Archive Exhibitions
TOP ART 2010 - Mon 12th Jul - Thu 22nd Jul 2010
The Top Art Visual Arts is an exhibition of art folios of those students who achieved Excellence in NCEA Level 3 in 2009.
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.
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.
BEARS & SMACK Bernie Harfleet and Donna Sarten - Thu 13th May 2010 - Sun 11th Jul 2010
Both Harfleet and Sarten use their art to draw attention to social and political injustices specifically with regard to child abuse.
OF COURSE I MEANT IT WHEN I SAID I DIDN'T MEAN IT Jill Sorensen - Fri 30th Apr 2010 - Sun 27th Jun 2010
Drawing is central to Sorensen's work, it is a tool she uses to investigate two fundamental functions of the brain - thinking and non-thinking.
THE FARMER John McLean - Sat 24th Apr 2010 - Sun 27th Jun 2010
The Farmer is the much-awaited sequel to The Farmer's Wife, which was held at the Gallery in 2009. At the close of the exhibition, McLean's audience was left wondering what became of the Farmer after his Wife abandoned him for the Traveller.
KATHLEEN'S COLLECTION: THE KATHLEEN KIRKBY COLLECTION - Sat 24th Apr 2010 - Sun 27th Jun 2010
Kathleen's Collection: the Kathleen Kirkby Collection comprises 26 works that were collected by Kathleen Kirkby and her father, Sir Robert Anderson, throughout their lives.
THROW UP Judy Darragh - Sat 13th Mar 2010 - Sun 6th Jun 2010
Formerly and deservedly known as the 'Queen of Kitsch'. Judy Darragh has worked with ready made and utilitarian objects for more than two decades
HAWAIKI Nigel Borell - Sat 6th Mar 2010 - Sun 16th May 2010
Hawaiiki has long been regarded as the homeland of Maori. In this painting installation, Borell explores the concept that Maori may have had their origins prior to that, in wider Oceania and Southeast Asia, a theory proposed through scientific investigation.
PACIFIC WASHUP Rachael Rakena, Fez Fa'anana & Brian Fuata - Sat 6th Mar 2010 - Sun 16th May 2010
Video. Pacific Washup explores issues around migration. In strange, surreal scenes we see brown bodies wrapped in cheap plastic carry-bags, often used by travellers, washing up on Sydney's Bondi Beach.
THE HOUSE THAT JAMES BUILT art from The James Wallace Arts Trust - Sat 27th Feb 2010 - Sun 9th May 2010
A suite of very contemporary works from The James Wallace Art Trust, including work by Jarad Bryant, Trenton Garratt, Richard Bryant, Andrew McLeod, Simon Esling, Rachel Wells, Martin Whitworth, Katherine Claypole and Douglas Wright.
MOUNTAIN TO THE SEA Len Castle - Sat 20th Feb 2010 - Sun 18th Apr 2010
Mountain to the Sea is a celebration of the inspiration that aspects of the New Zealand landscape have been for ceramic artist, Len Castle.
EY! IRAN contemporary Iranian photography - Sat 13th Feb 2010 - Sun 25th Apr 2010
A collection of contemporary photographic works by 18 media artists, most of whom still live and work in Iran. The exhibition is about living in Iran today, portraying the social realities, temptations and introspections of the Persian people, as captured through the Persian lens.
NAVIGATING HER WAY Doreen McNeill - Fri 12th Feb 2010 - Sun 18th Apr 2010
As a young woman, Doreen McNeill was a technical draughtsperson, drawing navigational charts for aircraft. The work was meticulous and intricate. Five decades later, McNeill has revisited the navigational charts she made, bringing them back into her work.
BLACK CARNIVAL Christine Webster - Fri 18th Dec 2009 - Sun 28th Feb 2010
A thought provoking work full of drama that questions an individual’s identity. It is now over a decade since Black Carnival was made and exhibited to an undercurrent of shock.
STUDENT ART FOLIOS - Fri 18th Dec 2009 - Sun 17th Jan 2010
A celebration of senior student visual art selected from Tauranga Boys' and Tauranga Girls' Colleges.
NGA KAKAHU Jo Torr - Sat 12th Dec 2009 - Sun 21st Feb 2010
The central theme of Jo Torr’s works is that of mutual cultural exchange between Polynesian and European peoples.
GIFTED - Fri 27th Nov 2009 - Sun 31st Jan 2010
Gifted showcases a selection of works that have been gifted to Tauranga Art Gallery, and includes works by Tracey Williams, Robin White, Elizabeth Bailey, Trevor Pye, Mark Braunias, Edward Bullmore and Arthur Dagley.
ROOM 4'S BIG DUMB FIELD TRIP - Wed 11th Nov 2009 - Thu 31st Dec 2009
A story about a group of time-travelling naughty and curious school children who witness James Cook’s meeting with Mäori in Dusky Sound, Fiordland.
THE CAPTAIN exploring images of James Cook - Tue 20th Oct 2009 - Sun 31st Jan 2010
In 1769, James Cook, lieutenant in command of the HM Bark Endeavour, (re) discovered, circumnavigated and mapped the coast of Aotearoa New Zealand. Tauranga Art Gallery has developed an exhibition titled The Captain, to commemorate the 240th anniversary of his arrival
CANDY LAND Marijon Spee - Sat 17th Oct 2009 - Sun 6th Dec 2009
Tauranga artist, Marijon Spee's two installations visually surprise with her imaginative use of materials. The installations use the plastic and the playful as a medium for the serious and the real.
7 X 10 Akiko Diegel - Sat 17th Oct 2009 - Sun 6th Dec 2009
Akiko Diegel's installation is visually insightful, elucidating many aspects about New Zealand's history and contemporary ideas about recycling and consumerism.
MY SHIP Tënei Wakahëra - Thu 1st Oct 2009 - Fri 5th Mar 2010
Tracey Williams’ work appropriates everyday events, things or ideas and represents them in ways that asks the viewer to consider how their own sense of reality is constructed.
REMBRANDT - The Experimental Etcher - Sat 29th Aug 2009 - Wed 14th Oct 2009
Rembrandt van Rijn (1606 – 1669) is widely recognised as one of the greatest etchers in the history of the medium, having produced some 300 etchings often with the addition of drypoint and engraving.
BREATH OF WIND Phil Dadson - Sat 22nd Aug 2009 - Sun 8th Nov 2009
Breath of Wind is a sound and video work featuring 17 hot air balloons and the Levin Brass Band. The images and sounds of the band performing whilst airborne are projected via two-channel video and sound into the viewing space.
NOT A STILL LIFE: the art of Susan Wilson - Sat 1st Aug 2009 - Sun 11th Oct 2009
Susan Wilson is a New Zealander who has been living in London for the past three decades. Originally working as a nurse in New Zealand, she left for Europe in 1976 where she studied art at the Camberwell and the Royal Academy in London.
ROCKERS & ROLLERS - Sat 1st Aug 2009 - Sun 11th Oct 2009
Prints from the Aratoi Wairarapa Museum of Art & History and The Rutherford Trust Collection
ANTARCTICA - Sat 25th Jul 2009 - Sun 11th Oct 2009
Antarctica brings together work by Joyce Campbell, Anne Noble and Connie Samaras on the subject of Antarctica, the most extreme continent on the planet.
THE FARMER'S WIFE John McLean - Sat 4th Jul 2009 - Sun 16th Aug 2009
THE FARMER’S WIFE depicts the narrative of a woman, the Farmer’s Wife, who leaves, or escapes, the family farm with a traveller. The suite of works maps her emancipation and strength as a female character.
TOP ART - Tue 2nd Jun - 12:00pm Fri 5th Jun 2009
TOP ART is an annual exhibition of 50 visual art folios which tour New Zealand from Kerikeri to Invercargill. Selected folios were created by senior secondary students who achieved excellence at NCEA Level 3, Visual Art in 2008.
RECENT: ten contemporary NZ photographers - Sat 30th May 2009 - Sun 26th Jul 2009
RECENT features work by ten contemporary New Zealand photographers: Laurence Aberhart, Fiona Amundsen, Wayne Barrar, Joyce Campbell, Ben Cauchi, Derek Henderson, Paul Johns, Richard Orjis, Fiona Pardington and Hamish Tocher.
DECKED Skateboard art - Fri 22nd May 2009 - Sun 28th Jun 2009
Decked is a display of artworks created from blank skateboard decks, by a selection of artists and designers, ranging from well respected members of the design community, musicians and photographers, to emerging and established contemporary New Zealand artists.
THE BROWN YEARS: Nigel Brown - Sat 16th May 2009 - Sun 19th Jul 2009
In 2007, Nigel Brown gifted 44 of his works to the newly constructed Tauranga Art Gallery, which form the basis of The Brown Years exhibition.
9 YEARS WITH MOTHER Liz Bailey - Fri 15th May 2009 - Sun 19th Jul 2009
Pahoia-based Liz Bailey is a painter, printmaker and object artist (craftsperson) whose work is in collections around the world, and yet is perhaps best known locally as an art teacher.
BOOM TIME - Sat 14th Mar 2009 - Sun 24th May 2009
Works from the Bank of New Zealand Art Collection, consisting of works from the 1960s, 70s and 80s. Comprises works by 28 artists, including Billy Apple, Tony Fomison, Dick Frizzell, Bill Hammond, Pat Hanly, Colin McCahon, Toss Woollaston, Evelyn Page, Robin White, John Drawbridge and Jenny Dolezel.
GLIMMER John Roy - Tue 10th Mar 2009 - Fri 19th Jun 2009
GLIMMER is John Roy’s most recent wall-based installation. Each form is identical in its physical shape. However, each form is individual in its decoration.
BANNERS: Don Driver - Fri 27th Feb 2009 - Sun 10th May 2009
Banners focuses on Don Driver's robust assemblages and sculptures, that began in the 1970s and remain a vital part of the artist's practice today. Driver was a pioneer in the use of assemblage in New Zealand, which has featured prominently in New Zealand art since the 1960s,
HE AHO TANGATA: THE HUMAN THREADS John Bevan Ford - Fri 19th Dec 2008 - Sun 22nd Feb 2009
John Bevan Ford (1930-2005, Ngati Raukawa ki Kapiti, English, German) was one of the first generation of contemporary Maori artists, who has been acknowledged for his prolific contribution to art and education both in New Zealand and abroad.
Samoacontemporary - Fri 19th Dec 2008 - Sun 8th Mar 2009
Samoacontemporary showcases the strength of Samoan art within the New Zealand and international contemporary art scene. While Samoan artists have exhibited internationally and nationally under the umbrella of Pacific art, this exhibition is dedicated solely to Samoan artists living and working in New Zealand.
ALTER-NATIVE Mark Sykes - Fri 19th Dec 2008 - Sun 22nd Feb 2009
ALTER-NATIVE explores the adaptation of new material and technology by a people who were not restricted by customary practice.
MYRIORAMA:4 Julia Morison - Sun 23rd Nov 2008 - Sun 3rd May 2009
Julia Morison has appropriated a Victorian card game of the same name into a large-scale group of paintings modelled specifically for the Atrium. The installation is the fourth in her Myriorama series.
STOPOVER Bruce Connew - Sat 11th Oct 2008 - Sun 14th Dec 2008
STOPOVER is a book and photographic essay on Indian-Fijian migration. For generations, the descendants of early indentured Indian migrants brought to Fiji between 1879 and 1916 to cut sugar cane on harsh five-year contracts, have made their homes in Fiji. Many still eke a living from leased cane fields.
TEACHING AIDS Julia Morison - Sat 4th Oct 2008 - Sun 14th Dec 2008
Teaching Aids is a tongue-in-cheek celebration of the ‘flower’ as a metaphor for growth. Morison’s use of prosaic cleaning tools such as floor mops to produce flamboyant sunflower-like sculptures is a satirical look at the traditional use of flowers as subjects for art, especially by women artists.
PETALS - Sat 27th Sep 2008 - Sun 7th Dec 2008
The tradition of flower painting in New Zealand dates back to European settlement. Works were painted for both decorative and scientific reasons. This exhibition's focus is on the still life / gardens as a subject, and each work has been executed by a male artist.
NEW EDUCATIONAL SERIES (part two) - BETTER MILITARY MODELLING - Sat 27th Sep 2008 - Sun 14th Dec 2008
Short film by Jill Kennedy. The New Educational Series is a specific re-animation of outmoded instructional and educational materials. Objective pictorial information is collaged into fantastical environments where the old-school aesthetic is reinvigorated with stop-motion techniques and sweeping movements of the camera.
HERE John Roy - Tue 05 Aug 2008
A plague of small rabbits is running riot on the ground floor of the Gallery. The rabbits are the work of Tauranga artist, John Roy, and will form part of a solo exhibition Roy is preparing to hold in Wellington at the end of the year. Tauranga gets the first glimpse.
FROM AONGATETE: Tony Lane - A Survey - Sat 26th Jul 2008 - Sun 28th Sep 2008
Tony Lane has a passion for the language of painting - historical and contemporary, NZ-based and international.
EDWARD BULLMORE: A Surrealist Odyssey - Sun 15th Jun 2008 - Sun 21st Sep 2008
A Surrealist Odyssey is an extensive survey exhibition of Edward Bullmore, considered to be one of New Zealand’s earliest Surrealist visual artists. Surrealism is a visual ‘stream of consciousness’ where the real world is filtered through the artist’s subconscious, manifesting into images that are often ambiguous and have different interpretations for viewers.
BIG RED - Mon 19th May 2008 - Sun 16th Nov 2008
Altering people’s perspective by creating something they can’t ignore is the intention behind sculptor Gaye Jurisich’s works. It would be impossible to ignore BIG RED, a visual bombardment of shimmering red streamers suspended from the Atrium ceiling that rustle in the draft from the opening door; a total transformation of the cavernous white Atrium space.
ULTRAMarte Contemporary Art from New Zealand - Sat 17th May 2008 - Sun 13th Jul 2008
ULTRAMarte recognises New Zealand's independence as a Pacific nation, and embraces our strong cultural ties to the countries of our origins.
