Hei konei mai: We'll meet again

Sat 28 Jan 2006 — Fri 29 Feb 2008

Exhibition Details

Our stories, people and places are the focus of the final collection exhibition in the Grey and Mackelvie galleries. The much anticipated redevelopment and expansion of the Gallery provides the occasion to say hei konei mai - goodbye for now - to long-time admired and favourite works from the historic, modern and contemporary New Zealand art collections... until we meet again in early 2009.

The Mackelvie gallery gives prominence to colonial New Zealand art including landscapes, portraits of Maori and Pakeha ancestors and works recording early settlement, along with photography and prints. These works are treasures both great and small from the historic collection.

Highlights from the modern and contemporary collections make an impression in the Grey Gallery. Recent icons and visual touch stones expand on and create new art histories revealing a capacity to tell stories about who we are and our influences. Perhaps, we live on through our stories, because we are living out our history.

A selection of artists in the Mackelvie gallery include: Charles Blomfield, Jacques Carabain, Charles Goldie, Eugene von Gerard, Gottfried Lindauer, Albin Martin, Alfred Sharpe, Louis John Steele, Kennett Watkins, Walter Wright, William Hodges, Louis de Sainson, Joseph Merrett and others.

Modern and contemporary artists in the Grey gallery include: Colin McCahon, Rita Angus, Tony Fomison, Dick Frizzell, Louise Henderson, Ralph Hotere, Milan Mrkusich, Peter Peryer, Peter Siddell, William Sutton, Arnold Wilson, Fiona Pardington, Pat Hanly, Shane Cotton and others.

Date: Sat 28 Jan 2006 — Fri 29 Feb 2008
Curated by: Ngahiraka Mason
Location: Ground floor galleries
Cost: Free entry

Related Artworks

Huria Matenga Ngarongoa (Julia Martin)

Gottfried Lindauer

Production date

1874

Medium

oil on canvas

Size (h x w)

825 x 710 x 70 mm

Credit line

Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, gift of Mr H E Partridge, 1915

Accession no

1915/2/15

Production date: 1955
Medium: oil on cotton on board
Size (h x w): 762 x 924 mm
Credit line: Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, purchased 1989
Accession no: 1989/45

Production date: 1951
Medium: oil on canvas
Size (h x w): 2287 x 1219 x 70 mm
Credit line: Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, purchased 2005
Accession no: 2005/7

Production date: 1998
Medium: green wire, electric cable, Chinese shot silk chiffon, polyester chiffon, black pins
Size (h x w): 2700 x 2700 mm
Credit line: Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, gift of the Patrons of the Auckland Art Gallery, 2005
Accession no: 2005/22/1

Production date: 1994
Medium: cibachrome prints
Size (h x w): 500 x 610 mm
Credit line: Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, purchased 2005
Accession no: 2005/27/2.1-4

Production date: 1994
Medium: acrylic on linen
Size (h x w): 1824 x 1523 mm
Credit line: Chartwell Collection, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, 1995
Accession no: C1995/1/7

Production date: 2004
Medium: oil on canvas
Size (h x w): 2408 x 3208 x 60 mm
Credit line: Chartwell Collection, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, 2004
Accession no: C2004/1/28.1-2

Matua Aperahama

Darryn George

Swamp Country

George Hairbrush Tjungurrayi

Production date: 2002
Medium: acrylic on linen
Size (h x w): 1812 x 3536 mm
Credit line: Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, gift of Thanksgiving Foundation, 2023. Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, on loan from the Thanksgiving Foundation, 2006.
Accession no: L2006/22/1

Production date: Unknown
Medium: albumen print
Size (h x w): 105 x 63 mm
Credit line: Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, purchased 2003
Accession no: 2003/28

Production date: Unknown
Medium: albumen silver photograph
Size (h x w): 60 x 100 mm
Credit line: Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, purchased 1994
Accession no: 1994/48/24

Erene Te Whawhai

Unknown artist

Mate o Te Rai

Walter Suckling

Production date: Unknown
Medium: albumen silver photograph
Size (h x w): 60 x 100 mm
Credit line: Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, purchased 1994
Accession no: 1994/48/22

Production date: Unknown
Medium: drypoint
Size (h x w): 134 x 204 mm
Credit line: Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, purchased from Mr Roger Collins, 1984
Accession no: 1984/31

Production date: 1823
Medium: watercolour
Size (h x w): 234 x 147 mm
Credit line: Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, on loan from a private collection
Accession no: L1983/1/1

George (Te Ara)

Samuel Leigh

The New Zealand King Tabooha (Te Puhi)

Samuel Leigh

Production date: 1823
Medium: watercolour
Size (h x w): 231 x 147 mm
Credit line: Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, on loan from a private collection
Accession no: L1983/1/2

Production date: 1908
Medium: oil on canvas
Size (h x w): 610 x 510 mm
Credit line: Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, on loan from the Thanksgiving Foundation, 1999
Accession no: L1999/2

A Centenarian: Aperahama, aged 104

Charles F Goldie

Day Dreams, Christmas time in Maoriland

Charles F Goldie

Production date: circa 1902
Medium: oil on canvas
Size (h x w): 555 x 415 mm
Credit line: Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, gifted in memory of Frank Anthony Eden, 1988
Accession no: 1988/35/1

Production date: 1862
Medium: oil on canvas
Size (h x w): 996 x 738 x 50 mm
Credit line: Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, gift of Sir George Grey, 1887
Accession no: 1887/1/41

Production date: 1939
Medium: oil on canvas
Size (h x w): 407 x 455 mm
Credit line: Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, gifted by Harold T Thomas in memory of his wife May Elizabeth Thomas, 1989
Accession no: 1989/26

Weary with Years: Aperehama Rairai, Te Uri Ngahu, Ngati Te Ata

Charles F Goldie

Tamehana

Charles F Goldie

Production date: 1900
Medium: oil on canvas
Size (h x w): 457 x 355 mm
Credit line: Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, gift of Mr E Earle Vaile, 1900
Accession no: 1900/2

Tamehana

Charles F Goldie