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25/02/2025

Matthew Carter, Unscripted, on view through 11 March at Föenander Galleries in Tāmaki Makaurau

21/02/2025

Sandra Bushby features alongside Cindy Huang at Sumer’s Melbourne Art Fair booth, on view through Sunday 23 February
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19/02/2025

Harry Culy’s Untitled (Isla), 2022, featured in the recent Jhana Millers exhibition Summer Selection – Portraits

11/02/2025

Ngatai Taepa and Kim Ireland both feature in Tim Melville’s current group exhibition, He Waka Eke Noa, which runs though 15 March at the gallery.

05/02/2025

Judy Darragh, Forest of Dreams, on view at Two Rooms in Tāmaki Makaurau through 1 March

“Plastic chairs form skeletons for birds of a feather. Discarded hubcaps become bejewelled, redemptive bling rings. Treelike columns sprout plinth branches that support smaller works. Hands made from recycled wood seem to grasp for invisible tools or reach up towards the light. Much happens on the journey into Darragh’s forest, this hallucinatory walk on the wild side.”

04/02/2025

Treasures in the Landscape is an engaging Art-in-Nature experience, featuring 25 major works from The Arts House Trust collection at a temporary home within The Sculpture Park at Waitakaruru Arboretum ().

Many of the sculptures have not been seen by the public in years, and this exhibition offers a rare opportunity to encounter some of Aotearoa New Zealand’s best sculptors and the rich legacy they leave behind.

Visit our website for more details.

On view through 4 May.

Includes: Aaron Frater, Andrea du Chantenier, Andrew de Boer, Ben Robertson, Brett Graham, Brit Bunkley & Andrea Gardner, Clovis Viscoe, Greer Twiss, Hannah Kidd, Johnny Turner, Katherine Batchelor, Louise Purvis, Nic Moon, Pat Foster, Paul Dibble, Rebecca Moon, Richard Wedekind, Sam Ireland, Scott Eady, Stephen Woodward, Terry Stringer, Trish Clarke.

04/02/2025

Kirsten Roberts’ paintings depict ageless figures, suspended within obscure atmospheres. Her meticulous technique belies the underlying disquiet of her subjects, inviting viewers to reflect on the pursuit of perfection and the cycles of effort and exhaustion inherent in both art and life.

Roberts’ work features in Fix me to the world — alongside Jordan Barnes, Eleanor Diaz Ritson, Gary Freemantle, Turi Park, and Billy McQueen — at Webb’s Wellington, 18 February – 8 March.

04/02/2025

News: Ngaroma Riley wins the Molly Morpeth Canaday Award 2025, with a prize of $10,000.

The award, in its 39th year, seeks to highlight and celebrate excellence in contemporary art practice throughout Aotearoa New Zealand. The winners are selected by three preliminary judges—this year, Fiona Jack (Head of School, Elam), Elliot Collins (Artist, educator and winner of MMCA 2024) and James Gatt (Curator, Te Uru).

Ngaroma’s winning work Fisher/Kai hī ika made from tōtara, acrylic paint, bone, muka and tung oil, was chosen by Guest Judge Sonya Korohina (Director, Tauranga Art Gallery Toi Tauranga) as the winner from an impressive 528 entries nationwide. The 50 finalists are on view at Te Kōputu a te whanga a Toi – Whakatāne Library and Exhibition Centre.

Images by Claire House Photography:

A young gallery visitor sharing a gaze with MMCA 2025 Major Award winning work Fisher/Kai hī ika by Ngaroma Riley

Guest Judge Sonya Korohina, Craigs Investment Partners Youth Award winner Anoushka Coulter with her work Noxie; and Craigs Investment Partners representative Bridget Cummins

Sponsor Judy Lenne from 4ArtsSake Gallery enjoying finalist Janna van Hasselt’s ceramic work Rick

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04/02/2025

Dane Mitchell, Archive of Dust, Room 18, opens at Haydens in Naarm Melbourne this Friday and runs through 8 March.

The exhibition features new work stemming from a project the artist began in 2001, involving the ongoing collection of dust from museums and galleries around the world from which the artist cultures bacteria.

Dust contains all and everything, settling almost everywhere. It is a resident of every crevice and country and is made up of all things, both synthetic and natural. Occurring as a byproduct of all activity, it marks and attacks those zones and objects that appear inactive, defunct, resting, while simultaneously marking out the contact of an absence. Dust is a distinct paradox in the world of institutionalised history and serves as a record of all who come to visit art in its multifarious homes, for we all come from dust, and to dust we shall return.

The studious longevity of the artist’s accumulation of dust over nearly 25 years now contains samples from hundreds of institutions. For this new exhibition, the artist has focussed on dust collected in Room 18 at the British Museum, the current resting place of The Parthenon Marbles, alongside other related new work.

