Dunedin Arts and Cultural Events
October 2005 to November 2005
Following is a schedule of confirmed events in the City of Dunedin. The Dunedin City Council (DCC) City Marketing distributes the information on behalf of the attractions that appear below. Please contact event organisers directly for further information and confirmation of dates and times.
October 2005
Blue Oyster
Ina Johann - Trans
Painting, drawing, three dimensional works, and time based media: all are fused in their interest, presenting the viewer with an experience of imagery based on observation in transit. Instead of wanting to perfect the view, Johann treats the process of recording as an analogue to human memory with its contingent, shifting and subjective viewpoints. In this body of work she uses light as an infusing medium that permeates first her layered imagery and then the darkened space of the gallery, providing an intimacy that can also be slightly intimidating. A series of three-dimensional light works situates the viewer among shifting landscapes of image and information, somewhere in between decoding and encoding. Here observation is melded to object in an unstable amalgam, discrete pieces seem infused with tension, like moments paused in the recording process, rigid forms poised for the change which the presence of the viewer alone can catalyse. The video piece shown in the dark gallery, a collaboration between Johann, writer Sally McIntyre, and composer Ryan Smith expands on these ideas, to see a flow of information interrupted with shards and stutters. The structure of the piece isn’t linear but accumulative and musical, progressing in the refrains of the writing, which are in turn fragmented by audio editing, seeding a stuttering through the piece at the point when the writing becomes voice. This is mirrored by the pixilated in-camera editing of the video, and the glitch based nature of the sound. This piece was born through a shared interest in audiovisual collaborations in live sound arenas, where, ideally, the meeting of music and visuals is dialectical and works from the structural level.
Runs until 1 October 2005
Blue Oyster Upper Gallery and Dark Side
Ana Terry - Terminal Eden
Dunedin artist Ana Terry has begun to establish a sculptural vocabulary that manipulates found objects to both enlarge and alter their associative presence. In this project she will be working with obsolescent technology that she has intercepted on its way to the dump, exploring and critiquing an increasingly insatiable and insanely unsustainable production and consumption of technology. Terry intends to rework the cast-off items manipulating their surfaces and interiors so that the objects are ‘reactivated to generate a sense of pathos’ with a beauty and superseded ugliness that may unplug perceptions. Terry’s Terminal Eden is a place where our desires are recognised, the lure of technology is acknowledged but the hardware may also have the power to interrupt our composure. Terry intends to ‘intimately tease out’ our individual response and responsibility within a much broader global process of western capitalism. She also proposes to work with video and audio in the project to develop the possibilities in the sculptural work.
Runs until 1 October 2005
Blue Oyster Lower Gallery
Robin Neate
Robin Neate intends to extrapolate from and build on a project that he showed as part of the Sampler Series at Physics Room in 2004. Neate explores things ‘uncool’, out of fashion, neglected, and handmade. Using and combining styles and conventions from the past the way other artists use found objects, he asks the question “…if by its own definition popular culture is already ‘known’… what is unpopular culture?” Neate proposes to build something large and amorphous that has its beginnings in modernist form but wilfully refuses to resolve in a way the moderns would have approved of. As he puts it, “it will appear as if it is assuming form but isn’t quite there yet.” This proposed amorphous sculpture that he imagines will dominate the gallery space has already been pre titled Hamlet as a way of layering a literary allusion onto the already intentionally murky aesthetic. He intends to flank Hamlet the sculpture with various paintings or photographs that pull in other quite specific artistic and literary references, chosen for intuitive reasons and presented in a ‘pseudo biographical fashion’. Another element Neate wants to introduce is a bar leaner, placed conveniently for any visitor to while away the hours and miss opportunity after opportunity as they contemplate the themes of Hamlet. In the artist’s own words, “hopefully, somewhere along the line, I manage to transform these points of departure into renewed forms of expression.”
4 - 22 October 2005
Blue Oyster Lower Gallery
Lynn Plummer, Rodney Browne and Kushana Bush - Body/Space/Ritual; Texts
Three Dunedin artists Lynn Plummer, Rodney Browne and Kushana Bush ask: what do we reveal that is not conscious or rational in the interrelationship between Body, Space and Ritual and what diverse Texts might result from this interaction. The task is to acknowledge the influences underpinning our enmeshment with ritual and space, which is governed by our understanding of ourselves through the complex concepts of the private and the public body. Each artist engages with one of the paradigms of the conceptual triangle, while still considering the other two. Thus a text spreads from each model, into the space and shapes multiple readings. Rodney Browne’s ephemeral installation plays with perceptions of space. Ritual-type structures delineate the body in space, while lyrically extending its presence beyond into a sense of the contemplative space. Lyn Plummer’s small sculptural installation comments on rituals connecting land and body marking to a space defined by ‘the sense of place’, developed from insights from Arnhemland Australia, and Papua New Guinea. Kushana Bush’s series of drawings focuses on the body in extension to interior space and private ritual. They confront domestic bodies fraught with dissonance and anxiety by depicting a private stage rife with erratic and often hyperbolic dramas.
4 - 22 October 2005
Blue
Oyster Upper Gallery
Nick Dewar - kkshshshhhhhhh
Multimedia artist Nick Dewar presents a body of work primarily about how humans construct much of their reality around information gathered from the readily available domestic transmitter of information - the television. Dewar’s ideas are informed by Noam Chomsky and Edward S Herman, considering television as a form or social conditioning or formatting that is both cynically manipulated and manipulative. The work will consist of digital work that uses static, white noise and bad reception in order to coat the exhibition space in the familiar flickering that television offers. Other work will include a series of paintings on old school desk lids, a nostalgic reference to the early naïve assumptions about television as a way to discover and report the truth.
4 - 22 October 2005
Blue Oyster Dark Side
Jenny Gillam - In Dark Trees / August Moon
Wellington based Jenny Gillam displays work from an ongoing series developing a photographic investigation of post-colonial New Zealand. The work draws on cinematic aesthetics appropriated from the golden age of Hollywood and science fiction both contemporary and retro. The science fiction sources introduce an undercurrent of anxiety, a sensation of post apocalyptic shift away from New Zealand kitsch to something Gillam describes as ‘antipodean gothic.’ In this project wild New Zealand landscapes replace inherited European gothic iconography from traditions of psychological horror. Nature becomes an uncanny representation as a force beyond human control where a violent and repressed past returns to haunt the present.
25 October - 12 November 2005
Blue Oyster Upper Gallery
Andreas Pytlik - Green for NZ, Watching the Sea
German sculptor Andreas Pytlik uses the colour green as a vehicle for his ideas, which are located somewhere in a minimalist practice that is phenomenologically concerned… Or more clearly that he is interested in the associative power of a ‘simple’ unifying element such as a colour. His work takes the form of time based and social interactions as well as more traditionally defined static art gestures such as sculpture or painting. In all of his work he uses the colour as a place of transaction, where his respondent negotiates their own ground within the work. For Green for NZ, Watching the Sea Pytlik proposes to link two sites, the harbour and the gallery with an installation. He talks about changing an everyday item a few degrees by changing its colour. The item is a small dingy and the colour of course is green. The boat is the centre of the exhibition and combined with the other elements of the project brings another place-ness and refers to the idea of travel. Viewers are invitation to look out at different vistas and are offered the means to go there.
