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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


JH
Karyn Taylor, Time Loop in 2 Parts, 2015, acrylic, 680 x 450 x 45 mm

Collecting and Emitting Light

SANDERSON CONTEMPORARY ART

Auckland

 

Kāryn Taylor
New Geometries

 

21 July - 9 August 2015

Taylor’s shallow light-trays

JH
Andrew Kennedy's From a Field of Vision at Window gallery in the University of Auckland Library foyer. Photo: Sam Hartnett

Curtailing Visitor Visual Access

WINDOW UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND

Auckland

 

Andrew Kennedy
From a Field of Vision

 

15 July - 15 August 2015

Controlling viewer movement

JH
The exterior of the Len Lye Centre. Photo: Sam Hartnett

Compatible Partnership or Domination?

LEN LYE CENTRE / GOVETT-BREWSTER ART GALLERY

New Plymouth

 

Collection Shows

Len Lye: Four Fountains / Len Lye’s Jam Session / Our Hearts of Darkness

25 July - 29 November 2015

Tweedledum & Tweedledee?


JH
In Motion as installed at Starkwhite. Detail. Photo: Sam Hartnett

The Pleasures of Movement

STARKWHITE

Auckland

Rebecca Baumann and Brendan Van Hek, Alicia Frankovich, Len Lye, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, and Grant Stevens

In Motion

10 July - 8 August 2015

Implied, real, and recorded motion.

JH
Richard Francis, Rough Music, as installed at Te Tuhi's entrance. Photo: Sam Hartnett.

Richard Francis Sound Work

TE TUHI CENTRE FOR THE ARTS

Pakuranga

 

Richard Francis
Rough Music

 

23 May - 12 July 2015

Utilising the Te Tuhi entrance

JH
Shannon Te Ao, A torch and a light (cover), 2015, detail, HD video, duration: seven minutes.

A New Shannon Te Ao Video

TE TUHI CENTRE FOR THE ARTS

Pakuranga

 

Shannon Te Ao
A torch and a light (cover)

 

23 May - 12 July 2015

Three divisions


JH
Glen Snow, Eco Glyphs, a Drawing Wall installation at Te Tuhi. Photo: Sam Hartnett

Glen Snow Wall Work

TE TUHI CENTRE FOR THE ARTS

Auckland

 

Glen Snow
Eco Glyphs

 

23 May - 16 July 2015

Carving up Te Tuhi’s Drawing Wall

JH
Kate Newby, Just as far as my eyes can see, 2014 -2015, detail, stoneware, porcelain, earthenware, glaze (high fired in a gas reduction kiln), 100 x 3800 x 1700 mm overall

The Poetics of Sorting

HOPKINSON MOSSMAN

Auckland

 

Kate Newby & Joanna Margaret Paul
Lunch Poems

 

26 June - 25 July 2015

Extolling the commonplace

JH
Fiona Amundsen: Pathway Through Shinchi Teien, Yasukuni Shrine; Looking Towards Reijibo Hoanden, Yasukuni Shrine;  Standing at the Edge of Shinchi Teien, Yasukuni Shrine; photo: Sam Hartnett

Imperial Bodies

Gus Fisher /Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki

Auckland

 

Fiona Amundsen  / Laurence Aberhart
The Imperial Body / Anzac

 

2 June -11 July 2015 / 30 May - 6 December 2015

Community grief and/or patriotic fervour


JH
Entrance to Peter Roche's Antechamber at the Basement Theatre and Studio on the night of Tuesday 23rd June.

Exhilarating Doom and Gloom

The Basement Theatre and Studio

Auckland

 

Peter Roche
Antechamber

 

Tues 23 June: 6 pm till late

One night Roche installation

JH
Jasmeen Patheja, Talk To Me.

Socially Engaged International Public Art Award

AUCKLAND ART GALLERY TOI O TAMAKI

Auckland

 

International group show

The 2015 International Award for Public Art

 

27 June - 6 July 2015

Semi-finalists, finalists and winner

JH
Installation of Rodney Charters, Film Exercise, 1966, 16mm film, 10min 51sec.  Courtesy Nga Taonga, Wellington, and Govett-Brewster Art Gallery,  New Plymouth.

Robert Leonard Looks at the Sixties

TE URU WAITAKERE CONTEMPORARY GALLERY

Titirangi

 

Gary Baigent, Rodney Charters and Robert Ellis
Unseen City

 

5 June - 16 August 2015

Contemplating youth culture, motorbikes and motorways


JH
Laith McGregor's Somewhere Anywhere as installed at Starkwhite.

Extending Drawing

STARKWHITE

Auckland

 

Laith McGregor
Somewhere Anywhere

 

2 June - 4 July 2016

Using an artisan and improvisation

JH
Billy Apple, Alpha State, 1972, photographs, charts and mobile recording. Photo: Jennifer French

Ear-Oriented Apple

TE URU WAITAKERE CONTEMPORARY GALLERY

Titirangi

 

Billy Apple
Sound Works 1968 - 2015

 

24 April - 10 June 2015

Aural correlation systems

JH
Johl Dwyer's Interior as installed at Tim Melville.

Dwyer Sculpture and Painting

TIM MELVILLE GALLERY

Auckland

 

Johl Dwyer
Interior

 

26 May - 13 June 20015

Solidity versus ethereality