The Bloody Chamber

Posted 12:37pm Sunday 10th July 2016

Take the classic fairy tales you know and love, add a splash of violence, a sprinkling of sex, a healthy dose of feminism, and you’ve got Angela Carter’s The Bloody Chamber. This collection of stories provides a shadowy and provocative exploration of tales such as Snow White and the Read more...

The Obliteration Room — Yayoi Kusama

Posted 1:10pm Sunday 22nd May 2016

Fresh and sparkling at the DPAG this week is Yayoi Kusama’s The Obliteration Room, or polka dot madness, as I prefer to think of it. This exhibition takes the form of a domestic interior - a house complete with living room, study, kitchen, and Kmart-worthy chic décor. The only Read more...

Light Switch and Conduit: The Jim Barr & Mary Barr Collection

Posted 1:32pm Sunday 8th May 2016

Some art exhibitions simply make sense. The flow from one artwork to another is smooth, logical, creating a gradual sense of understanding and enlightenment in the viewer. They make you go “Oh cool, yeah, nice, wow, I get that.”  Light Switch and Conduit is not one of those Read more...

A deep and tumbling kind of laughter - John Ward Knox

Posted 12:52pm Sunday 1st May 2016

It would be easy to mistake the current exhibition at the Hocken Gallery for an empty space, so diminutive is the scale of John Ward Knox’s paintings. Yet what a deep and tumbling kind of laughter lacks in size, it makes up for in the intimacy, skill, and sheer beauty of the Read more...

Fashion Rules OK

Posted 1:13pm Sunday 24th April 2016

There comes a point in each semester when the uni’s endless sea of stripes, denim, grey, black and white becomes a bit too monotonous to bear. At this point, vintage fashion never fails to provide a fresh and energising splash of colour. Fashion Rules OK, the new exhibition at the University Read more...

Hākui: Women of Kāi Tahu

Posted 1:05pm Sunday 17th April 2016

Visiting the current exhibition Hākui: Women of Kāi Tahu was an insightful, valuable, special and rare experience. The Otago Museum, working closely with Whānau, rūnaka and iwi throughout New Zealand, have created a gallery space which tells the life stories of Kāi Tahu Read more...

Jeffrey Harris: Renaissance Days

Posted 2:51pm Sunday 13th March 2016

If you’re into the eerie, the creepy and the vaguely disturbing, the Dunedin Public Art Gallery’s latest exhibition may be right up your artistic alley. Jeffrey Harris: Renaissance Days ticks all of those boxes, while providing a vibrant snapshot into the work of one of New Read more...

Exposed Worlds

Posted 2:31pm Sunday 6th March 2016

To kick start your artistic side for 2016, head to Exploded Worlds at the Dunedin Public Art Gallery. This exhibition is a kaleidoscope of vivid colour, contrasting canvases, and mixed-up mediums. Offering an ‘exploded view’ of art, the gallery combines works of drastically differing Read more...