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Tamaki Makaurau - Auckland Hunterwasser Immersion

Tamaki Makaurau - Auckland
Hunterwasser Immersion Van Tour with Associate Professor Linda Tyler
Sunday May 28 Meeting at the Newmarket Train Station Carp park at 7.45 to leave at 8 am. Home by about 8.30.
Writers Festival Surrealists in New York Sunday May 19, 2.30 pm. Aotea Centre
More details at https://www.writersfestival.co.nz/ Most events have a cost. Do check the programme for free events too.
Te Whanganui a Tara – Wellington
Don’t miss the final Walk & Talk for this Autumn Season:
This Saturday May 13

ArtExplore: Tour of the K’RD Art Scene. A kaleid

ArtExplore: Tour of the K’RD Art Scene. A kaleidoscope, from matchbox size to huge church like art spaces. Anna Miles Gallery with Reece Kings ‘Low Long Signal’ show (by the way finishes this weekend, a terrific show in a jewel of a gallery – don’t miss it. She might be persuaded to show you also some of Sarah Hillary’s ‘Travels In A Matchbox’ and other delights. Toi Tu Satellite space had Niu Gold Mountain, young Asian and Pasifika artists response ’What is your new Gum San?’
RM Gallery: Two strong, inspiring shows about Pasifika Life in Aotearoa. ‘we were here’ about living in Ponsonby and Grey Lynn back in the day, by four artists with quite individual styles and genres. ‘The room where your brother was born’ by Connah Podmore inspired by the memory of her family’s first home.
Michael Lett’s stunningly expansive space at 3 East St with Pauline Rhode’s majestic ‘Rising Again’ – not to be missed! Micheal Lett Gallery space with ‘et al’ -‘i am the direct source of truth’ from a critically unique art perspective – previous winner of the Walter’s Prize and representation at the Venice Biennale. Hugely controversial to this day but a perceptive dystopian vision which with the rush of conspiracy theories, silo thinking, social upheaval and climate catastrophe becomes clearer to read in the present.
Melanie Roger Gallery has new work from Emma Fits, PETAL ‘thinks through the psychological and sensory experience of colour, movement and texture. In these new works canvas is painted front and back, wrapped, looped, pleated and draped in forms that reference garments, looms and landscapes’ (Quote from Melanie Roger Text). Beautifully presented and intricate, Emma has established a thriving artistic practice in a new, emerging genre. A must see – last day 6th of May.
Last stop was an experimental space – Paper Anniversary. This was another fantastic tour through the Krd Art World by Linda Tyler with our very appreciative group of ArtExplorers.
Watch our website, Facebook or Instagram for more tours coming up in both Auckland and Wellington.
@annamilesgallery @rm.gallery @michaellettgallery @studioone.toitu @melanierogergallery @paperanniversary.aotea

ArtExplore: Blockbuster Art Tour of the Auckland D

ArtExplore: Blockbuster Art Tour of the Auckland Downtown CBD. Lead by our inimitable Associate Professor Linda Tyler, ArtExplore was back in the CBD with a fresh line up of galleries and public art around the Britomart and Commercial Bay Precincts. Fresh new galleries like ‘Coastal Signs’ and ‘Seasons’ galleries adding new art perspectives along with the downtown Gow Langsford Gallery presenting some of the best Aotearoa (New Zealand) and international artists. All this after an incredible beginning contemporary art experience at the historic Gus Fisher Gallery which also included a tour of the original TV studios back in the early days of television. Our ArtExplorers were a very happy but exhausted group at the end of the tour.
Our next ArtExplore Auckland Tour is Saturday, 29th April. Our Quirky K’Rd Gallery Tour Starts at Anna Miles Gallery, 11am. Meet on footpath, Upper Queen St, opp. Cross St Entrance. All Welcome, refer to our Website for details. Cost $25 per person. ArtExplore is a not for profit social enterprise where all our income is to cover admin., guides, support and related tour costs.
@gowlangsfordgallery @gusfishergallery @coastal signs gallery @vistauckland

ArtExplore: Last week we toured Parnell Galleries,

ArtExplore: Last week we toured Parnell Galleries, (Auckland). Our first visit was to Artis Gallery (Johnathon Grant Galleries, 280 Parnell Rd). Artis is a contemporary art gallery is in our view one of the leading NZ galleries exhibiting sculpture and small sculpture work. So the ideal venue for ‘Our Nature’, a biennial exhibition of MANZ, Medal Art NZ, which centers on medallion and small sculpture art.
What an exhibition it is with over 30 artists, including many of our leading sculptors including Terry Stringer, Bing Dawe, Marte Szirmay, John Edgar, Greer Twiss, Fatu Feu’u. There also some delightful surprises – Paul Hartigan Neon Works, Nigel Brown sculptures.
Warning: April 3, today is the last day, so make a morning or afternoon visit, you won’t be disappointed. If you can’t make it today, in our reel we have also included some works from Artis’s truly amazing and extensive collection of small sculpture art which you can enjoy on any visit.
@artis_gallery

