tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28871617325050265492024-02-24T22:06:45.097+13:00OUTPOSTBlogs from staff and friends of Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmakifeedbackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07510758077634254709noreply@blogger.comBlogger505125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2887161732505026549.post-33128706122694982022015-11-13T17:02:00.002+13:002015-11-16T09:32:03.198+13:00Peter McLeavey
It is with sadness that we learnt today of the passing of Peter McLeavey, a great friend to New Zealand’s artists and a wonderful advocate for art.
Staff of Auckland Art Gallery have long had an enduring association with Peter and his much admired Wellington gallery on the first floor of 147 Cuba Street. Our thoughts go to his family and friends and we send them our sincere condolences.
OverRon Brownsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13041473689652893078noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2887161732505026549.post-83610264501060416602015-09-14T15:34:00.002+12:002015-09-15T17:31:04.925+12:00Len Lye Centre – an Architecture of Deleuzian Folds
Len Lye Centre. Photo: Patrick Reynolds. Courtesy Patterson Associates.
‘[I’m] interested in the business of energy and getting the feeling of ZIZZ.’
feedbackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07510758077634254709noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2887161732505026549.post-73102538282565745542015-08-11T16:21:00.000+12:002015-08-11T16:28:13.496+12:00Outreach Internships: Strengthening Community Pathways to Auckland Art Gallery
2015 Outreach Interns: Kylie Epapara, Joshua Good and Roberta Ellis
'Educators need to prepare learners to be citizens who desire to reconstruct society so that it improves the lives and satisfies the
needs of all people…'
– Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed
‘It’s an EYE-SORE!’ was an interesting description of the Les Sauvages de la Mer Pacificique wallpaper print in our Upper Grey feedbackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07510758077634254709noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2887161732505026549.post-86703665226556876512015-07-20T10:10:00.001+12:002015-07-20T11:27:32.795+12:00Harvey BengeHarvey Benge is a local camera artist with an international reputation for making photo-books in New Zealand. He recently gifted to the Gallery’s E.H. McCormick Research Library his entire photo-book production to date.
You can access an alphabetical list of Harvey’s books here and a chronological list here.
Harvey has generously offered to further gift his photo-books as he publishes them. Ron Brownsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13041473689652893078noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2887161732505026549.post-59845139431336888192015-06-24T16:11:00.000+12:002015-06-29T09:49:23.785+12:00Report from Venice: All the World's FuturesLa Biennale di Venezia: the 56th International Art Biennale
All the World’s Futures (9 May–22 November 2015)
Entrance to the Giardini
Just days after the opening of the 56th Biennale biting criticisms of curator Okwui Enwezor’s Central Pavilion were already appearing. It seems that the oldest international showplace for contemporary art is also the most feverishly pitched and vulnerablefeedbackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07510758077634254709noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2887161732505026549.post-3719062566091269672015-05-14T12:37:00.003+12:002015-05-14T12:37:30.154+12:00Charles Heaphy 1820–1881
During the making of A Pioneering Spirit I was asked to provide an opportunity for a post-graduate student from the University of Auckland’s Art History Department. From my first meeting with Jacqueline Henderson I appreciated her curiosity for this early period in New Zealand’s art history.
Surveyor, explorer, writer, company propagandist, topographical artist and draughtsman Charles Nic Mawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00110551537907397668noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2887161732505026549.post-15408885713210960972015-04-10T11:30:00.000+12:002015-04-10T11:33:38.379+12:00Robert Ellis and Billy Apple
Robert Ellis visited the Gallery this week to view Billy Apple's exhibition The Artist Has To Live Like Everybody Else for the first time. I had earlier gone on a tour of the show with Billy where he told me about the genesis of many of the artworks. The public enjoyed meeting him as we were walking through.
During the mid 1950s, Billy attended night classes at Auckland's Elam School of Fine Ron Brownsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13041473689652893078noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2887161732505026549.post-7469710677311144542015-04-07T12:27:00.000+12:002015-04-07T12:28:32.020+12:00Michael Parekowhai: The Promised Land28 March – 21 June 2015, Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA), Brisbane
The word ‘retrospective’ comes from the Latin retrospectare, meaning ‘look back’. It must be quite confronting for a ‘mid-career’ artist working powerfully at full speed to be offered the opportunity of a retrospective: how to arc back in time, how to weigh up the balance of historical works, and how to present such a feedbackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07510758077634254709noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2887161732505026549.post-41782582655326415002015-03-19T09:36:00.002+13:002015-03-19T09:36:52.109+13:00E H McCormick Research Library Summer Art Archive Internship
This summer I was fortunate enough to be selected as the inaugural E H McCormick Research Library summer Archive intern.
