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East's Own Arts Festival
- 2 Sep 2010
- Wellington East Girls College
- Week 8 is the beginning of the long-awaited WEGC Arts Festival.
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Artists Unite in Gloominess and Woe
- 19 Aug 2010
- Wellington City Council
- The next Toi Poneke Gallery exhibition is the result of a culmination of events that started with a 'flatmates wanted' ad. Lennart Maschmeyer and Dominic McElwee shared a house and found they had a common interest - art and everything about it.
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roundabout - New Zealand Artists Confirmed
- 18 Aug 2010
- City Gallery
- A lively line-up of New Zealand artists has been confirmed for City Gallery Wellington’s upcoming exhibition roundabout°, a diverse and ambitious show which will take over the entirety of the Gallery’s main exhibition spaces from 25 September 2010 to 16 January 2011.
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Small Stories
- 12 Aug 2010
- Dowse Art Museum
- A selection of stunning jewellery from TheNewDowse collection will be showcased in a new exhibition that opens on the 28th of August.
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Drawing in the Present Tense - Lisa Munnelly
- 10 Aug 2010
- City Gallery
- Visitors will get the opportunity to see artist Lisa Munnelly actively creating her work Motherboard (2010) in the Hirschfeld Gallery between August 23 and 27 2010. The public and the media are invited to watch Motherboard, a large black rectangle of dense charcoal, being drawn directly onto the gallery’s wall during the first week of Munnelly’s exhibition, Slowburner.
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Newsletter for 21st July, 2010
- 21 Jul 2010
- South Wellington Intermediate School
- Thirty four students have had their Art work exhibited in the Newtown New World Mall since July 12th. The exhibition will run until 23rd July. The works have drawn considerable praise from the public. Thanks to Koka Rea for arranging this display of student work.
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Goldenage—Andrea du Chatenier
- 18 Jul 2010
- Salient
- If there is one exhibition that should entice city dwellers to make the trip out to TheNewDowse, it should be Goldenage: Andréa du Chatenier.
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Impressive Tongan tapa – an installation challenge.
- 23 Jun 2010
- Te Papa's blog
- But one Tongan tapa cloth (ngatu) in Te Papa’s collection is amazing because of its size – it is more than 22 metres long and over 4 metres wide. We have never been able to display it rolled out before – we didn’t have a wall big enough, until now…
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This Te Papa's blog newsitem has 5 comments.
- ‘Kia ora Belinda Thanks for your comment and interest. If you’d like to send an email to our Pacific curator Sean Mallon on mail@tepapa.govt.nz he can give you some more information about your tapa. Kind regards, Pamela.’
- ‘I also have a tapa cloth, It was given to my parents in 1980 by the Tongan queen who visited Rotorua around that time , would it be possible to send a photo of the cloth to get more information about it. It has the words Ko Kaulani, a crown symbol and a ’
- ‘Beautiful way to install & exhibit Tongan tapa!’
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Fuzz, Felt and Fur
- 8 Jun 2010
- Dowse Art Museum
- Fuzz, Felt and Fur, 31- July - 31 October, is an exciting new interactive exhibition for children that celebrates the magical touch of textiles. Featuring craft-based items from TheNewDowse collection, and supplemented by touch-friendly samples of materials and textiles, children will delight in the sensory magic of texture and touch. Infused with a sense of playfulness, the exhibition...
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Bring in the big guns
- 1 Jun 2010
- Capital Times
- WELLINGTON has the first-ever comprehensive display of muskets intricately decorated by Maori and Pacific Islanders. The exhibition, held at Pataka Museum of Arts and Cultures, displays the carved weaponry held by museums around the country. Curator
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City housing tenants display artistic talents
- 1 Jun 2010
- Newswire.co.nz
- ARTISTS won’t be the only ones working at Toi Poneke, where Wellington city housing tenants are showcasing their hidden talents.
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Toi Poneke Gallery Becomes a House of Complexity
- 18 May 2010
- Wellington City Council
- It will be like walking into a home as you enter Toi Poneke Gallery from Friday 28 May. Delicately crocheted dresses dangle from the ceiling, paintings decorate a wall, and individually crafted comics lie around in the corner beneath a shelf with two robotic sculptures.
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That’s so gay
- 25 Apr 2010
- Salient
- Last week Out Wellington Inc held an art exhibition in Thistle Hall, Under the Rainbow. It was pretty mean. There was some neat artwork and some not so neat artwork, all submitted by people of Wellington’s queer community and relating to their experiences as a queer person. These pieces were sold off in a blind auction. The proceeds of these paintings go towards the next Out in the Square (Wellington’s GLBT fair)
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LiteraryGems
- 12 Apr 2010
- Whitireia Community Polytechnic
- First year Jewellery students on the Bachelor of Applied Arts (Visual Arts and Design) are exhibiting a themed collection of work which they have produced in their first term on the course. Literary Gems shows a diversity of inspiration, materials and technique. Each piece has a connection to a specific book or idea associated with literature. The exhibition is being showcased in Te Kete Wananga, the Whitireia library throughout April.
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Art that hits the ground running
- 31 Mar 2010
- City Gallery
- The premise is simple – great art being made now by artists with a clear sense of direction and an individual voice. Concentrating on recent work by contemporary artists based in New Zealand, this exhibition features eight artists from Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin; Kushana Bush, Eddie Clemens, Elliot Collins, Matt Hunt, Richard Maloy, Campbell Patterson, Layla Rudneva-Mackay and Zina Swanson.
