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Exhibitions
Robin White, Leba Toki & Bale Jione Suka Siti (Sugar City) 2009 – 2010
Madeleine Child & Philip Jarvis Doodads and Doodahs, orange 2009
Hemi Macgregor, Ngataiharuru Taepa & Saffronn Te Ratana Tu Te Manu Ora i Te Rangi 2009
Gavin Hurley & Sam Mitchell Charles Heaphy 2010
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DOUBLE VISION: when artists collaborate
29 May - 12 September 2010
An exhibition of collaborating artists including -
Aaron Beehre & Hannah Beehre
Susan Jowsey & Marcus Williams
Madeleine Child & Philip Jarvis
Shintaro Nakahara & Yoshiko Nakahara
Gavin Hurley & Sam Mitchell
Hemi Macgregor, Ngataiharuru Taepa & Saffronn Te Ratana
Robin White, Leba Toki & Bale Jione
Exploring the partnerships and processes used in creating a collaborative art work. DOUBLE VISION: when artists collaborate showcases the results of these very successful and innovative collaborations.
The exhibition showcases the trend towards collaboration among contemporary visual artists. From pairs and couples to groups and collectives, artists are increasingly choosing to work together, valuing creative teamwork in a less isolated practice. Collaborative practice is now an established and familiar part of the contemporary visual arts landscape.
Why are artists choosing to collaborate? Could this be part of a shift away from individualistic to a more collaborative, socially engaged form of artistic practice? Will this lead to the emergence of a new kind of art practice?
The artists in this exhibition revel in the creative possibilities that come from collaboration. Challenging the image of the lone artist, they enjoy the process of working together and the opportunity it gives them to expand their creative horizons. They relish the conviviality of discussing, criticising and offering different perspectives. Robin White describes the pattern of consultation, action and reflection in working with Fijian artists Leba Toki and Bale Jione as ‘liberating – creating art becomes a fundamentally social activity.’
Shintaro Nakahara & Yoshiko Nakahara Byobu – Folding Screen 2010
Aaron Beehre & Hannah Beehre Postcard to Garland Briggs 2008
F4 collective (Susan Jowsey, Marcus Williams, Jessie Williams and Mercy Williams) The Minutes 2010
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Todd Douglas, Gladys, ceramic. Gladys is quite possibly the only ceramic rifle in New Zealand. Todds Douglas's work
usually include traditional Maori objects built with modern techniques, materials and processes.
Carved 1855 Callisher and Terry Carbine, Whanganui Regional Museum collection
Michel Tuffery, Mock 1
Clive Fugill, Enfield Rifle, Replica
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CARVING MUSKETS - PU WHAKAIRO
29 May - 29 August 2010
The arrival of firearms to New Zealand and the Pacific had a major impact on many aspects of traditional Maori life; however the tradition of carving continued but took a new form. This exhibition is a chance to show and explore the tradition of carving weapons in Maori society, and its continuance past the introduction of European technology into the 19th century.
This exhibition includes traditional examples of weapons from the collections of Te Papa Tongarewa, Canterbury Museum, Tairawhiti Museum, Whanganui Museum and the Police Museum, together with contemporary carvers and artists including Clive Fugill, Wayne Youle, and Michel Tuffery.
 
Above: Michel Tuffery, Mock 1, Above right: Callisher and Terry Carbine1855, detail
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Tupara 12 gauge single barrel shotgun, Harrington & Richardson Arms Co. Worcester Massachusetts. Made circa 1900 carved 1940s.
Collection of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
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Claudia Borella, Transference 16 from In Search of a Universal Language series 2009
Luke Jacomb, Black Paddle 2005
Ann Robinson, Twisted Flax Pods 2008
Looking Glass: reflecting ideas is a Sarjeant Gallery touring exhibition.
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LOOKING GLASS: reflecting ideas
21 New Zealand glass artists
1 May - 8 August 2010
Described as a milestone for glass art in this country, Looking Glass: reflecting ideas is a large scale exhibition featuring the work of 21 New Zealand glass artists, from big names such as Ann Robinson and Emma Camden to those new on the scene.
These 21 New Zealand glass artists were selected from many submissions responding to a brief which invited proposals for a group of three works that would show the scope and development of an idea. Each are showing three works: one completed in the last year and two charting the development and resolution of their idea
Artists were asked to ‘reflect on’ the ways in which their idea had evolved, and show the relationship to their interest in glass and the process of making their work. In some cases that development has taken place over a considerable time; in others, one of the objects might not be a work, but something that had provided the source of their idea.
The result is this exhibition, featuring over 74 spectacular glass artworks providing a visual feast of art and design.
Emma Camden, Passage 2009 |
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A STILL LIFE IS A THEATRE - The Art of Susan Wilson
25 April - mid August 2010
"Painting a still life is like having a little theatre where you put on plays." Susan Wilson
Susan Wilson, a New Zealander living in London, creates energetic still life paintings. The still life is a subject Wilson returns to constantly. She constructs her still lifes by carefully selecting the objects which become like characters in a theatre. In her more recent work she includes New Zealand imagery.
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EMERGING ARTISTS, LOCAL INTEREST GROUPS AND MORE, THIS IS OUR GALLERY FOR THE COMMUNITY:
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KEITH GRINTER -
THE SHED PROJECT: ITERATION
22nd July - 15 August 2010
Keith describes The Shed Project as an exploration of the everyday through drawing, an attempt to translate his experience of the everyday street, to reveal his experience of walking and looking through drawing.
Iteration V extends this theme by using the Adoration of the Magi (1504-05) by Albrecht Durer to select drawings which are then interpreted in timber. The shadows cast by the timber drawings are often easier to read than the constructions, creating transcriptions of the original blind contour drawings, just as walking through the installation is a transcription of Keiths original walks.
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ARTWORK FOR SALE BY LEADING CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS FROM AROUND NEW ZEALAND
W i Taepa - 'iti'
17 July - 8 August
All new small black and white ceramic works from Wi Taepa
   
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