1997 » city gallery

Robin Morrison

6 December 1997 - 8 February 1998 / Entire

Robin Morrison was one of New Zealand’s most outstanding photographers for more than two decades. Four years after Morrison’s tragic early death, this exhibition charts the extraordinary achievements of the self-proclaimed photographer of ‘New Zealand characters’.

Signs of the Times: Sampling New Directions in NZ Art

4 October - 30 November 1997 / Entire

Curated by City Gallery Wellington's Lara Strongman, this mixed-media exhibition features the work of eight emerging New Zealand artists.

Dale Frank

4 October - 30 November 1997 / Entire

Dale Frank is an idiosyncratic Australian artist, whose work, painted on found fabrics and beach towels, might best be described as “Abstract Pop”. He will be exhibiting nine very large paintings.

Artists’ Books: An exhibition in ten chapters

4 October - 20 November 1997 / Entire

A large-scale exhibition of contemporary artists’ books from around the world, this show includes works by leading figures in 20th century art-making such as Joseph Beuys.

Vivian Lynn: Spin: Versor, Versari

27 September - 23 November 1997 / Entire

Vivian Lynn developed and produced this artist’s project for City Gallery Wellington. This project celebrates Lynn’s achievement and contribution to art-making in New Zealand, while revealing the fluid and dynamic nature of her current practice.

Humphrey Ikin: Facing North

2 August - 28 September 1997 / Entire

City Gallery Wellington continues its policy of presenting leading contemporary design with Facing North, the pieces of which were purpose-built for this exhibition.

Don Peebles: The Harmony of Opposites

26 July - 29 September 1997 / Entire

An important retrospective of over 50 major works tracing the evolution of a distinctive, and distinguished abstract painter.

Ani O'Neill: Cottage Industry

19 July - 5 October 1997 / Entire

Since graduating from Elam School of Fine Arts in 1994 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree, O’Neill has exhibited widely and to considerable critical acclaim, representing New Zealand at the Asia-Pacific Triennial in Brisbane in 1996. O’Neill came to Wellington in 1997 as the recipient of the Rita Angus Fellowship.

Hotere: Out the Black Window

7 June - 14 September 1997 / Entire

As one of New Zealand’s most important artists, Ralph Hotere has shaped the art culture in this country. This long overdue assessment of his art focuses on his collaborations with major New Zealand poets, Bill Manhire, Cilla McQueen, Ian Wedde and Hone Tuwhare.

Bill Culbert: Lightworks

14 May - 13 July 1997 / Entire

Bill Culbert finds his subject matter in the lux, lumen and colour of light in an industrial world. Lightworks provides an in-depth look at his art practice in the 1990s. The exhibition reveals Culbert’s attention to the poetry of everyday objects, as well as his systematic calibration of light’s changing conditions.

John Nixon: E.P. & O.W.

15 March - 11 May 1997 / Entire

A special international artist project commissioned from Australian artist, John Nixon. The project allows Nixon to develop a medium scale room-based project that combines some previously exhibited pieces, with new work created especially for Wellington and Dunedin. The project is a further extension of his well established idea of an Experimental Painting Workshop.

Dick Frizzell: Portrait of a Serious Artiste

15 March - 11 May 1997 / Entire

This survey exhibition, which includes a major catalogue, presents work from the years 1975-1995 and addresses Frizzell’s key themes, motifs, styles and tactics

Michael Stevenson: Trolleys

12 March - 12 May 1997 / Entire

A special installation for City Gallery Wellington's foyer. Melbourne based New Zealander Michael Stevenson takes the classic shopping bag on wheels and motorised chairs used by the elderly and disabled and paints wacky script and text on them.

Annie Leibovitz Photographs 1970–1990

12 March - 4 May 1997 / Entire

Curated by the International Centre of Photography in New York in conjunction with the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery Annie Leibovitz Photographs is a comprehensive retrospective which explores her career as a photojournalist from the 1970s to the present. Recognised as one of the greatest portrait photographers of her generation, Annie Leibovitz creates bold, quirky, revealing images of public figures.

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