Exhibitions
SURFACE TENSION - Fri 21st May 2010 - Sun 1st Aug 2010
An exhibition by contemporary New Zealand artists who treat the canvas like a sculpture. The artists explore texture and shape, treating the surface of the canvas similarly, but each using different processes with differing results.
WHAKAPAPA: GET DOWN UPON YOUR KNEES - Sat 12th Jun 2010 - Sun 31st Oct 2010
Reuben Paterson's glittering, painted on canvas installation comes direct from the 6th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT) in Brisbane, Australia. The APT includes work of more than 100 artists from 25 countries, including collaborations and collectives, which reflect the diversity of practices across Asia, the Pacific and Australia.
FRANCES HODGKINS: femme du monde - Sat 3rd Jul 2010 - Sun 5th Sep 2010
Frances Hodgkins is considered one of New Zealand's most prestigious and influential painters, an esteem not bestowed upon her during her lifetime due to her Post-Impressionist style not conforming to the traditional New Zealand landscapes of the time.
BOHEMIANS OF THE BRUSH: Pumpkin Cottage Impressionists - Sat 3rd Jul 2010 - Sun 5th Sep 2010
Bohemians of the Brush: Pumpkin Cottage Impressionists demonstrates the importance of a small rustic cottage at Silverstream, near Wellington, to New Zealand's first Impressionist painters. The exhibition tells the story of painter James Nairn and his colleagues who went against the mainstream
EDWARD BULLMORE:LIFE STUDIES - Sat 3rd Jul 2010 - Sun 22nd Aug 2010
A suite of life studies painted by Edward Bullmore mainly during his time in London, during the 1960s.
TE PUTAHITANGA O REHUA Reuben Paterson - Wed 14th Jul 2010 - Sun 26th Sep 2010
"My imaging of the energies left behind in the land by Māori emerges as undulating rhythms.... Here shades of black and white paradoxically echo the idea that things are almost never black and white".
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