Bernar Venet, 88.5° Arc x 8, 2011, Corten steel, 27 metres high, on location at Gibbs’ Farm, Kaipara. Photo: Dan Chappell

New lines on the horizon

French artist Bernar Venet creates a dramatic statement in steel on Alan Gibbs’ Kaipara farm. He talks to Dan Chappell about the project and his future plans.

Artist Paul Klee once said “Drawing is taking a line for a walk”. However, French sculptor Bernar Venet’s lines don’t look like they’re made for walking. They’re testosterone-fuelled, muscular ligaments of steel – arcs, curves, straight lines or indeterminate doodles – that are more inclined to speed the viewer down their own path of discovery.

Bernar Venet

Bernar Venet’s career has spanned 50 years – as a conceptual artist, painter, sculptor and musician – and his career highlights include participation in documenta VI in 1976, Venice Biennale in 2009 and being chosen as the guest artist at the Château de Versailles in 2011, where two clusters of his steel arcs stood in the forecourt, like giant hands, cradling the statue of Louis XIV on horseback. His distinctive steel sculptures are held in private and public collections worldwide, and recently he visited New Zealand for the opening of an exhibition of new work at Auckland’s Gow Langsford Gallery, and the completion of his latest commission – a towering 27-metre Corten steel sculpture in Alan Gibbs’ sculpture park on the Kaipara Harbour.

The work, 88.5° Arc x 8, is a monumental creation among spectacular artworks – commissioned works by Richard Serra, Andy Goldsworthy, Anish Kapoor, Neil Dawson and many others are sited elsewhere on Gibbs’ rural property – and comprises eight massive ochre-hued arcs standing tiptoe on a grassy crest, seemingly billowing in the wind howling across the tidal flats below.

Venet recalls how the project had its genesis. “In 1996 Gary Langsford brought Alan to my studio at Le Muy, in the south of France, and we talked about doing a work on his property. He mentioned he had hills on the farm, and could I make an arc between two of them, but it would have been a really big work, say 200 – 300 metres long, so it didn’t happen at the time. But he kept visiting me, in New York and Paris, and then came to the opening at Versailles last year. I also visited his property in New Zealand, and we talked about leaning an arc on a hill, or a straight line against a hill, but when he saw the works at Versailles, he decided on a vertical arc composition. I made up a maquette of an eight-arc configuration and a photomontage, which he liked, so we went into fabrication.”

arcs being fabricated at Grayson Engineering

Normally Venet carries out the fabrication of his sculptures at his factory in Hungary, but Gibbs had previously experienced problems while shipping the steel plates for a work by Richard Serra to New Zealand. The plates were incorrectly stowed on the ship, causing major damage and delaying the project by over a year. Gibbs was confident his local engineers and fabricators were up to the job, so Venet was happy to make an exception.

Peter Boardman of Structure Design Ltd had worked on several of Gibbs’ earlier projects, and produced drawings of the geometry from the maquette, and then the detailed engineering design of the steelwork and foundations. The steel was fabricated in Grayson Engineering’s workshops in Wiri, South Auckland, precut from plate, then the box sections were welded, incorporating stiffeners and gussets to keep the lengthy structures square.

sculpture being transported to Gibbs’ Farm; installation of sculpture on site. Photos: Stuart Page

Boardman explains how some of the unique problems were solved. “The work was one of the largest Bernar had designed, and with the windy hilltop site above the water, we had to factor in wind loads six times greater than his works would be exposed to in Europe. Square sections behave poorly in wind, and tend to vibrate, so our wind engineers employed a damping technique first developed by NASA engineers on their Saturn launch rockets. Inside the top of each of the sculpture’s arcs we’ve suspended a length of heavy steel chain that is tuned to swing at a rate that negates excessive wind-induced vibration.” The sculpture is made of Corten steel, which has a corrosion-retarding layer, so the work will retain its rusty-orange colour as it ages.

Fabrication took three months, then the individual components were trucked to The Farm, as Gibbs’ property is known, and hoisted onto the foundations – a 350-tonne, 100-square-metre concrete slab that is over one metre thick and buried 400mm below ground level. The result is staggering – the arcs seem to teeter on their corners on the hilltop, soaring weightlessly into the sky. Art critic Hamish Keith was humbled by his first sight of the work, writing in his Listener column, “Throwing all caution away, I have to say the piece is simply the most beautiful thing I have ever seen”.

Bernar Venet, 88.5° Arc x 8, 2011 (detail)

And Venet’s reaction when he first saw the work installed? “I feel the design comes out perfectly,” he says. However, he continues, “I prefer my works inside a room – that way you aren’t distracted by the surrounding landscape, but here you have only the blue sky, so I don’t see any better solution. But to me, a work of art has its own identity, just like you and I have our own identity. This piece works very well where it is now, but I believe that if a piece is powerful enough, if the design is right, and the proportions are good, it can also be installed somewhere else, and work just as well.”

Throughout his career Venet has avoided symbolism and expressionism in his works. He adopted the theory of monosemy during his early conceptual period in the 1960s, and adheres to this approach today. Initially proposed in writings by semiologist Jacques Bertin, monosemic works possess just one level of meaning – they simply exist, independent of linguistic interpretations. Venet explained in a 2010 publication, “Words have a multiplicity of meanings, dependent on context, which often produces a poetic aspect.

In contrast, the signs I was using, which were deliberately drawn from the sphere of mathematics, tended to avoid a multiplicity of interpretations by imposing their monosemic nature.” He was speaking of his installations in the 1970s – wall-mounted diagrams of angles, arcs, circles and lines that are unambiguous, emphatic and each titled accordingly with mathematical precision.

These early works on canvas and panels then morphed into representations of the lines alone, first graphite on wood, then, around 1980, when his formal arcs and lines expanded to include his ‘indeterminate lines’ – doodles, squiggles and random, gestural patterns – he began experimenting with steel as a sculptural medium. He bent cold bars of steel, up to eight metres long, into random shapes, often letting the strength and resistance of the metal determine the final outcome.

Today Venet’s commissions stand tall in many cities worldwide – Paris, Cologne, Geneva, Seoul and Strasbourg, to mention a few. His work is held in many collections, including the Pompidou Centre, MCA Chicago, MOCA Los Angeles, MOMA and Solomon Guggenheim Museum in New York, and he was recently awarded the Julio Gonzalez Prize by the Government of Valencia, Spain, for his contribution to modern art. He joins an illustrious group of previous recipients, including Frank Stella, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg and Georg Baselitz.

Bernar Venet, 85.8° Arc x 16, 2011, Corten steel, 22 metres high, from Venet à Versailles, Place d’Armes, Château de Versailles

And what of the future? Venet shows no signs of slowing down, with many projects in the pipeline, some with an even longer gestation period than the 16 years the Gibbs project took to realise. One such proposed work arose to celebrate the millennium in 2000. He explains, “I’ve designed a 64-metre steel bar to lean against the façade of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris. It works perfectly, reflecting the angle of the Champs Élysées. I’ve called it Le repos de l’arme (The weapon at rest), as it symbolises a spear leaning against the Arc, or the slope of the rifle on a soldier’s shoulder – and I’m saying to the world, ‘Why don’t we stop wars?’ It’s one of my few works to have symbolism, but I’m happy to make an exception here.”

Another equally bold project is his concept of ‘global diagonals’, titled Global Art – Global Communication – Global Humanity. He first developed the idea in 1989 when asked to commemorate the bicentennial of the Declaration of the Rights of Man. His plan was to have a hypothetical straight line angling through the Earth and linking two cities, with the two ends of the line protruding from the ground. “Each end would be a steel column protruding about 100 metres out of the ground, and around the sculpture would be a light table with giant screens on which you would see the people looking at the other end of the ‘line’. They are looking at you from the other side of the world, all in real time.

The idea is to bring people from different cultures and different countries together. Imagine a link between New York and Shanghai, or Paris and Rio de Janiero. We have someone in Australia who wants to be involved but it’s a very ambitious project and needs a lot of cities to participate to make it work. It puts the whole world within our reach – it’s more than just a sculpture.”

Though New Zealand may be down the list when it comes to linking into one of Venet’s proposed global diagonals, Aucklanders will be able to enjoy experiencing some of Venet’s more human-sized sculptures in the near future. Gow Langsford has liaised with Auckland Council to site two Venet sculptures in public spaces around the inner city – likely to be in Britomart and the Wynyard Quarter – until August 2012.

Installation of Arcs at the Arsenale Novissimo, during the Venice Biennale 2009. Photo: Pat Verbruggen

Erica van Zon, Shock! Horror! Suspense! Installation at Te Tuhi, 2008, hand-painted film posters, handmade objects, props and memorabilia. Photo: John Collie

Fun, fakery and deceit

Though Erica van Zon’s tributes to pop culture look distinctly satirical, they are in fact made with great love, tenderness and sincerity. Virginia Were reports.

In a world increasingly dominated by digital modes of representation, it’s refreshing to meet Wellington-based artist Erica van Zon whose object-based art is visceral and handmade and looks to the past for its inspiration. In her paintings, ceramics, rugs and installations she consciously reclaims methods of making traditionally seen as craft, re-positioning them in a conceptual contemporary art framework.

Erica van Zon, Beijing Children’s Ride Character (Bunny), 2011, modelling material, acrylic and enamel.

Like New Zealand artist Francis Upritchard she’s less interested in technical virtuosity than in the raw, expressive and emotional potential of crafts that are often associated with the domestic and feminine realm. Her work mines pop culture, referencing iconic movies, books and television shows, and its flirtation with the kitsch and the cute might suggest a parody but there’s a complete absence of irony. Instead it makes sense to read van Zon’s work as homage – a celebration of shared cultural knowledge. The fact that we, as viewers, quickly recognise and identify her references makes her art an intensely enjoyable and nostalgic experience.

In 2007 van Zon won the inaugural Iris Fisher scholarship awarded by Te Tuhi and she followed up in 2008 with an exhibition at the gallery titled Shock! Horror! Suspense! – an installation of objects based on props and memorabilia from films of the 1950s, 60s and 70s. However, rather than focusing on the main dramatic action, van Zon set about re-creating humble, overlooked artefacts in these films. Included in this installation were dozens of hand-painted retro film posters – roughly made and naively drawn recreations of posters for classic films such as Hitchcock’s Vertigo, Buñuel’s Belle du Jour and Antonioni’s Blow Up. This series of film posters is nostalgic in the sense that we know the originals come from an era when posters were drawn by artists rather than being mechanically or digitally produced as they are today.

Some of the posters will feature in May in a group show at Melanie Roger Gallery in Auckland. Like her film props and sets, which are rendered in a charmingly clumsy, thrown-together and approximate way, using whatever low-rent materials come to hand, the posters are rough yet utterly sincere facsimiles of the originals. They originated in Props Room (2007) her Masters graduation exhibition at Elam School of Fine Arts, and though they’re distinctive for their homely handcrafted aesthetic, they also have a conceptual underpinning.

Erica van Zon

Van Zon explains that Props Room was a documentation of her attempt to get up to speed with film history by watching five new films a week. “I saw it as a way of educating myself in things I’d missed out on. I’m drawn to looking at things well made and then remaking them with my own signature style. I’m paying tribute to those things that have gone before.”

She says initially she felt frustrated at her inability to make three-dimensional objects and so she recreated props from some of these films as a way of giving herself a coherent conceptual framework within which to experiment with different ways of making objects; as a way to find her own aesthetic language. The reality of these objects, which layer artifice upon artifice by transforming fictional objects in films into further fictionalised objects within an art gallery setting, prompts us to reflect on the nature of fakery and deceit.

In an article about her work by Emma Bugden and Paula Booker, titled Not Quite, Almost, Once More With Feeling, Bugden writes: “Deceit is an interesting idea. Erica’s deceit is somehow so sincere though – it’s something about the honesty, the clumsiness of her making. The handcrafter, the hobbyist, the amateur fan. Like a teenage devotee she creates painstaking homage to the original films, seeks to occupy them herself, inserting herself into the picture. Yet, perversely, the items she seeks to remake – the cat from Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961), a hanging chain from Almodovar’s Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988) – are incidental, peripheral to the narrative. Redundant. A democratisation of product over plot.”

Booker replies: “… Often Erica’s porcelain figures or soft props seem drawn not only from films, but from classic cinematic tropes – in particular the device Hitchcock called the MacGuffin. He saw these particular key props as narrative devices and in themselves almost incidental, unimportant to the audience: merely a steering point for the central plot and motivator for his characters.”

Among the many opposing tendencies that lend an edge to van Zon’s practice – sincerity versus parody; art versus craft; ideas versus the materiality of objects; male versus female – is the constant tension between the ‘high’ and the ‘low’, and a recent series of rugs represent an unruly marriage between the two. Her gloriously purple Rothko Rug(2010), for instance, is based on the paintings within the sublime Rothko Chapel, yet it’s rendered in a distinctly crafty and domestic medium – a handmade acrylic wool rug.

“With the Rothko Rug I was thinking about basing it around an art practice that’s really tortured, serious and austere – and there’s an absolute beauty in that which I really love – but I wanted to translate that into something that’s tactile, practical, domestic and feminine. Those were the sorts of things I was trying to encompass in that work, and I invested a lot of time and domestic energy into it.”

Likewise, her Figure Eight Rug (2008) can also be read as a counterpoint to the lofty ideals of modernist (and predominantly male) painting by tapping into the pared-back visual language of artists like Colin McCahon, Barnett Newman and more recently Ralph Hotere and Peter Robinson – who have both used the infinity symbol in their work.

Left: Three Cats, 2012, modelling material and gouache. Right: Figure Eight Rug, 2008, acrylic and canvas

In contrast to the austerity of Figure Eight Rug is the recent blazingly colourful fibre work, Need More Fire (2011) inspired by a fringed piece of fabric draped over a Buddha figure in China, which reminded van Zon of a polychromatic painting.

Another modernist-inspired work is Three Cats (2012) – a bizarre looking group of felines that look like a failed home-craft project that has been donated to an opportunity shop. “I was thinking about the austere modernist houses I’ve seen in the magazine World of Interiors,” says van Zon, “and about the coffee table objects that exist in those sorts of places, and wanting to recreate them for myself. The work is quite new and I wanted to see how a grouping of similar things worked together as one artwork.”

Last year was an exciting one for van Zon. She did a two-month residency at the Red Gate Gallery in Beijing, on a Wellington Asia Residency Exchange (jointly run by Wellington City Council and Asia New Zealand Foundation). While there she became fascinated with the Chinese people’s obsession with astrology and how it shapes their everyday lives. Having curated an exhibition of work by artists responding to the symbols of the Western horoscope at Enjoy Gallery in 2011, she was keen to follow up with a group show responding to the Chinese equivalent. The resulting Chinese Horoscope Show at Enjoy earlier this year included 13 New Zealand and international artists, who were asked to respond to their own zodiac signs.

Van Zon came home from Beijing with several new series of works, including some ceramic pieces based on a children’s park ride featuring the 12 animals of the Chinese zodiac, and she feels the ideas generated by the residency will continue to pollinate her work for a long time to come.

Last year her work Untitled (2009) – a neon text work stating “Don’t Make your Heart a Lion’s Den” – was included in the group exhibition Tender is the Night, curated by Heather Galbraith for City Gallery Wellington. Referring to van Zon’s Dutch heritage the work represents a softened version (and a mistranslation) of the Dutch phrase “Maak van je hart geen moordkuil”, which literally means: “Don’t make your heart a murder hole”. Untitled traces its lineage back to American artist Bruce Nauman’s neon text works, which took a playful and mischievous approach to the inherent problems and slipperiness of language. When confronted with the challenge of “What to do?” in his studio soon after graduating, Nauman had the simple but profound realisation that “if I was an artist and I was in the studio, then whatever I was doing in the studio must be art. At this point art became more of an activity and less of a product.”

Untitled, 2009, neon. Photo: Alex North

The same might be said of van Zon’s predominantly research and project-based practice, and therefore it’s entirely fitting that for her solo show, Moving Forward, later this year at RM – an artist-run space in Karangahape Road, Auckland – she plans to exhibit her personal archive spanning over ten years.

Her work’s distinctive materiality sets it apart. “I feel like I’m working against the grain in many ways,” she says. “I can’t stop making objects; I really enjoy it and I think it’s valid. I think eventually objects are going to re-emerge and artists are going to reinvest in making them again. Currently art schools are teaching a lot of skills, like painting. At the moment I’m teaching students how to draw – and that might indicate a shift back into more object-based projects happening in the future.”

Erica van Zon’s work is in a group exhibition, including artists Kirsty Bruce and Sam Mitchell at Melanie Roger Gallery, Auckland, from 16 May to 9 June.

