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Julia Morison: a loop around a loop
Starting Date: Saturday, 9 December 2006
Finishing Date: Sunday, 15 April 2007
Viewing Julia Morison’s work is like starting to play one game and finding yourself pleasurably entangled in another. Unwinding through the entire first floor of the Gallery, a loop around a loop will lead viewers through twenty years and twelve major works by one of New Zealand’s most playful and inventive artists.
Ranging from her austere and exquisite early work Vademecum to the soaring dresses that make up Material Evidence to the flamboyant new work Gargantua's Petticoat, this major exhibition surveys an artistic world where the only rule is one of constant imaginative change.
Don't miss the chance to visit an exhibition that The New Zealand Listener said 'should be noted in everyone's diary as a must-see.'
A partnership project between Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu and Dunedin Public Art Gallery.
Julia Morison
Fair and gay goes Lent away
2005 (detail)
Mixed media on
aluminium laminate
Collection Dunedin Public Art Gallery
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World's Edge
Starting Date: Saturday, 16 December 2006
Finishing Date: Sunday, 18 March 2007
In World's Edge, New Zealand artists set their sights on one the most familiar and elusive of landscape images -- the horizon. In Colin McCahon's five-part evocation of the Ahipara coast, an earthbound beachwalk becomes a spiritual journey. Ralph Hotere's painted window from 1982 portrays the horizon as the backdrop for urgent environmental protest. In Anne Noble's photographs made in Antarctica, the horizon is a place where whiteout threatens and vision is pushed to its limits. The exhibition also includes work by Laurence Aberhart, Maddie Leach, Kathryn Madill, Maria Olsen, Peter Peryer and Marie Shannon.
Laurence Aberhart
Water tank, Orepuki, Southland. May 1981
or Icon at dusk on the southern end of the world
1981
Gelatin silver print
The Patricia Browne Trust Collection
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Cream: European Paintings from the Collection
Ongoing Exhibition
From Machiavelli to Monet, Dobson to Derain, Turner to Tissot – the all-time favourites from the Dunedin Public Art Gallery’s European collection go on show in a luscious confection of portraits, landscapes and religious and allegorical paintings.
A Dunedin Public Art Gallery exhibition.
Claude Monet
La Débâcle (detail)
1880
Oil on canvas
Collection Dunedin
Public Art Gallery
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Reboot
Starting Date: Saturday, 26 August 2006
Finishing Date: Sunday, 12 November 2006
In 2001, the exhibition Good Work brought classic works from the Jim Barr and Mary Barr loan collection together with works recently acquired by the Wellington collectors. Reboot takes stock of a further five years in the collection’s life and showcases the multimedia energy of their recent acquisitions – from videos through to wall paintings. Including young New Zealand artists such as Eileen Leung and Glen Hayward alongside international luminaries such as Paul McCarthy, Ricky Swallow and Gillian Wearing, Reboot reveals the international range of the Barrs’ recent acquisitions, and testifies to their belief that collecting art ought to be a ‘partisan, passionate and polemical’ act.
A Dunedin Public Art Gallery exhibition.
Michael Parekowhai
Cosmo
2006
Woven nylon substrate and pigment
Jim Barr and Mary Barr collection.
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Nicky Deeley: A Little Bird Lit Down on Henry-Lee
Ongoing Exhibition
Head through the corridor to the rear foyer for a view of the honky-tonk signage and cast of eccentric characters in Nicky Deeley’s new mural, the latest artwork to directly colonise the walls of the Gallery.
Nicky Deeley
A Little Bird Lit Down on Henry-Lee (detail)
2006
Acrylic
and ink
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Partners in Paint: Frances Hodgkins and DK Richmond at Home and Abroad
Starting Date: Saturday, 29 April 2006
Finishing Date: Sunday, 29 October 2006
It is in words and paint that the relationship between Frances Hodgkins and Dorothy Kate Richmond is so vividly caught. They travelled and lived together much of the time they were abroad between 1901 and 1903. Together they captured the quaint, romantic scenes of medieval market places, the cathedrals, the bridges, the sights, the sounds, the people, and in New Zealand, particularly, the Maori.
