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Mohamed Sleiman Labat, A Sandstorm Approaches the Smara Refugee Camp, in the Tindouf Region of Algeria, 2022.

The Girl, the Brothel-Museum Complex, and the Desert

EyeContact Essay #52

After Becky & Co.

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Simon Denny, Optimism,2023, detail. Commissioned by Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki, 2023

Wicked Satellites

AUCKLAND ART GALLERY TOI O TAMAKI

Tamaki Makaurau

 

Simon Denny

 

Optimism

 

2 December 2023 - 27 October 2024

Simon Denny’s Optimism

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William Powhida, Oligopoly (Revised), 2011, graphite acrylic ink, coloured pencil, watercolour on panel.

We, the Artists … or, The Delivery

EyeContact Essay #48

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Community

MERCY PICTURES

Auckland

 

Inspiration Group
Judah


31 July - 28 August 20021 (pre-lockdown date)

Inspiration Group at Mercy Pictures

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Ralph Paine, Q. Philosopheme. Filia (After Delacroix), 2004, coloured pencil and watercolour on canvas

Her War Diagram: A Fiction

EyeContact Essay #43

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An Email to a Friend: Notes from the Fallout

EyeContact Essay #42

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Ralph Paine, Chengdu Notebook 1

In Chengdu

EyeContact Essay #38

Or, A True Art Pack

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Theory Style

EyeContact Essay #31

A response to Vanessa Crofskey

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Still from Daniel Malone's Czerska 18 M296 Warszawa Polska (2010–2012/2019)

Inbound on the Western Line

MERCY PICTURES

Auckland


Daniel Malone
The Annals of Everyday Life

 

 

18 May - 8 June 2019 

Paine on Malone and everyday life


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Francis Upritchard, Mandrake, 2013

For Francis Upritchard

EyeContact Essay #22

A reply to Lana Lopesi

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Maori god symbols, etching, 19th Century.

Gifts and Theft

EyeContact Essay #20

Colin McCahon’s Politics of the Future

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Ralph Paine, After Blake

Sub-Urbanism

EyeContact Essay #18

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Of Ground and the Nameless Artist 2

EyeContact Essay #17 cont.

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Of Ground and the Nameless Artist 1

EyeContact essay #17

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The Ends of Art 2: Notes on Aesthetics

EyeContact Essay #13 continued

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The Ends of Art 1: Notes on Aesthetics

EyeContact Essay #13

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Representation of the Greek deity Pan (Iouis siue Panos Hieroglyphica repraesentatio). From Oedipus Aegyptiacus (book title: Œdipus Ægyptiacus, published 1652-54 in Rome) by Athanasius Kircher (died in 1680).

Pandemic

EyeContact Essay #10

Reihana’s Cosmic Refrain

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Photo: Charlie Gates - courtesy of Simon Denny

There Where Men and Gods Have Authority

56th Venice Biennale

Venice

 

Simon Denny

Secret Power

 

9 May - 22 November 2015

Simon Denny’s ‘Secret Power’, Remotely


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Billy Apple®: The Artist Has to Live Like Everybody Else exhibition (installation view), 2015, at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki.

Notes from the Phase Space

AUCKLAND ART GALLERY TOI O TAMAKI

Auckland

 

Billy Apple®
The artist has to live like everybody else

 

14 March - 21 June 2015

Billy Apple® retrospective