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Peter Black, Salvation Army rally, Wellington Town Hall, 1981, gelatin silver print, 159 x 235 mm.  Collection of Te Papa (O.003043). Purchased 1983 with New Zealand Lottery Board funds. (Jan Bieringa suggested we position one of Luit's purchases here.)

Remembering Luit: a Visionary Who Made Things Happen

EyeContact Essay #46

A personal recollection

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Mary Macpherson, Upper Queen St (The Long View)

A Work in Progress

THE JAMES WALLACE ARTS TRUST

Auckland

 

Mary Macpherson
The Long View

 

29 May - 22 July 2018

Photographic images of Auckland

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Clouds as installed at Sarjeant Gallery Te Whare o Rehua Whanganui

Up in the Air

SARJEANT GALLERY TE WHARE O REHUA WHANGANUI

Whanganui

 

Works from the Permanent Collection

Clouds

 

17 February - 27 May 2018

Sarjeant looks at the sky


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Dame Cheryll Sotheran in 2007. Photo: Brett Phibbs. Image courtesy of NZ Herald

Dame Cheryll Sotheran: 11 Oct. 1945 - 30 Dec. 2017

Dame Cheryll Sotheran obit

Her contributions

Her contributions

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Installation view of Apparitions: the photograph and its image at Adam Art Gallery Te Pātaka Toi, Victoria University of Wellington, 14 October – 17 December 2017. Photo: Shaun Matthews

The Big Bang

ADAM ART GALLERY TE PATAKA TOI

Wellington

 

Group exhibition
Apparitions: the photograph and its image

 

14 October - 17 December 2017

The Adam looks at early photography

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Glenn Burrell, Sonixx Cyclonic 2400W, 2017, Welbond Universal Adhesive. Photo: Claire Burrell

Dearly Departed

POTOCKI PATERSON ART GALLERY

Wellington

 

Glenn Burrell
AWOL

 

12 October - 21 October 2017

Burrell membranes


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Miroslav Tichy, Untitled, c.1960–1990, unique silver gelatin print.

Bad Photographs

ROBERT HEALD GALLERY

Wellington

 

Miroslav Tichy
38 photographs

 

14 September - 14 October 2017

Tichy images

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James Gilberd, Johnsonville March 2015

Red Alert

PHOTOSPACE

Wellington

 

James Gilberd
A Coffee Break


15 July - 29 July 2017

Gilberd photos

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Roberta Thornley’s A Serious Girl installed at Sarjeant on the Quay, June 2017, featuring Millie and Backyard Dahlias. Image: Richard Wotton.

Castlecliff Opera

SARJEANT GALLERY TE WHARE O REHUA WHANGANUI

Whanganui

 

Roberta Thornley
A Serious Girl

 

27 May - 20 August 2017

Thornley as impressario


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Mark Adams, 27. 6. 2014 - 1. 7. 2014. Nine Fathoms Passage 8c,9c,10c. Tamatea-Dusky Sound; After William Hodges’ “Waterfall in Dusky Sound with Maori Canoe, 1775-7”. Detail. 2017. Photo: Sam Hartnett

Place

TWO ROOMS

Auckland

 

Mark Adams
Views from Astronomer’s Point

 

2 June - 8 July 2017

Mark Adams at Two Rooms

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Lucien Rizos, Cabinet, the original catalogue, Lucien and family. Photo: Sam Hartnett.

The Empire Strikes Back

ANNA MILES GALLERY

Auckland

 

Lucien Rizos
Marble Art Ltd

 

31 May - 17 June 2017

Rizos at Miles

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Marti Friedlander, Subdivision 1966, 2000. Gelatin silver prints, toned with gold, 479x479mm. Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, gift of Marti Friedlander, with assistance from the Elise Mourant Bequest, 2001.

Accommodating the Kaupapa

AUCKLAND ART GALLERY TOI O TAMAKI

Auckland

 

Group show
The Us in I: documentary photographs from the Collection 

 

10 September 2016 - 4 June 2017

AAG Collection photography show


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Frances Hodgkins, Dutch woman reading, 1906, watercolour, 620 x 450 mm. Courtesy of Avenal McKinnon

Local Girl Makes Good

MAHARA GALLERY

Waikanae

 

Frances Hodgkins
An Emerging Talent: early works by Frances Hodgkins


9 April - 4 June 2017

Early Hodgkins

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Grahame Sydney, Cook House

The Art of Complaint

EyeContact Essay #19

On the NZ Listener’s Grahame Sydney interview

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Capture / photographs from the Collection, as installed at New Zealand Portrait Gallery in Shed 11.

Split Second History

NEW ZEALAND PORTRAIT GALLERY

Wellington


Group exhibition
Capture / photographs from the Collection.

 

20 February - 23 April 2017

New Zealand Portrait Gallery at Shed 11


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The Early Days of Bicultural School Education

BlairWakefield Productions

Luit Bieringa (director);Jan Bieringa (producer)

 

The heART of the matter


Wellington 2016

The Tovey Years’.

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Counter-factual

TE URU WAITAKERE CONTEMPORARY GALLERY

Looking at the book published accompanying

 

Anne McCahon: artworks and memorabilia
A Table of One’s Own: the creative life of Anne McCahon

 

19 November 2016 - 12 February 2017.

The promise of Anne Hamblett

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Ben Cauchi, Untitled, 2016, ambrotype, 36 x 28 cm, as installed at Peter McLeavey Gallery. Image courtesy of the artist and Peter McLeavey Gallery. Photo: Russell Kleyn

Tricks of the Light

McLEAVEY GALLERY

Wellington

 

Ben Cauchi
Aether

 

14 February - 11 March 2017

New Cauchi ambrotypes


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Cover

Behind the Bamboo Curtain

Tom Hutchins

Seen in China 1956


Tom Hutchins photographs
Selected by John B Turner with introduction

 

Turner Photobooks, Auckland/Beijing, 2016

Hutchins in mid-fifties China

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Cover

Painted Photographs

Peter Alsop


Hand-coloured New Zealand: the photographs of Whites Aviation


Potton and Burton, Nelson, November 2016

Alsop on Whites

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Shopping

Luncheon Sausage Books, in assoc. with PhotoForum, Auckland, 2016.

The Shops

5000 word essay by Steve Braunias
44 colour photographs by Peter Black

Hardcover; RRP: $40.00.

Braunias-Black collaboration