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Te Tuhi Centre for the Arts, February/March exhibitions 2008
Land Wars part 1: Shift
Ayreen Anastas & Rene Gabri (Palestine/Tehran), Wayne Barrar (NZ), Heath Bunting (UK), Inez Crawford (Te Whanau a Apuni), Alice Creischer & Andreas Siekmann (Germany), Shona Rapira Davies (Ngati Wai), Chaz Doherty (Ngati Tawhai of Tuhoe), Pat Hoffie (Australia), Robert Ransick (US)
Shock! Horror! Suspense!
Erica van Zon
Drawing Wall
Liyen Chong
Artist's billboard series
Layla Rudneva-Mackay
Michael Parekowhai
Maori Hall, Auckland
Installation view of entrance to Maori Hall, and Parekowhai's inflatable rabbit, Jim McMurtry, 19 - 23 February 2008.
The New Zealand Painting and Printmaking Award 2008
Waikato Society of Arts www.wsa.org.nz
Winner: Michael Taylor, Vanitas: To the Actual Size of Everything, oil on belgian linen.
Len Lye: Five Fountains and a Firebush
Govett Brewster Gallery
7 December 2007 - 24 February 2008.
Launching in June 2008 will be a book about the life, work and cultural significance interntaionally of New Zealand born artist Len Lye ( 1901 - 1980) Contributing writers include TYler Cann, Wystan Curnow, Roger Horrocks and Tessa Laird as well as an introduction by London based curator Guy Brett.
GUY BRETT
2008 Clark Collection Critic/Curator in Residence
Art History, Victoria University of Wellington
The Art History Programme is pleased to announce that leading London-based, freelance curator and critic, Guy Brett will be taking up the Clark Collection Critic/Curator-in-Residency hosted by Art History at Victoria University of Wellington in February 2008. Brett will spend six weeks in Wellington researching New Zealand art as well as contributing in various ways to the teaching programmes of the university and giving a number of public lectures in Wellington and further afield.
Brett has been a distinctive voice in art criticism since the 1960s, working as the art critic for the Times between 1964 and 1974 and the Visual Arts Editor for City Voice between 1981 and 1983. He is a writer and curator, known for his trans-national perspective that has brought to attention a number of artists normally thought of as outside the mainstream, in particular Latin American artists such as Lygia Clark, Hélio Oiticica, Eugenio Dittborn, Juan Davila and others. Some of his significant projects include Force Fields: Phases of the Kinetic, a major survey of kinetic art staged at MACBA in Barcelona and the Hayward Gallery in London (2000) and monographs on Mona Hatoum, David Medella, Rose English and others. He is currently working on a major retrospective of the work of Cildo Meireles for Tate Modern which will open in October 2008. A collection of his writings, Carnival of Perception: Selected Writings on Art, has recently been published by the Institute of International Visual Arts in London (2004) and he is a contributor to a forthcoming publication documenting the work of pioneering video artist Darcy Lange that is being prepared by the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery in New Plymouth.
The Clark Collection Critic/Curator-in-Residency is hosted by the Art History Programme at Victoria University of Wellington. This residency was established in 2006 and is designed to enable an art critic/curator with an established reputation to undertake a period of sustained research in Wellington, New Zealand, with the aim of enhancing their knowledge of New Zealand art and culture.
This important initiative is the first of its kind in New Zealand and has been made possible by the generosity of The Clark Collection, The Chartwell Trust, and Creative New Zealand Toi Aotearoa. The Art History Programme has funding to host three residencies over a period of five years. The first residency was successfully undertaken in 2006 by Singapore-based curator and writer Lee Weng Choy.
Tina Barton, Director of the Adam Art Gallery and Senior Lecturer in Art History, Victoria University of Wellington. tina.barton@vuw.ac.nz
Lighting the city CBD: Auckland, NZ
Announcement from Councillor Greg Moyle, Arts, Culture and Recreation Committee chairperson, Auckland City Council
17.12.07
An innovative new way to showcase public art in the CBD is being trialled by Auckland City Council on a phone booth in Lorne Street.
