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Fruits: Tokyo Street Style. Photographs by Shoichi Aoki
Starting Date: Sunday, 19 December 2004
Finishing Date: Sunday, 27 February 2005
Seventy-five images of Tokyo’s radical street fashion challenge everything you thought you understood about getting dressed.
Fruits reveals Tokyo youth culture taking a fresh approach to fashion that has become an inspiration to fashion designers around the world.
An exhibition developed by the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney,in association with Shoichi Aoki. Toured by The Dowse.
Photograph by Shoichi Aoki from Fruits magazine no. 11, April 1998, displayed in the Powerhouse Museum exhibition Fruits: Tokyo Street Style - photographs by Shoichi Aoki, from December 2002 to 27 July 2003. Photo courtesy of Shoichi Aoki.
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Jeffrey Harris
Starting Date: Saturday, 2 October 2004
Finishing Date: Sunday, 13 February 2005
A unique journey through the extraordinary career of Dunedin painter Jeffrey Harris.
This survey exhibition highlights major themes and charged episodes from Harris’s three decades of art-making, reaching from razor-sharp etchings to jewel-like ‘icons’, from sumptuous triptychs to a group of unflinching recent self-portraits.
A Dunedin Public Art Gallery exhibition
Jeffrey Harris
Head With Cross (self-portrait) (detail)
1998-2003
Oil on board
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Sites for the Eyes
Starting Date: Sunday, 28 November 2004
Finishing Date: Sunday, 28 August 2005
European Landscapes from the Dunedin Public Art Gallery Collection.
Works from the Dunedin Public Art Gallery collection trace the history of the European landscape tradition.
Curated by Peter Stupples, formerly Associate Professor of Art History, University of Otago.
A Dunedin Public Art Gallery exhibition.
Claude Monet
La Débâcle
1880
Oil on canvas
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Bekah Carran: Welcome to Paradise
Starting Date: Saturday, 25 September 2004
Finishing Date: Sunday, 5 December 2004
A park bench and metal apple tree are among the elements that Dunedin sculptor Bekah Carran combines to create a work that, in her words, ‘represents anyone, anywhere, sitting on a park bench, dreaming sentimental dreams of the perfect life.'
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Mark Braunias: Lemons and Rats
Starting Date: Saturday, 25 September 2004
Finishing Date: Sunday, 6 March 2005
Mark Braunias is best known to Dunedin audiences for First-time Caller, the exhibition he created in 2002 as a participant in the Dunedin Public Art Gallery Visiting Artists Programme. He has returned to the Gallery to take on the Big Wall, populating its 151 square metres with a stampede of hand-painted characters.
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Stephen Mulqueen and Erwin Brinkmann: Tiwai Project
Starting Date: Saturday, 25 September 2004
Finishing Date: Sunday, 5 December 2004
A collaboration between sculptor Stephen Mulqueen and photographer Erwin Brinkmann in response to the nature of place: Motupohue/Bluff Harbour, Tiwai Point and Awarua Bay, Southern New Zealand.
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Daniel von Sturmer: Screen Test
Starting Date: Saturday, 31 July 2004
Finishing Date: Saturday, 11 September 2004
Daniel von Sturmer is the Gallery’s first Visiting Artist for 2004. This expatriate New Zealand artist has a rising profile in Australia. Working mostly with video, von Sturmer creates art works that are quiet, patient – and mesmerising. Using tabletop and domestic materials (a polystyrene cup, a piece of BluTak) and seeming sleights of hand (objects float, topple, and appear to defy gravity), von Sturmer crafts small loops of time that enthral and enlighten.
A Dunedin Public Art Gallery Visiting Artists Project, supported by Creative New Zealand.
Daniel von Sturmer
Science Fiction
2001
DVD video projection, acrylic perspex screen
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Phil Dadson: Polar Projects
Starting Date: Sunday, 8 August 2004
Finishing Date: Sunday, 19 September 2004
Antarctica’s wide white landscape is revealed as an extraordinary soundscape in this project by Phil Dadson. Winner of a recent New Zealand Arts Foundation Laureate Award for his work as a sound artist, Dadson is presenting for the first time the results of his 2003 trip to Antarctica. In darkened galleries, he offers a winding journey through a field of ventifacts; watches (and listens) as high winds turn powerlines into an Aeolian harp; and generally finds in Antarctica a place that looks and sounds like no other on earth.
Produced with generous support from Antarctica NZ, Creative New Zealand and Sony (NZ)
Phil Dadson
Polar Solo
2003
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Everyday Miracles: The Art of Stanley Spencer
Starting Date: Saturday, 28 February 2004
Finishing Date: Sunday, 16 May 2004
Stanley Spencer was one of the most original British painters of the twentieth century. Finding inspiration in his quiet village on the river Thames and combining it with traditions of religious art, Spencer arrived at an art of epic grandeur. His paintings of love and lovers retain their power to shock even today. His vision of a vernacular Christianity also remains startling and profoundly moving. The exhibition includes landscapes, cityscapes, flower paintings and portraits from New Zealand, Australian and English collections.
