Four New Shows at the DPAG
Posted 2:59am Tuesday 7th December 2010
Looking for a way to procrastinate during the study break? The DPAG has recently opened four new exhibitions that offer a compelling range of media and messages. From New Zealand’s most renowned abstract artists to the graffiti and installation works of Cut Collective and the eclectic Read more...
Editorial - 20
Posted 3:44am Monday 23rd August 2010
Art and politics – two things that don’t mix. The geniuses at OUSA scheduled Art Week and the elections in the same week. We wanted to cover both so we’ve bought you a magazine that tries to pay both service. Indeed, we are your one stop shop for all your OUSA election needs (sorry, we’ll return to Read more...
Still Life: The Art of Anatomy
Posted 2:56am Monday 2nd August 2010
DPAG Until September 12 The current exhibition at the DPAG is a novel mixture of art and science. Works from public and private local collections and the Otago Medical School are combined to present a diverse exploration of the representation of the human form from Read more...
Nigel Bunn and P. F. Pieters - Media Povera
Posted 12:11am Monday 26th July 2010
Blue Oyster Gallery Until August 7 The works of seven artists currently on show at the Blue Oyster explore alternative yet ever-increasingly familiar artistic media, such as audio, film, transmission, and appropriation of ‘expired’ technology and art methods. The show Read more...
Alicia Frankovich - Effigies
Posted 12:09am Monday 19th July 2010
DPAG Until September 19 Effigies is a sculptural installation by New Zealand-born artist Alicia Frankovich which is currently on show at the DPAG. This new work comprises six subtly interacting sculptural pieces that display the artist’s interest in re-contextualising Read more...
Beloved: Works from the Dunedin Public Art Gallery.
Posted 3:43pm Sunday 11th July 2010
DPAG Until October 30 2011 So Critic finally got around to seeing Beloved at the Dunedin Public Art Gallery, a large and diverse exhibition commemorating the gallery’s 125th anniversary. The show flaunts the gallery’s permanent collection and celebrates six centuries of art from Read more...
Blue Oyster Art Project Space
Posted 12:09pm Sunday 11th July 2010
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...
Wayne Barrar - An Expanding Subterra
Posted 1:50am Monday 10th May 2010
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...