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    • Bill Hammond, Boulder Bay 4, 2001

Bill Hammond

Boulder Bay, 2001
 
Boulder Bay, facing out to sea from Banks Peninsula, is a place for primary school field trips. A place where children yelling to each other clamber over boulders to explore rock pools filled with tender sea anemones, barnacles and starfish. It is all blue sea and… Read more
    • Ralph Hotere, Towards Aramoana 1982

Ralph Hotere

Towards Aramoana, 1982
 
Walk on wet sand; in the extreme shallows where water and sand seem one substance until disturbed and forced apart, momentarily, by the weight of your foot. See how quickly the liquefied sand oozes back creating a delicate membrane that erases your footprints. Notice how the… Read more
    • Milan Mrkusich, Dark Painting III (detail), photo by Rob Garrett
    • Milan Mrkusich, Painting Dark III
    • David Lynch (Dir), Lost Highway (movie stills)
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Milan Mrkusich's vertigo

Painting Dark III, 1971
 
In David Lynch’s 1996 movie Lost Highway there is a moment of all-enveloping black that defies cinematic logic. As the camera follows Fred, played by Bill Pullman, through the interior of his luxurious but fashionably barren house, actor, walls and all bearings disappear. The darkness was… Read more
    • Speculation, NZ's 2007 pocket pavilion at Venice Biennale
    • Speculation, NZ's 2007 pocket pavilion at Venice Biennale
    • Speculation, NZ's 2007 pocket pavilion at Venice Biennale
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NZ's Pocket Pavilion

2007 Venice Biennale project
 
While the big boats battled it out in Valencia, artists, curators and supporters launched New Zealand’s cheeky unofficial, portable and pocketable pavilion in Venice for the 52nd Biennale of Contemporary Art: Speculation. Floating into Venice almost as improbably as icebergs drifted past the Otago coast… Read more
    • John Reynolds Cloud 2006, installation in the Art Gallery of New South Wales (detail), courtesy of the artist; photo by Patrick Reynolds
    • Michael Parekowhai, The Indefinite Article, 1990, collection of Jim and Mary Barr, Wellington
    • John Reynolds Cloud 2006, installation in the Art Gallery of New South Wales (detail), courtesy of the artist; photo by Patrick Reynolds
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Walking with letters

Parekowhai, Reynolds & Pule
 
Since the middle of last century one of the strongest underpinnings of the word in art in New Zealand has been literary. Literature and citation are evident in the works of Michael Parekowhai, John Reynolds and John Pule. The Indefinite Article was one of several Michael… Read more
    • Richard Killeen, Street Walker, 1969

Richard Killeen

Street Walker, 1969
 
I wonder where he’s off to, this man in his red suit. Striding purposefully out of the frame towards something, someone, or somewhere; or is he simply hot-footing it away from something dark before anyone notices? Look at the way he isn’t quite grounded on the… Read more
    • Shane Cotton, Rangiheketini (triptych)

Shane Cotton

Rangiheketini, 1998
 
Heke is name for a rafter in a meeting house and for the tendril of a gourd plant connecting the main stem to its new anchor points. In this imposing triptych the heke is both the name on the middle panel and a word for the… Read more
 
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