This exhibition, curated by Dr Joanna Drayton, celebrates this colourful time in their creative careers when they forged the pattern of their future lives as artists and women.
A Dunedin Public Art Gallery exhibition.
Frances Hodgkins
Market Place, France
1903
Watercolour
Collection Dunedin Public Art Gallery
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Jude Rae: Victoria Chambers
Starting Date: Saturday, 10 June 2006
Finishing Date: Sunday, 3 September 2006
Each year, the Visiting Artists Programme brings one New Zealand and one international artist to Dunedin to create a new body of work. The latest visitor is Jude Rae, an artist based in Canberra and renowned for her still-life and portrait paintings. Closing focus on familiar and ordinary objects, Rae creates extraordinary meditations on perception, stillness, and painting’s powers of illusion.
A Dunedin Public Art Gallery exhibition.
Jude Rae
From the series
Victoria Chambers
2006
Charcoal on paper
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The Op Shop
Starting Date: Saturday, 10 June 2006
Finishing Date: Sunday, 17 September 2006
Bringing heat and light to the foyer spaces in mid-winter, the artists in Op Shop reclaim and redeem the kinds of objects found in Dunedin’s opportunity shops. From old 45rpm records transformed into a wall of pulsing abstract paintings to a cheap ceramic ornament remade as a high-gloss monument, these artworks connect the op shop to other forms of ‘op’ – opulence, Pop, and Optical art.
The show encompasses two wall-works by Judy Darragh and Sara Hughes and further works by Michael Morley, Reuben Paterson, Scott Eady,
Jay Robert Hutchinson and Rachel Easting.
A Dunedin Public Art Gallery exhibition.
Reuben Paterson
Memories of the Future
2005
35 pairs of shoes, glitter
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Rohan Wealleans: Tatunka
Starting Date: Saturday, 27 May 2006
Finishing Date: Sunday, 6 August 2006
Rohan Wealleans is already well known to Dunedin gallery-goers for his exhibitions The Fluoro Rider and In the Shadow of the Beast at local galleries in 2005. Occupying the Dunedin Public Art Gallery's largest gallery space, Tatunka is the major outcome of this painter's year as Frances Hodgkins Fellow at the University of Otago. Including two enormous freestanding 'dream catchers' and a vast, hanging, sci-fi cocoon, Wealleans’ new works are at once colossal and intricate, gruesome and beautiful.
A Dunedin Public Art Gallery exhibition.
Rohan Wealleans
The Blue Brain (detail)
2005
Polystyrene, fibreglass
and paint
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Fiona Clark: Go Girl
Starting Date: Saturday, 27 May 2006
Finishing Date: Sunday, 6 August 2006
Go Girl is a major project for Taranaki based artist Fiona Clark, one of New Zealand’s most accomplished photographic artists. Comparing and contrasting New Zealand of the 1970s with the New Zealand of today, the exhibition tells a story of gender and identity over a 30-year period. It documents the coming out of the homosexual, lesbian and transgender community within mainstream culture. The story also provides rare insights into the birth of performance art in New Zealand and the emergence of photography as a serious art form in this country.
Fiona Clark
Tina de Malmanche at Gay Lib Dance, Auckland
1974
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Jeffrey Harris: The Melbourne Drawings
Starting Date: Saturday, 11 February 2006
Finishing Date: Sunday, 4 June 2006
The first New Zealand showing of a major new acquisition. Made by an artist famed for his pencil drawings, this 32-part series is a visual story of love and separation, a whirlwind of graphic invention. The series, made in 1986, opens with drawings that recall Harris’s fine-lined 1970s works. The closing images, stark and gestural, anticipate the bold strokes of his abstract drawings from the 1990s.
Jeffrey Harris
The Melbourne Drawings (detail)
1986
Pencil on paper
Collection Dunedin Public Art Gallery
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Handboek: Ans Westra Photographs
Starting Date: Saturday, 18 February 2006
Finishing Date: Monday, 15 May 2006
Ans Westra is one of New Zealand’s most celebrated photographers, with a career spanning almost 50 years. She is known particularly for her photographs of Mäori, the 1970s counterculture and protest action in general. Handboek is a large-scale survey exhibition of her work.