25 October - 12 November 2005
Blue Oyster Lower Gallery
Blue Oyster Gallery, Basement, Moray Chambers, 30 Moray Place, Dunedin
Contact for enquiries: Ali Bramwell, phone (03) 479 0197
Southern Sinfonia - East Meets West
Southern Sinfonia's 2005 season is set to finish on a high note on when Conductor Ryusuke Numajiri joins the Orchestra in East meets West. Held in association with Naylor Love, the concert will be part of Dunedin's Festival of Japan. Appropriately the first half of the programme includes works by Japan and New Zealand's best-known composers Toru Takemitsu and Douglas Lilburn. Takemitsu is arguably the most influential of all contemporary Japanese composers, and was instrumental in introducing Eastern and Western audiences to the music and sounds of each other's cultures. How Slow the Wind, inspired by the verse of Emily Dickinson is renowned as "a work of extraordinary beauty and timbral warmth". Lilburn is the father figure of orchestral music in New Zealand and Symphony No.1 is one of his best-known works. Also included in the programme is New Zealand composer Larry Pruden's evocative Harbour Nocturne. The evening will conclude with a rousing performance of the choral and orchestral masterpiece Requiem by Mozart, featuring the 2005 Lexus Song Quest winner Madeleine Pierard, and the combined City of Dunedin Choir and Auckland Choral Society.
1 October 2005, 8.00pm
Dunedin Town Hall, Moray Place, Dunedin
Contact for enquiries: Katie
Ellwood, phone (03) 477 5623 or email
sinfonia@earthlight.co.nz Regent Theatre - Legends Unleashed Legends Unleashed
features New Zealand’s international legends, Eddie Low,
Suzanne Prentice and John Grenell combining their vast
talents to perform their own songs together with the songs
and music of international legends including Roy Orbison,
Conway Twitty, Patsy Cline, Jim Reeves, Loretta Lynn and Ray
Charles. Legends Unleashed follows the recent successful
stage productions, Welcome to My World, the story of Jim
Reeves, featuring John Grenell, Sweet Dreams, the story of
Patsy Cline, featuring Suzanne Prentice and In Dreams, the
story of Roy Orbison, featuring Eddie Low. Legends
Unleashed will recreate the era of the American
entertainment superstars listed above in a stage
presentation created by the producers of Welcome to My
World, In Dreams and Sweet Dreams. International musicians
and back-up singers including Musical Director Davey Walker
from Vancouver and Lead Guitarist Glen Bain from Sydney will
accompany Eddie Low, Suzanne Prentice and John Grenell. 1
October 2005, 7.00pm The Regent Theatre, 17 The Octagon,
Dunedin Contact for bookings and enquiries: Regent Theatre
Ticketek, phone (03) 477 8597 Otago Museum 2005 Otago
Wildlife Photographer of the Year Competition Following
the success of this competition for the last five
consecutive years the Otago Museum, Natural History New
Zealand, Jonathan's Camera & Video and Nikon have come
together once again to bring this exciting photographic
opportunity to the community of Otago. This impressive
exhibition showcases the winners of the 2005 Otago Wildlife
Photography Competition. The categories are Plant, Animal
and Human Impact on the Natural Environment. These years'
entrants have once again highlighted the outstanding calibre
of amateur photographers in Otago. Don't miss your chance to
see their wonderful photographs! Runs until 2 October
2005 Nature Gallery Japanese Contemporary Clay
Work This exhibition showcases the work of Japanese
ceramic artists in this field. The distinctive,
individualistic works on display are both essentially
contemporary as well as reflective of age-old Japanese
sensibilities. Runs until 30 October 2005 People of the
World Gallery Kimono 2005 marks the 25th anniversary of
Dunedin’s sister-city relationship with Otaru, Japan. Otago
Museum is marking this anniversary with an exhibition of
Japanese Kimono. This beautiful exhibition of traditional
Japanese garments is bound to inspire. Runs until 29
January 2006 Special Exhibitions Gallery Shoji Hamada -
Japanese Master Potter Acknowledged as a leading figure in
the revival of Japanese craft pottery, Hamada was of
enormous influence on the ceramic arts worldwide. The
recipient of numerous cultural honours in Japan, England and
America, his visit to New Zealand in 1965 had a great impact
on our own studio ceramics. The Otago Museum exhibition
celebrates the 40th anniversary of Hamada’s visit to New
Zealand. It will include examples of his work from the
1920s through to the 1960s, borrowed from New Zealand public
institutions and private collectors for this purpose, as
well as items from the Otago Museum collection. Runs until
29 January 2006 Stairwell cases Guided Tours Take a
‘Highlights of the Museum’ guided tour and learn some inside
knowledge about various aspects that the Museum has on offer
and/or take a guided tour of ‘Southern Land, Southern
People’ and gain a greater understanding, of the Southern
region. ‘Highlights of the Museum’ guided tours are
available at 11.30am and ‘Southern Land, Southern People’
guided tours are available at 3.30pm (and other times by
prior arrangement). Ongoing Service - 11.30am & 3.30pm
daily Lunchtime Music A range of musicians will liven
up the atrium with live performances each week. This is now
a regular fixture but is subject to change according to
function demands. Museum Foyer, Fridays & Saturdays
between 12 noon & 1.30pm Discovery World Science
Shows These excellent shows are now run by the Museum’s
Science Communicators. Discovery World, Saturdays &
Sundays at 11.00am, 1.00pm & 3.00pm Gallery Talks Each
day, the Otago Museum Communicators present fascinating
15-minute gallery talks on objects or themes of particular
interest from the Museum's galleries. Ongoing Service,
2.00pm daily Search Centre Otago Museum’s Search Centre
research facility provides an inviting opportunity for
visitors to engage in further research on objects or themes
in the galleries of interest to them. It will also be the
first stop for the identification of items members of the
public bring into the Museum, a service that annually
attracts a huge number of objects or specimens. Well
resourced, with swift new computers, microscopes, modern
journals and a great variety of new books, the Search Centre
offers a variety of options for seeking further information.
