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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

JH
Conor Clarke's As Far as the Eye Can Reach downstairs at Two Rooms

Visual, Tactile and Verbal Correlations

TWO ROOMS

Auckland

 

Conor Clarke
As far as the eye can reach

 

4 June - 3 July 2021

 

Conor Clarke’s layered communications


JH
Louise Stevenson, Someplace Else, 2021 (installation view), works on paper, 2000-2019, found materials, mixed media. Commissioned by Te Tuhi, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland. Photo by Sam Hartnett

Delicate Stevenson Drawings

TE TUHI CENTRE FOR THE ARTS

Pakuranga


Louise Stevenson
Someplace Else


30 May - 22 August 2021

 

Te Tuhi’s project wall

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Installation of Shaun Waugh's Encounter upstairs at Two Rooms. Photo: Sam Hartnett

Shaun Waugh’s Digital Grafting

TWO ROOMS

Auckland

 

Shaun Waugh
Encounter


4 June - 3 July 2021

Hybrid blends of form, texture and colour

JH
Bill Henson, Untitled 1985-86 #106 D, 1985-1986, archival inkjet pigment print, 128 × 100 cm

Henson’s Wondrous Light

STARKWHITE

Auckland

 

Solo show
Bill Henson: 1985 - 2021


21 May - 19 June 2021

Mini-survey


JH
Shahriar Asdollah-Zadeh (with Anna Starr), Faith and Through the Looking Glass Diptych, 2021, pigment inks printed on 310 gsm Ilford Galerie Smooth Pearl, 628 x 830 x 48 mm (framed)

Mediating Symbols and Pure Sensation

TRISH CLARK GALLERY

Auckland

 

Shahriar Asdollah-Zadeh
Light Dot Colour

 

21 May - 26 June 2021

Asdollah-Zadeh’s mini-survey

JH
Image from Deborah Rundle's invitation to her 2021 show at RM, 'No More the Fruit.'

Pondering the Alleged Benefits of Paid Labour

RM

Auckland

 

Deborah Rundle
No More the Fruit


12 May - 6 June 2021

Finding time for analysis

JH
Installation of Jenny Gillam and Eugene Hansen's The Thrum of the Tide,' at Te Uru. Photo: Sam Hartnett

Reconstructed’ Dance Floor

TE URU WAITAKERE CONTEMPORARY GALLERY

Titirangi

 

Jenny Gillam and Eugene Hansen
The Thrum of the Tide

 


20 February - 6 June 2021

Searching under a cave


JH
Sonya lacey, Weekend, 2018, moving image and mixed media installation

The Tenth Walters Prize

AUCKLAND ART GALLERY TOI O TAMAKI

Auckland

 

Lacey, Amundsen, Spong, Mata Aho Collective and Lander
2021 Walters Prize Finalists

 

13 May - 5 September 2021

Nice spatial layout

JH
Jane Zusters, At home Wetlands Grove, Bexley, 2013 C-type print

Jane Zusters Photographs

THE JAMES WALLACE ARTS TRUST

Auckland

 

Jane Zusters
Te Karoro Karoro: A Place Called Home: The Red Zone Clearances: Christchurch Ōtautahi


14 April - 30 May 2021

Look very carefully

JH
Still from Rangituhia Hollis' Across the Face of the Moon, 2020, 10.33 minutes, digital video, sound

I Decline to Taste the Casein Air

ARTSPACE AOTEAROA

Auckland

 

Hollis, Iti, Monteith, Monu, Pastrana
Sovereign Pacific / Pacific Sovereigns



13 April -15 May 2020

Circuit project in Auckland


JH
Gregory Bennett, Embowered II, 2021, still, HD video; 7 minutes, 30 seconds, looped variable.

Three Bennett Videos

TWO ROOMS

Auckland

 

Gregory Bennett
Edifice


23 April - 28 May 2021

Lively, animated & ambiguous treats

JH
Installation detail of Elizabeth Thomson's Lateral Theories' at Two Rooms. Photo: Sam Hartnett.

Thomson’s Evocative ‘Planets’

TWO ROOMS

Auckland

 

Elizabeth Thomson
Lateral Theories

 

22 April - 28 May 2021

Catalysts for thought

JH
Ron Left, Fenestra No. 14, acrylic on plywood, 1200 x 1800 mm

Ron Left’s Grid Paintings

ARTIS Gallery

Auckland

 


Ron Left
The Fenestra Series

 


21 April - 9 May 2020

Featuring tiny squares or circles


JH
Installation of Pauline Rhodes and Richard Frater's show, Bluets, at Michael Lett.

Rhodes/Frater Exhibition

MICHAEL LETT

Auckland

 

Pauline Rhodes and Richard Frater
Bluets


22 April - 22 May 2021

Cross generational pairing

JH
Martin Basher, Birds of Paradise, installation view, Starkwhite, April 2021. Photo: Sam Hartnett.

Basher’s Witty Floral Arrangements

STARKWHITE

Auckland

 

Martin Basher
Birds of Paradise


13 April - 14 May 2021

Layered and ambiguous compressed references

JH
Still from Pinar Yoldas, The Kitty A1: Artificial Intelligence For Governance, 2016, 12 minute video with 3D animation

Keep Laughing Even When Surrounded By Corpses

GUS FISHER GALLERY

Auckland

 

Wong Ping, Mark Schroder, Pinar Yoldas
Happiness is only real when shared


13 February - 29 May 2021

A vibrant trio of artists