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Blue Oyster Art Gallery exhibition: SEEDER
Thursday, 8 May 2014, 11:03 am | Blue Oyster Art Gallery
Ben Clement (b. 1989) lives and works in Auckland. Recent exhibitions include Video Easy, Michael Lett Gallery, Auckland (2014), Condensations, 30 Upstairs Gallery, Wellington (2013, with Andrew Kennedy), Chill Spree, Dog Park Art Project Space, ... More >>
The Third Ever Blue Oyster International Art Fair
Tuesday, 1 April 2014, 2:38 pm | Blue Oyster Art Gallery
The Blue Oyster Arts Trust is pleased to announce the return of the infamous and highly competitive Blue Oyster International Art Fair. Running for the third time ever, the Blue Oyster International Art Fair is one of the most highly anticipated ... More >>
[sic] - Zac Langdon-Pole - Blue Oyster Art Project Space
Wednesday, 15 January 2014, 12:46 pm | Blue Oyster Art Gallery
The Blue Oyster Art Project Space is pleased to present a major new work by Zac Langdon-Pole entitled [sic]. Langdon-Pole’s work frequently traces the relationships between the unseen or unknown and the concrete or tautological. More >>
Blue Oyster searches for new Director after recent move
Wednesday, 4 December 2013, 4:16 pm | Blue Oyster Art Gallery
Dunedin's Blue Oyster Project Art Space is searching for a new Director after its recent move to 16 Dowling Street. The Blue Oyster is a non-profit gallery that allows artists to exhibit experimental, non-commercial work, and has just recently moved ... More >>
Stud Flight - Mike Hewson
Friday, 29 November 2013, 2:13 pm | Blue Oyster Art Gallery
The oxymoronic, and frankly cheeky, nature of the exhibition's subtitle - a retrospective of new work - is not lost on anyone. There are, however, a number of factors at work which interrogate and defuse this strange proposition. The first of these is Hewson’s ... More >>
Beachcoma: Sam Thomas
Tuesday, 5 November 2013, 4:23 pm | Blue Oyster Art Gallery
Beachcoma is a series of new work by Auckland-based artist Sam Thomas. In it he explores the fictions surrounding Beach Boys impresario, Brian Wilson and his withdrawal from the music scene due to the onset of a number of mental health issues. Thomas spent ... More >>
Pinewood Bend 2013
Tuesday, 27 August 2013, 4:59 pm | Blue Oyster Art Gallery
The Blue Oyster re-opens its new premises with an exhibition of new paintings and floor works by Auckland-based artist Judy Darragh this Friday. Given Darragh’s history of exhibiting and being involved in the New Zealand project space environment, ... More >>
'Follow the Party of the Whale' at Dunedin Community Gallery
Monday, 1 July 2013, 4:39 pm | Blue Oyster Art Gallery
Follow the Party of the Whale Shannon Te Ao and Iain Frengley Exhibition Runs: Tuesday 2nd – Sunday 7th July 2013 Presented by the Blue Oyster for Dunedin Puaka Matariki Festival 2013 at the Dunedin Community Gallery (20 Princes Street) daily from 10.00am ... More >>
Put Up Your Dukes! Jill Sorensen and Gabrielle Amodeo
Friday, 14 June 2013, 3:13 pm | Blue Oyster Art Gallery
Put up your Dukes! is a visual debate between Auckland-based artists Gabrielle Amodeo and Jill Sorensen with the moot: In art, as in life, we occupy an ad-hoc middle ground in which the only certainty is the impossibility of certainty. The exhibition ... More >>
FOREX (Outcomes from the Blue Oyster's International Expedit
Thursday, 23 May 2013, 4:52 pm | Blue Oyster Art Gallery
Exploring ideas of economic and political isolation, FOREX: Outcomes from the Blue Oyster’s International Expeditions comprises moving image work, performance, text, and comprehensive documentation from SUPERMARKET, Stockholm and Art-Athina 18: Platforms, ... More >>
