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Simon Morris' 'I Watch the Falling Light' as installed at Two Rooms. Photo: Sam Hartnett

Simon Morris’ Poured Paintings

TWO ROOMS

Auckland

 

Simon Morris
I Watch the Falling Light

 

27 April - 26 May 2018

San Francisco developments

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Installation of Jan van der Ploeg's 'Lyrics' at Two Rooms. Photo: Sam Hartnett

Jan van der Ploeg at Two Rooms

TWO ROOMS

Auckland

Jan van der Ploeg
Lyrics


27 April - 26 May 2018

Colourful stacks of motifs

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Billy Apple®, Trademark Registration, a Te Tuhi billboard project on Reeves Rd. Photo: Sam Hartnett

Billy Apple’s Intellectual Property

Te Tuhi's billboard project

Pakuranga

 

Billy Apple®
Trademark Registration

 

11 March - 6 May 2018

Legal changes in his branding status


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Karyn Taylor's Diagram for a Quantum Event, as installed on Te Tuhi's Project Wall

Taylor’s Moving (and Moved Around) ‘Diagram’

TE TUHI CENTRE FOR THE ARTS

Pakuranga

 

Kāryn Taylor
Diagram for a Quantum Event

 

11 March - 30 April 2018

Subatomic speculation

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John Vea, "You kids should only experience this for a moment--don't be there for life like me", as installed at Te Tuhi.

John Vea Te Tuhi Installation

TE TUHI CENTRE FOR THE ARTS

Pakuranga

 

John Vea
“You kids should only experience this for a moment—don’t be there for life like me”


11 March - 22 July 2018

The perils of factory work

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Maria Ezcurra's 'Invisible' as installed at Te Tuhi.

Maria Ezcurra in Auckland

TE TUHI CENTRE FOR THE ARTS

Pakuranga

 

Maria Ezcurra
Invisible

 

11 March - 22 July 2018

Multi-levelled installation


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Rachel Ashby, we / some, in collaboration with Ben Ashby, Abert Ashton, Eliza Beca, Amelia Berry, Luke Kibblewhite, Theo McDonald, Lucian Manetto-Munro, Bianca Rocca, and Thomas Shoebridge. Photo: Cameron Town

Apprehensive Art

RM

Auckland

 

Ashby, Wagstaff, Callesen, Paynter, Lee-Duncan, Hong, Tran
I Understand If You’re Busy

 

7 March - 31 March 2018

Anxiety as expression

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Clinton Watkins, Locations (HD video still), 2017.

Shanghai’s ‘Water People’

TE WAI NGUTU KĀKĀ GALLERY TWO

Auckland

 

Guo Zixuan, Li Xiaofei, Tu Rapana Neill, Jim Speers, Clinton Watkins
Field Recordings

 

21 February - 6 April 2018

Field Recordings’ collective and individual projects

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Kate Newby: Try it with less pennies and direct light, 2017-2018; Swift little verbs pushing the big nouns around, 2018.

Newby at Marfa at Lett

MICHAEL LETT

Auckland

 

Kate Newby
Swift little verbs pushing the big nouns around

 

7 February - 10 March 2018

On Lett’s ground floor


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Julian Dashper's Project Locker as installed at Michael Lett. On the left, Julian Dashper, Untitled (Painting for a wall), 2001, two stretcher bars, 30' and 60". On the right, Julian Dashper, LOCKER PLANT LOCKER PLANT, May 2001, Marfa Texas documentation

Dashper at Marfa at Lett

MICHAEL LETT

Auckland

 

Julian Dashper
Locker Plant

 

7 February - 10 March 2018

In Lett’s basement

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Sorawit Songsataya, Starling, 2018, as installed at Artspace--featuring Lovebirds and Four Chambers. Photo: Sam Hartnett

One Mind: A Multitude of Bodies

ARTSPACE AOTEAROA

Auckland

 

Sorawit Songsataya
Starling

 

2 February - 17 March 2018

Collective Kinship

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Ava Seymour's installation of Around the Day  in Eighty Worlds as installed at Mercy Pictures. Detail. Photo: Sam Hartnett

Seymour’s Feline Collages

MERCY PICTURES

Auckland

 

Ava Seymour
Around the Day in Eighty Worlds

 

10 February - 3 March 2018

The pussycat gaze


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Stezaker in Codex

John Stezaker: Lost World


Catalogue for the touring exhibition curated by Robert Leonard

All touring works illustrated

 

Ridinghouse, UK, 2017

Catalogue of touring exhibition

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Carbon, as installed at Fox Jensen McCory

Elemental & Versatile Carbon

FOX JENSEN MCCRORY

Auckland

 

De la Mora, Umberg, Allen, Metlikovec, Levy, Albers
Carbon

 

7 February - 10 March 2018

Arch Hill show

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Tiffany Singh 's Collaboration is the Future as installed at Melanie Roger.

Singh at Roger

MELANIE ROGER GALLERY

Auckland

 

Tiffany Singh
Collaboration is the Future

 

31 January - 24 February 2018

Buddhist and New Mexico works


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Role models, curated by Rob McKenzie, as installed at Hopkinson Mossman

Unpicking Identity

HOPKINSON MOSSMAN

Auckland

 

Bittenbender, Cantor, McCamley, Strau
Role Models


26 January - 24 February 2018

Complex group exhibition

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Gary Peters, A Slow Take, 2017 (installation view) commissioned by Te Tuhi, Auckland. Photo by Sam Hartnett

Two Site-Specific Paintings

TE TUHI CENTRE FOR THE ARTS

Pakuranga

 

Gary Peters
A Slow Take

 

18 November 2017 - 25 February 2018

Examining the gallery architecture

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Installation at Te Tuhi of Shannon Te Ao's With the sun aglow, I have my pensive moods. Photo: Sam Hartnett

Shannon Te Ao at Te Tuhi

TE TUHI CENTRE FOR THE ARTS

Pakuranga

 

Shannon Te Ao
With the sun aglow, I have my pensive moods


18 Nov 2017 - 25 Feb 2018

The work from Edinburgh


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Kushana Bush's The Burning Hours at Re Uru. Photo: Sam Hartnett

Kushana Bush in Titirangi

TE URU WAITAKERE CONTEMPORARY GALLERY

Titirangi

 

Kushana Bush

The Burning Hours


25 November 2017 - 18 February 2018

Touring DPAG show

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Anna Rankin’s Billboards of Innovative Poetry

TE TUHI CENTRE FOR THE ARTS

Auckland

 

Anna Rankin
hail to

 

18 November 2017 - 25 February 2018

Fusing text with image

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A City Is Not a City if…..

Saving Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki