The Bentinck Project

Woolloongabba Art Gallery, Brisbane
7 April - 28 May 2006

Published June 2006

Reality-technicians: everyday sorcery in installation art in New Zealand

'There was a flash of light, a smell of laundry and the penetrating fumes of a powerful cleanser, then a neutral nothing-smell, not even the usual substituted forest glade or field of lavender or carnation, and all that remained of Tommy were two faded footprints on the floor.'

Published June 2006

Miriam Stannage: Sensation

John Curtin Gallery, Perth
10 February - 13 April 2006

Published June 2006

Corrupting Youth

Curated by Tristan Stowards
Contemporary Art Services
Tasmania, Hobart
4 March - 2 April 2006

Published June 2006

Seeking Origins - Whakapapa Genealogy

Published June 2006

Of New Zealand Art and Letters

When it comes to New Zealand publications, the excitement generated by each forthcoming issue is as good a yardstick as any to judge by. Kate Montgomery provides details on some of New Zealand's top publications including Natural Selection (www.naturalselection.org.nz) edited by Gwyneth Porter and Dan Arps and designed by Warren Olds, Crease (www.crease.org.nz) edited by Chloe Lane, Ceili Murphy and Susie Pratt and designed by Kentaro Yamada, Ramp (www.rampmagazine.org), White Fungus (www.whitefungus.com), Artspace catalogues and publications (www.artspace.org.nz), The Physics Room (www.physicsroom.org.nz), Artbash (www.artbash.co.nz), Presto, Landfall (www.otago.ac.nz/press/landfall) and those from artist-run spaces such as The High Street Project (www.hsp.org.nz), Enjoy (www.enjoy.org.nz), rm103 (www.rm103.org), Canary (www.canarygallery.com), Cuckoo (www.cuckoo.org.nz) and Special.

Published June 2006

An Artist's Economy: Madden, Stevenson, Upritchard

New Zealand artists Peter Madden, Michael Stevenson and Francis Upritchard have each worked within disparate environments and local economies for some years, in Auckland, Berlin and London respectively. Each of them self-consciously explores alternative economies available to them through the production of art. Between them Madden, Stevenson and Upritchard have participated in such art events as the Venice Biennale and exhibited at the Tate Gallery, Darren Knight Gallery, the Museum of New Zealand, Herbert Read Gallery and the Bart Wells Institute.

Published June 2006

State of the Art New Zealand

This essay draws on some of the themes and issues raised by the 1997 report 'New Vision: A Critical View of the Visual Arts Infrastructure', commissioned by Creative New Zealand and the Chartwell Trust to document the state of New Zealand's visual arts infrastructure of the time. It is here used in reference to offer a series of (partial, personal and biased) snapshots that consider the state of the visual arts scene in New Zealand. Some key figures here referred to include Gordon H. Brown, Lee Weng Choy, Greg Burke, John Maynard, Cheryll Sotheran, Priscilla Pitts, John McCormack, Pae White, Sam Durant, Lee Bul, Peter Robinson, Ann Shelton, Fiona Clark, Giovanni Intra, Fumio Nanjo, Jonathan Watkins, Mercedes Vicente, Tyler Cann, Robert Leonard, David Hatcher, Louise Garrett, Simon Rees, Michael Stevenson, Ronnie van Hout, Francis Upritchard, Denise Kum, Yuk King Tan, Joyce Campbell, Hamish McKay, Andrew Jenson, John Gow, Gary Langsford, Michael Lett, Heather Galbraith, Jenny Todd, Brian Butler and others.

Published June 2006

New Arrival: Brian Butler, Director of Artspace

Interview with Brian Butler, the new Director of Artspace, Auckland. Questions are raised regarding Butler's decision to leave his position at the Los Angeles cutting edge art gallery 1301PE in order to direct a publicly funded space in Auckland and his visions for the future of Artspace.

Published June 2006

The Late Sessions

Videos presented by 1/2 dozen
Curated by the 'pixel pirates', Soda_Jerk
George Street Cinema, Sydney
25 January 2006

Published June 2006

Excess: Penny Mason

Academy Gallery, Inveresk, Tasmania
13 February - 7 April 2006

Published June 2006

Braided Rivers: Regionalism in New Zealand Art

Andrew Paul Wood focuses on some of the issues pertaining to New Zealands regionalist tensions, particularly the obvious division of the North and South Islands. Furthermore he looks at some of the opposing aesthetic qualities to have come from artists of the North and the South regions. This is here discussed through reference to artists Colin McCahon, Don Binney, Pat Hanly, Bill Sutton, Rita Angus, Gordon Walters, Milan Mrkusich, Gretchen Albrecht, Ronnie van Hout, Bill Hammond, John Pule, Elizabeth Allan, Dorothy Irvine, Sandy Gibb, Billy Apple, Sofia Tekela-Smith, Ani ONeil, Niki Hastings-McFall, Shigeyuki Kihara, Peter Robinson, Shane Cotton, Ralph Hotere, Robyn Kahukiwa, Tony de Latour, Seraphine Pick, Saskia Leek, Grant Takle, Peter Wheeler and James Robinson.

Published June 2006