Dunedin Public Art Gallery

Our warmest congratulations to Paemanu - Ngai Tahu Contemporary Visual Arts who have been selected to present work in the 11th Asia Pacific Triennial in Brisbane. So well-deserved!

Arts collective off to Triennial in Brisbane A Ngāi Tahu arts collective, featuring several Ōtepoti Dunedin artists, is taking its story about the Waitaki River to Brisbane. Members of Paemanu...

This week's Artpost celebrates Te Wiki o te Reo Māori 2024 - there are suggestions on how to use your reo Māori in the Gallery, a great art-related quiz, and a reminder to join us for the launch of our Nohoaka Guide this Thursday at 5:30pm.
Click on the link for more!

[image: Xoë Hall print graphic designed especially for Dunedin Public Art Gallery]

DPAG celebrates Te wiki o te reo Māori This week the DPAG team joins the nation in celebrating Te Wiki o te Reo Māori 2024 – Ake Ake Ake, A Forever Language.  Throughout our galleries there are opportunities to use and expand your reo Māori, no matter your taumata reo (language level). Whakawhānuitia tō kete kupu toi, expand your ...

This week’s Artpost features the exciting news that we will be launching a Nohoaka Guide for the exhibition 'Huikaau: Where Currents Meet' next Thursday evening with a FREE celebration in the Gallery foyer from 5:30pm.
This special event will feature live readings amongst the artworks from Kāi Tahu poets Robert Sullivan, Tāwini White (reading works by Claire Kaahu White), Rauhina Scott-Fyfe and Ati Teepa.
All welcome!
Click the link for the full story.

Nohoaka Guide Launch & Live Poetry Launching Dunedin Public Art Gallery’s Nohoaka Guide, and a new book Hopurangi – Songcatcher Celebrate the Nohoaka Guide, a new free visitor resource that traces a journey through Huikaau – where currents meet. The guide doubles as a poster of Fiona Pardington’s Still Life with Albatross fea...

Join us in the DPAG foyer from 10am, Tuesday 10 September, to watch Otago Polyfest streaming live - all day and all week!

Otago Polyfest is a significant event on the cultural calendar for whānau and kaiako, offering a chance for young people from over 100 schools across the Otago region to celebrate Māori and Pacific cultures through performance.

Drop in and experience Otago Polyfest on the big screen, or better yet, head over to the Edgar Centre to experience it in person!

See more information about Otago Polyfest here: https://www.facebook.com/OtagoPolyfest/.

Our warmest congratulations to Ayesha Green for receiving the Harriet Friedlander Residency - so well-deserved!

Introducing our newest Harriet Friedlander Residency Recipient,… Visual artist, Ayesha Green (Kāi Tahu, Ngāti Kahungunu ki Heretaunga) is heading to New York as the recipient of the Harriet Friedlander Residency. This prestigious residency, valued at $100,000, was established in 2008 by the late Harriet Friedlander – a dedicated supporter of the arts who beli...

This week's Artpost features a giveaway of four copies of Nicola Farquhar's publication Stars, lands.
To enter simply like this Facebook post and you are in the draw!
Details, terms and conditions in the link below.

A Stars, lands giveaway!

This week’s Artpost introduces Shireen Taweel, our International Visiting Artist for 2024. Shireen will join us from Warrane Sydney on 1 September. Her residency will culminate in an exhibition, titled 5364 nocturne, opening on 5 October.
Click on the link below for the full story.

DPAG International Visiting Artist – Shireen Taweel On 1 September 2024, Shireen Taweel will arrive in Ōtepoti Dunedin to undertake a residency as part of the Gallery’s International Visiting Artist Programme. Based in Warrane Sydney, Taweel will use this residency period to continue a methodology of research, navigation and travel laid down in he...

Our warmest congratulations to Paemanu - Ngai Tahu Contemporary Visual Arts and Kawita Vatanajyankur for their selection to show in the Asia Pacific Triennial 2024 – both have significant works currently on display in the exhibition Huikaau.

Artists announced for 'The 11th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art' - QAGOMA Blog Seventy artists, collectives and projects from more than thirty countries (full list of Triennial artists below) will feature in the eleventh chapter of the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA) flagship exhibition series, ‘The Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art‘, openi...

This week’s Artpost explores ‘Madame descending the staircase’ a substantial photographic installation in the exhibition Chaptered by Madame and the Bastard [a collaborative partnership between artists Julia Morison and Heather Straka].
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Madame descending the staircase Chaptered, which is currently on display in our winter season of exhibitions, is an exhibition designed to create space between artworks for the imagination to wander.  The monumental photographic installation Madame descending the staircase (1999) does just this – piecing together a stop-motion ...

This week's Artpost looks at the Gallery's latest installation on the Big Wall - Kerrie Poliness's Black O Wall Drawings.

Going up on the Big Wall – Kerrie Poliness Over the last few weeks, the technicians at Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Jay Hutchinson and Chris Schmelz, have been installing three drawings from Kerrie Poliness’ Black O (1997) on the Gallery’s Big Wall. Part of the Gallery’s permanent collection, Black O is a conceptual artwork, existing as...

