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Two Rooms presents a program of residencies and projects
Ambivalent Landscapes
Wanganui
Peter Evans
Manipulated by the Human Hand
July 2 - July 23, 2010
Evans’ images deserve wider attention next to any number of articles in the press about the battleground that is the New Zealand landscape.
Ready to Roll continued
Wellington
Ready To Roll
Curated by Heather Galbraith
29 May - 12 September 2010
Mark Amery looks at some more artists showing in this City Gallery survey
Wellington Survey of Up-And-Comers
Wellington
Ready To Roll
Curated by Heather Galbraith
29 May - 12 September 2010
There’s a feast of good work in this, senior curator Heather Galbraith’s last show before she shifts to Te Papa.
Furiously Competing Dissolving Grids
Wellington
Kathy Barry
Porchlight
10 May - 29 May 2010
Both paintings and drawings, or neither. Let’s call them collages, constructed and deconstructed.
The Unsettled Settler
Wellington
Jack Trolove
Ghost Paper: Thoughts on being an unsettled settler
3 May - 23 May 2010
The ordered procession of heads leads to a nicely framed film of waves breaking on that troubled foreshore of ours.
One Day Sculpture - The Book
2009
One Day Sculpture
Editors: David Cross and Claire Doherty
279 pp, coloured illustrations
I simply didn’t buy ODS’s championing of actions with only fleeting engagement with their sites.
Ava Seymour at Peter McLeavey’s
Wellington
Ava Seymour
Tree Songs
until Saturday 17 April 2010
The works are unusually, defiantly dark, demanding you to step up close and move across the surface to appreciate them
Two New Art Spaces in Wellington
On The Table
6 College St.
Te Aro
JJ Morgan and Co
3 Cruikshank St.
Kilbirnie
How bereft many in Wellington feel of programmes highlighting the best or freshest contemporary art.
What is missing is more work suggestive of the directions outdoor sculpture at this scale could go
Jeremy Diggle: Narvik’s Complaint
Wellington
Jeremy Diggle
Narvik’s Complaint
26 February until 1 April 2010
Like a cut-up hypertext collage of quips, quotes, notes, asides and journal entries across time, it makes no clear linear sense. Shuffling forwards and backwards in time, it’s reminiscent of some ‘70s-‘80s sci-fi film prediction of future communication.
Gerda Leenards
Gerda Leenards
Following the Blue Ribbon
27 November 2009 - 24 January 2010
Clearly also inspired by classic Chinese landscape scroll painting in fluidity and ribbon-like rhythm, Leenards’ synthesises a wide variety of influences into what is now a mature and distinctive style that revitalises landscape painting.
Gone Troppo
Wellington
Lower Life Forms
Madeleine Childs and Philip Jarvis
until 28 November 2009
They surround ceramic polyps, which glazed and earthy in colour are more like the pottery we’re most familiar, yet raise the finger to tradition in being in form male and female genitalia – as commonly appears in nature.
Wayne Youle: 10 Down – A Survey Exhibition
Pataka Museum of Arts and Cultures, Porirua
Until 15 November
Ngaahina Hohaia
Ngaahina Hohaia
27 September 2009 - 10 January 2010
Hohaia’s achievement is that the work seamlessly brings together the high public storytelling art of articulating a shared visual iconography, as you might find in wharenui or church, and the deeply personal.
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