Welcome to Pacific Real Time, the 2016 Auckland Art Fair Projects, curated by Jarrod Rawlins (Curator, MONA, Hobart) and Simon Rees (Director, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth), with assistance from Francis McWhannell. Working with galleries participating in the Fair, independent artists, and the nonprofit arts agency CIRCUIT Artist Film and Video Aotearoa New Zealand, the curators are...
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki is not in the business of placing outside bets. Inside Outside Upside Down: Five Contemporary New Zealand Artists—curated by head of contemporary art Natasha Conland,[1] and comprising materials held by the Gallery—is thus a showcase not merely of five contemporary NZ artists, but of five of the most celebrated practitioners to have emerged in recent years.[2] It...