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July 8, 2011

Towards Another (Big Bang) Theory

The images of explod­ing fuel from Geof­frey H. Short’s exhib­i­tion Towards Anoth­er (Big Bang) The­ory at {Suite} Gal­lery on Ori­ent­al Parade are imme­di­ately evoc­at­ive to me of a num­ber of dif­fer­ent oth­er imager­ies, occur­ring in roughly this order: of the US mil­it­ary nap­alm­ing bits of Viet­nam of Fran­cis Ford Cop­pola nap­alm­ing bits of the Phil­lipines […]

stephen clover
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May 2, 2011

Double-header imminent at Solander: Works on Paper

Solan­der Gal­lery: Works on Paper is Wel­ling­ton’s con­tem­por­ary works on paper gal­lery. I have a soft spot for print­mak­ing and being a gal­lery that – not exclus­ively, mind – spe­cial­ises in this dis­cip­line with a con­sist­ent rota­tion of strong shows from tal­en­ted New Zea­l­and print­makers, Solan­der has become a favour­ite space of mine to vis­it. They […]

stephen clover
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April 28, 2011

Narrative Playgrounds group show at Pixel Ink Gallery

Nar­rat­ive Play­grounds is a group exhib­i­tion at Pixel Ink Gal­lery of visu­al works by emer­ging and estab­lished New Zea­l­and artists. The com­mon theme of the show is that the work is inspired by stor­ies and the ima­gin­a­tion. Gal­lery dir­ect­or, Ros­alind Clark, said the exhib­i­tion is all about trans­lat­ing the ima­gin­a­tion onto a blank can­vas. The artist’s brief was to […]

stephen clover
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