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The Story of Rama: Indian miniatures from the National Museum, New Delhi, as installed at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki

Exceptional Indian Miniatures

AUCKLAND ART GALLERY TOI O TAMAKI

Auckland

 

Indian miniatures from the National Museum, New Delhi
The Story of Rama

 

5 September 2015 - 17 January 2016

On their way home to New Delhi

JH
Touch your Brain as installed at Hopkinson Mossman.

Triple Treat

HOPKINSON MOSSMAN

Auckland

 


Nick Austin, Hany Armanious, Oscar Enberg
Touch Your Brain

 

9 October - 7 November 2015

Refreshing trio provide surrealist humour and systematic process

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David Cox, Sing Out Spring - Yiyili Country, 2013, Chartwell collection; Gordon Barney, Gurndalngany, 2012, Private collection; Churchill Cann, Spring Creek, 2013, Churchill Cann, Yunurr, 2012, Tim Melville Gallery. Photo:Tosh Ahkit

Aboriginal Paintings from North-Western Australia

TE WAI NGUTU KĀKĀ GALLERY TWO

Auckland

 

Mabel Juli, David Cox, Lena Nyadbi, Churchill Cann, Gordon Barney, Phyllis Thomas and Shirley Purdie
Paintings from Warmun

 

25 September - 23 October 2015

Art from the Kimberley region


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Installation of Megan Dunn's The Persistence of Memory in The Brain at Te Uru. Photo: Sam Hartnett

Positioned Videos and Neuroscience

TE URU WAITAKERE CONTEMPORARY GALLERY

Titrangi

 

Assorted video works
The Brain


14 August - 15 November 2015

Physically structured, moving image anthology

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Seung Yul Oh: Noonmool, pvc, air; Puha, acrylic. Courtesy of the artist and Starkwhite. Photo: Sam Hartnett

Seung Yul Oh at Te Uru

TE URU WAITAKERE CONTEMPORARY GALLERY

Titirangi

 

Seung Yul Oh
HaaPoom

 

29 August - 8 November 2015

Versatile range of media

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Kathy Temin, The Memorial Project: Black Wall, 2015  5.5 x 12.5 m x 2.95 m. As installed at the Gus Fisher Gallery. Image courtesy of the artist. Photo: Sam Hartnett.

Temin’s Fur-lined Memorial

GUS FISHER GALLERY

Auckland

 

Kathy Temin
The Memorial Project

 

2 October - 24 October 2016

Holocaust themed installation


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Geoff Thornley, First sight No. 15, 2011, oil on canvas on board, 122 x 122 cm.

Nuanced Thornley

FOX JENSEN MCCRORY

Auckland

 

Geoff Thornley
Paintings

 

23 September - 17 October 2015

Intricately layered paint that demands natural light

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Gordon Walters, Gouaches and a painting from the 1950s, as installed at Starkwhite. Photo: Sam Hartnett

Walters Gouaches

STARKWHITE

Auckland

 

Gordon Walters
Gouaches and a Painting from the 1950s

 

21 September - 24 October 2015

Studies from the fifties

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Martin Creed, Work No. 1701, 2015, still, digital video, 4 min 16 sec.

Martin Creed in Auckland

MICHAEL LETT

Auckland

 

Solo artist
Martin Creed

 

3 October - 7 November 2015

Varied media and formats


JH
Freedom and Structure at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki (Second gallery)

Six New Zealand Cubist Painters

AUCKLAND ART GALLERY TOI O TAMAKI

Auckland

 

Henderson, McCahon, Day, Weeks, Wallis, Tole

Freedom and Structure


16 May 2015 - 6 March 2016

A fresh look at the arrival of modernist painting

JH
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

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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

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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