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Rebecca Horn: Time Goes By
Starting Date: Saturday, 8 October 2005
Finishing Date: Sunday, 29 January 2006
Rebecca Horn's is a name to conjure with. Famous for her extraordinarily inventive kinetic sculptures and large-scale multi-media installations, she also works her edgy magic in the areas of photography, film and printmaking.This exhibition includes works in all these forms and offers New Zealand audiences, for the first time, an opportunity to see what makes this German artist one of the great names in contemporary art practice.
Dunedin is the only New Zealand venue for this exhibition.
The exhibition is organised by Germany's Institut for Foreign Affairs, ifa, and is toured by the Goethe Institut
Rebecca Horn
Time Goes By
1990-91
Installation
© VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn.
Courtesy Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen e. V., Stuttgart
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Miyabi: Japanese Masterworks from Dunedin Collections
Starting Date: Saturday, 24 September 2005
Finishing Date: Sunday, 19 March 2006
Drawing on treasures from the collections of the Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Olveston and the Otago Museum, this fascinating exhibition explores key aspects of traditional Japanese art and culture, including exquisite ceramics, woodblock prints, lacquerware, carved netsuke and lavishly ornamented weapons.
Curated by Shuzo Tsuchiya, Director of the Otaru Museum in Japan, this is the most comprehensive exhibition of Japanese artifacts ever presented in Dunedin.
A Dunedin Public Art Gallery exhibition.
Supported by Museums Aotearoa and the Asia New Zealand Foundation.
Utagawa Kunisada (known as Toyokuni III)
Kinemon OKANO as Shinsha ICHIKAWA
Woodblock print
Collection Otaru Museum, Japan.
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Home Sweet Home: Works from the Peter Fay Collection
Starting Date: Saturday, 9 July 2005
Finishing Date: Sunday, 18 September 2005
To enter into Home Sweet Home: Works from the Peter Fay Collection is to enter into a sense of adventure. This exciting show of predominantly Australian and New Zealand contemporary art provides the opportunity for new ways of thinking about inventive displays and approaches to collecting art.
The exhibition is, as the title suggests, about art that comes from a domestic environment and examines the way the idea of ‘home’ and by extension, our hearts and minds, can be transformed by art.
There are some 240 works in the show, in a wide range of media – painting, drawing, photography, video, domestic-scale sculpture and objects.
A National Gallery of Australia Travelling Exhibition.
Ricky Swallow
Clockman
1998
Plastruct, plastic, letraset
Peter Fay collection, on loan to the National Gallery of Australia
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Robin White: Island Life
Starting Date: Friday, 22 July 2005
Finishing Date: Saturday, 24 September 2005
This vibrant large-scale exhibition by Robin White brings together works created over a lifetime in New Zealand and Kiribati. In 1999 Robin White returned to her home country of New Zealand after living on Kiribati, the former Gilbert Islands, for more than ten years. During her time away her imagery transformed from New Zealand Buzzy Bees and green landscapes to the colours and symbols of island life in the Pacific.
This vibrant large-scale exhibition includes screenprints, woodcuts, paintings and drawings as well as the exciting composite pandanus mats she has begun to experiment with recently.
Exhibition toured by the Hocken Collections, University of Otago.
Supported by Creative New Zealand Toi Aotearoa.
Robin White
On the Beach at Bikenibeu
1992
Handcoloured woodcut
Collection Hocken Library, University of Otago, Dunedin
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Ralph Hotere Figurative Works: Carnival, Song Cycle and the Woman Series
Starting Date: Saturday, 30 July 2005
Finishing Date: Sunday, 25 September 2005
A selection of drawings and paintings from one of New Zealand’s foremost artists, Ralph Hotere.
These works are drawn from the 'Carnival Series of the early 1960s, a 'Song Cycle' series and the 'Woman' series, a collection of sensual, beautiful images, which Hotere has consistently produced throughout his career.
Curated by Kriselle Baker.
Ralph Hotere
Untitled drawing of two nude women
c.1971
Ink on paper
Collection Dunedin Public Art Gallery
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Maryrose Crook: Bringing all the things that run
Starting Date: Friday, 12 August 2005
Finishing Date: Sunday, 9 October 2005
Bringing all the things that run is a suite of works by Dunedin painter and musician Maryrose Crook. Painted mostly when Crook held the 2003 William Hodges Fellowship and was Southland Art Foundation artist-in-residence, the show includes evocative southern skyscapes, intricately detailed dresses, still lifes stocked with fragments of nineteenth century history, cabinets of curiosity, and some wry, haunting depictions of moths clothed in their own extraordinary patterns and insignia.