I was given the choice of a number of archives that needed accessioning, finally settling on the IKON gallery archive.
The IKON gallery, originally known as ‘The Gallery’ was active in Auckland from 1960-1965, run by Don Wood and Frank Lowe. It was one of the first dealer Cecilia Lynchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15020767231154098213noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2887161732505026549.post-52598320233326455512015-02-09T10:58:00.001+13:002015-02-09T11:06:20.127+13:00Learning through the Arts: What’s the value? How do you do it well?Did you know that students participating in a one-off art gallery learning programme were shown to perform on average 9.1% better in their use of critical thinking skills than students who hadn’t? This improvement increased to about 18% for students from low socio-economic backgrounds, and students from ‘minority’ groups.
Auckland Art Gallery Schools’ Team do lots of research into best feedbackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07510758077634254709noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2887161732505026549.post-71788157159539646312015-02-09T10:28:00.000+13:002015-02-09T10:28:43.958+13:00Photography's Auckland
Auckland celebrated its 175th anniversary two weeks ago. There was a true party feeling downtown. Tomorrow we mark 175 years since the signing of Te Tiriti o Waitangi.
The Auckland anniversary festivities included a street display of huge blow-ups from historical negatives held in the Auckland Libraries collection. It was the biggest display of large Auckland photographs that I have seen.
Ron Brownsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13041473689652893078noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2887161732505026549.post-18519570119686565542014-12-23T16:56:00.003+13:002014-12-23T16:56:54.070+13:00On the Mend: Part IIIAn update on the conservation of Woman with a Floral Wreath
Last post, I described mending the tear, lining the canvas for support. Now finally I can give you an after treatment image.
Before Treatment After Treatment
To recreate the surface of the feedbackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07510758077634254709noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2887161732505026549.post-69170965846544095622014-12-18T11:00:00.000+13:002014-12-18T11:00:03.204+13:00Installing the Lindauer Māori Portraits exhibition in BerlinAs a Registrar, I have been responsible for the logistics associated with the tour of Gottfried Lindauer portraits travelling to Europe. It has been a complex process that I have been working on for the last 18 months, with exhibitions in both Berlin, Germany, and afterwards in Pilsen in the Czech Republic in 2015. Like Sarah Hillary, I was a courier, but in my case I travelled on a passenger feedbackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07510758077634254709noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2887161732505026549.post-49786820713302790152014-12-17T11:37:00.002+13:002014-12-17T20:05:25.338+13:00Art, artists and AIDS in New Zealand
Isn’t it frustrating that there are few ways to easily review historic broadcasts of New Zealand’s documentary film and television? Little of this material is straightforwardly accessible. While some thematically-based vintage moving image material is available, only a small amount is published online. One reason that vintage television material is difficult to access because of the demands Ron Brownsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13041473689652893078noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2887161732505026549.post-91676281914687532692014-12-11T15:43:00.000+13:002014-12-11T15:49:35.854+13:00International art courier
I recently travelled to Europe for the installation of the Gottfried Lindauer: The Māori Portraits exhibition at the Alte Nationalgalerie (Old National Gallery), Berlin. I couriered the twelve biggest paintings that were too large for a regular plane cargo and had to go by air freighter.
My role as courier began when the crated paintings were collected from Auckland Art Gallery and taken to feedbackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07510758077634254709noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2887161732505026549.post-25271344188637361022014-11-12T16:16:00.000+13:002014-11-12T16:16:42.202+13:00Development of Schools Programmes for Learners with Special NeedsTwenty students from Rutherford College’s Satellite unit visited the Gallery last term to participate in our Signs and Symbols (shape, pattern and colour) pilot programme – including a Gallery and Studio session.
We began with a quick impromptu tour of parts of the Gallery (I couldn’t not – the kids were so excited to be here!) They loved it! It was a good way to introduce the idea of symbols – feedbackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07510758077634254709noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2887161732505026549.post-40689900207411716672014-11-05T10:26:00.001+13:002014-11-05T10:27:54.509+13:00On the Mend: Part IIAn update on the conservation of Woman with a Floral Wreath
Before treatment began
Last week I described how the painting had been removed from its old stretcher and the excess wax carefully removed. The next steps in the treatment plan are to mend the tear in the canvas before lining the canvas for support and to enable re-stretching before retouching the loss so it is no longer a feedbackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07510758077634254709noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2887161732505026549.post-60068936183025166012014-10-31T10:38:00.000+13:002014-10-31T10:40:06.015+13:00On the Mend The conservation of Woman with a Floral Wreath from the collection of Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki.