Set in a comfortable and relaxing environment the Search
Centre is the perfect place in which to think, read, study,
or research. Ongoing Service Search Centre Weekend
Presentations The Museum’s Search Centre Communicators
have developed a series of Search Centre Weekend
Presentations designed to help familiarise people with the
excellent resources provided by this facility. Ongoing
Service, Weekends at 11.30am & 2.30pm Ongoing
Exhibitions The Museum’s timbered Victorian gallery, the
Animal Attic, houses an extensive collection of natural
history specimens from around the world, re-displayed as
they would have been in the late 1800s. A ‘museum within a
museum’, this gallery is unique in New Zealand. Explore the
Tangata Whenua Gallery with its impressive displays of Maori
Cultural artefacts, including a stunning collection of
Southern Maori material. The Pacific Culture Galleries
display outstanding collections from Polynesia and
Melanesia. People of the World has world archaeological
treasures including ancient Greek pottery; a mummy and other
fascinating artefacts from Ancient Egypt; a striking
collection of swords; exquisite decorative arts from Asia
and Europe and a superb array of costume and textiles. Walk
the length of the giant Fin Whale in the Maritime Gallery,
and then take in the intricate detail of a wealth of
nautical artefacts. Come face to face with the extinct giant
moa in the Extinction and Survival area and see one of the
few complete moa eggs in the world. Otago Museum, 419
Great King Street, Dunedin Contact for enquiries:
Annabelle Boelema, phone (03) 474 7474 ext 845,
www.otagomuseum.govt.nz
Milford Galleries
Dunedin Jon Tootill Homes, New Zealand homes, are once
again the subject of Jon Tootill's latest exhibition at
Milford Galleries Dunedin. The former Saatchi and Saatchi
creative director paints the houses we all grew up in - tidy
bungalows set in suburbia. Colour themes dominate and the
architectural quality of each of the houses is emphasised by
the elimination of detail. These paintings could be part of
building plans. It is a period of architecture some of us
wish to forget: aluminium windows, concrete steps, box
shapes. Easy, and cheap to build, these were the sixties
and seventies answer to homes for families when builders
designed homes and architects were to be avoided. This was
how we colonised the countryside, fulfilled the New Zealand
dream of home ownership and provided healthy, happy and safe
environments for families. It was the New Zealand paradise
we told ourselves - the quarter acre section - so much
better than the housing estates of England and the United
States, being built at the same time. Tootill was born in
Hamilton in 1951 and, between 1970-1971, attended the
Auckland Institute of Technology's School of Graphic Art. He
has regularly exhibited in New Zealand since 1978 and won
the Ida Eise Painting Award in 1988. He lives in Auckland
and has been painting full time since 1998. Runs until 5
October 2005 Scott McFarlane The latest works by Scott
McFarlane explore the overlap between intention and outcome,
paint and illusion, the psychological and the physical.
McFarlane paints about the memory of place as much as he
paints to explore what paint can do and how that medium
echoes the Otago landscapes that he describes. Within these
new paintings there is a pleasing duality composed of
Victorian nostalgia and earthy realism. This sensibility is
captured by the emblematic treatment of landscapes that are
heavy with timeless melancholy and stillness. It is captured
by the controlled rawness of the paint application and the
secondary colour palette, as if the artist has used the
earth itself. The chiaroscuro or distance between darkest
dark and lightest light is dramatic, and yet there is a calm
and meditative quality to each of these paintings. The
intensity and metaphysical beauty about the way McFarlane
describes dark, light, and shape, suits these southern
landscapes well. It resonates for many who know the gothic
beauty of the southern contrasts and the soaring dominance
of the landscape. 7 - 27 October 2005 Karl
Maughan Karl Maughan has come home. Back, living in
Auckland, after just over a decade in London, Karl and
family are enjoying New Zealand life. "It was something we
always were going to do and in the end it was 'why wait,
let's do it now,'" he says from his studio in Auckland. Not
that he has severed all connections with the UK, being still
very much in favour with the European art scene. He will
return for commissions, exhibitions and other projects he is
involved with. But his return to New Zealand will mean a
shift in his subject matter. Known for his large paintings
of English gardens, Maughan is now painting scenes from New
Zealand gardens, preparing for a major exhibition with
Milford Galleries Dunedin due to open in late October. Karl
Maughan was born in Wellington in 1964. He gained a
Bachelor of Fine Arts at Elam School of Fine Arts,
University of Auckland in 1986 and a Masters of Fine Arts in
1987 and has exhibited regularly since then. From 1994 he
was based in London and in 1997 was a finalist in the John
Moore Painting Award. His work is held in public and
private collections in New Zealand and the UK including the
Saatchi Gallery in London. In 1998 his massive six-panel
work 'A Clear Day' was installed in the Habitat store in
Chelsea, London. The work was bought by Te Papa in
2000. 29 October - 17 November 2005 Milford Galleries
Dunedin, 18 Dowling Street, Dunedin Contact for enquiries:
Karen Trebilcock, phone (03) 477 8275, email
karen@milfordhouse.co.nz
Globe Theatre - Twelfth
Night by William Shakespeare Orsino loves Olivia, who
loves Viola who loves Orsino. Confused? There's more in
this production of Shakespeare's best-loved work, which is
directed by Brian Beresford. Viola, who has disguised
herself as a man, following the shipwreck that landed her on
Orsino's alien shore, has an identical twin brother
(Shakespeare didn't know about genetics) who has apparently
been lost at sea during that same time but whose
reappearance provides opportunities for even more confusion
as he, unlike the disguised Viola, is far more responsive to
Olivia's passionate advances. 6 - 15 October 2005
(excluding 10 October) Globe Theatre, 104 London Street,
Dunedin Contact for bookings: Globe Theatre Box Office,
phone (03) 4773274 Contact for enquiries: Rosemary
Beresford, phone (03) 4797273 (day), (03) 4780248
(evening) University of Otago - Lunchtime Theatre: Bite
size Shows Lunchtime Theatre is celebrating its thirty
years innovation of Theatre Studies at the University of
Otago and has been pleasing audiences ever since its
conception. There are a huge variety of performance styles -
from improvised theatre to naturalistic plays, to simply the
most bizarre material encountered. Even More Lucky Dip
Theatre Showcasing the talents of THEA 312: Directing 2
students. A different selection each day from playwrights
around the world. Check posters, fliers and Critic for
details, or just come along and have a lucky dip... 6 & 7
October 2005, 1.00pm Collection Four weeks, a stage
and thousands of strange ways to communicate, cooperate and
collide. A devised collaborative production between Allen
Hall, his students and Wellington director Jade Eriksen.