Generiously support by Simpson Grierson. Organised in partnership with Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki. Indemnified by the New Zealand Government.
A Dunedin Public Art Gallery/Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki Exhibition partnership project.
Stanley Spencer
Self Portrait
1914
Tate Britain
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Kay Rosen: Big Talk
Starting Date: Saturday, 13 March 2004
Finishing Date: Sunday, 16 May 2004
The walls talk in this exhibition of twelve large wall paintings by internationally renowned word artist Kay Rosen. Painted directly on to the walls of the gallery, Rosen's works combine the impact and immediacy of billboards with a subtle and often subversive sense of humour. She enlarges, inverts and juxtaposes words in ways that illuminate our habits of thought. This is the first time the work of this acclaimed artist from Gary, Indiana has been seen in New Zealand.
A Dunedin Public Art Gallery exhibition.
Kay Rosen
Big Talk
1985/1998/99
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Calf and Quill: Medieval Manuscripts from the Reed Collections
Starting Date: Saturday, 14 February 2004
Finishing Date: Sunday, 30 May 2004
Step back in time to a medieval world when books were rare, precious, beautifully written and crafted by hand. On exhibition are 10th to 16th century illuminated and decorated vellum manuscripts from the Dunedin Public Library Reed Collections.
Curated by Ian Stewart, Reed Rare Books Librarian. A Dunedin Public Art Gallery/Dunedin Public Library partnership project.
Artist Unknown
The Flight into Egypt
c.1440
Alfred and Isobel Reed Collections, Dunedin Public Library
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Characters: High and Low
Starting Date: Saturday, 13 March 2004
Finishing Date: Monday, 7 June 2004
An exhibition of watercolours from the Dunedin Public Art Gallery's Smythe Collection. Curated by Tony Green, formerly Head of the Department of Art History, University of Auckland.
Kate Greenaway
Haymaking's End
Collection Dunedin Public Art Gallery
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David Haines and Joyce Hinterding
Starting Date: Saturday, 13 March 2004
Finishing Date: Monday, 7 June 2004
The Otago Polytechnic School of Art's new artists in residence are David Haines and Joyce Hinterding from Australia. At the Dunedin Public Art Gallery they show two spectacular recent video works, in which extraordinary events engulf ordinary scenes. In Haines's The Seventeenth Century vast clouds of smoke threaten to overwhelm a night-time cityscape. And in the duo's HouseII, a deluge pours endlessly from a Pennsylvanian Neo-Gothic house.
A Dunedin Public Art Gallery exhibition.
David Haines and Joyce Hinterding
House 2 The Great Artesian Basin Pennsylvania
2003
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Teresa Andrew: dis-grace (wool, fat, soap, milk)
Starting Date: Saturday, 13 March 2004
Finishing Date: Sunday, 2 May 2004
A Dunedin artist Teresa Andrew is known for vivid, stark and elegant exhibitions in which the artist's body is a medium and subject. Her latest exhibition dis-grace opens with a performance by the artist, and consists of videos and objects - blankets, fat, soap, a mattress - that evoke experiences of anxiety, comfort, exhaustion and stillness.
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Douglas Kelaher: Doug's World
Starting Date: Saturday, 13 March 2004
Finishing Date: Sunday, 16 May 2004
The Gallery's latest Big Wall project is by Dunedin sculptor Douglas Kelaher. Growing like rocks or crystals from the wall, Kelaher's chunky sculptural forms are inspired by science fiction forms and New Zealand architecture of the 1970s. Head to the upper level of the gallery for a view of the strange shapes and creatures that hide on top of this outcrop.
A Dunedin Public Art Gallery exhibition.
Douglas Kelaher
Doug's World
2004
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Frances Hodgkins: Daughter of Dunedin
Ongoing Exhibition
Frances Hodgkins is one of New Zealand’s most highly regarded artists. Daughter of Dunedin offers the viewer an insight into her early life and work.
A Dunedin Public Art Gallery exhibition.
Artist Unknown
Frances Hodgkins, Melbourne 1912
1912
Alfred and Isobel Reed Collections, Dunedin Public Library
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Maddie Leach: Take Me Down to Your Dance Floor
Starting Date: Saturday, 15 May 2004
Finishing Date: Sunday, 18 July 2004
Take Me Down to Your Dance Floor the latest in a series of works in which New Zealand artist Maddie Leach has turned art galleries into active, social spaces. In 2002, Leach installed an ice rink in a gallery for public use. In Dunedin, Leach invites you onto a custom-made dance floor, with 'leaning rails', and a programme of performances by local dance groups. This is art that gallery-goers are free to walk on and use, putting their own bodies and memories in the picture.
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Video Sculpture in Germany since 1963
Starting Date: Saturday, 29 May 2004
Finishing Date: Sunday, 1 August 2004
This exhibition presents four generations of Germany based artists working in the area of video installation.