EXHIBITIONS

Lisa Reihana, East Wind (detail), 2009 from the series Nga Hau e Wha. Original digital print on aluminum. Papakura Art Gallery 23 June - 21 July

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Anna Miles Gallery, Auckland CBD Barbara Tuck to Jun 2 Solomon Mortimer, Solomon’s Travels Jun 5–30

Antoinette Godkin Gallery, Auckland CBD Alexander Kennedy, David Morrison, Esther Leigh, Geoffrey Heath, Kathy Barry, Lianne Edwards, Miranda Parkes, Monique Jansen to Jun 9

Aotea Gallery, The Edge, Auckland CBD James K Lowe, Fine Arts Commission 2012 Jun 9–24

Art Matakana Matakana Pictures, Auckland Festival of Photography exhibiton Jun 2–24 Food for Thought, Jane Pierce, Sue Willis, Bill Harris, Candy Clarke Jun 2–21

Art + Object, Newton Auctions: Objects May 24; Important Photographs July 26

Art Upstairs, Kerikeri Out of the Blue to May 31 Matariki Special, painting and drawn portrait demonstrations Jun 1–6 Matariki Exhibition Jun 1–30 Winter Light Jul 1–31 Northern Exposure Aug 1–31

Artis Gallery, Parnell George Baloghy, Reviving to May 20 Bridget Bidwill, Bruce Hunt, Anah Dunsheath, Naturally Urbane May 22–Jun 11 John Edgar, Richard Mathieson, Marte Szirmay, Jim Wheeler, Inside/Outside Jun 12–Jul 2 Peter Nicholls, As It Is On Earth Jul 3–29 Pamela Wolfe, New Work Jul 31–Aug 26

Artspace, K’Rd Ramblers Association, Adam Avikainen and Maria Taniguchi, Rambler’s Association to May 19 alienate/demonstrate/edit curated by Aaron Santry May 25–Jun 30 Anoushka Akel; Kim Pieters Jul 13–Aug 18

Artstation, Ponsonby Unbound May 16–Jun 2 sideway: Sediment: Franziska Poeschl May 22–Jun 9 Small Histories Jun 6–23 sideway: How we roll, Candice Stock Jun 19–Jul 7 Songs for Matariki:
Haare Williams curated by Ngahiraka Mason Jun 27–Jul 14 sideway: Jane Park July 10–Aug 18 Sole Project: The Exhibition, youth artists Jul 18–Aug 4 Dominion Road Expansion: Stories of a shifting urbanscape, King Tong Ho Aug 8–25

ASB Theatre, The Edge NBR New Zealand Opera, Rigoletto, www.nzopera.com Jun 7–17

Auckland Art Gallery Degas to Dali to Jun 10 Speed and Flight to Jul 10 Whizz Bang Pop to Sept 9 From French Chateau to Kauri Canopy: The Gallery’s architecture to Jul 31 Victorian Tales of Love and Enchantment; British and French Modernism; Toi Aotearoa ongoing Made Active: The Chartwell Show; for times for commissioned performance pieces visit aucklandartgallery.com to Jul 15 Home AKL Jul 7–Sep 30 The Walters Prize Aug 4–Nov 4

Auckland Art Gallery Auditorium Auckland Festival of Photography Talking Culture Sunday Series: Sam Harris – From London to the Bush 1pm Jun 3 Asia Pacific Photoforum 3pm Jun 3 Daniel Alexander, Patrick Dalton discuss 1 Day 6 Cities project 1pm Jun 10 Getty Images – Behind the Lens, sports photographers Phil Walter, Hannah Johnston 3pm Jun 10 Ron Brownson – Pacific Camerawork 1pm Jun 17 Natalie Marshall, Alexander Turnbull Library curator of photographs 3pm Jun 17

Auckland Festival of Photography Jun 1–24 www.photographyfestival.org.nz

Bath Street Gallery, Parnell Grant Beran, Andrea Gardner, Past Present and Future Lodge  May 30–Jun 23

Black Asterisk, Ponsonby Imperfect, Emma Bass, photography to May 20 The Players, Graeme Hitchcock, sculpture; Mute, Jackie Wilson and Vincent Bolletta, photography May 24–Jun 5 Fabulous Darling: The Elizabeth Hardwick–Smith Memorial Exhibition Jun 7–13 Negotiating the Non-Space, Lisa Chandler Jun 15–27 Convergence Jun 15–24 The General Sales, group show Jun 28–Jul 11 Musings, Victoria Cassells Jul 13–31

Bledisloe Walkway Light Boxes, Auckland CBD Living Here, Andrea Wilkinson, photographic images by Stefanie Young to Aug 2

Brick Bay Sculpture Trail, Snells Beach, Warkworth Oh How the Intangible Have Fallen, Aaron McConchie, new sculpture May Squeeze Me (Offensive) David McCracken, new sculpture June The Sex Choir, Sam Harrison, acoustic piece July Tablecloth, Richard Mathieson, new sculpture Aug

Corban Estate Arts Centre, Henderson Norm and Noeleen, Bernie Harfleet and Donna Sarten; Object 5+ Matt Akehurst Jun 1–Jul 8 Songs for Matariki, Charlotte Graham, Te Taumata Series Jul 12–Aug 26 Matariki Programme and other events www.ceac.org.nz

Depot Artspace, Devonport Lyndsay Brock, Lineage: Arts & Crafts in NZ – A legacy of skills to May 24 Deck’d 2, skateboard art May 19–31 Unfinished Business: Group Show May 26–Jun 7 Julia Durkin, Elaine Smith: Occupy Jun 1–15 Camille McCawley: 365 Commercial Road – Squatter Series, photography Jun 1–24 Clare Goodwin: Picnic at Waiau Pa, photography Jun 17–30 Inner Nature: Art Therapists as Artists Stars Jun 24–Jul 4 Robyn Gibson, Car-i-cature: New Works Jul 6–13 Paintalk Jul 7–19 James Oddy: Walking Over Rocks; Robin Purllant: The Magpies Said Jul 21–Aug 9

Eden Arts 2012 Art Schools Award at Snowhite Gallery, Unitec www.edenarts.co.nz Jul 24–Aug 1

Estuary Arts Centre, Orewa View to Another World Jun 7–Jul 1

FHE Project, Auckland CBD Gary McMillan Noise May 9–Jun 15

Fingers Gallery, Auckland 2012 Graduate Student Award Aug 6–24

Flagstaff Gallery, Devonport Made in New Zealand – Bringing contemporary New Zealand art to Agora Gallery, Chelsea, New York to Jun 7 Devonport: group shows changing monthly to Aug 17

Fox Jensen Gallery, Newmarket Melissa Coote: Paintings to Jun 2 C6 H10 O5 V Jun 5–Jul 7 Tony Oursler Jul 10–Aug 18

Fresh Gallery, Otara WWJD, curated by Ema Tavola to Jun 23 Te Taumata Exhibition Series 2012 featuring Aimee Ratana Jul 6–Aug 4

Gow Langsford Gallery, Lorne Street, Auckland CBD Chris Heaphy Maukatere May 16–Jun 9 Contemporary Photography Jun 7–Jul 13 John Pule Jul 11– Aug 4 at Melbourne Art Fair Aug 1–5 Michael Hight Aug 8–Sept 1

Gow Langsford Gallery, Kitchener Street, Auckland CBD Darryn George, Karakia May 16–Jun 9 Negative Kept Jun 13–Jul 7 at Melbourne Art Fair Aug 1–5

Gus Fisher Gallery, Auckland CBD Assume Nothing, curated by Peter Shand; Peter Peryer: Other to Jun 23; Vincent Ward, Inhale July 6–Aug 25

Hokianga Art Gallery Artists Salon May Matariki June Group Show July

Hopkinson Cundy, Cross St, K Rd Nick Austin May 16–Jun 23 Ruth Buchanan at Liste 17, Basel Jun 12–17 Andrew Barber Jun 27–Jul 28 Milli Jannides Aug 8–Sept 8

International Art Centre, Parnell Auction: Important Early and Rare NZ Art Jun 26

John Leech Gallery, Auckland online gallery www.johnleechgallery.co.nz

Kaan Zamaan Gallery, Kerikeri Out of Africa to May 27 Richard Adams, new works on paper May 28 The Seventh Sense, Matariki Jun 3–Jul 1 No Cross Words, Russell Giles and his students Jul 6–29 Stock room on show by appointment Aug

Kaipara Coast Sculpture Gardens, Kaukapapapa Exhibition 2012 60 sculptures in garden trail setting ongoing Imagine the Land Project www.imaginetheland.org to May

Kinder House, Parnell NZ Landscape Photography June 15–20

Kohia Terrace School, Epsom Exhibition and Sale of Contemporary Art Jun 8–10

Kura Gallery Auckland CBD Te Akau Maori Artspace – Conor Jeory (Ngati Porou) carver sculptor, artist in residence Jun 16–24

Lakehouse Arts Centre, Takapuna Becroft Gallery: Flights of Fancy, Matthew Williams, Anneke Bester May 15–Jun 3 Human Canvases, Brian Livingstone and NZ Body Arts Trust Jun 4–30 Cultural Identity…People and Places, Sonya Gardien, Vicki Te Puni, Stacey Simpkin Jun 11–24 Matariki Jun 26 Jul 15

Letham Gallery, Ponsonby View, Beatrice Carlson Jun 9–24

Lopdell House Gallery, Titirangi Adam Portraiture Awards; Clay Bodvin: Hybrid Memories and the Still Life of Trivial Objects; Curiosity Cabinet: Stephanie O’Neale to Jun 10 Mary MacPherson, Old World New World; Shaun Garea, A Dream, video installation Jun 15–Aug 5

Mangere Arts Centre Nga Tohu o Uenuku, Mangere Town Centre Graham Fletcher: Lounge Room Tribalism; Darcell Apelu, parallels to Jun 3

Masterworks, Ponsonby Jewellery Box: Trevor Byron, Dirty; Neckware 9 judged by Finn McCahon Jones to Jun 20 Jewellery Box: Sarah Walker-Holt; Chester Nealie, Three Score and Ten; THINKspace: Katherine Rutecki: Drawing from Death and Reanimation Jun 28–Jul 21 Rick Rudd; Raewyn Walsh; Jewellery Box: Gillian Deery; THINKspace Ross Malcolm Jul 12–Aug 22

McCahon House Artists Residence, Titirangi Open Studio, Kathy Barry May 26 11am–3pm

McCahon House Museum, Titirangi Opens Wed, Sat, Sun 10am–3pm www. mccahonhouse.org.nz

Melanie Roger Gallery, Herne Bay Kirsty Bruce, Sam Mitchell, Erica van Zon May 16–Jun 9 Richard Orjis, of quiet volcanoes Jun 13–Jul 7 Ruth Cleland July 11–Aug 4 Gavin Hurley, Peter Peryer, Emily Wolfe Aug 8–Sept 1

Michael Lett, Newton Zac Langdon-Pole, Nothing by itself May 18–Jun 23 Simon Denny at Art Statements, Art 43, Basel Jun 14–17 Jim Allen Jun 27–Aug 24

Mt Eden Village Centre Histories, Murray Noble Jun 6–17

Myers Park, Auckland CBD Hau te Kapakapa – The Flapping Wind, Rachel Walters ongoing

Nathan Homestead, Manurewa John Miller, Photographer Jun 7–Jul 1

New Zealand Steel Gallery Franklin, Pukekohe Together May 25–Jun 23

nkb gallery, Mt Eden Raymond Jennings to May 15 From the Stars Above, group show May 17–Jun 5

Northart Gallery, Northcote A Stranger Paradise, Brodie Quinn, Edward Howie May 28–Jun 13 1 day 6 Cities May 27–Jun 22 Dust 1.4 painting, sculpture, photography, Dust ArtCollective May 21–Jun 10

Number 4 Gallery, Cross St, K’ Rd 120, medium format photography using analogue processes Jun 6–12

Objectspace, Ponsonby The Crystal Chain Gang: Fancy Fools Flight, Jim Dennison and Leanne Williams to Jun 9 7 Up Craft and Design Talkfest Jun 18–23 Contemporary Pattern Jun 30–Sept 1

Opanuku Bridge, Great North Road, Henderson, Jason Hall, permanent public artwork

OREXART, Auckland CBD Bronze, Wood, Ceramic, Glass, new sculpture Jonathan Campbell, Leigh Christensen, Annie McIvor, Peter James Smith, Evelyn Dunstan to May 26 Peter James Smith, Poetry and Mathematics, paintings, ceramics May 29–Jun 16 Lucy Hughes Jun 1–24 Glaister Ennor Masters Art Awards 2012 Jun 19–30 Emily Karaka, new paintings Jul 2–21 Evan Woodruffe, paintings from The Archive of Memories Jul 24–Aug 18

Papakura Art Gallery Girls Who Shoot/Boys Who Draw May 19–Jun 16 Nga Hau e Wha, Lisa Reihana Jun 23–Jul 21

Pearce Gallery, Parnell Sampler, Whitecliffe Y3 students Jun 5–14

Projectspace b431, Elam School of Fine Arts John B Turner, Postcards from China Jun 6–24

Reef Gallery, Auckland Central Bounty Bars and Coconut Roughs Jun 5–24

Sanderson Contemporary Art, Parnell Electric Zoo, Paul Martinson to May 20 Headlands, Linda Holloway May 22–June 10 On Building Houses, John Oxborough June 12–24 10 Years, Group Show Jun 26–Jul 1 New Work, Liam Gerrard Jul 3–15 Symmetry, Repetition and Noise, PJ Paterson July 17–Aug 5 150 x 150 x 150 Aug 7–12 The March of Time, Alan Pearson Aug 14–Sept 2

Clare Goodwin, Picnic at Waiau Pa, photograph, from Natural Light, a group exhibition at Satellite Gallery, Newton, Auckland, from Jun 9–20, and part of Auckland Festival of Photography

Satellite Gallery, Newton Humour from my Pen with Art to Aid the Cuban Five to May 24; Natural Light, group show Jun 9–20 Antoinette Ratcliffe: Cauterizing Scrodingers Cat Jul 5–28

Seed Gallery, Newmarket John Pusateri to May 19 Veronika Maser, Shift May 23–Jun 9 Aaron McConchie, Thomas Hinton, Peter Rive Jun 13–30 Exquisite Corpse, group show Jul 4–21 Louise McRae Jul 25–Aug 18

Snake Pit Gallery Færie Tales, Rebecca Swan with Charlotte Rose and others Jun 5–18

Snowhite Gallery, Unitec, Mt Albert Digital Life – Jinyao Lin, digital installation, drama, music pieces to May 25 The Evocative Object – why objects matter Jun 5–Jul 11 Eden Arts 2012 Art Schools Award Jul 24–Aug 1

St Paul St Gallery, Auckland CBD Documentaries Part 2, curated by Fiona Amunsden, Dieneke Jansen and Vera Mey May 24–Jun 29 Annual Tautai Tertiary Exhibition Jul 5–27

Sturges Road Overbridge, Henderson A small house fits 100 people you love, Anthony Sumich, permanent public artwork

Sue Crockford Gallery, Auckland CBD John Reynolds to Jun 9

Symonds Street Overbridge, Auckland CBD Loafers, Francis Upritchard, permanent public artwork

Te Tuhi Centre for the Arts, Pakuranga Gregor Kregar: Te Tuhi Project Space to Jul 29; Derrick Cherrie, Sonya Lacey, Louise Menzies, major solo projects May 26–Jul 29

Telstra Clear Pacific Events Centre, Manukau The Great South Road, Peter James Quinn Jun 1–30

The Digital Darkroom, Mt Eden Human in Geometry, Mareea Vegas Jun 2–15

The Gallery, Northtec, Kerikeri Imparting VI: Kim Logue, Caroline Mountain, Lew Petrenko, Elsbeth Stewart, Te Aroha Tiatoa Sionemale, Sharon Terrizzi, curated by Richard Parker, Mark Graver, Scott Macfarlane Jun 17–22

The Pah Homestead, TSB Bank Wallace Arts Centre, Hillsborough Debbie Stenzel, Starshake 5928 to May 27 Shannon Novak: Tone Connections to May 20 Recent Acquisitions, photography May 22–Jul 22 Chiwi: A Way of Life May 29–Jun 19 Kushana Bush, All Things To All Men to Jul 1 Exhale, Vincent Ward July 3-Sept  2

Tim Melville Gallery, Newmarket Earth, Simon McIntyre, There And Back to May 19 New Photography May 22–Jun 16 Andrew Blythe Jun 19–Jul 7 Roberta Thornley at Melbourne Art Fair Aug 1–5 Tim Melville Gallery: Five Years Jul 13–Aug 25

TOI Gallery, Waiheke Island Island influences, group show Auckland Festival of Photography exhibition Jun 8–19

Toi Ora Gallery, Newton 91, photography show Jun 1–29

Triangle Road Cycleway, West Auckland Te Ao Whanui Pou Whenua, Whare Thompson, permanent public artwork

Two Rooms Brad Lochore, Paintings; Brett Graham to May 19 Daniel Crooks, Imaginary Objects; Bruce Connew, Stopover May 25–Jul 7

Upstairs Gallery, Titirangi POV – Connections, Ellen Kerssens Jun 8–Jul 1

Uxbridge, Howick’s Creative Centre Drawings and Recent Small Paintings, Michael Armstrong; Rewi Alley, photography May 18–Jun 6 Unseen Perspective Jun 1–Jul 31

Village Arts, Kohukohu, Hokianga Houtupu: New Phenomena – a celebration of Matariki Jun 2–Jul 5 Untitled: Village Arts Trustees, Lindsay Antrobus Evans, John Wigglesworth, Marg Morrow, Phillip Evans, Wally Hicks Jul 7–Aug 2

Voyager Maritime Museum, Viaduct Harbour, Auckland Kermadec: Nine Artists Explore the South Pacific to Jul 1 Blast! Pat Hanly – the painter and his protests Jul 10–Nov 13

