Turning Point - Whangarei Art Museum
Te Huringa (Turning Points), is a major exhibition of New Zealand art and artistic responses to a new social order. Described eloquently as 'like a travelator back through a pictorial history of Aotearoa' Whangarei Art Museum is proud to be able to bring this highly important exhibition to Northland on the 'final leg' of its national tour. Many thousands have visited the exhibition all over New Zealand - 42,000 in Wellington alone.
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NOM*d Fashion and Cloaks - Whangarei Art Museum
NOM*d Fashion
Whangarei Art Museum is one of only two NZ venues for this exhibition and the only art gallery in the North Island for this stunning exhibition of garments and accessories which highlight the artistic dimension of the brand NOM*d
Margarita Robertson (nee Gladiadis) the Creative Director and founder of NOM*d is part of our kiwi fashion lineage - a 'make-do-and-mend' pioneering womanhood past and present.. Margarita and her husband Chris Robertson first began marketing their embryonic clothing line in 1986, which now includes their son Sam Robertson in what has grown to be one of the most sought-after NZ design labels. Her elder sister Elisabeth Findlay established the Auckland label Zambesi, both with their own individual, intuitive and exemplary flair.
NOM*d has particular connections to international 'conceptual fashion' over the past decade with an infusion of Dunedin sub-culture; - streetwise, intellectual, de-constructivist - a re-appropriation of period styles and fabrics, giving the label its unique and timeless vibe. This ethos also alludes to connections in the two accompanying exhibitions.
Since its inception, wherever possible, NOM*d have continued to use local materials and kept their manufacturing in New Zealand. Early connections to Roslyn Woollen Mills in Dunedin created opportunities for a more exclusive knitwear range than was generally available at the time.
The exhibition focuses on a decade of contemporary design practice from the label, with particular curatorial emphasis on some of the 'concept pieces' of this period. In many ways they echo the brooding 'landscape of unease' in NZ art history from van der Velden to McCahon and Hotere.
NOM*d Concept and NOM*d Noir are the two thematic groupings in the exhibition of over 70 design items which includes memorabilia from the Robertson's private collection called 'memory boxes' accompanying the exhibition. All garments are from Margarita Robertson's personal archive.
Prof. Hilary Radner of Otago University has been key to initiating the exhibition. Her co-curator Dr.Natalie Smith's PhD thesis has focussed on the roles and relationships between art and fashion since 1980, and the emergence of conceptual couture.
New World concepts of fashion, as opposed to the Eurocentric divisions of haute couture and prêt-a- porter. An egalitarian fashion in which New Zealand and NOM*d treads their own runway!
An industrial-chic installation space has been created in the Younghusband Gallery of the Whangarei Art Museum for this show with colour matching by WAM Sponsors Porters Paints.
The Cloaks
Jo Torr continues her explorative research of mutual cultural exchange, creating one-off garments as unique 'conceptual artworks'. In this new series she examines the historical interrelation of Māori cloaks/kākahu and European woollen blankets. She draws attention to the way European clothing was adopted and adapted by Māori, how blankets replaced cloaks while simultaneously wool, embroidery techniques and colour was incorporated into the evolution of Māori cloak making.
Torr's sculpture references the 1880s in-the-field photographic studies of Māori by the Burton Brothers as well as kākahu in museum collections. The spectacular female costumes are immaculately constructed from cream woollen blankets. Torr deliberately chose these to stand in for muka, the prepared flax fibre of traditional Māori cloaks. Each work references a particular type of cloak; kaitaka, korowai and ngore. Decorative techniques mirror the way traditional weaving elements have been adapted over time, for example the decorative border on Kaitaka is needlepoint rather than tāniko.
Her blankets are salvaged vintage materials, with their own accompanying past histories -- creating a connection to the conceptual basis of the NOM*d' creative ethos.
Jo Torr last exhibited at the Whangarei Art Museum in 2004/5 in Pret-a-Porter Pasifika with works from her Gauguin and Nu'u Sila Suites. Her work is represented in a number of major New Zealand art gallery and museum collections including the Auckland Art Gallery and Auckland Museum. The artist has just completed the William Hodges Fellowship, an artist residency in Southland, where she created new works which investigate the ill-fated 1850's whaling settlement on the Auckland Islands in the southern ocean.
Rita Angus and selected works at the Whangarei Art Museum
The latest exhibit from the Whangarei Art Museum. Rita and Angus and selected works. Also including Sojourn in the North and Lifelines: Jo Hardy.
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Whangarei Art Museum - Consonance and Dissonance
This selective survey is the first time these early colonial-period paintings from a private collection known as the Arboretum Trust Collection have been shown to the public.
