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Centre of Contemporary Art
For more than 120 years the Centre of Contemporary Art has acted as one of New Zealand’s most significant arts institutions. The gallery represents established and emerging artists, encompassing painting, printmaking, installation, design, craft and photography, with a commitment to quality and excellence.
With exhibitions changing every three weeks, more than 60 exhibitions are held every year. An additional gallery space, the Selling Gallery, features a rotating exhibition of original art. Established and historical works are also featured including Doris Lusk, Olivia Spencer-Bower and Ralph Hotere.
The Centre provides a professional environment to view artists’ work, in an atmosphere that is open and welcoming.
Hours: Tues – Fri, 10am - 5pm; Sat and Sun 12pm - 4pm
Venue hire available.
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Ross Gray Modaulation 13 Aug 08 - 30 Aug 08, 10am-5pm. 7 Days. Ross Gray explores ideas about time and change in the city - its architecture, spaces and urban memory - are explored in the abstract manipulation of the grid, proportions, mark making and visual weights and spatial characteristics of colour.
Location: Mair Gallery
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Liz Rowe - After shock 13 Aug 08 - 31 Aug 08, 10am-5pm. 7 Days. Aftershock is an installation and digital projection that references nineteenth and twentieth centrury landscape traditions and the aethetics and politics of the genre.
Location: Canaday Gallery
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Dylan Taylor - ALL UP IN YR GRILL! 13 Aug 08 - 30 Aug 08, 10am-5pm. 7 Days. "Darkly humorous, cynical yet playful, 'ALL UP IN YR GRILL!' is both a critique of the human condition, and a tribute to emotional awkwardness."
Location: North Gallery
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Ewan McDougall - Open Slather 13 Aug 08 - 31 Aug 08, 10am-5pm. 7 Days. Seemingly naive, McDougall’s paintings are, in reality, slyly sophisticated dissections of art, consumerism and contemporary New Zealand culture.
Location: Front Gallery
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