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Koki Tanaka, installation at ARTSPACE. Photo by Sam Hartnett.

Intriguing ARTSPACE Group Show

ARTSPACE AOTEAROA

Auckland

 

Dan Arps, Layla Rudneva-Mackay, Kim Beom, Koki Tanaka
A rock that was taught it was a bird

 

16 October - 20 November 2010

The complex interaction between artists and things

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Installation shot of whoosh click heave at The Film Archive

Chapman, Forsyth and Hoyles

THE FILM ARCHIVE AUCKLAND

Auckland

 

Timothy Chapman/ Erin Forsyth/ Alexander Hoyles

whoosh click heave

 

21 November - 27 November 2010

Engaging video installation

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Allan McDonald, Waitara (second hand shop) 2009 Digital C print 1/3 mounted on dibond

Allan McDonald Photographs

ANNA MILES GALLERY

Auckland

 

Allan McDonald
Something/Nothing

 

27 October - 20 November 2010

Interiors of secondhand shops


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View of Peter Robinson's Modern Standards from the left-hand 'look-out', left of the Crockford Gallery entrance.

Robinson Installation Surprises

SUE CROCKFORD GALLERY

Auckland

 

Peter Robinson
Modern Standards

 

19 October - 6 November 2010

Optical and cerebrally anti-intellectual

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Jude Rae at Jensen. Installation Still Life 263 and Still Life265

Consolidation or Retreat?

FOX JENSEN MCCRORY

Auckland

 

Jude Rae

Paintings



12 October - 13 November 2010

Jude Rae Still Lifes

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Denys Watkins, Yellow Dog, 2010, acrylic on linen, 1200 mm x 1200 mm

Hot Diggety Dog

BATH STREET GALLERY

Auckland

 

Denys Watkins
El-Dorado

 

13 October - 6 November 2010

Denys Watkins in Auckland


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Undercurrent at SFA Campus Gallery. On the floor, sculpture by Louis Patterson, on walls, works by Neale Stratford and Catherine Laudenbach.

Monash Exchange With Canterbury

ILAM CAMPUS GALLERY

Christchurch

 

Allardice, Jakobi, Jones, Kemp, Laudenbach, Murray, Patterson, Stratford, Watterson
undercurrent: a trans-Tasman exchange

 

28 September - 13 October 2010

Australian students exhibiting in Christchurch

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Tamar Guimaraes, A Man Called Love, detail.

Communicating With the Dead

STARKWHITE

Auckland

 

Dane Mitchell, Georgina Starr, Tamar Guimaraes
Beyond

 

9 October - 3 November 2010

Group show explores the paranormal

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Fieldwork, by Eugene Hansen and Andy Thomson at Dunedin Public Art Gallery. Photo by Erica Quin.

Hansen & Thomson in Dunedin

DUNEDIN PUBLIC ART GALLERY

Dunedin

 

Eugene Hansen and Andy Thomson
Fieldwork

 

16 October 2010 - 27 February 2011

Aural installation using collected recordings


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Tao Wells, Humiliation at Gambia Castle

Installation or Painting?

GAMBIA CASTLE

Auckland

 

Tao Wells
Humiliated

 

1 October - 23 October 2010

Pondering Wells’ embarrassment

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Ron Mueck, In Bed, 2005, mixed media. Image courtesy of Antony d'Offay, London

Mueck in Christchurch

CHRISTCHURCH ART GALLERY TE PUNA O WAIWHETU

Christchurch

 

Ron Mueck

 

2 October 2010 - 23 January 2011

Naked giants invade municipal gallery

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Sean Lynch, Preliminary Sketch for the reappearance of HyBrazil, 2007, installation shot

Something Happened

TE WAI NGUTU KĀKĀ GALLERY TWO

Auckland

 

Christian Capurro, Maddie Leach, Sriwhana Spong and Sean Lynch

It Happened That
Curated by Charlotte Huddleston

 

I October - 29 October 2010

Rowing Across the Sea of Possibilities


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Cover

Vivian Lynn Publication

ADAM ART GALLERY TE PATAKA TOI

Wellington

I, HERE, NOW, Vivian Lynn

Ed. Christina Barton

Published September 2010

Much needed book on pioneer feminist

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Jude Rae at Jensen. Installation Still Life 263 and Still Life 265

Consolidation or Retreat

FOX JENSEN MCCRORY

Auckland

 

Jude Rae

Paintings



12 October - 13 November 2010

Jude Rae Still Lifes

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Sam Rountree-Williams at RM. Photo by Nick Spratt.

Painting as Evolving Sequence

RM

Auckland

 

Sam Rountree-Williams

 

30 September - 16 October 2010

Linked works from Rountree-Williams


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Elliot Collins at Tim Melville. Photo by Kallan MacLeod

Horizontal bands & split sentences.

TIM MELVILLE GALLERY

Auckland

 

Elliot Collins
The Fall


14 September - 9 October 2010

Elliot Collins in Auckland

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Yvonne Todd, Did Anyone Ever Tell You That You’re Pretty When You’re Angry? 2010,  Colour Photograph, 95 x 123 cm (Framed)

New Todd Exhibition

IVAN ANTHONY GALLERY

Auckland

 

Yvonne Todd
Iris Paste


22 September - 16 October 2010

Seven meticulous Todd images

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Arps & The Estate of L. Budd, Modern Arrangements, 2010, installation view

Arps & Budd: Pairing or Partnership?

MICHAEL LETT

Auckland

 

Dan Arps & The Estate of L. Budd
Modern Arrangements

 

11 September - 18 October 2010

 

A juxtaposition or blending?


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Alex Monteith, detail from Composition with RNZAF No.3 Squadron Exercuse Blackbird for Three-Channel Installation, 2010

Monteith Survey in New Plymouth

LEN LYE CENTRE / GOVETT-BREWSTER ART GALLERY

New Plymouth

 

Alex Monteith
Accelerated Geographies

 

25 September - 28 November 2010

The joys of blurred landscapes, tilted angles and deafening motors

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Sean Kerr, assorted sculpture at ARTSPACE, photo by Sam Hartnett

Two Pronged Kerr Survey

ARTSPACE / GUS FISHER

Auckland

 

Sean Kerr
Bruce danced if Victoria sang and Victoria sang - so Bruce danced

 

3 September - 2 October ARTSPACE (til 9 October Gus Fisher)

 

 

ARTSPACE-Gus Fisher Sean Kerr partnership

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Steve Carr, Deadwood 2, 2010, found branches, fake flowers, supermarket trays, glue, dimensions vary

Steve Carr’s Response To Japan

MICHAEL LETT

Auckland

 

Steve Carr
The Weight of the Sun

 

28 August - 2 October 2010

Results of Sapporo Residency