City Gallery: Current & Forthcoming Exhibitions
Current & Forthcoming Exhibitions
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2001 – NEW ART NEW ZEALAND ART
12 April - 1 July
2001
www.newartnz.org.nz
This celebration of
contemporary New Zealand art will be the country’s first,
confirming City Gallery’s commitment to exploring new
directions in New Zealand art. Occupying the entire Gallery,
it brings together recent work by young artists and the work
of more senior practitioners completed within the past two
years. The exhibition showcases work in all media including
painting, sculpture, photography, installation, and moving
image. Initiated by the City Gallery and curated by Lara
Strongman, the show will facilitate the interaction and
debate essential to developing artistic practices.
RITA
ANGUS
7 July – 16 September 2001
The first exhibition
of Rita Angus’s work since 1982, featuring her self
portraiture; links with artists Lawrence Baigent and Leo
Bensemann; and a section entitled ‘Rita Angus’s Wellington’.
A touring exhibition from the Hocken Library, University of
Dunedin, accompanied by a publication co-produced by City
Gallery Wellington.
GAVIN HIPKINS – THE HOMELY
7 July
– 16 September 2001
A City Gallery Wellington artist’s
project of recent photography by Gavin Hipkins. One of New
Zealand’s foremost young photographers, Hipkins deals with
themes of nationhood(s), historical folklore and colonial
links to the British Empire.
ERIKA—A PORTRAIT BY PETER
PERYER
13 July – 16 September 2001
Renowned
photographer Peter Peryer made numerous emotionally charged
images of his wife Erika in the late ‘70s and early ‘80s.
This photographic essay, dating from one of the most
sustained and fascinating episodes of portraiture in New
Zealand photography, is presented for the first time in
Erika. A touring exhibition organised by the Dunedin Public
Art Gallery.
PARADISE LOST—THE ART OF MICHAEL
ILLINGWORTH
13 July – 28 October 2001
A timely survey
exhibition of an enigmatic, previously little-documented
artist. Michael Illingworth’s emblematic figurative
paintings, images of suburbia and the social context of his
work are explored in this exhibition, which is accompanied
by a publication.
360/Michael Hirschfeld Gallery
THE FEATHER TRADE: Denis O’Connor, 7 Found
Poems
30 March – 6 May 2001
Seven sculptural
wall-pieces by Denis O’Connor which draw on texts by writers
including Wellington’s James Brown, Andrew Johnston,
Elizabeth Knox, Bill Manhire and Vincent O’Sullivan. A
reading by writers featured in The Feather Trade will be
held on Sunday 29 April at 3pm.
WELLINGTON
PHOTOGRAPHERS
May 2001
A group exhibition of
Wellington photographers.
MICHAEL NICHOLSON
15 June –
15 July 2001
An installation by Michael Nicholson
including video work.
RATED
New Work by Wayne
Youle
20 July – 19 August 2001
Photography by emerging
artist Wayne Youle (Ngapuhi / Ngati Whakaeke) which tests
the limits of acceptable visual culture. (R18).
JULIET
PETER
24 August – 23 September 2001
Juliet Peter, a
friend of Rita Angus and contemporary of Janet Paul,
exhibits lithographs, paintings and illustrations from local
collections.
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