Visual Arts | OpenGlam
30 January 2015
Lissa Mitchell, curator of historical documentary photography at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, explores the work of three photographers creating autochromes in early 20th-century New Zealand. Mitchell’s writing features on the…
Visual Arts | Wired
25 January 2015
New Zealand photographer Amos Chapple says he shoots travel photos aimed at the news sections of papers and which need a headline to hang a story on. It got down to -31 degrees Centigrade…
Visual Arts | Amateur Photographer
23 January 2015
Sony UK has announced that New Zealand-born Michael Wayne Plant has been named one of six photographers to join its Imaging Ambassadors programme, which is run on Sony’s behalf by the World…
Visual Arts | ArtForum
15 January 2015
“Anatomy of a Phenomenon,” a one-of-a-kind exhibition from Auckland-born artist Peter Stichbury—2008 winner of New Zealand’s prestigious Wallace Art Award—recently enjoyed a successful month-long run (October 16-November 15, 2014) at…
Visual Arts | Vogue
9 January 2015
New Zealand-born photographer Henry Hargreaves, 35, who has made a name for himself by using food as a vehicle for the provocative, charming and macabre, has launched a new series showcasing the way in which…
Visual Arts | Straits Times | Straits Times (The)
6 January 2015
It was a long, emotional night for ArtScience Museum executive director New Zealand-born Honor Harger. She was waiting eagerly for the arrival of Leonardo da Vinci’s works, which had travelled a long way to…
Visual Arts | Yareah Magazine
28 December 2014
Ahead of Billy Apple’s 2015 retrospective exhibition Billy Apple®: The Artist Has to Live Like Everybody Else at Auckland Art Gallery, arts publication Yareah Magazine looks back at the life of New Zealand’s most…
Visual Arts | New York Times (The)
15 December 2014
Since the early 1960s, New Zealand artist Susan Te Kahurangi King – who makes her gallery debut in Chelsea, New York – “has been reworking Looney Tunes characters like a rogue animator, abstracting, distorting…
Visual Arts | Sydney Morning Herald (The)
4 December 2014
Nelson-born George Johnson is a giant of Australian “geometric abstraction” and his work, along with that of local heavyweights Jon Plapp and Trevor Vickers, was recently exhibited at Melbourne’s Nancy Sever Gallery.
In a review…
Visual Arts | Art Magazin
2 December 2014
For the first time, Berlin’s Nationalgalerie, in association with Auckland Art Gallery, presents the Maori portraits of Bohemian artist Gottfried Lindauer, whose works are all but unknown outside of New Zealand.
The paintings…
Visual Arts | Artnet
27 November 2014
One of New Zealand’s most renowned and successful contemporary artists, Max Gimblett will be the subject of his first solo exhibition in the UK, “Love Conquers All,” at Kashya Hildebrand…
Visual Arts | Lexington Herald-Leader
21 November 2014
New Zealander Peter Williams is the resident artist at Keeneland racecourse in Kentucky, a gentleman with an easel, canvas and palette of paints quietly working as the pageantry of the meet swirls around him,…
Visual Arts | Rossi Rossi
16 November 2014
One of New Zealand’s foremost contemporary artists, Shane Cotton will present “The Voyage Out”, a solo exhibition of new works on at Hong Kong’s Rossi Rossi gallery until 27 December.
The gallery explains: “Part of…
Visual Arts | Australian (The)
8 November 2014
The Art Gallery of NSW’s art curator New Zealander Wayne Tunnicliffe has spent more than two years assembling a pop art collection of 200 artworks from Australia, Britain, Germany, Portugal, France, Spain and the…
Visual Arts | Epoch Times | The Epoch Times
5 November 2014
Uili Lousi, Tongan-born New Zealand artist, speaks to the Epoch Times about his journey of art and using New York city for spiritual inspiration.
“New York is the best place to test your spiritual life,”…
Visual Arts | New York Times (The)
30 October 2014
Premier Paris art fair Foire Internationale d’Art Contemporain (FIAC) has never been better according to experts, and all thanks to New Zealander Jennifer Flay who has been at the helm of FIAC…
Visual Arts | UConn Today
20 October 2014
Auckland-based multimedia artist Louise Menzies is serving as artist-in-residence at the University of Connecticut (UConn) creating the exhibition, “Time to Think Like a Mountain,” which focuses on materials found in the university’s…
Business | Business Insider | NZEdge
9 October 2014
Air New Zealand has been judged by Business Insider as having the “coolest airline paint job in the world”, ranked first out of 15 international airlines with striking exterior designs.
“As airlines and…
Visual Arts | Daily Mail
17 September 2014
Photography was the furthest thing from Holly Spring’s mind when daughter Violet was struck down with a debilitating bowel condition that almost cost her life.
