Summer 2005 cover

Issue °130, Summer 2005

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FEATURING

spaces

POSTCARDS

From Christchurch, Central Otago, Auckland, Wellington

LOOK!

Shane Cotton’s eerie painting, Te Waiwhariki, travels back into family history

CODE OF PRACTICE

The first in a series outlining artists’ and dealers’ rights and responsibilities

AUCTION SCENE

Hamish Coney reckons now is the perfect time for good buys and occasional bargains

places

SKETCHES

The cream of Te Papa’s collections, New Zealand International Arts Festival, indigenous Pacific artists at Waikato Museum, Waitakaruru Arboretum and Sculpture Park, Hamilton’s stone sculpture symposium, Mercury Energy Pohutukawa Festival, Mercury Bay Cultural Weekend, gallery with a mission, Skirt travels to Vienna, Tattoonesia in Moorea, award round-up

UPCOMING

Future exhibitions and events

REVIEWS

WHAT’S ON

Your comprehensive guide to gallery exhibitions and art events

faces

PROFILE

Sriwhana Spong’s videos take us on a magical mystery tour of horror flicks and counter culture

STUDIO

Photographer Gil Hanly documents the completion of a monumental copper work by Stephen Bambury

DISPATCH

Reuben Paterson milks goats and paints gounds on a tiny Greek island

FLYING VISIT

Australian artist Linde Ivimey’s extraordinary saints send shivers down the spine

OPENING SHOTS

Around the galleries

features

FUN-DAMENTAL ART

Humour in New Zealand art? You must be joking

FULLY BOOKED

Artists who do amazing things with the books and magazines no one else wants

REFUSE TO BE TRENDY

Waitakere City’s Trash to Fashion awards

The Summer 2005 issue of Art News New Zealand includes essays on humour in New Zealand art and artists who reinvent discarded books and magazines in their work, a profile of Sriwhana Spong; a visit to the studio of Stephen Bambury, photographed by Gil Hanley; a dispatch from Greece by Reuben Paterson; and a closer look at the work of  Linde Ivimey. Our columnists discuss Shane Cotton’s painting Te Waiwhariki,  best practice for artists and dealers’ and market insights from Hamish Coney. 

Other highlights include a round up of the cream of Te Papa’s collections and short insights into the New Zealand International Arts Festival, indigenous Pacific artists at Waikato Museum, Waitakaruru Arboretum and Sculpture Park, Hamilton’s stone sculpture symposium, Mercury Energy Pohutukawa Festival, Mercury Bay Cultural Weekend, Skirt travels to Vienna and Tattoonesia in Moorea.

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