Hirschfeld Gallery Archive

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.

What Lies Beneath: Gabby O'Connor

2 - 31 July 2011 / Hirschfeld

Gabby O’Connor has created a room-scale iceberg form, which emerges from the light-well in the Hirschfeld gallery ceiling.

Staying Over: artists from three cities

21 May - 26 June 2011 / Hirschfeld

Each of us has a way of coming to terms with a new place, an unexpected event or situation. Staying Over brings together four projects which offer different ways to think about what a place is, beyond simply being a geographical location.

I Last Saw You There—Andrew Ross

16 April - 15 May 2011 / Hirschfeld

Andrew Ross' photographs capture a city shedding layers of its skin, undergoing total change. This exhibition reveals the quiet beauty of Ross's work and his unofficial recent history of urban Wellington.

Mari Mahr: Two Walking (with poems by Gregory O'Brien and Jenny Bornholdt)

4 February - 10 April 2011 / Hirschfeld

Photography is often spoken about in relation to memory or the past; in this exhibition two series by Hungarian photographer Mari Mahr catalogue a place outside of time.

Karl Fritsch: Scenes from the Munich Diamond Disaster

26 November 2010 - 16 January 2011 / Hirschfeld

An installation by German jeweller Karl Fritsch, where we encounter his exquisite rings in the midst of a ‘scene’ created by the artist.

The Light Fantastic: Peter Trevelyan

25 September - 21 November 2010 / Hirschfeld

Peter Trevelyan’s pencil lead structure is first a drawing, second a sculpture. The Light Fantastic presents one of these 'three-dimensional drawings', a great dome which sits at the end of the gallery, enmeshed in the secondary drawing created by its projected shadow.

Slowburner: Lisa Munnelly

23 August - 12 September 2010 / Hirschfeld

An exhibition of process-based work, Lisa Munnelly's large-scale monochromatic wall drawings in charcoal are created on site and in situ. Open to the public during the installation process, creation becomes performance.

The Nita Gini Collection: Lauren Lysaght

26 June - 15 August 2010 / Hirschfeld

The Nita Gini Collection was 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.

Community Garden

7 May - 20 June 2010 / Hirschfeld

Four Wellington artists exploring ideas of community, of behavioural change, and of the impacts made on the environment by both humans and non-humans.

Further Convictions Pending

20 March - 2 May 2010 / Hirschfeld

Four artists took a leap into the unknown in Further Convictions Pending, a group show featuring four Wellington artists: painters Tim Thatcher and Douglas Stichbury, photographer Andrew Beck and type designer Sarah Maxey.

Architect Bill Toomath: Liberating Everyday Life

29 January - 14 March 2010 / Hirschfeld

Without architect Bill Toomath, the face of Wellington would be very different. A pioneer of modernism as well as a staunch supporter of the city' architectural heritage, this exhibition covered 40 years of architectural practice.

Following the Blue Ribbon : Recent work by Gerda Leenards

27 November 2009 - 24 January 2010 / Hirschfeld

Gerda Leenards filled the Hirschfeld Gallery with a world of water and light

Make Way: Regan Gentry

27 September - 22 November 2009 / Hirschfeld

Make Way: Regan Gentry took the form of a highway flyover, made entirely from prefabricated cane baskets, rods and twine, spanning the 12 metre long gallery.

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