Exhibitions
Events
On display
Helvetica
Film
Past event
Philip Carter Family Auditorium
Free
Helvetica is a fascinating documentary about typography, graphic design and global visual culture. It looks at the proliferation of one typeface as part of a larger conversation about the way type affects our lives.
Gary Hustwit’s documentary posits Helvetica — a sans-serif typeface developed in 1957 at the Haas Foundry in Munchenstein, Switzerland — as an emblem of the machine age, a harbinger of globalisation and an ally of modern art’s impulse toward innovation, simplicity and abstraction. Its versatility is showcased in shots of storefronts, street signs, public transportation systems, government forms, advertisements and newspaper vending boxes.
Related reading: Prints
Exhibition
Eileen Mayo: Nature, Art and Poetry
2 February – 9 June 2019
An artist’s intense love of nature echoes throughout her work.
Exhibition
The Golden Age
An exhibition of twentieth century British and New Zealand wood engravings.