PAST EXHIBITIONS

Sometime later

Alice Baxter

3 Oct – 3 Nov 2012
2012

Sometime later explores an interest in how an art work can exist as myth or ritual. By delving into a very sited act, such as a pilgrimage to a monument, Baxter’s work investigates the function of our own investment into the notion of the ‘significant moment’.

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What Would I Do Without You

Daniel Betham

5 Sep – 29 Sep 2012
2012

For the exhibition What Would I Do Without You, Betham employs the medium of video to explore contemporary notions of spirituality and nihilism in a poetic and absurd fashion. The films rehearse contemporary rituals or ad hoc games performed in sporting arenas. These games are original attempts at spontaneous questing—for the moment of fulfillment—in a post-nihilist or neo-transcendental manner.

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For James Hansen's Grandchildren

Lance Cash

9 May – 2 Jun 2012
2012

Lance Cash's digital photographic works seek to explore ideas of dislocation, representation and mediation with strong ethical and environmental concerns framing the content. The exploration of these ideas and concerns seeks to raise questions about the ontology of photographic representation, practices of viewing and established relationships to the assumed real world.

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Illuminated

Jude Robertson

24 Apr – 5 May 2012
2012

Blending scientific enquiry, philosophic thought and everyday lived experience, Illuminated investigates the New Zealand terrain and landscape. Using recycled glass, the artist connects this work to the tangible matter of everyday life. Robertson's practice has long been involved with issues surrounding natural and imposed features in the landscape, Illuminated forms a response to the patterns that are formed by built structures of domestic life and the architectures of our day to day existence.

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The Chinese Horoscope Show

Andrew Beck, Caroline Anderson, Chris Lundquist, Eugenia Raskopoulos, Jordon Brethauer, Kate Woods, Liyen Chong, Murray Hewitt, Rachael Grandon, Ruth Thomas-Edmond, Sam Mitchell, Sheng Xiang Liao, Tiffany Singh

16 Feb – 10 Mar 2012
2012

Featuring a dozen international and New Zealand-based artists the show is an exploration of the Chinese Zodiac. Guest curated by Erica van Zon, the twelve contributing artists have been asked to consider and respond to their zodiac sign. The result is an eclectic range of work in various media that is both engaging and playful.

 

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Infinity Pool

Mei Ling Cooper, Melanie Bell

11 Aug – 5 Sep 2011
2011

Infinity Pool is an exhibition of paintings and sculptures, that considers the relationship between water and gesture through the simplicity of materials. Infinity Pool takes the ubiquitous resource of water as a starting point to examine monumentality as existing within everyday considerations.

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Aquarius, Pisces, Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricorn

Andrew Barber, Bek Coogan, Benjamin Buchanan, Caroline Johnston, Clara Chon, Fiona Jack, Janneke Raaphorst, Rachel Walters, Rob McHaffie, Tessa Laird, Victoria Munro, Sonya Lacey

26 Mar – 16 Apr 2011
2011

With various speculative interpretations surrounding 2012, and 2012 as the International Year of Astrology, the Horoscopes show, Aquarius, Pisces, Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricorn has been conceived of as a playful exploration of the Zodiac, with twelve artists responding to their sun sign.

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