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Mat Hunkin, The Beach/The Block/Fire/Sky (detail), 2010.  Ink, watercolour, archival photographs, maps three-channel slide-show projection, 16:00 mins (approx.), colour. Image courtesy: The artist

Active Spectatorship in the Archive

GALLERY OF MODERN ART

Briisbane

 

QAG and GoMA
The Seventh Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art

 

8 December 2012 - 14 April 2013

JH
Rangituhia Hollis and Vaimaila Urale, Mata Mata at Mangere Arts Centre

Hollis and Urale in Mangere

MANGERE ARTS CENTRE NGA TOHU O UENUKU

Auckland

 

Rangituhia Hollis & Vaimaila Urale
Mata Mata

 

24 November 2012 - 7 February 2013

CA
Graham Fletcher | Untitled (from ‘Lounge Room Tribalism’ series) 2010 | Oil on canvas | Purchased 2010 with funds from the Estate of Lawrence F King in memory of the late Mr and Mrs SW King through the Queensland Art Gallery Foundation |

A 20 Year Journey

QUEENSLAND ART GALLERY

Brisbane

 

QAG and GoMA

The Seventh Asia Pacific Triennial

 

7 December 2012 - 14 April 2013


JH
Tahi Moore, Abstract sequels, returns, installed at Hopkinson Cundy

Tahi Moore in Arch Hill

HOPKINSON MOSSMAN

Auckland

 

Tahi Moore
Abstract sequels, returns

 

8 December 2012 - 26 January 2013

PI
Two Hundred and Forty Years of New Zealand Painting  - cover

Forever Amber

Two Hundred and Forty Years of New Zealand Painting

Gil Docking, Michael Dunn and Edward Hanfling

280pp, 170 illustrations

David Bateman, 2012

LB
Part of the archive on display.

APT 7: A Live Archive

QUEENSLAND ART GALLERY

Briisbane

 

QAG and GoMA
The Seventh Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art

 

8 December 2012 - 14 April 2013


GS
Elizabeth Hyde-Hills, Untitled, oil on board, 30 x 35 cm

Hyde-Hills at Ozlyn

OZLYN

Auckland

 

Elisabeth Hyde-Hills
Claude Glass

 

23 November - 22 December 2012

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Michael Parekowhai, Chapman's Homer, 2011 Bronze, Stainless Steel, courtesy of the artist and Michael Lett Gallery. Image courtesy of the Christchurch Art Gallery.  Photograph: John Collie

Warren Feeney’s Survey of 2012

Christchurch wrap-up

JH
Dane Mitchell: Radiant Matter I/II/III opened.

Dispersed Molecules as Sculpture

Dane Mitchell: Radiant Matter I/II/III

Essays: Beyn, Kreisler, Rabinowitz, Sharp and Mitchell

Pub. by Berliner Kunstlerprogramm / DAAD, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Artspace, 2011.


JH
Grant Stevens publication cover, Are you Upset with Me?

Life’s Universal (Hackneyed?) Dilemmas

Grant Stevens
Are You Upset with Me?

 

Essays by Mark Pennings and Chris Kraus

Published by IMA and Gallery Barry Keldoulis 2011

PI
Dark Sky at the Adam. The wallworks are by Wolfgang Tillmans.

Peter Ireland’s Highlights and Lowlights

Analysing the exhibitions of 2012

JH
Shane Cotton, Eden to Ohaeawai, oil on canvas, 1998-2000. Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, gift of the Patrons of the Auckland Art Gallery, 2012

John Hurrell’s Twenty-One Picks

AUCKLAND DISTRICT

Highlights of 2012.


MA
Claire Harris, Transcendent Self-Harm Fantasy: To bleed forever and ever with no pain and no damage done, video still.

Mark Amery’s Wrap Up for 2012

His picks for 2012

PI
Glenn Burrell, Bicycle Expedition, Cape Palliser, Wairarapa and Hawkins Hill, Wellington, April - September 2012

Special Olympics

SARJEANT GALLERY TE WHARE O REHUA WHANGANUI

Whanganui

 

Glenn Burrell’s Tylee Residency exhibition
Operation FizZ!

 

27 October 2012 - 24 February 2013

TG
New Artists Show Part 2, Drinking from the Fire Hose, at Artspace. Photo: Sam Hartnett

Part 2 of Artspace’s New Artists Show

ARTSPACE AOTEAROA

Auckland

 

New Artists Show Part 2
Drinking from the Fire Hose

 

6 December - 20 December 2012


PI
Ben Cauchi, The Sophist's Mirror at City Gallery. Photo: Kate Whitley

Present Tense

CITY GALLERY WELLINGTON TE WHARE TOI

Wellington

 

Ben Cauchi
The Sophist’s Mirror

 

20 Oct. 2012 - 17 Feb. 2013

LB
Dale Harding, Inclinations of a receptive boy, 2012 (small) detail

Dale Harding in Brisbane

METRO ARTS

Brisbane

Dale Harding

Colour by Number

19 Sept. - 6 Oct. 2012

Griffith University Art Gallery

21 Nov. 2012 - 9 Feb. 2013

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The Coming Year…

The Publishers

Sustaining EyeContact


JH
Maddie Leach, Evening Echo, 2011, detail, The tall lamp at Shalom Park, Cork, Ireland

Between Memory and Trace Part 3

TE TUHI CENTRE FOR THE ARTS

Auckland

 

Maddie Leach
Evening Echo

 

17 Nov. 2012 - 10 Feb. 2013

JH
Luke Willis Thompson, Untitled, 2012, in the Bev smail Gallery, Te Tuhi. Courtesy of the artist and Hopkinson Cundy Gallery, Auckland. Photo: Sam Hartnett

Between Memory and Trace Part 2

TE TUHI CENTRE FOR THE ARTS

Auckland

 

Luke Willis Thompson
Untitled, 2012

 

17 Nov. 2012 - 10 Feb. 2013

JH
Ruth Ewan, The New Idealism, 2010, collection of inner record sleeves. Photo: Sam Hartnett

Between Memory and Trace Part 1

TE TUHI CENTRE FOR THE ARTS

Auckland

 

Ruth Ewan
The New Idealism / Paul Robeson project archive/ Them that plants them is soon forgotten

 

17 Nov. 2012 - 10 Feb. 2013