ArtExplore: West Auckland Tour! This Saturday, Mar

ArtExplore: West Auckland Tour! This Saturday, March 11th . Start 10am at Pah Homestead. Meet in the Pah Homestead Foyer.
What treats await us in this West Auckland Art tour.
Meeting at The Pah with the Adam Portrait Award New Zealand’s most prestigious and popular portraiture prize. The biennial competition for painted portraits is held at The New Zealand Portrait Gallery and generously sponsored by the Adam Foundation. It provides New Zealand painters from all stages of their careers with the opportunity to showcase their talents on the national stage, while also playing an important role in recording the changing face of Aotearoa. One of the two Judges is Assoc Prof Linda Tyler. Linda will be our guide for this tour – so she will share some unique insights into the Portraiture Awards.
Then a 20 minute drive to Te Uru. While there is much to see here, we will focus on the Te Papa touring exhibition Rita Angus: New Zealand Modernist | He Ringatoi Hou o Aotearoa. It brings together 20 works by one of New Zealand’s most iconic 20th-century artists, Rita Angus (1908–1970).
Plus new works by Ayesha Green (Ngāti Kahungunu, Kāi Tahu) produced during her recent residency at Parehuia-McCahon House.
Then a treat of a private collection not far off Scenic Dr.
Lunch is at Olive Café, once we get through the hard to find Weekend Gallery show casing local and national emerging artists.
For this tour we will not have a van. We will share transport. Please contact Caril: 021-188-3933 or Brian: 021-566-300 if you can offer a ride or need a ride. We need you to organise yourselves such as we did for the Hunterwasser Tour.
See You There!!

ArtExplore: The 2023 Art Fair (The Cloud, 89 Quay

ArtExplore: The 2023 Art Fair (The Cloud, 89 Quay St, Auckland) is just around the corner –
March 2-5. Over 35 major galleries, from around NZ and overseas – Australia, Singapore, Seoul from from Australia, 150 plus artists, 100’s of artworks. It’s quite a show to work through and wonder what it’s all about and find your bearings. That’s why we have put together a curated and guided tour lead by the inimitable Assoc. Prof. Linda Tyler. She has a unique and comprehensive grasp of the contemporary art scene both here and internationally. This will be a once off tour so be quick to register. The ArtExplore tour cost is $25 per person. (You need to also pay for your Art Fair entry from the Art Fair online site – but if you’re going anyway….! It pays to prepay ahead $25 for the Art Fair Day Pass, otherwise it is $32 on the day.)
Three ways to register:
Pay online at www.artexplore.co.nz/Events/ Then book now/Aotearoa Art Fair
Join Meetup/Auckland/ArtExplore and book event.
Phone Caril Cowan: 021-188-3933 to book directly. Email: info@artexplore.co.nz

ArtExplore: “why do you seek after it” Exhibit

ArtExplore: “why do you seek after it” Exhibition by artist Jo Dalgety at Railway St Studios, This is her imaginative and creative response to the rich and fertile the Hauraki Plains. Her much loved ‘home’ and sense of place where she grew up with her Pakeha farming family. She has since discovered the many layered histories that have been woven by Maori over this rohe, over hundreds of years, contact by Cook, then Pakeha settler farms. Arnie Gurau, close friend (behind desk) has collaborated with Jo and in the process has discovered and deepened his own local Maori ancestral ties. All of this has distilled into a deep emotional, and imaginative response through her exhibition images. Her masterful use of watercolour and torn collage effects, evokes a tension between primeval landscapes asserting themselves once again over the cultivated, ‘broken’ land.
We were there for Jo’s artist talk on the last day of the exhibition, 18th Feb. Enquiries to Railway St Gallery, 8 Railway St, Newmarket, 027-444-1015.
The exhibition title comes from a poignant quote by Te Hira Te Tuiri: ‘of what use is the land after it is broken. When the land is broken the owner perishes… This is my place, why do you seek after it. It is only a small piece. Let it remain to me’.
We have done it as a reel to hopefully create a better feel for the exhibition.
@jodalgety @railwaystreetstudios @rsartists12