Waiheke Community Art Gallery, Waiheke Island Reclaim to Fame; Jostle May 18–Jun 11 Waiheke Winter Arts Festival, Artist’s Studio Tour Art Box auction Jun 5–7 The Members Show Jun 15–Jul 16

Warwick Henderson Gallery, Parnell Mark Wooller, Road from Eden to May 26 Fatu Feu’u, Lo Ta Nu’u Jun 12–30 Alexander Bartleet, New Works Aug 7–25

Webb’s, Newmarket Ron English exhibition to May 20 A2 Art Auction May 29 Important Paintings and Contemporary Art Auction Jul 31

West Coast Gallery, Piha Keep it in the family, Mandy Patmore, Ezra and Lukah Ashton paintings, mixed media to Jun 3 Return of the Light, gallery photographers Jun 9–Jul 8 Vera Limmer and Jo McLean, mixed media, ceramics Jul 14–Aug 12

Whangarei Art Museum Israel Tangaroa Birch: Ara-i-te-uru; Ralph Hotere ONZ a Tribute Wall Exhibition; Consonance and Dissonance – the Aboretum Trust Collection, curated by Scott Potham to Jun 3

Whitespace, Ponsonby Not for Entertainment includes Andy Leleisi’uao, Ross Ritchie, Lauren Lysaght, Locust Jones, Peter Wheeler, Alexis Hunter to May 26 Jon Adrie Hoekstra: Nachtrecorder May 29–Jun 16 Locust Jones: Boycott Isolate Sabotage; Nigel Brown: Joe Taihape Jul 10–28 Drawing the Line Jul 31–Aug 18

Window, General Library Foyer, University of Auckland Onsite: Green Terrace, Johl Dwyer to Jun 1 Online: Expatriate Consolation Relations: A Melbourne–based project, Sophie Bannan, Bridget Riggir to May 24

Wynyard Quarter The Flooded Mirror; Silt Line, Rachel Shearer; Wind Tree, Michio Ihara, ongoing

Zealandia Sculpture Garden, Mahurangi West now open by appointment

Central

Academy Galleries, Queens Wharf, Wellington Boundless and in the Frame, printmaking May 17–27 Open Call–Women: An Exhibition to Jun 3 Open Call – Matariki: Whenua Jun 8–Jul 1

Adam Art Gallery,Victoria University of Wellington Dark Sky, timed to coincide with the Transit of Venus, curated by Geoffrey Batchen with Christina Barton to Jul 8 Marcel Duchamp and New Zealand Art 1967–2007 Jul 20–Sept 30

Aratoi Museum, Masterton Ngati Arty: King Street Artworks 15th annual exhibition; Thinking about Matisse, new paintings by Helene Carroll to Jun 17 Haunts of Dickens, Paul Braddon, watercolours from the Dunedin Public Art Gallery collection Jun 2–Jul 15 Kirsty Gardiner: Portmanteau: A Cabinet of Curiosities to Jul 22

ArtsPost Galleries, Hamilton Humanity in all its guises, WSA members to Jun 4

Bartley+Company Art, Wellington Peter Roche, agitated to Jun 16

Black Barn Gallery, Havelock North Winter at Black Barn, gallery artists May–Aug

Calder and Lawson Gallery, University of Waikato Remix: Works by  Hemi Macgregor to Jun 22 Raised Voices, featuring Michelangelo Pistoletto Band video works, live performance and public workshop see www.waikato.ac.nz/academy Jul 2–Aug 10

City Gallery Wellington Don Driver Symposioum 1pm, May 26 The Obstinate Object: Contemporary New Zealand Sculpture to Jun 10 Poly Wants a Cracker, John Ioane; Philip Beesley Hylozoi Series: Vesica to Jun 10 Rob McLeod, Supporting Partick Thistle; Rohan Wealleans, Apocalyptic Intuition Jun 3–Sept 23  Athfield Architects: Architecture on High Jun 22–Oct 7

Courtney Place Lightboxes, Wellington CBD Evergreen, Jenny Gillam, Dienneke Jansen to Aug 6

Enjoy Public Art Gallery, Wellington Lance Cash, For James Hansen’s Grandchildren to Jun 2 Annsuli Marias and Lauren Redican Jun 6–30 Film Show curated by Claudia Arozqueta and Mark Williams explores the relationship between art and film Jul 4–28 South Slide curated by Rebecca Ann Hobbs and Richard Orjis Aug 1–25

Expressions Arts and Entertainment Centre, Upper Hutt Wellington Regional Arts Review May 18–Jul 1 Earnest Desire Jul 6–Sept 9

Gilberd Marriott Gallery, Wellington Louise Rutherford; Anthony Davies June

Govett–Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth Laurence Aberhart: Recent Taranaki Photographs to Jun 17 True Stories/Scripted Realities to Jun 24 Open Window: Catherine Macdonald: nothing stays the same to Jun 17 Drawing the Line: Works from the Gallery’s Collection to Jul  1 Open Window: Bepen Bhana Jul 7–Sept 30 Sub-Topical Heat: New art from South Asia Jul 14–Sept 30

Hastings City Art Gallery Multiply, Repetition Reinvigorated, curated by Judith Anderson to Jul 8 Te Taniwha, photographs by Joyce Campbell text by Richard Niania to Aug 19 Sense of Place Cristina Silaghi, Celia Wilson, Kim Lowe, Helga Goran Jul 28–Sept 9

Hamish Mackay Gallery, Wellington Tony de Lautour; Robin Neate May Don Driver; Peter Peryer June Jason Greig July John Nixon August

Kura Gallery, Wellington Contemporary Maori Art and Traditional Carving May

Mahara Gallery, Waikanae Mahara Arts Review Native Habitats: Waikanae children’s creations to Jul 1

McNamara Gallery, Wanganui Peter Peryer and Fiona Pardington – in conversation May Elaine Campaner (Australia) A Place in the Sun June Mark Adams July Ann Shelton, The Index Case August

St James Theatre, Wellington NBR New Zealand Opera, Rigoletto nzopera.com May 19–27

Page Blackie Gallery, Wellington Orange Zone, Neil Dawson May 1–27

Pataka Museum of Arts and Culture, Porirua Money Talks; The Art of Money to Jun 23 Wayne Barrar: Bio Borders, photography May 19–Aug 23 Plimmerton, a colourful history Jun 30–Nov 11 Phil Dadson: Bodytok Quintet – A Sonicsfromscratch production May 26–Aug 18

PAULNACHE, Gisborne Never Mind the Pollocks, curated by James R Ford, group exhibition to May 26 Valerie Bos; Brian Campbell June

Photospace Gallery, Wellington Helen Mitchell, Portraits of Ink; Julian Ward, Collections of Photographs to June 2

Robert Heald Gallery, Wellington Look, Know, group show to Jun 2 Georgie Hill Jun 7–30 Patrick Lundberg Jul 5–28 John Ward Knox Aug 9–Sept 1

Rotorua Museum of Art and History Wayne Barrar: An Expanding Subterra to May 27 White Cloud Worlds, to Jul 29 The Imaginative Life and Times of Graham Percy to Jul 15 Nigel Brown: Travel to Travel May 12–Aug 5

Sarjeant Gallery, Wanganui Edith Collier Selected Irish Works; John Roy: Bending Hammers, Tylee Cottage Residency exhibition to Jun 24

Solander Works on Paper Gallery, Wellington Jacqueline Aust: Still Life; Michele Bryant, The Considerations to Jun 2 Russell Brown, Rachael Garland and Lynn Taylor: Group Show Jun 6–Jul 14 Alexis Neal and Vanessa Edwards: From a bird that no longer sings – for your musket Jul 18–Aug 18

Statements Gallery, Napier John Burns, but I only gave you an inch May 24–Jun 17

Suite Gallery, Wellington Wayne Youle to May 26 Douglas Stichbury June Brit Bunkley Jun 27–Jul 14 Fiona Pardington August

Tauranga Art Gallery Nigel Brown; Darryn George: Rata; Whakarongo to May 25 Rob McLeod: Mixing Different Heavens May 31–Sept 30 Brian Brake: Lens on the World Jun 1–Sept 16

Te Manawa Museum, Palmerston North Now and Then, New Zealand photography to Jun 10 Anne Frank: A History for Today to Jun 24 The Vault: Neil Pardington; Your Face Here May 26–Aug 19

Te Papa, Wellington Collecting Contemporary: New selection of works including three major works by Jim Allen to June Peter Stichbury: A Potter’s World to 1 Jul The Fashionable Line: The Other Life of Kate Coolahan to Aug

The Dowse Art Museum, Lower Hutt Critical Mass; Lifting My Mother For As Long As I Can, Campbell Patterson, video work to 17 Can you see what I see to Jul 8 A view from where I was sleeping, collaborative art and design works curated by Lily Hacking to Jul 22 Solo: Four Wellington Artists: Cat Auburn, Ben Buchanan, Matt Hunt, Ann Shelton; Len Castle: A Tribute May 12–Aug 19 Dynasty Works: by Octavia Cook 28 Jul–21 Oct Parting Darkness to Aug 5 Lynley Dodd: A Retrospective Jul 21–Oct 28

The New Zealand Portrait Gallery, Wellington All Woman: A modern portrait of New Zealand Women, curated by Bev Short to July 8

The Sculpture Park at Waitakaruru Arboretum, Tauwhare, Waikato Autumn: call and reponse curated by Kim Paton to Jun 10 Winter Collection Jun 11–Oct 5

The New Zealand Art Show at TSB Bank Arena, Queens Wharf www.artshow.co.nz Aug 2–5

Waikato Museum, Hamilton Waiclay National Ceramics Awards to May 27 How to Make a Monster: The Art and Technology of Animatronics to Jul 15 Handgrown: Fruit and Vegetables crafted stitch by stitch ongoing The Intraspace Project: Interventions with Waikato Museum non–gallery space, to view visit www.waikatomuseum.org.nz

Wallace Gallery, Morrinsville Retrospect, Contemporary Jewellery to Jun 10 Chris Kannegieter–Groves, Drawn to Abstraction, paintings and drawings Michael Barker, Drawings and Paintings; Erica Holden, paintings May 3–29

Westra Gallery, Oriental Bay, Wellington Notes on the country I live in to Jun 16 James K Baxter June Education July

Wanganui Community Arts Centre Whanganui National Art Awards and Exhibition Aug 23–Sept 14

Whakatane Library and Exhibition Centre Jamie Boynton, Mauri Ora: A Story of Creation Jun 28–Aug 26

Southern

ART Expo Nelson, Air Nelson Hangar 2 Jul 27–29

Ashburton Art Gallery Jason Greig, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde; Painting of the Land, Janet de Wagt to Jun 10 Balance, Michael Armstrong; Echoes, Sue McLean Jul 14–Aug 26

Christchurch Art Gallery outer spaces Rolling Maul, New Art from Christchurch, see christchurchartgallery.org for venue ongoing

Dunedin Public Art Gallery Angels and Aristocrats: Early European Art In New Zealand Public Collections to Jul 28 Clemens von Wedermeyer: The Fourth Wall to Aug 12 Ruth Watson, Myriad Worlds; Boys from the Black Stuff to Jun 17 Frances Hodgkins: Kaleidoscope; Fiona Connor: Fruit and Small Sculpture ongoing

Forrester Gallery, Oamaru Tohu: Bronwyn Judge to May 22 Where the Home Is; Out of Order; Jane Zusters; David Woodings to Jul 15 Fairy Tales: Trish Shirley May 25–Jul 15 Word Witch May 6–Jul 15

Gallery 33, Wanaka Steel Bronze Paint: Paul and Fran Dibble to May 24 Face Paint, 20 artists Jun 1–21 Richard Adams Jul 6–26 Words Fall Like Water: Kate Alterio and Kate Fitzharris Aug 3–23

Hocken Gallery, Hocken Collections, University of Otago, Dunedin Shipshape: Portraits of Ships from the Hocken Collections to Aug 18

Hullabaloo Art Space, Old Cromwell Town Heritage Precinct good as gold Jul 15–Aug 25

Jonathan Smart Gallery, Christchurch Saskia Leek May Julia Morison June

McAtamney Gallery, Geraldine Modern and Contemporary Art: Focus on Portraiture by John Badcock, Susan Wilson, Helen Badcock; James Robinson: Mixed Media; Susan Badcock, photography ongoing

Milford Galleries, Dunedin Gary Waldrom to May 23 Andy Leleisi’uao; Anita DeSoto May 26–Jun 20 Significant Works Jun 23–Jul 18 Christine Webster; Marc Blake Jul 15–Aug 15

Milford Galleries, Queenstown Ann Robinson; Royal Queenstown Easter Show to May 30 Hight, Frazer and Hunt, small works Jun 2–27 David Trubridge, Peata Larkin, Luke Jacomb; The Review Jun 30–Jul 25 Joanna Braithwaite; The Review Jul 28–Aug 22

Millennium Public Art Gallery, Blenheim Don Binney, Oceans Edge, new and recent works Jun 5–17

Papergraphica, Christchurch Any Leleisi’uao, Quasimodo Love Jun 12–Jul 7 Mark Graver, The Harbin Series Jul 10–Aug

Reflections Art Gallery, WOW Museum Nelson Lisa Chandler and Cindy Flook, Emma Lay, Sally Barron, Fiona Johnstone, Sue McKellar to May 26

RH Gallery, Upper Moutere, Nelson Rohana Weaver, Swan Songs and Instrumentals to Jun 15

Selwyn Gallery, Darfield Rua Pick, Doc Ross and Warren Thompson to May 31 Anne Visser Jun 1–28 Maurice Askew restrospective Jul 6–Aug 2

Southland Museum and Art Gallery, Invercargill Off the Wall, World of Wearable Art Up Close to Jun 17 Glimmer, John Roy ongoing

The Arthouse, Christchurch Richard Adams, New Works on Paper and Canvas May 16–20 see www.thearthouse.co.nz for venue information

The Diversion Gallery, Picton Towards the Coast, Don Binney earlier and Marlborough Sounds works to May 19

The Suter Art Gallery Rita Angus: Selected Works; Bohemians of the Brush: Pumpkin Cottage Impressionists to Jun 17 The Group, curated by Julie Catchpole to Jun 24

The Tin Palace, Lyttelton Bob Tellick, new paintings Jun 30–Jul 14

University of Canterbury, Ilam Campus Gallery Student Series, weekly exhibitions to Jun 4

Yealands Estate Marlborough Gallery, Blenheim Peters Doig Marlborough Art Awards May 19–Jun 10

York Street Gallery of Fine Art, Timaru Diana Peneamene May 21–Jun 28 Cindy King Jun 29–Aug 2

International

Agora Gallery, Chelsea, New York Made in New Zealand – Bringing contemporary New Zealand art to New York from Flagstaff Gallery, Devonport to June 7

Art 43 Basel, Switzerland Jun 14–17

Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney Contemporary Galleries featuring John Kaldor Family Collection ongoing

BCA Rarotonga Nanette Lela’ulu, Respect, paintings to May 18

18th Biennale of Sydney, all our relations, Artistic Directors: Catherine de Zegher and Gerald McMaster, www.biennaleofsydney.com.au June 27–Sept 16

dOCUMENTA (13), Kassel, Germany Jun 9–Sept 16  d13.documenta.de

Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane Daydream Believers, Jason Greig, David Noonan, John Spiteri and Francis Upritchard to Jun 9

La Triennale, Palais de Tokyo, Paris to Aug 26

Los Angeles Biennal 2012 includes NZ artist Fiona Connor June 2–Sept 2

MADmusee, Liège, Belgium Group exhibition: Andrew Blythe, Susan King, Martin Thompson, Jim Dornan, curated by Stuart Shepherd 19 June–Jul 7

Melbourne Art Fair 2012 www.artfair.co.au Aug 1–5

MONA Museum of Old and New Art, Hobart, Tasmania Theatre of the World 23 Jul–8 April 2013

Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney Marking Time, includes Daniel Crooks; Christian Marclay: The Clock to Jun 3

National Gallery of Art, Canberra undisclosed, 2nd National Indigenous Art Triennial May 11–July 22

National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Unexpected Pleasures: The Art and Design of Contemporary Jewellery, from the Design Museum, London to Aug 26 Napoleon: Revolution to Empire Jun 2–Oct 7

QAGOMA, Brisbane Phil Collins: The Meaning of Style to Jun 3 Contemporary Australia: Women to Jul 22 Modern Women: Daughters and Lovers 1850–1918, Drawings from the Musée d’Orsay to Jun 24 Portrait of Spain: Masterpieces from the Prado Jul 21–Nov 4

Tate Modern, London Damien Hirst to Sept 9 The Unilever Series, Turbine Hall: Tino Seghal Jul 17–Oct 28

The New Fair, Melbourne www.thenewfair.com Aug 2–5

Clare Goodwin, Picnic at Waiau Pa, photograph, from Natural Light, a group exhibition at Satellite Gallery, Newton, Auckland, from Jun 9–20, and part of Auckland Festival of Photography

Bernar Venet, 88.5° Arc x 8, 2011, Corten steel, 27 metres high, on location at Gibbs’ Farm, Kaipara. Photo: Dan Chappell

New lines on the horizon

French artist Bernar Venet creates a dramatic statement in steel on Alan Gibbs’ Kaipara farm. He talks to Dan Chappell about the project and his future plans.

