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Two Rooms presents a program of residencies and projects
Miranda Parkes in Christchurch
Christchurch
Miranda Parkes
Cracker
April 13 - May 8 2010
‘Cracker’ represents a transitional phase in Parkes’ career.
Two Shows at the Brooke Gifford Gallery
Christchurch
Kim Lowe: 9 Dragons
Eileen Leung: Radiance
30 March - April 24 2010
New Zealand’s art melting pot continues to be interesting and produce surprises.
Webster’s ‘Provocations’ in Christchurch
Christchurch
Christine Webster
Provocations
Curated by Anne Kirker
26 March -7 June 2010
this sameness lingers on for far too long, literally decades, with only minor variations.
Heather Straka’s Photographs
Christchurch
Heather Straka
Do Not Resuscitate
20 March - 17 April, 2010
Young female Japanese, Chinese and Korean models, saucily posed, mid pouty puff
The P Room
Christchurch
Roger Boyce and Marie-Claire Brehaut
Nature Morte
10 March - 11 April 2010
I have been getting in the mood to write this review. To my left is Hunter S. Thompson: The Gonzo Papers Anthology (2009), and to my right Tom Wolfe’s The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (1968).
Tony de Lautour New Paintings 2009 - 2010
Christchurch
Tony de Lautour
New Paintings: 2009-2010
March 2-27, 2010
This new work is quieter, more thoughtful, subtler and less striving for the currency of effect
Brought To Light
Brought To Light
From 28 November 2009
There are lots of other magnificent and significant works to choose from, including Michael Parekowhai’s well known sculpture of the seal balancing a Duchamp on its nose, a magnificent Killeen and everything else you might (or might not) expect.
Rokahurihia Ngarimu-Cameron
Christchurch
Rokahurihia Ngarimu-Cameron
Cloaks: Maumahara / Remember
Until 14 March 2010
The traditional vocabulary of hukahuka tassels, ngore pompoms and paheke running threads is there, as is the notion that each cloak goes beyond simply being a ceremonial garment and the product of long and ritualised labour to take on the status of textile multi-media sculpture and taonga, drawing on some particularly South Island cultural interactions.
Pete Wheeler
Christchurch
Pete Wheeler
All Bets Are Off
18 November - 19 December 2009
There is something very German about what Wheeler is doing now – and there is, perhaps, little surprise in that given that Wheeler spent a longish period in Berlin (which is a very sensible thing for any aspiring artist to do).
Neil Pardington in Christchurch
Neil Pardington
The Vault
Until March 14 2010
A set of specimen draws is transformed into a cross between Mary Kelly’s Post-Partum Document and a minimalist grid by Donald Judd.
Bronwyn Taylor’s new show
Christchurch
Bronwyn Taylor
From Kaituna to Kaitorete
10 November - 29 November 2009.
The drawings refer to the landscape Taylor inhabits, making frequent references to landscape and the geometry of perspective, and show off the versatility of charcoal as a medium. Taylor makes her own from willow, and clearly the materiality of the medium is important to her.
Clare Noonan show in Christchurch.
Christchurch
Clare Noonan
Field Work
18 October - 7 November 2009.
Field Work feels a little like a minimalist stage set representing a sort of camp site – diagrammatic, illustrative, allusive and suggestive with just a hint of a steampunk aesthetic.
Pauline Rhodes
Christchurch
9 Sept. - 11 Oct. 2009
Pauline Rhodes
Fluid Connections
In fact, it is so recognisably Indoors Rhodian that the style might be considered trademark – the careful alignments and groupings of objets trouvés (reminiscent, I’ve always felt, of the carefully-arranged-to-seem-random conglomerations used for still life drawing in high schools and art schools the world over), and the newsprint carefully foxed with delicate contagions of rust which wrap around the objects and hang on the walls.
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