2009 Exhibitions


Small Works (3D) Show

Small Works (3D) Show
Gallery 4: 5 - 20 December 2009

This year, for the first time ever, concurrent with The 12 x 12 Format Show, there will be another members' show of 3-dimensional work in Gallery 4. 


 

The 12 x 12 Format Show

The 12 x 12 Format Show
Main Gallery: 5 - 20 December 2009

Northart's annual unselected member's show: with all works on 12 inch by 12 inch stretched canvases, there is always a fascinating range of works on show.




The Ties that Bind

The Ties that Bind 
Gallery 4: 19 November - 2 December 2009 

This exhibition will feature work by Birkenhead College art teachers, former students and current senior students.




The Pre-Christmas $100 (or less) Show

The Pre-Christmas $100 (or less) Show
Main Gallery: 5 - 29 November 2009

Northart's popular annual cash-and-carry pre-Christmas show: featuring a wide variety of 'small but perfectly formed' works of art, all for $100 or less!




Crossings

Crossings
Gallery 4: 1 - 15 November 2009

A group show, featuring paintings and sculpture by Susan Dunster, Paula McNeill and Pamela Plummer.




Illusions

Illusions
Main gallery: 12 - 30 October 2009

This exhibition will feature new pieces by innovative textile artists Freda Brierley and Susan Holmes.

 
 

 
New and Recent Works

New and Recent Works
Gallery 4: 8 - 26 October 2009

Northart presents a group show, featuring paintings by Karl Amundsen, Suzanne Ashmore, Robert Ellis, Hank Groot, Ross Ritchie and Guy von Sturmer.




I Love China, I Love New Zealand

I love New Zealand / I Love China
Gallery 4: 19 September - 4 October 2009

This group photographic exhibition celebrates the 60th anniversary of the People's Republic of China.




Three Painters

Three Painters
Main Gallery: 14 September - October 2009

Featuring new and recent paintings by Frank van Schaik, Clare Young and Clyde Scott.




Tomui Kaloni: Kafatolu o 'Itaniti

Tomui Kaloni: Kafatolu o 'Itaniti
Gallery 4: 29 August - 13 September 2009

In this show, Tomui Kaloni explores and interprets ideas about the mysteries and heart of the Tongan Fale.



 
Seven Contemporary Artists

Seven Contemporary Artists 
Main gallery: 17 August - 6 September 2009

An exhibition featuring work by Josephine Do, Eun-Jung Jinn, Han-Nae Kim, Reagan Lee, Daniel Liu, Joon-Hee Park and Gyu-Joon Yang.




Gabriella Trussardi: Ab/ject

Gabriella Trussardi: Ab/ject
Gallery 4: 10 - 26 August 2009

The exhibition features artefacts which respond to issues of abjection and subjecthood, expressed through clothing.


 

Avian Architecture: Greg Piper

Avian Architecture: Greg Piper 
Members' gallery & Gallery 4B: 10 - 26 August 2009

These drawings explore the mysteries of nest-building, and ponder how it is that birds can produce such complex structures.


 

Rudi Gopas: A personal collection

Rudi Gopas: A personal collection
Gallery 4: 20 July - 9 August 2009

This exhibition brings together a collection of Lithuanean-born Rudi Gopas's (1913 - 1983) works from the 1950s to the 1970s.




Ron Stenberg: Drawings, watercolours & other work

Ron Stenberg: Drawings, watercolours & other works
Gallery 4: 18 July - 5 August 2009

Ron Stenberg has had a long and distinguished career as an artist, illustrator and teacher. This exhibition brings together recent works with some from the past decade.


 

Year of the Ox - School Sculpture Competition & Exhibition

Year of the Ox - School Sculpture Competition & Exhibition
Gallery 4: 4 - 12 July 2009

Year 5 - 8 North Shore City kids compete to create the most innovative & original Ox. Prizegiving: 4 July 11.30am



 
Lost Voices: Evelyn Kawiti

Lost Voices: Evelyn Kawiti
Main gallery (space 1): 22 June - 12 July 2009

Evelyn Kawiti's drawings and watercolours reflect the impact of the loss of Te Reo Maori since 1867 and its consequences for her as a non-speaker.



Paint by Rules: Juliet Monaghan

Paint by Rules: Juliet Monaghan
Main gallery (spaces 2 & 3): 22 June - 12 July 2009

A fun and lively interactive exhibition, where viewers get to help create the artworks. It includes "Artdoku", works based on the popular numbers game.