Artist Paul Klee once said “Drawing is taking a line for a walk”. However, French sculptor Bernar Venet’s lines don’t look like they’re made for walking. They’re testosterone-fuelled, muscular ligaments of steel – arcs, curves, straight lines or indeterminate doodles – that are more inclined to speed the viewer down their own path of discovery.

Bernar Venet

Bernar Venet’s career has spanned 50 years – as a conceptual artist, painter, sculptor and musician – and his career highlights include participation in documenta VI in 1976, Venice Biennale in 2009 and being chosen as the guest artist at the Château de Versailles in 2011, where two clusters of his steel arcs stood in the forecourt, like giant hands, cradling the statue of Louis XIV on horseback. His distinctive steel sculptures are held in private and public collections worldwide, and recently he visited New Zealand for the opening of an exhibition of new work at Auckland’s Gow Langsford Gallery, and the completion of his latest commission – a towering 27-metre Corten steel sculpture in Alan Gibbs’ sculpture park on the Kaipara Harbour.

The work, 88.5° Arc x 8, is a monumental creation among spectacular artworks – commissioned works by Richard Serra, Andy Goldsworthy, Anish Kapoor, Neil Dawson and many others are sited elsewhere on Gibbs’ rural property – and comprises eight massive ochre-hued arcs standing tiptoe on a grassy crest, seemingly billowing in the wind howling across the tidal flats below.

Venet recalls how the project had its genesis. “In 1996 Gary Langsford brought Alan to my studio at Le Muy, in the south of France, and we talked about doing a work on his property. He mentioned he had hills on the farm, and could I make an arc between two of them, but it would have been a really big work, say 200 – 300 metres long, so it didn’t happen at the time. But he kept visiting me, in New York and Paris, and then came to the opening at Versailles last year. I also visited his property in New Zealand, and we talked about leaning an arc on a hill, or a straight line against a hill, but when he saw the works at Versailles, he decided on a vertical arc composition. I made up a maquette of an eight-arc configuration and a photomontage, which he liked, so we went into fabrication.”

arcs being fabricated at Grayson Engineering

Normally Venet carries out the fabrication of his sculptures at his factory in Hungary, but Gibbs had previously experienced problems while shipping the steel plates for a work by Richard Serra to New Zealand. The plates were incorrectly stowed on the ship, causing major damage and delaying the project by over a year. Gibbs was confident his local engineers and fabricators were up to the job, so Venet was happy to make an exception.

Peter Boardman of Structure Design Ltd had worked on several of Gibbs’ earlier projects, and produced drawings of the geometry from the maquette, and then the detailed engineering design of the steelwork and foundations. The steel was fabricated in Grayson Engineering’s workshops in Wiri, South Auckland, precut from plate, then the box sections were welded, incorporating stiffeners and gussets to keep the lengthy structures square.

sculpture being transported to Gibbs’ Farm; installation of sculpture on site. Photos: Stuart Page

Boardman explains how some of the unique problems were solved. “The work was one of the largest Bernar had designed, and with the windy hilltop site above the water, we had to factor in wind loads six times greater than his works would be exposed to in Europe. Square sections behave poorly in wind, and tend to vibrate, so our wind engineers employed a damping technique first developed by NASA engineers on their Saturn launch rockets. Inside the top of each of the sculpture’s arcs we’ve suspended a length of heavy steel chain that is tuned to swing at a rate that negates excessive wind-induced vibration.” The sculpture is made of Corten steel, which has a corrosion-retarding layer, so the work will retain its rusty-orange colour as it ages.

Fabrication took three months, then the individual components were trucked to The Farm, as Gibbs’ property is known, and hoisted onto the foundations – a 350-tonne, 100-square-metre concrete slab that is over one metre thick and buried 400mm below ground level. The result is staggering – the arcs seem to teeter on their corners on the hilltop, soaring weightlessly into the sky. Art critic Hamish Keith was humbled by his first sight of the work, writing in his Listener column, “Throwing all caution away, I have to say the piece is simply the most beautiful thing I have ever seen”.

Bernar Venet, 88.5° Arc x 8, 2011 (detail)

And Venet’s reaction when he first saw the work installed? “I feel the design comes out perfectly,” he says. However, he continues, “I prefer my works inside a room – that way you aren’t distracted by the surrounding landscape, but here you have only the blue sky, so I don’t see any better solution. But to me, a work of art has its own identity, just like you and I have our own identity. This piece works very well where it is now, but I believe that if a piece is powerful enough, if the design is right, and the proportions are good, it can also be installed somewhere else, and work just as well.”

Throughout his career Venet has avoided symbolism and expressionism in his works. He adopted the theory of monosemy during his early conceptual period in the 1960s, and adheres to this approach today. Initially proposed in writings by semiologist Jacques Bertin, monosemic works possess just one level of meaning – they simply exist, independent of linguistic interpretations. Venet explained in a 2010 publication, “Words have a multiplicity of meanings, dependent on context, which often produces a poetic aspect.

In contrast, the signs I was using, which were deliberately drawn from the sphere of mathematics, tended to avoid a multiplicity of interpretations by imposing their monosemic nature.” He was speaking of his installations in the 1970s – wall-mounted diagrams of angles, arcs, circles and lines that are unambiguous, emphatic and each titled accordingly with mathematical precision.

These early works on canvas and panels then morphed into representations of the lines alone, first graphite on wood, then, around 1980, when his formal arcs and lines expanded to include his ‘indeterminate lines’ – doodles, squiggles and random, gestural patterns – he began experimenting with steel as a sculptural medium. He bent cold bars of steel, up to eight metres long, into random shapes, often letting the strength and resistance of the metal determine the final outcome.

Today Venet’s commissions stand tall in many cities worldwide – Paris, Cologne, Geneva, Seoul and Strasbourg, to mention a few. His work is held in many collections, including the Pompidou Centre, MCA Chicago, MOCA Los Angeles, MOMA and Solomon Guggenheim Museum in New York, and he was recently awarded the Julio Gonzalez Prize by the Government of Valencia, Spain, for his contribution to modern art. He joins an illustrious group of previous recipients, including Frank Stella, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg and Georg Baselitz.

Bernar Venet, 85.8° Arc x 16, 2011, Corten steel, 22 metres high, from Venet à Versailles, Place d’Armes, Château de Versailles

And what of the future? Venet shows no signs of slowing down, with many projects in the pipeline, some with an even longer gestation period than the 16 years the Gibbs project took to realise. One such proposed work arose to celebrate the millennium in 2000. He explains, “I’ve designed a 64-metre steel bar to lean against the façade of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris. It works perfectly, reflecting the angle of the Champs Élysées. I’ve called it Le repos de l’arme (The weapon at rest), as it symbolises a spear leaning against the Arc, or the slope of the rifle on a soldier’s shoulder – and I’m saying to the world, ‘Why don’t we stop wars?’ It’s one of my few works to have symbolism, but I’m happy to make an exception here.”

Another equally bold project is his concept of ‘global diagonals’, titled Global Art – Global Communication – Global Humanity. He first developed the idea in 1989 when asked to commemorate the bicentennial of the Declaration of the Rights of Man. His plan was to have a hypothetical straight line angling through the Earth and linking two cities, with the two ends of the line protruding from the ground. “Each end would be a steel column protruding about 100 metres out of the ground, and around the sculpture would be a light table with giant screens on which you would see the people looking at the other end of the ‘line’. They are looking at you from the other side of the world, all in real time.

The idea is to bring people from different cultures and different countries together. Imagine a link between New York and Shanghai, or Paris and Rio de Janiero. We have someone in Australia who wants to be involved but it’s a very ambitious project and needs a lot of cities to participate to make it work. It puts the whole world within our reach – it’s more than just a sculpture.”

Though New Zealand may be down the list when it comes to linking into one of Venet’s proposed global diagonals, Aucklanders will be able to enjoy experiencing some of Venet’s more human-sized sculptures in the near future. Gow Langsford has liaised with Auckland Council to site two Venet sculptures in public spaces around the inner city – likely to be in Britomart and the Wynyard Quarter – until August 2012.

Installation of Arcs at the Arsenale Novissimo, during the Venice Biennale 2009. Photo: Pat Verbruggen

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Cover: Richard Serra, Te Tuhirangi Contour, 1999/2001, Corten steel plates. Photo: David Hartley

Walking the land

Trans-Tasman artist Euan Macleod spends a week on Waiheke Island, painting, talking and collaborating with fellow artist Gregory O’Brien. Dan Chappell listens in.

A week after interviewing expatriate artist Euan Macleod, I found myself standing on a mountain on Canterbury’s Banks Peninsula – Macleod’s childhood stamping ground – and for a moment I felt as if I’d stepped into one of his paintings. Ahead the land sloped down to the town of Akaroa, and in the distance the sharp gouges of Sleepy and Otanerito Bays were glimpsed through misty cloud; for a brief time I felt like I was on top of the world. Preparing for the interview, I’d read Gregory O’Brien’s recent publication, Euan Macleod: The Painter in the Painting, and looking down at the folds, furrows, scars and indentations spreading out from my viewpoint made me appreciate where Macleod’s unique vision was nurtured.

From his early, spare, angular, almost visceral figures posing in anonymous urban spaces, Macleod now imposes his Everyman on an ever-changing landscape – from the burnt orange rock and white-hot sky of the Australian outback, to the crinkled coastline of New Zealand and jagged ice-mountains of Antarctica – the naked form often strides away from the viewer, stooped under an invisible burden. At other times the figure leans over a table or in front of an easel, painting incongruous scenes – a yacht under sail depicted on the canvas – while the painter stands in a scorched brown desert scape.

Euan Macleod, Blue painting in red landscape, 2007, oil on canvas

Born in Christchurch, Macleod grew up close to the Port Hills and Lyttelton Harbour. His father Roy was an amateur boat-builder, and one of Macleod’s earliest childhood memories is of a substantial keeler, which his father spent five years building in the family living room, being removed via the French windows at the front of the house. He studied towards a DFA (Painting) at Canterbury University, where his teachers included Bill Sutton and Ted Bracey, and in 1981 moved to Sydney, where he has lived for the past 30 years.

Top: Song of a Meteorologist/Raoul Island, 2011, acrylic on paper, combined work by Euan Macleod and Gregory O’Brien. Bottom: Euan Macleod

He recalls, “When I first went to Sydney, painting wasn’t cool – the main players were all conceptual artists. But painting is what I love, and it was one of the reasons I moved to Australia. It’s big enough to allow you to do what you want – there were enough galleries prepared to sell paintings, and enough people to buy them. It’s a far bigger market, and you can be quite anonymous, but in a funny way I’ve loved the fact that I’ve never been that fashionable, though I feel I’ve done quite well.”

“Quite well” is a considerable understatement. The first work to sell at Macleod’s 1982 sellout show at Watters Gallery in Sydney, was bought by Nobel Prize-winning novelist Patrick White, who promptly gifted it to the Wollongong Art Gallery. In 1999 Macleod won the Archibald Prize with Self-portrait: head like a hole, and he has since won the Sulman Prize, the Blake Prize, Tattersall’s Landscape Prize twice, and was a finalist in the Wynne Prize. He exhibits widely in Australia and New Zealand, has works in many public collections and a major survey show, Surface Tension: the art of Euan Macleod 1991-2009, has toured regional galleries in eastern Australia for the past year.

Macleod returns to New Zealand regularly to visit family and exhibit at his two New Zealand galleries – Bowen in Wellington and Brooke/Gifford in Christchurch. However, he recalls returning for a residency at the University of Canterbury in 1994 with less enthusiasm. “Ted Bracey invited me over, but when I arrived they didn’t know what to do with me. At the time they saw painting more as a craft and seemed to be trying to get rid of it. It was somewhat offensive in that I’d gained something of a reputation in Australia by then, but I had the sense that what I was doing was seen as an anachronism… letting the side down by doing something old-fashioned. They didn’t want overseas visitors to think badly of our art; they wanted people to come and see how ‘modern’ our art was.”

During his most recent visit to New Zealand in November 2011 the attitude is quite different. The occasion is the Waiheke Book Festival and Macleod and writer/artist Greg O’Brien are on the island doing a ‘mini-residency’ and giving readings from The Painter in the Painting as part of the festival.

Left: Preparatory painting by Euan Macleod, and Greg O'Brien (right)

They are based in a barn near Oneroa, on Waiheke Island, and when the fickle spring weather permits they head out for en plein air sessions around the island. On the barn wall, Macleod has several works in progress – a series of seven studies on paper for a larger work he intends to complete in Australia, and some black and white sketches that will form part of a limited-edition artist’s book he is producing in collaboration with writer Lloyd Jones and Townsville-based printmaker Ron McBurnie.

He paints quickly, moving seamlessly from sheet to sheet, as he discusses his concept of place. “What tends to happen is that I respond to certain types of landscape, and some of the works I do in-situ tend to be specifically about the place, like these Waiheke sketches, and some recent works I did while on holiday in Thailand. But when I get back to the studio that drops away – the figures aren’t anyone in particular; neither are the landscapes. I like the fact that for me it can be Lyttelton but someone else might think it’s Melbourne. You keep the work open for as many people as you can.”However, he acknowledges that sometimes his subtle shifts of location can be elusive for the viewer. “People looked at some of my recent works and said, ‘I see you’re still painting Antarctica’ – where I visited in early 2010. Then 
I looked at the works and felt, no, I’m not actually painting Antarctica, I’m painting icebergs but they’ve morphed more into memories of mountainous parts of New Zealand. It becomes more of an internal rather than an external place.”

Euan Macleod, Barrow Man, 2007, oil on canvas

In discussing O’Brien’s book, Macleod is openly satisfied with the content and direction, though it’s plain he’s been less happy with other art writers in the past. Perhaps the imagery he tends to favour has meant critics tend to join the dots too hastily. Is the faceless figure with an indistinct head symbolic of his late father’s Alzheimer’s disease? Do the recurring motifs of dinghies and yachts have a defining meaning?
Referring to the 2007-8 oil, Dinghy in desert, O’Brien writes, “At one remove, the boat is the skeleton of his father half-buried in the desert. The painting might also be read as an attempt to refloat a boat long gone down: the vessel of childhood.”

Euan Macleod, Dinghy in desert, 2007-08, oil on canvas

Macleod agrees the ambivalence inherent in his works is vitally important. “One problem with a lot of writers is they describe my work, which I find can be quite limiting. 
Once they say, ‘There’s a huge, oppressing figure in a landscape’ it limits the work for other viewers. People see my work differently – it could be a normal-sized figure in a scaled-down landscape, and is it really dark and oppressing? Who knows?”

But one thing is certain – Macleod loves to paint, and has the ability to capture on canvas that elusive ‘isness’ of both the Australian and New Zealand landscape. O’Brien sees Macleod as a true exponent of ‘Australasian’ art, writing: “to the good fortune of both countries, this artistic dual-citizenship has rendered him ambidextrous rather than conflicted”. He then explores this engaging dichotomy further. “When Macleod’s images do beg the nationalistic question, they are purposefully oblique or, at the very least, open-ended – as is the case with Barrow man, in which a hunched figure is shifting a mound of mineral-rich Australian soil down a miniature version of the South Island of New Zealand. We are left to work out for ourselves what exactly the task is that both painter and subject have set themselves.”

Euan Macleod, Onwards and Upwards, 2010-11, oil on canvas

Macleod also maintains that ambivalence about his own sense of belonging, commenting, “As to whether I relate more strongly to one country or the other is a question 
I don’t want to answer – more important is that the artist has to feel passionate about what they’re doing. When I’m painting I find I get into another place, and there’s nothing more joyful when you find you’re in that space, and it all starts to flow, and you ‘are’ the painting.

That’s where memory is so important – something that happens in the painting throws you somewhere – those marks come together in a way where something happens, and you don’t have much control over it. Philip Guston once said something that sums it up for me: ‘When you’re in the studio painting there are a lot of people in there with you – your teachers, friends, painters from history, critics… and one by one, if you’re really painting, they walk out. And if you’re really painting, you walk out.’”

Euan Macleod’s next New Zealand exhibition is in late September 2012 at Bowen Galleries, Wellington.

Flying solo in Europe and America

While she was in New Zealand for the launch of her first public sculpture, Loafers, expat New Zealand artist, Francis Upritchard, talked to Virginia Were about her Vienna Secession exhibition and life since the Venice Biennale.

When I interviewed Francis Upritchard during her recent trip to New Zealand from London, where she has lived since 1998, we met in the intriguingly named Los Angeles Room, on the fifth floor of a pink and white striped building in downtown Auckland.

Chatting to her about what she has been up to since representing New Zealand at the 2009 Venice Biennale involved making equally ambitious geographical and conceptual leaps – such as getting up to speed with the history of the Vienna Secession, the artist-run gallery in Vienna where Upritchard staged her first solo museum show in Europe – the memorable In Die Höhle (In the Cave) in 2010.

Francis Upritchard

The Vienna Secession is an extraordinary art nouveau building, whose roof is decorated with golden laurel leaves, established in 1898, by an enlightened artist association – of which Gustav Klimt was a member.

The Secessionists were committed to uniting the separate art forms of sculpture, architecture, painting and music, aiming for ‘gesamtkunstwerk’ – a comprehensive work of art. In response to an exhibition organised by the Secessionists as a homage to Beethoven in 1902, Klimt painted his famous Beethoven Frieze directly onto the wall of one of the Secession’s galleries, where it remains and is a huge drawcard for tourists visiting Vienna today.

