October is here and summer is just around the corner. It’s set to be sunny, and joy filled – an optimism reflected through the arts, as this month’s selection proves.
Te Uru
There is Nowhere to Go, There is Nothing to Do
Greta Anderson
On until 3 December
This exhibition reflects on 25 years of the work of photographer Greta Anderson from 1997 to 2022. The exhibition brings together a selection of Anderson’s photographs, pages of her artist books and a new publication by the same name.
420 Titirangi Road, Titirangi.
Te Tuhi
Six Different Exhibitions
Featuring: Lynn Hershman Leeson, Chia-En Jao, Benjamin Work & Harrison Freeth, Catherine Griffiths, Sean Waugh, Noel Meek & Yan Jun
On until 22 October
Te Tuhi is presenting six new exhibitions, from both international and local artists, opening in their galleries in Pakuranga, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland on Saturday, 19 August from 4pm.
All six exhibitions reflect in different ways our evolving human perception in the face of ongoing rhythms of distance and migration and their intersection with new and old technologies through the work of artists from as far afield as the US, China and Taiwan, as well as those from closer to home.
13 Reeves Road, Pakuranga.
Studio One Toi Tu
The Eternal
Casey Carsel
On until 21 September
Jewish text and textile artist Casey Carsel asks: what has their community worked against all odds, to carry through the difficult journey from 4,000 years ago to today? And what of it should Carsel embrace at this juncture?
1 Ponsonby Road, Ponsonby.
Foenander Galleries
The Liminal Blue
Cathy Carter
6- 24 October
This exhibition explores spaces of water as ‘the liminal blue’, spaces of transition, of becoming, between different states of being, senses and dreams, excitement and terror, relaxation and activity, survival, promise and devastation. Carter’s practice creates fictional constructs that explore these liquid spaces and human interaction with them. In so doing, she invites the viewer to experience a state of becoming through an encounter with imagined space and time.
455 Mt Eden Road, Mt Eden.
Bergman Gallery
Horizon
Fatu Feu’u, Luise Fong, Andy Leleisi’uao, Joan Gragg, Telly Tuita, Benjamin Work, Raymond Sagapolutele, Sefton Rani, Tanja McMillan (Misery), Louie Bretaña, Stevei Houkāmau, Linda Va’aelua
12 October – 11 November
Horizon features 12 artists with heritage and ancestry from across the Asia-Pacific region. The show reflects the gallery’s own expanded horizon via its growing stable throughout Tāmaki Makaurau, and its identity as a space celebrates artists from the broader Pacific region.
2 Newton Road, Karangahape End.
Melanie Roger Gallery
Selected Photography
Roberta Thornley
On until 20 October
Thornley crosses genres and approaches in her practice from landscape, portraiture, still life; from the staged to the incidental. Her process is playful and multidisciplinary, the shape and materiality of objects are explored, relationships built, landscapes navigated. Play pauses for Thornley when she takes a photograph and she is acutely aware of this transitional dialogue between play and photographic act in her engagement with her subjects.
444 Karangahape Rd, Newton.
