e-News October 2009

Late last month, the NZ Contemporary Art Trust presented the first of what is to become a series of Art Talks. Melbourne critic and writer Justin Clemens challenged the audience with an entertaining and cranium-expanding lecture about contemporary art’s current obsession with politics.

For those of you who missed the lecture, or would like to test your recall on a few points, you can review his notes via the link below.

More talks of this kind will follow next year. If you are interested in attending, please contact me to register your interest.

Meantime, if travel to the UK is on the cards mid month, you can catch Frieze Art Fair, Regents Park, London. What, and leave this beautiful weather?

Jennifer Buckley
Director - Auckland Art Fair
Highlights. Links
Art Precinct
Auckland
Leading galleries and specialist shops have banded together to form an Art Precinct in the heart of the city. Park in Kitchener Street and follow the yellow dots as you take a walk around the block. more
Tim Melville
Auckland
Wayne Youle
In the precinct this month you will find Token, Wayne Youle's exhibition of sculpture and historical photography, questioning the use of Maori images to sell Pakeha messages. 13 Oct - 7 Nov 2009. more
McNAMARA
Wanganui
Murray Lloyd
Scenes in Maoriland draws on historic 20th C NZ postcards reconfigured with a contemporary interpretation and presented as editioned photographs.
A set of postcards based on these photographs will be available at: Parsons Books [Auckland] October 10 – 30. more
IVAN ANTHONY
Auckland
Matt Hunt
Conspiracy theory, Evangelicalism and popular culture collide in Battle for the world hotel, a series of fantastical paintings by this Wellington based artist.
30 Sept – 24 October. more
PAUL NACHE
Gisborne
Star Gossage
Gossage dwells in the realm of her own psychic landscape, drawing on both personal and historical myth and prophesy. These new paintings appear bathed in the sunlight that gives the exhibition its title: Ao (Light). more
Whitespace
Auckland
James Ormsby
In these monumental graphite works, Ormsby continues to research his family history and comment on the impact of new cultures on indigenous culture, flora and fauna. 13 - 31 October. more
Bartley + Company
 Wellington
Brett Graham
Searching for Tangaroa explores the convergence of ancient and contemporary beliefs and technologies. He employs high-tech underwater scanners in a mythical quest for the location of Hui te anga nui, the house of the god of the sea and the original site of carving. Until 31 October. more
Artspace
Auckland
New Artists Show
There are still a few days left to catch this new artist show – an annual barometer of emerging national talent. This year’s version features three artist-led: Newcall, run by a collective of recent Elam graduates, Fresh Gallery Otara, a Manukau City Council initiative for contemporary Pacific art, and Dunedin’s performance space, None. Until 10 October. more
Niagara Galleries
Melbourne
Noel McKenna
Regional architecture, domestic pets and off beat icons of Australian (and New Zealand) kitsch are portrayed with humour and honesty by this Sydney based painter. Until 24 October. more
Ray Hughes
Sydney
Sichuan Hot
Originally curated by the Queensland College of Art Gallery, Sichuan Hot is a selection of forward looking work by some of the old masters and significant newcomers to the Beijing art scene. Until 21 October. more
Sutton Gallery
Melbourne
Anne Ferran
These haunting photographic images, are part of Ferran’s ongoing exploration of Australia’s colonial past. Depicting a series of grassy landscapes, they images record the location of a 19th century prison for women convicts in Tasmania. 22 October – 21 November. more
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Frieze Art Fair
Galleries at a glance.

Anna Miles
Anna Schwartz Gallery
Antoinette Godkin Gallery
Artis Gallery
Bath Street Gallery
Bartley + Company
Bowen Galleries
Brett McDowell Gallery
Darren Knight
FHE Galleries
Gow Langsford Gallery
Hamish McKay Gallery
Ivan Anthony
Jensen
John Leech Gallery
Jonathan Smart Gallery
Masterworks Gallery
Mark Hutchins
Martin Browne Fine Art
McNamara Gallery
Michael Lett
Milford Galleries
Niagara Galleries
Nellie Castan
Neon Parc
OREXART
Page Blackie Gallery
PAULNACHE
Peter McLeavey
Ray Hughes Gallery
Roslyn Oxley
Sanderson Contemporary Art
Sue Crockford Gallery
Suite
Sutton Gallery
Tim Melville Gallery
Tolarno Galleries
Two Rooms
Warwick Henderson Gallery
Whitespace
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