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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

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Teghan Burt, Substitute for Mortals #1, 2016, clothing on fabric, 3.5 m x 8.5 m. Installed as part of Imaginary Party at Terror Internationale. Photo: George Rump

Reinventing JC’s Final Repast

TERROR INTERNATIONALE

Auckland

 

Teghan Burt
Imaginary Party

 

23 June - 1 July 2016

Adding layers

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Chris Corson-Scott Photos

TRISH CLARK GALLERY

Auckland

 

Chris Corson-Scott
“We passed the setting sun.”

 

14 June - 15 July 2016

Past and present juxtaposed


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Elisabeth Vary, Untitled, 2015, oil colour on cardboard, 28 x 26 x 10.5 cm; Tomislav Nikolic, Vestige of Now:5, 2015, acrylic, marble dust and 23.75 ct platin gold leaf on linen and wood, 63.5 x 80 x 3 cm; Elisabeth Vary, Untitled, 2009, 25.5 x 32 x 10 cm

Tripartitism

FOX JENSEN MCCRORY

Auckland

 

Tomislav Nikolic, Elizabeth Vary, Aida Tomescu
Chromoffection

 

3 June - 20 July 2016

Agreements and differences

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Andrew Barber and Bill Culbert, The Key to the Fields, as installed at Hopkinson Mossman.

Barber - Culbert Pairing

HOPKINSON MOSSMAN

Auckland

 

Bill Culbert and Andrew Barber
The Key to the Fields

 

24 June - 23 July 2016

Planar pattern vs light & shadow

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Tom Kreisler: Leitmotif, 1990, acrylic on canvas, 1625 x 1520 mm; Caminito Series, screenprint on paper, 390 x 360 mm. Photo: Sam Hartnett

Tom Kreisler in Auckland

BOWERBANK NINOW

Auckland

 

Tom Kreisler
Two to Tango


22 June - 23 July 2016

Looking at his preparatory drawing