A Southland Museum and Art Gallery Touring Exhibition.
Maryrose Crook
The Sorrowful Eye: Pest Dress
2004
Oil on Canvas
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Walters en Abyme
Starting Date: Saturday, 21 May 2005
Finishing Date: Sunday, 3 July 2005
A selection of artworks by one of New Zealand's most famous artists, Gordon Walters.Walters en Abyme is a study of a significant, if little-known, aspect of his work, the composition en abyme, or image within an image, which Walters first investigated in the 1950s, and continued to explore in his art for forty years.
A Gus Fisher Gallery touring exhibition.
Gordon Walters
Untitled
1989
Acrylic on canvas
Collection of the Fletcher Trust, Auckland
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Frank Carpay
Starting Date: Saturday, 21 May 2005
Finishing Date: Sunday, 17 July 2005
An exhibition exploring the innovative designs of Frank Carpay. Influenced throughout his life by European artists such as Picasso, Carpay fused Continental modernism with Pacific pattern to produce unique designs on a variety of media.
Frank Carpay focuses on Carpay’s work at Crown Lynn between 1953 and 1956, and his vibrant textile designs of the 1960s and 1970s.
Initiated and toured by the Hawke’s Bay Cultural Trust.
Frank Carpay
Untitled design for screen print
c. 1970
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Joanna Braithwaite: Wonderland
Starting Date: Saturday, 26 February 2005
Finishing Date: Sunday, 15 May 2005
The world of Joanna Braithwaite's painting is part menagerie, part bestiary, part human zoo.
Her richly brushed canvases are places where the laws of nature are calmly bent, and wonderful hybrids emerge.
Snakes grow into swans, frogs rain from the sky, and humans are lofted skyward by birds and butterflies. Braithwaite paints her strange creatures with such assurance that they seem perfectly natural. In the process, she reminds us how strange 'the natural' really is.
A partnership project between Dunedin Public Art Gallery and Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu.
Joanna Braithwaite
Ascension
2000
Oil on canvas
Joanna Braithwaite
World Without End (detail)
2004
Oil on canvas
Private collection, Christchurch
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Gretchen Albrecht: Returning
Starting Date: Saturday, 26 February 2005
Finishing Date: Sunday, 8 May 2005
A selection of evocative, richly coloured and often spectacular paintings by one of New Zealand’s leading abstraction artists.
This exhibition focuses on her signature hemisphere and oval works, and ranges from pieces made during Albrecht’s Frances Hodgkins residency in Dunedin in 1981 through to recent works.
A Dunedin Public Art Gallery exhibition.
Gretchen Albrecht
Autumnal Mirror
1997
Acrylic and oil on canvas
Gretchen Albrecht
Bright Mantled Ocean
2000
Acrylic on canvas
Collection of the artist
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HOTBED: Loans, Purchases and Gifts
Starting Date: Friday, 11 March 2005
Finishing Date: Sunday, 22 May 2005
The word ‘collection’ suggests static objects stored in temperature-controlled rooms. This late-summer show, however, reveals the Dunedin Public Art Gallery contemporary collection as a place of heat, bizarre beauty and unstable energy - a hotbed of growth and change.
Featuring the work of Jae Hoon Lee, Bill Hammond, Séraphine Pick, 2005 Frances Hodgkins fellow Rohan Wealleans and others, Hotbed showcases art in which nature gets pushed to unnatural extremes, paint bulges and peels, and familiar objects grow minds of their own.
Bill Hammond
I¹ve Just Got to Get a Message to You
1985
Acrylic on linen canvas
Dunedin Public Art Gallery
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John Kinder's New Zealand
Starting Date: Saturday, 5 March 2005
Finishing Date: Sunday, 8 May 2005
Few people realise that the Reverend Dr John Kinder was the only 19th century New Zealand artist to work with both painting and photography as visual mediums. Such a combined visual talent was not only exceptional in New Zealand – it has very few 19th century international parallels. John Kinder's New Zealand is the first exhibition to survey Kinder's twin achievements as an artist of paint as well as the camera.
An Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki touring exhibition.
