2011 » city gallery

Robin White

6 August - 6 November 2011 / Hirschfeld

Robin White’s work often draws on her immediate environment, offering back her experience of a place, its people and culture in everyday, exquisitely articulated, terms.

Greg Semu

6 August - 6 November 2011 / Deane

As part of the wider Oceania project the Deane Gallery features a special solo exhibition by Greg Semu of the photographic series 'Battle of the Noble Savage'.

Oceania

6 August - 6 November 2011 / Entire

Oceania is a collaborative exhibition project which will be dramatically staged across Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa and City Gallery Wellington during the Real New Zealand Festival 2011.

Tender is the Night

7 May - 17 July 2011 / North , West & East

City Gallery’s new group exhibition Tender is the Night asks us all how it feels to fall in and fall out of love. The show brings together a selection of art works which explore the complex and intense nature of desire, love and the loss of a loved one.

Wayne Barrar: An Expanding Subterra

7 May - 17 July 2011 / South

An Expanding Subterra takes audiences into uncanny spaces where vast areas have been allocated for the storage of post capitalist materials like digital and analogue archives, film stock and nuclear waste.

Colour/Field

7 May - 24 July 2011 / Hancock

The Lady Norwood Rose Garden in the Wellington Botanic Gardens is dramatically reinterpreted in Lady North Star Parterre, a new wall-based sculpture by artist Elizabeth Thomson which channels both the chaos of nature and humanity’s desire to impose order upon it.

The Imaginative Life and Times of Graham Percy

4 February - 25 April 2011 / North

The Imaginative Life and Times of Graham Percy, developed in partnership between City Gallery Wellington and Gus Fisher Gallery, The University of Auckland, showcases the charming and immensely entertaining artwork of ex-pat New Zealand illustrator, designer and typographer Graham Percy (1938–2008).

The Un-Sited

29 January - 25 April 2011 / Hancock

The Un-Sited brings together contemporary, predominately non-representational work that has entered the Wellington City Council City Art Collection over the past five years. The exhibition is marked by an apparent absence of place, complicating the concepts of site and representation so central to civic collections.

Crown Lynn: Crockery of Distinction

29 January - 25 April 2011 / West & East

Stacked at the back of dusty cupboards and proudly displayed in sideboards across the nation, Crown Lynn crockery plays an integral role in the social, economic and aesthetic history of New Zealand. Crown Lynn: Crockery of Distinction brings this fascinating design history to light.

The Vault: Neil Pardington

29 January - 25 April 2011 / South

Glimpses into normally hidden spaces behind the scenes of New Zealand museums and galleries are offered by leading contemporary photographer Neil Pardington in his exhibition The Vault.

Art in The Auditorium

25 September 2010 - 23 June 2011 / Entire

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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