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Ben Cauchi: Dead Time
3 May - 3 August 2008
Burdon Family Gallery
Ben Cauchi deftly manipulates light sources, studio effects and darkroom techniques to create a mysterious, illusory zone. Known for his use of mid-19th-century photographic processes, Dead Time reveals the results of a recently completed residency as Frances Hodgkins Fellow in Dunedin.
Catalogue and iPod Audio Tour available.
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Thaw
21 March - 15 June 2008
Tait Electronics Antarctica Gallery
Embittered by a lack of recognition from his expeditions to Antarctica with Scott and later Shackleton, the enigmatic Ernest Joyce set out to bring together a collection of photographs that cemented his place in history. Thaw combines century-old glass lantern slides and negatives with large-scale digital projections, and highlights the ways we encounter historical objects and disembodied images.
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Colin McCahon
8 March - 8 June 2008
Two decades after Colin McCahon’s death, this touring focus exhibition brings together paintings and works on paper by one of the most widely acclaimed New Zealand artists.
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Darryn George: Pulse
8 March - August 2008
William A. Sutton Gallery
The walls themselves become the artwork in Darryn George's new project. Stretching more than fifty metres and reaching from floor to ceiling, Pulse is an engulfing fusion of customary Maori art and contemporary abstract painting. Using intricate patterns, chanting rhythms and an eye-popping palette of red, black and white, George fills the hushed white cube of the Sutton Gallery with a continual pulse of light, language and pattern.
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Morris & Co.
The World of William Morris
14 March - 29 June 2008
Touring Exhibition Galleries A, C & Borg Henry Gallery
William Morris - the man behind the firm Morris & Co. - remains a remarkable figure more than a century after his death. His work endures, with many of his designs for wallpapers, textiles and carpets still popular today. Artist, designer, socialist, poet, novelist and theorist: Morris's work is celebrated in this exquisite show.
Toured by the Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide.
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Festival of Flowers
Peter Peryer: Tecomanthe
Begins 22 February 2008
Foyer
From 22 February, to celebrate the Festival of Flowers, Peter Peryer's work Tecomanthe will hang in the Gallery foyer. Tecomanthe Speciosa is a rare twining climber that was discovered on one of the Three Kings Islands northwest of Cape Reinga in 1946. All the vines we have today descend from this one plant.
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I See Red
5 December 2007 - August 2008
Monica Richards Gallery
Through a selection of eclectic, mainly contemporary artworks for the Gallery's collection, this interactive children's exhibition explores some of the strong meanings and ideas associated with the colour red.
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Twinset: Video Art in the Foyer
Check out the twin screens in the foyer for a rapid-fire programme of fresh video art by artists from Australia, Europe, USA and New Zealand. This quarter featuring sight-and-sound gags by New Zealander Sean Kerr, quick cuts by Nicolas Jasmin from Vienna, and Australian David Rosetzky's meditative film Nothing like this.
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Outer Spaces
Begins April 2008
Expect to encounter art in some unexpected places from April onward at the Gallery. Kicking off soon with a billboard by Richard Killeen on the Gallery's Worcester Boulevard fadade, and including a light-filled new work for the foyer by Hannah and Aaron Beehre later in 2008, Outer Spaces is an ongoing programme of artworks in spaces above and beyond (and sometimes below) the Gallery's exhibition galleries.
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