Auckland Art Precinct

White Night in Auckland Art Precinct

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Auckland Art Precinct was open from 6pm until late on March 12th 2011 as part of Auckland Arts Festival's White Night event. A selection of creative activities, performances and exhibition openings occurred throughout the evening
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Art Sunday 7th November

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Another successful Art Sunday...

Art, exhibition openings, artist talks, live music, guided tours of Auckland Art Precinct, special offers, kid's art classes, and fantastic wine and coffee, all lead to an enjoyable afternoon in the precinct.

Art Sunday 7th November details

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Join us at our next Art Sunday and enjoy an afternoon of art in the city. Participating business will be open from 12 – 5 pm and hosting a range of exhibitions, special events and artist talks. For a list of current exhibitions and artist talk details, view previous posts.

Join an Auckland Art Precinct Art Experience walking tour. Tours of the precinct, starting from John Leech Gallery, will take place at 12pm and 2:30pm. To register phone (09) 303 9395.
Listen to live jazz music, musician Gabriele Campani will perform.
Try a glass of award winning &Co wine. The &Co wine bottle is part of an major upcoming exhibition, How Wine Became Modern - Design + Wine 1976 to Now showing at the San Francisco MoMA. &Co is the official wine partner for Auckland Art Precinct.

Art Sunday 7th November Events

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11am

KidsClub

Auckland Art Gallery (Art Lounge)

12 – 1.30pm & 2.30 – 4pm

Auckland Art Precinct Art Experience

Guided tours with Anna Boyd and Annie Hensel

Start at John Leech Gallery

12 – 2pm

Glen Wolfgramm - informal Q + A with the artist

Orexart

1pm

Ngārino Ellis – the use of moko as self-portraiture in the 19th century.

Focus exhibition - Goldie & Lindauer: Approaching Portraiture

Auckland Art Gallery (Exhibition spaces)

2pm

Andre Hemer – Artist talk

Antoinette Godkin Gallery

2pm

KidsClub

Auckland Art Gallery (Art Lounge)

3pm

Sara Hughes - Artist talk

Gow Langsford Gallery

3pm

Denys Watkins & Warren Viscoe Artists talk

Focus exhibition - Local Revolutionaries: Art & Change 1965 to 1986

Auckland Art Gallery (Exhibition spaces)

Auckland Art Precinct Upcoming Exhibitions

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1. John Leech Gallery

Salon de Papier

3 November - 27 November 2010

2. Orexart

Glen Wolfgramm - Come Here Palangi

16 October - 13 November 2010

3. FHE Galleries

Ann Robinson - Abundance

30 October - 29 November 2010

4. Fingers Jewellery

Annual Group Show

7 Nov – 19 November 2010

5. Tim Melville Gallery

Wayne Youle - Almost Nearly Kind of Maybe But…

12 October – 13 November 2010

6. Parsons Bookshop

This year Parsons Bookshop celebrates 35 years of selling art books in Auckland. For the inaugural Auckland Art Week Parsons offers special prices on books; artists’ talks; and author signings.

7. Gow Langsford Gallery

Sara Hughes – Colour Codes

3 November – 27 November 2010

8. Antoinette Godkin Gallery

Andre Hemer – YOU CAN’T KILL ME, I’M NOTORIOUS

3 November – 4 December 2010

9. Auckland Art Gallery (current)

Local Revolutionaries: Art & Change 1965 – 11986

3 July 2010 – 30 April 2011

Goldie & Lindauer: Approaching Portraiture

26 July 2010 – 30 April 2011

Another Art Sunday Success

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Another successful Art Precinct Art Sunday unfolded on the 12th September. Auckland Art Precinct offered an afternoon for visitors to experience a range of exhibitions and special events. With gallery talks, Spring Catalogue Exhibition giveaways, kids art classes, exhibition previews and the opportunity to engage with exhibiting artists, Art Sunday was in full swing.

We look forward to the next Art Sunday on the 7^th November and its continued success. With more to experience and another fabulous afternoon in the CBD to look forward to, expect more information to be available soon!

