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Dane Mitchell, Your Memory of Rain Encased (UV Release), 2010. (detail)  UV-release encapsulated perfume, glass, silver nitrate, silicon, springs. Courtesy the artist, Starkwhite and Govett-Brewster Art Gallery. Photo by Bryan James

Testing an Art Audience’s Thresholds

LEN LYE CENTRE / GOVETT-BREWSTER ART GALLERY

New Plymouth

 

Dane Mitchell
Radiant Matter Part 1
Curated by Mercedes Vicente

 

5 March 2011 - 29 May 2011

Movements of the olfactory and humid

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Mason billboard installation outside Te Tuhi

Mason’s Te Tuhi Hoardings

TE TUHI CENTRE FOR THE ARTS

Auckland

 

Jennifer Mason
The Room at the End of the Hall

 

 
5 February 2011 - 6 July 2011

Viscerally treated architectural interiors

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Elliot Collins, Held Together, 2011, Te Tuhi Drawing Wall

Drawing with Nails and Coloured String

TE TUHI CENTRE FOR THE ARTS

Auckland

 

Elliot Collins
Held Together

 

5 March 2011 - 19 June 2011

Exploring Community Interaction


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Laresa Kosloff, Red & White Run, 2011, Super 8 transferred to dvd, 1 min 20 sec loop

The Performative Body

STARKWHITE

Auckland

 

Alicia Frankovich / Laresa Kosloff / Ruth Proctor
If sameness is in the centre, then difference is on the periphery

 

8 March - 2 April 2011

Frankovich / Kosloff / Proctor

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Pieter Hugo, Gabazzini Zuo, Enugu, Nigeria, 2008

Dramatic Nigerian Portraits

TE TUHI CENTRE FOR THE ARTS

Auckland Arts Festival

 

Pieter Hugo
Nollywood

 


5 February - 27 March 2011

Nollywood background and props

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John Malcolm photographs at Snowwhite, photo by Faye Norman.

North Sea and Alaskan Oil

SNOWHITE GALLERY UNITEC

Auckland Arts Festival

 

John Malcolm & Centre for Land Use Interpretation
Upstream Midstream Downstream
Curated by Lisa Reihana

 

2 March - 25 March 2011

Two looks at the hydrocarbon fluid


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Miranda parkes, Smasher 2011, acrylic on canvas, 1300 x 1250 x 300 mm

Parkes paintings at Godkin

ANTOINETTE GODKIN

Auckland

 

Miranda Parkes
Smasher

 

12 March 2011 - 9 April 2011

Inventive cushionlike works

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Gordon Walters, Untitled, 1978, PVA and acrylic on canvas, 915 x 737 mm

Superb Walters Paintings

SUE CROCKFORD GALLERY

Auckland

 

Gordon Walters
Works from the Estate

 

8 March - 26 March 2011

Different thinking methods

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Rob Gardiner installation at Window

Rob Gardiner at Window

WINDOW UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND

Auckland

 

Rob Gardiner

 

9 March 2011 - 31 March 2011

 

Advancing into the foyer space


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Alexi Willemsen, Sunset Strip, oil on panel, 300 x 390 mm

Two Painters at Roger

MELANIE ROGER GALLERY

Auckland

 

Ruth Thomas-Edmond
Alexi Willemsen

 

23 February - 19 March 2011

 

Willemsen and Thomas-Edmond

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Ko Nakajima, Tao Installation, 2011, wood, 6 channel video, cRt monitors, e-waste, Bonsai tree, waterfall and closed circuit video, (sound: Phil Dadson with Carl Stone and Tetuzi Akoyama). Photo by Melissa Laing.

Nakajima and Taki

TE WAI NGUTU KĀKĀ GALLERY TWO

Auckland Arts Festival

 

Ko Nakajima and Kentaro Taki
Video Life
Curated by Phil Dadson

 

1 March 2011 - 25 March 2011

Japanese video at AUT

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Daniel Crooks, lightbox image seen in Bledisloe Walkway. Image courtesy of the artist and Auckland Arts Festival

Daniel Crooks in Auckland

TWO ROOMS

Auckland Arts Festival

Daniel Crooks
Static no.12 (Seek Stillness in Movement)
4 March 2011 - 9 April 2011


Crossings
Lightboxes in Bledisloe Walkway
28 February 2011 - 28 April 2011

Downtown lightboxes and videos


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Rachel Shearer, Hold Still

Shearer (and Earlier Film-makers) Magic

THE FILM ARCHIVE AUCKLAND

Auckland

 

Rachel Shearer
Hold Still

 

2 March 2011 - 2 April 2011

A film collaboration across time

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Josephine Starrs and Leon Cmielewski, Taranaki, 2010, video projection

Starrs and Cmielewski

MIC TOI REREHIKO GALLERY

Auckland Arts Festival

 

Josephine Starrs & Leon Cmielewski
Incompatible Elements

 

5 March - 2 April 2011

 

Planetary dangers

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Francis Upritchard, Day Dreamer, 2011, modeling material, foil, wire, paint, found fabric , 260 x 150 x 555 mm

Post-Venice Upritchard

IVAN ANTHONY GALLERY

Auckland

 

Francis Upritchard
Methusalem

 

3 March - 26 March 2010

Innovative mode of sculptural presentation


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Winston Roeth's Auckland Totem, 2010, tempera on ten slate panels, 2020 x  2310 mm on the left. On the right is Gold In Blue, 2009, tempera on twelve slates, 1524 x 1524 mm

Shining Sparkling Colour

FOX JENSEN MCCRORY

Auckland

 

Winston Roeth
New Paintings

 

8 February - 18 March 2010

 

First show in modified Jensen space

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Elliot Collins, Inside Painting, 2011, oil on linen, 1200 mm x 2000mm

Melville Moves to Newmarket

TIM MELVILLE GALLERY

Auckland

 

Group Show
Deeper Water

 

8 February 2011 - 26 February 2011

New space shared with Jensen

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Corrina Hoseason, Urn, at Snowwhite. Photo by Karen Crisp

Ancien Regime Clayware With Pastoral Ethos

SNOWHITE GALLERY UNITEC

Auckland

Corrina Hoseason
Urn
7 February 2011 - 24 February 2011

Best in Show 2011 (at Objectspace)
29 January - 24 February 2011

Urn with two rival colour schemes


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Brehaut and Boyce's Nature Morte at Snowwhite (detail). Photo by Karen Crisp.

Illicit Laboratory for Painting?

SNOWHITE GALLERY UNITEC

Auckland

 

Roger Boyce & Marie-Claire Brehaut
Nature Morte

 

3 February 2011 - 24 February 2011

Connecting drugs with pigment application

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Rohan Wealleans, Unseeing, 2008, acrylic paint, shark jaw, plastic, 76 x 59 x 66 cm

Once More With Feeling

IVAN ANTHONY GALLERY

Auckland

 

Lundberg, McLeod, van Hout, Wealleans, Wilkinson

Feelings II: A Group Show

29 January 2011 - 26 February 2011

 

Small group show at Ivan Anthony’s

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Phil Dadson, Deep Water #1, 2011, photographic pigment inks on Ilford paper, 500 x 900 mm

Beach Haven Cosmology

STARKWHITE

Auckland

 

Phil Dadson
Deep Water

 

9 February 2011 - 5 March 2011

Mixing celestial and natural worlds