Given her sculptural installations collapse boundaries between art, craft, architecture and design by combining ceramics, textiles, furniture, found objects and lighting in the same space – it’s no wonder Upritchard felt a kinship with the Secessionist group when she was invited to exhibit at this prestigious institution. She also appreciated the fact that the Secession’s programme is chosen not by curators but by artists, which results in a fascinating and idiosyncratic programme of solo artist exhibitions.
In Die Höhle occupied three rooms in the gallery, one floor above Klimt’s large frieze, and responded not only to his amazing work, with its allegorical cast of female figures, lavish patterning and lush eroticism, but also to more recent artists, such as Sol LeWitt, who have exhibited in this famous building. It also asked questions about the distinctions we make between the decorative and the critical.

“I looked at a lot of the old Secession catalogues, talked to artists and looked at the art scene in Vienna right now. And I rediscovered Klimt. I loved him before I went to art school, but then when you go to art school you’re told: ‘Oh no, that is horrible, decorative and boring. But actually it’s extremely conceptual and cutting edge – the first time he showed his Beethoven Frieze in 1896, huge queues of people lined up to see it, and there were massive arguments in the press about whether it was pornography or not. You forget now that it was really naughty.”

Francis Upritchard, Snake Cabinet, (installation view), from the exhibition, In Die Höhle at Secession, 2010. Photo: Wolfgang Thaler

Having made all the figures for In Die Höhle in her studio in London, Upritchard arrived in Vienna and then sourced the furniture and found objects she often remodels and uses as plinths in her work – something she describes as an intellectual solution to a practical problem – from the Viennese markets near the gallery.
Her 2009 Venice Biennale exhibition was her first major installation combining furniture and figures, and her collaborative exhibition at the Govett-Brewster in 2011, Gesumptkunsthandwerk – with jeweller Karl Fritsch and her husband, furniture designer Martino Gamper – blended craft, design and fine art in a seamless way so the viewer was unsure of the authorship of each work.

A new cabinet she designed for In Die Höhle has the ghostly image of Sol LeWitt’s painting (which was painted directly onto the wall of the Secession building in the 1970s) on it. Upritchard’s image has been over-painted with white and then sanded back to reveal fugitive layers of colour beneath. On it sit two multi-coloured figures, one wrapped in a tartan blanket whose patterns and colours morph onto the figure itself.

Francis Upritchard, Sun Cabinet (installation view), from the exhibition In Die Höhle at Secession, 2010. Photo: Wolfgang Thaler

“Those figures are New Zealand characters,” she says. “I looked at some vintage photos on the internet of old Maori faces and I was reading Ngaio Marsh, who I mistakenly thought was Maori… she kept talking about Maori people wrapped in blankets. I’ve been collecting blankets and looking at the colours of them, and I wanted this exhibition to be about misinterpretation – Marsh’s misinterpretation of Maori people, and the total disconnect between Vienna and New Zealand.”
In Die Höhle gathers together Upritchard’s endearing family of hippies, spiritual seekers and misfits (an acid yellow figure in an oversize cowboy hat; a blue figure in what might be a yoga pose) as well as a supporting cast of faux anthropological objects – cigarette-butt necklaces with modernist lines, which are a nod to the Secessionist group and their role in the development of early modernism. Monkeys of different shapes and sizes, one perched on a pink banquette that runs along the gallery wall, also populate the show, adding to the sense of faux exoticism.

Francis Upritchard, Taker, (left) and Blue/Black Modern Necklace, 2009, from the exhibition In Die Höhle at Secession, 2010

The exotic and the uncanny have long been a source of fascination for Upritchard, whose first solo public show at Auckland’s Artspace, Doomed Doomed All Doomed, 2005, included a group of savage post-colonial sculptures of the shrunken heads of British soldiers, referencing the Maori tradition of preserving heads. This was the exhibition for which she won the 2005 Walters Prize.

When I interviewed her, Upritchard was in Auckland for the unveiling of her first public sculpture, Loafers – six bronze figures and four snakes on top of three coloured concrete plinths, which is sited on the Symonds Street overbridge in an area adjacent to the University of Auckland, known as the Learning Quarter.
“I’ve always said ‘no’ to making a public project in the past because I never wanted to work with committees, and to worry about things breaking and being constrained by that. I thought I was saying that because I was frightened, and I might as well try it,” she says.

The ‘loafers’ in this new work are up to 70cm tall: thinkers, layabouts and dreamers, lying with their heads propped, standing, slouching, pondering and rubbing their heads. Confronting these figures – who, the artists says, would prefer to reflect and develop ideas rather than have a day job – are the snakes, which have a strong symbolic connection with knowledge and its dangers.

“I’ve always been interested in snakes and monkeys – when I was a child I was really into the exotic. Lots of New Zealand art, like McCahon, is very much about New Zealand – and it’s a big world – I didn’t want this work to be too inward looking. Also there are lots of students from all over the world in Auckland, so I wanted the work to be about people and knowledge.”

Upritchard felt it was vital to retain her characteristic rawness and immediacy in the figures for Loafers. “The bronzes are cast from Balata (rubber from the Brazilian forest) which I heat in hot water so it’s elastic, then I sculpt it, pinching it and carving it with a knife in a bath of cold water so it hardens and doesn’t flatten. I have about an hour to make each piece. Working this way means the gesture is really forced into the work.”

On her calendar in the near future are three exhibitions: one at Cincinnati Art Centre in May, another at Nottingham Contemporary in July – where her work will be shown alongside that of Austrian artist Alfred Kubin (1877 to 1959) who was associated with the Blaue Reiter (Blue Rider) group and whose fantastical and often macabre subjects resonate strongly with Upritchard’s work. The third is at her New York dealer gallery, Salon 94, in September. The exhibitions in Cincinnati and Nottingham are her first solo shows at major institutions in the United States and Britain – the most important of her career to date. In 2013 she will exhibit at MIMOCA, a contemporary art gallery in Japan. Not surprisingly, she feels the need to pause and draw breath soon.

“The biggest challenge is having enough time to do big shows, make work that is new and exciting and take risks. Soon I will stop showing for a bit so I can privately make some new work.”

By the sound of it, her and Martino’s Gamper’s new studio – a Victorian warehouse in Hackney Central, which she describes as large, warm and luxurious compared with her old studio – is a great place to do so.

After 3 March, readers can see Francis Upritchard’s sculpture Loafers on the Symonds Street overbridge, Auckland City.

This is a free listing service. Email whatson@artnews.co.nz with your exhibition listings for inclusion in the Winter 2012 issue (period covered: 18 May to 17 August ) by 16 April 2012

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EXHIBITIONS

Northern

A Fine Line Gallery, Matakana Mark Lewington Mar 4 Michael B White Mar 10–Apr 1Patrick Malone et al Apr 6–May 6
Andrew Serjeant Studio Gallery, Titirangi Big Teeth May 6–Jun 2
Anna Miles Gallery, Auckland CBD Two New Painters: Emily Hobson–Ritchie, Adrienne Vaughan Mar 7–Apr 7 Amber Wilson Apr 11–May 5 Barbara Tuck May 9–Jun 2
Art + Object, Newton Auctions: Russell and Shirley Hodgson Collection Mar 21 Important Paintings and Contemporary Art Apr 26
Art in the Woolshed, Tawharanui Open Sanctuary, East of Warkworth 10th Anniversary show, 60 artists including sculpture www.tossi.org.nz Mar 10–18
Artis Gallery, Parnell Pippa Blake, Conflicted to Mar 25 Nicky Foreman, Flourish Mar 27–Apr 22 George Baloghy, Reviving 
Apr 24–May 20
Artists in Eden, Mt Eden Village 10am–2pm Mar 17
Artspace, K’Rd every cloud has a silver lining (Artspace 25th) 
Mar 16–Apr 5
Artstation, Ponsonby The Anatomy of the Pacific, curated by Angela Tiatia to Mar 10 Jessamyn Gemming, new work, side way Mar 1–24 Sum of its parts, Carolin Casey, Gerry Copas, Sarah Williams Mar 14–31 Cocoon, Veronica Cordero, installation, side way Mar 28–Apr 21 Vibrations of a Colony, group exhibition Apr 4–21 Suspension/Place, Laura Marsh, Philippa Neilsen Apr 26–May 12 Unbound May 16–Jun 2
Auckland Art Gallery John Pule: Hauaga (Arrivals) to Mar 25 Degas to Dali Mar 3–Jun 10 Speed and Flight Mar 17–Jul 10 Whizz Bang Pop to Sept 9 From French Chateau to Kauri Canopy: The Gallery’s architecture; Victorian Tales of Love and Enchantment; British and French Modernism; Toi Aotearoa ongoing
Auckland Writers and Readers Festival www.writersfestival.co.nz May 9–13
Black Asterisk, Ponsonby Dirty Girls Come Clean, Sue Reidy Mar 9–21 Photographs I, Tracy Porteous Mar 23–Apr 4 Strange Attractions, Melinda Butt Apr 6–Apr 19 Sideshow Emporium, Simone Anderson Apr 21–May 3
Bledisloe Walkway Light Boxes, Auckland CBD Dream If you Want To Go Faster (Parts I,II,III,IV and V), Bepan Bhana ongoing
Brick Bay Sculpture Trail, Snells Beach, Warkworth The Blue Trees, Konstantin Dimopoulos, Temporary Artists Project to Apr 30 Oh How the Intangible Have Fallen, Aaron McConchie, new sculpture May
Cable Bay Vineyards, Waiheke Island Maximus, Phil Price to April
Corban Estate Arts Centre, Henderson Each Working Head Imprisons the Legitimate, Arie Hellendoorn; New Works, Andrew Blythe; Like – Comment – Share, Shelley Simpson Mar 9–Apr 15 Open Studio Weekend Mar 24–25
Depot Artspace, Devonport Disconnect/Reconnect/Revisited; Caroline Griffin: No Matter What Mar 3–22 Viewpoint: group show; Sane Mari Botha: Natural Cycles – Death and Birth of a Star Mar 24–Apr 12 John Coley: Double Vision – Cut Paper Collages and Nightlights paintings Apr 14–May 3
Eden Artspeak, University of Auckland Epsom Campus Simon Ingram and Reuben Paterson Mar 6 Sara Hughes and Dick Frizzell 
Mar 13 from 7pm–9pm www.edenarts.co.nz
Edmiston Gallery of Maritime Art, Voyager Maritime Museum, Auckland Waterfront Kermadec: Nine Artists Explore the South Pacific to Jul 1 Speaker series includes Voyage to the Kermadecs – The Artist’s Journey, 6pm Mar 29
FHE Galleries, Auckland CBD Ans Westra: Vintage Images, The Human Store of Easy Identification to Mar 22
FHE Project, Auckland CBD Chris Bailey, Nga Korero Tupuna Mar 22–May 3
Fingers Gallery, Auckland Jewelism to Mar 4
Flagstaff Gallery, Devonport Dagmar Dyck, New Works Mar 1–
Mar 27 Made in New Zealand, 25 contemporary artists Apr 24–Jun 7
Fox Jensen Gallery, Newmarket The Truth That Lies Tell, Jude Rae, Melissa Coote, Sam Harrison, Geoff Thornley to Mar 17 Tomislav Nikoloc 
Mar 20–Apr 20
Gow Langsford Gallery, Lorne Street, Auckland CBD Dale Frank to Mar 17 Bernar Venet Mar 23–Apr 14
Gow Langsford Gallery, Kitchener Street, Auckland CBD Shane Cotton to Mar 17 Ian Scott Mar 21–Apr 14

Bernar Venet, 218.5° Arc x 14, 156 x 195 x 126 cm, Cor-ten steel. Bernar Venet will exhibit at Gow Langsford Gallery from 23 Mar to 14 Apr. Image courtesy of the artist and Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland

Gus Fisher Gallery, Auckland CBD Paper-jams: artists between the covers; Jill Kennedy: Eyes on the Moon; John Edgar: Ballast Mar 9–Apr 28 Assume Nothing; Peter Peryer: Other May 4–Jun 23
Harbourview Walkway, Te Atatu Peninsula Harbourview Sculpture Trail, Mar 3–25 www.harbourviewsculpture.com
Hokianga Art Gallery Group exhibition of Hokianga artists ongoing
Hopkinson Cundy, Cross St, K Rd Daniel Malone to Mar 10 Luke Willis Thompson Mar 14–31 Fiona Connor Apr 11–May 12
International Art Centre, Parnell Artists Salon, Anselmi, Ching, Szydlowski, Treloar, Williams, and others Mar 19–31 Auctions: Important Early and Rare Art auction Mar 29; Collectable and Contemporary Art Apr 26
John Leech Gallery, Auckland online gallery www.johnleechgallery.co.nz
Kaan Zamaan Gallery, Kerikeri Less is More, invited artists celebrate 10 years Mar 3–31
Kaipara Coast Sculpture Gardens, Kaukapakapa Exhibition 2012 60 sculptures in garden trail setting to May Imagine the Land Project www.imaginetheland.org to May
Kura Gallery, Auckland CBD Te Akau Maori artspace at Kura ongoing
Lakehouse Arts Centre, Takapuna Arts Festival 2012 Apr 13–15
Lopdell House Gallery, Titirangi McCahon Residency Artist Ben Cauchi to Mar 12 White Cloud Worlds: New Zealand Science Fiction and Fantasy Art to Apr 15 The Scream, Robyn Hoonhout Mar 16–Apr 15 Adam Portraiture Awards Apr 20–Jun 10
Mangere Arts Centre – Nga Tohu o Uenuku, Mangere Town Centre SEEK project, Dion Hitchens, James Ormsby, Bill Riley Mar 3–Apr 15 Graham Fletcher: Lounge Room Tribalism Apr 21–Jun 3
Masterworks, Ponsonby John Parker; Jewellery Box: Nadene Carr 
Feb 19–Mar 10 Luke Jacomb Mar 15–Apr 11
McCahon House, Titirangi Wed, Sat, Sun 10am and 2pm, except public holidays, check on www. mccahonhouse.org.nz
Melanie Roger Gallery, Herne Bay Megan Hansen-Knarhoi, Simon Esling to Mar 17 Martin Poppelwell Mar 21–Apr 14 Liyen Chong Apr 18–May 12 Kirsty Bruce, Sam Mitchell, Erica Van Zon May 16–Jun 9
Michael Lett, Newton Sriwhana Spong Mar 1–31
Myers Park, Auckland CBD Hau te Kapakapa – The Flapping Wind, Rachel Walters ongoing
New Zealand Steel Gallery, Pukekohe Body of Clay, group exhibition Mar 2–31 Franklin’s Fallen Apr 3–28
nkb gallery, Mt Eden Brad Bannan Mar 15–Apr 3 Raymond Jennings Apr 26–May 15 From the Stars Above, group show May 17–Jun 5
Northart Gallery, Northcote Peter Collis: Collapsing Form; Warwick Brown: Cibachromes from the seventies; Wayne Webster: If Youth Knew, If Age Could; Brian Couldrey: Houses of Santorini to Mar 14 Rear Vision: 5 artists looking back, Garry Currin, Robert Ellis, Simon McIntyre, Ross Ritchie, Frank van Schaik Mar 26–Apr 15
Objectspace, Ponsonby Caroline Earley: Domestic Disturbance to Mar 7 Ted Noten, Manon van Kouswijk and Fabrizio Tridenti to Mar 10 Best in Show Mar 17–Apr 21 Fancy Fools Flight, The Crystal Chain Gang, Jim Dennison and Leanne Williams Apr 28–Jun 9 Window Gallery Talente – 1 year on Mar 9–Apr 11
Great North Road, Henderson, Opanuku Bridge, Jason Hall, permanent public artwork
OREXART, Auckland CBD Delicia Sampero, Reflective to Mar 3 
David Weir, New Paintings Mar 6–24 Kathy Barber, Chinese Whispers Mar 27–Apr 14
Papakura Art Gallery Colour of Distance; What’s on Your Plate? 
Mar 3–Apr 7 Home Fires Burning: Remembering New Zealand’s Vietnam War; Boys Will Be Boys? Apr 14–May 12
Parnell Gallery Ingrid Boot Mar 13–26 Deidre Copeland Mar 27–Apr 10 Gill Hubble Apr 17–May 1 Mark Compton May 15–29
Pierre Peeters Gallery, Parnell Mark Cross, Works in Transit 
Apr 10–May 6
Sanderson Contemporary Art, Parnell Sculpture Group Show together with Object Group Show in Paper/Project Mar 6–25 Amplitude Shintaro Nakahara Mar 27–Apr 8 New Work, Damien Kurth Apr 10–22 Then and Now, Cruz Jiminez Apr 24–May 6 Electric Zoo, Paul Martinson May 8–20
Seed Gallery, Newmarket Writ Large, a group exhibition to Mar 10 Annie Smits Sandano Mar 14–Apr 5 Tabatha Forbes, Takeaways Apr 11–28 John Pusateri May 2–19

John Pusateri, New Breed, 2011, archival digital print, at Seed Gallery in Newmarket, Auckland, 2 – 19 May