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04/02/2025

In Issue °204, Samuel Te Kani reviews Laurie Steer’s exhibition Meditations, which ran at Tim Melville, 20 September – 5 October 2024.

04/02/2025

Billy McQueen’s practice navigates the terrain between abstraction and narrative painting. His distinctive approach draws from photographic sources and imagery connected to his ancestral land in the Kaingaroa Plains, as well as referencing art history and the evocative potential of paint.

McQueen’s work features in Fix me to the world — alongside Jordan Barnes, Eleanor Diaz Ritson, Gary Freemantle, Turi Park, and Kirsten Roberts — at Webb’s Wellington, 18 February – 8 March.

03/02/2025

In Issue °204, Jess Clifford reviews Shireen Taweel’s exhibition 5364 nocturne, on view 5 October 2024 – 2 March 2025 at Dunedin Public Art Gallery

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03/02/2025

Emily Karaka features in the upcoming Hawai‘i Triennial 2025: ALOHA NŌ, curated by Wassan Al-Khudhairi, Binna Choi, and Noelle M.K.Y. Kahanu.

The event will take place at Bishop Museum, Honolulu, 15 February – 4 May 2025.

Image: Emily Karaka, Kohala, 2024, mixed media on unstretched canvas, 183 x 183 cm

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03/02/2025

Tawhai Rickard is one of ten Māori artists featured in He Waka Eke Noa, Tim Melville Gallery’s 200th exhibition, opening 7 February.

“At the opening of the Rugby World Cup in 1999 Hinewehi Mohi performed New Zealand’s national anthem in Te Reo Māori. She received huge backlash in the NZ press at the time but today, 25 years later, we are reminded how far our country has come when school-children sing the anthem as easily in Te Reo Māori as they do in Te Reo Pākehā.

As another Waitangi Day approaches, and as the NZ Justice Committee hears public submissions on the Government’s Treaty Principles Bill, the words of the late Ngāpuhi statesman, Sir James Henare, whisper in our ears:

‘You have come too far, not to go further. You have done too much, not to do more.’”

03/02/2025

Peter Gossage’s original illustration, How Maui Slowed The Sun (c1982), is included in Tohaina ō painga ki te ao / Share your gifts with the world — an exhibition by sisters Aroha, Ra, and Star Gossage at Page Galleries in Pōneke.

The exhibition runs through 22 February.

29/01/2025

Martin Creed, Like Favourite Socks in a Drawer, opens today at Michael Lett in Tāmaki Makaurau.

29/01/2025

In Issue °204, Jingcheng Zhao reviews Susu’s exhibition The call wind shapes the boat, which ran 25 October – 24 November 2024 at Blue Oyster in Dunedin.

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28/01/2025

The ocean connects us all. Our communities can be seen as waves, pushed by ‘storms’ far away to migrate as swells, and land on the shores of Aotearoa. Guy Howard-Smith’s father was born in India and is Anglo-Indian and his family came to Ponsonby in the late 1940s for new opportunities.

At the end of 2023 Howard-Smith travelled to Lucknow and Kolkata to take up a residency with the All-India Anglo-Indian Association. Whilst there, a chance encounter with the iconic Amar Chitra Katha historic comic series inspired Howard-Smith to replicate the spirit of one of these comics, focusing on the Eurasian community in India.

A rich food history, unique patois, and semi mythical origin stories of European ancestors are commonalities many Anglo-Indian families share. This exhibition aims to build on, and celebrate Anglo-Indian traditions, touching on ideas of nationhood and belonging which reach beyond the community.

Guy Howard-Smith, Big Sea, Small Waves, Homestead Galleries at Corban Estate Arts Centre, 15 February – 15 April.

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Listen to Sam Rowntree Williams discuss ‘Headlands’, the titular artwork in his current exhibition at Sumer in Tāmaki Makaurau. Rowntree’s works feature recurring characters, and often a central, solitary figure—possibly evoking Caspar David Friedrich’s romantic work Wanderer above the Sea of Fog (1818), albeit in cartoon form. The cartoon an abstraction, working to make the paintings less autobiographical, inviting viewers to project themselves into the role of the protagonist, and thus identifying more directly with the sentiments and situations depicted. @samrountreewilliams @sumer.nz

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“My personages are just going about their lives, having a go. If you see them as abject or ‘bad’, that is wholly your issue. It may be surprising, but there are many factors at play when making work: art history, personal history, and sometimes it’s about trying to move the work in a certain direction, and always struggling with materials and eradicating meaning. And always trying hard not to illustrate theory.” — Ronnie van Hout Read our full interview with van Hout on the website, where we speak to the artist about doubles, ‘bad’ dads and his new work at Melbourne Art Fair, exhibited with Darren Knight Gallery. @paulfosterpilot @darrenknightgallery @melbourneartfair

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