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National Gallery of Victoria: Colin McCahon: A Time for Messages
The NGV holds a major six panel work on paper produced in 1979 by McCahon,
and the acquisition of an important early work by McCahon has been a
collection priority of the NGV for several years. Acquired in 1999, One is
a painting that is small...
Art Gallery of New South Wales: Colin McCahon A Question of Faith
Organised by Dr Marja Bloem of the Stedelijk Museum in Holland, the
exhibition Colin McCahon: A Question of Faith presents more than 70
works by this major modernist painter and concludes its international
tour in Sydney. The exhibition will be...
Auckland Art Gallery: Colin McCahon: A Question of Faith
The selection shows how McCahon sought to give visual representation to these existential issues of the human condition by using and modernising the Western Judeo-Christian artistic tradition.The exhibition, which is free to the public, feature...
CITY GALLERY WELLINGTON: McCahon - A View From Urewera
McCahon’s paintings confront us and ask that we examine our lives and acknowledge the spiritual essence of our country, says Gallery director, Paula Savage. It is appropriate then that some of the greatest paintings of the second half of the 20th ...
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa: Experiencing Turbulence: Art and The Weather
Some of the works use weather to directly represent a mood or state, while
others convey more subtly the reflection of human experience in natural
forces. Other works reflect the spiritual meaning that weather holds for
many artists.
Exp...
City Gallery Wellington, 360-Michael Hirschfeld Gallery: Colin McCahon: A Question of Faith
A Question of Faith arrives in Wellington direct from the prestigious
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, where large audiences experienced the New
Zealand artist's work, often for the first time. "We are very proud that
City Gallery Wellington is the ...
Stedelijk Museum: Colin McCahon: A Question of Faith
Colin McCahon can be called the Van Gogh of Australasia. He is the first important painter in that part of the world. Particularly since his death his activities as a teacher and museum curator have also becom...
Auckland Art Gallery: Face to Face: Self portraits by New Zealand artists
The images in Face to Face
contradict the common viewer
expectation that self portraits
should present at the very least, a visual likeness of the artist. Works such
as Frances Hodgkins’ Self Portrait Still Life c.1935 demonstrate that a
...
Gow Langsford Gallery: Dick Frizzell: The Pumpkin is a Red Herring
I call the new sign (Gate Series) paintings close-up landscapes...so close in fact that all you can see is the sign at the gate...and consequently they are paintings of flat things...like Jasper’s Flags...so-quite apart from being signs of life in...
City Gallery Wellington: HOME AND AWAY: CONTEMPORARY AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND ART FROM THE CHARTWELL COLLECTION
The exhibition has been drawn from the Chartwell Collection, started in the
1970s by Hamilton businessman R B K Gardiner as a way of bringing
contemporary art to Hamilton at a time when the city was without an art
gallery. Now numbering aroun...
City Gallery Wellington, 360-Michael Hirschfeld Gallery: Good Work: The Jim Barr and Mary Barr Collection
It takes a bold collector to buy artworks that have no permanent existence
as physical objects. But Wellington couple Jim Barr and Mary Barr have never
shied away from challenging or contentious works.From its origins in the early 1970s, the ...
City Gallery Wellington, 360-Michael Hirschfeld Gallery: aH'Ha: A Michael Nicholson Studio Installation
Michael Nicholson's art aspires to the condition of music, writes Gregory
O'Brien. He is an abstract painter with an obsessive interest in the real.
Like Len Lye, he has been greatly influenced by jazz. His video works
translate sound to image ...
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa: Signs and Wonders - He Tohu He Ohorere
Some of Te Papa’s greatest treasures are included: sacred images by European masters such as Dürer, Rembrandt, Cantarini, Blake, Rouault, Matisse, Masson, and Rosetti; and iconic works of art by major New Zealand artists such as Colin McCahon, Rit...
Te Papa: More of the National Art Collection Displayed at Te Papa
Past Presents showcases the range of art held in the national collection – everything from old favourites such as the well-known portrait of Mrs Humphrey Devereux by eighteenth-century American artist John Singleton Copley, through to the latest ...
Whangarei Art Museum: Capital! Locating Tradition: Placing Ourselves - Art from the Victoria University of Wellington Collection
WAM director Scott Pothan approached the Adam Art Gallery with the idea of touring key works from the collection, dispersed throughout the campus to a first-time gathering outside Wellington.
Detail: Richard Killeen Welcome to the South Pacific 1...
City Gallery Wellington: Stephen Bambury
I use the allure of beauty of surface, colour and space to provide a
runway into the work., says Bambury. This offers people a 'painting
experience', something you don't have with anything else in the world.
Stephen Bambury is one of New ...
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