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JH
Barbara Tuck: Delirium Crossing (installation view), Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū, 2022-23. This exhibition has been developed as a partnership between Anna Miles Gallery, Ramp Gallery and Te Pātaka Toi Adam Art Gallery.

Barbara Tuck in Christchurch

CHRISTCHURCH ART GALLERY TE PUNA O WAIWHETU

Christchurch

 


Barbara Tuck
Delirium Crossing

Curated by Christina Barton, Anna Miles and 14 invited art historians, writers and curators



15 October 2022 - 26 March 2023

Interpretation textually over determined?

JH
Still from Laresa Kosloff, New Futures TM, 2021, 4K video, made from commercial stock footage, 4.37 mins

Detecting Sentience & Cognition

TE TUHI CENTRE FOR THE ARTS

Auckland

 

International group show
Who can think, what can think

 

18 February 2023 - 7 May 2023

Correcting neural disadvantage

JH
Installation of Koen Delaere's exhibition 'White Light White Heat' at Fox Jensen McCrory.

Spectacular Paradoxical Delaere

FOX JENSEN MCCRORY

Auckland

 

Koen Delaere
White Light White Heat


11 February 2023 - 18 March 2023

Fragile and muscular


JH
Cat Fooks at Anna Miles: Sour Orange Summer, 2023; Brittle Star, 2023; Pocockiella, 2023;  Kobold, 2022. Photo: Sam Hartnett

Typically Exuberant Fooks

ANNA MILES GALLERY

Auckland

 

Cat Fooks
Terebella


18 February 2023 -16 March 2023

Restlessly frenetic adder-on of colours and bits

JH
John Nixon: Untitled (Orange Monochrome), 1997, metal disc and enamel on mdf, 555 x 555 mm; Untitled (Black Monochrome), 1997, enamel on mdf, 600 x 600 mm.                                               Photo: Sam Hartnett

John Nixon’s Painting Passion

TWO ROOMS

Auckland

 

John Nixon
Works 1990 - 2014



10 February 2023 - 11 March 2023

Posthumous NZ exhibition

JH
Installation of Shannon Te Ao's 'Tīwakawaka' exhibition at Coastal Signs.

A Moody Chromatic Infusion

COASTAL SIGNS

Auckland

 

Shannon Te Ao
Tīwakawaka


16 November 2022 — 28 January 2023

Shannon Te Ao’s photographic installation


JH
Installation on Starkwhite's lefthand wall of five Gordon Walters canvas paintings

A German / New Zealand Pairing

STARKWHITE

Auckland

 

Gerold Miller & Gordon Walters
Miller to Walters

 


8 December 2022 - 31 January 2023

Different supports; differently finished surfaces

JH
Xi Li, The Transcendence Labyrinth of Idols, 2022 (installation view), photo by Sam Hartnett

Sardonic or Sincere Guidance Towards Enlightenment?

TE TUHI CENTRE FOR THE ARTS

Pakuranga

 

Xi Li
The Transcendence Labyrinth of Idols


4 December 2022 - 29 January 2023

Mocking a spiritual path?

JH
Daphne Simons, Peach Teats at the Dude Ranch, 2022 (detail), image courtesy of artist

Daphne Simons’ Peach Teat Billboards

TE TUHI CENTRE FOR THE ARTS

Pakuranga

 

Daphne Simons
Peach Teats at the Dude Ranch


4 December 2022 - 29 January 2023

Shrewd multiple interpretations


JH
Robin White, Fish and chips, Maketu, 1975, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, purchased 1975

Robin White Survey

AUCKLAND ART GALLERY TOI O TAMAKI

Auckland

 


Robin White
Te Whanaketanga / Something is Happening Here

 


22 October 2022 - 30 January 2023

The pleasures of depicted space and surface

JH

Interactive Eddie Clemens at AUT

ST PAUL St Gallery

Auckland

 

Eddie Clemens
Resolution Venture


17 November -16 December 2022

Ruminating over Tongan history

JH
Frida Kahlo, Diego on my Mind (Self-Portrait as Tehuana), 1943, oil on Masonite, 76 x 61 cm. The Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection of 20th Century Mexican Art and the Vergel Foundation. Photo credit: Gerardo Suter

Magnificent Kahlo

AUCKLAND ART GALLERY TOI O TAMAKI

Auckland

 

Works from the Jacques & Natasha Gelman Collection
Frida Kahlo & Diego Rivera: Art & Life in Modern Mexico

 

15 October 2022 - 22 January 2023

Looking at Mexican culture and history


JH
Mark Francis, Jericho, 2022, oil on canvas, 183 x 244 cm

International Plastic Soul

FOX JENSEN MCCRORY

Auckland

 

International group show
Plastic Soul


19 November - 17 December 2022

A fresh presentation of bodily abstraction

JH

Crop Circle Ruminations

Emil McAvoy
Soft Launch: An Exopoetics of the Crop Circle Phenomenon

Coloured photographs by Emil McAvoy
Essay by Chelsea Nichols

PUFF PIECE x Bad News Books 2022

Might the rings be art?

JH
Installation view of etchings in Elizabeth Thomson's Cellular Memory in Gallery Four of Te Uru's top floor. Photo by Sam Hartnett, courtesy Te Uru.

Thomson @ Titirangi & Arch Hill

Te Uru & Two Rooms

Elizabeth Thomson

Cellular Memory (Te Uru)

24 September - 4 December 2022

 

My Titirangi Years (Two Rooms)

21 October - 19 November 2022

Clear rippling water vs darting shadow


JH
Installation of Nikau Hindin's Manu Aute: Rere Runga Hau at Season. Photo: Seb Charles

Nikau Hindin Kites

SEASON

Auckland

 

Nikau Hindin
Manu Aute: Rere Runga Hau


8 October 2022 - 19 November 2022

Contemplative objects for indoors

JH

Impressive Julia Morison Sampler

TRISH CLARK GALLERY

Auckland

 

Julia Morison
In Hindsight

 

8 October - 17  December 2022

Enthralling mixture of projects

JH
Installation of Tia Ranginui's Gonville Gothic at Te Uru. Photo by Sam Hartnett. Courtesy of Te Uru.

Ranginui Photographs at Titirangi

TE URU WAITAKERE CONTEMPORARY GALLERY

Titirangi

 

Tia Ranginui
Gonville Gothic


10 September 2022 - 26 February 2023

Exploring the preternatural


JH

Roman Mitch at Te Tuhi

TE TUHI CENTRE FOR THE ARTS

Auckland

 

Roman Mitch (with Marcel Tautahi, Ngaroma Natalia, Mokopōpaki, Penelope Sue, Rangitauninihi, Ursula Christel, and Yllwbro)

Roman Mitch: Red Teddy


25 September 2022 - 13 November 2022

Mokopōpaki projects coalesced

JH
Installation view at Artspace Aotearoa, of Martin Sagadin, Garden of Clay, 2022, digital video, sound, 16.12 minutes

Legacies at Artspace Aotearoa

ARTSPACE AOTEAROA

Auckland

 

Edith Amituanai, Martin Sagadin, Sriwhana Spong, Ukrit Sa-nguanhai, Pati Tyrell
Legacies

Films commissioned and toured by Circuit

 

2 September - 22 October 2022

Five-part film programme

JH
Ava Seymour, I’m Here For The Butterflies, 2022 (installation view, Reeves Road), photo by Sam Hartnett

Seymour’s Feline Billboards

Te Tuhi Billboards

Auckland

 

Ava Seymour
I’m here for the Butterflies & Story of Love


25 September 2022 - 27 November 2022

Interpreting cat physiognomies