Join Auckland Art Gallery’s Julia Waite, Curator New Zealand Art with Professor Laurence Simmons, University of Auckland and Lucy Hammonds, curator Dunedin Public Art Gallery for what will be an engaging and revealing walkthrough this landmark exhibition of one of New Zealand’s most important modernist artists.
As part of the Preview day for Gordon Walters: New Vision, enjoy a panel discussion with the exhibition co-curators Julia Waite (Auckland Art Gallery), Lucy Hammonds (Dunedin Public Art Gallery) and Professor Laurence Simmons (University of Auckland).
Writer, editor and curator and author of the book Bloomsbury South: The Arts in Christchurch 1933–53, Peter Simpson discusses the work of the artist Leo Bensemann that features in the collection exhibition Earthly Visions.
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.
Assistant Curator Emma Jameson examines how From Soft Focus to Sharp Vision redresses the lack of historical attention invested in the life and work of Len Casbolt and discusses the significance of his important contribution to New Zealand photographic practice.
Auckland Festival of Photography presents an illustrated talk by Alejandro Chaskielberg, an independent photographer, videographer and teacher who has established a worldwide reputation for his innovative vision and sensibility that crosses the boundaries between document and art.
Join Professor Laurence Simmons for a lecture discussing the importance of intuition, chance, randomness, colour, sensuality and mysticism for Gordon Walters and will seek to demonstrate the active participation in a varied cultural history that lies beneath his work.
Join artist Chris Heaphy (Ngāi Tahu) and Curator, New Zealand Art Julia Waite for a tour of the exhibition Gordon Walters: New Vision. Enjoy a discussion about how to look at a Walters painting and learn about the friendship Heaphy shared with Walters in the last years of his life.
Former Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney and Lecturer in Art Theory, AUT, Ben Curnow gives an illustrate lecture on the untold story of his grandmother’s contribution to the development of modernism in Auckland.
As part of the 14th International Documentary Film Festival, Doc Edge in association with RNZ presents a series of documentary screenings at the Gallery.
$12.50 Members and Members guests*, $25 non-Members, *In combination with a valid guest pass only Buy tickets
Join us for a series of film screenings about the fascinating fashion industry introduced by fashion expert Angela Lassig, who puts modern-day haute couture and street apparel into historic perspective.
Artspace starts 2016’s programme with a significant reference to New Zealand's political history by celebrating the 30th anniversary of the Homosexual Law Reform Act.
Doc Edge is proud to partner with Ngā Taonga to present two recently-preserved and digitally-restored documentaries of national historical importance. Be the first to see two of NZ's most important films digitally-restored.
Members $24.50, General admission $26.50 Buy tickets
Join us for an advance screening of Kusama – Infinity introduced by art historian Linda Tyler, Associate Professor in Museums and Cultural Heritage at the University of Auckland.
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