13 & 14 October 2005, 1.00pm Allen Hall Theatre,
University of Otago, Union Street, Dunedin Contact for
enquiries: Fiona McLaughlin, phone (03) 479 8896 Fortune
Theatre - Alarms and Excursions This is the New Zealand
Premiere of the play written by Michael Frayn and directed
by Hilary Norris. Why does the photocopier hate you? A
farceur of unparalleled skill, the write of "Noises Off" has
created a comedy about the innumerable gadgets and vehicles
of miscommunication plaguing our modern world. Cell phones,
beepers, alarms and all manner of devices cause havoc in
eight miniature plays beginning with a dinner party of
disastrous proportions and building to a frenzied finale
involving the world's politest German tourist, 11 separate
pay phones and the answering machine from hell. 7 - 29
October 2005 Fortune Theatre, 231 Stuart Street,
Dunedin Contact for enquiries: Lisa Scott, phone (03) 477
1695 Contact for Bookings: Box Office, phone (03) 477
8323 Dunedin Public Art Gallery - Exhibitions Rebecca
Horn Dunedin is the only New Zealand venue for this
exhibition of sculptures, films and installations made by
one of Germany’s leading contemporary artists. 8 October
2005 - 31 January 2006 Maryrose Crook: Bringing all the
things that run Bringing all the things that run is a
suite of works by Dunedin painter and musician Maryrose
Crook. 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 Runs until 9 October 2005 Peter Robinson: VAP
2005/06 In the past two years, New Zealand artist Peter
Robinson has merged the comic and monstrous in a series of
impressive sculptures and ‘floorworks’. In this Visiting
Artists Project, Robinson extends his grotesques even more
energetically into three dimensions. Echoing the
welded-steel sculptures of Anthony Caro and the brooding
late paintings of Philip Guston, Robinson’s new creatures
stretch out on steel limbs and entangle gallery-goers in the
question of just what they are and do. Supported by
Creative NZ 15 October - 28 January 2006 Frances, France
and the French Frances, France and the French explores one
thread in Frances Hodgkins' 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. A
Dunedin Public Art Gallery exhibition Runs until 30
October 2005 Richard Killeen: Nature, Culture 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. Runs until 6 November
2005 Miyabi: Japanese Treasures from Dunedin
Collections The exhibition includes ceramics, netsuke and
other small sculptural objects, armour and swords, textiles
and woodblock prints. Runs until February 2006 Sara
Hughes: Love Me Tender Sara Hughes brings colour and life
to the Dunedin Public Art Gallery’s Otago Daily Times
Gallery with her distinctive variations on the Paisley
patterns that Scottish settlers brought to Dunedin. Cut from
pre-painted sheets of sticky vinyl, Hughes’ Paisley shapes
stretch and flex as if manipulated on a computer screen -
nineteenth century forms refreshed by twenty-first century
technology. A Dunedin Public Art Gallery
exhibition Ongoing Exhibition Dunedin Public Art
Gallery, 30 The Octagon, PO Box 5045, Dunedin Contact for
Exhibition enquiries: Tim Pollock, phone (03) 474
3243 Contact for Visitor Programme enquiries: Robyn
Notman, phone (03) 474 3258 New Zealand Symphony Orchestra
- Lion Foundation Mainland Tour 2005 Visiting guest
conductor Ramon Gamba presents a concert of great variety
from the nostalgia of the opening Folk Songs and charm of
Mozart’s concert - as performed by NZSO Principal Bassoonist
Preman Tilson, fresh back from his performance at the World
Expo in Aichi, Japan as part of the NZSO’s world Tour - to
the fizzy exuberance of Mendelssohn’s Italian Symphony.
There is also an appealing surprise in NZ composer Ross
Harris’s Song for Jonny! 10 October 2005, 7.30pm Dunedin
Town Hall, Moray Place, Dunedin Contact for bookings:
Regent Theatre Ticketek, phone (03) 477 8597 Contact for
enquiries: Hannah Evans, phone (04) 801 3833, 021 745 290,
email hannahe@nzso.co.nz
Dunedin Centre New Zealand
Symphony Orchestra Conducted by Rumon Gamba with Preman
Tilson on Bassoon, the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra
presents a programme including Britten’s Suite on
English Folk Tunes, Mozart’s Bassoon Concerto, Weber’s
Andante and Rondo ongarese, Ross Harris’ Music for Jonny and
Mendelssohn’s Symphony No 4 Italian. 10 October 2005,
7.30pm Dunedin Town Hall, Moray Place, Dunedin Contact
for enquiries: Regent Theatre Ticketek, phone (03) 477
8597 Contact for bookings: Regent Theatre Ticketek, phone
(03) 477 8597 Tichman-Bieler-Kliegel Piano
Trio Tichman-Bieler-Kliegel Piano Trio present a programme
including Beethoven’s Piano Trio in D, Opus 70 No 1 ‘The
Ghost’, Ravel’s Piano Trio in A minor (1915), and
Mendelssohn’s Piano Trio in C minor Opus 66. The Piano Trio
is comprised of Nina Tichman on piano, Ida Bieler on violin
and Maria Kliegal on cello. A graduate of the famous
Julliard School, Nina Tichman (piano) has won many
prestigious competitions and appears around the world as a
soloist with orchestras and in recital. In 2004 Nina was
invited to perform for the President of Germany. Ida Bieler
(violin), for many years a member of the Melos Quartet, is
in demand as a teacher and a judge at international master
classes and competitions. Maria Kliegel is one of the
leading cellists of the 21st Century. She plays the
legendary “Ex Gendron” cello made by Stradivarius in 1693.
For more than 30 years the cello was owned by Maurice
Gendron and was loaned to Maria by the Foundation for the
Arts and Culture of North Rhine Westphalia. 20 October
2005, 8.00pm Glenroy Auditorium, 1 Harrop Street,
Dunedin Contact for enquiries: Regent Theatre Ticketek,
phone (03) 477 8597 Contact for bookings: Regent Theatre
Ticketek, phone (03) 477 8597 Cleveland Living Arts
Centre Cleveland Art Awards Seeking to reflect the
diversity of the art process selected works represent
painting, photography, sculpture, textiles, ceramics and
everything in between. Artists from throughout the South
Island are represented and this year’s prize pool has
increased to $10,500. Runs until 23 October 2005 Fourth
Annual Children’s Art Exhibition Primary and Intermediate
Children are invited to respond each year to a theme; this
year it is “The many colours of nature: Celebrating the
Environment”. Each item of work is accompanied by a short
statement from each child. 31 October - 12 November
2005 Cleveland Living Arts Centre, First Floor, Dunedin
Railway Station, Dunedin Monday - Friday, 10.00am -
4.00pm; Saturday, 10.00am - 2.00pm Contact for enquiries:
Kari Morseth, phone (03) 477 7291 Dunedin Rhododendron
Festival The Dunedin Rhododendron Festival is an annual
four-day celebration that has become a much-enjoyed part of
the Dunedin spring calendar. 2005 marks the 22nd year of
the Dunedin Rhododendron Festival and looks set to be an
exciting event. The 2005 Dunedin Rhododendron Festival has
a strong focus on garden tours with a variety of tours on
offer. Please visit the website for more information
www.rhododunedin.co.nz
27 - 30 October
2005 Contact for enquiries: Victoria Bunton, phone (03)
474 5162 Dunedin Public Libraries Network Film
Screening: X-Force = The Science of Flight - A Natural
History New Zealand Production The Library is going to the
Movies! X Force - The Science of Flight explores the
science behind the adrenalin rush of this extreme discipline
and follows the epic flight by New Zealand paragliding pilot
Bryan Moore over the Southern Alps from Wanaka to the base
of Mt. Cook, New Zealand’s highest mountain. Exploring the
technical, physical and psychological demands of
cutting-edge paragliding exploration, The Science of Flight
captures the danger and exhilaration of flying high on a
single nylon wing. 27 October 2005, 10.30am & 5.30pm 4th
Floor, City Library, Moray Place, Dunedin Discovery Tours
Take a free tour of the City Library every Tuesday and
every last Saturday of the month. Tuesdays, 10.30am and
1.00pm. Last Saturday of the month, 2.00pm. Dunedin City
Library, Moray Place, Dunedin Stack Trek Tours Go where
few borrowers have gone before. Visit the City Library’s
basement area and find those long lost “oldies but goodies”
every last Saturday of the month. Last Saturday of the
month, 1.00pm Dunedin City Library, Moray Place,
Dunedin Contact for enquiries: Liz Knowles, phone (03) 474
3317, email lknowles@dcc.govt.nz Hocken Collections The
Medical Body Runs
until 5 November 2005 Terminus Terminus at the Hocken
looks at networks, relationships and the effects of
