson, ‘Uhila

The Walters Prize

 

12 July -12 October 2014

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Installation of If You Do Start Making Cheese...at Pilot

Embracing Process, Discarding Nothing

PILOT

Hamilton

Amodeo, Kosovac, Simons, Beattie
If you do start making cheese, I recommend a Farmhouse Cheddar…..

12 August - 30 August 2014


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RendeRED: Installation view. Andrew Topp, "Oi! (Let the Penny Drop)", oil on canvas, 760 x 1035mm.  Photo credit: Elise Sterback.

Chromatic Ambience

Basement Theatre in collaboration with The James Wallace Arts Trust

Auckland

 

RendeRED: An exhibition of works from The James Wallace Arts Trust 

 

5 August - 31 October 2014

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Peter Madden, She Has More Past than Most, 2013,  mixed media collage,  950mm x 750mm

Madden’s Use of the Diminutive

IVAN ANTHONY GALLERY

Auckland

 

Peter Madden
Behind the line of care

 

6 August - 6 September 2014

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Light Cord installation view.  Photo credit: Hannah Valentine

Transient Materiality

LOFT

Auckland

 

Scarlett Cibilich, Priya Patel, Larissa Goodwin

Light Cord

 

26 July - 2 August 2014


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Richard Reddaway's 'Some Assembly Required' at Jonathan Smart.

Reddaway’s Cuboid Sculpture

JONATHAN SMART GALLERY

Christchurch

 

Richard Reddaway
Some Assembly Required

 

5 August - 23 August 2014

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Grant Stevens, Supermassive, 2013, four-channel digital video, 11 min 19 sec.   Photo: Shaun Waugh

Grant Stevens in Wellington

CITY GALLERY WELLINGTON TE WHARE TOI

Wellington

 

Grant Stevens
What We Had Was Real


28 June - 6 September, 2014

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4X3 as installed in Ramp. Photo by Claire Goldsworthy.

The Emotional Immediacy of Posters

RAMP

Hamilton

 

Poster exhibition
4x3

 

21 July - 1 August 2014


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Emil McAvoy, "PRISMISM", 2014.  Installation detail.  Image courtesy of Oscar Perry and Enjoy Gallery

Political Abstraction

ENJOY CONTEMPORARY ART SPACE

Wellington

 

Emil McAvoy

PRISMISM

 

11 July - 2 August 2014

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Melissa Coote, Heart A, 2014, bronze unique, 80 x 85 x 105 mm

Coote’s ‘Hearts’ at Fox-Jensen

FOX JENSEN MCCRORY

Auckland

 

Melissa Coote
Painting, sculpture, paper

 

15 July - 16 August 2014

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At Rest, Capt Matt Gauldie, 2006, oil on canvas, New Zealand Army Art Collection

Commemorating WW1

NEW ZEALAND PORTRAIT GALLERY

Wellington

 

Historic works
Facing the Front: New Zealand’s enduring First World War

 

12 June - 24 August 2014


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Installation of The Working Life at Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane

The New Normal

INSTITUTE OF MODERN ART

A conversation about The Working Life at the Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane


Participants: Darius Mikšys, Aileen Burns, Johan Lundh and Tess Maunder

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Lauren Winstone, "Holding Holes", 2012 (Pair).  Stoneware, 135 x 400 x 110mm.  Photo credit: Jennifer French

Sculpted Corporeality

TWO ROOMS

Auckland

 

Lauren Winstone 

Pieces

18 July - 16 August 2014

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Olafur Eliasson, The Cubic Structural Evolution Project, 2004, Collection Queensland Art Gallery. Installation views at Dunedin Public Art Gallery.

Eliasson in Dunedin

DUNEDIN PUBLIC ART GALLERY

Dunedin

 

Olafur Eliasson
The Cubic Structural Evolution Project

 

3 May - 3 August 2014