roundabout°

25 September 2010 - 16 January 2011 / Entire

Māori and Pacific artists are at the fore of the groundbreaking international art project roundabout, an exhibition of grand proportions featuring over a hundred works by artists from around the world, including work from India, China, South Korea, Thailand, Bhutan, Australia, Tibet and Japan.

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Ready to Roll

29 May - 12 September 2010 / North & South

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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John Pule - Hauaga (Arrivals)

29 May - 12 September 2010 / West & East

John Pule: Hauaga (Arrivals) was John Pule's first major solo exhibition in a public gallery. Pule is one of New Zealand’s most respected and important artists, and this exhibition was a landmark survey of his work.

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Seraphine Pick

20 February - 16 May 2010 / North & South

Seraphine Pick is one of New Zealand’s most highly regarded painters: her distinctive and imaginative practice has become increasingly familiar to many New Zealand audiences since the early 1990s.

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Trans-Form: The Abstract Art of Milan Mrkusich

20 February - 16 May 2010 / East

 Now in his early eighties, Milan Mrkusich is one of New Zealand’s leading artists investigating languages of abstraction.

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Janet Cardiff: The Forty-Part Motet

20 February - 16 May 2010 / West

Forty-Part Motet (2001) by Canadian artist Janet Cardiff is an immersive sculpturally-conceived sound piece, in which forty separately-recorded voices are played back through forty speakers. This staggering immersive installation is a reworking of Spem in Alium Nunquam Habui (1573) by Thomas Tallis, one of England’s most influential Renaissance composers.

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