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Elizabeth Thomson's Subliminal as installed at Two Rooms. Photo: Sam Hartnett

Thomson at Two Rooms

TWO ROOMS

Auckland

 

Elizabeth Thomson
Subliminal

 

19 August - 17 September 2016

Photographic film, nylon flocking, glass beads and surface undulation

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Joyce Campbell's subtilis upstairs at Two Rooms. Photo: Sam Hartnett

Campbell’s Manipulated Bacteria

TWO ROOMS

Auckland

 

Joyce Campbell
subtilis

 

18 August - 17 September 2016

Unusual photographs

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Installation of Tjalling de Vries' no guts no glory at Antoinette Godkin.

Intestinal Art

ANTOINETTE GODKIN

Auckland

 

Tjalling de Vries
no guts no glory

 

13 August - 10 September 2016

Layered image interpretation


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Installation of Daniel Crooks' Persistence of Vision,  At Cross Purposes, In My Beginning Is My End, and for( ; ; ){} at Starkwhite. Photo: Sam Hartnett

Crooks’ Panoramic, Time-Fixated, Videos

STARKWHITE

Auckland

 

Daniel Crooks
Vanishing Point

 

3 August - 27 August 2016

New explorations in time and motion

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Jeena Shin's Motus in Jar, near the corner of New North and Western Springs Roads.

Jeena Shin in Jar

JAR

Auckland

 

Jeena Shin
Motus

 

6 August 2016 - 6 August 2017

Teasing, complex, inverted, juxtaposed repetitions

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Cat Fooks' Pleasant St exhibition as installed at Anna Miles

Encrusted Agitation Galore

ANNA MILES GALLERY

Auckland

 

Cat Fooks
Pleasant St

 

31 July - 2 September 2016

Busy obliterating paint


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Estuary Art Awards 10th Anniversary, as installed in the Malcolm Smith Gallery. In the centre (on the floor) is the winning video work by Emily Parr, Te Wai Mokoia. Photo: Courtesy of Malcolm Smith Gallery.

Saving the Tamaki Estuary

MALCOLM SMITH GALLERY

Howick

 

Selected group exhibition
Estuary Art Awards 2016 - Tenth Anniversary



29 July - 27 August 2016

Eco art competition

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Britten V1000 installed in GREAT BRITTEN! A Work by Billy Apple at Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu, July 2016. F002–92 collection of Kevin Grant. Photo: John Collie

Apple’s Britten Tribute

CHRISTCHURCH ART GALLERY TE PUNA O WAIWHETU

Christchurch

 

Billy Apple
Great Britten!

 

16 July - 9 November 2016

To bike designer and racer

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James Cousins' Resident, as installed at Gow Langsford.

Image Fragmentation & Torture

GOW LANGSFORD GALLERY

Auckland

 

James Cousins
Resident

 

3 August - 27 August 2016

Cousins’ enforced porosity


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John Akomfrah, Vertigo Sea, 2015, as installed at Centre of Contemporary Art Toi Moroki

John Akomfrah’s Dizzying Disgust

CENTRE OF CONTEMPORARY ART TOI MOROKI

Christchurch

 

John Akomfrah
Vertigo Sea

 

21 May - 7 August 2016

Slavery and Cetacean slaughter

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Joyce Campbell, Flightdream II, 2016, (installation view), Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, 2016

More Is Less: The Walters Prize 2016

AUCKLAND ART GALLERY TOI O TAMAKI

Auckland

 

Joyce Campbell, Nathan Pohio, Lisa Reihana, Shannon Te Ao
The Walters Prize 2016

 

16 July - 30 October 2016

The perils of over-labouring

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Sabelo Mlangeni's Heartbreaker exhibition of hand-printed gelatin prints, as installed at Artspace. Photo: Sam Hartnett

Mlangeni in Auckland

ARTSPACE AOTEAROA

Auckland

 

Sabelo Mlangeni
Heartbreaker

 

1 July - 27 August 2016

South African photography


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Mikala Dwyer, In the Head of Humans, as installed at Hopkinson Mossman

Mikala Dwyer in Auckland

HOPKINSON MOSSMAN

Auckland

 

Mikala Dwyer
In the Head of Humans

 

29 July - 27 August 2016

Exuberant colour, geometry and creepy forms

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Chen Chieh-jen, Realm of Reverberations (2014) 104 mins Taiwanese, Chinese with English subtitles. Single channel video with sound. Courtesy of the artist and Artspace. Photo: Sam Hartnett

Chen Chieh-jen Presentation

ARTSPACE AOTEAROA

Auckland

 

Chen Chieh-jen
Realm of Reverberations

 

1 July - 27 August 2016

The rights of lepers

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Still from Sam Hamilton's Apple Pie. Cinematography by Ian Powell.

Sam Hamilton’s Cosmic Apple Pie

NZIFF 2016

Event Cinema 6, Auckland

 

Sam Hamilton
Apple Pie

 

Sunday 17 July, 6.00 pm

Featuring Ian Powell’s cinematography


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Pip Culbert, Pocket(s), 2001-2014, cotton. Courtesy of Pip Culbert Estate and Hopkinson Mossman, Auckland. Photo: Sam Hartnett

Pip Culbert’s ‘Seams’

ARTSPACE AOTEAROA

Auckland

 

Pip Culbert
Seams


1 July - 27 August 2016

A sampling mini-survey

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Nathan Gray, The Shakers.

Rock My Religion

AUDIO FOUNDATION

Auckland

 

Nathan Gray
The Shakes

 

7 July - 30 July 2016

Improv music and dance video

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Gavin Hipkins, The Port, on the wall on the left. Richard Maloy,  Yellow Structure (Variation), 2016  Card, tape, acrylic paint.  Dimensions variable. Supported by the Asia/NZ Co-commissioning Fund. Photo: Sam Hartnett

Contained, But Almost Spilling Over

STARKWHITE

Auckland

 

Gavin Hipkins, Richard Maloy, Daniel von Sturmer
Material Candour

 

5 July - 22 July 2016

Three explorations of process


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Dieneke Jansen, Marunda: Dwelling on the Stoep, 2015, video projection, duration 35.40. Nine videos on momitors, duration varies from 5.04 -16;52 min. Photo: Sam Hartnett

Jansen’s Three City Project

TE WAI NGUTU KĀKĀ GALLERY TWO

Auckland

 

Dieneke Jansen
Dwelling on the Stoep

 

10 June - 15 July 2016

Amsterdam; Jakarta; Auckland

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John Ward Knox's shadow shadow exhibition as installed at Ivan Anthony. Photo: Sam Hartnett

Ward Knox ‘Drawings’

IVAN ANTHONY GALLERY

Auckland

 

John Ward Knox
shadow shadow

 

29 June - 23 July 2016

Planar grids and recession

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Lundberg Paintings

IVAN ANTHONY GALLERY

Auckland

 

Patrick Lundberg
Figures

 

29 June - 23 July 2016

Strips and balls