The art work is a light box with an image of a keyboard installed on the back of the phone booth.
Jae Hoon Lee's work Salvation
The council owns the intellectual property rights for the phone booth concept. If the 12-month Lorne Street pilot proves successful, more lightbox art works could be unveiled on phone booths across the city.
Councillor Greg Moyle, Arts, Culture and Recreation Committee chairperson, says the council is already well underway with its plan to introduce a significant number of new art works in the CBD.
“Public art is critical to the design and atmosphere of public spaces. It’s a great way to create interest and life, particularly in places people least expect it,” says Mr Moyle.
The council is working on a 10-year plan to transform and revitalise the CBD, which includes a public art work programme, says Mr Moyle.
“A key part of that plan is to showcase significantly more New Zealand art works in the central city,” he says.
“International experience shows that by introducing distinct and highly visible art and design, we will help people connect with the central city and recognise it as the heart and soul of Auckland.”
The phonebooth art work initiative follows on from the recent award winning streetscape upgrade of Lorne Street.
Jae Hoon Lee's work Salvation is on display for the first six months and artist Niki Hastings-McFall's Bloom will be installed for the remaining six months.
The artistic brief was for the works to encompass graphic art, colour, light and technology.
Salvation is a digitally collaged photograph of Jae Hoon's first New Zealand keyboard, while Bloom will be created using white synthetic lei.
Telecom NZ is supporting the one-year trial and hopes to reduce graffiti as a result.
Artspace 2007 Editions
NICK AUSTIN
MARTIN BASHER
MEG CRANSTON
et al.
REUBEN PATERSON
SRIWHANA SPONG
Every year ARTSPACE works with a number of artists to create a group of fundraising artists' editions to support their exhibition programme. This year they release six new editions which are on display in the Reading Room.
View them online at www.artspace.org.nz/editions/2007editions.asp
Announcement from Creative New Zealand
17.12.07
Creative New Zealand is pleased to announce that it will host the official New Zealand presence at the 2009 Venice Biennale and that it is also exploring the establishment of a Biennale Foundation.
A Venice Biennale Foundation
Creative New Zealand is exploring the viability of setting up a Biennale Foundation to support New Zealand’s ongoing participation at this prestigious international event.
The establishment of a Foundation has been considered for some time by the arts community and key stakeholders, including Creative New Zealand. We are looking to take a leadership position in advancing this proposal and will work with interested parties on how a Biennale Foundation can be established over the following months.
This work is a direct response to arts community feedback and Creative New Zealand’s analysis about how best to secure New Zealand’s future participation at the Venice Biennale.
Any Foundation structure will take time to establish, so New Zealand’s 2009 entry will be managed by Creative New Zealand.
Calls for Expressions of Interest for Venice Biennale 2009
We are now calling for Expressions of Interest from artist/curator teams with considerable experience and reputation who are keen to develop the 2009 Venice Biennale exhibition.
Interested artist/curator teams should contact Creative New Zealand for an expression of interest prospectus that outlines the scope of the project, the selection criteria and selection process before making their application.
To register and receive an Expressions of Interest document, please contact:
Undine Marshfield
Creative New Zealand
PO Box 3806, Wellington
Tel: 04 498 0725 / Fax: 04 498 0720
e-mail: venice@creativenz.govt.nz
All artist/curator applications close at 5pm, Thursday 14 February 2008.
To keep people informed about this exciting opportunity for our country’s visual arts sector and New Zealand as a whole we will be regularly updating www.nzatvenice.com which will become our online home for the 2009 Venice Biennale.
Stephen Wainwright
Chief Executive
Creative New Zealand
Floored
Chartwell recently supported Fiona Connor's exhibition Old Buildings at Gambia Castle, September 2007.
Here are some images, courtesy of the artist and Gambia Castle.
BillBoards
Billy Apple has worked with radio host Marcus Lush to produce several billboards around Auckland in September 2007.
ARTSPACE billboard project: et al. - the fundamental practice - regroup, reorder, restore, May 2007’.In association with Langham Hotels, et al. created the first billboard for Artspace in Auckland.
