John Wootton
The Spaniel and the Cameleon, plate for Fable II on page 7 in the book Fables by Mr. [John] Gay. 3rd ed. (London: J. Tonson and J. Watts, 1729)
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City Gallery Wellington, 360-Michael Hirschfeld Gallery: Old Gates New Journeys: Work by Five Photographers
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City Gallery Wellington: Conversation Pieces: Collaborative Works
Conversation Pieces features: Gavin Chilcott & Ian Wedde; Wayne Youle & Jo
Randerson; Richard Reddaway & Sam Kebbell; Claire Martin & Luke Savage;
Saffronn Te Ratana & Ngataiharuru Taepa; Raewyn Atkinson & Catherine
Griffiths & Jenny Bornholdt;...
Wellington City Gallery: BACK ON EARTH: A Mural for Marz Cummings
The exhibition celebrates his contribution to the city’s urban environment, and
remembers his generosity as an artist and friend. One of the participating artists
is l...
City Gallery Wellington, 360-Michael Hirschfeld Gallery: Marti Friedlander: Photographs
Friedlander's visual records of cultural change have long been celebrated. The
first camera-artist to independently document post-war New Zealand, her work
...
Wellington City Gallery: Surprise - A Christmas Exhibition
The artists worked within set dimensions, which meant a large number of
works could be included in the show, says Rebecca Wilson, curator of 360 /
Michael Hirschfeld Gallery. Almost all have responded to the invitation
with new work, so the exh...
Wellington City Gallery: PARIHAKA
This project will comprise a gallery-wide exhibition at City Gallery, which will
include existing artworks depicting the story of Parihaka and its leaders, Te
Whiti o-Rongomai...
City Gallery Wellington, 360-Michael Hirschfeld Gallery: Dream House
Architects will be encouraged to give thought to the presentation of
designs and could approach the invitation to exhibiting in a gallery
environment as an opportunity to stretch the design and its presentation
beyond the usual parameters of co...
City Gallery Wellington, 360-Michael Hirschfeld Gallery: Outdoor People: The Paintings and Prints of Juliet Peter
Now in her 80s, Juliet Peter has long been a fixture in the Wellington art scene. She and her artist husband Roy Cowan were central figures in the 1950s and 60s, inspiring many artists to do what was then considered nearly impossible – to make the...
City Gallery Wellington, 360-Michael Hirschfeld Gallery: Racetrack
The stretches of country
between destinations have been a constant subject in Freemantle's painting.
Racetrack develops these concerns, exploring driving as a space for
contemplation - for thinking about our lives while catching glimpses into
...
Wellington City Gallery: The Magic of the Everyday - CAUGHT IN THIS SENSUAL MUSIC ALL: Works by Janet Paul
The paintings of figures in their lived-in environments bring out the magical in the everyday life. They show private moments with family and friends in relaxed surroundings, during holidays in the Coromandel or while at home in Wellington. Alongs...
City Gallery Wellington, 360-Michael Hirschfeld Gallery: Surprise: New Work by 18 Wellington Designers
The works have been created by 18 Wellington designers from the fields of
fashion, architecture, interior, graphic, web, industrial, theatre, lighting
and sound design, based on the theme of surprise.
The exhibition follows a show of the ...
City Gallery Wellington: Prospect 2001 - New Art New Zealand
The exhibition will showcase work in all media including painting, sculpture, photography, installation, moving image and new media.
Initiated by the City Gallery and curated by Lara Strongman, the show will facilitate the interaction and d...
City Gallery Wellington, 360-Michael Hirschfeld Gallery: John Drawbridge - Wide Open Interior
John Drawbridge has been a leading figure in New Zealand printmaking since
his return from study in England and Europe in the mid-1960s. His paintings
are less well known but equally impressive. Wide Open Interior is the first
exhibition to p...
City Gallery Wellington: abstractor by Sean Kerr: Shooting season opens at Gallery -
NZ abstracts caught in cross fire!
Kerr says he has drawn on his knowledge of electronics, gained while working in a video arcade, for the installation, which also includes 1970s-style string 'paintings' an...
