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Fiona Pardington, Judgement, 2021, pigment inks on Hahnemuhle paper, 176 x 140 cm

Pardington’s Cartomancy

STARKWHITE

Auckland

 

Fiona Pardington
Tarota


16 November 2021 - 18 December 2021

Divinatory pathways?

JH
Installation downstairs at Michael Lett of Simon Denny's Document Relief 30 (Palantir Image Identification patent) 2021

Denny At His Best

MICHAEL LETT

Auckland

 

Simon Denny and et al.
Simon Denny et al

 

17 November - 18 December 2021

 

Complex and seductive wall sculpture

JH
Matt Arbuckle's 'In the Echoes' as installed at Two Rooms. Photo: Sam Hartnett.

Matt Arbuckle at Two Rooms

TWO ROOMS

Auckland

 

Matt Arbuckle
In the Echoes


13 August—20 November 2021

Seven paintings downstairs

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Brett Graham, Maungārongo ki te Whenua, Maungārongo ki te Tangata, as installed in the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery.

Virtual Tai Moana Tai Tangata

Govett Brewster Art Gallery / Len Lye Centre virtual (lockdown) presentation

Brett Graham

 

Tai Moana Tai Tangata

 

Curated by Anna-Marie White

 

A few thoughts

JH
Imogen Taylor, Homework, 2021, watercolour on paper, 320 x 385mm (framed size)

Sweet Sapphic Eroticubism

Michael Lett Viewing Room

Auckland

 

Imogen Taylor
Watercolours

 

26 July - 7 September 2021 (Prelockdown)

Taylor intimacies

JH
Paul Cullen, Untitled, 2002-2005, ink on paper, 1502 x 1195 mm

Paul Cullen’s Silhouette Drawings

TWO ROOMS

Auckland

 


Paul Cullen
Illustrating Reason

 


13 August -11 September 2021 (prelockdown)

Disrupting orchard grids

JH
Grant Nimmo, Everyday sunshine, 2021, oil on linen, 1300 x 1610mm (framed)

Separating Menace from Innocence

IVAN ANTHONY GALLERY

Auckland

 

Grant Nimmo
The Falling Spirit

 

7 August - 31 August 2021 (Prelockdown)

Nimmo’s shadowy arbors

JH
Detail of Jan van der Ploeg's installation, 'Another Window', downstairs at Starkwhite.

A Second Window

STARKWHITE

Auckland

 

Jan van der Ploeg
The Other Window


17 August - 18 September 2021 (prelockdown)

An architectural intervention with paint

JH
Simon Ogden, The Ivory Hunter and the Elf #2, found linoleum, oil, wood and hessian, 950 x 630 mm.

Simon Ogden’s Lino Collages

FOENANDER GALLERIES

Auckland

 

Simon Ogden
Digging the Dirt for Diamonds


5 August - 28 August 2021

 

Tapestry-like ornamentation

JH
Robin Neate, Untitled 7, 2021, oil on canvas, 500 x 400 mm

Robin Neate’s Expressionistic Grisailles

MELANIE ROGER GALLERY

Auckland

 

Robin Neate
Paintings


4 August - 28 August 2021

Frenetic tonal control

JH
Lucy Gunning, Climbing Around My Room, 1993, video, sound, duration: 7:30 minutes, television monitor, shelf. Photo: Kallan MacLeod

Delicious Claustrophobia

GUS FISHER GALLERY

Auckland

 

International group show 
From Our Beautiful Square

 

26 June - 4 September 2021

Space that confines

JH
Judy Darragh, Choir, 2021, found plastic forms, wood. Detail. Photo: Sam Hartnett

Darragh in Objectspace

OBJECTSPACE

Auckland

 


Judy Darragh
Competitive Plastics


19 June - 5 September 2021

Galbraith selected

JH
Bill Culbert, Cubic Projections, 1968, fibreglass, light bulb. (Installation photography by Jennifer French.)

Bill Culbert: Photographs, Sculptures and Installations

AUCKLAND ART GALLERY TOI O TAMAKI

Auckland

 

Bill Culbert
Slow Wonder


3 July - 21 November 2021

The joy of looking closely

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Reuben Paterson, Guide Kaiarahi, 2021, crystal, acrylic, and stainless steel. Courtesy of the artist and Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki. Photo: Hamish Melville

Colourless but Poetic Paterson Masterpiece

Outside the main Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki entrance

 

Auckland

 

Reuben Paterson
Guide Kaiārahi

 


9 July 2021 - 9 July 2026

Forecourt treat

JH
Shiraz Sadikeen, Of Identity and Diversity, 2021, transfer, acrylic, watercolour, pen, bone-wax on canvas, 130 x 190mm

Sadikeen at Coastal Signs

COASTAL SIGNS

Auckland

 

Shiraz Sadikeen
Securicraft


18 June - 24 July 2021

Similarities with earlier work

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Bridget Reweti, effortless of wing, 2021, silver gelatin on argillite, commissioned by Te Tuhi. Photo by Sam Hartnett

Weng Curated Exhibition

TE TUHI CENTRE FOR THE ARTS

Pakuranga

 


 Reweti, Cooper, Cheng, Watson
They Covered the House in Stories



30 May - 22 August 2021

Ecological and Indigenous themes

JH
Installation of Yuki Iiyama's Moomin Family goes on a picnic to see Kannon, 2014 at Te Tuhi. Photo: Sam Hartnett

Oceanic Interiority

TE TUHI CENTRE FOR THE ARTS

Pakuranga

 

Christopher Ulutupu, Emerita Baik, Shireen Seno, Sione Tuivailala Monū, Yuki Iiyama
The Inner Lives of Islands


30 May - 22 August 2021

Sculpture balancing moving image

JH
Bill Riley , 20:13 (2), 2021, mixed medium on canvas, 1195 x 1205 mm

Avoiding Meaning or Waiting for It

ANTOINETTE GODKIN

Auckland

 

Bill Riley
Adrift


28 June - 31 July 2021

Eye without thought?

JH
John Crawford, Airport nude, 1982, pigment inks on Ilford Smooth Pearl Paper. 383 x 562 mm

Sexist ‘Pictographs’—or Saluting Leonardo?

Little Rosies eatery, 76 Gladstone Rd, Parnell

Auckland

 

John Crawford,
Aerial Nudes

 


15 June - 28 July 2021

Landscape settings

JH
Installation on the far wall of Franz Sturtzkopf, The Hermit, circa 1876, oil on canvas, Collection of Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki

Our Current Catastrophic Melting Moment

AUCKLAND ART GALLERY TOI O TAMAKI

Auckland

 

International Group Show

All That Was Solid Melts

 

5 June - 10 October 2021

Responding to calamity

JH
Zon Sakai, Radioactive Heavy Duty, 2011, performance at Sennai Nuclear Power Plant, Kagoshima. Photo: Kimiyuki Arikawa

Original Art Association in Grey Lynn

TUITUI ART SPACE

Auckland

 

OAA (Original Art Association)

Empty Colour

 


10 June—20 June 2021

Nine uses of photography

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