Born with just one hand, her right, the new born…
Visual Arts | Monocle
15 September 2014
“Auckland-based auction house Webb’s leads the way in meeting the growing interest in New Zealand artists,” according to Monocle.
“Established in 1976, it now also provides auction services in Wellington and, in 2013, clinched the…
Visual Arts | E-Flux
1 September 2014
Sculptor and installation artist Simon Denny, 32, has been selected to represent New Zealand at the 2015 Venice Biennale, which runs from 9 May to 22 November.
“Simon Denny is one of the…
Visual Arts | Galerie Pavlova
30 August 2014
Originally from Auckland, Michael Dooney has relocated to Berlin where he has opened Galerie Pavlova, a space dedicated to promoting photographers, like Conor Clarke (pictured) who are established in the Trans-Tasman region and developing…
Visual Arts | Huffington Post | Huffington Post (The)
21 August 2014
Kiwi fashion designer Sean Kelly, who is currently participating in the latest season of Project Runway, had his dress worn by Heidi Klum at this week’s Emmys.
The New Zealand designer and Massey…
Visual Arts | Columbian (The)
20 August 2014
Families are increasingly turning to professional dog photographers like New Zealander Rachael Hale McKenna, to capture their memorable pet portraits.
Professional pet photographers in the increasingly competitive business quiz owners about their dogs’ personalities, find…
Nature | space.com
17 August 2014
Space.com has featured a stunning image of the stars; proving New Zealand is one of the best places in the world to view the night sky.
The image, by astrophotographer Amit Kamble, was taken on…
Visual Arts | Age (The)
15 August 2014
New Zealand-born, Los Angeles-based artist Fiona Connor’s major new “collection” show at Melbourne’s Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA) articulates, not all collecting institutions are alike.
Connor’s description of the museum as “a…
Visual Arts | Republica
13 August 2014
New Zealand installation artist Tiffany Singh exhibited at the Siddhartha Art Gallery in Kathmandu this month, where she explored the role of seemingly insignificant things that are a part of Nepal’s rich tradition, which…
Visual Arts | Limerick Leader
19 July 2014
Auckland street artist Elliot O’Donnell, better known as Askew One, the tag he adopted at age 14, is participating in an innovative urban art project, which is using the city of Limerick’s…
Visual Arts | Huffington Post (The)
11 July 2014
Self-taught artist New Zealander Ben Young, 31, a boatbuilder by trade and avid surfer, has made a name for himself creating intricate glass sculptures that uncannily resemble moving water.
Young crafts his sculptures – all…
Visual Arts | Shanghai Daily
8 July 2014
Fifty woven panels by 40 Maori artists are to hang permanently next to the entry of the General Assembly Hall at the UN Headquarters in New York.
The tukutuku panels, a revered art form in…
Visual Arts | Telegraph (The)
8 July 2014
A stunning image entitled “The Turbulent Heart of the Scorpion” by New Zealand photographer Rolf Wahl Olsen has been shortlisted in the Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition.
The photograph is of the multiple star…
Visual Arts | Huffington Post | Huffington Post (The)
3 July 2014
A leading New York based New Zealand photographer Henry Hargreaves, has created a new art series featuring Vietnam War style messages on mobile phones.
In his new series “War Phones”, Hargreaves worked with a prop stylist…
Visual Arts | ABC News
29 June 2014
New Zealand-born potter Anne Dank, who has been a member of Queensland’s Mount Isa Potters Group for over forty years, is hoping to reinvigorate the club with new branding, bringing back the glory days…
Visual Arts | Detroit News
27 June 2014
The new owner of Detroit’s “hulking old” gallery 333 Midland, transplanted New Zealander Rob Onnes, bought the space last year for his studio and this month, “Big Paintings @ the Factory” opens…
Visual Arts | Buzzfeed | Digital Spy | Guardian (The)
20 June 2014
New Zealand travel, portrait and lifestyle photographer Adrienne Pitts has won 1st place in the travel category at the 2014 iPhone Photography Awards.
“My iPhone is the camera that is always on me, and is…
Visual Arts | Scoop
17 June 2014
Four New Zealand artists will show their work as part of a group exhibition titled FORTY:67 at New York’s Artifact Gallery in Orchard Street on from 1 – 6 July.
The title of…
Visual Arts | The Daily Record
10 June 2014
New Zealand-born wildlife photographer Robyn Preston’s image of a lion swiping at her camera, in Maasai Mara, Kenya features in the Daily Record’s weekly picture editor gallery.