Handboek: Ans Westra Photographs is based on the Alexander Turnbull Library collections and has been organised by BWX (Blair Wakefield Exhibitions) in association with the National Library Gallery.
Arns Westra
Opening of meeting house, ‘Arohanui Ki Te tangata’, Waiwhetu marae (detail)
September 1960
Photograph
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Kerrie Poliness: Black 0 Wall Drawings 1-6
Starting Date: Monday, 20 February 2006
Finishing Date: Sunday, 7 May 2006
An optically dazzling installation of six enormous wall drawings by Melbourne artist Kerrie Poliness, from the loan collection of Jim Barr and Mary Barr. Unlike the artworks in most art collections, Poliness's Black O Wall Drawings have no permanent existence as objects. Each drawing here gives new life to plans that are stored in a box. Resembling webs, mathematical diagrams, or vast string games, the drawings flex and warp with each new outing according to size of the wall and the choices made by the person that executes them.
A Dunedin Public Art Gallery exhibition.
Kerrie Poliness
Black O Wall Drawing 6
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Free For All
Starting Date: Saturday, 29 April 2006
Finishing Date: Sunday, 14 May 2006
Your art on our walls!
It’s been ten years since the Dunedin Public Art Gallery relocated to the Octagon and to celebrate this anniversary, we’re inviting the people of Dunedin to contribute to an evolving artwork on the walls of the Port Otago Gallery from 29 April - 6 May.
We will provide paint, brushes and enough wall space for everyone to get their art on the walls of the Dunedin Public Art Gallery.
The resulting artworks will be on view from 7 May – 14 May.
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Tall Tales and History Lessons
Starting Date: Saturday, 20 May 2006
Finishing Date: Sunday, 24 September 2006
The past is a foreign country, and many New Zealand artists have taken trips there in the last decade.
This exhibition showcases artists who have updated and energised the old genre of 'History painting'. Instead of enshrining the noble deeds of leaders and royalty, these artists dwell on little-known ancestors, ominous souvenirs and all manner of odd cultural collision.
The show includes Jason Greig, Bill Hammond, Saskia Leek, Kathryn Madill, Seraphine Pick and Michael Shepherd.
A Dunedin Public Art Gallery exhibition.
Micheal Parekowhai
The Barefoot Potter Boy’s Brigade
1999
Stuffed rabbits and woven material
Jim Barr and Mary Barr Collection
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Judy Darragh: Frozen Flood
Starting Date: Saturday, 22 April 2006
Finishing Date: Sunday, 13 August 2006
Auckland-based but nationally renowned, Judy Darragh came to Dunedin to take on all 161 square metres of the Big Wall.
Darragh has let loose a ‘frozen flood’ of extraordinary substances and high-intensity colours – a cascade of expanded foam coated with fluoro paint.
A Dunedin Public Art Gallery exhibition.
Judy Darragh
Frozen Flood
2006
Installation detail
Dunedin Public Art Gallery
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Frances Hodgkins: Leitmotif
Starting Date: Saturday, 3 June 2006
Finishing Date: Sunday, 15 October 2006
Frances Hodgkins (1869-1947) used recurring motifs in much of her work, particularly her still lifes. Favourite jugs, bowls, plants and pieces of fabric appear again and again, in some instances with only slight changes in composition; yet such is Hodgkins' skill that each work has a form and charm of its own.
The works are from from collections around the country, some of which are relatively unknown.
An Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki touring exhibition. With the support of Lottery Grants Board, Creative New Zealand and Singapore Airlines.
Frances Hodgkins
Elsie Barling (detail)
1931
Pencil
Collection Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki.
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Michael Smither: The Wonder Years
Starting Date: Saturday, 24 June 2006
Finishing Date: Sunday, 10 September 2006
Michael Smither is one of New Zealand’s most renowned and respected artists. His painting is often deeply personal and autobiographical, delving into the domestic landscapes and outside environments of his daily life. Michael Smither: The Wonder Years – the first major exhibition of his work since 1984 – focuses on the incredibly productive period between 1962–1979 when the artist was living in his home town of New Plymouth.
An Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki touring exhibition.