MUKA YOUTH PRINTS - Sat 26th Apr - Sun 27th Apr 2008
Muka Youth Prints is an exhibition for children only. No adults are allowed in to view the prints, the aim being to acquaint young people with contemporary art by offering them real works of art to purchase at an affordable price.
TE HURINGA / TURNING POINTS Pakeha colonisation & Maori empowerment - Sat 12th Apr 2008 - Sun 8th Jun 2008
Te Huringa / Turning Points features work from the Fletcher Trust and the Sarjeant Gallery's collections, curated by Peter Shaw, manager of the Fletcher Trust Collection, and Dr Jo Diamond, Nga Puhi-nui-tonu, lecturer in art history at University of Canterbury.
KO TAWA: Maori Ancestors of New Zealand - Sat 15th Mar 2008 - Sun 11th May 2008
Ko Tawa is a selection of 28 taonga from the extensive collection of Captain Gilbert Mair, each with its own unique story to tell. Mair, or Tawa as he was known by Maori, played a significant role in New Zealand history both for his military prowess and Crown role as an advocate for Maori.
LIKE MOTHER, LIKE DAUGHTER Katherine Sperrey & K.Airini Vane - Sat 15th Mar 2008 - Sun 11th May 2008
Like Mother Like Daughter celebrates two women artists who are connected to the Bay of Plenty through Captain Gilbert Mair: his wife Eleanor Katherine Sperrey, and their daughter, Katherine Airini Vane.
HANDBOEK Ans Westra Photographs - Sat 2nd Feb 2008 - Sun 6th Apr 2008
Westra is an unseen observer, a documenter of contemporary New Zealand life. Through the lens of her camera, she manages to capture a moment, an expression, a brief glimpse into the subject’s life that tempts the viewer to feel the tension, emotion, angst or excitement portrayed by the subject.
Jae Hoon Lee: A LEAF - Mon 17th Dec 2007 - Sun 2nd Mar 2008
Korean-born digital artist, Jae Hoon Lee scans textures from the world around him, manipulating them digitally and weaving them into images that transform the ordinary into art. He uncovers minute details of everyday objects, urban scenes, accidents, elements of nature, natural phenomena: things that are seen yet at the same time, not.
SGT P: Jim Cooper - Sat 8th Dec 2007 - Sun 2nd Mar 2008
New Zealand ceramist Jim Cooper illustrates the lyrics of the iconic Beatles’ album, Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band with this collection of quirky, 3-D ceramic figures. He has combined the psychedelic nature of the 1960s with his own experiences of growing up in that era into a community of humorous ceramic characters that seek to provoke, question and stimulate the viewer.
NEW EDUCATIONAL SERIES (Part One): Jill Kennedy - Mon 26th Nov 2007 - Thu 31st Jan 2008
Two short films by Jill Kennedy
MISSION IMPOSSIBLE: The Art of Arthur Dagley - Sat 17th Nov 2007 - Mon 28th Jan 2008
It was a life-long dream of local artist Arthur Dagley to have a public art gallery in his home town of Tauranga. It’s ironic that nine years after his death, a retrospective of his works is exhibited in Tauranga’s newly opened gallery.
VISUAL BANK: Mark Braunias - Sat 20th Oct 2007 - Sun 20th Apr 2008
An installation in which the artist has created a world of brightly coloured comic figuration across the walls of the Gallery’s Atrium. Paintings on canvas, board, paper, acetate and plywood cutouts converge towards the central wall where directly hand painted imagery integrates with film footage of the artist at work, the audience and animation.
LUNCHEON UNDER THE ASH TREE: The Ian & Elespie Prior Collection - Sat 20th Oct 2007 - Sat 8th Dec 2007
A touring exhibition from Aratoi – Wairarapa museum of art and history, Luncheon Under The Ash Tree brings to Tauranga audiences the private art collection of Wellingtonian, Dr Ian Prior and his late wife Elespie. Together the Priors amassed a significant and deeply personal art collection, spanning over 50 years in the making.
dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y by Johan Grimonprez - Sat 20th Oct 2007 - Sun 11th Nov 2007
Buckle up for dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y, the acclaimed hijacking documentary that eerily foreshadowed the events of 9/11. The guiding visual thread of the film is the almost exhaustive chronology of aeroplane hijackings in the world.
LOOKING FOR AN ICON - Sat 20th Oct 2007 - Sun 11th Nov 2007
Looking for an Icon was made to honour the 50th anniversary of the World Press Photo of the Year. This documentary tells the story behind four iconic photographs – images so powerful they threaten to eclipse real memories of the event they were supposed to record.
WORLD PRESS PHOTO 07 - Sat 20th Oct 2007 - Sun 11th Nov 2007
The best press photos from the world's largest annual press photography contest. Every year since 1956 has seen a contest and a winning image.
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