Diaspora: Pluralism and Singularity
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| Tue 31 Aug ’10, 10:30am–4:30pm |
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| Wed 1 Sep ’10, 10:30am–4:30pm |
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| Thu 2 Sep ’10, 10:30am–4:30pm |
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| Fri 3 Sep ’10, 10:30am–4:30pm |
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| Sat 4 Sep ’10, 10:30am–4:30pm |
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| Sun 5 Sep ’10, 10:30am–4:30pm |
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| Mon 6 Sep ’10, 10:30am–4:30pm |
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| Tue 7 Sep ’10, 10:30am–4:30pm |
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| Wed 8 Sep ’10, 10:30am–4:30pm |
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| Thu 9 Sep ’10, 10:30am–4:30pm |
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| Fri 10 Sep ’10, 10:30am–4:30pm |
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| Sat 11 Sep ’10, 10:30am–4:30pm |
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| Sun 12 Sep ’10, 10:30am–4:30pm |
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Where: The Suter Art Gallery Te Aratoi o Whakatu, 208 Bridge St, Nelson Show map
Restrictions: All Ages
Ticket Information:
- Adults: $3.00
- Students with ID / concession : $1.00
- Children: $0.50
- Saturdays: $0.00
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This exhibition brings together the work of six very different New Zealand artists: Gretchen Albrecht, Tony Lane, Richard Lewer, James Ross, Fiona Pardington, Denis O’Connor. They work in a variety of media, covering the spectrum of current art approaches: drawings by Richard Lewer and sculpture by Denis O’Connor sit alongside the photography of Fiona Pardington, and paintings by Gretchen Albrecht, Tony Lane and James Ross.
The title of the exhibition Diaspora – Pluralism and Singularity suggests the theme and rationale for the selection, while Peter Simpson’s finely argued catalogue essay elaborates on this very eloquently:
"So different are the visual languages employed by these artists that finding valid generalizations to cover their varied practices is a bit like trying to stretch a single sized blanket over half a dozen bodies in a king-size bed. It can’t be done. But in this very plurality of medium, mode and manner is perhaps found the common thread that connects them.... For whatever reasons, we have by now moved well beyond both the preoccupation with the national and the internationalist reaction to it.
Contemporary practice, here (as almost everywhere), is simply too variable and multifaceted to be captured by any single model.”
-Peter Simpson 2009
A Bill Millbank touring exhibition
Image credits: Tony Lane, Biography 2006 (detail). Oil paint and white gold leaf on panel 2137 x 2230 mm. Collection of the artist.
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