Michael Smither
Harry, Thomas and Sarah at Patearoa, Otago (detail)
1969
Oil on board
Collection Dunedin Public Art Gallery
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War and Peace: From the Dunedin Public Art Gallery Collection
Starting Date: Saturday, 8 April 2006
Finishing Date: Sunday, 25 February 2007
This thematic exhibition, curated by Peter Stupples, contrasts images that reflect peace, harmony and the good life with those related to war, violence, and death. It includes works by Ralph Hotere, Grahame Sydney, Barry Cleavin, Peter Roche and Andrew Drummond, as well as a rich collection of William Reed's chronicle of war in the Pacific in the 1940s.
A Dunedin Public Art Gallery exhibition.
Ralph Hotere
Oputae, Blue Gums and Daisies Falling (detail)
1989
Blowtorch on corrugated stainless steel
Collection Dunedin Public Art Gallery
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Zero
Starting Date: Friday, 22 September 2006
Finishing Date: Sunday, 12 November 2006
Zero brings together bodies of work by New Zealand and Australian photographers that explore notions of presence and absence. By juxtaposing works from either side of the Tasman, statements about post-colonialism, genetic and material heritage, the extraordinary and the everyday appear like watermarks underlying images that can be almost distractingly beautiful.
Supported by the Otago Polytechnic, Dunedin City Council, Zonta Club of Metropolitan Dunedin, Community Trust of Otago, Sargood Bequest.
Anne Ferran
Twice Removed: Kaylene at Phoenix Park
2004
Inkjet print
Courtesy Stills Gallery, Sydney and Sutton Gallery, Melbourne
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Chenrezig Sand Mandala: Buddha's Compassion Manifested
Starting Date: Thursday, 21 September 2006
Finishing Date: Sunday, 15 October 2006
An ephemeral work of art made by hand from naturally-coloured fine sands imported from India. The intricate circular pattern of a mandala represents the abode of a Buddha and incorporates all known aspects of reality to reflect the Buddha's omniscience.
The production of the mandala is the result of a collaborative effort of the Dunedin Public Art Gallery and Dhargyey Buddhist Centre of Dunedin.
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Chiho Aoshima: City Glow
Starting Date: Saturday, 30 September 2006
Finishing Date: Sunday, 3 December 2006
Japanese artist Chiho Aoshima’s large-scale digital murals portray otherworldly landscapes richly detailed with candy-colored flora and fauna. City Glow is a multi-panel graphic work in which futuristic skyscrapers – transformed into demure, humanlike creatures – stand amidst lush tropical vegetation.
Courtesy of Starkwhite Gallery, Auckland in association with Kaikai Kiki, New York and Blum & Poe, Los Angeles.
Chiho Aoshima
Still from City Glow
7 minute animation (5 DVDs)
Courtesy of the artist and Blum & Poe, Los Angeles
Collaboration with animation designer Bruce Ferguson
©2005 Chiho Aoshima/Kaikai Kiki Co., Ltd.
All Rights Reserved.
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Pae White: Going Up?
Starting Date: Saturday, 26 August 2006
Finishing Date: Friday, 1 December 2006
Los Angeles artist Pae White is renowned for a body of work that encompasses colossal mobiles, innovative book design, shimmering floor-pieces, and public sculptures that leap the gap between form and function.
It also includes works like Going Up?, White's mural for the Big Wall. The words 'Black Cherry Juice' describe a homemade remedy for depression. Rendered seven metres high and in interpetrating layers of colour, the words become expansive and even hallucinatory — language with a lift.
Pae White
Going Up?
2006
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Frances Hodgkins and Edith Collier: The Lessons of St. Ives
Starting Date: Friday, 17 November 2006
Finishing Date: Tuesday, 10 April 2007
Frances Hodgkins is widely known as a modernist painter, but she was also an outstanding teacher. At St Ives in 1920, she wrote of her student Edith Collier's progress and potential: "I have one very bright N. Zealander, from Wanganui, Collier by name - who is coming on wonderfully I’ll make something of her I feel sure". Hodgkins and Collier shared similar aims and ideas and this is apparent in the parallels that can be made between their paintings and drawings.
A Dunedin Public Art Gallery exhibition.
Frances Hodgkins
Breton Woman and Child
1923
Gouche on cardboard
Collection Dunedin Public Art Gallery
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