Gambia Castle News Update
Gambia Castle is moving and will be closed for 3 weeks. They will re-open on Wednesday 10 October with an exhibition of new work from Simon Denny. The new gallery is at Level One, 454 Karangahape Rd, Auckland, New Zealand.
In the meantime Gambia Castle strongly recommends:
Nick Austin ‘On Appetitb’
and
Ronald Clyne ‘Folkways Records Cover Design 1951-1981’
at ARTSPACE from 29 September - 27 October 2007
Opening: Friday 28 September at 6pm
See http://www.artspace.org.nz/
ForRestaurant
A group exhibition including work from: Conor Clarke, Fiona Connor, Julien Dyne, Sam Harnett, Anya Henis, Jill Kennedy, Dave King and others.
Opening Tuesday 25 September at The City Art Rooms.
Level 1, 28 Lorne St, Auckland, or see cityartrooms.co.nz for more details.
Fiona Connor also has a work, 'Lights Off' on display on the hallway monitor at A Centre For Art.
Opening Tuesday 18 September at 6pm with Nita Xharra and Rachael Wells' exhibition in the main room.
A Centre For Art is at Room 5, Level 3, Achilles House, Corner Custom and Commerce Streets, Auckland Opening hours: Thursday 11am - 7pm, Friday 1pm - 7pm, Saturday 1pm - 7pm
Gambia Castle is open Thursday, Friday from 2-7pm and Saturday from 12-5pm
Level One, 454 Karangahape Rd, Auckland, New Zealand
Ph: +64212442243
info@gambiacastle.net
gambiacastle.net
Arts Foundation of New Zealand Icon Awards 2007
IN August 2007, the Arts Foundation of New Zealand announced five new Icons, honouring a lifetime of acheivement in the arts. They were: Dr Raymond Boyce, Don Peebles, Don Selwyn, Ans Westra and Arnold Manaaki Wilson. New Generation artists Eve Armstrong and Joe Sheehan were also recognised. Check out Joe's blog at www.greentones.blogspot.com
Julian Dashper
To the Unknown New Zealander
Christchurch Art Gallery
10 August to 14 October 2007
Exhibition Poster PDF file click here.
NZ Artists in international exhibitions
Jacqueline Fahey was included in WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution, The Geffen Contemporary at MoCA, Los Angeles, USA. www.moca.org/wack/
Simon Denny was in Koln Show 2 showing at the Galerie Spruth Magers with Pere Liobera and Joao Onofre from 19 April to 26 May 2007. www.koelnshow2.com
Natalie Robinson, Douglas Bagnall and Janine Robinson exhibited in Shanghai as part of
Geomatics and Ecomatics: Three Stories
2007 Shanghai Science and Art Exposition
May 10-15 2007
Douglas Bagnall showed - Cloud Shape Classifier. Image projection and interactive software.
Janine Randerson showed- Remote senses; storms nearby. Video projections.
Natalie Robertson showed - Uncle Tasman - The Trembling Current that Scars the Earth. Three channel DVD video.
Michael Lett took part in Liste, Basel, Switzerland, with a solo project by Michael Parekowhai from 12 - 17 June 2007.
Arts Foundation of New Zealand
Award for Patronage 2007
At an event at the Auckland Art Gallery on 8 May 2007, the Arts Foundation of New Zealand presented Jenny Gibbs CNZM MA (Hons) with an award for arts patronage. Gibbs is a philanthropist and art collector whose influence has helped raise the profile of New Zealand art internationally, and within New Zealand. The Foundation awarded Gibbs NZ$20,000 to distribute to chosen recipients. Gibbs generously doubled the Foundation's gift and distributed four NZ$10,000 awards to artist Gretchen Albrecht, contemporary Auckland art gallery ARTSPACE, The New Zealand Opera School and the Auckland Writers and Readers Festival.
