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Neil Pardington, Land Vertebrates Store #1, Auckland Museum, Tamaki Paenga Hira, 2008
NEIL PARDINGTON: The Vault
17 December – 4 March
Large format photographic images looking behind the scenes in the collection stores of New Zealand Art Galleries and Museums. A touring exhibition from the Christchurch Art Gallery.
17 December – 4 March
Large format photographic images looking behind the scenes in the collection stores of New Zealand Art Galleries and Museums. A touring exhibition from the Christchurch Art Gallery.
Jim Dennison & Leanne Williams, Polly 2006
THE CRYSTAL CHAIN GANG: Fancy Fools Flight
10 December – 26 February
This is the first solo exhibition in a public gallery for Martinborough-based artists Jim Dennison and Leanne Williams. Fancy Fools Flight features an impressive new body of cast glass work which takes the bottle form as its starting point, each of the bottles featured is topped with an elaborate stopper with its own distinct personality. Also included is a chandelier fashioned from unlikely components, an impressive flock of budgies, tuis, bellbirds in a spectrum of colours and jewelled skull called Polly.
THE CRYSTAL CHAIN GANG: Fancy Fools Flight
10 December – 26 February
This is the first solo exhibition in a public gallery for Martinborough-based artists Jim Dennison and Leanne Williams. Fancy Fools Flight features an impressive new body of cast glass work which takes the bottle form as its starting point, each of the bottles featured is topped with an elaborate stopper with its own distinct personality. Also included is a chandelier fashioned from unlikely components, an impressive flock of budgies, tuis, bellbirds in a spectrum of colours and jewelled skull called Polly.
Marion Maguire, Curio from the Colonial Era, 2011
Titokowaru's Dilemma - Marian Maguire
29 October - 12 February
Titokowaru’s Dilemma represents the culmination of three years worth of research and print making by Marian Maguire, who is one of New Zealand’s most accomplished print makers. Having begun the research for this body of work in August of 2008, Maguire used her six week tenure as artist-in-residence at Tylee Cottage in 2010 to further research the project and visit notable historic sites in the Whanganui and Taranaki regions. Although work on Titokowaru’s Dilemma began at Tylee Cottage, the production of the final suite of work that you see in the gallery now has been completed at Maguire’s Christchurch print studio, since late last year.