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Driver '71 - '75
Starting Date: Saturday, 9 October 2010
Finishing Date: Sunday, 30 January 2011
Don Driver is one of New Zealand's most significant senior artists, whose contribution spans more than forty years and a diverse array of stylistic, aesthetic and conceptual shifts.
This exhibition focuses exclusively on Driver's relief works which he produced intensively over a five year period in the early 1970s.
This was a critical time in Driver's career as an artist, because it came shortly after his visit to North America - in the mid 1960s - where he saw a vast array of contemporary art.
Driver was interested in challenging the traditional boundaries between painting and sculpture in this period of works. He sought to do this through the conventions of modernism, but there is a distinctly playful aspect to these works.
Don Driver
Panel Relief no. 12 1972
canvas and aluminium
Jennifer Gibbs Trust
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Frances Hodgkins: Portraits
Starting Date: Thursday, 16 September 2010
Finishing Date: Sunday, 3 April 2011
Frances Hodgkins is one of New Zealand’s most highly regarded artists.
This exhibition celebrates the fine collection of portraits by Hodgkins held in the Dunedin Public Art Gallery collection and ranges from lyrical pencil drawings to superbly executed watercolours and distinctive oil paintings. A feature of this exhibition is the newly acquired painting The Farmer’s Daughter (Portrait of Annie Coggan).
Frances Hodgkins
The Farmer's Daughter (Portrait of Annie Coggan)
1929-30
oil on canvas laid onto board
Collection Dunedin Public Art Gallery
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Cut Collective
Starting Date: Saturday, 9 October 2010
Finishing Date: Sunday, 23 January 2011
Cut Collective brings together six artists who work primarily with stencils to produce a rich tapestry of graffiti. Working under a series of aliases, the members of this group all produce very distinctive imagery, which incorporate elements from popular culture, graphic design, local history and contemporary political issues. This is a dynamic collective whose approach and practise is designed to both respond and react to each other’s practice and the unique opportunities of the site.
For their exhibition in the Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Cut Collective will produce a new body of work to coincide with the Festival of the Arts.
Cut Collective
Illegal Tender 2010
stencil
Courtesy of the artists
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Pretty Vacant
Starting Date: Saturday, 9 October 2010
Finishing Date: Sunday, 27 February 2011
Pretty Vacant brings together a range of artworks from the Gallery’s collection, which span a more than thirty-year period, a mixture of media and a wide set of conceptual concerns. Pretty Vacant is a celebration of artists who dabble in shonky, disquieting and marginalized spaces and includes collection favourites by the likes of Saskia Leek, Peter Peryer, Ronnie van Hout and Mark Braunias.
Saskia Leek
Untitled (Caravan) 2001
mixed media
Collection Dunedin Public Art Gallery
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Fieldwork: Eugene Hansen and Andy Thomson
Starting Date: Saturday, 16 October 2010
Finishing Date: Sunday, 27 February 2011
Fieldwork is a collaborative sound installation, which uses field (sound) recordings and a monumental planar construction to create a site-responsive work. The recordings will draw from an array of incidental, ambient and clearly defined audio fields that can be experienced at a spatial, temporal and linguistic level.
Photograph courtesy Andy Thomson
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John Ward Knox
Starting Date: Saturday, 9 October 2010
Finishing Date: Sunday, 20 February 2011
John Ward Knox is known for deploying a range of methods and media to create deceptively simple and yet memorable artworks. For this, his first exhibition in Dunedin, Knox has chosen to produce an elaborate wall carving, which is sited in the Gallery so that it will be activated by shifting natural light levels.
John Ward Knox
Untitled 2009
alteration to existing architecture
Courtesy of the artist.
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