Earth Matters

Earth Matters

Exhibition Details

Earth Matters includes work by artists who make reference to themes of global and environmental concern. It explores how we report on the world, and respond to our environment - either its physical matter or image proxy - with available technologies.

The artists in Earth Matters work in a variety of media from photography, to painting and sound-installation. They create images of our activity on earth, whether through the appropriation of news headlines, Google Earth's live imaging, or playing with pop-culture depictions of the globe.

Drawing on work from the contemporary collections of the Auckland Art Gallery, Earth Matters spans the last thirty years of art practice. The earliest work in the exhibition is a magnetic puzzle by regarded Swedish artist Öyvind Fahlström titled Section of a World Map from 1973, and more recently, from 2006, is an installation by New Zealand collective et al. titledMaintenance of Social Solidarity.

This eclectic array of work reveals how contemporary art typically responds to the world by depicting either sites of immediate locality (its soil and earth); sites of exchange, or a total picture of the globe, often with the comic realisation of the ineptitude of form to reveal the totality of our experience of earth.

Date
Curated by
Natasha Conland
Location
New Gallery
Cost
Free entry

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Credit line
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Whale Stranding at Muriwai Beach No.2
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Credit line
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Credit line
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, gift of the artist, 2001
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Credit line
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Credit line
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, gift of the artist, 2001
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1975
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C-type photographic print
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Credit line
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, gift of the artist, 2001
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Medium
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Credit line
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Credit line
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Whale Stranding at Muriwai Beach No.9
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Medium
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Credit line
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, gift of the artist, 2001
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Size (h x w)
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Credit line
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, gift of the artist, 2001
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Credit line
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Credit line
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Ian Macdonald

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1975
Medium
C-type photographic print
Size (h x w)
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Credit line
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, gift of the artist, 2001
Accession no
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Ian Macdonald

Production date
1975
Medium
C-type photographic print
Size (h x w)
505 x 410 mm
Credit line
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, gift of the artist, 2001
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Whale Stranding at Muriwai Beach No.22
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Production date
1975
Medium
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Size (h x w)
505 x 410 mm
Credit line
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, gift of the artist, 2001
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Credit line
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, gift of the artist, 2001
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Production date
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Medium
photocopy, screenprint and dye on paper
Size (h x w)
600 x 420 mm
Credit line
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, purchased 2003
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Production date
2002
Medium
photocopy, screenprint and dye on paper
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600 x 420 mm
Credit line
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, purchased 2003
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Credit line
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Medium
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Credit line
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Michael Stevenson

Production date
2002
Medium
photocopy, screenprint and dye on paper
Size (h x w)
600 x 420 mm
Credit line
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, purchased 2003
Accession no
2003/10/5
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Michael Stevenson

Production date
2002
Medium
photocopy, screenprint and dye on paper
Size (h x w)
600 x 420 mm
Credit line
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, purchased 2003
Accession no
2003/10/7
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Production date
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Medium
C-type print
Size (h x w)
1200 x 1200 mm
Credit line
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, gift of the Patrons of the Auckland Art Gallery, 2005
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Phil Dadson Wally Floyd

Production date
1984
Medium
C-type print
Size (h x w)
1200 x 1200 mm
Credit line
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, gift of the Patrons of the Auckland Art Gallery, 2005
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Phil Dadson Wally Floyd

Production date
1984
Medium
C-type print
Size (h x w)
1200 x 1200 mm
Credit line
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, gift of the Patrons of the Auckland Art Gallery, 2005
Accession no
2005/22/13
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Adam Chodzko

Production date
2000
Medium
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Size (h x w)
505 x 760 mm
Credit line
The Auckland Triennial Collection, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, purchased 2001
Accession no
2001/8/1
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Mladen Bizumic

Production date
2003
Medium
colour photograph from tungsten negative on aluminium
Size (h x w)
980 x 1160 mm
Credit line
Chartwell Collection, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, 2003
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Eve Armstrong

Production date
2007
Medium
plastic rubbish bag, air, storage rack
Credit line
Chartwell Collection, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, 2007
Accession no
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Pacific 3, 2, 1, Zero/Eye/Drum
Pacific 3, 2, 1, Zero/Eye/Drum

Phil Dadson

Production date
1995
Medium
11 Audio tracks on CD
Size (h x w)
52min 28sec
Credit line
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, purchased 2004
Accession no
2004/17/7