“The roaring lion shows off his razor-sharp teeth…
Visual Arts | Sydney Morning Herald (The)
8 May 2014
Auckland-based photographer Geoffrey Short’s photographs – on show in Melbourne this month – of high-powered fossil fuel and gunpowder explosions tread a precarious path between terror and the transcendent, Dan Rule writes for the…
Visual Arts | Houston Press
6 May 2014
New Zealander Suzy Taylor spent most of her adult life living the life of a business woman, working in real estate and finance. In the wake of the worldwide financial crisis Taylor immigrated to…
Visual Arts | CBS News
24 April 2014
New Zealand photographer Rachael Hale McKenna is using her creativity to help dogs and cats living in New York’s shelters, with a new book The New York Dog, which is filled with pictures of…
Visual Arts | Amnesty International | Washington Post
22 April 2014
New Zealand-born freelance photographer Robin Hammond is one of 49 photographers featuring in The Newseum’s highly anticipated Pictures of the Year exhibition, which runs through 1 September in Washington DC.
Hammond…
Visual Arts | Sydney Morning Herald (The)
18 April 2014
New Zealand artist Michel Tuffery is building a 4.5m high sculpture of a kangaroo from car body parts as part of a community project with the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney.
In…
Visual Arts | GQ | Marie Claire | NY Magazine | Nylon | Skinny (The)
14 April 2014
14 April 2014 – New Zealand-born photographer Henry Hargreaves’ images of “deep fried gadgets (yep, iPhones in batter), bacon alphabet and rainbow-coloured food” are “marvelled” over in the Skinny this month.
“Jelly becomes a series…
Visual Arts | Wired
11 April 2014
Fine art photographer Casey Moore travels the world documenting meteorites using his large-format Sinar camera, with much of his work centring around reconnecting with New Zealand, his country of origin.
In the course of his…
Visual Arts | Architectural Digest | Smithsonian Magazine
7 April 2014
New Zealand-born interior designer Sandra Nunnerley is participating in this year’s Fabergé Big Egg Hunt held throughout New York’s five boroughs through April 26.
The Fabergé Big Egg Hunt is a fundraising initiative…
Visual Arts | Time Out Dubai
19 March 2014
“Waiheke Island is upscale Auckland’s offshore beach resort of choice – but its thriving creative community means it’s also a paradise for art lovers of all types,” according to Time Out Dubai. In an…
Visual Arts | American Photo | Wired
19 March 2014
When New Zealand-born advertising and fine art photographer Todd Antony was shooting landscapes in the southwestern United States in 2009 he came upon Sun City, Arizona, a desert retirement community of approximately…
Visual Arts | Herald Sun
10 March 2014
New Zealand artist Christian Gundesen will display his cuttlebone sculptures at the Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show, which runs 26-30 March.
Gundesen, who lives in Rye, 83km south of Melbourne, moved to the seaside…
Visual Arts | New Zealand Herald
25 February 2014
25 February 2014 – Auckland-based illustrator Henrietta Harris will exhibit alongside the world’s most famous street artist at the Robert Fontaine Gallery in Miami from 8 March.
The exhibition, called Insiders:…
Visual Arts | Huffington Post (The)
7 February 2014
Two exhibitions by New Zealand-born artists based overseas are opening at PAULNACHE in Gisborne. Matthew Couper, who lives in Las Vegas and Matt Arbuckle, who has spent the last couple of years…
Visual Arts | Stuff.co.nz
6 February 2014
Kaikoura artist Ruth Stirnimann’s Earth Grid 4, which was dedicated to Christchurch after the earthquakes, has beat 1050 other artists to win international art competition La Tua Arte Nel Sociale launched by Rome gallery,…
Visual Arts | Vice
3 February 2014
Henry Hargreaves’ latest project is recreations of the last meals of various serial killers on death row. The Christchurch-born photographer has made a name for himself making and photographing such gastronomical fancies as edible…
Visual Arts
30 January 2014
“After spending several years abroad, photographer Harry Culy returned to his homeland of New Zealand and took a series of road trips exploring the world he had known while discovering it anew through the…
Visual Arts | Independent (The)
13 December 2013
“I am sitting at a long antique wooden school table, burning capital letters onto the surface: ‘B****,’” the Independent’s Zoe Pilger describes from exhibition rooms HQ, London. “Other words swarm all over it: ‘Vagina…
Visual Arts | Metro
7 December 2013
With the help of a remote control buggy, New Zealand photographer Chris McLennan has managed to capture images of a pride of eight lions in the Khwai region, Botswana.
McLennan attached his camera to the…
Visual Arts | Visual Arts Hub
11 November 2013
New Zealand-born Scrap Wall has been named artistic director of Sydney’s largest annual celebration of art, Art Month. Wall is a well-established pioneer in the emerging art scene of his native Auckland.
Wall…