Art Sunday

2010-09-09T12:26:00.005+12:00

Join us at Art Sunday and enjoy an afternoon of art in the city. Participating business will be open from 12 – 4 pm and hosting a range of exhibitions and special events.

Park in the Victoria Street car park, collect a voucher from one of the participating businesses and pay a flat rate of $4.

July Events in the Precinct

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Two upcoming events at Parsons:
Book Launch for Whare Karakia:Maori Church Building Decoration and Ritual in Aotearoa New Zealand 1834-1863
Published by Auckland University Press. The author Ricahrd A Sundt is visiting from USA and will be present at the launch.Everyone is invited for drinks and nibbles at Parsons
Thursday 15 July, 5.30-7.00pm.

Parsons Birthday Celebrations on Saturday 24 July 2010 from 10.00am - 5.00pm. We are 35 years old!!!!! So Birthday cake and celebrations. Happy Birthday Parsons!

Greer Twiss Survery 1963- 2002 at John Leech Gallery
14 July - 7 August
Opening 13 July: 5 - 7 pm

New Traditions: Recurring Themes in Maori Art at Gow Langsford Gallery.
14 - 24 July
Opening 13 July, 5-7 pm

The Gloves are Off: Dick Frizzell at Gow Langsford Gallery
28 July - 7 August
Opening 27 July, 5 - 7 pm

Art PM

2010-06-02T11:33:00.014+12:00

An evening of art in the heart of the city.

In celebration of the Auckland Festival of Photography, the Art Precinct galleries will be open on Tuesday 8th June from 6 to 9 pm, serving boutique NZ wine from &Co.

We’ll also have a limited number of parking vouchers available from the Art Precinct galleries on the night, which can be redeemed at the Victoria Street Carpark, so parking for the event will only cost you $4 per vehicle.

WHAT'S ON

FHE Gallery
To the Heart of the Matter
Chris Charteris
17 May - 12 June

Chris Charteris is an established New Zealand sculptor and jewellery artist. Inspired by his natural interest in geology, Charteris works with a wide range of materials including pounamu, granite and Kauri gum. To the Heart of the Matter showcases a new body of work which, in line with previous collections, explores the intrinsic value of his materials and celebrates aspects of Pacific culture and history.

Gow Langsford Gallery
Say Yes
Patrick Reynolds
8 - 12 June

Say Yes, an exhibition of new works by Patrick Reynolds, is part of 3 x 1 a series of week long photographic exhibitions at Gow Langsford Gallery.

3 x 1 is a project series presented to coincide with the Auckland Festival of Photography (4 - 27 June). The preview of Patrick Reynold's Say Yes is part of Gravity Festival Tuesday, a signature event of the Festival. On the 8th June you can view ten photography exhibitions at nine galleries on the Gravity Festival Circuit, in Auckland City. Between 6 and 9 pm you can enjoy being transported between the participating galleries in the luxury of a brand new car - for free! Check out their website for details.

John Leech Gallery
Old Masters Crombie to Burton: Nineteenth Century NZ Photographers
19 May - 12 June

This exhibition focuses on the main nineteenth century New Zealand photographers who traversed the country in difficult circumstances to document the landscape and the people within. Although many of these photographers are known, John Leech Gallery thinks they deserve greater recognition for their efforts and expertise in documenting early New Zealand.

Parsons Bookshop
A fabulous stock of New Zealand and International photography, open till 9 pm.

OREX
Clearing
Ellie Smith

Fingers
9 New Messages
Jane Dodd
17 May - 28 June

Tim Melville
Tomorrow
Roberta Thornley
8 June - 3 July

Antoinette Godkin
Polychrome
Helen Calder
18 May - 12 June

City Art Rooms
Levitation of the Cryptoid
Matt Molloy
1 - 25 June

The Art Precinct voices its view on the Khartoum Place upgrade

2010-05-04T13:21:00.013+12:00

An open letter about Khartoum Place

To whom it may concern:

It's ironic that the suffrage mural, a monument to the importance of change, should become the very thing standing in the way of it. If there is one imperative the suffragist movement embodied, it was progress.