isolation, both positive and negative using the port as a
focus for the inquiry. Iain Cheesman is using a playful
moment of arrival that refers to both royal and alien
visitations. Australian based Neil Berecry Brown works in a
process oriented way and will be installing directly in the
gallery using elements that relate to flux and play of ideas
and people through a specific place like a working port,
maybe also like a working preschool. Ali Bramwell also uses
play and transport as a motif making reference to rail and
road transport networks in a kitset way, a bureaucrat with a
train set. All three have approached the project with an
underlying humour and irreverence. Terminus at the Hocken
is a gallery-based part of a larger project taking place in
October, Terminus 2005 curated and directed by Ali Bramwell,
which involves twenty plus artists from as far a field as
Britain. The larger public art project is taking place in
Nelson on Haulashore island and in Dunedin in and around the
inner harbour. The three artists showing at the Hocken will
also be making sited works at other locations. There is
another Terminus linked exhibition on at the Blue Oyster
Gallery during October Runs until 5 November 2005
Hocken Collections, University of Otago, 90 Anzac Avenue,
Dunedin Weekdays 9.30am - 5.00pm, Saturdays 9.00am -
12.00pm Contact for enquiries: Pennie Hunt, phone 479
5648 Otago Settlers Museum Vikings in our Midst - Nordic
Connections in Southern New Zealand Connections have been
forged between the people of the Nordic region and the
people of southern New Zealand for more than 150 years. The
story told in this exhibition begins with tales of Nordic
sailors and gold seekers and with the arrival of an
immigrant ship named Palmerston. Then in the 1920s and 1930s
it was visits by a fleet of Norwegian whaling ships hunting
in the icy waters of the Southern Ocean that added to our
connectedness. The post-World War Two era brought further
Nordic migrants and today the connections continue to be
fostered, thanks in part to a thriving community of
Scandinavian students. There are indeed Vikings in our
Midst. Runs until 13 November 2005 Dunedin’s War: The
wartime experiences of Dunedin people 1939-1945 On 15
August 1945 the greatest armed conflict in history finally
came to an end. For six long years the world had been
convulsed by war. Tens of millions of people had died. Vast
areas were devastated, entire countries in ruins. It might
seem that Dunedin was far away from the battlefields. This
exhibition is a tribute to the wartime generation whose
ranks are now thinning, It commemorates especially over 900
Dunedin citizens who went to war but never returned. “They
gave their tomorrow to give us our today”. Runs until 17
February 2006 Across the Ocean Waves What was it like
crossing the oceans to come here in a sailing ship? The
core of this new display is an accurate recreation of the
steerage quarters of an immigrant ship bound for Otago in
the days of sail. Visitors are welcome to climb into a bunk
or sit at the central table and imagine what life would have
been like cooped up for 100 or more days at sea. Short
video presentations bring the era to life. Death and
disaster, fun and romance, the misery of seasickness and the
excitement of arrival are all showcased. A baby dies,
fighting breaks out among the single girls, and there is
dancing and a stolen kisses. This is an interactive
exhibit, which will seize the imagination and transport you
back to the epic voyages made by Otago’s nineteenth century
ancestors. Participants can climb aboard and see for
themselves what the great migration was all about. Ongoing
Exhibition Appliance Emporium: Housekeeping Made
Easy Whenever you start to grumble about doing the chores,
spare a thought for how housekeeping was conducted in the
old days. There were no washing machines to load, set and
forget. No one-touch microwave cooking. Ironing likewise
was a dreaded chore that involved hours of intensive effort.
This exhibition takes a look at some of the housekeeping
devices used by Victorian housekeepers and the introduction
in the mid-twentieth century of some of those labour-saving
devices we now take for granted. An Otago Settlers Museum
exhibition Ongoing Exhibition On the Move: Road
Transport in Otago One hundred years ago Thomas Sullivan
invented the tea bag, Charles Menches invented the ice cream
cone and vehicles were becoming increasingly familiar sights
on Dunedin streets. To find out more about local motoring
and transportation milestones check out On the Move: Road
Transport in Otago - an exhibition of vehicles, photographs
and memorabilia recalling not only the dawn of motoring in
Otago but also the heydays of horse-drawn coaches and drays,
tramcars and cycles. Be sure not to miss a ride on the
penny-farthing. Ongoing Exhibition The Smith
Gallery The Otago Early Settlers Museum opened in 1908
with just one room for displays. Now known as the Smith
Gallery, it was a memorial to Otago’s Scottish pioneers.
Stern Presbyterian faces glowered down from rows of
photographic portraits amidst artefacts of daily life from
Otago’s early days. Today, the Smith Gallery emphasises the
importance of the Early Settlers in the story of Otago. The
portraits on the walls have been rearranged in order of
arrival; and a variety of furniture and other artefacts, all
drawn from the pre- gold rush era, add character to this
historic gallery. Ongoing Exhibition Otago Settlers
Museum - Visitor Programmes Walk The Inner City An
experienced guide will takes visitors on a 90-minute stroll
while experiencing the character, history and beauty of
Dunedin, New Zealand’s first great city. Enjoy this
wonderful insight into Dunedin’s architectural and social
past. Ongoing Service, 11.00am weekdays Visitor
Information Centre, The Octagon, Dunedin Introductory
Tours of the Museum Experience a guided tour of the Otago
Settlers Museum. Each tour lasts approximately 30
minutes. Ongoing Service, 11.00am weekdays (except public
holidays) Otago Settlers Museum, 31 Queens Gardens,
Dunedin Contact for Exhibition enquiries: Tim Pollock,
phone (03) 474 3242 Contact for Visitor Programme
enquiries: Robyn Notman, phone (03) 474 3258 November
2005 Cleveland Living Arts Centre Spinners and Weavers
of New Zealand New Zealand spinners and weavers show case
their talent in this touring exhibition. 1 - 12 November
2005 Continuum Satoko and Motoko Watanabe are mother
and daughter, both trained in Japan. Satoko's painting is
inseparable from her interest in children's art, which makes
her aware of life's depth and the mystery that exists before
words are formed. Her daughter Motoko, has lived in New
Zealand since 2000 and works in pastels, which she says have
a similar effect to traditional Japanese "rock paint". Both
are happy to be part of the continuum - of generations,
tradition, relationships and life. 8 - 19 November
2005 Fourth Annual Children’s Art Exhibition Primary
and Intermediate Children are invited to respond each year
to a theme; this year it is “The many colours of nature:
Celebrating the Environment”. A short statement accompanies
each item of work from each child. Runs until 12 November
2005 Kings Adult Art Students A popular group show
demonstrating the achievements of students from the full
time art course. Tutors of the group include print maker
Inge Doesburg. 16 - 26 November 2005 Lynette
Robb An exhibition of recent paintings from Cantabrian
artist Lynette Robb features with each room containing a
related series of paintings. 22 - 27 November 2005
Cleveland Living Arts Centre, First Floor, Dunedin
Railway Station, Dunedin. Monday - Friday, 10.00am -
4.00pm; Saturday, 10.00am - 2.00pm Contact for enquiries:
Kari Morseth, phone (03) 477 7291 Dunedin Public Libraries
Network Discovery Tours Take a free tour of the City
Library every Tuesday and every last Saturday of the
month. Ongoing Service - Tuesdays, 10.30am & 1.00pm; Last
Saturday of the month, 2.00pm. Dunedin City Library, Moray
Place, Dunedin Stack Trek Tours Go where few borrowers
have gone before. Visit the City Library’s basement area
and find those long lost “oldies but goodies” every last
Saturday of the month. Ongoing Service - Last Saturday of
the month, 1.00 pm Dunedin City Library, Moray Place,
Dunedin Contact for enquiries: Liz Knowles, phone (03) 474
3317, email lknowles@dcc.govt.nz
Fortune Theatre - Spreading
Out It is 25 years on and we revisit the characters of
Roger Hall's enormously successful "Middle Age Spread".
