On the final weekend of A Place to Paint: Colin McCahon in Auckland, exhibition curator Ron Brownson will join artist Emily Karaka for a conversation to mark the closing of this celebrated exhibition with Andy Leleisi’uao in support.
Painting conservator Carolina Izzo discusses the intriguing events surrounding some of the works in The Corsini Collection and the extraordinary methods used by the Renaissance and Baroque artists to make their paint.
Discover your inner artist, and learn how to copy Rita Angus' 1965 painting Scrub burning, Northern Hawke's Bay which is currently on display in the exhibition Earthly Visions.
The international paintings in the new exhibition Colour Is an Abstraction will be the inspiration for this fun and innovative workshop. Participants will explore various paint and print techniques with a focus on colour, these will then be used to construct a sculpture.
In this fast-paced, action-based workshop for 5 year olds we will look at artwork in the contemporary painting show Necessary Distraction and take ourselves on a tour of the many ways we can paint.
Students $5, Members $10, Non-Members $15, Volunteer Guides Free Book now
The authors of The Back of the Painting: Secrets and stories from art conservation – Linda Waters, Jenny Sherman and Sarah Hillary – convene for a lively discussion of their new book.
In this fast-paced, action-based workshop for 5 year olds we will look at artwork in the contemporary painting show Necessary Distraction and take ourselves on a tour of the many ways we can paint.
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.
On the final day of The Story of Rama, Dr Vijay Kumar Mathur and Mr Kamlesh Kumar Sharma from the National Museum, New Delhi present an illustrated talk on the fundamentals of Indian art and Ramayana in Indian miniature paintings.
This winter, we are thrilled to be hosting internationally renowned iconographer Aidan Hart for a two-day workshop on the time-honoured practice of icon painting. After creating your own egg tempera paint, you will learn the techniques of traditional iconography and walk away with a unique piece of your own.
Rocks of purple, pink and orange, fields of purple, mustard and pink. Vibrating triangles of white and black, and the arch of a brushstroke in orange and yellow. These descriptions of works in the exhibition Game Changers: International Modernism will help our 5-year-old participants explore their own painting experiments.
Rocks of purple, pink and orange, fields of purple, mustard and pink. Vibrating triangles of white and black, and the arch of a brushstroke in orange and yellow. These descriptions of works in the exhibition Game Changers: International Modernism will help our 5-year-old participants explore their own painting experiments.
Join Professor Bell as he discusses the portraiture of Lindauer in relation to the 19th century migrant artist painting in a colony of the then, expansive British Empire.
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.
Senior Curator of International Art, Dr Sophie Matthiesson uncovers the extraordinary story behind a group of well-known landscapes painted on plates by the renowned French landscape and decorative artist Hubert Robert (1733-1808) during his imprisonment as a political suspect during the Terror. Gallery and Mackelvie Society Members only.
Painting conservator, Genevieve Silvester gives an illustrated talk on a special Frances Hodgkins painting restoration project that she undertook as part of her recent internship at Auckland Art Gallery.
Painting conservator, Genevieve Silvester gives an illustrated talk on a special Frances Hodgkins painting restoration project that she undertook as part of her internship at Auckland Art Gallery in 2015.
Painting conservator Genevieve Silvester completed her training in London and one of her conservation projects was the restoration of the Lindauer painting Terewai Horomona 1886 which is in the collection of Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II. Enjoy a talk by Silvester about this interesting conservation project.
Contemporary artists Nicola Farquhar and James Cousins discuss their paintings which feature in the free summer exhibition Necessary Distraction: A Painting Show.
Join BA Art History Honours student Chance Wilson for a short talk on the difficulties of attributing works of art to the correct artist with a particular reference to the painting Prometheus and the Eagle in The Corsini Collection.
Join historian and writer Laurie McCallum for the intriguing story behind one of the Gallery’s most popular paintings – Frank Bramley's For of Such is the Kingdom of Heaven – and how it came to Auckland.
Using paint, photography and collage participants will experiment with creating portraits inspired by the exhibition The Māori Portraits: Gottfried Lindauer’s New Zealand.
This workshop is inspired by collection exhibition To All New Arrivals which features artworks by which features artworks by Christine Hellyar, John Vea John Pule, Mark Adams and more.
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