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P.R., Te Atakura, 2024; C.P., Vierkantrohre Serie DW, 1967; P.R., Easy Action Painting, 2023; P.R., Ki Uta Ki Tai, 2024; P.R., Driftwood 1, 2023.

Priorities’ Sculptures: Ineffective Due to Metaphor?

ARTSPACE AOTEAROA

Tamaki Makaurau

 

Charlotte Posenenske & Peter Robinson
Priorities


10 February - 6 April 2024

 

Tropes permitted or blocked by Davidson?

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Peter Robinison, Driftwood, 2023, installation view at Coastal Signs, Tāmaki Makaurau, Auckland

Ambiguous & Perhaps Cynical Robinson

COASTAL SIGNS

Auckland

 

Peter Robinson
Driftwood


30 September - 28 October 2023

A complex multi-meaninged exhibition

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Peter Robinson, Die Cuts and Derivations, 2015. Cut wool felt. Private collection.

Presenting Installation as Drawing

CHRISTCHURCH ART GALLERY TE PUNA O WAIWHETU

Christchurch

Peter Robinson, and 25 artists represented in the CAG Collection
Die Cuts and Derivations


11 March 2023 - 2 July 2023

What is a mark? What is a space?


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Peter Robinson, Forward Backwards, 2021, installation view: Coastal Signs, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland

Soul (and Brain) on Ice

COASTAL SIGNS

Auckland

 

Peter Robinson
Forwards Backwards


8 December 2021 - 5 February 2022

Authentic anger-driven dissembler

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Theatrical & Spectacular Māori Art Survey

AUCKLAND ART GALLERY TOI O TAMAKI

Auckland

 

112 indigenous artists from Aotearoa
Toi Tū Toi Ora: Contemporary Māori Art


4 December, 2020 - 9 May, 2021

Confined by architecture

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Peter Robinson, Preparatory drawing used for promoting Rag Trade.

Robinson’s Carpet of Explosive ‘Tantrums’

23 GORDON ROAD

Auckland

 

Peter Robinson
Rag Trade


25 June - 4 July 2020

Smashing and ‘reaching up’ as ideational content


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Us v Them: Tony de Lautour, installation view at Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū. Photo: John Collie

Tony de Lautour Survey

CHRISTCHURCH ART GALLERY TE PUNA O WAIWHETU

Christchurch

 

Tony de Lautour
Us v Them


4 May - 9 September 2018

Curated by Peter Vangioni

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Phillip Lai, Peter Robinson  Spinning, 2018 installation view: Hopkinson Mossman, Auckland

Robinson and Lai

HOPKINSON MOSSMAN

Auckland

 

Peter Robinson and Philip Lai
Spinning

 

19 May - 23 June 2018

Referencing Grimm fairytales?

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Peter Robinson, Fieldwork, 2018, Artist’s studio materials, including wood, wire, paper, metal, nails and magnets.  Courtesy of Peter Robinson, CoCA and Daniela Aebli

Robinson’s Fieldwork

CENTRE OF CONTEMPORARY ART TOI MOROKI

Christchurch

 

Peter Robinson
Fieldwork

 

3 March - 13 May 2018

Latest architectural explorations


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Your Hotel Brain, installation image, courtesy of the Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu.

It Was Twenty Years Ago Today….

CHRISTCHURCH ART GALLERY TE PUNA O WAIWHETU

Christchurch

 

Group exhibition
Your Hotel Brain


13 May 2017 - 8 July 2018

‘Pencil-case school’ revisited?

APW
Martin Awa Clarke Langdon, Untitled (mediated view)

Ngāi Tahu Strut Their Stuff

CENTRE OF CONTEMPORARY ART TOI MOROKI

Ōtautahi/Christchurch

 

Ngāi Tahu artists in Residence
Paemanu: Nohoaka Toi

 

8 September - 26 November 2017

Using CoCA building as a marae

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Peter Robinson's After Party at Hopkinson Mossman

Robinson Adds to his Felt

HOPKINSON MOSSMAN

Auckland

 

Peter Robinson
After Party

 

3 February - 4 March 2017

Exciting conglomerate installation


Grant Stevens, Sky, 2016, in Pacific Real Time. Courtesy of Starkwhite. Photograph: Emil McAvoy

Cloud Funding

The Cloud

Downtown Auckland

 

Forty dealer booths representing galleries from New Zealand, Australia, the Cook Islands, and Chile

Auckland Art Fair 2016

 

26 May - 29 May 2016

A meta-review of the Auckland Art Fair

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Tony Garifalakis's Bloodline as presented at Sarah Scout Gallery's booth.

Attempting More than Commerce?

The Cloud

Downtown Auckland

 

40 dealer galleries from New Zealand, Australia, Cook Islands and Chile.
Auckland Art Fair 2016

 

25 May - 29 May 2016

The second ‘Cloud’ art fair

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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

Pondering Robinson’s use of colour


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Anton Parsons: On and on and on, 2015; Whiteware, 2015; Timber, 2015; Life is Short, 2015

Four Auckland Sculptors

BATH STREET GALLERY

Auckland

 

Anton Parsons, Kevin Osmond, Louise Purvis, Chiara Corbelletto
Matter

 

7 May - 6 June 2015

Unusual combination

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Daniel Crooks, An Embroidery of Voids, (still) 2013, single channel video, high definition (HD), sound, 16:9, colour, Chartwell Collection, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, purchased 2014

Telescopically Structured Chartwell Show

AUCKLAND ART GALLERY TOI O TAMAKI

Auckland

 

Works from the Chartwell Collection
A World Undone


8 November 2014 - 6 April 2015

Shrewdly layered collection display

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Peter Roche, Museum Piece, 1993, Framing the Museum in Ngā Toi │ Arts Te Papa, 22 August 2014 - 01 March 2015, photographs, clocks, wall text. Purchased 1993 (1993-0040-2). Image Courtesy of Te Papa.

Looking at Te Papa’s Collecting

TE PAPA TONGAREWA MUSEUM OF NEW ZEALAND

Wellington

 

Collection presentations

Nga Toi / Arts Te Papa

 

22 August 2014 - 1 March 2015

Assorted shows


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Installation view of John Panting: Spatial Constructions at the Adam Art Gallery, showing 6.08 (Untitled VIII, 1973–74, steel, 244 x 366 x 244cm. Collection of Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, 1977-0006-1. Photo: Shaun Waugh.

Panting and Robinson Correspondence

ADAM ART GALLERY TE PATAKA TOI

Wellington

John Panting
Spatial Constructions

Peter Robinson

Cuts and Junctures

12 October - 20 December, 2013

Two artists in dialogue

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Peter Robinson: Acktion Paintings, 5-8, 2006-2008; Ack (re-Ack) 2006-2013

Robinson’s Ack Painting & Sculptural Explorations

HOPKINSON MOSSMAN

Auckland

 

Peter Robinson
Acktion Painting / Acktion Sculpture

 

13 September - 12 October 2013

Made Acktive

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Sarat Maharaj

5th Triennial of Auckland (Discussion 2)

Auckland Art Gallery and nine other venues

Auckland

 

International group exhibition and forums
If you were to live here

 

10 May - 11 August 2013

Exploring the unforeseen