Dubbed by critics as ‘restlessly creative and endlessly inventive’, Red Leap Theatre enjoys exploring the boundaries of physical theatre, imagery and storytelling.
Theatre of Light featuring recent works from the Good Company Arts' internationally acclaimed repertoire of dance films – part of Tempo Dance Festival and Artweek 2018.
Join us for this NZ Music Month event and hear Dr Julie Jackson-Tretchikoff as she entertains us with the remarkable story of 100 years of Auckland Music Theatre.
Footnote New Zealand Dance present an open rehearsal for The Rebel Pink, a new touring show that will be performed at Q Theatre on 7 and 8 April, 7.30pm.
Footnote returns to Auckland Art Gallery with an open rehearsal of Claire O'Neil's Lifeworld (in five parts) before the full performance of the show at Q Theatre.
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. Edition three is a conversation between theatre maker Julia Croft and editor and writer Rosabel Tan.
Interdisciplinary artist Frances Libeau (they/she; fka Claire Duncan) works at the intersection of sonic composition, text and performance with an interest in queer remediations of narrative and technologies. Their composition, sound design, writing and performance works have been commissioned by artists and organisations across fields of music, fine art, film, theatre and dance.
Aue Dance Company is a newly formed dance company under the directorship of Vivian Hosking Aue and part of this year's Pacific Dance Festival. Get a taste of what Aue Dance is about as they conduct an open rehearsal in space at Gallery.
Celebrate the opening of Yayoi Kusama’s The obliteration room and participate in a day of performances, activities and music. Explore the Gallery through another lens!
Members and U35* $20, non-Members $30 (*U35 – 35 years and under) Book now
A poet, a performance artist and an art critic walk into an exhibition - it's Carrie Rudzinski, Sarita Das and Lucinda Bennett speaking honestly. These three contemporary voices provide fresh interpretation as they untangle, interrogate and vivify the works in our new exhibition Honestly Speaking: the Word, the Body and the Internet. With drinks and exclusive after-hours viewing, this night of activation is not to be missed.
Documentary about the Refettorio Ambrosiano, an extraordinary soup kitchen conceived by renowned Italian chef Massimo Bottura during the Expo 2015 in Milan.
Spend an evening with internationally recognized choreographer and filmmaker Daniel Belton (Time Dance and Soma Songs). The event will include live performance excerpts from some of his recent works, including OneOne.
The Blue Angel is an unsparing account of a straight-laced, bourgeois schoolteacher, Professor Rath, and his obsession with Lola Lola, a cabaret dancer.
Welcoming visitors over the opening weekend of Toi Tū Toi Ora: Contemporary Māori Art, dancers from Atamira Dance Company will activate aspects of the water pool located at the entrance of Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki.
Free screening of Oscar Enberg's new short film Red Beryl and crocodile, Opal (Irrational Exuberance in the White Man’s Hole). The film will be followed by a Q&A with the artist and Natasha Conland, Curator, Contemporary Art.
In 2003, textile and dress historian Angela Lassig brought the exhibition Japonism in Fashion, initiated and developed by the Kyoto Costume Institute in 1989, to Te Papa Tongarewa and Christchurch Art Gallery. Now she will give two lectures on this topic as part of our events programme for the exhibition Enchanted Worlds: Hokusai, Hiroshige and the Art of Edo Japan.
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. We kick off this series, just before the 125th anniversary of women’s suffrage in New Zealand, with a conversation between two inspiring women: Auckland Art Gallery Director Rhana Devenport and visual artist Judy Darragh.
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.
grisaille, multiple-colour stone lithography, pearlescent nail polish on paper adhered to ply wood panels with synthetic polymer paint, wood and steel rod hinges
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Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, gift of the artist, 2017
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