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Talia Smith, Lead us outside, lead us out quietly, 2014. Installation at Enjoy Public Gallery, Wellington. Image courtesy of Mark Wilson and Enjoy Gallery

Auckland’s Vacant Lots

ENJOY CONTEMPORARY ART SPACE

Wellington


Talia Smith
Lead us outside, lead us out quietly

 

16 April - 10 May 2015

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Andrea Gardner's Picnic as installed at Corben Estate Art Centre.

Weird and Wonderful

CORBAN ESTATE ARTS CENTRE

Henderson

 

Andrea Gardner
Picnic

 

18 April - 18 May 2014

JH
Martyn Reynolds, Vienetta shoes table, digital print on cast aluminium, 450 x 280 x 580 mm

Martyn Reynolds at Gloria Knight

GLORIA KNIGHT

Auckland

 

Martyn Reynolds
Non secateUr

 

17 April -2 May 2014


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Installation of Wasteland at Gus Fisher. Photo: Sam Hartnett

Masculinity and Digital Technologies

GUS FISHER GALLERY

Auckland

 

Group show
Wasteland


4 April - 3 May, 2014.

DW

A Good Start to Place

Reading Room #6

Elective Proximities

 

Edited by Christina Barton, Natasha Conland and Wystan Curnow

 

Published by Auckland Art Gallery, 2013

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Graham Wilton and Michael Bajko's Onslow College Sports Day 1967 at Photospace

School Snaps

PHOTOSPACE

Wellington

 

Graham Wilton and Michael Bajko
Onslow College Sports Day 1967

 

4th April - 29th April 2014


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Reuben Paterson, The Nebula Flaming Star, 2014, polymer and glitter on canvas. 1001 x 1008 x 37 mm. Photo: Bridget Webber

The Glittery Vortex

MILFORD GALLERIES

Dunedin

 

Reuben Paterson
In the Company of Animals

 

12 April - 7 May 2014

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Victoria Singh's The Waiting Room at 123 Cuba St (the site of the old Ferret bookshop)

Victoria Singh’s The Waiting Room

123 Cuba St

Wellington

 

Victoria Singh
The Waiting Room

 

9 March - 30 March 2014

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Tania Kovats, All the Sea, 2012–14 (detail) Seawater, glass, cork, oak. Courtesy the artist. Photo: Ruth Clark

Tania Kovats’ Bottled Ocean in Edinburgh

THE FRUITMARKET GALLERY

Edinburgh

 

Tania Kovats
Oceans

 

15 March - 25 May 2014


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Robert Hood's Say Valley Maker at the Jonathan Smart Gallery. Detail.

Hood on CERA

JONATHAN SMART GALLERY

Christchurch

 

Robert Hood
Say Valley Maker

 

16 April - 10 May 2014

JH
Gavin Hipkins, The Port, in St Paul St Gallery Two. Photo: Tosh Ahkit

Hipkins Film

TE WAI NGUTU KĀKĀ GALLERY TWO

Auckland

 

Gavin Hipkins
The Port

 

4 April - 17 May 2014

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Ben Clement, Saga, 2014, inkjet print on acid-free tissue, thermal paper prints, fixings, 120 x 180 cm

No Place Like Home

MICHAEL LETT

Auckland

 

Ben Clement
Video Easy

 

8 April - 26 April 2014

 


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Pirate TV programme. 1989-1991.  Still from PTV episode (Music Pages).  Courtesy of Saint Petersburg Video Archive

The New Artists and New Academy groups of St Petersburg

CALVERT 22

London

 

Group show
Club of Friends: Timur Novikov’s New Artists and the New Academy

 

2 April - 25 May 2014

JH
John Ward Knox's Breathing After Thinking at Ivan Anthony.

Ward Knox’s Silk Works

IVAN ANTHONY GALLERY

Auckland

 

John Ward Knox
Breathing After Thinking

 

9 April - 26 April 2014

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Benjamin Work, Royal Priesthood, acrylic on wall, approx 15m x approx 3m

Walking Forward Into the Past: Benjamin Work’s Tongan Adventure

EyeContact Essay #9


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Cerith Wyn Evans' Transmit/receive as installed at Michael Lett. In the foreground, receptacles for revolutionary reverie, 2011 (plants, rotating platforms). In the distance, cite/sight/site, 2014, chandelier, independent breather unit, flash player.

Cerith Wyn Evans Shows

Michael Lett / Hopkinson Mossman

Auckland

 

Cerith Wyn Evans
transmit/receive

 

11 April - 10 May 2014

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Tony Albert, Girramay people, QLD, Sorry, found kitsch objects applied to vinyl letters, 99 objects, 200 x 510 x 10 cm installed. The James C. Sourris,AM, Collection, Purchaed 2008 with funds from James C Sourris through the QAG Foundation

Songs of Love and Hate

AUCKLAND ART GALLERY TOI O TAMAKI

 

Aboriginal art from QAG/GOMA

My Country: Contemporary Art from Black Australia

 


28 March - 20 July 2014

JH
Christopher LG Hill and Joshua Petherick, Timeout, 2013, detail, newspaper, wood, used clothing, wig. Photo: Sam Hartnett

Critiquing Acquisitiveness

PAPAKURA ART GALLERY

Auckland

 

Group exhibition
Carpet Burn

 

22 March - 3 May 2014


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Jeena Shin, Motus, 2014, detail, Herald Theatre. Photo: Sam Hartnett

Jeena Shin’s Two Auckland Murals

The Herald Theatre (50 Mayoral Drive) & Peach Pitt (352 Karangahape Rd)

Auckland

 

Jeena Shin

 

Murals in Aotea Centre and K’Rd diner

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Miranda Parkes, Whopper (2014) at Tauranga Art Gallery.

Massive Miranda Parkes Mural

TAURANGA ART GALLERY

Tauranga

 

Miranda Parkes
Whopper

 

March 7 - June 15

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Thomas Hinton, James Wylie, David Ed Cooper, RE: 400 installed at Pilot, Ward St, Hamilton. Photo: Karl Bayly

New Art Venue in Hamilton

PILOT

Hamilton

 

Thomas Hinton, James Wylie, David Ed Cooper

RE: 400

 

27 March - 18 April 2014