The exhibition is organised by Germany's Institut for Foreign Affairs, Ifa, and is being toured by the Goethe Institut
Ulrike Rosenbach
Requim fűr eine Eiche
1993
Videoinstallation
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Gregor Kregar: I Appear and Disappear
Starting Date: Saturday, 13 March 2004
Finishing Date: Sunday, 16 May 2004
Dressed in orange overalls, ten ceramic versions of the sculptor stare out over Dunedin's Octagon. Kregar exploits the natural qualities of clay, which shrinks when fired. Each figure becomes the model for a smaller clay figure, which becomes smaller again in the kiln. Kregar's work is a wry commentary on self-portraiture and artistic ego. The more of him there are, the tinier his stand-ins become.
A Dunedin Public Art Gallery exhibition. Made with the generous assistance of Otago Polytechnic School of Art.
Gregor Kregar
I Appear and Disappear
2003-04
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True Love
Starting Date: Saturday, 5 June 2004
Finishing Date: Sunday, 19 September 2004
In the last three years 74 artworks have been added to the Dunedin Public Art Gallery collection. This small exhibition welcomes fourteen recent arrivals.
A work by Mikala Dwyer from the Jim Barr and Mary Barr loan collection gives the show its title. A child-sized abstract painting made with nail polish, Dwyer’s True Love shares with many works in the exhibition a passion for bright colour and sensuous surfaces, and an often irreverent wit. Its title also points to the affections and desires that drive the act of collecting. Featuring work by Judy Millar, Lionel Bawden, Richard Killeen, Reuben Paterson, Anne Noble, Mark Braunias and Michael Harrison, True Love proposes an intimate encounter with some of the finest recent additions to the Gallery’s collection.
Lionel Bawden
Untitled (blue pod form), detail
from The Spring Tune
2003
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Chris Braddock: Sanitate
Starting Date: Saturday, 19 June 2004
Finishing Date: Monday, 6 September 2004
Chris Braddock's Sanitate punctuates the vast white expanse of the Gallery's Big Wall with a hundred strange chrome boxes, each connected to the next by laced and plaited electrical cord. Glowing internally with a green medical light, Braddock's elegant network of objects suggests both religious art (the museum as shrine) and the gleaming artifacts of contemporary medicine (the museum as clinic).
Chris Braddock
Sanitate
2004
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Bill Culbert: Light Wine Things
Starting Date: Saturday, 19 June 2004
Finishing Date: Sunday, 12 September 2004
Port Chalmers-born and now based in Europe, Bill Culbert is well-known to Dunedin audiences for works such as P.R.O.P., made with Ralph Hotere, and Miles Away. This exhibition showcases Culbert’s inimitable way with light and things. Two recent sculptures delight in what happens when light falls through a wine glass. In several major photographic series Culbert records discarded wheels and containers. Though plain and undistinguished at first glance, these things seem, once framed and gathered in by Culbert’s camera, to disclose whole histories of human invention and improvisation.
Bill Culbert
Ten Red Glasses
2003
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Art to Express New Zealand
Starting Date: Saturday, 30 October 2004
Finishing Date: Sunday, 28 August 2005
This exhibition explores perceptions of the New Zealand landscape through a selection of paintings, works on paper, photographs and installations from the permanent collection of the Dunedin Public Art Gallery. Curated by Anne Harlow.
A Dunedin Public Art Gallery exhibition.
John Hoyte
Milford Sound
1877
Watercolour
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For the Love of Christ
Starting Date: Friday, 26 November 2004
Finishing Date: Sunday, 28 August 2005
The Christian faith and Christian themes are expressed in many ways in this exhibition drawn from the Dunedin Public Art Gallery collection.
A Dunedin Public Art Gallery exhibition.
Zanobi Machiavelli
Madonna and Child
1452/53
Egg tempura on gesso on wood
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Mladen Bizumic, event.horizon.black.hole
Starting Date: Saturday, 11 December 2004
Finishing Date: Sunday, 6 March 2005
An immersive video and audio environment from 2004's Frances Hodgkins Fellow.
On a vast, two-sided screen, views of the grandly crumbling architecture of the UNESCO headquarters in Paris run back-to-back with views of an avalanche on Mt Cook.
Colliding Europe and New Zealand, natural disaster and architectural decay, Bizumic implies an uncanny connection between locations on opposite sides of the world.
Runs with Bizumic's exhibition Aipotu at the Hocken Library Gallery.
A Dunedin Public Art Gallery exhibition.
Mladen Bizumic
event.horizon.black.hole
2004
Audio-video installation
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Home and Abroad
Ongoing Exhibition
An exhibition of watercolours from the Dunedin Public Art Gallery's Smythe Collection. Curated by Tony Green, Emeritus Professor of Art History, University of Auckland.
A Dunedin Public Art Gallery exhibition.
Henry Bright
Landscape with Drifting Smoke, Salisbury (detail)
Undated
Watercolour on paper
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