The Arboretum Trust was developed to acquire early pictorial colonial history and now has a permanent home in the Whangarei Art Museum. Developed over two decades by an expatriate collector with expert advice from a series of dedicated researchers and curators the collection has expanded in value and range.
Paintings have been sourced from London, Sydney, Melbourne and New Zealand with an 'educated eye' for the neglected and obscure corners of our art history. It is a consciously eclectic collection of rare quality and prestige. Public collections of this depth in New Zealand and in Australia are generally held in libraries such as the Turnbull Library in Wellington, the Hocken Library in Dunedin and the Mitchell Library in Canberra, Australia.
It is interesting that such important artistic heritage was once considered more appropriate for a municipal library collection than a public art gallery. Similarly, Maori, Pacific and Aboriginal art was until more recently, considered the domain of social history museums and anthropology departments than public art museums. The Te Maori exhibition in 1984 changed that perception and public art museums are now collecting the art that so often languished at the tail-end of auction catalogues for diligent collectors such as the principals of the Arboretum Trust.
The Fletcher Trust Collection in Auckland has similar aims and together these two independent collections now add immeasurably to the visual history of global culture, nationhood and public knowledge.
In 2011 the art museum negotiated to be custodians of this significant longterm loan collection -- The Arboretum Trust Collection to contextualize and complement its existing heritage collection in the new Hub premises. Formed over a period of 25 years primarily by an anonymous overseas collector this extensive million dollar collection is particularly rich in very rare early New Zealand colonial period watercolours and oil paintings. The period focus of the collection is from the pioneer 1830's with a strong presence of
paintings from 1880 -- 1920. There are over 200 works in a continually evolving collection. The artists represented include some exceptional names from the Colonial and post-Colonial period including John A. Gilfillan; Commander Richard Oliver; Nicholas Chevalier; John Gully; Sir William Fox; John Barr Clarke Hoyte; John Kinder; Gottfried Lindauer; William Matthew Hodgkins; James Nairn; Samuel Brees; Girolamo Nerli; Alfred Sharpe; Sir William Ashton; Mina Arndt; Claus Fristrom; Grace Butler; Dorothy Kate Richmond; Maud Sherwood; Sydney L. Thompson; Roland Wakelin; John Weeks and Adele Younghusband. However the key ethos of the collection has been to consciously avoid the stellar names of the period such as Chares Heaphy, Charles Goldie, von Tempsky and George French Angus in favour of less well-known. This is an enlightened and democratic approach to a very personal collection. Some artists like M.P Handforth, Louis Frank and Thomas Darby Ryan have close connections with Whangarei. Of significance in the collection are artworks depicting early colonial settlement, portraits of maori and aspects of Maori life.
Several landscape paintings are from the earliest settlement period by journeyman and adventurer artists such as John Gilfillan, R.C.F Pheney and Constable. Figgis, Samuel C.Brees, and others, from the New Zealand Company Period would be prime works for any national reserve collection.
Among the particularly notable view paintings in the collection are; possibly the first oil painting of Wellington Harbour c.1842/5 by Samuel C. Brees; The 21st Encamped on the Three Kings, Auckland 1860 by G. H. Cooper; and the Mission Station, Nelson c.1845 by W Figgis; Waikauouiti c.1873 by The Rev John Kinder; and Distant View of the Whanganui River c.1843 by Alexander Gilfillan. Very intriguing is a largely unknown oil portrait discovered in Melbourne, by Gottfried Lindauer thought to be of his first wife Emilia Lindauer who died tragically a year after they married in 1880. The Lindauer descendants in New Zealand have no known images of his previous wife, so this is poignant discovery.
There are also 3 very rare works in the exhibition by Girolamo Nerli including a possible portrait of William Hogkins, a portrait of Sir Julius von Haast by Ellen von Meyern and 4 previously unknown paintings by Claus Edward Fristrom as well as a major oil painting by Thomas Darby Ryan of the wreck of the Orwell in 1848 on the West Coast.
Art historically the significance of this body of work cannot be overestimated, and gives the new art museum impetus and a unique perspective on the breadth of the development of New Zealand art.
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Legend! - Whangarei Art Museum
In contemporary society, myth is often regarded as outmoded or antiquated. However, many cultural studies scholars are now beginning to explore the notion that myths and legends have immersed themselves into modern discourses. Modern formats of communication allow for a wide spread of idea-exchange across the globe; consequently enabling mythological discourse and discussion among larger audiences more so than ever. Diverse elements of myth can now be found in popular culture including cinema, television and videogames. Art has always been a vehicle for communicating ideas and storytelling maintaining a stong lineage of narrative; from Greek mythological statues, allegorical painting to esoteric myths and legends carved into the architecture of culture. The locus of this new suite of exhibitions at the Whangarei Art Museum centures around Aotearoa and its Maori mythos.