Those of us in favour of a structural redesign of Khartoum Place are pro-development, not anti-mural.

Any significant redevelopment necessitates the removal of the existing steps and fountain, and, as a result, the mural attached to them.

A new $135 million dollar state-of-the-art gallery redevelopment deserves a surrounding environment that complements and enhances it. In its present configuration, no amount of ‘freshening’ and ‘refurbishing’ will make Khartoum Place that environment.

The debate surrounding the mural is heated and misdirected. Its proposed removal and relocation is neither a comment on the mural’s artistic merits, nor on the noble cause it celebrates; it is a matter of good urban design.

When this debate first arose in 2005, then Mayor Dick Hubbard halted the mural’s removal stating: “The people have spoken, and they say there are parts of our city that we are proud of and we want to protect.”

Indeed there are. However, anyone who walks through Khartoum Place between 6 pm and 9 am would be hard placed to be proud of it.

The square and steps are littered with cigarette butts, food wrappers, chewing gum, and puddles of vomit and spittle; the tiles are sprayed with urine and other unidentified fluids; the fountain is a receptacle for powdered soap, bottles and cans and serves as a bathing and laundry facility for the local homeless.

For those of us who live and work in this strategic cultural precinct, Khartoum Place is a source of shame, not pride.

While none of us relish the intense disruption that further construction work would entail, we support the redesign because we recognise the importance of such development to the future of our city.

We are determined to march forward with the times.

Signed on behalf of the businesses in The Auckland Art Precinct

Jennifer Buckley (OREXART)
Kathlene Fogarty (FHE Galleries)
Tim Melville (Tim Melville Gallery)
Rex Armstrong (OREXART)
Roger + Helen Parsons (Parsons Bookshop)
Alan Preston (Fingers Jewellery)
Michael Couper (Fingers Jewellery)
John Gow (John Leech Gallery)
Georgina Barr (John Leech Gallery)
Gary Langsford (Gow Langsford Gallery)
Anna Jackson (Gow Langsford Gallery)
Antoinette Godkin (Godkin Gallery)

Living Room in Khartoum Place

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The Art Precinct is alive with performance art this week thanks to the Living Room series. Living Room is an annual Auckland City Council public art event, and the focus of this year’s programme has been on collaborative partnerships between artists, choreographers and dancers.The 2010 series A Week of Goodness, curated by Pontus Kyander, celebrates the notion of giving and kindness on the streets of Auckland CBD.

Choreographer Sean Curham and the et al. collective have worked collaboratively on an interactive work one-to-many and many-to-one specifically for Khartoum Place.

The et al. collective represented New Zealand at the 2005 Venice Biennale with its critically acclaimed installation, the fundamental practice. Other works have addressed fundamentalist practices and ideological schemes and their impact on societies. In their installations, various practices run through and alongside one another. Scientific experiments, political ideologies, the classroom and the most extreme religious rituals are dismantled and exposed as mind-control mechanisms.

The artists' approach is to find fiction and appropriation to mirror these belief structures. One-to-many and many-to-one, the work included in Auckland City Council's Living Room 2010 will continue this process of exploring aspects of global society as conceptual and visual artworks. See more about the collective on their website.

Sean Curham has an ever changing practice. Movement and performance in the broadest sense continue to be of interest. Most recent works include Speedy legs, slow arms - speedy arms, slow legs (Glitch, AUT, Dec 2009), One - a season which Sean both curated and performed in ( Heritage Festival, Auckland, October 2009), and Four Legs Better Than Two a 'dog walking' art in community work created as an Otago University Fellow in 2009. This work will be represented in Sydney 2011.

Also in 2009 he presented Bedrock at the Art of Difference (Melbourne). He is also currently developing She's a sensation - a suite of new works to be staged in late 2010/2011 with the support of CNZ. (sourced Auckland City Council website)

Check out the Auckland City Council website for more information and pop down to the Precinct to experience one-to-many and many-to-one.