Wellington City Gallery: The power and the packaging... 17 Days of Shopping - A Photographic Installation
She is interested in how even the most basic food items reach us via an
increasingly elaborate web of design, packaging, marketing, biotechnology
and industrial infrastructure. Most modern-day shoppers have lost the skills
of previous generat...
City Gallery Wellington, 360-Michael Hirschfeld Gallery: Anne Noble: States of Grace
Noble’s work explores a wide range of social, ethical and poetic issues—from landscape to religion, from the personal to the political. Throughout, her art is characterised by its intense formal beauty, and its enrichment of documentary models of ...
City Gallery Wellington: Gerda Leenards: Fjords Mists and Vapour
The works in Fjords mists & vapour are paintings in which time and space are hauntingly altered. Hills appear like veils and mist weighs heavily on the landforms. Like all Leenards’ work the series is an exploration of ‘landscape’ in a general sen...
Bartley Nees Project: Trunk Rock: A New Installation by Terry Urbahn
Terry Urbahn has exhibited with the Bartley Nees Gallery since 1994
including memorable exhibitions such as Urban Museum Reality Service (1997),
saLOON (1999) and most recently a collaborative installation with Sean Kerr
SHOWDOWN in 2000. His w...
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: Michael Hirschfeld Gallery Honours Staunch Friend of the Arts
It’s appropriate to name this space after Michael because of his passion for the arts, and his support of new talent, says Wellington Museums Trust chair, Sue Driver. The new gallery recognises his extraordinary contribution to the arts in ...
Wellington City Gallery: Transmission: Robert Cherry Burns Rubber
Transmission, is the first in a programme of exhibitions at the new Gallery to be presented under the banner of ‘360’.
This programme is sponsored by the Wellington design company Designworks, said Paula Savage, director of City Gallery Well...
City Gallery Wellington, 360-Michael Hirschfeld Gallery: Lone Stranger: Barbara Strathdee
Born in Wellington in 1941, Barbara Strathdee arrived in the northern port
city of Trieste, where her scientist husband was based, in the 1960s. The
couple stayed for three decades, during which time Strathdee held many solo
exhibitions in both...
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: TECHNO MAORI: MAORI ART IN THE DIGITAL AGE
Techno Maori - Maori Art in the Digital Age brings together work by aselection of contemporary Maori artists, expressing the diverse ways inwhich they are utilising or inspired by digital technology in their use oftraditional, modern and contempor...
Wellington City Gallery: Out of Character: Mary-Louise Browne
Mary-Louise Browne has used language as a medium for many years. In
Out of Character, she presents large works on paper, and massive rugs which dominate the East Gallery. The works are emblazoned with familiar phrases from film noir, Hitchcock m...
Bartley Nees Project: Monique Jansen, Esther Leigh and Sara Hughes
Their paintings, which show a delight in process, explore the effect, affect
and impact of repetitive patterns. Entering the territory of op art and even
pop art they are at once ethereal and sensual, transparent and dense,
serious and light-he...
City Gallery Wellington: The Feather Trade: Denis O'Connor, 7 Found Poems
Poetic texts, literature and history are a frequent source of inspiration
for OConnor, along with ideas drawing on his Irish ancestry and New Zealand
as a nation of immigrants and voyagers. The seven works have their links
with the titles, bo...
City Gallery Wellington, 360-Michael Hirschfeld Gallery: Behind the Curtain: Photographs of the Sex Industry by Ans Westra
The series of 38 black and white photographs depict sex workers in massage parlours, strip-clubs and a brothel as the women wait for clients, dress, socialise or strip. A challenging exploration into the daily lives of these women, Behind the Curt...
City Gallery Wellington: Elsewhere: Photos revisit 70s Kiwi childhood
Perhaps because of my work as a filmmaker I see everything as a potential
story, he says. I think about the way the stains on a mattress map out its own
...
City Gallery Wellington, Hirschfeld Gallery: Hat trick: Victoria Birkinshaw, Anne Noble and Andy Morley-Hall
Emerging artist Victoria Birkinshaw presents a series of photographs which document the Webber Bros Circus' tour of Kapiti Coast, Upper Hutt and Lower Hutt in 2003. Birkinshaw has a long-standing fascination with the circus: "Running away and join...
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