Colin and Elizabeth, now retired, proudly survey their
Central Otago vineyard from imported Javanese deckchairs.
Sipping their pinot noir as the sun sets, the serenity is
only marred by the gentle snores of their lay-about son.
With their daughter and granddaughter arriving to celebrate
the New Year, gatecrashers in the form of old neighbours Reg
and Isobel (in their gaudy mobile home) look to ruin all
best-laid plans and rout any noble new year's resolutions.
A comedy of bad manners, unexpected revelations and marital
discord oh goody! 4 November to 3 December 2005 Fortune
Theatre, 231 Stuart Street, Dunedin Contact for enquiries:
Lisa Scott, phone (03) 477 1695 Contact for Bookings: Box
Office, phone (03) 477 8323 Hocken Collections The
Medical Body Runs
until 5 November 2005 Terminus Terminus at the Hocken
looks at networks, relationships and the effects of
isolation, both positive and negative using the port as a
focus for the inquiry. Iain Cheesman is using a playful
moment of arrival that refers to both royal and alien
visitations. Australian based Neil Berecry Brown works in a
process oriented way and will be installing directly in the
gallery using elements that relate to flux and play of ideas
and people through a specific place like a working port,
maybe also like a working preschool. Ali Bramwell also uses
play and transport as a motif making reference to rail and
road transport networks in a kitset way, a bureaucrat with a
train set. All three have approached the project with an
underlying humour and irreverence. Terminus at the Hocken
is a gallery-based part of a larger project taking place in
October, Terminus 2005 curated and directed by Ali Bramwell,
which involves twenty plus artists from as far a field as
Britain. The larger public art project is taking place in
Nelson on Haulashore island and in Dunedin in and around the
inner harbour. The three artists showing at the Hocken will
also be making sited works at other locations. There is
another Terminus linked exhibition on at the Blue Oyster
Gallery during October Runs until 5 November 2005
Design History 12
November 2005 - 14 January 2006 Hocken Collections,
University of Otago, 90 Anzac Avenue, Dunedin Weekdays
9.30am - 5.00pm, Saturdays 9.00am - 12.00pm Contact for
enquiries: Pennie Hunt, phone 479 5648 Dunedin Public Art
Gallery - Exhibitions Richard Killeen: Nature,
Culture 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. Runs
until 6 November 2005 Rebecca Horn Dunedin is the
only New Zealand venue for this exhibition of sculptures,
films and installations made by one of Germany’s leading
contemporary artists. Runs until 31 January 2006 Miyabi:
Japanese Treasures from Dunedin Collections The exhibition
includes ceramics, netsuke and other small sculptural
objects, armour and swords, textiles and woodblock
prints. Runs until February 2006 Sara Hughes: Love Me
Tender Sara Hughes brings colour and life to the Dunedin
Public Art Gallery’s Otago Daily Times Gallery with her
distinctive variations on the Paisley patterns that Scottish
settlers brought to Dunedin. Cut from pre-painted sheets of
sticky vinyl, Hughes’ Paisley shapes stretch and flex as if
manipulated on a computer screen - nineteenth century forms
refreshed by twenty-first century technology. A Dunedin
Public Art Gallery exhibition Ongoing Exhibition Dunedin
Public Art Gallery, 30 The Octagon, PO Box 5045,
Dunedin Contact for Exhibition enquiries: Tim Pollock,
phone (03) 474 3243 Contact for Visitor Programme
enquiries: Robyn Notman, phone (03) 474 3258 Regent
Theatre - The Royal New Zealand Ballet - The
Nutcracker Featuring the Southern Sinfonia the Nutcracker
is just what the doctor ordered. Whirling snow imps and
tangoing tea ladies join the ever-enchanting Sugar Plum
Fairy in a festive treat for all the family. Choreographers
Gary Harris and Adam Burnett spin a dreamy confection of
classical dance to Tchaikovsky’s sumptuous score. Kristian
Fredrikson’s design is a Technicolor vision straight out of
Hollywood’s big studio era. 12 November 2005, 7.30pm and
13 November 2005, 2.30pm Regent Theatre, 17 The Octagon,
Dunedin Contact for enquiries: Regent Theatre Ticketek,
phone (03) 477 8597 Contact for bookings: Regent Theatre
Ticketek, phone (03) 477 8597 Blue Oyster Jenny Gillam -
In Dark Trees / August Moon Wellington based Jenny Gillam
displays work from an ongoing series developing a
photographic investigation of post-colonial New Zealand.
The work draws on cinematic aesthetics appropriated from the
golden age of Hollywood and science fiction both
contemporary and retro. The science fiction sources
introduce an undercurrent of anxiety, a sensation of post
apocalyptic shift away from New Zealand kitsch to something
Gillam describes as ‘antipodean gothic.’ In this project
wild New Zealand landscapes replace inherited European
gothic iconography from traditions of psychological horror.
Nature becomes an uncanny representation as a force beyond
human control where a violent and repressed past returns to
haunt the present. Runs until 12 November 2005 Blue
Oyster Upper Gallery Andreas Pytlik - Green for NZ,
Watching the Sea German sculptor Andreas Pytlik uses the
colour green as a vehicle for his ideas, which are located
somewhere in a minimalist practice that is
phenomenologically concerned… Or more clearly that he is
interested in the associative power of a ‘simple’ unifying
element such as a colour. His work takes the form of time
based and social interactions as well as more traditionally
defined static art gestures such as sculpture or painting.
