Exhibitions
Events
On display
Hana O'Regan responds to Fiona Pardington
Talk
Past event
Philip Carter Family Auditorium
Free
Building on her beautiful essay ‘Taku Hokika kit e Kāika / My Journey Home’, in Fiona Pardington: A Beautiful Hesitation, Hana O’ Regan (Kāi Tahu) explores the Kāi Tahu narratives, landscapes and traditions woven through Pardington’s work, while also discussing her own personal connection to these stories, places and traditions.
Hana O'Regan is general manager – Oraka for Kāi Tahu and is currently completing her PhD at AUT. She has also lectured at Otago University, and was director of Pacific and Māori studies at Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology, now called Ara.
Related reading: Talk, Fiona Pardington, Free event
Exhibition
Fiona Pardington: A Beautiful Hesitation
6 November 2016
A survey exhibition by a leading New Zealand photographer explores sex, death and the female gaze.
Commentary
Beyond The Fields We Know
In the canons of received taste, the unicorn figurine doesn’t rank terribly highly beyond kitsch. Sitting in your hand, it’s cutesy, twee, trivial and quaint (though a piece of master-worked Venetian glass from Murano is a pricey and collectable item).
Commentary
The Camera as a Place of Potential
To Māori, the colour black represents Te Korekore – the realm of potential being, energy, the void, and nothingness. The notion of potential and the presence of women are what I see when I peek at Fiona Pardington’s 1997 work Moko. And I say peek deliberately, because I am quite mindful of this work – it is downright spooky. Moko is a photographic rendering of a seeping water stain upon the blackboard in Pardington’s studio, taken while she was the recipient of the Frances Hodgkins Fellowship in Dunedin in 1997.
Event
Taranaki by Christopher Perkins
Join curator Ken Hall as he discusses Christopher Perkins's Taranaki in From Here on the Ground on the first floor.
Event
Sign Language Tours
Celebrate Sign Language Week and take a free guided tour of our exhibition highlights with one of our guides and a sign language interpreter.
Event
Oh Baby, It's Art!
A free, guided art tour especially for parents with babies. Buggies welcome.
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Art Safari
A chance for pre-schoolers to paint, glue, print, stamp and colour without making a mess at home. Art Safari is designed for our youngest budding artists between 2-4 years old.
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Late Night Tour
Take a free guided tour of our exhibition highlights with one of our friendly, knowledgeable guides.
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Introduction to the Gallery Tour
Take a free guided tour of our exhibition highlights with one of our friendly, knowledgeable guides.
Article
A Tale of Two Chiefs
If you have recently visited He Taonga Rangatira: Noble Treasures at the Gallery you will have been struck by Fiona Pardington's two large photographic portraits of lifelike busts of Ngāi tahu tipuna (ancestors).
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New Zealand in the Biennale of Sydney and the Biennale of Sydney in New Zealand
and the Biennale of Sydney in New Zealand