John Kinder
Dunedin
1890
Watercolour
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki
Gift of Harry Kinder, 1937
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Pip Culbert: 36 Pinnies, NZ
Starting Date: Saturday, 19 March 2005
Finishing Date: Sunday, 29 May 2005
Pip Culbert takes everything but the seams away from familiar fabric objects, and what is left provides a lot to look at and think about. In this new work, Culbert has cut apart and opened up thirty-six domestic aprons. Floating on the Big Wall, they form a strange new graphic alphabet - an array of signs and gestures that the original aprons never dreamed they contained.
Pip Culbert
Detail from installation 36 Pinnies, NZ
2005
Cotton, Nylon
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Frances Hodgkins: Frances, France and the French
Starting Date: Friday, 29 April 2005
Finishing Date: Sunday, 30 October 2005
Frances, France and the French explores one thread in Frances Hodgkins's life in Europe. Through a selection of works made in France between 1901 and 1930, it identifies her favoured subjects – fishing villages, markets, landscapes and people – and suggests evolutions in her relationship with the country and its inhabitants.
Items such as catalogues and postcards illuminate her activity as a teacher, places where she lived and exhibitions in which she participated.
A Dunedin Public Art Gallery exhibition.
Frances Hodgkins
Women in a French Market
Watercolour
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Shirin Neshat: Tooba
Starting Date: Saturday, 28 May 2005
Finishing Date: Sunday, 10 July 2005
Renowned contemporary artist Shirin Neshat, whose videos and photographs draw upon her Iranian heritage for inspiration, uses her artwork to explore her very sensitive and complex relationship to her country of origin.
Tooba, one of her most recent works, is inspired by Shahrnoush Parsipour’s contemporary novel, Women Without Men, and drawn from the story of the Tooba tree in the Koran.
Neshat uses the garden (a recurring motif in Persian art) as a symbol for both a spiritual longing for paradise and a quest for political power.
This is a not-to-be-missed opportunity to experience an immersive visual environment created by one of contemporary art’s most acclaimed figures.
An Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki exhibition
Shirin Neshat
Tooba (video still)
Courtesy Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York.
Collection Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki, on loan from the Thanksgiving Foundation, 2005
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James Morrison: The Great Tasmanian Wars
Starting Date: Saturday, 4 June 2005
Finishing Date: Saturday, 6 August 2005
Dunedin is the only New Zealand venue for this extraordinary cycle of fifty-five paintings by Australian artist James Morrison. Across a surface more than sixteen metres in length, Morrison infuses the old genre of history painting with intricate detailing, tropical colour, truly marvellous inhabitants, and a profusion of encounters in which fact and imagination merge. The Great Tasmanian Wars was recently acclaimed by critic Sebastian Smee as 'a work of enormous ambition, vibrant, jewel-like beauty and poisonous oddity... And it beautifully evokes the astonishing variety of ways in which the colonial mind imagines -- and over-imagines -- the landscape.'
Toured by Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney.
James Morrison
The Great Tasmanian Wars (detail)
2004
Oil on canvas, 55 panels each 30 x 30cm
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1955: A Living Legacy
Starting Date: Saturday, 25 June 2005
Finishing Date: Sunday, 28 August 2005
The Dunedin Public Art Gallery’s collection has been built up over more than a hundred years largely by gifts of art works or purchases using donated funds.
1955 was a particularly good year for additions to the collection. This cabinet of curiosities-style exhibition features paintings, furniture, ceramics and objets d'art acquired by the Gallery fifty years ago.
William de Morgan
Persian ware charger
1888-92
Collection of the Dunedin Public Art Gallery
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Richard Killeen: Nature, Culture
Starting Date: Thursday, 30 June 2005
Finishing Date: Sunday, 6 November 2005
The foyer becomes a fishbowl in May, when Richard Killeen fills the Big Wall with a colossal, red, white and black fish. The latest in Killeen's recent run of hypnotically detailed computer-designed images, his fish wears a camouflage of vibrant punctuation marks.
Richard Killeen
Nature, Culture
2005
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Shadowplay
Starting Date: Saturday, 28 May 2005
Finishing Date: Sunday, 25 September 2005
Solids leap up from their own shadows and light is interrupted in fascinating ways in this exhibition of works drawn largely from the Gallery's Collection. Reaching from Bill Culbert's photos of old wheels basking in the light of the south of France to Daniel von Sturmer's video of paper clips dancing on their own shadows, the exhibition also includes work in black, white and nuanced shades of grey by Neil Dawson, Gavin Hipkins, Anne Noble and Ronnie van Hout.