This week's Artpost discusses works by Rona Dyer, a featured artist in 'Transitions - Aotearoa to London', a new exhibition on the Gallery’s first floor that presents works from the Gallery's collection made by a group of artists from Aotearoa who spent time studying at art schools in London, from the late-1940s to the mid-1960s. These include Bill Culbert, Billy Apple, Melvin Day, John Drawbridge, Rona Dyer, Pat Hanly, Ralph Hotere, Joanna Margaret Paul, Matt Pine, and Susan Skerman. Click on the link below for the full story.

Rona Dyer – from Ōtepoti to London The exhibition Transitions – Aotearoa to London, which sits in the corridor space on the Gallery’s first floor, includes work from a group of artists from Aotearoa who spent time studying at art schools in London, from the late-1940s to the mid-1960s. The exhibition includes two linocuts by Rona...

This week's Artpost focuses on highlights from the Gallery's school holiday programme.
Visit our website for more details on these and all of our events.

School Holidays at the DPAG Welcome to te tau hou Māori! To kick off the new year, we have exciting hands-on activities for tamariki over the school holidays.

Don't miss Anna Blackman and curator Elle Loui August on RNZ's Culture 101 this afternoon at 2:10. It promises to be an insightful interview.

Weaving culture together in Ōtepoti Dunedin: Margery Blackman It’s not possible to consider modern textiles in Aotearoa New Zealand without encountering the advocacy, research, curation and art of weaver Margery Blackman. The same could also be said of the life of many of the cultural institutions of Ōtepoti Dunedin over the past 60 years.

Puaka Matariki Star Trail

Follow the stars across Ōtepoti this Puaka Matariki Festival!

Collect a free guide from Playspace and learn about the whetū surrounding Matariki as you search for hidden stars across the following locations: Dunedin Public Libraries, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, and Toitū Otago Settlers Museum.

Free activity books are available from all of these places.
Let your feet take you wandering to the stars!

From 10am-4:30pm Monday 17 June – Sunday 21 July

To mark the opening of the exhibition Marilynn Webb: Folded in the Hills at Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū, Ngāhuia te Awekōtuku was approached by Christchurch Art Gallery to write a piece for their publication The Bulletin.
This beautiful and insightful piece of writing - Marilynn Webb
He mana ā whenua, he mana wahine Female power comes from the earth - can be enjoyed in full at the link below.

Marilynn Webb He mana ā whenua, he mana wahine Female power comes from the earth

This week's Artpost is dedicated to our CNZ Ihupukutaka Kairauhī Curatorial Intern, Anna McLean, who is leaving us at the end of this week to take up a full-time curatorial role at Oamaru’s Forrester Gallery Te Whare Taoka o Waitaki.
It's been a great year and we wish you every success, Anna!

Farewell to our Curatorial Intern, Anna McLean This week we say farewell to Anna McLean, who over the past 12 months has been working in our team as Ihupukutaka Kairauhī Curatorial Intern.  Anna’s time at DPAG has been filled with projects, learning all the different aspects of working as a curator in our busy team. Her exhibition Giovanni I...

This week’s Artpost introduces our latest exhibition ‘Transitions – Aotearoa to London’. Transitions brings together works from the Gallery’s collection by artists from Aotearoa who studied at art schools in London between the late-1940s and the mid-1960s.
The exhibition opens this Saturday, 1 June, and includes works by Billy Apple, Bill Culbert, Melvin Day, John Drawbridge, Rona Dyer, Pat Hanly, Ralph Hotere, Joanna Margaret Paul, Matt Pine, and Susan Skerman.

See the link below for the full story.

[image: BILL CULBERT Tug, Barges, Thames 1961. Oil on board. Collection of the Dunedin Public Art Gallery. Purchased 2023 with funds from the Dunedin City Council]

Transitions – Aotearoa to London In 2023, the Dunedin Public Art Gallery acquired Bill Culbert’s painting Tug, Barges, Thames (1961) for the permanent collection. This early career work was produced the year after Culbert graduated from the Royal College of Art in London, where he had spent three years studying painting (1958 –...

This week’s Artpost focusses on our new first-floor exhibition Chaptered – which features major works drawn from the collection by Fiona Connor, Jeffrey Harris, Ralph Hotere, and Madame and the Bastard.

Click on the link below for the full story:
https://mailchi.mp/dcc/dunedin-public-art-gallery-warmly-invites-you-9370513

[image: RALPH HOTERE Te Aupōuri, Te Rarawa February, May and the Birds of Ice. The Moon Drowns in its Voices of Water. 1970. Pigment dyes on alkyd resin on canvas. Collection of the Dunedin Public Art Gallery. Purchased 1974 with funds from the Dunedin Public Art Gallery Society. By permission of the Hotere Foundation Trust]

Our warmest congratulations to artist Shireen Taweel for winning the prestigious Blake Prize for her work Shoe Bathers.
We are looking forward to working with Shireen later this year as the Gallery's CNZ International Visiting Artist for 2024.

