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    Telecom Prospect: New Art, New Zealand installation view City Gallery Wellington, 2007. Photo: Amy Schulz.

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    Telecom Prospect: New Art, New Zealand installation view City Gallery Wellington, 2007. Photo: Amy Schulz.

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    Miranda Parkes Crasher, 2006. Image courtesy of the artist.

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    Andrew McLeod Moon, 2006. Image courtesy of the artist and Peter Mcleavery Gallery, Wellington.

Telecom Prospect 2007: New Art New Zealand

11 February - 29 April 2007 in the Entire Gallery

An explosion of new art by New Zealand artists. City Gallery launches it’s third Telecom Prospect – a curated group show drawing on the most vital and curious work made by New Zealand artists over the last three years. Each Telecom Prospect has had a different curator and this time the baton has been handed to City Gallery Wellington’s Senior Curator Heather Galbraith who arrived back in New Zealand in 2004 after twelve years based in London. The exhibition is structured around three intersecting thematic clusters which have been derived from observations of and queries about current trends and debates: contemporary abstraction; a reconfiguration of the everyday and augmented reality. A connective thread weaving through the exhibition is an interest in collaborative practices and the experiential dynamics between art works and their audiences.

The exhibition includes work made in New Zealand and abroad in many media including painting, photography, sculpture, film and video, jewellery and sound. New works will be premiered and time-based works will evolve. A rich sampling of New Zealand contemporary practice, Telecom Prospect is the only recurring group exhibition of this scale to focus solely on New Zealand practice.

Telecom Prospect 2007: New Art New Zealand has its own website which is overflowing with ideas, information and images relating to the exhibition, its artists and New Zealand contemporary culture. Check it out at  www.telecomprospect2007.org.nz

Public Programmes

Exhibition tours Saturdays and Sundays, 12 noon.

NZART101 seminars
Presented by Chirstina Barton and William McAloon.

Panel discussion on collecting New Zealand art,
lead by Rob Gardiner.

Principal Sponsor