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Blue Planet
21 Nov 2009 – 20 Feb 2011
Looking at the ways artists have used the colour blue, Blue Planet celebrates imaginative art making and thinking. Shaped with younger audiences in mind.
Gavin Hipkins Romance: New York (jellyfish) (detail) 2006. C-type print. Private collection, Christchurch. Reproduced courtesy of the artist, Hamish McKay Gallery and Starkwhite
About this Exhibition
Blue is a feeling, a place to dream, an endless idea and the colour of our amazing planet as seen from space.
Looking at the ways artists have used the colour blue, Blue Planet celebrates imaginative art making and thinking, as well as different cultural and global perspectives.
Blue Planet is shaped with younger audiences in mind. It includes art by Reuben Paterson, Jae Hoon Lee, Helen Calder, Francis Upritchard, Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba, Gavin Hipkins, Richard Maloy, Len Castle, Megan Jenkinson, Peter Madden, Rohan Wealleans, Max Gimblett, Shona Firman, Colin McCahon and Eileen Mayo, together with traditional Nigerian sculpture and Japanese prints.
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Current Exhibitions
Jae Hoon Lee Annapurna 2010. Digital photograph. Commissioned in 2010 for Springboard
Jae Hoon Lee: Annapurna
Nov 2010 – Sep 2012
Forecourt
Julia Morison Aibohphobia 2011. Acrylic paint
Julia Morison: Aibohphobia
Jun 2011 – Sep 2012
Forecourt
Wayne Youle I seem to have temporarily misplaced my sense of humour (detail) 2011. Reproduced courtesy of the artist
Wayne Youle: I seem to have temporarily misplaced my sense of humour
Ongoing