ArtExplore: Caught up with Jess Johnson’s ANTIRE

ArtExplore: Caught up with Jess Johnson’s ANTIREALITY PERVERSION VOID at the City Gallery, Te Whare Toi, Te Whanganui a Tara - Wellington. We have just a quick video to give you only a small feel of the show – but nothing like a full immersion experience, must see, so go visit please! – it’s on until April 23rd, 2023.
First encountered Jess’s work earlier in her career on an ArtExplore walk at the Ivan Anthony Gallery in Auckland. A New Zealand Artist (grew up in Mt Maunganui) she has made extraordinary progress since. She was a finalist in the prestigious Walters Prize (2018) with Who/Why Wuld (in collaboration with Simon Ward). Her ANTIREALITY… Show was first exhibited at Te Uru, Dec. 2019 - Feb.2022. After her residency at McCahon House, Jan. -March 2019. Text: Chloe Geoghegan
It's quite different to her Walter’s Prize presentation. Here she collaborates with ceramic artists (Janet Beckhouse, Emily Hunt, Rose Salmon, Nichola Shanley, Laurie Steer) to create a stunningly immersive environment which leans towards Magick, Gothic, Punk, Horror and Otherworld themes. Jess for this show also collaborated with perfumer Nathan Taare to infuse musks and pheromones to immerse your senses ever deeper…
@flesh-dozer @janetbeckhouse @emil.hunt @rosemariesalmon @nicola.shanley @laurie_steer @huttlyfe @citygallerywellington @wgtncc

ArtExplore: Down in Wellington last weekend to bot

ArtExplore: Down in Wellington last weekend to both visit and plan with our Great ArtExplore Wellington Team, ArtExplore events and activities over the first part of this year. This is shaping up as an exciting year of gallery walks and events for our Wellington ArtExplorers.
We are honored and very fortunate this year to have Mary-Jane Duffy, Mary MacPherson, Kate Yesberg as our Wellington, ArtExplore Associates, very ably supported by Mary-Beth and Trevor. this year – all so very passionate about art in Te Whanganui a Tara.
While there we saw ‘Of the Hill’ – Mary MacPherson’s exhibition at Photospace. Our images here are of Mary and of her works at Photospace. She is a sensitive and very experienced photographic artist (and art writer). The images are set around Te Ahumairangi hill where she lives. The images are about the power and presence of the land. They take in familiar sights but shape them into the ’unregarded’, special places and moments in an emotional and psychological response to place.
You will be able to talk with Mary about her photography and artistic insights on one of our regular scheduled gallery walks around Wellington. Go to our website, artexplore.co.nz/wellington events for the 2023 schedule.
@macpherson.mary @citygallerywellington @wgtncc @kateyesberg

ArtExplore: What a quirky year, slowly opening all

ArtExplore: What a quirky year, slowly opening all our doors to a still a very Covid World where it’s now commonplace to swap ‘when I got Covid’ stories. Our ArtExplore tours gathered up again enthusiastic art lovers and we had some great and varied experiences. A heartfelt thanks to all our fans and to our wonderful guides in Auckland and Wellington. Also a big thanks to the many gallerists and galleries who were so welcoming and supportive. It all makes discovering art so enjoyable!
This reel is just a sample from the many tours we made in 2022. This is a kind of volume 1, so hopefully publish a volume 2 before our 2023 season gets underway.

ArtExplore: Recent visit to Akepiro St Studios. We

ArtExplore: Recent visit to Akepiro St Studios. Well known artist, Evan Woodruffe pictured here with Caril Cowan from ArtExplore, plus some pics of Evan’s works. With over a dozen active and very diverse artists working from the Akepriro St studios – ArtExplore is looking at a special tour to visit the studios next year. We will keep you updated!
@evanwoodruffe #paulvjohnston #bryonymathewartist #laidlawsuzanne @takingthepastiche @kfeaverart @emilmcavoy @paulvjohnton @_brendan_moran

ARTEXPLORE: This is Part 2 of our run through the

ARTEXPLORE: This is Part 2 of our run through the Auckland Art Fair. Enjoy!

ARTEXPLORE: Instead of an ‘intensive’ – had

ARTEXPLORE: Instead of an ‘intensive’ – had a casual explore of the Auckland Art Fair. A whole host of galleries & artists, some familiar, some not. This video is a ‘car crash’ of images which really reflects the diverse nature of the fair. One surprise was the lack of ‘moving digital and animation’- although digital tech. backgrounds many works. This is Part 1 – Part 2 may be a little delayed. Enjoy!!

