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    • Rob Garrett; photo by Babiche Martens; courtesy of APN Holdings & NZ Herald
    • Chelsea Rothbart, Wax workings-Sphere (day 5), 2012, wax, light bulb and electric cable; photo by Rob Garrett
    • Museum Brandhorst, Munich, by Sauerbruch Hutton Architects; photo by Rob Garrett
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10 favourite things

Viva interview with Rob Garrett

 
Making an exhibition of all things big and small By Zoe Walker Even everyday objects such as packaging and children's high chairs take on artistic meaning for an Auckland art curator. Art and landscape will merge at this week's New Zealand Sculpture OnShore, curated again by… Read more
    • Chelsea Rothbart, Single wax fold (detail) 2012, NZ Sculpture OnShore 2012; photo by Rob Garrett
    • Natalie Guy's elegant columns at Sculpture OnShore.
    • Children at play in Miriam van Wezel's project at Sculpture OnShore.
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Sculpture OnShore III

NZ Sculpture Biennial 2012

 
8-18 November 2012... NZ Sculpture OnShore is a biennial outdoor exhibition of the work of New Zealand artists across all genres and disciplines. Since its inception in 1995 the exhibition has become a major event on Auckland's North Shore and one of New Zealand’s largest outdoor… Read more
    • Cécile B. Evans (US / DE), “Straight Up” 2011, single channel HD video, video still; courtesy of the artist
    • Lost in a dream installation view, Snake Pit, curated by Rob Garrett; photo by Rob Garrett
    • Anastasia Klose, “True Love” 2009, single channel video, 4:17 minutes; image courtesy of the artist and Tolarno Galleries
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Lost in a dream

International group show at Snake Pit

 
“Lost in a dream” is an international contemporary art exhibition curated by Rob Garrett for Snake Pit, Auckland; 19 October – 3 November 2012. The catalogue: “Lost in a dream” is accompanied by a catalogue with full colour reproductions of the artists’ works; artist statements… Read more
    • Katrin Kampmann and assistants, Die Wanderausstellung, Tyrol; photo courtesy of the artist
    • Katrin Kampmann, Die Wanderausstellung, poster; courtesy of the artist
    • Katrin Kampmann studio, Berlin, May 2012; photo by Rob Garrett
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Katrin Kampmann (DE)

Wanderausstellung in New Zealand

 
FORTHCOMING... Katrin Kampmann is a Berlin-based artist whose practice includes painting, works on paper and various "itinerant stagings" of her paintings. Rob Garrett is commissioning new work from the artist for presentation in New Zealand. On a recent visit to her studio in Berlin, Rob Garrett… Read more
    • Francis Upritchard, Loafers 2012, Symonds Street, Auckland, photo by Rob Garrett
    • Francis Upritchard at the launch of Loafers, 2012, photo by Rob Garrett
    • Taarati Taiaroa, Stickup 2010, Micro Sites, photo Auckland Council
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Public art plan

Auckland's Learning Quarter

 
Francis Upritchard, "Loafers" Francis Upritchard's new artwork "Loafers" (2012) in Auckland is the latest public art work to be developed from the city's Learning Quarter public art strategy, part of Auckland Council's award-winning 30-year Learning Quarter Plan. London-based Francis Upritchard (Walters Prize 2006 and… Read more
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    • Steve Carr,
    • Daniel von Sturmer, The Cinema Complex sequence 2 (video still), AIVA Video Art Festival 2012
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Don’t hold your breath

Ängelholm International Video Art Festival

 
The opening video in the New Zealand-Australia programme encapsulates beautifully the paradox of viewing many video artworks. On the one hand, the ubiquity of the video form creates an impression of immediacy; and the impression that we are witness to something. Yet on the other hand,… Read more
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    • Neil Miller, Te tiaho o Matariki (concept drawing) 2011, image courtesy of the artist
    • Neil Miller, Te tiaho o Matariki (the brightness of the Pleiades) 2011, Hamilton; rendering courtesy of the artist and Reset Urban Design
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Neil Miller (NZ)

Te tiaho o Matariki, Hamilton

 
Neil Miller, “Te tiaho o Matariki” (the brightness of the Pleiades): The sculpture represents Pleiades in the form of a growing vine, with the stars of Matariki forming the fruit on the vine. It honours the city’s first inhabitants (Garden Place was first used by Maori… Read more
 

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