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Noel Ivanoff's Slider Paintings upstairs at Two Rooms. Photo: Sam Hartnett

Noel Ivanoff’s Dark Sliders

TWO ROOMS

Auckland

 

Noel Ivanoff
Slider Paintings

 

30 January - 28 February 2015

Hinting at the evanescent

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Tiffany Singh's Life is But a Vapour at Te Uru. Photo: Jennifer French.

Singh in Titirangi

TE URU WAITAKERE CONTEMPORARY GALLERY

Titirangi

 

Tiffany Singh

Life is But a Vapour

 

11 December 2014 - 15 February 2015

A ‘living wall’.

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Kathy Barry and Isobel Thom, Homeworld, in Gallery 5, top floor, Te Uru. Photo: Jennifer French

Thom and Barry at Te Uru

TE URU WAITAKERE CONTEMPORARY GALLERY

Titrangi

 

Kathy Barry and Isobel Thom
Homeworld

 

6 December 2014 - 4 February 2015

Contrasting tactilities


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Wystan Curnow reading from The Art Hotel: as a Scene of Reading, at split/fountain as part of Untitled (set up). Photo courtesy of split/fountain and Asumi Mizuo.

Wystan Curnow’s Poetry

SPLIT / FOUNTAIN

Auckland

 

Wystan Curnow
The Art Hotel: As a Scene for Reading

 

20 December, 3.30 pm

 

The start of a new lyricism?

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Daniel Crooks, An Embroidery of Voids, (still) 2013, single channel video, high definition (HD), sound, 16:9, colour, Chartwell Collection, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, purchased 2014

Telescopically Structured Chartwell Show

AUCKLAND ART GALLERY TOI O TAMAKI

Auckland

 

Works from the Chartwell Collection
A World Undone


8 November 2014 - 6 April 2015

Shrewdly layered collection display

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Shannon Te Ao and Iain Frengley, Untitled (After Rakaihautu) 2012, HD video

Other Waters’ Films

TE TUHI CENTRE FOR THE ARTS

Pakuranga

 

Looped film screening programme

OTHER WATERS - The Manukau and Beyond


15 November - 24 December 2014 3 January - 15 February 2015

Complex Te Tuhi programme


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Janine Randerson, Until It Runs Out, 2014, super 16 mm film transferred to HD video

Other Waters’ Gallery Displays

TE TUHI CENTRE FOR THE ARTS

Pakuranga

 

Group show
OTHER WATERS - Art on the Manukau


15 November - 23 December 2014 3 January -15 February 2015

Complex Te Tuhi programme

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Caryline Boreham, Archives New Zealand

Boreham’s Spatial Interiors

Te Tuhi Billboards

Pakuranga

 

Caryline Boreham

State Space


15 November 2014 - 15 February 2015

Institutional spaces

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Matt Henry, Structural Relief (Te Tuhi), 2014, acrylic on canvas, pine, MDF, 2615 x 5035 mm - courtesy of Starkwhite, commissioned by Te Tuhi

Matt Henry in Te Tuhi

Te Tuhi's Drawing Wall

Pakuranga

 

Matt Henry

Structural Relief (Te Tuhi)

 

15 November - 24 December 2014           3 January - 15 February 2015

Ambiguous wall relief


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On the moment of change there is always a new threshold of imagination, curated by Adnan Yildiz, at Artspace. Photo: Sam Hartnett

New Artspace Director Introduces Himself

ARTSPACE AOTEAROA

Auckland

Evolving international group show

On the moment of change there is always a new threshold of imagination

5 - 19 December 2014  19 January - 28 February 2015

Searching for audience interaction

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Corson-Scott at Clark

TRISH CLARK GALLERY

Auckland

 

Chris Corson-Scott
New Photographs

 

3 December 2014 - 16 January 2015

Nuanced light and diminishing bush

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Seung Yul Oh, SOOM, 2014, commissioned by Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, 2014, supported by the Chartwell Trust. Photo: Jennifer French

Seung Yul Oh’s Inflatable Bubbles

AUCKLAND ART GALLERY TOI O TAMAKI

Auckland

 

Seung Yul Oh
SOOM

 

29 November 2014 - 11 October 2015

Celebrating natural light and its reflection


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Jeena Shin: Motus I; Motus III; Motus IV - all acrylic on canvas, 2400 x 1800 mm. Photo: Sam Hartnett

Four Large Shin Paintings and a Room

TWO ROOMS

Auckland

 

Jeena Shin
Motus

 

15 December - 23 December 2014

Her recent post-mural production

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Juliet Carpenter’s Video Installation

GLORIA KNIGHT

Auckland

 

Juliet Carpenter
Silent Treatment

 

18 November - 29 November 2014

Three part video structure

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Jim Allen performing 'On Planting a Native' in Adelaide in 1976

Jim Allen Performance

MICHAEL LETT

Auckland

 

Jim Allen
On Planting a Native

 

19 November 2014, 6.15 - 7.15 pm

Second live work in show


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Installation of James Cousins' Agent in Gow Langsford Kitchener Street.

James Cousins Exhibition

GOW LANGSFORD GALLERY

Auckland

 

James Cousins
Agent

 

12 November - 6 December 2014

Continuing his intricate layering

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Reuben Paterson, Ándale Ándale, 2014, glitter and synthetic polymer and two pot clear on aluminium. Photo: Reuben Paterson

Paterson in Newmarket

Newmarket Railway Station (Remuera Rd)

Auckland

 

Reuben Paterson
Ándale, Ándale

 

February 28, 2014 -

Public mural

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Jim Wheeler, Epiphytes, 2014, stainless steel, 1700 x 700 x 500 mm. Photo: Rob Garrett

Outdoor Sculpture in Devonport

Fort Takapuna Historic Reserve, Devonport

Auckland

 

Assorted artists
NZ Sculpture OnShore

6 November - 16 November 2014

Undiscerning selection


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Gavin Hipkins, Erewhon: The Book of Machines, as installed at Starkwhite. Photo: Sam Hartnett

Moving and Still Photographs

STARKWHITE

Auckland

 

Gavin Hipkins
Erewhon : The Book of the Machines

 

1 November - 29 November 2014

Hipkins show

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Sul Yul Oh's memmem as installed at Starkwhite. Photo: Sam Hartnet

Holistic installation, or Painting with Sculpture?

STARKWHITE

Auckland

 

Seung Yul Oh
memmem

 

1 November - 29 November 2014

Seung Yul Oh’s latest project

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Carlos Cruz-Diez, Chromosaturation, 1965-2013, three chromocubicles (fluorescent light with blue, red, and green filters). Courtescy Cruz-Diez Foundation. Photo: John  McIvor

Let There Be Light” (Twenty Times Over)

AUCKLAND ART GALLERY TOI O TAMAKI

Auckland

 

International group exhibition
Light Show

 

11 October 2014 - 8 February 2015

Touring Hayward show