Image: Shireen Taweel Shoe Bathers (detail) installation view, 68th Blake Prize, Casual Powerhouse.
Photo by Silversalt Photography.

https://www.liverpool.nsw.gov.au/council/Media/media-releases/may-2024/casula-powerhouse-announces-the-winners-of-the-68th-blake-prize-for-art-and-poetry

Very excited to be opening the exhibition ‘Margery Blackman: Weaving, Life’ this Saturday.
This exhibition has been curated for Dunedin Public Art Gallery by Elle Loui August and Jane Groufsky and centres on the small oeuvre of woven tapestries that Blackman developed over three decades and places these within the context of her early weaving and later scholarly contributions to cultural institutions in Ōtepoti and throughout Aotearoa New Zealand.
Join us this Saturday for a curators’ floor talk at 10:30am and, later that day, for The Interlacing Threads, a celebration of the life’s work of Margery Blackman at 2pm.

Details on our website: www.dunedin.art.museum

Image: Margery Blackman frame 2, circa 1977, New Zealand, by John Daley

An excellent review by Peter Simpson of the Marilynn Webb: Folded in the Hills publication on Kete Books:

Review — Marilynn Webb Folded in the Hills — Kete Books Authors: Lucy Hammonds , Lauren Gutsell , Bridget Reweti Reviewer: Peter Simpson Marilynn Webb: Folded in the hills is a substantial bilingual publication to mark the monumental retrospective of Ngapuhi, Te Roroa and Ngati Kahu artist Marilynn Webb (NZOM) (1937-2021) at Dunedin Public Art

New Zealand Book Awards | New Zealand Book Awards Trust The Ockham New Zealand Book Awards are the country’s premier literary honours for books written by New Zealanders. First established in 1968 as the Wattie Book Awards (later the Goodman Fielder Wattie Book Awards), they have also been known as the Montana New Zealand Book Awards and the New Zealan...

Kua waipuketia te papa e ō tātou roimata
It is with sadness that the Dunedin Public Art Gallery team acknowledges the death of Emeritus Professor Sir Vincent O'Sullivan. One of the great literary minds of a generation, Sir Vincent’s legacy will be long-lasting. He was a strong supporter of artists, and the Gallery, and will be missed. Our love to his whānau and friends. E te rakatira, moe mai rā, moe mai rā.

Image courtesy of Penguin and Vincent O’Sullivan.

Our warmest congratulations to Mataaho Collective who have won the Golden Lion for Best Participant at the 60th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, Stranieri Ovunque – Foreigners Everywhere.

Mataaho Collective scoops Golden Lion at Venice Biennale in a huge weekend for art from Oceania Aotearoa New Zealand has won one of the world’s most prestigious art prizes. Mataaho collective have been awarded the Golden Lion by a jury at the 60th Venice Biennale for their large scale work in the main curated exhibition. Held every two years, the Biennale is dubbed the Olympics of the art wo...

"I’d like Marilynn herself to have read our book – to see her work still standing strong, holding space and calling decision-makers to account," says Lucy Hammonds, co-author of Marilyn Webb: Folded in the hills, which is a finalist in the Booksellers Aotearoa New Zealand Award for Illustrated Non-Fiction.

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An insightful and nicely written piece by Thomas McLean on Marilynn Webb: Folded in the Hills in this week’s Listener.

Today's Artpost is dedicated to 'Marilynn Webb: Folded in the Hills' and serves as a reminder that this is the exhibition's final week, closing this Sunday at 5 pm. Details of the final week's events are all available on our website.
www.dunedin.art.museum/events

Marilynn Webb exhibition – final week This week marks the final few days of Marilynn Webb: Folded in the hills at the Dunedin Public Art Gallery, with the exhibition closing on Sunday 7 April. We have been overwhelmed by the number of people who have spent time with Marilynn’s work, from those who had personal relationships with the a...

Today’s Artpost featured a piece on Gallery personality and long-serving Visitor Host: Jung-Hi Court.

Staff spotlight – Jung-Hi Court Jung-Hi Court loves art, and especially DPAG – so much so that she says it's what has kept her here in Ōtepoti Dunedin since she started working for the Gallery in May 1996. If you’ve visited DPAG before, then it's likely Jung-Hi needs no introduction. She’s the welcoming presence as you ent...

This week's Artpost highlighted Art Night!, our late-night event at the Gallery this Thursday from 5 to 8 pm. ‘Marilynn Webb: Folded in the Hills’ will be open - and the night will include fun, free, and stimulating activities for all ages!

Late night at the Art Gallery Celebrate the last few weeks of Marilynn Webb’s Folded in the Hills at Art Night! A fun, free and relaxed chance to visit the Gallery after 5pm, and enjoy activities suitable for all ages including: DJ Huffy playing live Delicious food by Yours – pay as you like! Screen printing with special Mar...