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Curator Talk: Spring Time is Heart-break
Sriwhana Spong Badlands (still) 2023. Video. Courtesy of the artist and Michael Lett, Auckland
Juliet Carpenter The Sun Is Not To Be Believed (still) 2022/23. HD video with recursive editing algorithm (MSP patch), duration 23 mins 19 secs. Courtesy of the artist
Sam Norton As Long As Someone’s Watching 2023. C-type print on 3mm aluminium dibond. Courtesy of the artist
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Join curators Melanie Oliver and Jane Wallace on the opening morning of our new contemporary exhibition as they introduce you to Spring Time is Heart-break: Contemporary Art in Aotearoa.
Working in textiles, sculpture, painting, photography, moving image and sound, the twenty-four artists in Spring Time is Heart-break explore the transitions between places, and across time. An Ursula Bethell poem lends the exhibition its title, echoing the seasonal temporality and tenderness in the works. Spring Time is Heart-break compels you to think, and feel.
Featuring work by:
Anoushka Akel, Emerita Baik, Wendelien Bakker, Megan Brady (Kāi Tahu, Ngāi Tūāhuriri, Pākehā), Heidi Brickell (Te Hika o Papauma, Ngati Apakura, Kahungunu, Rangitāne, Rongomaiwahine), Juliet Carpenter, Angel C. Fitzgerald, Tyne Gordon, John Harris and Steven Junil Park, Priscilla Rose Howe, Abigail Aroha Jensen (Ngāti Porou, Ngāi Tāmanuhiri), Madison Kelly (Kāi Tahu, Kāti Māmoe), Etanah Lalau-Talapā, Jimmy Ma’ia’i, Lucy Meyle, Sam Norton, Campbell Patterson, Tia Ranginui (Ngāti Hine Oneone), Luke Shaw, Sorawit Songsataya, Sriwhana Spong, Ilish Thomas, Aliyah Winter
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Spring Time is Heart-break: Contemporary Art in Aotearoa
Until 24 March | All ground floor galleries; Until 19 May | Selected ground floor galleries
A major exhibition featuring works that tell stories about personal and collective histories, communication, distance and relationships to our environment.