Daniel von Sturmer
Screen Test (Sequence 4)
2004
Single channel DVD
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Michel Tuffery: ‘O le Povi Pusa Ma’ataua’ (jewel box of bulls)
Starting Date: Tuesday, 6 September 2005
Finishing Date: Sunday, 2 October 2005
Peel open the tins that make up Michel Tuffery’s ‘O le Povi Pusa Ma’ataua’ and there’s more than the salty South Seas via-the-abattoir scent of corned beef. The tin bull rip-snorts off the chocolate box lid and gets its horns into our Pacific paradise.
The bulls’ innards can be converted into a good-old Kiwi barbie, which has been fired up everywhere from Porirua to Park Avenue.
Michel Tuffery
‘O le Povi Pusa Ma’ataua’ (jewel box of bulls)
2003-05
Aluminium, Recycled Copper, Cornbeef tins, Rivets, Pneumatic components, Wrought Iron. Painted crate with some interior artwork.
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The Amazing Face: Four Centuries of Portraits from the Dunedin Public Art Gallery
Starting Date: Saturday, 15 October 2005
Finishing Date: Sunday, 4 June 2006
Through portraits as varied as Sir Joshua Reynolds' painting of the well-born but illegitimate Maria, Countess Waldegrave, CF Goldie's All 'e same t'e Pakeha, Raymond Ching's Rebecca and the Music Student and a selection of contemporary photographs, The Amazing Face traces some of the major trends and changes in portraiture over more than four hundred years and examines a few curiosities along the way.
A Dunedin Public Art Gallery exhibition
Marcus Gheeraerdts
Margaret Hay, Countess of Dunfermline (detail)
1615
Oil on canvas
Collection Dunedin Public Art Gallery
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Peter Robinson: The Humours
Starting Date: Saturday, 15 October 2005
Finishing Date: Saturday, 28 January 2006
In ancient Greek medical theory, ‘the humours’ were the four fluids thought to course through the human body and determine a person’s temper. Imbalance among the humours created an imbalanced body and mind. In Robinson’s new exhibition, ‘the humours’ are three very bodily sculptures that strive to attain their own states of balance – and fail in darkly humorous ways.
A Dunedin Public Art Gallery Visiting Artist’s Project. Supported by Creative New Zealand.
Peter Robinson
Das Es
2005
Mixed media
Courtesy Peter McLeavey Gallery, Wellington
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Femininity Defined: Frances Hodgkins' Images of Women
Starting Date: Saturday, 19 November 2005
Finishing Date: Sunday, 16 April 2006
At the beginning of what would become a very unusual career, Frances Hodgkins painted women at work. Travelling to Europe, she replaced the servant girls, good wives and happy mothers of Dunedin with French and Italian orange sellers and farm workers. Returning to New Zealand, she showed her sophistication and awareness of the taste for exotic and fascinating females with a hint of the harem and the fashion for fans.
A Dunedin Public Art Gallery exhibition.
Frances Hodgkins
Woman and Child
c.1912
Watercolour and charcoal
Collection Dunedin Public Art Gallery
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Scott McFarlane: Eighty-five Per Cent Reality
Starting Date: Saturday, 22 October 2005
Finishing Date: Sunday, 12 February 2006
Shards of ancient pots serve as clues for archaeologists as they piece together past civilizations, but the time and place glimpsed in Scott McFarlane’s wall full of shards is recognisably Otago in 2005. Using the ancient art-form of painted pottery to present signs of twenty-first century life, McFarlane suggests how the present might look from the vantage-point of the future – a museum display of enigmatic fragments.
Scott McFarlane
Eighty-five Per Cent Reality
2003-05
482 ceramic tiles
Collection of the artist
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Michael Reed: Cultural Vulture
Starting Date: Saturday, 26 November 2005
Finishing Date: Sunday, 9 April 2006
Flashes and fragments of island life pour down nine immense paper scrolls in Michael Reed’s work for the Big Wall. Fascinated by a Rarotongan god stick in the collection of the Canterbury Museum and the cultural exchanges that took it there, Reed has created a work exploring the look of life on Rarotonga amidst a torrent of tourists.
Michael Reed
Cultural Vulture (detail)
2005
Mixed media
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