Art

Dick Frizzell: Works on Paper

Posted 2:47pm Sunday 11th July 2010 by Hana Aoake

Milford Gallery Until May 19 Dick Frizzell is a prominent and highly successful New Zealand artist, based in Hawke's Bay, whose notorious artistic appropriations have become ‘Kiwi’ pop-culture icons. His work is characterised as being incredibly adaptive from one style mode to Read more...

Simon Kaan, Anna Muirhead, Bryce Galloway (The Blue Oyster )

Posted 1:47pm Sunday 11th July 2010 by Emily Palmer

Until May 15   The first of three works to be encountered in the Blue Oyster Gallery Space this month is Dunedin artist Simon Kaan’s The Asian. Kaan transforms the gallery into The Asian restaurant, complete with pictures on the wall, a television in the corner, and the Read more...

Blue Oyster Art Project Space

Posted 12:09pm Sunday 11th July 2010 by April Dell

Dunedin’s dynamic art scene owes much to the efforts of establishments like the Blue Oyster Art Project Space. Nestled in the basement of the Moray Chambers building, down a rather inconspicuous, dark, graffitied alleyway off Moray Place, you’ll find the Blue Oyster gallery. This modest, Read more...

Martin Thompson - 5 New Works ( Brett McDowell Gallery )

Posted 3:56am Wednesday 23rd June 2010 by Critic

Hours of meticulous labour, complete concentration, and mathematical genius are the artistic virtues currently on display at the Brett McDowell Gallery. New Zealand artist Martin Thompson is showing his five newest works, which exhibit his fanatical obsession with systemised geometric drawing, his Read more...

An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar - Taryn Simon

Posted 2:52am Tuesday 18th May 2010 by Critic

American photographer Taryn Simon aims to reveal the guarded secrets that lie beneath the surface of American identity and the daily functioning of American life. This exhibition showcases a selection of photographs from Simon’s four-year project in which she plays detective, gaining access Read more...

Wayne Barrar - An Expanding Subterra

Posted 1:50am Monday 10th May 2010 by April Dell

Dunedin Public Art Gallery Until Sunday June 27 An Expanding Subterra is a photographic investigation into the private spaces of artificial underground worlds. This collection of works from Barrar’s seven-year international project presents a bizarre and unsettling subterranean existence Read more...