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Beloved: Works from the Dunedin Public Art Gallery
Starting Date: Saturday, 12 December 2009
Finishing Date: Sunday, 1 April 2012
Winner of the New Zealand Museums Awards 2011, Excellence in Exhibition (Art) Award and organised to celebrate the Dunedin Public Art Gallery’s 125th year, Beloved showcases a selection of the historical and contemporary gems from the collection.
The exhibition and accompanying publication honour the history of the collection, paying particular attention to some of the better known and favourite works.
Spanning a timeframe of more than 600 years, this rich body of work is both diverse in its content and in the range of media it brings together including painting, sculpture, photography, works on paper, installation and the decorative arts.
Solomon J. Solomon
Eros
Oil on canvas.
Collection Dunedin Public Art Gallery
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The French Connection
Starting Date: Thursday, 28 April 2011
Finishing Date: Sunday, 1 April 2012
This exhibition, drawn from the Gallery’s collection, celebrates Frances Hodgkins’ special relationship with Impressionism and features the exquisite Landscape through Trees, Tilty Wood by Lucien Pissarro, a recent addition to the Gallery’s collection.
Frances Hodgkins Through the Trees 1932 [detail]
watercolour on paper
Collection Dunedin Public Art Gallery
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Back in Black
Starting Date: Saturday, 10 September 2011
Finishing Date: Monday, 26 March 2012
This exhibition brings together a collection of works by some of New Zealand’s most recognised and notable artists from the late twentieth century to the present and includes: Len Lye, Colin McCahon, Ralph Hotere, Lisa Reihana and Peter Robinson. As the title Back in Black suggests, this selection of artworks is based around a shared tonal consistency and aesthetic relativity.
However, at a deeper level, this minimal palette reflects these artists’ attempts to grapple with a number of existential concerns, cultural situations and political topics that have arisen over the recent past.
Lisa Reihana
Hinewai from Digital Marae series 2001
colour digital print on aluminium
Courtesy of the artist
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Fiona Pardington: The Pressure of Sunlight Falling
Starting Date: Saturday, 10 September 2011
Finishing Date: Sunday, 19 February 2012
Fiona Pardington’s The Pressure of Sunlight Falling is a series of photographs that depict life casts made by medical scientist and phrenologist Pierre Dumoutier during one of French explorer Jules Dumont d’Urville’s South Pacific voyages from 1837-1840.
A photographer of international standing, Pardington has exhibited widely in Australasia and Europe. A selection from this series was included in the 2010 Biennale of Sydney.
The associated book, Fiona Pardington: The Pressure of Sunlight Falling, is edited by Kriselle Baker and Elizabeth Rankin, and is published by Otago University Press in association with Govett-Brewster and Two Rooms Gallery.
Fiona Pardington: The Pressure of Sunlight Falling is a Govett-Brewster Art Gallery touring exhibition
Exhibition curated by Rhana Devenport, Director, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery.
Fiona Pardington
Portrait of a life cast of Koe (painted), Timor 2010
Courtesy of the artist, Two Rooms Gallery, Auckland and the Musée de l'Homme, (Musée d’Histoire Naturelle), Paris.
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Ruth Watson: Myriad Worlds
Starting Date: Saturday, 22 October 2011
Finishing Date: Sunday, 1 April 2012
Lurid, squashed, ocean-centric, fragmenting: a few of the possibilities for different ways of world-depicting. Forget grass-green, royal blue and sparrow brown world maps and what they usually depict. Using advertisements, maps, academic articles, diagrams and new art works, Myriad worlds presents some alternative ways of seeing our world.
World map in an 8-lobed star projection(
from the artist's collection of maps)
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Boys from the Black Stuff
Starting Date: Saturday, 10 December 2011
Finishing Date: Saturday, 24 March 2012
Boys from the Black Stuff brings together a selection of artworks from the Gallery's permanent and long-term loan collections.
Paying particular attention to contemporary New Zealand artist's who have employed humour as a means to disturb, unnerve and raise questions about arts place, value and authenticity, this exhibition promises to surprise and delight audiences as it slowly changes and evolves over the duration of its life.
Don Driver
Orange skinverted 1984
mixed media
Jim Barr and Mary Barr loan collection, Dunedin Public Art Gallery
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Haunts of Dickens
Starting Date: Saturday, 4 February 2012
Finishing Date: Sunday, 6 May 2012
This exhibition celebrates the bicentenary of Charles Dickens’s birth (7 February 1812). It features a series of delightful watercolours by the British artist Paul Braddon (1864–1937) given to the Dunedin Public Library by well-known New Zealand literary figure A. H. Reed in 1956. Braddon has illustrated scenes from many of Dickens’ novels – including Pickwick Papers, The Old Curiosity Shop, David Copperfield, Great Expectations as well as the unfinished Edwin Drood.
In conjunction with the Dunedin Public Library.
Paul Braddon (1864 –1937)
Old Gables’, High St., Rochester (Seven Poor Travellers)
watercolour on paper
Collection of the Dunedin Public Library.
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Kabuki: The Art of Transformation
Starting Date: Saturday, 17 December 2011
Finishing Date: Sunday, 4 March 2012
This exhibition brings together a selection of Japanese prints from the F C W Staub loan collection, which feature a series of battle and theatre scenes.
Toyohara Kunichika
Actors on Parade in the Chu Shin Gura or The Loyal League of the Forty-
Seven Ronin
woodblock print on paper
F C W Staub loan collection, Dunedin Public Art Gallery.
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