Two Rooms presents a program of residencies and projects
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Losing Her Marbles
Tiffany Jenkins
Keeping Their Marbles: How the Treasures of the Past Ended Up in Museums … And Why They Should Stay There
368 pp
Oxford University Press, USA, 2016
The ethics of stolen treasures
Carl Sydow Sculptures and Drawings
Christchurch
Carl Sydow
Sydow: Tomorrow Never Knows
25 March - 23 July 2017
A small survey
The Culturalised Psychology of Shame
Susan Best
Reparative Aesthetics: Witnessing in Contemporary Art Photography
London 2016
Can Art help us break free?
Letting Mr. Shrigley Steal Your Mind
Christchurch
David Shrigley
Lose Your Mind
11 March - 27 May 2017
International touring survey
The Irrepressible Judy Darragh
Christchurch
Judy Darragh
Ummm
27 January - 18 February 2017
Smart show in CHCH
Emerging Photographic Talent
Christchurch
Nine emerging photographers
The Devil’s Blind Spot: Recent Strategies in New Zealand Photography
19 November 2016 - 12 March 2017
A New Generation
Visual Political Caricature in Aotearoa
Murdoch: The Political Cartoons of Sharon Murdoch
Cartoons by Sharon Murdoch
Commentary by Melinda Johnston
Published October 2016
Murdoch satire
Byrt’s Backyard
Anthony Byrt
This Model World: Travels to the Edge of Contemporary Art
252 pp, paperback
September 2016
Personal responses to NZ contemporary art
Art and Sport
Pataphysical Speculations
Christchurch
Paul Cullen
Provisional Arrangements
8 June - 30 June 2016
Cullen Ilam Campus installation
Rebecca Harris’ Biomorphic Fluorescence
Christchurch
Rebecca Harris
Pink Sugar Bush
19 April - 7 May 2016
Imaginative visual poetry
Paint as Fuel or Food
Christchurch
Zhonghao Chen
Environmental freakology
1 December - 19 December 2015
Zhonghao Chen at Smart
Pioneering figure
Examining Te Papa’s Photography
New Zealand Photography Collected
Athol McCredie
Over 400 colour and b/w images from the national collection
368 pp, hardcover
Te Papa Tongarewa October 2015
Athol McCredie’s publication
French Curator in Christchurch
Christchurch
Future Artists-in-Residence at Te Whare Hera
The blue-grey wall
21 October - 28 November 2015
Anticipating Wellington residency
Baby Got Back
Christchurch
Heather Straka
The Honeytrap
7 October - 31 October 2015
Straka’s rear view semi-nudes
Tom Kreisler Film
Shirley Horrocks
Tom Who? The Enigma of Tom Kreisler
73 mins
Producer: Shirley Horrocks, Tony Green
Photography: Adrian Greshoff, Leon Narby, Ron Egozi
Shirley Horrocks’ documentary
Pānoho’s ‘Māori Art’
Māori Art: History, Architecture, Landscape & Theory
Dr. Rangihīroa Pānoho,
Hardcover, 352 pp, 300 illustrations
Published by David Bateman, 2015
Substantial, useful, idiosyncratic and flawed
Suspended Disbelief
Christchurch
Joanna Langford
Calling the deep
28 July - 22 August 2015
Jo Langford in Christchurch
Postcards from the Ivory Tower
Wystan Curnow
The Critic’s Part: Wystan Curnow Art Writings 1971- 2013
Edited by Christina Barton and Robert Leonard
VUP, 2014
Another look at Wystan Curnow’s anthology of criticism
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