Snowhite Gallery, Unitec, Mt Albert The Old North Shore, the everyday collective laboratory, collaborative project to Mar 30
St Paul Street Gallery, Auckland CBD Clemens von Wedemeyer, The Fourth Wall Feb 23–Mar 23 2012 Curatorial Symposium Mar 29–30 The 2012 Curatorial Season, Gallery 3 Feb 29–Apr 21
Sturges Road Overbridge, Henderson A small house fits 100 people you love, Anthony Sumich, permanent public artwork
Sue Crockford Gallery, Auckland CBD Selina Foote to Mar 3
Symonds Street overbridge Loafers, Francis Upritchard, permanent public artwork
Te Tuhi Centre for the Arts, PakurangaGraham Fletcher: Situation Rooms, Te Tuhi Project Space to Apr 15 What do you mean we? curated by Bruce E Phillips Mar 3–May 6 Te Tuhi Billboards: Fiona Jack, Pakuranga; Nick Spratt and William Hsu: Te Tuhi Drawing Wall from Mar 3 Gregor Kregar: Te Tuhi Project Space Apr 28–Jun 24
The Pah Homestead, TSB Wallace Arts Centre, Hillsborough Trick i–ey’e Rachael Linton, new digital artworks to Mar 25 RETROSPECT, contemporary jewellery curated by Jo Mears to Apr 15 Twenty Years of Winners: The Wallace Art Awards Paramount Winners 1992–2011 
to Apr 22 Debbie Stenzel Mar 17–May 27 Shannon Novak Mar 27–May 20 Paul Redican Mar 27–May 20 Kushana Bush, All Things To All Men Apr 24–Jul 1
Tim Melville Gallery, Newmarket Elliot Collins, Paris and Rotterdam to Mar 10 Earth, ochre painting from Warmun Mar 13–Apr 14 Simon McIntyre, There And Back Apr 17–May 19
Triangle Road Cycleway, West Auckland Te Ao Whanui Pou Whenua, Whare Thompson, permanent public artwork
Two Rooms, Newton It’s All Make Believe: Ben Cauchi, The Doppler Effect, James K Lowe, Like Home, Haruhiko Sameshima, Ersatz; Still Life, group photography show to Mar 3 Gallery Abstract: Billy Apple, Christoph Dahlhausen, Simon Morris Mar 9–Apr 14 Brad Lochore, Paintings; Brett Graham Apr 20–May 19
Uxbridge, HowickHowick’s Creative Centre Estuary Artworks 2012 to Mar 8 Sculpture Symposium, 15 Sculptors at Barry Curtis Park Mar 31–
Apr 1 Crossings, photography, Mark Russel and Howick Camera Club Apr 2–5  Tour of Duty, Trish Campbell; Hohepa, works by intellectually disabled young artists Apr 13–May 3
Village Arts, KohukohuHokianga Rachel Miller, New Works to 
Mar 1 Allan Gale, A Bestiary Mar 3–Apr 5
Waiheke Community Art Gallery, Waiheke Island Figures in the Landscape; Gold Silver and other Precious Colours to Mar 5 Blue Spaces Mar 9–Apr 2 Small Sculpture Prize Apr 5–May 7
Warwick Henderson Gallery, Parnell Annette Isbey, Portraits and Landscapes Apr 4–21 Mark Wooller, Recent Works May 2–19
Webb’s, Newmarket Important Paintings and Contemporary Art Mar 27 Oceanic and African Art Mar 28
West Coast Gallery, Piha Mandy Tomsett-Taylor, I got Married at Piha, paintings to Mar 25 Inspired and Horny, Richard Naylor, ceramics to Apr 29 Keep it in the family, Mandy Patmore, Ezra and Lukah Ashton paintings, mixed media to Jun 3
Whitespace, Ponsonby Scott McFarlane and Mary McIntyre Mar 6–24 Kathryn Stevens and Meredith Collins Mar 27–Apr 14 Bob Kerr and Martin Whitworth Apr 17–May 5 Gyu Joon Yang May 8–26
Window, General Library Foyer, University of Auckland Pauline, Thank you for my budy Matisse; Bacho Gogolashvili, The Gaps (Inner & Outer) to Mar 28
Wynyard Quarter The Flooded Mirror; Silt Line, Rachel Shearer; Wind Tree, Michio Ihara Permanent artworks
Zealandia Sculpture Garden, Mahurangi West now open by appointment. www.zealandiasculpturegarden.co.nz

Central

Academy Galleries, Wellington From a distance: as seen from Waiheke May 3–9
Adam Art Gallery, Victoria University of Wellington Camera Work: Fiona Amundsen The First City in History; John Lake, The Campus; Simon Starling, Autoxylopyrocycloboros; Kohei Yoshiyuki, The Park to Apr 15 Dark Sky May 1–Jul 8
Aratoi Museum, Masterton Harry Watson, retrospective and new works to Mar 11 Wairarapa Review VII to Mar 18 Painting the View: English Watercolours 1790–1860 Mar 17–Apr 29 Masterquilters Exhibition 
Mar 23–Apr 1 Woolsheds of the Wairarapa to May 1
ArtsPost Galleries, Hamilton Whaea Te Iti Kahurangi, Fibre Weaving by Ruth Port; Before We Made the Butter, Dr Miriam Shapiro, painting; Waikato Society of Potters Annual Exhibition to Mar 19
Bartley + Company Art, Wellington Mary-Louise Browne to Mar 24
Black Barn Gallery, Havelock North Jeff Thomson, Ricks Terstappen to 
Mar 4 Elizabeth Thomson, Over and Above Mar 7–Apr 8 Bruce and Estelle Martin: Kamaka Anagama – Pots from the collection Apr 11–May 6
Calder & Lawson Gallery, University of Waikato The Last Interpreters Mar 26–May 4 Remix: Works by Hemi Macgregor May 14–Jun 22
City Gallery Wellington The Obstinate Object: Contemporary New Zealand Sculpture to Jun 10
Civic Gardens, Lower Hutt Shapeshifter Sculpture Exhibition to Mar 18
Courtney Place Lightboxes, Wellington Imaginary Geographies, Elaine Campaner, Alex Dorfsman, Jae Hoon Lee, Kate Woods, curated by Claudia Arozqueta to Apr 2
Creative Tauranga Gallery Rakau-Cola, new works, Tawhai Rickard, Tania Lewis–Rickard Apr 19–May 9
Enjoy Public Art Gallery, Wellington The Chinese Horoscope Show, curated by Erica Van Zon to March 10
Exhibitions Gallery, Wellington Ewan McDougall, new paintings and book launch Mar 30–Apr 15
Expressions Arts & Entertainment Centre, Upper Hutt Rockers and Rollers: Prints from the collection of Aratoi Museum and The Rutherford Trust Collection to Mar 18 Common Thread to May 13
Govett–Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth Laurence Aberhart: Recent Taranaki Photographs Mar 3–Jun 17 True Stories/Scripted Realities Mar 10–Jun 24 Open Window Exhibition, Catherine Macdonald: nothing stays the same to Jun 17 Drawing the Line: Works from the Gallery’s Collection Mar 3–Jul 1
Hamilton Gardens Pavilion New Zealand Painting and Printmaking Award 2012, to Mar 1
Hastings City Art Gallery Thirty-three, Matthew Couper to May 6 Blast! Pat Hanly – the painter and his protests to Apr 15 Multiply, Repetition Reinvigorated, curated by Judith Anderson Apr 28–Jul 8
Kura Gallery, WellingtonThird + Foremost, Wanganui Glass School graduate exhibition; Touhoukura, senior students and staff Mar–Apr Contemporary Maori Art and Traditional Carving May
Mahara Gallery, Waikanae Robyn Kahukiwa, Maumahara: Remember to Apr 29
Mark Hutchins Gallery, Wellington Figure and Ground, Terry Stringer to Mar 17
McNamara Gallery, Whanganui Derek Henderson, the trees are big and the sky is blue March Gallery closed April Peter Peryer and Fiona Pardington – a collaborative project May
Page Blackie Gallery, Wellington Dick Frizzell to Mar 4 Heather Straka Mar 6–31 Emily Wolfe Apr 3–29 Neil Dawson May 1–27
Pataka Museum of Arts & Culture, Porirua Pieter Hugo: Nollywood to May 13 Ka Awatea: A journey of life through light, new glass works, Te Rongo Kirkwood to mid May Money Talks; The Art of Money to Jun 23
PAULNACHE Gallery, Gisborne Matt Arbuckle, Who moved my cheese March Scott Gardiner, Terminus; Peter Adsett, new work April Never Mind the Pollocks, curated by James R Ford, group exhibition May
Photospace Gallery, Wellington Shelley Jacobson, sea of trees; Mark Beehre, Alteplano – a journey through the Andean High Plateau to Mar 10
PTO Gallery, Eltham Mirror Script, painting and sculpture, work recent and previous to the discussion by Roger Morris Mar 30–Apr 29
Red Spot Gallery, Rotorua Nic Clegg, Strangers in a Cloud Mar 30–May 10
Robert Heald Gallery, Wellington Edith Amituanai Mar 8–31 Richard Frater, Sonya Lacey, Jae Hoon Lee Apr 5–28 Group Show May 3–Jun 2
Rotorua Museum of Art and History Brian Brake – Lens on the World Apr 22 Wayne Barrar: An Expanding Subterra to May 27 White Cloud Worlds, Apr 28–Jul 29 The Imaginative Life and Times of Graham Percy May 5–Jul 15 Nigel Brown: Travel to Travel May 12–Aug 5
Sarjeant Gallery, Wanganui Neil Pardington: The Vault to Mar 4 Lynley Dodd: A Retrospective Mar 10–May 6  Something in the Water, Wanganui artists from the collection; John Roy: Bending Hammers Mar 17–Jun 24 Mirek Smisek: 60 Years, 60 Pots, curated by Gary Freemantle with Mahara Gallery to April 1 Charles Butcher and Coby Cockburn: The Long Black Veil, works from their recent Tylee Cottage Residency to Apr 29
Solander Works on Paper Gallery, Wellington Basia Smolnicki: Paper, Scissors, Rock; Catherine Macdonald: A Time and Place to Mar 10 Mark Graver: New Works Damon Kowarsky: New Works Mar 14–
Apr 21 Jacqueline Aust, Michele Bryant Apr 25–Jun 2
Statements Gallery, Napier Nic Scotland Mar 29–Apr 22
Suite Gallery, Wellington Irene Ferguson, Colossal Feb 29–Mar 31
Tauranga Art Gallery The Labours of Herakles to Apr 1 Darryn George: Rata; Whakarongo to May 20
Te Manawa Museum, Palmerston North Matatau, graduate work from Bachelor of Maori Visual Arts to Mar 4
Te Papa, Wellington Collecting Contemporary: new selection of works including three major works by Jim Allen Feb to June Peter Stichbury: A Potter’s World to June
The Dowse Art Museum, Lower Hutt Shapeshifter: Lower Hutt Civic Gardens to Mar 18 Local Knowledge, Andrew Ross, Ans Westra, Dan Arps, Fiona Hall’s Living Halls, Simon Faithfull, Julian Priest to 
Apr 22 Cluster, contemporary jewellery to May 13 Teresa Margolles: So It Vanishes, curated by Claudia Arozqueta to May 20 Critical Mass to Jun 17 A view from where I was sleeping, collaborative art and design works, curated by Lily Hacking Mar 10–Jul 22 Can you see what I see Mar 17–Jul 8
The New Zealand Portrait Gallery, Wellington Adam Portraiture Award to Apr 10
Thermostat Gallery, Palmerston North The Unseen, Judy McIntyre, mixed media to Mar 8 New Paintings, Angela Lane, Portraits on Bottle Tops, David McDonald Mar 9–29 Lorene Taurerewa, watercolours; Naga Tsutsumi, charcoal drawings Mar 30–Apr 19 Karl Maughan, new paintings Apr 20–May 10 Not Just A Pretty Picture, group exhibition and final show May 12-31
The Sculpture Park at Waitakaruru Arboretum, Tauwhare Waikato Summer: Sky above, earth below, curated by Andrew Clifford to Mar 4 Imagine the Land Project www.imaginetheland.org to Mar 4 Autumn: call and reponse curated by Kim Paton Mar 18 to Jun 10
Waikato Museum, Hamilton NZ Condition: Framing of the Nation to mid April Waiclay National Ceramics Awards to May 27 How to Make a Monster: The Art and Technology of Animatronics to Jul 15 Handgrown: Fruit and Vegetables crafted stitch by stitch ongoing The Intraspace Project: Interventions with Waikato Museum non–gallery space, to view visit www.waikatomuseum.org.nz
Wallace Gallery, Morrinsville John Hoby, Paintings 2012; Lynnette Smallwood, photography to Mar 6 Dr Joyce Stalker, Read my Lips: Women’s fabric craft finds its voice, textiles Mar 8–20 Ngati Haua, Rukumoana Marae Art Group Mar 8–Apr 3 Philip Trusttum to Apr 15 Meiling Lee, Carolyn Milbank, Anneke Muijlwijk, Locale, multimedia works Apr 5–May 1 Retrospect, Contemporary Jewellery Apr 21–Jun 10 Chris Kannegieter–Groves, Drawn to Abstraction, paintings and drawings Michael Barker, Drawings and Paintings; Erica Holden, paintings May 3–29

Southern

Arts in Oxford, Oxford, Canterbury Jane Harper, Julia Sobkowiak, Lauryne Hart to Mar 4
Ashburton Art Gallery The Asian: Heather Straka to Mar 11 Jason Greig, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Apr 21–Jun 10
Brett McDowell Gallery, Dunedin Martin Thompson to Mar 15
Chris Weaver, Patrick Hartigan Mar 30–Apr 19
Bryce Gallery, Riccarton, Christchurch Don McAra, Spain: From Plein Air to the Studio Mar 3–18 John Burns, New Works Mar 28–
Apr 13 The Autumn Collection, group show Apr 28–May 11
Dunedin Public Art Gallery Back in Black to Mar 26 Beloved: Works from the Dunedin Public Art Gallery; Frances Hodgkins: The French Connection to Apr 1 Haunts of Dickens to May 6 Colourbox Mar 3–
Apr 22 Angels and Aristocrats: Early European Art In New Zealand Public Collections Apr 28–Jul 28 Clemens von Wedermeyer: The Fourth Wall Apr 14–Aug 14 Ruth Watson, Myriad Worlds; Boys from the Black Stuff ongoing
Forrester Gallery, Oamaru Artyfacts, Burns Pollock; Smoke and Mirrors to Mar 4 Teschmakers Summer School Mar 10–Apr 1 Ross Gray 
Apr 7–May 6 Garden as Muse to May 6
Gallery 33, Wanaka Barry Clarke, Gone Boating, painting, sculpture, jewellery March Simon Kaan April Dibble Duo: Fran and Paul Dibble, mixed media paintings and bronze sculpture May
Hocken Gallery, University of Otago, Dunedin Hocken Collections, All things to All Men, Kushana Bush, new work from the Frances Hodgkins Fellowship to Apr 14  Shipshape: Portraits of Ships from the Hocken Collections Apr 21–Jun 30
Jonathan Smart Gallery, Christchurch Heather Straka March John Pule April Saskia Leek May
McAtamney Gallery, Geraldine Stations of the Cross 2010, John Badcock to Apr 10 Modern and Contemporary Art: Focus on Portraiture by John Badcock, Susan Wilson, Helen Badcock; James Robinson: Mixed Media, Susan Badcock, photography ongoing
Milford Galleries, Dunedin Michael Hight; Hannah Kidd Mar 3–28 Reuben Paterson Mar 31–Apr 25 Gary Waldrom Apr 28–May 23
Milford Galleries, Queenstown Karl Maughan Mar 10–Apr 4 Ann Robinson; Royal Queenstown Easter Show Apr 7–May 2 Nigel Brown May 5–30
Millennium Public Art Gallery, Blenheim Value, Serena Giovanna Stevenson; Wairua: Tikanga Maori in NZ Children’s Books, Gavin Bishop, Robyn Kahukiwa, Murray Grimsdale to Mar 18
Papergraphica, Christchurch Resurrection, James Robinson 
Mar 20–Apr 14 2 Series and a Suite, Kristin Hollis and Martin Whitworth Apr 17–May 12
Red Art Gallery, Nelson Claim to Clay – Red Exposure, Joanna Fieldes and Fran Maguire Apr 13–May 5
Reflections Art Gallery, WOW Museum Nelson Sanctuary, group exhibition; pottage – bricolage, textile body wraps by Sharron Martin to Mar 17 Lisa Chandler and Cindy Flook Mar 20–Apr 21 Emma Lay, Sally Barron, Fiona Johnstone, Sue McKellar Apr 24–May 26
RH Gallery, Upper Moutere, Nelson Elizabeth Thomson, Islands of Dodonaea to Mar 29 Sam Ovens, Loud, Snotty and Loaded Mar 31–Apr 6
Selwyn Gallery, Darfield Rudolf Boelee and Jane McCulla Mar 2–29 Karin Lange and Neil Hay Apr 6–May 3 Rua Pick, Doc Ross and Warren Thompson May 4–31
Southland Museum and Art Gallery, Invercargill Malu Minar, Art of Torres Strait Islanders to Apr 1
The Arthouse, Christchurch Llew Summers and Robyn Webster exhibition and open studios Mar 10–25 Richard Adams, New Works on Paper and Canvas May 16–20 see www.thearthouse.co.nz for venue information
The Diversion Gallery, Picton Michael Smither, New Otago Paintings to Mar 11
The Suter Art Gallery, Nelson Paul Winspear: Ceramics; Of Other Spaces: Scott Flanagan and Ruth Watson; Wish you were here: Views from Golden Bay and Abel Tasman National Park to Apr 1 Autumn Exhibition: Nelson Suter Art Society Apr 5–29 Rita Angus: Selected Works May 5–
Jun 17 Bohemians of the Brush: Pumpkin Cottage Impressionists 
May 5–Jun 24 The Group curated by Julie Catchpole May 12–Jun 24
Yealands Estate Marlborough Gallery, Blenheim Purely Pastel, Pastel Artists NZ National Exhibition Mar 31–Apr 15

