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Technology in contemporary art at the Blue Oyster

Tuesday, 4 October 2011, 2:07 pm | Blue Oyster Art Gallery

The Blue Oyster is pleased to present three artists from out of town: from Wellington, Emma Febvre-Richards* (The Rituals of Control*) and Jenny Gillam *(Frank, Blue Oyster Art Project Space)*, and Cara-Ann Simpson (*Geodesic Sound Helmets) *from Melbourne. ... More >>

The Graduate Exhibition at the Blue Oyster

Friday, 8 July 2011, 3:49 pm | Blue Oyster Art Gallery

Three recent graduates from the Dunedin Art School are exhibiting together at the Blue Oyster in a show curated by University of Otago Art History graduate Emily Palmer. In conjunction with the Blue Oyster Board of Trustees and former Director Jaenine ... More >>

Mid-winter launch party at Blue Oyster

Tuesday, 28 June 2011, 3:24 pm | Blue Oyster Art Gallery

The Blue Oyster is having a mid-winter launch party on Thursday (30 June) with the opening of its new reading room combined with the launch of a new exhibition space and the second issue of Dunedin art and culture magazine Crop. More >>

Child's play at Blue Oyster

Friday, 20 May 2011, 7:52 pm | Blue Oyster Art Gallery

Art works made of sweets, interactive art, and lots of castles make for a playful group of exhibitions at the Blue Oyster Art Project Space in Dunedin in June. More >>

Famous Chinese artist 'disappears' in Dunedin

Monday, 9 May 2011, 2:28 pm | Blue Oyster Art Gallery

Listing information May 14, 2pm, Talk on Chinese contemporary art with Bridie Lonie, of the Dunedin School of Art, at Blue Oyster Project Art Space, 24b Moray Place, Dunedin. Famous Chinese artist 'disappears' in Dunedin More >>

China, classrooms & pin-up boys at Blue Oyster

Monday, 11 April 2011, 1:56 pm | Blue Oyster Art Gallery

China, classrooms and pin-up boys are the subjects of three new exhibitions opening at the Blue Oyster Art Project Space, in Dunedin, next week. The exhibitions, *Indigo Blues* by Ana Terry and Don Hunter, *Boy Love – Dummy Heart* by Angela Lyon, and ... More >>

Books wanted for Blue Oyster reading room

Wednesday, 30 March 2011, 3:01 pm | Blue Oyster Art Gallery

Dunedin's Blue Oyster Project Art Space is looking for contributions of art books and magazines for a new reading room. Director Jamie Hanton says the reading room will collect specialist contemporary art material including some of the smaller local ... More >>

Strange and ephemeral at Blue Oyster

Monday, 28 February 2011, 1:36 pm | Blue Oyster Art Gallery

Strange creatures, suitcases of trees, and pockets filled with expanding foam will fill the Blue Oyster Project Art Space, in Dunedin, from March 8. More >>

New exhibitions at Blue Oyster

Monday, 17 January 2011, 2:54 pm | Blue Oyster Art Gallery

January 26 to March 5: interfaces , by Molly Samsell , 4:00am Tondo Rondo by Catharine Hodson & Antoinette Wood , & Anistropy by Alexandra Kennedy, at Blue Oyster Art Project Space , 24b Moray Place, Dunedin. More >>

Blue Oyster appoints director

Friday, 14 January 2011, 1:44 pm | Blue Oyster Art Gallery

An arts writer who started a gallery for emerging artists has been appointed the new director of Blue Oyster Art Project Space in Dunedin. Jamie Hanton established The Hype Initiative at Space Gallery, Christchurch, in 2006 with the aim of representing ... More >>

Bank back yard to be art site

Thursday, 2 December 2010, 10:43 am | Blue Oyster Art Gallery

The back yard of a Dunedin bank will be dug up next week in the name of art, becoming a temporary extension of the Blue Oyster Art Project Space. Jodie Salmond's work Hopes for the Future consists of a hole the approximate size of a grave, a small ... More >>

Soap, love letters and global warming

Monday, 25 October 2010, 1:17 pm | Blue Oyster Art Gallery

3 – 27 November, Juan James Sydney Simon Papillon et Merci et au Revoir , Liz Rowe Never Too Careful , and Max Bellamy 99 Ways to Solve Global Warming, at Blue Oyster Art Project Space, 24b Moray Place, Dunedin. More >>

Drawing out preconceptions

Monday, 20 September 2010, 3:38 pm | Blue Oyster Art Gallery

An exhibition that investigates preconceptions about both drawing as an art medium and the usual processes around staging exhibitions opens at the Blue Oyster Art Project Space next month. More >>

Mystery and tension at Blue Oyster

Wednesday, 1 September 2010, 3:37 pm | Blue Oyster Art Gallery

Sept 7 - Oct 2: Introduced Birds by artist collective ffffff at Blue Oyster Project Art Space, 24b Moray Place, Dunedin.Open Tue-Fri 11am-5pm and Sat 12pm-3pm. More >>

Drugs, disasters and disorientation

Friday, 30 July 2010, 12:50 pm | Blue Oyster Art Gallery

Disasters and drugs, confusion and disorientation are all explored in the latest exhibitions at Dunedin’s Blue Oyster Art Project Space. More >>

Blue Oyster Exhibitions

Thursday, 8 April 2010, 9:14 am | Blue Oyster Art Gallery

ster is pleased to present the exhibitions Simon Kaan: The Asian , Anna Muirhead: Polytears and Bryce Galloway: Same Same (Incredibly Hot Sex with Hideous People) and a new public artwork by James Voller: Dis place ment. More >>

RE-FIBRA: Contemporary Textile Art

Wednesday, 27 January 2010, 1:50 pm | Blue Oyster Art Gallery

Expanding on a recent exhibition in Sweden of experimental textile work by New Zealand artists, RE-FIBRA brings New Zealand perspectives and practises into dialogue with the work of leading Swedish textile artists. More >>

Blue Oyster Art Gallery Graduate Show

Friday, 15 January 2010, 3:18 pm | Blue Oyster Art Gallery

Every year the Blue Oyster stages a Grad Show to showcase experimental and innovative art works created by recent graduates from the Otago Polytechnic School of Fine Arts. More >>

The Blue Oyster presents Matthew Hammond

Sunday, 25 October 2009, 12:26 pm | Blue Oyster Art Gallery

The Blue Oyster is pleased to present Matthew Hammond | */Journey/ * and Hamish Tocher | Overhead Project (Villa of the Mysteries). In quite different ways Hammond and Tocher both interrogate the conventions and modi operandi of photography. The exhibitions ... More >>

Three School Of Art Staff Laid Off

Thursday, 15 October 2009, 11:06 am | Blue Oyster Art Gallery

3 members of staff from the School of Art at the Otago Polytechnic have just been given notice of termination of their positions. This number is expected to rise to 5 in the next week. No explanation has been offered as to why these staff were selected ... More >>

   

 
 
 
 
 

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