Art

Simon Attwool - Not Afraid

Posted 4:11am Monday 3rd October 2011 by Hana Aoake

With cascading light dancing into the space, a series of paintings with slices of glitter and flamboyantly coloured paint radiate across the desolate gallery floor. Simon Attwool is a graduate of the Dunedin School of Art and is currently based in Melbourne. Not Read more...

Wondering how we ever came to this thank you, for instance. Or possible or just whatever whatever whatever!!!!:

Posted 6:17am Monday 19th September 2011 by Hana Aoake

Matthew George Richard Ward, Elle Loui August. Rice & Beans, 127 Stuart Street Bathed in golden shards of light flowing through from the surreal scene below, Wondering how we ever came to this thank you, for instance. Or possible or just whatever whatever whatever!!!! at Rice and Beans engulfs Read more...

SARAH LUCAS: NZU SPIRIT OF EWE

Posted 2:01am Monday 12th September 2011 by Critic

Sarah Lucas was a central figure among the wave of young British artists (YBAs), such as Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin, who took the international art world by storm in the Nineties. Lucas is an artist whose practice spans from photography, sculpture and installation. Her works are Read more...

SUTURE SELF, DUNEDIN SCHOOL OF ART GALLERY

Posted 3:25am Monday 5th September 2011 by Critic

Curated by Victoria Bell and featuring works by Jenny Bain, Michele Beevers, Victoria Bell, Neil Emmerson, Tenille Lategan, Simone Montgomery & Karen Taiaroa Suture Self is an exhibition featuring the work of staff, recent graduates and a current masters student from the Dunedin School of Art. Read more...

ART & MUSIC

Posted 10:31pm Monday 22nd August 2011 by Hana Aoake

The Dowling Street Project, a two-day exhibition August 13 & 14 Group show: Anya Sinclair, Craig Freeborn, Dominique Papoutsou, Emma Johansson, Flynn Morris-Clarke, Mishca Rhys-Hill, Sally Hill and Sally Shephard   The recent two-day exhibition at the Dowling Street Project featured Read more...

Pieter Hugo: Nollywood

Posted 2:37am Monday 15th August 2011 by Miriama Aoake

An Institute of Modern Art Touring Exhibition Upon entering Pieter Hugo’s Nollywood, my eye was first caught by the distinguished ebony head piece of Darth Vader, mounted heroically on a blank Nigerian canvas. The billboard above beckoned, and I followed.   With any Read more...

Lure Gallery, 130 Stuart Street

Posted 11:35pm Monday 8th August 2011 by Hana Aoake

Located just down from the Octagon, Lure Gallery features the work of approximately twenty-five jewellers from around New Zealand. The space itself is a tranquil escape from the busy streets below, creating a strong sense of intimacy and warmth as golden light filters through its windows. Lure is a Read more...

THE GRADUATE EXHIBITION

Posted 4:04am Monday 1st August 2011 by Hana Aoake

Oliver van der Lugt, Claire Mahoney & Tom Garden. Blue Oyster Art Project Space Traversing the alleyway entrance to the Blue Oyster art project space, one encounters the work of three very different artists, all of whom investigate a type of environment. The thread binding the show together is Read more...

Reuben Paterson

Posted 11:32pm Monday 25th July 2011 by Kari Schmidt

Reuben Paterson's digital animation has a fundamental, primal attraction. It consists of a large silver, glittery screen on which a kaleidoscopic projection is playing. Like magpies, humans like glittery, shiny things (a fact Paterson has manipulated before, for example in his When the Sun Rises and Read more...

Ralph Hotere: Zero to Inifinity

Posted 3:51am Monday 25th July 2011 by Hana Aoake

The Hocken Gallery, Cnr Anzac Ave & Parry Street Ralph Hotere is New Zealand’s most revered living painter. Zero to Infinity consists of fifty works and incorporates a broad range of Hotere’s paintings from his celebrated milestones, to his political works to his lesser-known Read more...