Norseweart: The New Zealand Contemporary Art Award 2007
It was announced in May 2007 that Seraphine Pick, with her work Phantom Limb, oil on linen, is the winner of the 2007 Norseweart: The New Zealand Contemporary Art Award. Selector's comments included the following notes:
"We are delighted to have awarded the $20,000 first prize to a rich and accomplished painting by Seraphine Pick, an artist working at the peak of her profession today. Merit Award Winners Peata Larkin and John McLean are both regular Norsewear entrants whose paintings this year have succeeded in achieving the perfect balance in their respective fields of abstraction and figuration, while with her Mynah Collie, Merit Award Winner Emily Valentine Bullock has given us one of those wonderful quixotic creations which have become almost a defining feature of the Norsewear. "
Best Doctoral Thesis Award- University of Auckland
Auckland based artist Simon Ingram has won an award for his doctoral thesis, Painting as Machine, at the University of Auckland. To read more, click to this link...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/ED0704/S00067.htm
Julian Dashper
The Abstract Office shows in New York
From 24 May until 23 June 2007, Esso Gallery, New York, are showing a solo exhibition by New Zealand based
artist Julian Dashper, entitled The Abstract Office. " Dashper’s work focuses on the histories, theories and more
general or popular ideas of abstraction (in particular abstract painting), conceptualism and minimalism as a working methodology. The geographical positioning of New Zealand globally and how this country receives and disseminates visual information is also a core subject in Dashper’s work. His practice manifests itself in various forms, including paintings, unique photographs of paintings, found objects which he infuses with abstract images, various multiples plus limited
edition CD and 12” polycarbonate recordings of impromptu performances he has been involved with or heavily orchestrated. "Dashper’s art is often about thinking about art, it encourages thought which is very useful, beautiful and underrated activity.”—Mark Kirby.
The show, The Abstract Office, presents a broad survey of his work dating from 1992- 2007. Consisting of sculptures and paintings from the last 15 years this new exhibition will present for the very first time Dashper’s work in depth to a New York audience.
Julian Dashper was born in Auckland, New Zealand in 1960. He lives in Auckland and travels regularly. He has been exhibiting regularly throughout New Zealand since 1980, Australia and Europe since 1992 and across America since 2001."
Simon Denny in Europe
Simon Denny is showing in Cologne with P. Llobera and J. Onofre in a Monika Sprueth and Philomene Magers exhibition called "What will be told of today tomorrow: KölnShow2". Curated by Nicolaus Schafhausen and Florian Waldvogel, the exhibition is taking place in 18 contemporary art galleries around Cologne from 19 April until 26 May 2007.
http://www.spruethmagers.com/start.php
Paul Cullen in Melbourne
Paul Cullen has been exhibiting in Melbourne at Conical, a non profit artist run space in Fitzroy, Melbourne, committed to presenting innovative, challenging and ciritical contemporary visual art. His show, Falsework runs from 5 May until 26 May 2007.
Tom Kreisler
3 March - 13 May 2--7
Govett Brewster Art Gallery
New Plymouth
This comprehensive survey of the work of Tom Kreisler includes works from the Chartwell Collection. On the opening weekend, gallery director Rhana Devenport, curator Aaron Kreisler, writer Wystan Curnow, inaugural gallery director John Maynard and artist Terry Urbahn take part in a forum about the artist and his influence as an artist and teacher.
To see works by Tom Kreisler in the Chartwell collection: click here
Hope Street to NO-BRAINER
a kinda retrospective of John Reynolds
23 February to 23 March 2007
Dots, dashes, dragged lines, text and colour building shimmering fields. Ramp Gallery holds the first retrospective of John Reynolds in the Waikato - one of New Zealand's foremost contemporary painters. Recently referred to as 'McCahon on Ecstasy' John began his career in 1980, won the 2006 Arts Laureate, and represented New Zealand at the 2006 Sydney Biennial.
'Hope Street to NO-BRAINER' juxtaposes large wall works from the 1990s with new works, provoking dynamic conversation between the bodies of work, looking at where they overlap and where they present alternative trajectories.
With an intense feeling for language, deadpan humour, an interest in rock music and a fondness for images that are seemingly artless, under worked, or sharp edged, Reynolds combines overblown scale - billboards - with smaller observations and intimacies.
