2006 » city gallery

Sam Taylor-Wood

8 October - 28 January 2007 / Entire

A focused survey of portraiture and self-portraiture by one of the UK’s leading contemporary artists.Sam Taylor-Wood’s work in photography and film is distinguished by an ironic and subversive use of the media. She depicts people both in and out of the public eye in compositions that fuse religious imagery informed by Renaissance and Baroque painting and the secular, urban and contemporary landscape that she inhabits

Tony Lane: Practical Metaphysics

8 October 2006 - 28 January 2007 / Entire

Tony Lane is one of New Zealand’s most respected painters. This exhibition is a survey of work from 1989 to the present day of 30-35 works drawn from private and public collections around New Zealand. Eschewing a conventional chronological structure, this exhibition, with thematic clusters led by Lane’s particular symbolic-vocabulary, proposes a new take on this esteemed painter’s practice.

Peter Madden: Escape from Orchid City

8 October 2006 - 28 January 2007 / Entire

Auckland-based artist Peter Madden transforms the gallery space into a complete environment with an installation developed especially for City Gallery Wellington.

2 x 2 Contemporary Projects

5 August - 24 September 2006 / Entire

City Gallery Wellington is pleased to present 2 x 2 Contemporary Projects, a series of two exhibitions, each showcasing two artists. City Gallery Wellington artists’ projects aim to show art and artists at the forefront of contemporary practice, providing a focused solo exhibition opportunity for artists whose work is fresh, innovative, and rich in ideas.

Elizabeth Thomson—my hi-fi, my sci-fi

18 June - 24 September 2006 / Entire

Wellington-based sculptor and printmaker Elizabeth Thomson is fascinated with both the orderliness and the disorderliness of nature. While her wall-sculptures are meticulous, ‘high fidelity’ productions, her art also reflects a fascination with the ruptures, disjunctions and absurdities of the natural world—hence the element of science fiction, or ‘sci-fi’, which is never far from the surface.

Guy Ngan

18 June - 24 September 2006 / Entire

Wellington artist Guy Ngan, now aged eighty, is one of New Zealand’s most prolific, yet unsung artists.The works in this exhibition represent one man’s exploration, through history, image and form, of his place in the Pacific and in Aotearoa in particular.

Michael Smither–The Wonder Years

19 February - 5 June 2006 / Entire

Michael Smither is one of New Zealand’s most renowned and respected artists. His painting is often deeply personal and autobiographical, delving into the domestic landscapes and outside environments of his daily life. Michael Smither—The Wonder Years, the first major exhibition of his work since 1984.

Patricia Piccinini–In Another Life

19 February - 11 June 2006 / Entire

Patricia Piccinini is one of Australia’s leading contemporary artists, internationally renowned for her provocative yet deeply considered practice. City Gallery Wellington is excited to be mounting Piccinini’s first solo exhibition in New Zealand as part of the International Arts Festival. Piccinini’s work examines relationships between humans, animals and machines, between the natural and the artificial. Asking the viewer to consider how each of these categories is shaped, Piccinini investigates areas of slippage and cross-over between them.

Luncheon Under the Ash Tree: The Ian & Elespie Prior Collection

/ Entire

A touring exhibition from the Masterton Museum and Gallery Aratoi, Luncheon under the ash tree brings to Wellington audiences the private art collection of Wellington local Dr Ian Prior and his late wife Elespie.

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