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Two Rooms presents a program of residencies and projects
Evocatively Churning & Pulsing Lawlors
Auckland
Erin Lawlor
Ariadne’s Thread
9 February - 9 March 2024
Paint moving beyond paint
Inventive and Complex Sutherland Paintings
Auckland
Ella Sutherland
Still Life with Argot
2 February 2024 - 2 March 2024
Colourful codification of lesbian sensibility
Community Art on the Streets
Urgent Moments (Art and Social Change: the Letting space Projects 2010-2020)
Mark Amery, Sophie Jerram, and Amber Clausner: editors
Discussions of Letting Space projects.
Apart from the editors, there are also 35 other writers.
Softcover, generously illustrated, 352 pp
Massey University Press, 2023
Spurning the Galleries
Tomislav Nikolic’s Insistently Lavish Presences
Tomislav Nikolic: Invocations of Consciousness
Sixty-five colour images
Texts by Clemens, Engberg, Ewington, Jensen and a conversation between the editors.
Edited by Nikolic and Soni
MER, Ghent, 2023
A book about his painted, symmetrical, rectangular wall sculptures
A Fresh Look at Culbert
Titirangi
Bill Culbert
Blue Cloud, Green Waterfall
9 December 2023 - 11 February 2024
Surprises revealed
Pocketable Portable Lye
Len Lye and Roger Horrocks
Len Lye’s Art that Moves
Introduction by Roger Horrocks, the editor
Softcover 72 pp
Govett-Brewster Art Gallery and Len Lye Centre, 2023
An easily absorbed intro from the indefatigable Roger Horrocks
Dazzling AAGToT Collection Show
Auckland
16 national and international artists
Portals and Omens: New Work from the Collection
Curated by Natasha Conland
21 October, 2023 - 7 July, 2024
Exciting & accessible International line-up
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Hoxha’s Recontextualised W.L. Robertson Text
Pakuranga
Ardit Hoxha
lost dream[s]
12 November 2023 - 28 January 2024
Selected portions of a manifesto
Recent Colourful Nikolic Paintings
Auckland
Tomislav Nikolic
Being’s Believin’
25 November - 16 December 2023
Careful spatial intervention
Louisa Afoa’s Still-Life Photographs
Tāmaki Makaurau
Louisa Afoa
Essential Household Items
12 November - 28 January 2024
The power of memory and family
Unravelling Entangled Moving Imagery
Auckland
Wu Tsang
One Emerging from a Point of View
12 November 2023 - 28 January 2024
Uncertainty through overlaps
Almost Insupportable Flexible Paintings
Auckland
Helen Calder
The Tidy Behaviour of Matter
17 November - 22 December, 2023
Planar without stretchers
Wildly Playful Stratton
Auckland
Richard Stratton
Reverse Monopoly Big Wigs
28 October - 16 November 2023
Pushing the boundaries of tea-brewing functionality
Octavia Cook Brooches
Auckland
Octavia Cook
Mint Prose
28 October - 16 November 2023
The collective magic of letters
‘Drawn’ Georgie Hill Paintings
Auckland
Georgie Hill
Venus Marina /The Roses Came Roaring
27 October - 2 December 2023
Controlled emotional agitation
Evocative Watkins Video
Auckland
Clinton Watkins
Depth of Field
20 October - 19 November 2023
Unusual exploration of the sublime
Checking the ‘Chequerboards’
Auckland
Bonco
Star Stare Start
20 October - 19 November 2023
Afterimages come & go
Romantic Feline Pairings
Auckland
Michael Harrison
Ruler & Eraser
13 October - 11 November 2023
Aching pussy-cat yearnings
Order & Disruption / Possibilities of Edge
Auckland
Barbara Tuck, Kristy Gorman, Adrienne Vaughan, Vita Cochran
and / or
11 October - 27 October 2023
Paired foils
Barber’s ‘Flood Damage’ Installation
Auckland
Andrew Barber
Thin Atmosphere
6 October - 4 November 2023
Coated painting and walls as metaphor
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