2003 » city gallery

Wim Wenders: Pictures from the Surface of the Earth

25 October - 8 February 2004 / Entire

Wim Wenders: Pictures from the Surface of the Earth brings together 30 large-scale photographs taken by renowned German artist and film maker Wim Wenders.

Stanley Spencer: Everyday Miracles

25 October 2003 - 8 February 2004 / Entire

Everyday Miracles is the first substantial exhibition in New Zealand of one of the greatest painters and few true visionaries in twentieth century British art, Stanley Spencer.

Michael Harrison: Love in the Shadows

30 August - 19 October 2003 / Entire

Michael Harrison's images are intimate, inventive, romantic, playful and often slightly uneasy. He sources his symbolism from tarot cards, art history, mass media, World War II, photojournalism, and life itself.The exhibition surveys his work to date and features 45 rarely seen works, introducing wide audiences to his strange, lyrical world.

Shane Cotton: Survey 1993-2003

13 July - 19 October 2003 / Entire

Shane Cotton: Survey 1993- 2003 is the first major survey exhibition of leading New Zealand contemporary painter, Shane Cotton (Ngapuhi: Ngati Rangi, Ngati Hine and Te Uri Taniwha). The exhibition brings together 29 works from public and private collections, some never previously exhibited, spanning a decade of Cotton's challenging and innovative painting. It is the most recent in a series of exhibitions by City Gallery Wellington featuring contemporary artists who are leaders in their fields.

Louise Weaver: Moonlight Becomes You

5 July - 24 August 2003 / Entire

Clothed in glittery skins of crochet, sequins and beading, the creatures in Moonlight Becomes You strut their stuff on a stage bathed in moonlight. Starting with high density foam moulds commonly used by taxidermists, Weaver grafts on a new skin, patiently crocheted, stitch by stitch.

Money for Nothing

10 May - 29 June 2003 / Entire

Money For Nothing uses artistic output to look at the relationship between people and economy; the way artist and art deals with value, economy, and the economic impacts on and of the art world.

Peter Black: Real Fiction

23 March - 29 June 2003 / Entire

Peter Black: Real Fiction, curated by Gregory O'Brien of City Gallery Wellington, comprises nearly 200 images from Peter Black's career, many of which have never been shown publicly before.

Simryn Gill: A Small Town at the Turn of the Century

23 March - 29 June 2003 / Entire

A Small Town at the Turn of the Century is the first solo show of Australian artist Simryn Gill's work in New Zealand.

Venice Biennale Project 2001

23 March - 29 July 2003 / Entire

City Gallery Wellington is the first New Zealand gallery to re-present the New Zealand exhibition shown at the prestigious Venice Biennale 2001. The exhibition showcases details of the site-specific installation work of two of New Zealand's most internationally recognised artists.

Julian Dashper: Blue Circles

15 March - 7 May 2003 / Entire

One of New Zealand's most internationally successful artists, Julian Dashper brings Blue Circles to City Gallery Wellington

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