Ramp Gallery
Wintec, R Block, Gate 2, Collingwood St, Hamilton, New Zealand
To see a gallery of works by John Reynolds in the Chartwell Collection: click here
Telecom Prospect 2007
City Gallery Wellington, NZ
Until 29 April 2007
Opened on 10 February 2007 ( pictured above on opening night), at the City Gallery Wellington, Telecom Prospect features new works by New Zealanders. To see a list of artists read more here. Chartwell has helped to support the development of the public programmes for the exhibition.
Auckland Festival AK07
9 - 25 March 2007
www.aucklandfestival.co.nz for full programme details.
The third Auckland Festival hosts a range of events this year including an extended visual arts programme, curated by Natasha Beckman and a series of associated seminars by the University of Auckland's Centre for Continuing Education.
Click here to see Centre for Continuing Education programme.
Included in the AK07 Visual Arts Programme is:
- a rare outdoor screening of films by Len Lye, Tahaki Reserve, Mt Eden, 18 March, 8pm
- Windows: artists working in the windows of stores around Auckland's CBD, 9 to 16 March
- Who's afraid of the Big Bad Wolf? Te Tuhi- the mark, Pakuranga, 10 March to 25 April
- Blow: a unique installation space of visionary and imaginary worlds, combining sound, lighting, moving image, set design, object, costume and performance. BNZ Foyer, Aotea Centre, The Edge, 11 March to 24 March
- Urban Pacific: New Pacific Art 2007, Randolph St Gallery, 8 March to 7 April.
- Restless, curated by Lisa Reihana, eight challenging Maori and Pacific artists, Moving Image Centre, 10 March to 21 April
- Turbulence: 3rd Auckland Triennial: Auckland Art Gallery, Artspace, The Gus Fisher Gallery, St Paul St, Academy Cinemas, 9 March to 3 June ( varies across venues) www.aucklandtriennial.com
Windows: Auckland Festival AK07: Artists announced
Auckland Festival’s Visual Arts Coordinator Natasha Beckman is delighted to announce, on behalf of Auckland Festival, AK07, the confirmed artists and shops for the Windows project. “Three international artists will be joining a range of Auckland and New Zealand-based artists in producing work across a diverse range of disciplines over the first week of the festival. Both ourselves and the local participating retailers are very excited about the calibre of proposals which have been submitted,” she explains.
Invited international artists include: Aboriginal multimedia artist Jenny Fraser, who will execute an installation in Westpac on Queen Street. Brisbane-based, Japanese-born Hiromi Tango will develop an installation featuring items she collects from the Auckland public in the window of Urban Loft on Customs Street. Sydney-based artist Hayden Fowler will collaborate with local tattoo artists who will create a large diorama of a huia bird on his torso in Crane Brothers on High St.
Other New Zealand artists participating in Windows are Dunedin-based artist Angela Singer who will make a home for her taxidermy diorama in the window of Scotties on Lorne St. Whanganui artist Andrea Du Chatenier will be installing her work in Mardell on High Street. Christina Read, recent winner of the National Drawing Award, will be creating a sculptural installation in Whitcoulls on Queen Street alongside fellow Auckland artist John Lyall. Jessica Pearless will take residence in Pierucci in Chaucery and Harvey Benge will be setting up his studio in the window of WORLDMAN on High Street.
Windows, as the major visual arts project curated by Auckland Festival, AK07, allows a peek into the often concealed artistic process by placing artists in a somewhat unlikely yet familiar environment. The installation will begin on the 9th of March with a finalé taking place on the 16th of March from 5pm to 7pm. Auckland City will provide a platform for public feedback and those who share their opinion will have the chance to enter the draw for a $1000 cash prize. Conditions will be publicised on the website.
Windows is brought to you with the generous support of the Chartwell Trust, Heart of the City, Auckland City and Media1.
Venue: Participating Queen St and CBD shop Windows
Dates: Fri 9 to Fri 16 March, during business hours
Finalé: Fri 16 March 5pm to 7pm
Price: FREE
Website: www.aucklandfestival.co.nz
