2001 » city gallery

John Drawbridge: Wide Open Interior

7 December 2001 - 10 February 2002 / Entire

Drawbridge is the first exhibition to present this John Drawbridge's paintings and prints on a major scale. It features 20 major oil paintings and over 50 etchings, watercolours and works on paper. Investigations are underway to include works by European Masters such as Picasso and Malevich which have inspired Drawbridge’s artistic practice.

Good Work: The Jim Barr and Mary Barr Collection

2 November 2001 - 27 January 2002 / Entire

Fresh, lively, bold and contentious, the collection of Wellingtonian's Jim Barr and Mary Barr offers a crucial graph of the life of New Zealand art in the last three decades, and a provocative account of where the good work is right now.

Techno Maori: Maori Art in the Digital Age

28 September - 2 December 2001 / Entire

Techno Māori—Māori Art in the Digital Age brings together work by fifteen contemporary Māori artists, expressing the diverse ways in which they are utilising or inspired by digital technology in their use of traditional, modern and contemporary media. Exploring the cultural opportunities opened up by technology, the exhibition is held concurrently at City Gallery Wellington and Pataka Porirua Museum of Arts and Cultures. A CD-ROM acts as shared third virtual exhibition space binding together the two physical spaces of the exhibition.

Toyo Ito: Blurring Architecture

21 September - 2 December 2001 / Entire

Blurring Architecture is an exhibition of work by celebrated Japanese architect Toyo Ito who since the mid-1970s has become one of the world’s most innovative and influential architects.

Behind the Curtain: Photographs of the sex industry by Ans Westra

21 September - 28 October 2001 / Entire

Ans Westra is one of New Zealand's most significant documentary photographers whose work was brought into the public eye in 1964 with the Department of Education's publication Washday at the Pa in which Westra photographed an East Coast Māori family living in rural poverty. Since then she has continued to explore aspects of New Zealand society which many people would prefer to ignore.

Erika: A Portrait by Peter Peryer

13 July - 16 September 2001 / Entire

This exhibition presents images from the one of the most sustained and fascinating episodes of portraiture in New Zealand photography. In the late ‘70s and early ‘80s, renowned photographer Peter Peryer made numerous emotionally charged images of his wife Erika—the exhibition presents this photographic essay for the first time.

A Tourist in Paradise Lost: The Art of Michael Illingworth

13 July - 28 October 2001 / Entire

The late Michael Illingworth is something of an enigma: a well-respected modernist painter about whom very little is known or recorded. Although Illingworth's emblematic figurative paintings are featured in all major New Zealand public art collections, and have been collected by many private patrons, until now there has been no published research on his work. This City Gallery Wellington initiated exhibition is the first thorough examination of Illingworth's oeuvre; long overdue, and it will fill a gap in New Zealand art history.

Gavin Hipkins: The Homely

7 July - 16 September 2001 / Entire

This artist’s project initiated by City Gallery Wellington, will show recent photographic work by Wellington-based artist, Gavin Hipkins. Exhibiting regularly throughout New Zealand and internationally, Hipkins has emerged in the 1990s as one of New Zealand’s foremost young photographers. He was included in the Sydney Biennale of 1998 and in Arte 2000, 16 artists from 16 countries in Turin, Italy.

Rita Angus: Paint to Live and Live to Paint

7 July - 16 September 2001 / Entire

This exhibition examines the work of major modernist painter Rita Angus, whose work has not been the subject of a major exhibition since 1982. The exhibition explores four aspects of Angus’s oeuvre: three were initiated and exhibited at the Hocken Library, Dunedin, and the fourth has been specifically curated for City Gallery Wellington.

Prospect 2001

11 April - 1 July 2001 / Entire

The exhibition samples some of the highlights of recent art making in New Zealand. Its aim is to reflect the character of New Zealand creativity, and to capture the spirit of the moment in artworks which both reveal and critique the complexity of the times we live in.

Home and Away: Recent Acquisitions from the Chartwell Collection

3 February - 31 March 2001 / Entire

Founded in 1974 by Hamilton businessman Robert Gardiner, the Chartwell Trust is dedicated to the purchase and presentation of challenging contemporary art which reflects the innate qualities of culture and environment in Australia and New Zealand. This collection of over 600 works is now administered by Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki, with Home and Away being the first substantial exhibition drawn from the collection since 1991, and the first to tour extensively.

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