Before treatment: the discolouration of old overpaint over a large tear in the lower right of the painting is very distracting.
Probably late 18th century, Woman with a Floral Wreath is a copy of the work of Jean-Baptiste Greuze (1725–1805). Scarred by an old tear in the feedbackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07510758077634254709noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2887161732505026549.post-49833162084240243862014-10-29T15:27:00.001+13:002014-10-29T15:27:39.270+13:00Gough Whitlam’s cultural legacy – a game-changer for the public imagination
The ‘towering patrician’ and former Prime Minister of Australia, the Honourable Edward Gough Whitlam AC QC (born 1916) passed away on Tuesday 21 October 2014 at the impressive age of 98. Much has been written and more will be said about this remarkable politician and key figure in Australian politics, both about his achievements and his miscalculations. I would like to make reference here to feedbackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07510758077634254709noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2887161732505026549.post-36795400493121706182014-10-20T13:54:00.000+13:002014-10-20T14:58:32.060+13:00Research and resources
We are Auckland’s wharenui/home for authentic and meaningful engagement with art for all...
Over the past couple of years, we’ve started working on expanding what we can offer for secondary students and their teachers, and this statement – part of the Gallery’s new purpose/values/vision statement, really resonates with much of our thinking over this time.
We are very conscious that thefeedbackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07510758077634254709noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2887161732505026549.post-68959897243439467442014-10-15T12:55:00.001+13:002014-10-15T12:55:23.638+13:00Jonathan Ngarimu Mane-Wheoki (1943–2014)
It is with tremendous sorrow that Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki acknowledges the passing of Professor Jonathan Ngarimu Mane-Wheoki (Ngāpuhi/Te Aupouri/Ngāti Kuri), who died peacefully on the evening of 10 October 2014.
Jonathan will always remain a deeply respected and greatly loved curator, academic and historian in the fields of art, architecture and culture. Since 2010 he has been a feedbackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07510758077634254709noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2887161732505026549.post-17246842145654014262014-09-12T11:51:00.001+12:002014-09-12T11:51:38.923+12:00Ralph Hotere's Godwit/Kuaka at City Gallery WellingtonIf you're a fan of Ralph Hotere's artwork and will be in Wellington between now and 23 November, I'd highly recommend that you visit City Gallery Wellington. We're very excited about the City Gallery's exhibition of Godwit/Kuaka, a much-loved large-scale mural by Ralph Hotere.
Installation view, Ralph Hotere Godwit/Kuaka 1977 enamel on board Chartwell Collection, Fionahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14309810846358440941noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2887161732505026549.post-7696047775447683982014-09-10T14:24:00.000+12:002014-09-10T14:24:49.749+12:00Recent acquisition – Una Garlick
In 1921 Una Garlick became the first woman member of the
Auckland Camera Club; later renamed the Auckland Photographic Society. She
was awarded their annual medal in 1926, following on from her many successes at
the Club’s monthly competitions.
Garlick exhibited internationally to acclaim between
1925 and 1931 and this success resulted in her becoming an Associate of the Royal
PhotographicRon Brownsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13041473689652893078noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2887161732505026549.post-29670127715409251382014-08-25T14:15:00.001+12:002014-08-25T14:15:14.244+12:00The Lab: If you were to live here...
A year ago this month the 5th Auckland Triennial, If you were to live here… closed after receiving the highest Triennial attendance to date of 90,000 visitors to its nine sites. All venues were free for the first time, which had a significant impact on attendance.
An electrifying component of the Triennial was The Lab, located in the Chartwell Gallery on the top floor of Auckland Art Gallery.feedbackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07510758077634254709noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2887161732505026549.post-24833839373424296772014-08-21T12:23:00.000+12:002014-09-24T14:36:49.269+12:00Curator’s response: Kalisolaite ’Uhila’s Mo’ui TukuhausiaPresented Bruce E. Phillips, Senior Curator, Te Tuhi, on 10 August 2014 at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, as part of a series of public talks in relation to the Walters Prize 2014.
This is the story of Kalisolaite ’Uhila’s project Mo‘ui Tukuhausia as it originally occurred at Te Tuhi in 2012.
I was first introduced to Kalisolaite through my friend and colleague James Pinkerfeedbackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07510758077634254709noreply@blogger.com0