Billy Apple billboard project

The steps taken by Billy Apple to become a registered brand are documented in a billboard project outside a shopping mall in Pakaranga, which runs to 6 May. The project has been organized by Te Tuhi Pakaranga. Read more...

Image: Billy Apple, Art Brand Logo

Matt Henry's Structural Relief at Te Tuhi

Using painting as a departure point to explore relationships between art, architecture and design, Matt Henry has installed an arrangement of stretched white canvases on a white wall at Te Tuhi Centre for the Arts. Some of the canvases have been inset into the wall itself, while others are hung conventionally on its surface. Both rely on the play of light to define the internal and external forms and call into question the presence of a painting in a room, not as an image or surface, but as something that might become part of the architecture in which it is placed. The project opens at Te Tuhi tomorrow and runs to 15 February 2015. 
Image: Installation view of Matt Henry's Structural Relief at Te Tuhi Centre for the Arts

Review of Matt Henry's User Friendly exhibition

This link takes you to a review of Matt Henry's User Friendly exhibition at Te Tuhi Centre for the Arts, which runs to 6 November 2011.

Images: Matt Henry, User Friendly, installation views, Te Tuhi Centre for the Arts, Pakuranga. Photographs courtesy of Te Tuhi Centre for the Arts

Matt Henry's User Friendly opens at Te Tuhi Centre for the Arts

Matt Henry's User friendly exhibition opens at 2.00pm today at the Te Tuhi Centre for the Arts in Pakaranga. You can get to the opening on a free bus departing at 1.30pm outside Artspace, 300 Karangahape Road and returning to the city at 3.30pm.

Jim Speers at Te Tuhi Centre for the Arts

Jim Speers' exhibition Numerology and Territories opened yesterday at the Te Tuhi Centre for the Arts and runs to 5 December 2010. You can read about the show here.

Image: Jim Speers, Egyptian Rims (2010) digital print on photographic paper

Drive-by art

Situated alongside an Auckland motorway feeder road and opposite the entrance to Te Tuhi Centre for the Arts, Gavin Hipkins' billboard project runs to 7 March 2010.

"Hipkins is known for his use of digitally scanned embroidered patches that alter the way his images are received by both concealing portions of the pictures and inserting new messages and quotes within them. This exhibition marks a new transition for the artist as he abandons images altogether and instead imbeds these patches within fields of retro linear patterns. Maintaining an interest in transcendental traditions, the patches together form a quote from William Blake's Proverbs of Hell, playing off the roadway site of the billboards and the hellish daily commute of local residents." Te Tuhi Centre for the Arts website

Images: Billboard project by Gavin Hipkins (2009), courtesy the artist and Te Tuhi Centre for the Arts, Pakuranga, NZ

Wall painting reviewed

John Hurrell's review of Andrew Barber's Wall Painting #3 at the Te Tuhi Centre for the Arts is published here. Barber's project runs at Te Tuhi to 27 September 2009.

Image: Andrew Barber, Wall Painting #3, installation view, Te Tuhi Centre for the Arts, Pakuranga, Auckland, New Zealand, 2009

Barber Wall Painting #3

Andrew Barber's Wall Painting #3 is currently showing at the Te Tuhi Centre for the Arts to 27 September 2009. This work follows wall paintings presented in Country Painting, Starkwhite (2007) and HEADWAY: New Artists Show, curated by Laura Preston and Brian Butler, Artspace (2006).

Images: Andrew Barber, Wall Painting #3, linen on stretcher, installation views, Te Tuhi Centre for the Arts, Pakuranga, Auckland (2009)