Art Sunday Success

2010-03-27T11:50:00.016+13:00

The Art Precinct Art Sunday was a huge hit with loads of visitors to the Precinct. Gow Langsford Gallery livened up Lorne St by placing sculptures by British artist Barry Flanagan and local artist Paul Dibble outside the gallery for the day, while The Lane Gallery ran a kids art competition. Other visitors enjoyed the live music at City Art Rooms and Antoinette Godkin Gallery and a talk by exhibiting artist Jonathan Jones at Tim Melville Gallery. Parsons Bookshop contributed to the day with a great offer on selected books just for Art Precinct visitors.

We can now look forward to the next one scheduled for later in the year.

Art Sunday 14th March

2010-03-10T14:09:00.005+13:00

A day of art in the heart of the city.

14 March 2010, 12 - 5 pm

Art Sunday coincides with the opening of The 4th Auckland Triennial and with all the Precinct businesses open on that Sunday as well as free entertainment and giveaways it should be a great day.

Art Sunday is an opportunity to celebrate the Auckland Art Precinct, The 4th Auckland Triennial, the building of the Auckland Art Gallery and the fact that we live in a culturally and artistically thriving environment. Some events that will occur during the Art Sunday include a children’s drawing competition at The Lane Gallery, a coffee voucher handout at Parsons Bookshop, and Gow Langsford Gallery will be holding a draw to win a collection of art books including a signed copy of Max Gimblett’s 2003 monograph. (Conditions apply.)

Start your art adventure in Khartoum Place where you can pick up your Art Sunday map then follow the yellow dots. Throughout the Precinct, local cafes will be serving great coffee and the galleries will be offering boutique NZ wine and of course some of NZ’s best art.

Galleries and participating businesses will be open 12 - 5 pm.

WHAT'S ON

JOHN LEECH GALLERY
New Zealand Masters This exhibition features major works by Shane Cotton, Charles Frederick Goldie, Max Gimblett, Gordon Walters, Ralph Hotere, Toss Woollaston, Dick Frizzell, Rita Angus and Wero Taroi.

OREXART
LAURENCE BERRY: PROVINCIAL LANDSCAPE Not 100% Pure. Berry’s large and complex landscape paintings of New Zealand’s urban centres celebrate iconic civic landmarks yet eschew the picturesque.

FHE GALLERIES
MARTI FRIEDLANDER: THE MOKO SUITE Friedlander’s renowned photographs of Kuia were part of a collaborative project with the late historian Michael King, for the publication Moko – Maori Tattooing in the 20th Century.

FINGERS JEWELLERY
JOANNA CAMPBELL: GOOD AS GOLD This light-hearted jewellery collection reinterprets Kiwi colloquialisms that have ‘stuck around’ for generations.

TIM MELVILLE GALLERY
JONATHAN JONES This Aboriginal artist’s dazzling installations of fluorescent light have been winning prizes and making waves throughout Australia.

THE LANE GALLERY
FIVE ARTISTS: SOUL-SCAPES Inspired by the land and our social history, this group show features the work of Kylie Rusk, Inge Doesburg, Frith Wilkinson, Clyde Scott and Liam Davidson.

GOW LANGSFORD GALLERY
REUBEN PATERSON: DEAR BEAUTY, DEAR BEAST A new body of glitter work developed by the artist in reaction to the provocation debate, or ‘gay panic’, defence.

ANTOINETTE GODKIN GALLERY
ANDY TOLHURST: SLOW BURNING Discarded packaging is reinterpreted and magnified, using unorthodox materials to depict the original packaging – plastic bottles, metal bottle tops and cardboard packets.

PARSONS BOOKSHOP
Celebrating 35 years of selling fine art books in Auckland.

Welcome to the Auckland Art Precinct

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Welcome to the Auckland Art Precinct blog where you can follow what's happening at the heart of Auckland's visual arts scene.