What’s On
Dummies & Doppelgängers
The unforgettable art of being someone else.
Leo Bensemann: Paradise Garden
A collection of Leo Bensemann’s extraordinary Mohua Golden Bay landscape paintings.
Edwards + Johann: Mutabilities—propositions to an unknown universe
Transformation, unpredictability and magic happen when unrelated worlds meet.
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Tim Jones
Commentary
Opening the Archives
Amongst the regular books, artist books and rare books, the Robert and Barbara Stewart Library and Archives also contains a treasure-trove of letters, diaries, photographs, newspaper cuttings, videos and more. These fascinating objects shine a light on the lives and careers of many of the artists in our collection, telling us how they developed their works, how they related to their contemporaries, even where they went on their holidays. They are used a good deal by curators and researchers – and you can see some of them in our current exhibitions He Kapuka Oneone and One O’Clock Jump – but they usually live well out of sight.
Exhibition
Season's Greetings
A selection of Christmas cards created by distinguished local artists.
Exhibition
Olivia Spencer Bower in the South Pacific
Olivia Spencer Bower's 1960 tour of the South Pacific
Notes
Cliff Rowe
Gallery staff were able to research some of the works in our collection while we were locked down.
Notes
Bringing up the rear
We finish our handwashing poems with R A K Mason's Song of Allegiance, read, as was the Keats sonnet that started this series, by me.
Notes
Keep on washing
Hand-washing remains the best thing we can do. Here's another poem against which to time your ablutions. Douglas MacDiarmid reads his own poem 'Daylight'. He wrote the poem and created the painting, Hills from Annat, in 1946.
Exhibition
Professor John Simpson's Gift of Books
A selection of the books given to the Gallery library by Professor John Simpson.
