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One week to go for all City Gallery Wellington exhibitions

Monday, 10 January 2011, 11:01 am | City Gallery Wellington

Only one week remains at City Gallery Wellington before all the current exhibitions come to a close on January 16. With a number of shows, and work ranging from video installation, to contemporary jewellery, to textile work, to sculpture, there is ... More >>

A Kiwi Returns from Abroad

Monday, 29 November 2010, 2:57 pm | City Gallery Wellington

A Kiwi Returns from Abroad The Imaginative Life and Times of Graham Percy at City Gallery Wellington City Gallery Wellington welcomes the fanciful works of Graham Percy in early 2011, with a new exhibition bringing this expatriate artist’s drawings, ... More >>

City Gallery: Stag Heads and Preserved Snakes

Thursday, 25 November 2010, 11:06 am | City Gallery Wellington

Wellington photographer Neil Pardington turns his camera on the storage rooms and hidden corners of New Zealand’s museums and art galleries for his exhibition The Vault, which opens 29 January 2011 at City Gallery Wellington. The Vault is a series ... More >>

Fritsch: Scenes from the Munich Diamond Disaster

Monday, 15 November 2010, 2:42 pm | City Gallery Wellington

Continuing its commitment to exhibitions spanning the breadth of Wellington’s art, architecture and design, the Hirschfeld Gallery presents the stunning jewellery of Karl Fritsch, an internationally renowned jeweller now based in Island Bay. More >>

Scenes from the Munich Diamond Disaster

Monday, 15 November 2010, 12:53 pm | City Gallery Wellington

Continuing its commitment to exhibitions spanning the breadth of Wellington’s art, architecture and design, the Hirschfeld Gallery presents the stunning jewellery of Karl Fritsch, an internationally renowned jeweller now based in Island Bay. More >>

Indigenous Australian artist Tony Albert

Monday, 8 November 2010, 11:39 am | City Gallery Wellington

Alongside City Gallery’s current main gallery exhibition 'roundabout', the Deane Gallery is running a pair of exhibitions by young indigenous Australian artists which deal specifically with the contentious issue of race relations in Australia. More >>

City Gallery Wellington receives architects award

Friday, 5 November 2010, 2:39 pm | City Gallery Wellington

City Gallery Wellington receives New Zealand Institute of Architects Wellington Award “City Gallery’s renovation sits assertively as a distinct piece of architecture, a brave addition to arguably Wellington ’s best architectural precinct, the Civic ... More >>

Setting the Dinner Tables of the Nation

Friday, 29 October 2010, 1:52 pm | City Gallery Wellington

Crown Lynn: Crockery of Distinction opens at City Gallery Wellington 29 January 2011 The notion of collecting Crown Lynn would have been surprising to many New Zealanders in the 1950s and ’60s. Crown Lynn’s familiar dinner sets were ubiquitous in homes ... More >>

Open City: Flying Nun takes over City Gallery

Wednesday, 6 October 2010, 9:46 am | City Gallery Wellington

It is starting to feel like summer is on the horizon and City Gallery Wellington is celebrating with another in the Gallery’s series of late-night events, Open City, on Thursday 14 October 6 to 10pm. More >>

Building with the most fragile material

Wednesday, 15 September 2010, 11:35 am | City Gallery Wellington

Featuring a sculpture intricately constructed from hundreds of slender pencil leads, Peter Trevelyan’s new exhibition The Light Fantastic is soon to open in the Hirschfeld Gallery, City Gallery Wellington. More >>

Exhibition roundabout brings worldwide artists

Monday, 13 September 2010, 1:21 pm | City Gallery Wellington

Wellington is about to play host to artists from around the world, including Tibet, China, Israel, Thailand, Australia and the United States. These artists are flying into the capital for the opening weekend of City Gallery Wellington’s upcoming ... More >>

Last chance to catch all City Gallery exhibitions

Monday, 30 August 2010, 2:30 pm | City Gallery Wellington

Time is running out for visitors to experience City Gallery Wellington’s current suite of exhibitions. Visitors are encouraged to make tracks to City Gallery to see the two main gallery exhibitions John Pule: Hauaga (Arrivals) and Ready to Roll before ... More >>

New Senior Curator at City Gallery Wellington

Monday, 23 August 2010, 12:10 pm | City Gallery Wellington

City Gallery Wellington is excited to welcome Kate Montgomery as the Gallery’s new Senior Curator. Relocating from Christchurch, Montgomery takes up her new position at City Gallery Wellington next week. More >>

NZ Artists Alongside International Contemporaries

Wednesday, 18 August 2010, 3:12 pm | City Gallery Wellington

A lively line-up of New Zealand artists has been confirmed for City Gallery Wellington’s upcoming exhibition roundabout°, a diverse and ambitious show which will take over the entirety of the Gallery’s main exhibition spaces from 25 September 2010 to ... More >>

The Sparks Fly Upwards

Tuesday, 10 August 2010, 4:40 pm | City Gallery Wellington

When writers and artists get together there are bound to be sparks. City Gallery Wellington invited eight Wellington-based writers to respond to the work of a particular artist in the Gallery’s current exhibition More >>

Drawing in the Present Tense

Monday, 9 August 2010, 1:56 pm | City Gallery Wellington

A chance to see artist Lisa Munnelly at work in the Hirschfeld Gallery Visitors will get the opportunity to see artist Lisa Munnelly actively creating her work Motherboard (2010) in the Hirschfeld Gallery between August 23 and 27. The public and the media ... More >>

Life in three colours

Monday, 2 August 2010, 11:58 am | City Gallery Wellington

If you are suffering from celluloid withdrawal after the New Zealand International Film Festival be sure to pay a trip to City Gallery Wellington where there will be a special chance to catch New Zealand filmmaker Nova Paul’s most recent film This ... More >>

Not your Nana’s china…

Friday, 11 June 2010, 9:36 am | City Gallery Wellington

A new look at an old favourite at City Gallery Wellington Artist Lauren Lysaght gives Crown Lynn a low-tech twist in her new exhibition The Nita Gini Collection , which opens in the Hirschfeld Gallery on June 26. Crown Lynn holds a special place ... More >>

Waxing Lyrical at City Gallery Wellington

Thursday, 10 June 2010, 2:35 pm | City Gallery Wellington

Visitors will be moving to a different beat on June 18 as City Gallery celebrates Matariki with Wax’n Lyrical, a night of Pacific poetry, music and comedy. With free entry, a cash bar, and some of Wellington’s best performers, this is guaranteed ... More >>

Painted language meets today’s technologies

Wednesday, 9 June 2010, 11:50 am | City Gallery Wellington

Pacific Island cultures have a long tradition of using bark cloth painting as a way of telling stories and recording events in a visual way that can be understood across time and language.  Auckland artist Cerisse Palalagi argues that in today’s urban ... More >>

   

 
 
 
 
 

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