In all of his work he uses the colour as a place of
transaction, where his respondent negotiates their own
ground within the work. For Green for NZ, Watching the Sea
Pytlik proposes to link two sites, the harbour and the
gallery with an installation. He talks about changing an
everyday item a few degrees by changing its colour. The
item is a small dingy and the colour of course is green. The
boat is the centre of the exhibition and combined with the
other elements of the project brings another place-ness and
refers to the idea of travel. Viewers are invitation to
look out at different vistas and are offered the means to go
there. Runs until 12 November 2005 Blue Oyster Lower
Gallery Paul Cullen - The Unreliability of Gravity Paul
Cullen’s project for Blue Oyster has the working title, The
Unreliability of Gravity, and represents a continuation of
his ongoing inquiries. Cullen sees this current project as
a model or diagram of the gallery as an impossible place
where gravity is suspended. Fundamentally his works are
like propositions, involving a kind of testing out of ideas
where the process of asking questions is more important than
locating answers. These propositional investigations
involve a testing (possibly) of objective knowledge through
the various means we employ to construct, arrange and
organise the physical world. As in his recent ‘antigravity
projects’ the installation will be located, in part at
least, on the gallery ceiling and supported by a
scaffold-like structure. The installation may include
rotating world globes, altered scale versions of
architectural models made from cardboard, tape, items of
partially dismantled furniture, ordinary objects,
models/elements reconstructed from previous temporary
‘antigravity’ installations and amateur light fittings.
Filling a room with such objects, pressed high up against
the ceiling, provides a prosaic - and absurd - alternative
means of achieving "anti-gravity". Cullen’s constructions
often strive towards pseudo-laboratory scenarios employing a
varied cast of items and staged processes with which to make
up his 'experimental' situations. 15 November - 3 December
2005 Blue Oyster Upper Gallery Diane Halstead Diane
Halstead began a project at the Blue Oyster in 2003 called
Mulatto - Bloodlines that explored her hybrid identity as a
New Zealander with mixed ethnicity. This new work proposes
to again use her own hybrid heritage as a starting point but
engages more specifically with the absences and lacunae in
her personal history. The project is a photographic record
of a search for identity clues, recording fragments that
might tell her something about who she is. She has begun
with a tactile and practical way that women have of holding
on to history, through textiles. The ‘clues’ that she has
begun photographing are brightly coloured patterns and
prints, literally closely observing and photographing
crudely repaired tears in the almost aggressively coloured
fabrics. Halstead discusses polarities, talking about
scarring and healing, horror and carnival. She is
deliberately playing out a marked ambiguity of feeling by
focussing on ruptures where she has torn the pattern herself
and then attempted a repair. She presents the following
quote from Homi K. Bhaba (1992) “This conflict of
pleasure/unpleasure, mastery/defense, knowledge/disavowal,
absence/presence, has a fundamental significance for
colonial discourse.” The project proposal is presented as
an active exploration that the artist expects will reflect
the conflicts within the process of searching more
accurately than it can present any newly found
identity. 15 November - 3 December 2005 Blue Oyster
Lower Gallery Blue Oyster Gallery, Basement, Moray
Chambers, 30 Moray Place, Dunedin Contact for enquiries:
Ali Bramwell, phone (03) 479 0197 Otago Settlers
Museum Vikings in our Midst - Nordic Connections in
Southern New Zealand Connections have been forged between
the people of the Nordic region and the people of southern
New Zealand for more than 150 years. The story told in this
exhibition begins with tales of Nordic sailors and gold
seekers and with the arrival of an immigrant ship named
Palmerston. Then in the 1920s and 1930s it was visits by a
fleet of Norwegian whaling ships hunting in the icy waters
of the Southern Ocean that added to our connectedness. The
post-World War Two era brought further Nordic migrants and
today the connections continue to be fostered, thanks in
part to a thriving community of Scandinavian students. There
are indeed Vikings in our Midst. Runs until 13 November
2005 Dunedin’s War: The wartime experiences of Dunedin
people 1939-1945 On 15 August 1945 the greatest armed
conflict in history finally came to an end. For six long
years the world had been convulsed by war. Tens of millions
of people had died. Vast areas were devastated, entire
countries in ruins. It might seem that Dunedin was far away
from the battlefields. This exhibition is a tribute to the
wartime generation whose ranks are now thinning, It
commemorates especially over 900 Dunedin citizens who went
to war but never returned. “They gave their tomorrow to give
us our today”. Runs until 17 February 2006 Across the
Ocean Waves What was it like crossing the oceans to come
here in a sailing ship? The core of this new display is an
accurate recreation of the steerage quarters of an immigrant
ship bound for Otago in the days of sail. Visitors are
welcome to climb into a bunk or sit at the central table and
imagine what life would have been like cooped up for 100 or
more days at sea. Short video presentations bring the era
to life. Death and disaster, fun and romance, the misery of
seasickness and the excitement of arrival are all showcased.
A baby dies, fighting breaks out among the single girls, and
there is dancing and a stolen kisses. This is an
interactive exhibit, which will seize the imagination and
transport you back to the epic voyages made by Otago’s
nineteenth century ancestors. Participants can climb aboard
and see for themselves what the great migration was all
about. Ongoing Exhibition Appliance Emporium:
Housekeeping Made Easy Whenever you start to grumble about
doing the chores, spare a thought for how housekeeping was
conducted in the old days. There were no washing machines to
load, set and forget. No one-touch microwave cooking.
Ironing likewise was a dreaded chore that involved hours of
intensive effort. This exhibition takes a look at some of
the housekeeping devices used by Victorian housekeepers and
the introduction in the mid-twentieth century of some of
those labour-saving devices we now take for granted. An
Otago Settlers Museum exhibition Ongoing Exhibition On
the Move: Road Transport in Otago One hundred years ago
Thomas Sullivan invented the tea bag, Charles Menches
invented the ice cream cone and vehicles were becoming
increasingly familiar sights on Dunedin streets. To find out
more about local motoring and transportation milestones
check out On the Move: Road Transport in Otago - an
exhibition of vehicles, photographs and memorabilia
recalling not only the dawn of motoring in Otago but also
the heydays of horse-drawn coaches and drays, tramcars and
cycles. Be sure not to miss a ride on the penny-farthing.
