Niue recently hosted an exhibition of works by John Pule as part of the 3^rd Arts and Cultural Festival. It is the first time an exhibition of this scale has been mounted in Pule’s homeland. In support of the event, Gallery Director John Gow flew to Niue to officiate the opening preview alongside Niuean Premier, The Hon. Toke Talagi. (image: Pule exhibition in Niue, 2013)
 

The Auckland Festival of Photography celebrates its 10^th Anniversary this month and is hosting free photographic events throughout Auckland. The Festival runs from 30^th May – 21^st June. Our exhibition MONUMENT: featuring Anthony Goicolea (15 May – 8 June) is part of the Festival’s Signature Programme and will be included in Festival Tuesday Circuit, Tuesday 4^th June, 6- 9pm. (image: Goicolea, Monument)
 

The Institute of Modern Art in Brisbane Australia will host a solo exhibition by Judy Millar. Do Be Do Be Do, extends her painting practice and methodologies further. “Post-expressionist painter Judy Millar is a paradox. She seems to do everything she can to distance herself from the old idea of authentic, expressive painting. She has made candy-coloured, heroically-scaled, seemingly parodic abstract-expressionist paintings. She has blown-up her painterly gestures using a billboard printer. She has attached these printed 'paintings' to giant, rollercoaster-style sculptural supports (so it's hard to tell if her painterly gestures are in competition with the support, or co-operating with it). Now, she is handpainting enlarged halftone dots.”(source: IMA website) 8 June – 27 July; IMA, Brisbane, Australia (image: Millar, 2013)

Our current exhibition of new paintings by James Cousins has been popular and well received by audiences. You can read T.J McNamara’s NZ Herald review online here. Last day to view is Saturday 11 May. (image: James Cousins, Pl373)

We are pleased to announce that we will be exhibiting at both the Auckland Art Fair (7 - 11 August) and Sydney Contemporary (20 – 22 September).
 

Led by renowned curator Hou Hanru, the 5^th Auckland Triennial If you were to live here... includes work by more than 30 New Zealand and international artists, collectives and architects. The Triennial runs from the 10th of May to the 11th of August 2013 at Auckland Art Gallery and eight additional sites, extending the Triennial’s reach across Auckland.
 

Previously curator of major biennials including Lyon, Istanbul, and Guangzhou, Hou has invited artists to respond to the diverse cultural, social, architectural and urban characteristics of Auckland. ‘A triennial,’ he says, ‘is a space for producing new aesthetic forms and social spaces. It is not only an occasion to see art, but an interaction between artists, people and the city to envisage possible futures.’ The artist collective Local Time, including gallery artist Alex Monteith, will be exhibiting two works and staging multiple actions at different sites across the city. See the Triennial website for more details.
 

 

May 2013 / Reuben Paterson in Flow Riders

Rotorua Museum is currently hosting Flow Riders: Tracing Kowhaiwhai Traditions. This exhibition shows the changing ways kowhaiwhai (painted scroll designs) have been used to tell the stories of iwi, hapu and whanau and includes two works by Reuben Paterson, Estrous and Whakapapa Get Down on Your Knees. (image: Paterson, Estrous)

 

May 2013 / Gregor Kregar at Britomart Project Space



Gregor Kregar's Reflective Synthesis is currently on show at Britomart Project Space. The mini gallery space hosts regularly changing exhibitions in the window facade of newly refurbished heritage building Stanbeth House. Viewed from Customs Street East, the space consists of four original 19th-century arched windows, which provide natural framing for the changing artworks within. (image: Gregor Kregar, Reflective Synthesis)

 

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