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The Te Uru archive provides access to past exhibitions, programmes, and publications produced by the Gallery, including links to published content and presentations.
Exhibition archive
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Publications and programmes
lecture
Curatorial Exchange
Pip Wallis visited Tāmaki Makaurau from Naarm / Melbourne from 6–9 May 2024 and delivered this guest lecture on her research and curation to date. Pip Wallis is currently the Senior Curator at Monash University Museum of Art. Before joining MUMA, Pip was Director of Programs at Callie’s in Berlin. The Visiting Curators Programme is made possible through collaboration with hosting institutions Auckland University of Technology and University of New South Wales.
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Video
Kate Newby | Portage Ceramic Awards 2024 Portage Ceramic Awards 2024
This year's Portage Ceramic Awards Judge, Kate Newby, talks about her process and how she managed the difficult task of going through over 280 applicants to select only 40 finalists, and 42 works to exhibit. The Portage Ceramic Awards 2024 is on view until 23 February, Te Uru is open every day 10am – 4:30pm. Pop along and see the finalists works and vote for your favourite work to win our People’s Choice Award.
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Poster
Fred Graham: Toi Whakaata / Reflections
Gain deeper insight into the work of sculptor Fred Graham (Ngāti Korokī Kahukura, Tainui) through this conversation between Brett Graham, son of the esteemed artist, and curator Hester Rowan. This poster publication was produced on the occasion of Toi Whakaata / Reflections at Te Uru (8 June – 18 August 2024). The interview reflects on the artist's remarkable 70-year career and Aotearoa's shifting political landscape over this time.
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Poster
Ava Seymour: Domestic Wild
The following conversation between Ava Seymour and Te Uru Curator James Gatt was held on the occasion of Domestic Wild at Te Uru Waitākere Contemporary Gallery (9 March – 26 May, 2024), the first survey of Seymour's ongoing series of cat-centric composites.
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Poster
Bill Culbert: Blue Cloud, Green Waterfall
Blue Cloud, Green Waterfall brings together a selection of works by esteemed New Zealand artist Bill Culbert made between 1974 and 2012 alongside previously unexhibited archival material dating from 1963 onwards. Though notable predominantly for his fluorescent tube and found-object sculptures and installations, this exhibition demonstrates Culbert’s manifold observations and articulations of light through lesser-known works, illustrating his wide-ranging use of media including painting, drawing, photography, engraving, assemblage and holography. Over the course of his 60-year career, Culbert maintained an unwavering address of light and its formative shaping of existence and experience. Taken from notebook entries made by Culbert in 1996, the exhibition title Blue Cloud, Green Waterfall speaks to Culbert’s exploratory, joyous and poetic investigations of light as natural phenomena and its concomitance with the existential registers of perception, time and change.
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