Ongoing Exhibition The Smith Gallery The Otago Early
Settlers Museum opened in 1908 with just one room for
displays. Now known as the Smith Gallery, it was a memorial
to Otago’s Scottish pioneers. Stern Presbyterian faces
glowered down from rows of photographic portraits amidst
artefacts of daily life from Otago’s early days. Today, the
Smith Gallery emphasises the importance of the Early
Settlers in the story of Otago. The portraits on the walls
have been rearranged in order of arrival; and a variety of
furniture and other artefacts, all drawn from the pre- gold
rush era, add character to this historic gallery. Ongoing
Exhibition Otago Settlers Museum - Visitor
Programmes Walk The Inner City An experienced guide will
takes visitors on a 90-minute stroll while experiencing the
character, history and beauty of Dunedin, New Zealand’s
first great city. Enjoy this wonderful insight into
Dunedin’s architectural and social past. Ongoing Service,
11.00am weekdays Visitor Information Centre, The Octagon,
Dunedin Introductory Tours of the Museum Experience a
guided tour of the Otago Settlers Museum. Each tour lasts
approximately 30 minutes. Ongoing Service, 11.00am
weekdays (except public holidays) Otago Settlers Museum,
31 Queens Gardens, Dunedin Contact for Exhibition
enquiries: Tim Pollock, phone (03) 474 3242 Contact for
Visitor Programme enquiries: Robyn Notman, phone (03) 474
3258 Milford Galleries Dunedin Karl Maughan Karl
Maughan has come home. Back, living in Auckland, after just
over a decade in London, Karl and family are enjoying New
Zealand life. "It was something we always were going to do
and in the end it was 'why wait, let's do it now,'" he says
from his studio in Auckland. Not that he has severed all
connections with the UK, being still very much in favour
with the European art scene. He will return for
commissions, exhibitions and other projects he is involved
with. But his return to New Zealand will mean a shift in
his subject matter. Known for his large paintings of
English gardens, Maughan is now painting scenes from New
Zealand gardens, preparing for a major exhibition with
Milford Galleries Dunedin due to open in late October. Karl
Maughan was born in Wellington in 1964. He gained a
Bachelor of Fine Arts at Elam School of Fine Arts,
University of Auckland in 1986 and a Masters of Fine Arts in
1987 and has exhibited regularly since then. From 1994 he
was based in London and in 1997 was a finalist in the John
Moore Painting Award. His work is held in public and
private collections in New Zealand and the UK including the
Saatchi Gallery in London. In 1998 his massive six-panel
work 'A Clear Day' was installed in the Habitat store in
Chelsea, London. Te Papa bought the work in 2000. Runs
until 16 November 2005 Neil Dawson Neil Dawson has
established an international reputation for his innovative
large-scale sculpture. In New Zealand he is most well known
for his work Ferns, installed in Wellington's Civic Square
in 1998 and Chalice, an 18m-high conical structure installed
in Christchurch's Cathedral Square in 2001. His 16.5 metre
high sculpture at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra,
to the Australians who served in Bomber Command in the
Second World War, was recently dedicated. In his exhibition
at Milford Galleries Dunedin there will be wall sculptures,
which will be landscape forms with architectural elements.
Dawson was born in Christchurch in 1948 where he still
lives. He holds a Diploma of Fine Arts (Hons) from
Canterbury University and a Graduate Diploma in Sculpture
from Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne. 18
November - 7 December 2005 Milford Galleries Dunedin, 18
Dowling Street, Dunedin Contact for enquiries: Karen
Trebilcock, phone (03) 477 8275, email
karen@milfordhouse.co.nz Otago Museum Kimono 2005
marks the 25th anniversary of Dunedin’s sister-city
relationship with Otaru, Japan. Otago Museum is marking
this anniversary with an exhibition of Japanese Kimono. This
beautiful exhibition of traditional Japanese garments is
bound to inspire. Runs until 29 January 2006 Special
Exhibitions Gallery Shoji Hamada - Japanese Master
Potter Acknowledged as a leading figure in the revival of
Japanese craft pottery, Hamada was of enormous influence on
the ceramic arts worldwide. The recipient of numerous
cultural honours in Japan, England and America, his visit to
New Zealand in 1965 had a great impact on our own studio
ceramics. The Otago Museum exhibition celebrates the 40th
anniversary of Hamada’s visit to New Zealand. It will
include examples of his work from the 1920s through to the
1960s, borrowed from New Zealand public institutions and
private collectors for this purpose, as well as items from
the Otago Museum collection. Runs until 29 January
2006 Stairwell cases Guided Tours Take a ‘Highlights
of the Museum’ guided tour and learn some inside knowledge
about various aspects that the Museum has on offer and/or
take a guided tour of ‘Southern Land, Southern People’ and
gain a greater understanding, of the Southern region.
‘Highlights of the Museum’ guided tours are available at
11.30am and ‘Southern Land, Southern People’ guided tours
are available at 3.30pm (and other times by prior
arrangement). Ongoing Service - 11.30am & 3.30pm daily
Lunchtime Music A range of musicians will liven up the
atrium with live performances each week. This is now a
regular fixture but is subject to change according to
function demands. Museum Foyer, Fridays & Saturdays
between 12 noon & 1.30pm Discovery World Science
Shows These excellent shows are now run by the Museum’s
Science Communicators. Discovery World, Saturdays &
Sundays at 11.00am, 1.00pm & 3.00pm Gallery Talks Each
day, the Otago Museum Communicators present fascinating
15-minute gallery talks on objects or themes of particular
interest from the Museum's galleries. Ongoing Service,
2.00pm daily Search Centre Otago Museum’s Search
Centre research facility provides an inviting opportunity
for visitors to engage in further research on objects or
themes in the galleries of interest to them. It will also
be the first stop for the identification of items members of
the public bring into the Museum, a service that annually
attracts a huge number of objects or specimens. Well
resourced, with swift new computers, microscopes, modern
journals and a great variety of new books, the Search Centre
offers a variety of options for seeking further information.
Set in a comfortable and relaxing environment the Search
Centre is the perfect place in which to think, read, study,
or research. Ongoing Service Search Centre Weekend
Presentations The Museum’s Search Centre Communicators
have developed a series of Search Centre Weekend
Presentations designed to help familiarise people with the
excellent resources provided by this facility. Ongoing
Service, Weekends at 11.30am & 2.30pm Ongoing
Exhibitions The Museum’s timbered Victorian gallery, the
Animal Attic, houses an extensive collection of natural
history specimens from around the world, re-displayed as
they would have been in the late 1800s. A ‘museum within a
museum’, this gallery is unique in New Zealand. Explore the
Tangata Whenua Gallery with its impressive displays of Maori
Cultural artefacts, including a stunning collection of
Southern Maori material. The Pacific Culture Galleries
display outstanding collections from Polynesia and
Melanesia. People of the World has world archaeological
treasures including ancient Greek pottery; a mummy and other
fascinating artefacts from Ancient Egypt; a striking
collection of swords; exquisite decorative arts from Asia
and Europe and a superb array of costume and textiles. Walk
the length of the giant Fin Whale in the Maritime Gallery,
and then take in the intricate detail of a wealth of
nautical artefacts. Come face to face with the extinct giant
moa in the Extinction and Survival area and see one of the
few complete moa eggs in the world. Otago Museum, 419
Great King Street, Dunedin Contact for enquiries:
Annabelle Boelema, phone (03) 474 7474 ext 845,
www.otagomuseum.govt.nz
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The Medical Body is an installation
exploring the ways that the body has been used as a teaching
tool at the Medical School, showcasing the anatomical
paintings of John Halliday Scott (1877-1914) and glassware
from the Department of Physiology. The exhibition is curated
by Pennie Hunt with artists Ana Terry and Don Hunter.
The Medical Body is an installation
exploring the ways that the body has been used as a teaching
tool at the Medical School, showcasing the anatomical
paintings of John Halliday Scott (1877-1914) and glassware
from the Department of Physiology. The exhibition is curated
by Pennie Hunt with artists Ana Terry and Don Hunter.
A Design History exhibition curated by
Design Studies students at the University of Otago.