Nau mai, haere mai, welcome to EyeContact. You are invited to respond to reviews and contribute to discussion by registering to participate.

 

MD
Kirsty Lillico, cotton, pine dowel, stainless steel cable, 1.9 x 1.3 m: Fig 1 & 2; Fig 3 & 4; Fig 5 & 6

Vicious Circles

TOINEKE ART GALLERY

Wellington

 

Kirsty Lillico
Vicious Circles

 

17 November 2017 - 9 December 2017.

Lillico in Wellington

MD
Mark Alsweiler, Positive Paths

Here Comes The Sun

PRECINCT 35

Wellington

 

Mark Alsweiler
The Sun Department

 

26 November - 9 December 2017

Alsweiler in Wellington

MD
Evangeline Riddiford Graham, Look out, Fred! 2017. Image courtesy of Shaun Matthews and Enjoy Public Art Gallery.

Copacetic

ENJOY CONTEMPORARY ART SPACE

Wellington

 

Evangeline Riddiford Graham
Look out, Fred!

 

6 April - 29 April 2017

When text becomes subtext


MD
The Welcoming Party, 'Opening Ceremony' during the Trust Us Contemporary Art Trust Telethon, Friday 17 February, 2017, 12 noon – 12 midnight. Image courtesy of Enjoy Public Art Gallery.

Denny or not Denny?

ENJOY CONTEMPORARY ART SPACE

Wellington

 

Riff Raff
Trust Us Contemporary Art Trust Telethon

 

17 February 2017: 12 pm to midnight

TUCAT Telethon at Enjoy

MD
Emily Hartley-Skudder, Flamingo Pink Lodge with Feature Palm, 2015, oil on linen, 278 x 188 mm.

I Seen the Little House

{Suite}

Wellington

 

Emily Hartley-Skudder
Happiness World

 

10 November - 28 November 2015

Dollhouses, middleclass anxieties and feminine rage

MD
Cover of the Critic's Part: Wystan Curnow Art Writings

The Terms and Conditions: On Reading Wystan Curnow

ADAM ART GALLERY AND VUP

The Critic’s Part: Wystan Curnow Art Writings 1971-2013
Ed. Christina Barton & Robert Leonard, with Thomasin Sleigh


Published by Adam Art Gallery and VUP, 2014

His anthology of art criticism


MD
Dan Arps, Worm Tank, 2014. Glass tank, found ceramics and mixed media, 26 x 45 x 20 cm

Pretty In Pink

ROBERT HEALD GALLERY

Wellington

 

Dan Arps
Snake, Tanks & Drapes

1 May - 24 May 2014

Children’s patterned drapes, tanks and grilles

MD
Xin Cheng and Kirsten Dryburgh, Gleaners' Garden, 2014.  Installation detail. Image courtesy of Mark Wilson and Enjoy.

What I Could Glean from It

ENJOY CONTEMPORARY ART SPACE

Wellington

Xin Cheng and Kirsten Dryburgh


Gleaners’ Garden

 

22 January 22 - 15 February 2014

 

Cheng and Dryburgh at Enjoy

MD
The cover of 'Peter McLeavey: The Life and Times of a New Zealand Art Dealer'.

Live Secretly

Te Papa Press 2013

Peter Mcleavey: The Life and Times of a New Zealand Art Dealer
Jill Trevelyan
Hardcover, 496 pp, over 200 b/w and colour illustrations
RRP $64.99

The McLeavey Biography


MD
Christina Read's Other Possibilities at Enjoy. Detail

Texting with Christina Read

ENJOY CONTEMPORARY ART SPACE

Wellington

 

Christina Read
Other Possibilities

 

March 14 - April 16, 2013

Language as a scrap

MD
Nick Austin, The Liquid Dossier, edition: 200. Published February 2013 by Nick Austin and Hocken Collections, University of Otago. Photo: Alex North

Pushing the Envelope with Nick Austin

Nick Austin

The Liquid Dossier

Edition: 200

Published by Hocken Library and Nick Austin

February 2013

Megan Dunn gets mail

MD
Peter Robinson, Defunct Mnemonics at Peter McLeavey Gallery. Photo: Shaun Waugh

Pickup Sticks

McLEAVEY GALLERY

Wellington

 

Peter Robinson
Defunct Mnemonics

 

3 October, 2012 - 27 October, 2012

The art of faded memory


MD
Graham McFelin, Baked Potato sculpture from mould of Japanese character

Lost and Found: The Art of Graham McFelin (From Memory)

EyeContact Essay #4

.

MD
Alice Baxter, Sometime Later, installed at Enjoy Public Art Gallery. Photo: Lance Cash

Reach Out, Touch Faith: New Pilgrims at Enjoy

ENJOY CONTEMPORARY ART SPACE

Welington

 

Alice Baxter
Sometime Later

 

4 October - 3 November 2012

Belief by contact

MD
Rohan Wealleans, Apocalytic Intuition at City Gallery. Photo: Kate Whitley

Legend of the Spreader

CITY GALLERY WELLINGTON TE WHARE TOI

Wellington

 

Rohan Wealleans
Apocalyptic Intuition

 

23 June - 23 September 2012

We’re off to see the Wizard


MD
Reading Room (2012) at Objectspace Window Gallery: Tessa Laird, Clay Tablets, ceramic (earthenware and paperclay), ceramic paint, glaze; Peter Lange, Brick Bookcase, Table, Pouffe and Armchair, 2012, brick, timber, drainage tile. Courtesy of the artists

Direct from the Kiln: Laird and Lange’s Clay Library

OBJECTSPACE

Auckland

 

Tessa Laird and Peter Lange
Reading Room

 

3 August - 26 September 2012

Ceramic furniture and books

MD
Ben Buchanan's Forever at The Dowse. Photo by Mark Tantrum.

Groove Is In The Art

THE DOWSE ART MUSEUM

Lower Hutt

 

Ben Buchanan
Forever
(Part of Solo)

 

12 May - 19 August 2012

Looking at Forever

MD
Yvonne Todd, Marthe II

Talking Todd-lish: Mystery and Manners in the Art of Yvonne Todd

McLEAVEY GALLERY

Wellington

 

Yvonne Todd

Seahorsel Subset

 

4 April - 24 April 2012

Wellington spin-off from her Melbourne show


MD
Installation of Camera Work at the Adam showing John Lake's videos.

Camera Work: An Untrained Eye on the Adam

ADAM ART GALLERY TE PATAKA TOI

Wellington

 

Amundsen, Lake, Starling, Yoshiyuki

Camera Work

 

24 January - 15 April 2012

Comprehending narrative

MD
Karren Dale and Julia Middleton, installation of works in Snippets, Scraps and Spectacle

The Importance of Being Earnest

THISTLE HALL

Wellington

 

Karren Dale and Julia Middleton

Snippets, Scraps and Spectacle

 

30 January - 5 February 2012

Community gallery provokes hot flushes and endless wonder

MD
Molly Samsell's Interface as presented in her Master's show at Massey

Minimal Trauma

CITY GALLERY WELLINGTON TE WHARE TOI

Wellington

 

Molly Samsell

Interface Reworked

 

30 January 2012

Artwork damaged during fire drill takes on new lease of life