In From the Cold: Works from the Antarctica New Zealand Collection

12 August - 27 November 2005
Tait Electronics Antarctica Gallery

Homelight Cover Nigel Brown, 1998 Collection of Antarctica New Zealand

Drawn from the collection of Antarctica New Zealand, this exhibition brings together a special selection of paintings, photographs, sculptures and textile works inspired by Antarctica.

Antarctica New Zealand is the Crown Entity responsible for New Zealand's involvement in Antarctica at a national and international level.

In 1996, Antarctica New Zealand established the Artists to Antarctica Programme in partnership with Creative New Zealand.

Many outstanding New Zealand practitioners (from visual artists to writers, composers and choreographers) have travelled to Antarctica with the programme, including Nigel Brown, Bill Manhire, Margaret Mahy, Raewyn Atkinson, Anne Noble and Chris Cree-Brown.

Antarctica New Zealand has established a collection of artworks made as a result of the programme and has made a special selection of these available to the Gallery for this exhibition.