The Bentinck Project

Woolloongabba Art Gallery, Brisbane
7 April - 28 May 2006

Published June 2006

An Overview: 'Roots and All'

Visual Arts at the 2006
Adelaide Bank Festival of Arts

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

21st Century Modern: 2006 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art

Curated by Linda Michael
Art Gallery of South Australia
4 March - 7 March 2006

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

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

What Survives: Sonic Residues in Breathing Buildings

Performance Space, Sydney
25 March - 22 April 2006

Published June 2006

Colliding Worlds, First Contact in the Western Desert 1932-1984

Curated by Philip Batty
Tandanya National Aboriginal
Cultural Centre
Adelaide Bank Festival of Arts
18 February - 28 May 2006

Published June 2006

Seeking Origins - Whakapapa Genealogy

Published June 2006

You And Me And Everyone We Know: Photography

This article looks at the controversy that surrounded Ans Westra's pictorial essay Washday at the Pa, published during the 1960's, as a way of addressing the current trends in New Zealand photography. Emma Bugden uses this example to raise issues of Maori and Pekeha representations in New Zealand art and the renewed interest in social realism among New Zealand photographers in recent years. Artists included in this discussion are Edith Amituana, Andrew Ross, Marti Friedlander, Peter Black, Peter Peryer, Anne Noble, Laurence Aberhart, Greg O'Brien, Justin Paton, Ava Seymour, Joel Peter Witkin, Fiona Amundsen and Neil Pardington.

Published June 2006

Other(wize)

Fire-Works Gallery
Brisbane
25 November - 24 December 2006

Published June 2006