Current Exhibitions
Closing Dates
CAMPBELL PATTERSON
call sick
Some days the desire to escape is overwhelming. Swaddled in your bed sheets, all responsibilities muffled by their softness, the prospect of writing off the day is a sweet surrender.
In this exhib... Read More
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October
October
EVE ARMSTRONG
China and Hardware
Eve Armstrong is an artist based in Wellington, who graduated from Elam School of Fine Arts in 2003. Her art practice is concerned with ‘extending, adapting, assisting and facilitating e... Read More
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October
October
SOMEWHERE UP COUNTRY
Landscapes from the Collection
In the hierarchy of painting genres formalised by the European academies of the 17th and 18th centuries, landscape hovered some-where in the middle – outranking the still life but eclipsed by... Read More
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October
October
BY PURCHASE, GIFT OR BEQUEST
Works from the Collection
The Dunedin Public Art Gallery collection was founded in 1884, borne from a desire to create a significant art collection for the city of Dunedin. From the beginning, the Gallery aspired to c... Read More
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October
October
MARIE SHANNON
Rooms found only in the home
Sensitive, authentic and funny, Marie Shannon’s photography and video works present contemporary art as an intimate and immediate occupation. Her work casts light across what it means to make... Read More
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October
October
LOVELINESS EXTREME
Curated by Lucinda Bennett
Sentimentality is a word which not only describes feelings of tenderness, sadness or nostalgia but suggests an excess of these feelings – an overindulgence in their affect.
Formed arou... Read More
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October
October
FRANCIS UPRITCHARD
Jealous Saboteurs
In 1998 – freshly graduated from Ilam School of Fine Arts in Christchurch – Francis Upritchard headed to London. There, she would become one of New Zealand’s most successful arti... Read More
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November
November
SHANNON NOVAK
The Expanded Gallery
In The Expanded Gallery, Shannon Novak explores the potential to extend his work beyond the physical boundaries of the gallery. Expanding from the gallery walls into a range of physical and digital re... Read More
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April
April
ANDREW BARBER
Folly (stone carpet)
In this site-specific floor painting, Andrew Barber reclaims the floor as a legitimate site for contemporary art. Folly (stone carpet) taps into an historic vein of decorative approaches to flooring a... Read More
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December
December
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