Group exhibition installation photos

Page Blackie Gallery opened its biennial Group exhibition with an artists' reception on Tuesday 27th April. The show features work by twelve exciting emerging artists and includes a great variety of work such as paintings on glass, large sculpture, water colour and gouache on paper, photography and oil painting. Pictured above are several installation shots of featured artworks.

The exhibition continues until 22 May, 2010.

Major exhibition of New Zealand art at Brisbane Gallery of Modern Art

The richness and diversity of contemporary New Zealand art and film will be celebrated in a major exhibition at Brisbane's Gallery of Modern Art (GoMA), opening tomorrow (May 1st) and running until July 4th. Entitled 'Unnerved: The New Zealand Project' the exhibition will feature more than 120 contemporary New Zealand works by more than 30 artists, dating from the late 1960's to the present, including Page Blackie Gallery artists Max Gimblett and Mark Adams.

See the link below for more information, including the curator's essay, public programmes and artist profiles.

http://qag.qld.gov.au/exhibitions/coming_soon/unnerved

Mark Adams and Tatau

Te Papa Press has recently published a wonderful new book documenting Mark Adams' decade spanning photographic series detailing Samoan tattoo practise. Tatau: Samoan Tattoo, New Zealand Art, Global Culture includes photographs by Mark Adams, as well as essays by Sean Mallon, Peter Brunt and Nicholas Thomas. There are also interviews with Adams and tattooist Sulu'ape Paulo II who each describe their individual creative practise. The book comes as a result of a successful exhibition which is still touring internationally.

Below is a link to an article about Tatau in the New Zealand Herald:

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/books/news/article.cfm?c_id=134&objectid=10637720

Please contact the Gallery if you are interested in this series of work.

Heather Straka features in the Listener

A fantastic article by David Eggleton in this week's Listener explores Heather Straka's fascinating exhibition history and reviews her current exhibition, The Asian, at the Dunedin Public Art Gallery. Click the image above to read the article.

Heather Straka interviewed on Radio New Zealand

Heather Straka was interviewed by Lynn Freeman on April 18th for Radio New Zealand's 'Arts on Sunday' programme. Below is a link to the website where audio of the interview may be found.

www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/artsonsunday/20100418

Heather's exhibitions The Attendants and Do Not Resuscitate will continue at the Page Blackie Gallery until 24th April 2010.

Photographs of the fantastic new Paul Dibble sculptures being installed in Upper Hutt

New Paul Dibble Sculptures for Upper Hutt

Click on the article below, featured in today's Dominion Post:

Neil Dawson in the Sunday Star Times

Click here to read the article on sculptor Neil Dawson in the latest Sunday Star Times. Neil's exhibition at Page Blackie Gallery opens on May 25th. Please contact the Gallery for further information, or to arrange a preview appointment.