The Nita Gini Collection is a singular and idiosyncratic response to the iconic Crown Lynn ceramics, using a brassy, mischievous and indomitably homemade aesthetic to consider objects we often call ‘precious’, in a new and extremely colourful light.
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Hirschfeld
The Nita Gini Collection: Lauren Lysaght
West & East
John Pule - Hauaga (Arrivals)
John Pule: Hauaga (Arrivals) is his first major solo exhibition in a public gallery. Pule is one of New Zealand’s most respected and important artists, and this exhibition promises to be a landmark survey of his work.
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Ready to Roll
The premise is simple – great art being made now by artists with a clear sense of direction and an individual voice. Recent work by contemporary artists based in New Zealand - Kushana Bush, Eddie Clemens, Elliot Collins, Matt Hunt, Richard Maloy, Campbell Patterson, Layla Rudneva-Mackay and Zina Swanson.
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Cerisse Palalagi: Motunei
Characterised by an impressive mastery of a wide array of print and mark making processes such as silk screening, photographic emulsions, hand painting and drawing, embroidery and photography, Cerisse Palalagi’s art merges hiapo practices with contemporary printing and portraiture.
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Art in The Auditorium
See contemporary video art from around the world as City Gallery takes part in the international Art in the Auditorium video art project.
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Rebecca Ann Hobbs
Explore the relationship between watcher and watched in Rebecca Ann Hobbs' video work Ah-round (2009), as the object of the camera's gaze actively ignores its attention. The work challenges the Romantic tradition’s conventional representation of a ‘Nobel Savage’ and exotic jungle setting.
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