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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.
Living Archives
Archives that tell stories about artists and history in Aotearoa
Whāia te Taniwha
Māori artists consider the enduring relevance of taniwha in Aotearoa.
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Collection
Pauline Rhodes Land Extensums, Port Hills
‘Extensums’ are the temporary sculptural works Pauline Rhodes constructs in her local landscape. After documenting them with a photograph, she quickly dismantles them to leave no trace.
Pauline has worked in this way in Te Poho-o-Tamatea The Port Hills and across Horomaka Banks Peninsula since the early 1970s, developing a close and nuanced relationship with the whenua. She works alone, using simple, lightweight materials to activate the distinct and changing energies of the landscape, which becomes a dynamic and recurrent participant in her sculptures, rather than a passive backdrop.
(Perilous: Unheard Stories from the Collection, 6 August 2022- 21 July 2024)
Collection
Pauline Rhodes Land Extensums, Port Hills
Pauline Rhodes often makes her works in Horomaka Banks Peninsula where she lives, placing sculptural objects like rods or rings in the landscape, photographing the installation and then removing it to leave the environment unaltered. In this work, green rods float on the surface of a stream or creek, following the water’s direction. For Rhodes, these interventions expand our perception of space and suggest an often unrecognised ecological continuum of naturally occurring processes that sustain the whenua.
whenua ~ land
He Kapuka Oneone – A Handful of Soil (from August 2024)
Collection
Pauline Rhodes Land Extensums, Southern Alps
‘Extensums’ are the temporary sculptural works Pauline Rhodes constructs in her local landscape. After documenting them with a photograph, she quickly dismantles them to leave no trace. Pauline has worked in this way in Te Poho-o-Tamatea The Port Hills and across Horomaka Banks Peninsula since the early 1970s, developing a close and nuanced relationship with the whenua. She works alone, using simple, lightweight materials to activate the distinct and changing energies of the landscape, which becomes a dynamic and recurrent participant in her sculptures, rather than a passive backdrop.
(Perilous: Unheard Stories from the Collection, 6 August 2022- 21 July 2024)
Notes
Clutha
Making the trip between Queenstown and Alexandra recently I was struck, as always, by the sight of the massive Clyde Dam.
Notes
Congratulations
This is to let you know that our senior curator Justin Paton has accepted a new position as Head Curator, International Art at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney.
Notes
Seeing Things
Driving from Whitecliffs (where?) to the Gallery each day leaves a lot of time for idle thoughts.