International

Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney Picasso: Masterpieces from the Musée National Picasso Paris to Mar 25 New Contemporary Galleries featuring John Kaldor Family Collection to May 2012
BCA Rarotonga Nanette Lela’ulu, Unsung Song, paintings to Mar 18 BCA Gallery@the Volta Show, New York, Michel Tuffery, First Contact, digital installation, sculpture, painting Mar 8–11 Nanette Lela’ulu, Respect, paintings Apr 30–May 18
18th Biennale of Sydney All Our Relations, Artistic Directors: Catherine de Zegher and Gerald McMaster www.biennaleofsydney.co.au 
June 27–Sept 16
Documenta 13, Kassel, Germany Jun 9–Sept 16
Dorothy Circus Gallery, Rome Leila Ataya, Secrets from the Hourglass Apr 14–May 27
Gallery of Modern Art, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane Contemporary Australia: Women Apr 21–Jul 22 Portrait of Spain: Masterpieces from the Prado Jul 21–Nov 4
MONA Museum of Old and New Art, Hobart, Tasmania Monanism (extended) ongoing
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney Christian Marclay: The Clock Mar 29–Jun 3
National Gallery of Art, Canberra undisclosed, 2nd National Indigenous Art Triennial May 11–July 22
Tate Modern, London Damien Hirst Apr 4–Sept 9

This is a free listing service. Email whatson@artnews.co.nz with your exhibition listings for inclusion in the Autumn 2012 issue (period covered: March 1 to May 18) by 21 January 2012

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EXHIBITIONS

Northern

A Fine Line Gallery, Matakana Mona Townson Nov 5–Dec 3 Matakana Valley Dec 10–Jan 8 Auckland Studio Potters Jan 14–Feb 5 Mark Lewington Feb 11–Mar 4

Anna Miles Gallery, Auckland CBD Johanna Pegler to Nov 19

Art By The Sea, Devonport 1987, Christian Nicolson Nov 19–Dec 9

Art + Object, Newton Important Paintings and contemporary art auction Nov 22

Art in the Woolshed, Tawharanui Open Sanctuary, East of Warkworth 10th Anniversary show, 60 artists including sculpture www.tossi.org.nz Mar 10–18

Artis Gallery, Parnell Spring Selection, Paintings and Sculpture to Nov 12 Warren Viscoe & Christine Hellyar, Traversings Nov 15–Dec 11 Xmas Show, paintings and sculpture Dec 13–Feb 5 John Blackburn Works on Paper Feb 7–26 Pippa Blake Conflicted Feb 28–Mar 25

Artspace, K’Rd Sudden Noises and Gestures: Ed Atkins, Sean Gratten, Charlie Sofo Mezzanine Space: Dominic Oldrey, The awful shadow to Nov 26 New Artists Show Dec 16–Feb 18

Artstation, Ponsonby I is for Invisible…I is for Inclusion, Toi Ora Art Trust group exhibition to Nov 12 Artstation student exhibition series 2011 Nov 22–Dec 17 Collective Conversations, recent work by Spark Centre Artists Collective Feb 1–18 The Anatomy of the Pacific, curated by Angela Tiatia Feb 22–Mar 10

Art Upstairs, Kerikeri Cloak, painting and #D works, invited artists and group members Nov Present, paintings for Christmas December Time and Tide January Hot Stuff February

Auckland Art Gallery Simultaneously Modern: Three Installations from the Contemporary Collection to Nov 27 Toi Aotearoa to Dec 31 James Mackelvie’s Gift to Auckland; From Andy: Gifted to the archive to Feb 6 I’m just like a pile of leaves, Kate Newby to Mar 3 Whizz Bang Pop to May From French Chateau to Kauri Canopy: The Gallery’s Architecture ongoing; Property of a Gentleman: Sir George Grey’s paintings to Feb 29 The Art of Transformation ongoing Muka Youth Prints Dec 3–5 John Pule, Hauaga (Arrivals) Dec 17–Mar 25

Auckland Botanic Gardens, Manurewa Sculpture in the Gardens; Garden of Delights 2, medal artists including guest artist Paul Hartigan to Feb 12

Auckland Town Hall, Concert Chamber Rita and Douglas, adapted from the letters of Rita Angus by Dave Armstrong, Nov 22–26

Audio Foundation HQ, K’ Rd Stella Corkery, on the way to being silver Nov 5–26

Bath Street Gallery Peter Panyoczki matter means–sign matters to Nov 5

Black Asterisk, Ponsonby Notes from a New York Travel Diary, Jane Simcock Nov 24–Dec 11 Land Versus Sea, group show, Nov 13–23 Art in the Light Dec 11–12 Winterland, the seasonal Black Asterisk group show Dec 13–24

Bledisloe Walkway Light Boxes, Auckland CBD Tane Mahuta, A.D. Schierning from Nov 18

Brick Bay Sculpture Trail, Snells Beach, Warkworth Terry Stringer, Richard Mathieson, Jim Wheeler, new works Nov Gregor Kregar, Luke Jacomb; Shrunk, small scale sculpture Dec Kon Dimopoulos: The Blue Trees, Artist Project Jan David McCracken, new sculpture Feb

Cable Bay Vineyards, Waiheke Island Maximus, Phil Price to April

Corban Estate Arts Centre, Henderson 25th Waitakere Trust Art Awards, Nov 18–27 The Salt Group, Alison Granville, Ann Palmer, Jayne Thomas, Mary Botica to Dec 4 Summer School www.ceac.org.nz Jan 16–20

Depot Artspace, Devonport 3.15, Westlake Girls High School Teachers and Students; Depot 15th Anniversary Exhibition Nov 5–17 Beauty meets the Bizarre: group show Nov 19–Dec 2

Elam School of Fine Arts University of Auckland, 20 Whitaker Street and Elam B, 5 Symonds Street, Elam Graduate Show Nov 26–27

FHE Galleries/FHE Project, Auckland CBD Emily Siddell, Elapse, new installation project dedicated to the life of Sylvia Siddell Nov 5–30

Fingers Gallery, Auckland Fingers Annual Group Show to Nov 11 Materials into Ideas/Ideas in Materials Feb 7–24

Flagstaff Gallery, Devonport Submerged to Nov 17 Fane Flaws and Jo Blogg, Ids & Animals Dec 1–Jan 3 Dagmar Dyck Mar 1–Mar 27

Fox Jensen Gallery, Newmarket Lisa Crowley: Printed Mind to Nov 5 Geoff Thornley Nov 8–Dec17 The Truth Lies Tell Feb 7–Mar 17

Fresh Gallery, Otara Mud, Douglas Bagnall to Nov 26

George Fraser Gallery, University of Auckland Elam Graduate Show Nov 26–27

Gow Langsford Gallery, Lorne Street, Auckland CBD Tony Cragg to Nov 12 White Light Nov 16–Dec 10 Summer Group Exhibition Dec 14–Jan 2012

Gow Langsford Gallery, Kitchener Street, Auckland CBD Allen Maddox to Nov 12 Post Pop Nov 16–Dec 10 John Pule Dec 14–Jan 2012

Gus Fisher Gallery, Auckland CBD Crown Lynn, pottery for the people Nov 4–Jan 14

Hangar Gallery, Whangarei Mike Francis, Exquisite Landscapes to Nov 11 Miniatures Show, annual exhibition Nov 18–Jan 31

Harbourview Sculpture Trail, Te Atatu Peninsula Mar 3–25

Hokianga Art Gallery Souvenirs from Hokianga – Memories of Northland to Nov 20 Northtec Diploma of Applied Arts Graduation Show Nov 23–Dec 12 Hokianga Artists Summer Exhibition featuring Will Ngakuru Dec 15–Jan 22 Waitangi Exhibition Jan 25–Feb 19

Hopkinson Cundy, Cross St Ruth Buchanan Nov Joshua Petherick Dec

International Art Centre, Parnell Important Early and Rare Art Auction Nov 10, 6.30pm Contemporary and Collectable Auction Dec 8, 6.00pm Summer Exhibition Dec 8–Jan 29

Jane Sanders Art Agent, Auckland CBD Jan Nigro: Lady Chatterley’s Lover to Nov 19

John Leech Gallery, Auckland online gallery www.johnleechgallery.co.nz

Kaan Zamaan Gallery, Kerikeri Rachel Miller, new works Nov 13–Dec 11 Te Aroha Weavers Dec 16–Jan 27 Chris T Wilkie, new works Feb 5–26 Less is More, small works of all exhibiting artists over 10 years Mar 3–31

Kaipara Coast Sculpture Gardens, Kaukapapapa Exhibition 2012, 60 sculptures in garden trail setting from Nov 19 Imagine the Land Project www.imaginetheland.org Nov 19–May

Lakehouse Arts Centre, Takapuna Association of Bookcraft NZ; Denice Symons Nov 1–20

Lopdell House Gallery, Titirangi Portage Ceramic Awards to Dec 4 Nigel Brown: Travel to Travel; McCahon House: Five Years On, 15 Residency Artists Dec 9–Feb 12 Curiosity Cabinet: Ben Beattie to Dec 4 Sarah Walker–Holt Dec 9–Feb 12

Masterworks, Ponsonby Paul Maseyk; Thinkspace: Liz Sharek; Jewellery Box: Stephanie O’Neill Nov 3–23 Ann Verdcourt; Handshake Jewellery Exhibition; Thinkspace: Liz Sharek Nov 30–Dec 18 John Parker; Jewellery Box: Nadene Carr Feb 19–Mar 10

McCahon House, Titirangi Wed, Sat, Sun 10am and 2pm except Xmas Day, Boxing Day. Check on www.mccahonhouse.org.nz

Melanie Roger Gallery, Herne Bay Gavin Hurley Nov 2–26 Summer Group Show Nov 30–Dec 22, Jan 25–Feb 18 Megan Hansen-Knarhoi and Simon Esling Feb 22–Mar 17

Michael Lett, Newton Michael Parekowhai to Nov 12

Monterey Art Gallery, Howick Clare Reilly Nov 10–30

Myers Park, Auckland CBD Hau te Kapakapa – The Flapping Wind, Rachel Walters ongoing

Nathan Homestead, Manurewa Arts Open Day Nov 5 E Tu Te Maaota – The Young Sapling Stands Nov 17-Dec 11

nkb gallery, Mt Eden Glenys Brookbanks, paintings Nov 3–22

Northart Gallery, Northcote Pre Christmas $100 (or less) Show to Nov 27 Fran Marno, Dorina Jotti, painting and photography; Lydia Turner, new photography Nov 7–27

Objectspace, Ponsonby Ann Verdcourt: Still Lives to Nov 5 7UP Nov 10–19 Nimamea’a: The fine arts of Tongan Embroidery and crochet Nov 26–Dec 22 Manon van Kouswijk & Fabrizio Tridenti Feb 8–Mar 10

OREXART, Auckland CBD Regan Tamanui, Personal Heroes-stencil works of rugby greats to Nov 12 Peter Wichman, Ordinary Mysteries Nov 15–Dec 3 Small Works, Richard McWhannell, Richard Lewer, Evan Woodruffe Dec 6–23 Tupupu, Sio Siasau Feb 14–Mar 3 David Weir, New Paintings Mar 6–24

Papakura Art Gallery Double Rainbow, Tiffany Singh, Tessa Laird to Nov 19 Steve Lovall, Dane Taylor Nov 26-Dec 24

Parnell Gallery Michelle Bellamy Nov 1–15 Connecting Threads, Matt Gauldie and Sofia Minson, Nov 22– Dec 6

Piece Gallery, Matakana Piece and Love, Annual group Christmas show, Jeff Thomson, Mark Mitchell, Gary Horton, Sue Hawker, Morgan Haines, Janet Green, Crystal Chain Gang, Emma Camden, Dominic Burrell, Penelope Barnhill, John Parker Nov 12–Dec 4

Pierre Peeters Gallery, Parnell Christmas Group Show Dec 1–Dec 24

Sanderson Contemporary Art, Parnell Martin Selman Nov 1–20 Collaborative Work from Yoshiko and Shintaro Nakahara, Clockwise Nov 22–Dec 4 Christmas Group Show, Advent 2011 Dec 6–Jan 22 Tracey Walker, Point of Reference Jan 24–Feb 5 Josephine Cachemaille, I Can Change Feb 7–Feb 19 Group Show, Restraint Feb 21–Mar 4

Markus Hofko’s Truth in the exhibition Flight of the Hofkos: A Double Feature at Satellite Gallery, Newton to 20 November

Satellite Gallery, Newton Prudence MacDougall: Chimera Nov 22–Dec 10 Tina Frantzen, Entr’acte Dec 13–24

Seed Gallery, Newmarket Stafford Allpress and Rebecca Thomson to Nov 19 Alter Piece: 30 artists, 300 original works $80 each Nov 25–Dec 10 Sarah Williams Dec 14–Feb 4 Natural History, group exhibition Feb 8–25 Writ Large, group exhibition Feb 28–Mar 17

ST Paul St Gallery, Auckland CBD AUT Art & Design Graduation Festival Nov 9–11 End of Year Fair Dec 2–3 International Photography Workshop Jan 13–15 Clemens von Wedemeyer, The Fourth Wall Feb 23–Mar 23 The 2012 Curatorial Season, Gallery 3 Feb 29–Apr 21

Sue Crockford Gallery, Auckland CBD Peter Robinson Nov 8–Dec 3 Christmas Show Dec 6–21 Selina Foote Feb 7–Mar 3

Te Tuhi Centre for the Arts, Pakuranga Matt Henry to Nov 6 The Reading Hall: Lisa Crowley to Nov 7 Eugene Hansen: Root Mean Square, Te Tuhi Project Space: Tahi Moore, Te Tuhi Billboards: Bepen Bhana Nov 26–Feb 26

Tim Melville Gallery, Newmarket Wayne Youle to Nov 26 Group Show Nov 29–Dec 23 Gallery closed Jan Elliot Collins, new work from Paris and Rotterdam from Feb 8

TSB Wallace Arts Centre, Hillsborough Julia Morison, Jeena Shin to Nov 26 Philip Trusttum to Jan 29

Two Rooms, Newton Julia Morison, Meet me on the other side; Joyce Campbell, Marianas to Nov 26

University of Auckland, Epsom Campus Summer Art Workshops Jan 7–11 www.cce.auckland.ac.nz

Uxbridge, Howick’s Creative Centre Thou shalt not Art on Sundays, Manukau School of Creative Arts to Nov 16 Class Act Dec 2–14 Muka Youth Prints Dec 16–17 Masterclass Jan 20–Feb 1 Estuary Artworks 2012 Feb 17–Mar 8

Village Arts, Kohukohu, Hokianga Patchwork Patience, Far North Quilters to Nov 10 Louisa Rene Geddes, Eden Series Nov 12–Dec 8 Lise Strathdee, Temporeal, Outpost Hokianga Dec 10–Jan 19 Rachel Miller, New Works Feb 4 Freedom Play, Josie Carrad Mar 3

Voyager Maritime Museum, Edmiston Gallery of Maritime Art, Central Auckland Shipbreak: A Biology of Steel, Claudio Cambon, photographs, Permanent Collection to 31 January; Kermadec, February

Waiheke Community Art Gallery, Waiheke Island Walker & Hall National Art Award; Euan McLeod, Gregory O’Brien, The Sea of Where is was We Went to Nov 14 The Christmas Story; Emma Wright; Kiya Nancarrow Nov 18-Dec 12 The Artists’ Table; Requiem for a Bach; Sarah McKenney Dec 16-Jan 9 Voyagers: Oliver Stretton-Pow; Waiheke Artists Jan 13-Feb 6

Warwick Henderson Gallery, Parnell Amy Melchoir, Scratching the Surface Nov 9–26

Webb’s, Newmarket Important Works of Art Dec 6 A3 Artworks under $1,000 Dec 15 Zhang Xianyong, exhibition Nov 4–18 A2 Art Feb 21 Important Works of Art Mar 27

West Coast Gallery, Piha Monique Endt, Visions of the West to Dec 4 Ivar Treskon, Natural Selection Dec 10–Jan 15 Zeke Wolf, Birdshead Revisited Jan 21–Feb 19 Mandy Tomsett–Taylor, I got Married in Piha Feb–Mar

Whitespace, Ponsonby Scott Gardiner to Nov 12 Greer Twiss Nov 15–Dec 3 Tiffany Singh, Andy Leleisi’uao & Christmas Show Dec 6–24 By appointment only Dec 25–Jan 24 Summer Show Jan 24–Feb 11 Regan Gentry Feb 14–Mar 3

Window, General Library Foyer, University of Auckland Why Bother Building Scales, Christina Read & Matthew Crookes, PDF Sculptures, AGGTELEK Nov 16–Dec 10 www.window.auckland.ac.nz

