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John Stezaker, Blind (Film Portrait Collage) VIII, 2017, collage, 25.3 x 20.3 cm, courtesy of The Approach

Stezaker in Auckland

STARKWHITE

Auckland

 

John Stezaker
John Stezaker: Collages

 

9 October - 3 November 2018

In the City of Sails at last

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Shannon Te Ao, my life as a tunnel, 2018,  two-channel video with sound,  duration 9:48 min, cinematography: Iain Frengley,  installation view: Hopkinson Mossman, Auckland

Recent Te Ao Project

HOPKINSON MOSSMAN

Auckland

Shannon Te Ao
my life as a tunnel

 

8 September - 14 October 2018

Important aural component

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Installation of Vivian Lynn's 'Extricating Form 1969 - 1984', curated by Christina Barton, at Bowerbank Ninow, Auckland.

Vivian Lynn Works on Paper

BOWERBANK NINOW

Auckland

 

Vivian Lynn
Extricating form 1969 - 1984

 

12 September - 13 October, 2018

Early prints and drawings


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Grant Stevens, The Waterfalls, 2016-18, archival ink on archival paper, ongoing series, each 825 x 550 mm

When Artifice Creates Nature

STARKWHITE

Auckland

 

Grant Stevens
The Mountain and the Waterfalls

 

1 September - 29 September 2018

Grant Stevens’ ‘Naturalism’

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This Year’s Walters Prize

AUCKLAND ART GALLERY TOI O TAMAKI

Auckland

 

Buchanan, Fraser, Johnson & Ward, Solomona Tyrell
The Walters Prize 2018

18 August 2018 - 20 January 2019

Exhibition design problems

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Runo Lagomarsino, If you don't know what the south is, it's simply because you are from the north, 2009, stack of posters, 42 x 32.5 cm each. Courtesy the artist, Francisca Minini, Milano, Mendes Wood DN, Sao Paulo and Nils Stark. Photo: Sam Hartnett

Southern Lights

TE TUHI CENTRE FOR THE ARTS

Pakuranga

 

International Group Show 
From Where I Stand, My Eye Will Send A Light To You In The North


12 August - 21 October 2018

Gabriela Salgado curated exhibition


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Hikalu Clark, Accurate Community Projections, 2018, on the reeves Rd billboards. Commissioned by Te Tuhi Auckland. Photo: Sam Hartnett

Site Specific Hoardings

Te Tuhi billboards on Reeves Rd

Pakuranga

 

Hikalu Clarke
Accurate Community Projections

 

12 August -21 October 2018

Clarke’s Pakuranga critique

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Benjamin Work's Write it on the land, Seal it on the heart, 2018, as installed on Te Tuhi's Project Wall. Photo: Sam Hartnett

Work’s Revamped Tongan Coat of Arms

Te Tuhi's Project Wall

Pakuranga

 

Benjamin Work
Write it on the land, Seal it on the heart

 

12 August - 21 October 2018

143 years on

JH
Gary McMillan, Scene 37, 2018, acrylic on linen (framed), 45 x 60 cm

Granular Cityscapes

FOX JENSEN MCCRORY

Auckland


Gary McMillan
Phase IV


23 August - 22 September 2018

 

Shimmering urban vistas


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Gordon Walters: New Vision as installed at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki. (R1. New Vision) Photo by Jennifer French.

Thematically Complex Walters

AUCKLAND ART GALLERY TOI O TAMAKI

Auckland

 

Gordon Walters
New Vision


7 July - 4 November 2018

Much more than korus

JH
Denys Watkins, Satellite of Love, 2018, acrylic on cardboard, 210 x 320 mm

Watkins’ Recent Linen, Canvas and Cardboard Paintings

IVAN ANTHONY GALLERY

Auckland

 

Denys Watkins
ANTICLOCKWISE

 

8 August - 1 September 2018

Degrees of Complexity

JH
Rohan Wealleans, Back Cat Monkey Scream, 2018, acrylic and gold on canvas, 300 x 400 mm

Recent Wealleans

IVAN ANTHONY GALLERY

Auckland

 

Rohan Wealleans
Every Witch Way But Loose

 

8 August - 1 September 2018

The jaws of apes and vulvas


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Installation of Dale Frank at Gow Langsford, Lorne St

Muted but Textured Frank Paintings

GOW LANGSFORD GALLERY

Auckland

 

Solo show
Dale Frank

 

8 August - 1 September 2018

Earthy’ resin works

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Installation of Judy Millar's Studies in Place at Gow Langsford, Kitchener St

Millar’s Preparatory Studies

GOW LANGSFORD GALLERY

Auckland

 

Judy Millar
Studies in Place

 

8 August - 1 September 2018

Abstract sketches

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Kalisolaite 'Uhila, 'First will be last and last, first'. A performance at Michael Lett.

Blessed are the Meek, Unassertive and Self-Effacing

MICHAEL LETT

Auckland

 

Kalisolaite ‘Uhila
First will be last and last, first

 

11 August - 1 September 2018

Contemplating humility


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Whitney Bedford, The Hideaway, ink and oil on panel, 2015, 16" x 20"

Bedford’s Boats, Bushes and Bohemian Banks

STARKWHITE

Auckland

 

Whitney Bedford
Bohemia

 

31 July - 24 August 2018

Auckland show

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Ian Peter Weston, the very joy of killing angels, 2018, acrylic paint on aluminium, 78 x 111 x 37 cm

Ian Peter Weston Sculpture

ANTOINETTE GODKIN

Auckland

 

Ian Peter Weston
Eschathon

 

7 August - 1 September 2018

More aircraft parts

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Cat Fooks' Al Dente as installed at Anna Miles. Photo: Sam Hartnett

Fooks at Miles

ANNA MILES GALLERY

Auckland

 

Cat Fooks
Al Dente

 

29 July - 17 August 2018

Exuberant sculpture and painting


JH

When You Sell Me

A Giovanni Intra prose-poem read by DJN, who also plays coins, bowls and guitar, the latter with Sean O’Reilly

Audio work with Intra text

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Installation of Basil Beattie's Ladder and step series at Two Rooms. Photo: Sam Hartnett.

Basil Beattie Drawings

TWO ROOMS

Auckland

 

Basil Beattie
Ladder and Step Series

 

13 July - 11 August 2018

Thinking by Making

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Producing a ‘Carbon Copy’

MICHAEL LETT

Auckland

 

Jacqueline Fraser
THE MAKING OF CARBON COPY 2018

 

4 July - 4 August 2018.

Fraser ponders emerging adulthood