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Mary Macpherson, Wellingtonia (Giant Sequioia), Rotorua. Image courtesy of Photospace.

Wellington’s Festival of Photography

EyeContact Essay #9

Looking at several participants

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Rhondda Bosworth, Bungalo Garden, 2011

Writing Her Self

McNAMARA GALLERY

Whanganui

 

Rhondda Bosworth
Booklet 1

 

7 February - 28 February 2014

Bosworth in Whanganui

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Les Cleveland, Lake Tennyson, c.1960

Les Cleveland

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Wayne Barrar, Falling Water at Waihopai River Dam Structure Marlborough, 2012

Time After Time

McNAMARA GALLERY

Whanganui

 

Ben Cauchi, Dan Estabrook and Wayne Barrar

Seasoned: contemporary salt prints

 

6 December 2013 - 24 January 2014.

Reassessing the salt print

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The cover of Pictures They Want To Make, 270 x 295 mm

Mirror Images

Pictures They Want to Make: Recent Auckland Photography

Edited by Chris Corson-Scott and Edward Hanfling

Published by PhotoForum Inc., Auckland, 2013

Review of recent PhotoForum publication

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Paul Rayner, Self Portrait in Darth Vader Mask 1, 2013, ceramic.1

Ceramic Satirist

RAYNER BROTHERS GALLERY

Whanganui

 

Paul Rayner
Jerusalem

 

4 October - 9 November 2013

Zeroing in on popular culture


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Paul Johns, Mum (2013) at the Adam Art Gallery. Photo: Shaun Waugh.

Loss and Memory

ADAM ART GALLERY TE PATAKA TOI

Wellington

 

Lieko Shiga, Francis Alys & Paul Johns
All There Is Left

 

20 July - 29 September 2013

Responding to damage and disappearance

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Ben Cauchi, The Waiting Room, 2013, Ambrotype - at Peter McLeavey Gallery

New Ben Cauchi Works

McLEAVEY GALLERY

Wellington

 

Ben Cauchi
Der Dunne Schleiler (The Hidden Veil)

 

3 October - 26 October 2013

Made in Berlin

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Joanna Margaret Paul, Untitled, date unknown/2013, archival pigment print (edition of 3), 17.8 x 26.5cm

Joanna Margaret Paul Photographs

ROBERT HEALD GALLERY

Wellington

 

Joanna Margaret Paul
Photographs 1976-1985

 

3 October - 26 October 2013

Part of a complex multi-medium practice


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Jack Smith, film still from Flaming Creatures (1962-63), 16mm black and white film, sound. Copyright Jack Smith Archive. Courtesy Gladstone Gallery, New York and Brussels.

Dark

ADAM ART GALLERY TE PATAKA TOI

Wellington

 

Jack Smith, Bill Henson & Jacqueline Fraser
Beautiful Creatures

 

3 May - 7 July 2013

Damagingly tasteful

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Gary Blackman, Wellington café 13 Oct 2011

Doing The Job

BRETT McDOWELL GALLERY

Dunedin

 

Gary Blackman
Late Entry: 17 photographs 2004-2012

 

26 April - 9 May 2013

Blackman photographs

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Peter Evans' Zealandia: Views from the Peak? at McNamara Gallery in Whanganui

Doing The Math

McNAMARA GALLERY

Whanganui

 

Peter Evans
Zealandia: Views from the Peak?

 

1 March - 22 March, 2013

Shaking the Sublime


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Fergus Cunningham's Stilled Life installed at Smallworks Gallery in Brisbane

Good For Foyers

SMALLWORKS GALLERY

Brisbane

 

Fergus Cunningham
Stilled Life: eight recent photographs

 

22 February - 6 April 2013

Cunningham in Brisbane

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Andrew Beck's Graphics installed at McNamara Gallery in Whanganui

Light-handed

McNAMARA GALLERY

Whanganui

 

Andrew Beck
Graphics

 

1 February - 27 February 2013

Recent Beck images in Whanganui

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Two Hundred and Forty Years of New Zealand Painting  - cover

Forever Amber

Two Hundred and Forty Years of New Zealand Painting

Gil Docking, Michael Dunn and Edward Hanfling

280pp, 170 illustrations

David Bateman, 2012

Histories of NZ Painting


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Dark Sky at the Adam. The wallworks are by Wolfgang Tillmans.

Peter Ireland’s Highlights and Lowlights

Analysing the exhibitions of 2012

The past year in retrospect

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Glenn Burrell, Bicycle Expedition, Cape Palliser, Wairarapa and Hawkins Hill, Wellington, April - September 2012

Special Olympics

SARJEANT GALLERY TE WHARE O REHUA WHANGANUI

Whanganui

 

Glenn Burrell’s Tylee Residency exhibition
Operation FizZ!

 

27 October 2012 - 24 February 2013

Paint as object’s skin

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Ben Cauchi, The Sophist's Mirror at City Gallery. Photo: Kate Whitley

Present Tense

CITY GALLERY WELLINGTON TE WHARE TOI

Wellington

 

Ben Cauchi
The Sophist’s Mirror

 

20 Oct. 2012 - 17 Feb. 2013

Ben Cauchi at City Gallery


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Catherine Russ, David and Susanne, 1999 lambda print ed 1/5

Gender Issues

RAYNER BROTHERS GALLERY

Whanganui

 

Mark Rayner, Leigh Mitchell-Anyon & Catherine Russ
Dress Ups

 

14 September - 13 October 2012

Three Photographers in Whanganui

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Peter Peryer's Other installed at Gus Fisher. Photo by Samuel Hartnett.

An Other Peryer

GUS FISHER GALLERY

Auckland

 

Peter Peryer

Other

 

4 May - 23 June 2012

The Gus Fisher version of the McNamara show

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Angela Lane, A Fear of Drowning, oil paint on found board, 100 x 100 mm (77 mm diameter image)

Big, Small and the Last Days

THERMOSTAT GALLERY

Palmerston North

 

Angela Lane

A Sequence of Events

 

9 March - 29 March 2012

Angela Lane’s Netherlandish paintings