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Séraphine Pick
Starting Date: Saturday, 5 June 2010
Finishing Date: Sunday, 26 September 2010
Séraphine Pick's original and imaginative practice has made her one of New Zealand's most highly regarded painters. From the spectral dresses, leaky baths and teetering suitcases of the 1990s to the psychologically-charged dreamscapes of more recent years, this large-scale survey exhibition brings together eighty works made between 1994 and 2009.
Tracing the effects of Pick's ongoing interest in memory, identity, sexuality, and imagination, this exhibition unveils several new paintings and is accompanied by a richly illustrated publication, featuring essays on relevant aspects of Pick’s practice as well as responses to individual works by leading art writers.
Séraphine Pick
Girl (with offered eyes) 2004
oil on canvas.
Private Collection, Auckland
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Alicia Frankovich
Starting Date: Saturday, 29 May 2010
Finishing Date: Sunday, 19 September 2010
New Zealand artist Alicia Frankovich has quickly established a reputation for producing highly charged and provocative artworks that span a diverse range of media, ideas and subject matter. One of the stand-out figures to have emerged from the New Zealand art community in recent years and currently based in both Melbourne and Berlin, Frankovich comes to Dunedin on the back of a number of notable projects at the Australia Centre for Contemporary Art (Melbourne), ARTSPACE (Auckland) and the Auckland Art Gallery. Frankovich’s Visiting Artist’s exhibition at the Dunedin Public Art Gallery is the result of eight intensive weeks researching and building a series of discrete sculptural elements relating to the body.
Alicia Frankovich
Rapture 2010
neon, cord, plugs, t-shirt, string.
Courtesy of the artist and Starkwhite, Auckland.
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Beloved: Works from the Dunedin Public Art Gallery
Starting Date: Saturday, 12 December 2009
Finishing Date: Sunday, 30 October 2011
The Dunedin Public Art Gallery, established in 1884, was New Zealand’s first public art gallery.
To commemorate its 125th year, Beloved will showcase a selection of the historical and contemporary gems from the gallery's collection.
The exhibition and lavish accompanying publication celebrate the history of the collection, paying particular attention to some of the better known and favourite works.
Spanning a timeframe of more than 600 years, this rich body of work is both diverse in its content and in the range of media it brings together including painting, sculpture, photography, works on paper, installation and the decorative arts.
Solomon J. Solomon
Eros
Oil on canvas.
Collection Dunedin Public Art Gallery
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Still Life: The Art of Anatomy
Starting Date: Saturday, 10 July 2010
Finishing Date: Sunday, 12 September 2010
Noted Dunedin based filmmaker and medical doctor Paul Trotman, has worked closely with the Dunedin Public Art Gallery in researching Dunedin’s rich collections towards the realisation of Still Life: The Art of Anatomy. This exhibition brings together an array of historical and contemporary items, such as Dr John Halliday Scott’s elegant anatomical drawings and old master prints, through to porcelain and wax casts of aspects of the body and the latest interactive computer generated 3D anatomical models.
Still Life provides a stunning insight into this complex subject and also reveals the important lineage that science and art shares through the analysis, distillation and depiction of the human form.
Prof. J.H. Scott
Internal view of eye c.1890
watercolour on paper
Department of Anatomy and Structural Biology Collections, University of Otago
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