Credos & quest - Whangarei Art Museum
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Art and religion have been intertwined since the first glimmerings of human history but in New Zealand - somehow despite our missionary colonialist connections, any major survey of the visual arts in this genre has been entirely minimal.
Credo and Quest exhibits New Zealand Art on the subject of faith in all its forms.
Home sewn - Whangarei Art Museum
With a focus on over 40 fashion garments, HOME SEWN the exhibition, is a retrospective view of the home sewing evolution in New Zealand. The machines, the techniques and technology, the patterns and the fabrics used to create beautiful clothes at a time when off-the-peg fashion was scarce and expensive, are highlights of the show; as well as fashion illustrations, photographs, newspaper and magazine articles. Combined they provided the tools for many generations of women who wanted a stylish wardrobe that reflected the current couture of the fashion capitals.
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Fashion Show - Whangarei Art Museum
Project Promise - Project Runway
A Whangarei Art Museum Event held in conjunction with FASHIONISTA -- From Sublime to Street Savvy A suite of three exhibitions.
Thank you to the organisers Joel Hornell and Andrea McKay of Addiction Hair
and Maree Saunders of the Whangarei Art Museum
and to the designers
Melanie Thomas (Melanie Thomas Design), Tracey Harvey (Taylor Made Style),
Jess Foote (Jessie Rose) and Jackie Stoddard (Jackie Stoddard Design)and their models
plus a big thank you to Metro Staging Services for donating the lighting
and to the all the volunteers who helped make the night such a success.
Rembrandt and his peers - Whangarei Art Museum
An exhibition developed and toured by the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
Whangarei Art Museum is one of only four public galleries nation-wide selected to showcase this exceptional exhibition of 400-year-old masterworks.
Following on the success of two previous Te Papa exhibitions; Rembrandt The Experimental Etcher at the art museum in July 2009 and Drawn from Italy- Mantegna to Kaufman, 600 year old Italian engravings and etchings in 2011, the art museum is proud to bring our audience once again face-to-face with 400 years of Dutch creative history in the most intimate and democratic medium of etching.
There are 30 works in this exhibition, which pivots around exquisite etchings by Rembrandt and his contemporaries in 17th century Netherlands. This year New Zealand celebrates the 370th Anniversary of Abel Tasman's first sighting of Aotearoa-New Zealand.
Uku Rere - Whangarei Art Museum
Maori ceramic works featuring Baye Riddell, Manos Nathan, Colleen Urlich, Wi Taepa and Paerau Corneal
Exhibition developed and toured by Pataka Art+Museum in collaboration with Toi Maori Aotearoa and with the generous support of Creative New Zealand
A La Mode - Whangarei Art Museum
Early New Zealand Fashion Plates 1811-1825
Toured and curated by the Dunedin Public Art Gallery.
Featuring some treasures of the Dunedin Public Art Gallery: a suite of 45 fashion plates from Rudolph Ackermann's 19th Century publication -- the style bible of its day- Ackermann's Repository of Arts hand-coloured etchings.
The exhibition showcases the 'Jane Austen era' when fashion - if not politics, took its lead from post- Revolutionary France. A new egalitarianism in Europe swept across to touch the shores of New Zealand, and created a freer, less constricted design ethic for female dress, led by the Empress Josephine and the Napoleonic Court. Themes included the Turkish Harem, the Napoleonic Wars and the Gothic Revival of the period. The book has since found a new life as the 'go to' publication for all British film and TV dramas recreating the Regency Period.
The new Empire Dress style was emulated in Regency England when the Industrial Revolution too, enabled new cotton processing methods and a wider availability of quality muslins and cottons. Fashion plates in the show portray the latest in morning dress, carriage dress, garden party and promenade attire, evening dress, opera and wedding dresses.
The exhibition is accompanied by a selection of Regency Period fashion accessories, including gloves, parasols, lorgnettes and fans, beaded bags and a 1809 original copy of The Repository of Arts, Literature, Commerce, Manufactures, Fashions and Politics by Ackermann, together with a later Victorian Period dress c.1860 on loan from the Kauri Museum.
This exquisite collection of fashion plates was gifted to the DPAG in 1960 by Miss Margaret Middleditch of Rye, Sussex England.
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Drawn from Italy - Whangarei art museum
The Whangarei Art Museum is very proud to present Drawn from Italy: Mantegna to
Kauffmann This selection of drawings and prints from Te Papa's collection illustrates the
influence of Italian ideas about art and artists that spread throughout Europe from the time of
the Renaissance. Drawn from Italy features works dating from the late 15th century to the late
18th century. They were created by artists who were Italian, or worked in Italy, or derived their
subjects from Italian sources.
