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Bill Hammond: Jingle Jangle Morning

17 November 2007 - 10 February 2008 / Entire

Known for his sense of humour and irony, Bill Hamond occupies a unique place in New Zealands art history, with a language and technique that is wholly his own. This survey exhibition of paintings by Bill Hammond features works from the 1980s to the current day, all sourced from private collections here and overseas.

Te Huringa / Turning Points: Pakeha Colonisation & Maori Empowerment

11 August - 4 November 2007 / Entire

Te Huringa / Turning Points presents a diverse range of works devoted to the representation of Māori and Māori subject matter by Pākehā and the way in which Māori art practitioners have reflected their own ideas and concerns. The works chart a visual history of this country’s journey from early European contact through settlement, colonisation, protest to mana renewed.

CONTEMPORARY PROJECTS

11 August - 4 November 2007 / Entire

Contemporary Projects is a series of artist projects of new and recent work by four contemporary New Zealand artists: Eve Armstrong, Darryn George, Sarah Jane Parton and Areta Wilkinson. Although the individual projects are not linked thematically, they have been selected to respond to, and spark off, one another.

Denis O’Connor: What the Roof Dreamt

11 August - 4 November 2007 / Entire

Denis O’Connor makes sculptures and photographic works which resound with echoes of past events and personal histories. His exhibition, What the Roof Dreamt features work that was created in both Cork, Ireland, and New Zealand. The works explore his ancestral homeland while referencing the Auckland isthmus, where he was brought up, and Waiheke Island, where he has lived for over three decades.

Laurence Aberhart

12 May - 29 July 2007 / Entire

Using a 100 year old view camera, Aberhart produces images which are steeped in the history not only of his subjects but also of his chosen medium. In recent years, Aberhart’s work has been acknowledged as a vital ingredient in the visual arts culture of this country.This major exhibition of New Zealand’s most eminent photographer brings together over 200 key works from the last four decades—among them his signature images of landscapes, facades, monuments, and interiors from New Zealand, Australia and further afield.

Salla Tykkä: Cave & Zoo

12 May - 29 July 2007 / Entire

Finnish artist Salla Tykkä captured the hearts and minds of many when the first short film in her trilogy Lasso, Thriller and Cave (2000), was seen as part of the Venice Biennale in 2001.The trilogy known simply as Cave will be shown alongside a new work called Zoo (2006). This exhibition, curated by City Gallery Wellington Curator Sarah Farrar, brings Salla Tykkä’s work to New Zealand audiences for the first time.

Telecom Prospect 2007: New Art New Zealand

11 February - 29 April 2007 / Entire

An explosion of new art by New Zealand artists. City Gallery launches it’s third Telecom Prospect – a curated group show drawing on the most vital and curious work made by New Zealand artists over the last three years.

Hany Armanious: Morphic Resonance

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For the last twenty years Hany Armanious has been a key figure in Australian art. His formally diverse work is marked by its conflation of opposing values. He draws on images and objects from a divergent pool, morphing and overlaying styles and vocabularies to build playful, evocative and unexpected new configurations. His work draws our attention to the prevalent imperative to seek connection, to notice sameness, to rationalise points of confluence through often bogus means.

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