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New Exhibition at Toi Poneke Gallery
- 29 Mar 2010
- Wellington City Council
- See how art can transform the grimmest lives at a new exhibition which opens this Thursday, 1 April at Toi Poneke Gallery (61 Abel Smith Street).
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The New Dowse
- 28 Mar 2010
- Salient
- On a recent semi-spontaneous trip to The New Dowse I was captivated, amused and bemused by three diverse exhibitions.
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Currently showing at Farsite Gallery until 6 April 2010
- 25 Mar 2010
- Hutt Valley Community Arts
- Visit Farsite and take in the breath-taking realist works from local artist Lindsay Clear. Embracing scenes from throughout Petone, Hutt Valley and Wellington, the photo like quality of these paintings capture the beauty and detail of our surroundings. When: Monday – Thursday 10am – 3pm
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Poems help African Kiwi make Capital his home
- 16 Mar 2010
- Newswire.co.nz
- ABDALLA Gabriel’s poetry will be showcased with the work of other former refugees at Te Papa next month. The Lower Hutt man’s work will be part of an exhibition called The Mixing Room: stories from young refugees in New Zealand, in which these men and women are being “given a voice” to share their stories about becoming Kiwis.
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- ‘What a beautiful poem, can’t wait for the exhibiton!’
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Council Artworks on Display
- 8 Mar 2010
- Wellington City Council
- Did you know we've been collecting Wellington art since 1882? This continued on and off during the 1900s, mostly through gifts or bequests to the city. But in the last decade, we've had a dedicated advisory group buying Wellington art for the city's collection.
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Wellington City’s art in the public eye.
- 3 Mar 2010
- City Gallery
- Wellington City Council’s Art Collection opens in City Gallery Wellington’s Hancock Gallery. The imposing physical presence of Paratene Matchitt’s iconic artwork Waharoa will be missing from its permanent home at the Central Library for the next few months. It has made the journey across Civic Square to City Gallery Wellington, where its hulking form will stand as the centrepiece of the Gallery’s new exhibition We are here, and there, opening this Saturday, 6 March.
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Demolition the theme for Toi Poneke exhibition
- 24 Feb 2010
- Wellington City Council
- It's a tale of a healthy obsession with buildings and their make up, documentary photography, 'green' buildings, birth and renewal and Japanese Shinto temples.
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Wellington photographer captures teen culture in Hutt Valley
- 23 Feb 2010
- Dowse Art Museum
- In Crude Futures, documentary photographer John Lake returns to one of his favourite subjects, youth culture, lending his critical eye to the clubs and communities of the Hutt Valley. Roller-skaters, speedway enthusiasts, rock musicians, army cadets and Miss Hutt Valley contestants are captured and transformed from the ‘so-real’ to the ‘surreal’ in his striking large-scale portraits.
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Go to Pompeii for Free in March
- 21 Feb 2010
- Wellington City Council
- Take a free trip back to 80 AD at the A Day in Pompeii exhibition at Te Papa on Thursday 4 March.
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Anne Frank: A History for Today – 20 February, Te Papa
- 20 Feb 2010
- Texture
- The tale of Anne Frank has always fascinated me, ever since I read her diary as an impressionable twelve year-old girl.
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City Gallery Wellington announces its Festival Season
- 18 Feb 2010
- City Gallery
- City Gallery Wellington launches its Festival Season with three exhibitions to excite the senses. Sound, colour and form are all celebrated in the work of three leading artists during the free Festival Season, which runs February 20 to 16 May 2010. The Festival Season is proudly supported by ANZ.
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Currently showing at Farsite Gallery
- 18 Feb 2010
- Hutt Valley Community Arts
- ‘Other Brothers’ is a collaborative project that sees the works of Visual Artists, Tala Suailua and Mikaere Raimona, interact in a deep, honest and thought provoking dialogue not only with each other, but with the viewer also.
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A mobile exhibition of tiny proportions
- 18 Feb 2010
- Whitireia Community Polytechnic
- A mobile exhibition of tiny proportions is popping up around Wellington alongside the Fringe Festival. Alter+EGO is a visual arts exhibition that investigates artists egos as individuals and as performers – the relationship between our everyday identity and our ‘performance’ identity. While some artistic egos may be larger than life, the show’s curator Vaune Mason insisted that in this exhibition, all the works together, could be squeezed into the back of a truck.
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Liberating Everyday Life
- 14 Feb 2010
- Eye of the Fish
- Despite the small space in which it is situated, the retrospective of Bill Toomath’s work is an expansive exhibition.
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This Eye of the Fish newsitem has 5 comments.
- ‘I think that Toomath also worked on the replanning of Te Aro in an early scheme? I recall there was a modernist replanning of the whole Te Aro slum area – demolishing the little houses of chinatown (Haining St / Lorne St / Wigan St etc) and constructing ’
- ‘MD, what seemed so interesting was that the elaboration was visual. Maybe its just me then, but I’ve yet to come across similar examples from other modernists. Their rationalisations are presented pretty clearly in their manifesto’s and rhetoric, but I c’
- ‘You know, I have a strong interest in Modernist architecture, and a lot of respect for Bill, but that first picture looks like Milton Keynes-on-Sea.’
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Anthony McCall
- 7 Feb 2010
- Adam Art Gallery
- 24 February - 25 April 2010
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