Represent yourself or your whānau/family through a shield, family tree or coat of arms. In the past people used family trees, shields and coats of arms to identify themselves down the generations. Experiment with mixed-media collage and create a shield for your whānau.
Represent yourself or your whānau/family through a shield, family tree or coat of arms. In the past people used family trees, shields and coats of arms to identify themselves down the generations. Experiment with mixed-media collage and create a shield for your whānau.
Photographer Raymond Sagapolutele discusses his photographic project Out of Context which focusses on his generation of Polynesians born to migrant Pacific Island parents as well as urban Māori.
Swinging Sixties in Auckland - how Quant sparked our boutique culture.
In this talk, fashion historian Angela Lassig will chart the rise of boutique culture in the back streets and side alleys of 60s Auckland, exploring the fashion, music and makeup that energised a generation.
Taking inspiration from Ignacio Gumucio’s large-scale painted mural created for Space to Dream: Recent Art from South America, participants will use various tape and painting techniques to create their own rules and structure then through the process of making disrupt that with on-the-spot decisions.
Drawing from over 500 hours of archival footage, much of it previously unseen, Apocalypse: WWI traces the journeys of civilians and soldiers who fought for survival in one of the darkest times in history.
Taking inspiration from Ignacio Gumucio’s large-scale painted mural created for Space to Dream: Recent Art from South America, participants will use various tape and painting techniques to create their own rules and structure then through the process of making disrupt that with on-the-spot decisions.
Join Curator Contemporary Art, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, Natasha Conland, and freelance art historian and curator, Damian Skinner for a conversation about the writings of Francis Pound on the paintings of Gordon Walters.
Join us for talks by artist Jim Allen, architects Nick Bevin, Marshall Cook, Nicholas Stevens, Christina van Bohemen and poet/curator Greg O’Brien to mark the publication of a book on the late John Scott’s modernist design.
First performed at Auckland City Art Gallery in 1974, Bruce Barber’s Bucket Action, will be re-performed by artist Hannah Valentine in a one-off event as part of the opening weekend programme for Groundswell: Avant-garde Auckland: 1971–1979.
This is the first in a series of public forums over 2016 organised by Auckland Art Gallery to aid dialogue on topical questions for contemporary art and culture.
Pop, skip and jump to your heart’s content with AKL Skipping Club and their 9-metre ropes, or if you’ve got really fancy feet there’s double dutch. Sweet sounds, strangers you just haven’t met yet … who knew exercise could be so much fun!
Hear from Clare McIntosh, Gallery Editor, about the fascinating world of art publishing. Gain insights and hear what it takes to take a publication from its conception to print.
Join Chartwell Trust founder Rob Gardiner in conversation with Curator, Contemporary Art, Natasha Conland as they discuss the current exhibition Shout Whisper Wail!
Sonic Blossom is a free component of paid exhibition Lee Mingwei and His Relations: The Art of Participation and takes place outside of the level 1 exhibition spaces.
Join us at She Claims: Art Matters, a series of events where you’ll rub elbows with creatives and critics while celebrating the ideas, voices and power of creative women. In session five of this series visual artist Ruth Buchanan will talk with curator Natasha Conland about her creative practice, drive, culture and the key topics in her work she cares deeply about.
Drawing from over 500 hours of archival footage, much of it previously unseen, Apocalypse: WWI traces the journeys of civilians and soldiers who fought for survival in one of the darkest times in history.
Join us and International keynote speaker Jeanne van Heeswijk for a day of discussions about the changing connections between art and its publics
Co-organised by Auckland Art Gallery and AUT University School of Art and Design
This family friendly creative workshop explores the health of the forest through art and discussion held inside Charlotte Graham’s installation Te Hā o Te Wao Nui a Tāne | The Breath of Tāne.
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