 

 

Community & Self: Spark Studio

Community & Self: Spark Studio
Gallery 4: 20 - 28 June 2009

Spark Studio is a creative space which provides art tuition to adults with disabilities. This show brings their work to a wider community.


 
 
The Human Condition: Graham Creamer

The Human Condition: Graham Creamer
Gallery 4: 2 - 17 June 2009

Having observed and studied the human condition for most of his life, Graham Creamer now paints the results of his observations.




Hunter and Gatherer: Sheryl Sefton

Hunter and Gatherer: Sheryl Sefton
Members' Gallery: 2 - 17 June 2009 

Years of collecting and accumulating textiles, threads and paper ephemera has inspired this collection of collage and stitch assemblages.




drawings

drawings
Main gallery: 25 May - 17 June 2009

34 images ranging from figure studies to landscape; from abstract to surreal; from traditional drawing materials to drawings in paint and mixed media.




Garry Currin, Barbara Cope, Lisa Currin: Occupied Territory - Recent Works

Garry Currin, Barbara Cope, Lisa Currin: Occupied Territory - Recent Works
Gallery 4: 11 - 27 May 2009

Garry Currin, daughter Lisa and partner Barbara Cope collaborate in a show based on the idea of transitory existence in a fragile and elemental landscape.


 
 
Northart Members' Exhibition

Northart Members' Exhibition
Main gallery: 27 April - 17 May 2009

Painting, photography, textile and applied arts: Northart members' autumn exhibition, selected by Deborah White, director of Whitespace, Ponsonby.

 


Rachel Irwin: Structure, Colour & Texture

Rachel Irwin: Structure, Colour & Texture
Members’ gallery: 19 April – 6 May 2009

These paintings explore the structure, colour and texture of the rocks of Auckland’s shoreline, Sandspit, Waiake and Rothesay Bay.




Suzanne Ashmore: Out of the Blue

Suzanne Ashmore: Out of the Blue
Gallery 4: 19 April – 6 May 2009

My work continues to create links between voice, vision and the passage of time; suggest journeys, traces, memories; invite the viewer to speculate & add their own stories.




Pam Dalton: Diary of a Journey

Pam Dalton: Diary of a Journey
Gallery 4: 19 April – 6 May 2009

2008 was a memorable year for me: my spinal fusion; my first solo exhibition; my 70th birthday; my first journey to the UK & Europe... These works celebrate my 2008.



 
Paper and Clay: Auriel Shearer & Peter Shearer

Paper and Clay: Auriel Shearer & Peter Shearer
Main gallery: 30 March - 19 April 2009

This show features new ceramics by Peter Shearer, and prints by Auriel Shearer made over the past twenty years - but never exhibited before.



 
Wardrobe: new works by Linda Gair

Wardrobe: new works by Linda Gair
Gallery 4: 23 March - 18 April 2009

Linda Gair metaphorically takes her clothes out of the wardrobe and reworks, remakes and reinterprets them for a new context.



 
Signs: the painted word of Abdullah Dougan

Signs: the painted word of Abdullah Dougan
Main gallery: 2 - 22 March 2009

Philosopher & teacher Abdullah (Neil) Dougan (1918-87) in the 1960s & '70s developed paintings from teachings of the ideas of Gurdijeff, Hazrat Inayat Khan & other Sufis.



 
Expressions

Expressions
Gallery 4: 2 - 19 March 2009

Artists influenced by Dougan's teachings about Gurdijeff & Khan: Harvey Benge, Phil Dadson, Melissa Martyn, Ross Ritchie, Peter Shearer, Pauline Thompson, Brent Wong...

 
 

Three Painters: Michael Wrightson, Annette Marshall-Dawson & Annette Dickison

Three Painters: Michael Wrightson, Annette Marshall-Dawson & Annette Dickison
Gallery 4: 9 - 25 February 2009

Three very different approaches to representing nature: realism, expressive colour and abstracted illusionism.


 

INSTOCK

INSTOCK
Main Gallery: 2 - 22 February 2009

The show featured work by seven invited established, emergent and emerging female artists: painting, mixed media and printmaking.

 
 

Oriental Brush Calligraphy

Oriental Brush Calligraphy
Gallery 4: 24 January - 1 February 2009

The first collaborative exhibition between the New Zealand Chinese Calligraphy Association & the Korean-New Zealand Calligraphy Association.

 

 


 

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