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Raymond McIntyre: A Modernist View
Dynamic and progressive paintings and woodcuts from one of Aotearoa’s New Zealand foremost modernist artists.
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Māori artists consider the enduring relevance of taniwha in Aotearoa.
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Maurice Askew Untitled (Landscape with a circle of ancient standing stones)
The Rollright Stones, near Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, England.
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Thomas Rowlandson Bachelor's Fare or Bread, Cheese and Kisses
Picturing an amorous but not quite private moment, Thomas Rowlandson’s watercolour sketch takes its title from a phrase used by Anglo-Irish writer Jonathan Swift in 1738, “Bachelor’s fare: bread and cheese, and kisses”. It was a study for a popular print published in London in 1813.
(Out of Time, 23 September 2023 – 28 April 2024)
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William Hogarth The Five Orders of Perriwigs
William Hogarth created this engraving several weeks after the coronation of George III and Queen Charlotte, entertained by the range of elaborate coiffure there on display. Satirising both contemporary fashion and the vogue for analysing ancient classical architecture, he categorised hairpieces into architectural orders and labelled them with faux expert terms.
(Out of Time, 23 September 2023 – 28 April 2024)
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John Tole Winter's Morning, Auckland
John Tole started painting by taking lessons from Walter Wright and developed his cubist-inspired modern approach through contact with John Weeks, painting tutor at the Elam School of Art in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland. He and his younger brother Charles developed a similar approach to painting and often showed their work together. Known for their well-constructed, decorative landscapes, often featuring factories and industrial subject-matter, they also joined with John Weeks, Louise Henderson and Helen Brown to form the Thornhill Group, exhibiting together in the 1940s and 1950s.
(From Here on the Ground, 18 May – 17 November 2024)