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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Senior Curator, Mary Kisler looks at the symbolism of the vanitas used by both 17th century painters such as Bourjinon, Collier and Netscher and contemporary New Zealand photographer Fiona Pardington.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Join Balamohan Shingade for a performance of Rama Bhajans (devotional songs) in reference to paintings in The Story of Rama. Balamohan will be joined by Vipul Dev on tabla.
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.
Last chance to see! Learn more about Gottfried Lindauer and the subjects of his portrait paintings on one of these tours, let by our specially trained guides.
Contemporary artists Nicola Farquhar and James Cousins discuss their paintings which feature in the free summer exhibition Necessary Distraction: A Painting Show.
Last chance to see! Learn more about Gottfried Lindauer and the subjects of his portrait paintings on one of these tours, let by our specially trained guides.
Join us for a series of short talks by contemporary artists Julian Hooper and Stella Corkerywhose work features in the free summer exhibition, Necessary Distraction: A Painting Show.
Celebrate the life and work of New Zealand’s most prolific professional colonial painter. With over 120 portraits, a dozen genre paintings, accompanying photographs and artefacts, this is show is a must-see for anyone with an interest in early New Zealand art and history.
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