ARTEXPLORE: Our tour of Arch Hill Galleries took i

ARTEXPLORE: Our tour of Arch Hill Galleries took in the TCG: Trish Clark Gallery with ‘In Hindsight’ (until late November) a richly layed survey of Julia Morrison’s work over more than four decades. An artist who challenges conventions and conceptual boundaries. A unique oeuvre which delves into systems: Euclidian geometry, numerology, Kabbalah and alchemy. Working with substances such as blood, excrement, gold, lead, clay; weaving a beautiful artistic transmutation much closer to the alchemic studies of Isaac Newton than mainstream NZ art. Julia Morison, a prescient NZ artist and a rare immersion in her universe. Not to be missed.
@trishclarkgallery @artcollectormagazine @artnews.nz @artnewzealand @independentcollectors

Saw this very talented performance art group at th

Saw this very talented performance art group at the AAG.
If anyone has any information on them would be pleased too share.

Our recent tour through Auckland's ARTWEEK

Our recent tour through Auckland's ARTWEEK

ARTEXPLORE: Toi Tu Toi Ora: Nigel Borell, Auckland

ARTEXPLORE: Toi Tu Toi Ora: Nigel Borell, Auckland Writers Festival. Hugh congratulations and deep thanks from us all in the art world. Such a wonderful occasion, such a seminal commentary on Contemporary Maori Art, following on from that blockbuster exhibition, Nigel curated at the ACG, Toi Tu Toi Ora. This will go down as a coruscating milestone in the development of Maori Contemporary Art this century. Hapaitia te ara tika pumau ai te rangatiratanga mo nga uri whakatipu. Noho ora mai!
#aucklandartgallery #nigelborell @nigelborell @aklcouncil @visitauckland @artcollectormagazine @artnews.nz @artnewzealand @independentcollectors

ARTEXPLORE AKL WINTER EXPOLRATIONS: The Confession

ARTEXPLORE AKL WINTER EXPOLRATIONS: The Confessions, SILO6 Silo Park Auckland. ( July 10 – July 23). This is an extraordinary show, in an extraordinary setting. Scott Lawrie (Gallerist) has brilliantly conceived this exhibition around the Scottish Witch Trials and Burnings of the 16th & 17th Century. In particular Isobel Gowdie’s shocking confessions and burning at the stake (to which this show is dedicated). Strange to witness over the centuries since, the same misogyny, paranoia and delusions continue. Thoughtfully curated with some of Scott Lawrie’s Stable of Artists. The overall effect of the show is very powerful, moving and an awful, but beautiful rent in the fabric of rationality.
Artists: By Images 1 Patricia Piccinini, Amaadeo Grosman; 2 Rebecca Wallis, Rebecca Hazard; 3 Monique Lacey; 4 Inga Fillary; 5 Patricia Piccinini, Monique Lacey.
@scottlawriegallery @artcollectormagazine @artnews.nz @artnewzealand @independentcollectors @rebeccahazard_art, @rebeccaclarewallis, @moniquelaceyartist, @inga_fillary

ARTEXPLORE AKL WINTER EXPOLRATIONS: NINA Exhibitio

ARTEXPLORE AKL WINTER EXPOLRATIONS: NINA Exhibition KATE YESBERG SUITE GALLERY
This her first solo exhibition, so a as a Wellington based artist, somewhat of a break to have it in Auckland. This is a very singular artist at work on a ‘calling’ to her own art journey. She does not come out of an Art School background. Her approach to some of the works reminds us of creating a ritualistic mandala. First she starts with black, then moves on slowly, painstakingly, to build the patterns of colour. Such is her concentration & skill, incredibly all of the lines are hand brushed, no ruled edges or tape. It will be exciting to see her next exhibition. Note: ArtExplore Collection has acquired a work from this exhibition.
@suite.co.nz @kateyesberg

ARTEXPLORE: RECENT AKL GROUP TOUR To Ponsonby Gall

ARTEXPLORE: RECENT AKL GROUP TOUR To Ponsonby Galleries – An exciting tour contrasting the ‘Traditional Contemporary’ with ‘Millennial Contemporary’. ‘FHE, OREX, SUITE, Limm Gallery,
Images #1 Outside FHE, #2 OREX Group Show ‘the Limitless Horizon’ -Tony Lane, #3 Richard Mcwhanell, #4 Peter James Smith, #5 Arie Hellendoorn -Suite Gallery, #6, #7 Limm Gallery #8 Kaws Family.

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