Top Ten: New Acquisitions for The UoA Art Collection

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Top Ten: New Acquisitions for The UoA Art Collection

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When:

Tue 1 Mar ’11, 10:00am–5:00pm
Wed 2 Mar ’11, 10:00am–5:00pm
Thu 3 Mar ’11, 10:00am–5:00pm
Fri 4 Mar ’11, 10:00am–5:00pm
Sat 5 Mar ’11, 12:00pm–4:00pm

Where: Gus Fisher Gallery, 74 Shortland Street, Auckland CBD Show map

Restrictions: All Ages

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  • Admission: Free

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Celebrating ten years of the Gus Fisher Gallery, which opened in March 2001, Top Ten introduces a selection of works most recently added to The University of Auckland Art Collection. Since 2006, the collection has been managed by the Centre for New Zealand Art Research and Discovery, which also looks after the Gus Fisher Gallery and Window. Artists featured include Sara Hughes, Megan Jenkinson, Jae Hoon Lee, Andrew McLeod, Roger Mortimer, Seung Yul Oh, Reuben Paterson, Yvonne Todd and Daniel von Sturmer.

Public events:

Wednesday 22 December – 5 January:
The gallery will close for Christmas at 5pm on 22 December, reopens on 5 January 2011.

Saturday 15 January, 1pm:
Linda Tyler, Director of the Centre for New Zealand Art Research and Discovery gives a tour of the exhibition Top Ten.

Saturday 22 January, 1pm:
St Paul St Director, Charlotte Huddleston, talks about Seung Yul Oh’s Oddooki sculptures, which were originally commissioned for Te Papa’s Sculpture Terrace in 2009 when she was Te Papa’s Curator of Contemporary Art.

Saturday 29 January, 1pm:
In the lead up to Waitangi Day 2011, Elam lecturer and artist Dr Alex Monteith discusses her 2008 work, 1020 metres in 26 minutes: Waitangi Day Auckland Harbour Bridge Protest, a project distinctive within her oeuvre for the use of slowness rather than speed, and one of a series of works she has made on Waitangi Day.

All exhibitions and events are free and take place at the Gus Fisher Gallery unless otherwise noted.

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