Photographer, lecturer and award-winning publisher Simon Devitt is on a mission: teaching you how to make your daily snaps more interesting. Through playful exercises in and around Auckland Art Gallery you will discover new perspectives and make a start with creating or further developing your own visual language.
At this workshop, artist and maker Vita Cochran will respond to the exhibition Louise Henderson: From Life, by teaching you how to make a hooked rug from old woollen garments and fabric. Curator, New Zealand Art, Julia Waite will introduce the workshop with a talk on Louise Henderson’s colourful, boldly geometric works and love for crafts and textiles.
We are collaborating with the Museums of Auckland, namely MOTAT, Auckland Museum and New Zealand Maritime Museum, to celebrate Pacific culture, rhythms and flavours with Pasifika Vibes, an event running alongside the annual Pasifika Festival in Western Springs.
As part of the 14th International Documentary Film Festival, Doc Edge in association with RNZ presents a series of documentary screenings at the Gallery.
A presentation of recent work by AUT Communication Design students that will make you re-examine the influence that packaging and marketing has on our selection of products.
Associate Professor Linda Tyler introduces new exhibition Manifesto, exploring the words and sentiments of the powerful historical statements by artists referred to in the exhibition.
Members $125, Non-Members $185 (includes a Membership). Book now
Kintsugi (or Kintsukuroi) is the Japanese art of repairing broken objects. Loosely translating to ‘golden joinery’, kintsugi values breakage and repair as part of the history of an object, using lacquer and powdered metal to make visible repairs. Learn how to piece your broken ceramics back together with beauty in this workshop led by Yuka O’Shannessy.
$75 Members early bird*, $85 Members standard, $125 Non-Members early bird*, $135 Non-Members* Book now
Associate Professor Linda Tyler and ‘design encyclopaedia’ Caroline Montague dive deep into the history, heyday and highlights of Danish Design in this fun day of learning about Denmark Design. This one-day class consists of four 50-minute illustrated talks on:
1. The First Danish Design Companies with an international reputation
2. From Classicism to Functionalism
3. Organic Modernism: Danish Design Goes International
4. Danish Design in the Postmodern era and Our Time
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