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Colin McCahon: A Question of Faith
8 December 2002 - 9 March 2003 / Entire
Colin McCahon: A Question of Faith spans four decades of McCahon's (1919-1987) work and features 78 works from throughout Colin McCahon's career. Set out chronologically, it enables visitors to follow McCahon's development from the early figurative styles of the 1940s to the later abstract works. Works have been drawn from public and private collections in Europe and Australasia.
Read moreJohn Parker: Ceramics
12 October - 1 December 2002 / Entire
John Parker: Ceramics surveys the 35 year career and current work of one of New Zealand's foremost ceramicists. This is the first major exhibition of John Parker's work since 1990, and the first time his work has been presented in a public gallery on this scale.
Read moreGerhard Richter: Survey
12 October - 1 December 2002 / Entire
Gerhard Richter: Survey is an internationally touring exhibition showing a selection of work compiled by the artist himself. Comprising 27 major works, the exhibition provides insight into all of Richter's creative phases.
Read moreLen Lye
24 August - 24 November 2002 / Entire
Len Lye is one of New Zealand's most celebrated artists, both for his international reputation and for his innovative practice in a variety of media including sculpture, film, photogram and painting. This exhibition, organised in 2001 to mark the centenary of Lye's birth, provides a rare opportunity to see his enormously popular kinetic sculptures outside of their home at the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery in New Plymouth.
Read moreVSA: New Zealand Photographers Abroad
23 August - 6 October 2002 / Entire
New Zealand Photographers Abroad brings together images by eight leading and emerging New Zealand documentary photographers, taken in fourteen countries world-wide. The exhibition provides both a rich and vibrant celebration of global life and culture and an exploration of the challenges facing people living in the developing world through New Zealanders' eyes.
Read moreForget the Dead You've Left: Saskia Leek
17 August - 6 October 2002 / Entire
When Saskia Leek began exhibiting her paintings in the 1990s, her subject matter was drawn from her real and imagined life as a child growing up in Christchurch. This exhibition introduces audiences to Leek's recent work. The title, taken from the Bob Dylan song Baby Blue, alludes to an ambiguity. For while the painting and sculpture have abandoned specific reference to autobiography, they convey a diaristic quality and still seem to deal with nostalgia for a recent past.
Read moreTony De Lautour: Revisionist Paintings
17 August - 6 October 2002 / Entire
Tony de Lautour is well known for his seemingly brazen over-painting of other artists' works. In this recent body of work, pre-loved landscape paintings found at garage sales and second-hand shops acquire a new lease of life through de Lautour's revisions.
Read moreMarti Friedlander: Photographs
1 June - 11 August 2002 / Entire
This is the first comprehensive survey exhibition of photographs by Marti Friedlander, one of New Zealand's most acclaimed photographers. Organised by the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki, it brings together the extensive range of photographs created over a period of forty years by this senior artist.
Read moreAnne Noble: States of Grace
25 May - 11 August 2002 / Entire
Long recognised as a major figure in New Zealand photography, Wellington artist Anne Noble has in the last decade come increasingly to the fore as a major mid-career artist, regardless of medium. Drawing together Noble's many major photographic series from the early 1980s to the present, States of Grace is the first full survey exhibition of her work.
Read moreSidney Nolan's Ned Kelly Series
23 February - 19 May 2002 / Entire
City Gallery Wellington's major contribution to the New Zealand Festival of the Arts of 2002 is Sir Sidney Nolan's Ned Kelly series - the most remarkable and original paintings in the history of Australian art by Australia's most famous artist. Secured for exhibition by the Prime Minister and Minister for Arts, Culture and Heritage, Helen Clark, the Ned Kelly paintings rarely leave the National Gallery of Australia where they are on permanent display.
Read moreMikala Dwyer: Australian Artist Project
22 February - 19 May 2002 / Entire
The third component of City Gallery Wellington's exhibitions programme for Wellington's International Festival of the Arts is an artist's project by leading Australian artist, Mikala Dwyer. With an extensive history of exhibiting throughout Australia and internationally, including a recent survey exhibition at Sydney's Museum of Contemporary Art, Dwyer is widely recognised as a significant mid-career installation artist.
Read moreTracey Moffatt
1 February - 26 May 2002 / Entire
In an exhibition which reinforces City Gallery Wellington’s position as New Zealand’s leading contemporary art gallery, we present Aboriginal artist Tracey Moffatt, considered by many in the art world to be Australia’s hottest artist. Moffatt’s photographs and films are regularly exhibited in galleries throughout Australia, Europe and the United States—City Gallery Wellington breaks new ground by staging the first major showing of her work in New Zealand.
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