Developed and presented by the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
Sweet As - Whangarei Art Museum
View, visit and experience this sound 'popping' - sweet smelling and multi-sensory installation of luscious confectionary and an accompanying collections-based exhibition designed for sight-affected and disabled art enthusiastes.
An exhibition designed to celebrate those with disabilities in our community and a more inclusive way of 'seeing'.
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Soo Tru!... Sew True - Whangarei Art Museum
Soo tru !...Sew True -- THE Runway Show 2013
Last year I was very proud to initiate a local community charity event annually onto the WAM calendar.
Last February our chosen charity was Project Promise with local Whangarei designers strutting the catwalk in Project Promise Project Runway. The event proved so successful and so professionally staged we ran it again in March at the Whangarei Library to engage a different audience and cater for those who had missed out. It remains a hit streamed on Youtube: youtube.com/watch?v=zyejEHQ43UO
Again this year the team at Addiction Hair in Whangarei, Andrea and Joel have stepped up to co-ordinate a new show this year called: Soo Tru! ... Sew True - The Runway Show on 13th February at 6.30 at the art museum. Many of the designers and models from last year are again donating their time to raise funds for a very deserving charity in our community. This year at the art museum we are anxious to support the public momentum for a change in the domestic violence statistics in our community. Our chosen charities for the Runway show in 2013 are Women's Refuges' Tryphina House and Te Puna o Te Aroha. The title of this year's show was created both to reflect the stories of the local designers we are promoting and to allude to the wider stories of anguish and violence against women and children in the community. This will be a fun and fashion-forward event underpinned by a serious purpose.
Last month I participated in the public march through the Whangarei CBD to protest again the recent deaths of vulnerable women in the district. It was a very moving and empowering occasion. There were many men marching led by the Mayor Morris Cutforth. I marched next to a man who fully acknowledged he had just been released from Ngawha Prison for violence against his daughter. I have been a victim of violence in the city myself. When I was setting up the art museum in Cafler Park late in 1995 I was beaten up by a gang of youths in Forum North in front of Customer Services and some months later again in Rathbone Street - again in broad daylight and in public. I had been 'targeted' it was revealed by Police in Court. It is a shocking and humiliating experience -- life altering for my personal worldview now as it is for anyone confronted by inexplicable violence. This is the reason I chose Women's Refuge to be benefactors of this years WAM Runway show.
The Mayor Morris Cutforth will be attending the Runway show along with the Mayoress and other VIP's including fashion design icon Doris de Pont ONZM recently honoured for services to New Zealand fashion in the New Years Honours List. Local designers on the runway this year include By Design -- Julie Pyle; Charlotte Davidson, Jessie Rose, Samantha Wakelin, Simon Wakelin Menswear; Tailor Made Style and fashion accessories by Steve Haywood Jewellery and Rua Paul and with Hair by Joel Hornell and Andrea McKay - Addiction Hair and make-up by Personna Beauty Whangarei.
Many new sponsors have come on board this year - Calder's Print, Kim Crawford Wines, the Northland Youth Theatre and Personna Beauty Aotearoa.
This year's charity Runway show is designed to complement our current Endless Summer Festival Exhibition HOME SEWN Original NZ Fashion curated by the NZ Fashion Museum, Auckland.
Locus - a sense of place - Whangarei Art Museum
Warren Viscoe is a key cultural figure in New Zealand with direct childhood and on going
creative links to Whangarei. Warren Viscoe's work is deeply researched and references the past in contemporary and innovative ways and he is nationally recognised for the stature of his creative practice. He is based in Auckland where he has a studio at his home in Ellerslie. His work is included in major collections, private and public, including Auckland Art Gallery/ Toi O Tamaki, James Wallace Arts Trust, Rotorua Museum of Art and History/ Te Whare Taonga O Arawa, Sarjeant Gallery/ Te Whare Rehua, Wanganui, and Te Papa Tongarewa Museum of New Zealand.
Whangarei Art Museum - Opela na Nupela
This exhibit contains art from Papua New Guinea
Graham Percy Life & Times - Whangarei Art Museum
GRAHAM PERCY
'A micronaut in the wide world' the imaginative life and times of Graham Percy' rediscovers the life and work of one of New Zealand's most talented and original artists. Percy left this country in the mid-1960s and became a hugely respected artist/illustrator/typographer overseas, while at the same time producing a remarkable body of his own independent art.
This exhibition, and the major publication that accompanies it, celebrates Percy's achievement as a published illustrator as well as bringing to light a significant body of work never seen before.
His works are held in the collection of the National Galleries of Scotland, yet—since his early years in Auckland--they have never been exhibited publicly in New Zealand.