Gelber LuftBallon (Dunedin Research Project)
Thursday, 18 April 2013, 3:54 pm | Blue Oyster Art Gallery
Gelber LuftBallon (Dunedin Research Project) is a series of new work created by Melbourne-based artist Shane McGrath. McGrath’s practice has used rockets, planes and zeppelins in his practice as metaphors for escapism, exploration, memory and ... More >>
Liyen Chong - Enkyklios (or Pedagogical Experiments)
Thursday, 21 March 2013, 10:47 am | Blue Oyster Art Gallery
“…the purpose of an encyclopedia is to collect knowledge disseminated around the globe; to set forth its general system to the men with whom we live, and transmit it to those who will come after us, so that the work of preceding centuries will ... More >>
RE:PERFORM - The Yellow Men at the Blue Oyster
Friday, 1 March 2013, 3:01 pm | Blue Oyster Art Gallery
Listing information: RE:PERFORM - The Yellow Men (Jed McCammon & Clarke Hegan) Blue Oyster Art Project Space, 24b Moray Place, Dunedin Exhibition Runs: Wednesday 27 February - 23 March 2013 Performance Timetable follows More >>
Blue Oyster at SUPERMARKET Independent Art Fair, Stockholm
Friday, 15 February 2013, 2:31 pm | Blue Oyster Art Gallery
This weekend (15 - 17 February) along with 87 other galleries from 31 countries The Blue Oyster Art Project Space will take part in Stockholm’s independent art fair, SUPERMARKET. The art fair takes place in the Kulturhuset in the very heart of Sweden's ... More >>
When I Grow Up: Exhibition Preview Tuesday 4 December
Tuesday, 4 December 2012, 9:29 am | Blue Oyster Art Gallery
When I Grow Up: Exhibition Preview Tuesday 4 December Listing information: When I Grow Up : Antonia Wood, Phoebe Lysbeth Kay Mackenzie, and Nyree McInally curated by Briar Holt Blue Oyster Art Project Space, 24b Moray Place, Dunedin. Exhibition ... More >>
We’re not getting out of here alive OR The Land Show
Wednesday, 21 November 2012, 11:36 am | Blue Oyster Art Gallery
We're not getting out of here alive OR The Land Show is a group exhibition with two titles. While one gestures towards a vague and seemingly hyperbolic threat concerning human extinction, the other is simply a prosaic evaluation of the content of the ... More >>
Second Ever Blue Oyster International Art Fair
Wednesday, 21 November 2012, 9:50 am | Blue Oyster Art Gallery
The Blue Oyster Arts Trust was founded in 1999 as a project space that would allow artists to develop their practices. Its purpose was also intended to broaden the understanding of contemporary and experimental arts in the Dunedin community by providing ... More >>
Blue Oyster - Listing information
Thursday, 14 June 2012, 3:02 pm | Blue Oyster Art Gallery
Listing information: Exhibitions running 20 June – 21 July: Museum of True History in collaboration with Karl Chitham and Jack Ross: “Fallen Empire,” Chris Hargreaves: “Notable Serenity,” Caroline McQuarrie: “Artifact,” at Blue Oyster Project ... More >>
Silk and Lace and After All at the Blue Oyster
Sunday, 8 April 2012, 12:35 pm | Blue Oyster Art Gallery
The Blue Oyster turns 13 this year and to celebrate we have invited eight artists from around New Zealand to reflect on its history. More >>
Group show – ‘Dunedin’s Cabinet of Curiosities’
Thursday, 20 October 2011, 1:54 pm | Blue Oyster Art Gallery
The Blue Oyster’s Reading Room has been transformed by several Dunedin artists into a Cabinet of Curiosities. This experimental space shows sculpture, jewellery, painting and photography exploring the concept of *Kunst- und Wunderkammern* (art ... More >>