Audio Described Tour | Louise Bourgeois: In Private View

Join us for an Audio Described Tour for Blind and Low Vision visitors through Louise Bourgeois: In Private View. 

The tour will be led by Senior Curator Global Contemporary Art Natasha Conland, and audio described by Nicola Owen of Audio Described Aotearoa. This 90 minute tour offers rich verbal description and guided interpretation tailored for Blind and Low Vision visitors. The tour is limited to 13 people, and two sighted companions will be available, courtesy of Blind Low Vision NZ.

Louise Bourgeois: In Private View brings together key works from a private international collection, many exhibited publicly for the first time. Spanning over six decades of the artist’s career, the exhibition traces Bourgeois’s evolution from early paintings in the 1940s to the extraordinary textile sculptures and monumental forms she produced later in life.

Bourgeois, renowned for her emotionally resonant sculptures and recurring themes of memory, family, the subconscious, and the body, is best known globally for her spider sculptures, represented in the exhibition by Spider VI, 2002. Also featured are important early Personages, Lair sculptures and the striking hanging work The Couple.

Bookings for the Audio Described Tour are essential and limited to 13 places. If attending with a sighted companion, please book a ticket for them as well.

Please note there is capacity for one sighted companion per purchase.

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Audio Describer Nicola Owen speaks through a transmitter to a group of Blind people with white canes listening on headphones. Some stand, others sit, one is feeling a touch piece. 

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Person standing, looking at a wall sized photograph of Louise Bourgeois in her later years.  In the photo Louise stands mid frame under a wall mounted giant spider sculpture. Louise holds the spider's two lower legs, her arms similar length to its legs, and her head similar to the size of the spider's head. Person in foreground, blurred, walking towards camera. 

Artwork credit: Peter Bellamy, Louise Bourgeois with Spider IV (installtion view) (detail), 1996.
Photo: © Peter Bellamy / Art: © The Easton Foundation. VAGA at ARS/Copyright Agency, 2025