Wynyard Quarter The Flooded Mirror; Silt Line, Rachel Shearer; Wind Tree, Michio Ihara; Sounds of Sea, COMPANY ongoing

Yvonne Rust Gallery, Quarry Arts Centre, Whangarei Rust Ramble, outdoor exhibition ongoing

Zealandia Sculpture Garden, Mahurangi West now open by appointment

Central

Adam Art Gallery,Victoria University of Wellington Behind Closed Doors: New Zealand Art from Private Collections in Wellington; in camera: a project series around and about collecting to Dec 18 SNAPSHOTS: Four takes on Documentary Photography Jan 24–Apr 15

Harry Watson, Edward Gibbon Wakefield, mixed media. From his exhibition at Aratoi Museum, Masterton, 10 December 2011 to 11 March, 2012

Aratoi Museum, Masterton Mind to Mind, Carol Bauer to Nov 6 Bohemians of the Brush – the Pumpkin Cottage Impressionists to Nov 20 Infrastructure: Tony Nicholls, sound sculpture to Dec 4 Rongomaiaia Te Whaiti & Terry Te Tau, installation by recent graduates of Massey Maori Visual Arts course Nov 5–Dec 11 Journey: Annette Dunnage Roy, new paintings Nov 12–Dec 11 Taren Wood, new paintings Dec 17–Jan 29 Harry Watson, retrospective and new works Dec 10–Mar 11 Wairarapa Review Dec 17–Mar 18

ArtsPost Galleries, Hamilton Fifty Ducats a Piece, Philip Carbon, screenprints Waiprint 2011, Waikato Printmakers to Nov 28 Ceramic, Brian Gartside, Naturally Black, Robyn Lloyd; Reuse, Recycle, Rejoice, Daniel Kirsch, screenprints on reused materials Dec 2–Jan 9

Bartley + Company Art, Wellington Rachel Rakena Nov 1–26 Andre Hemer Nov 29–Dec 22 Sofia Tekala-Smith, Lisa Walker and Areta Wilkinson Jan 31–Feb 25 Mary-Louise Brown Feb 28–Mar 24

Black Barn Gallery, Havelock Green Man, Deborah Smith, Mark Smith, John Reynolds, new photographs and paintings Nov 12–Dec 4 Freeman White, Road to the Top Dec 8–Jan 8 Paratene Matchitt Jan 12–Feb 5 Ricks Terstappen, Jeff Thomson, Staal, Feb 9–Mar 4

Calder & Lawson Gallery, University of Waikato Koru Tuputupu: Redefining Kowhaiwhai, curated by Karl Chitham Nov 5–Dec 16

Carterton Event Centre Wairarapa Review VII Salon de Refuses Dec 17–Feb 5

City Gallery Wellington Prospect New Zealand Art Now Nov 26–Feb 12 The Obstinate Object: Contemporary NZ Sculpture Feb 24–Jun 10

Civic Gardens, Lower Hutt Shapeshifter Sculpture Exhibition Feb 25–Mar 18

Courtenay Place Lightboxes, Wellington CBD Imaginary Geographies, Elaine Campaner, Alex Dorfsman, Jae Hoon Lee, Kate Woods, curated by Claudia Arozquetaa Dec 8–Apr 2

Creative Tauranga Gallery Nine: a journey through mental illness and addiction, Dylan Nov 11–29

Expressions Arts & Entertainment Centre, Upper Hutt Of Colour: Indigenous photography from Aotearoa and Mexico to Nov 20 The Doll Show Nov 25–Jan 22 Rockers and Rollers: Prints from the collection of Aratoi Museum and The Rutherford Trust Collection Jan 27–Mar 18 Memory: Tutors and staff at The Learning Connexion Jan 13–Feb 19

Gilberd Marriott Gallery, Wellington Keith Abbott, Ancestral Mythology and other recent paintings 25 Nov –24 Dec then from Jan 9

Govett–Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth Len Lye:All Souls Carnival to Nov 27 Vincent Ward: Breath: the fleeting intensity of life; Old Genes: Artists reading Len Lye Dec 10–Feb 26

Hamilton Gardens Pavilion, New Zealand Painting and Printmaking Award 2012, tickets for gala night wsa@wsa.org.nz Feb 17–Mar 1

Hastings City Art Gallery Rita Angus: Selected Works to Nov 20 Whole in the Heart, Kaupapa and the Furniture Designer Nov 5–22 Andrea Du Chatenier, Chain of Being Dec 3– Feb 6

Heritage Gallery, Cambridge Maureen Allison Dec 2–Jan 15

Mahara Gallery, Waikanae Small & Beautiful takeaways, Real NZ Festival; Te Wananga O Raukawa to Nov 13 Celebrate Kate, Whakanuia a Kate; Jo Conroy, Brenda Banks, Dale Scott, Whanganui Glass School graduates Nov 20–Jan 15

Mark Hutchins Gallery, Wellington Figure & Ground, Terry Stringer Feb 23–Mar 17

Massey College of Creative Arts Blow 2011 Creative Arts Festival Nov 5–18 www.creative.massey.ac.nz

McNamara Gallery, Whanganui Laurence Aberhart, America Nov James Lowe, new work Dec – Jan Mark Adams, new work Feb Derek Henderson, new work March

Quay School of the Art, UCOL Campus, Whanganui Making Worlds, BFA Painting Yr 2 to Nov 4 Gossage & Williams, BFA Photography; Print Out, BFA Printmaking Nov 1–19 Yr 1 & 2 Video Nov 3–19 3 Ladders, BFA graduates; Sideways Here We Come, BFA Yr 3, Nov 5–19

Page Blackie Gallery, Wellington The Watchers, Paul Dibble to Nov 5

Pataka Museum of Arts and Culture, Porirua Norm Heke: OMG’s Maori Gods in the 21st Century, photography to Nov 27 Grahame Sydney, Down South – Recent paintings to Feb 6

PAULNACHE Gallery, Gisborne Geoff Tune, Tracing the Season to Nov 27 Bill Riley, The Gentleman’s Hour Nov 25–Dec 24 Rob McLeod, Slipping in the Blue Chip; Richard Stratton, The Sanctified Sinner; Sanjay Theodore, Fantasm Jan 6–28 Megan Hansen–Knarhoi Feb 3–25 Brian Campbell, and launch of book by Dr Damien Skinner from Mar 2

Ramp Gallery, WINTEC, Hamilton Survey Hamilton: David Cook and others to Nov 9

Red Barn Gallery & Studio, Rangiriri, Waikato Off the Main Road, mixed media, Karin Barr, Stone and Glass, Judy Hadfield, Glass Graeme Hitchcock, Glass and Bronze, Michelle Judge, Glass Soenke Dwenger, photography Nov 27–Dec 4

Robert Heald Gallery, Wellington Peter Madden to Nov 19 David Cauchi Nov 24–Dec 22 Edith Amituanai Feb 2–Mar 3

Rotorua Museum of Art and History Heather Straka: The Asian to 27 Nov The Vault: Neil Pardington to Dec 4 Blomfield in Wonderland, curated by Damian Skinner and Rebecca Rice; A Catalogue of Wonders curated by Damian Skinner to Feb 19 Bohemians of the Brush Dec 3–Feb 5 Brian Brake – Lens on the World Dec 10–Apr 22

Sarjeant Gallery, Wanganui Joanna Braithwaite: Significant Others curated by Jenny Bornholdt and Gregory O’Brien to Nov 13 Everyday Irregular, group exhibition to Dec 4 Titowaru’s Dilemma, Marian Maguire to Feb 12 The Imaginative Life and Times of Graham Percy to Jan 29 Fancy Fool’s Flight, The Crystal Chain Gang, Jim Dennison, Leanne Williams Dec 10–Feb 26 Neil Pardington: The Vault Dec 17–Mar 4

Solander Works on Paper Gallery, Wellington Margaret Silverwood: New prints and drawings; Kelvin Mann, new works to Nov 26

Statements Gallery, Napier A Feeling of Order, new oils on canvas on board, Francois Aries Oct 7–30 Retrospective and Tribute to Sarah, Katie Brown, Karen Ellett, Carmen Simmonds pay tribute to Sarah Courtney–Plant Nov 18–Dec 11 Nic Scotland Mar 29–Apr 22

Suite Gallery, Wellington Ans Westra, Washday at the Pa to Nov 26

Tauranga Art Gallery KELCYTaratoa: CrisisAndIsolation; World Press Photo 11; Glen Hayward: For Want of a Nail to Nov 6 The Imaginative life and times of Graham Percy to Nov 13 Kermadec: Nine Artists explore the South Pacific to Feb 12

Te Manawa Museum, Palmerston North Te Ao Huriuiri from Nov 7

Te Papa, Wellington Collecting Contemporary to end Jan Collecting Contemporary: New selection of works including three major works by Jim Allen Feb to June Peter Stichbury: A Potter’s World to June

The Dowse Art Museum, Lower Hutt Wallace Art Awards 2011 to Dec 4 100 Bikes Project: Part 1, Scott Eady to Feb 5 Gordon Crook: 18 Maritimes, tapestries Nov 5–Feb 5 Bedazzled: Royal NZ Ballet Costumes, designed by Kristian Fredrikson Nov 26–Mar 4 Local Knowledge, Andrew Ross, Ans Westra, Dan Arps, Fiona Hall’s Living Halls, Simon Faithfull, Julian Priest Dec 17–Apr 22 Teresa Margolles: So It Vanishes curated by Claudia Arozqueta Feb 25–May 20 Shapeshifter, Civic Gardens Feb 25–Mar 18 Hit the Wall: Sound Tracks, Catherine Griffiths ongoing

The New Zealand Portrait Gallery, Wellington The Makers of Modern New Zealand 1930–1990, curated by Brian Easton Nov 17–12 Feb Adam Art Award Feb 22–Apr 10

Thermostat Gallery, Palmerston North Tom Armstrong, paintings Keith Grinter glass to Nov 10

Heather Olesen, Latitude37 from Refraction: outdoor glass sculpture exhibition 2011 at The Sculpture Park @ Waitakaruru Arboretum 2 October to 13 November

The Sculpture Park @ Waitakaruru Arboretum, Tauwhare, Waikato Summer: Sky above, earth below, curated by Andrew Clifford Nov 20–Mar 4  Imagine the Land Project www.imaginetheland.org Nov 19–Mar 4

Waikato Museum, Hamilton Annual Group Christmas Show, Bold Horizon National Contemporary Art Award to Nov 6 Collected Fictions, curated by Kim Paton & Gareth Williams to Nov 13 Purakau: Myths and Legends to Feb 7 Waiclay National Ceramics Awards Dec 2–May 27 Peter Collis Mar 2–27

Waikato Society of Potters, Hamilton Of Many Parts, Bruce Dehnert Workshop www.waiclay.taris.co.nz Nov 26–27

Wallace Gallery, Morrinsville Waiclay and Ceramic Masters Exhibition, Katherine Smyth, Steve Fuller, Chris Weaver, Barry Brickell; Mac’s Mad Mugs, Simon Leong, Peter Lange Nov 24–Jan 10

Wellington Museum of City and Sea Death and Diversity, Mandala of Life and Death, installation, Imagine the Land Project www.imaginetheland.org Nov 24–Jan

Whakatane Memorial Complex Molly Morpeth Canaday Art Award Jan 27

WHMilbank Gallery Wanganui Remembering Neville Mawhinney to Dec 4

Southern

Arts in Oxford, Oxford, Canterbury Neil and Lindsay Hey to Nov 27

Ashburton Art Gallery Muka Youth Prints Nov 9 Painting the View, Constable, Turner and British Landscape Watercolourists 1760–1860 Dec 10–Jan 22 The Asian: Heather Straka Dec 10–Mar 11

Blue Oyster Art Project Space, Dunedin Jenny Gilliam: Frank; Cara-Ann Simpson: Geo Sound Helmets; Emma Febvre–Richards: The Rituals of Control to Nov 12

Brett McDowell Gallery, Dunedin Laurence Aberhart Nov 18–Dec 8 Jason Greig Dec 9–23 Martin Thompson Feb 10–Mar 1 Patrick Hartigan Mar 2–22

Dunedin Public Art Gallery Ralph Hotere and Bill Culbert: Pathway to the Sea-Aramoana to Nov 20 Jane Venis: Gymnauseum to Dec 11 Fiona Pardington: Pressure of Sunlight Falling to Jan 22 Back in Black to Jan 30 Beloved: Works from the Collection; Frances Hodgkins: The French Connection to Apr 1 Ruth Watson, Myriad Worlds ongoing

Dunedin School of Art Muka Youth Prints Nov 6

Eastern Southland Gallery, Gore Muka Youth Prints Nov 5

Forrester Gallery, Oamaru Muka Youth Prints Nov 8

Gallery 33, Wanaka Where Angels Dare to Tread, Jane Mitchell Nov 4–Nov 24 Rural Landscapes: Don Binney, JS Parker, Louise McRae Dec 2–22 Summer Show January Anna Muirhead: trans-plant series; A Place for Birds, Katie Thomas Feb 3–23 All Aboard: Barry Clarke: Sculpture, painting and jewellery

Hocken Gallery, Hocken Collections, University of Otago, Dunedin Ralph Hotere: Zero to Infinity to Feb 18 (gallery closed Dec 24–1 Jan) All things to All Men, Kushana Bush, new work from the Frances Hodgkins Fellowship Feb 25–Apr 14

Jonathan Smart Gallery, Christchurch Jude Rae, Nov Group Show Dec

Lake Wanaka Centre Muka Youth Prints Nov 7

McAtamney Gallery, Geraldine The Lecture Series John Badcock Nov 11–Nov 25 Stations of the Cross 2010 John Badcock Jan 22–Apr 10 Modern and Contemporary Art: Focus on Portraiture by John Badcock, Susan Wilson, Helen Badcock; James Robinson: Mixed Media, Susan Badcock, photography ongoing

Milford Galleries, Dunedin Karl Maughan, Toni McKinnon, Neil Frazer ongoing through summer

Milford Galleries, Queenstown John Parker, Neal Palmer to Nov 16

Millennium Public Art Gallery, Blenheim Claim to Clay – Take 2 Joanna Fieldes, paintings, Fran Maguire, ceramics, Steve la Plant, photography Nov 5–Dec 4 Blast, Pat Hanly: The painter and his protests Dec 10–Jan

Papergraphica, Christchurch Marian Maguire, Titokowaru’s Dilemma Nov 9–Dec 10

Reflections Art Gallery, WOW Museum Nelson Draw the Line: Astrid Visser, Liz Palmer to Nov 13 The Sun & the Stone Angela Talley, Ian Bowell Nov 15–Dec 13 Sanctuary: Group exhibition Dec 14–Feb 13

RH Gallery, Upper Moutere, Nelson Niki Hastings McFall & Lonnie Hutchinson to Dec 8 Madeleine Child & Philip Jarvis Dec 10–Jan 19 Raewyn Atkinson & Ben Webb Jan 21–Feb 22

Southland Museum and Art Gallery, Invercargill Muka Youth Prints Nov 4 Malu Minar, Art of Torres Strait Islanders Dec 15–Apr 1

The Diversion Gallery, Picton Kathryn Madill, new paintings to Dec 11 Summer Exhibition, new works by Don Binney, JS Parker, Wayne Seyb, Michael Smither and others to Feb 5 Michael Smither, New Otago Paintings Feb 9–Mar 18

The Suter Art Gallery Nelson DIONOIA: A Diorama of Paranoia, Brit Bunkley, Eddie Clemens, Peter Madden, Ben Pearce, David Ryan, Peter Trevelyan, Ronnie van Hout Nov 19–Feb 6 Richard Parker: Master of Craft Dec 17–Feb 12 Paul Winspear: Ceramics Feb 11–Apr 1 Scott Flanagan, Ruth Watson Feb 18–Apr 1

Yealands Estate Marlborough Gallery, Blenheim Purely Pastel, Pastel Artists NZ National Exhibition Mar 31–Apr 15

International

Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney Picasso: Masterpieces from the Musée National Picasso Paris Nov 12–Mar 25 New Contemporary Galleries featuring John Kaldor Family Collection to May 2012

fortyfive downstairs, 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne Mike Hewson, Under Standing Loss, 29 Nov–Dec 10

FotoFreo Festival, Fremantle Prison, Perth NZ photographers including Mark Adams, Joyce Campbell, James Lowe, Richard Orjis, Greg Semu curated by Zara Stanhope March

Gallery of Modern Art, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane Matisse, Drawing Life Dec 3–Mar 4

Museum of Old and New Art, Hobart, Tasmania Monanism (extended) ongoing

Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney Primavera to Nov 13 closed for renovations to early 2012

National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne 10 Ways to look at the Past, 10 Contemporary Australian Artists including Richard Lewer to Feb 2012

Photoquai 2011, Musée Quai Branly, Paris featuring James K Lowe with McNamara Gallery, Wanganui to Dec 4

Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney Figure & Ground, Terry Stringer Nov 12–Dec 7

THE END Artspace, Brooklyn, New York Queen of the Hill, Lorene Taurerewa Dec 14–22

Yes Gallery, Brooklyn, New York Watercolours…and other things, Lorene Taurerewa, paintings and drawings Nov 15–Dec 20