Exhibitions » Exhibition Archive » 2005
Yuk King Tan: Overflow
27 November 2005 - 6 February 2006 / Entire
Overflow is a project by New Zealand artist Yuk King Tan. This installation of found objects, photographs and video, builds on her past work and responds to Tan’s new home base in Hong Kong, where she moved in early 2005. Overflow contains objects sourced from markets in Hong Kong, mainland China and New Zealand.
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Gretchen Albrecht: Returning
13 November 2005 - 6 February 2006 / Entire
Over the past three decades, Gretchen Albrecht has developed one of the most widely recognised personal styles in New Zealand painting. This survey exhibition traces the evolution of Albrecht’s two signature forms, her hemisphere- and oval-shaped canvases.
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Jeffrey Harris
13 November 2005 - 6 February 2006 / Entire
Jeffrey Harris holds faith in painting as "a condensation of experience and intensity." Jeffrey Harris the exhibition is a testament to a lifelong journey – an autobiography in paint – by an outstanding New Zealand painter. The exhibition highlights major themes and key moments from Harris’s three decades of art-making, ranging from razor-sharp etchings to jewel-like ‘icons’, from sumptuous triptychs to a group of unflinching recent self-portraits.
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Jane Pountney—wade in the water
25 August - 20 December 2005 / Entire
This exhibition is a tribute to one of Wellington’s foremost landscape artists of recent decades, Jane Pountney (1949-2004). Gathering together many of her key paintings, the exhibition reflects both the visionary intensity of her large canvases of the 1980s and early 90s, and the subtler nuances of her later work.
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Small World, Big Town: Contemporary Art from Te Papa
10 July - 30 October 2005 / Entire
In a partnership project between City Gallery Wellington and the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, audiences have the opportunity to view a substantial number of contemporary New Zealand artworks from Te Papa’s visual art collections. The exhibition has been selected by curators from both institutions and staged at City Gallery Wellington.
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Noel McKenna—Sheltered Life
10 July - 18 September 2005 / Entire
Australian Noel McKenna's Sheltered Life is a visual essay exploring various notions of home: 'home town', 'home away from home', 'homelessness', the 'homing' impulse.
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Bridget Riley
24 March - 26 June 2005 / Entire
Bridget Riley: Painting and Preparatory Work 1961-2004 offers New Zealanders the rare opportunity to see a rich and comprehensive collection of work by one of the world’s truly great artists.
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