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Installation of Joyce Campbell's Flightdream (2015) at Two Rooms. FD video with audio. Sound by Peter Kolovos. Duration 25 minutes looped

Joyce Campbell’s Evocative Film

TWO ROOMS

Auckland

 

Joyce Campbell
Flightdream

 

24 September - 24 October 2015

Ghostly emulsion and menacing thorns

JH
Mickey Smith, installation of South, HD video, at Te Tuhi. Photo: Sam Hartnett

Carnegie’s New Zealand Public Libraries

TE TUHI CENTRE FOR THE ARTS

Pakuranga

 

Mickey Smith
Cultivate it as you will…

 

1 August - 25 October 2015

A hundred years on

JH
Ronnie van Hout, No Exit II, 2003, mixed media, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki.

Bringing The Outside In

AUCKLAND ART GALLERY TOI O TAMAKI

Auckland

 

Newby, Denny, Buchanan, van Hout, Connor
Inside Outside Upside Down



18 July - 1 November 2015

Talents residing overseas


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Shannon Novak, Deep Concinnity, as installed at Te Tuhi. Photo: Sam Hartnett

Novak Wall Drawings

TE TUHI CENTRE FOR THE ARTS

Auckland

 

Shannon Novak
Deep Concinnity

 

1 August 2015 - 21 February 2016

Architectural interventions

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Jenny Gillam & Eugene Hansen with Adrian McCleland, At a Distance of forty-two days, as installed at Te Tuhi. Photo: Sam Hartnett

Art and Entomology

TE TUHI CENTRE FOR THE ARTS

Auckland

 

Jenny Gillam & Eugene Hansen with Adrian McCleland
At a Distance of Forty-Two Days

 

1 August - 25 October 2015

The sex life of stick insects

JH
Phil Dadson, Anatomia Sonora da Camera, 2015, single channel video/audio, 18 minutes - as installed at Trish Clark Gallery.

Dadson Drawings and Videos

TRISH CLARK GALLERY

Auckland

 

Phil Dadson
Sound Anatomy

 

16 August - 2 October 2015

Some European projects


JH
Jos de Gruyter and Harald Thys, Der Schlamm von Branst, 2008, HD video, 20 min

Lugubrious’ Belgians and others

MICHAEL LETT

Auckland

 

International group exhibition
i) Duplex Cling Mob

26 August - 26 September 2015

Matt Hanson curated show

JH
Installation of Campbell Patterson's  new normal music at Michael Lett

Masochism and Play as Art

MICHAEL LETT

Auckland

 

Campbell Patterson
new normal music

 

26 August - 26 September 2015

Patterson at Lett

JH
Installation of Bianca Hester's movements materialising momentarily at St Paul St Gallery. Photo: Sam Hartnett.

Bianca Hester in Auckland

TE WAI NGUTU KĀKĀ GALLERY TWO

Auckland

 

Bianca Hester
movements materialising momentary

 

31 July - 11 September 2015

Examining time, motion and mineral substance


JH
Oleg Polounine, Untitled, 2015, kauri, rimu, 4000 x 460 x 260 mm; Ian Peter Weston, Elsie returned from Porjus, Now in a museum, like the Dead Confederate Boy, 14, a spectacle, in these sights of death, paint on paper, paper card, glue, fasteners.

Polounine and Weston

RM

Auckland

 

Ian Peter Weston and Oleg Polounine
After the Shift

 

27 August - 12 September 2015

A pairing at RM

JH
John Nixon's EPW: Selected Paintings, as installed upstairs at Two Rooms. Photo: Sam Hartnett

John Nixon’s Mini-Survey at Two Rooms

TWO ROOMS

Auckland

 

John Nixon
EPW: Selected Paintings

 

14 August - 19 September 2015

Exploring Modernism’s possibilities

JH
Simon Morris, Colour Order, as installed downstairs at Two Rooms. Photo: Sam Hartnett.

Simon Morris’ Tonal & Chromatic Gradations

TWO ROOMS

Auckland

 

Simon Morris
Colour Order

 

14 August - 19 September 2015

Methodically diluting intense saturation


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g.bridle, black wedge 3. Image: Joe Prisk

bridle at Glovebox

GLOVEBOX

Auckland

 

g.bridle
Of the spoiling

 

13 August - 29 August 2015

Exploiting spatial, etymological and mystical particularities

JH
M.T.Woollaston, Tasman Bay, 1991, oil on canvas, 900 x 1200 mm. Courtesy of Wallace Arts Trust Collection.

Woollaston at the Pah Homestead

THE JAMES WALLACE ARTS TRUST

Auckland

 

Toss Woollaston
Woollaston: The Wallace Arts Trust Collection, 1931 - 1996

 

30 June - 6 September 2015

Painting and drawing survey

JH
Fiona Pardington's Childish Things at Starkwhite. Photo: Sam Hartnett

Cursive Pardington

STARKWHITE

Auckland

 

Fiona Pardington
Childish Things

 

12 August - 19 September 2015

Sampling correspondence


JH
Denys Watkins, Audubon Lagoon, 2014, acrylic on linen, 1200 x 1200 mm

Watkins Submerged

BATH STREET GALLERY

Auckland

 

Denys Watkins
Dissolving Empire

 

6 August - 29 August 2015

Aqua-obsessed image builder

JH
Installation of No Remedy, But More at Antoinette Godkin

Snow Curated Show

ANTOINETTE GODKIN

Auckland

 

Toby Raine, Ian Peter Weston, Diane Scott
No Remedy, But More

 

4 August - 1 September 2015

Three diverse individuals in juxtaposition

JH
Helen Calder, Stack, 2012, acrylic paint skins and steel frame; Marie Le Lievre, Black Mass (House), 2015, oil on canvas. Photo: Sam Hartnett

Echoing Colour, and More

TRISH CLARK GALLERY

Auckland

 

Calder, Novak, Le Lievre, Bambury, Amsel

Solid Colour Part 1



22 July - 11 August 2015

Five approaches to hue


JH
Peter Robinson, Die Cuts & Derivations, 2015, as installed at Hopkinson Mossman

Dispersing Feeling with Pop Coloured Felt

HOPKINSON MOSSMAN

Auckland

 

Peter Robinson
Die Cuts & Derivations

 

31 July - 29 August 2015

Pondering Robinson’s use of colour

JH
Richard Bryant, No Title, 2015, acrylic on fabric and pieced polyester film, 915 x 860 mm; Richard Bryant, No Title, 2015, acrylic on fabric, 750 x 700 mm

Richard Bryant Exhibition

IVAN ANTHONY GALLERY

Auckland

 

Richard Bryant
The Strata of Silence

 

22 July - 15 August 2015

Comparing processes

JH
Georgie Hill, Eileen Gray folding metal lounger with Untitled (Textile design no. 111) by Frances Hodgkins, 2015, watercolour on paper, 440 x 510 mm

Georgie Hill Watercolours

IVAN ANTHONY GALLERY

Auckland


Georgie Hill
Semi - Supine view

 

22 July - 15 August 2015

Exploring precise, but vertiginous chaos