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Gambia Castle
Gambia Castle was an artist-run gallery in Auckland, New Zealand between 2007 and 2010. History Gambia Castle was initiated in 2007 by a group of Auckland artists and art writers. They were Dan Arps, Nick Austin, Andrew Barber, Fiona Connor, Simon Denny, Sarah Hopkinson, David Levinson, Daniel Malone, Tahi Moore, Kate Newby and Tao Wells. The gallery was initially on level one at the corner of Ponsonby Road and Richmond Road but after a year moved to the space previously occupied by Teststrip at 454 Karangahape Road. An artist-run gallery, with Sarah Hopkinson as the gallery manager, Gambia Castle was also active in making sales to the public and to institutions. One of the early exhibitions, a large installation by Daniel Malone, titled ''Black Market to my Name'' was purchased by the Chartwell Collection. Exhibitions Many of the exhibitions at Gambia Castle were solo shows of the artists involved or invited guests. There were also group exhibitions a number of which were cu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Auckland
Auckland (pronounced ) ( mi, Tāmaki Makaurau) is a large metropolitan city in the North Island of New Zealand. The List of New Zealand urban areas by population, most populous urban area in the country and the List of cities in Oceania by population, fifth largest city in Oceania, Auckland has an urban population of about It is located in the greater Auckland Region—the area governed by Auckland Council—which includes outlying rural areas and the islands of the Hauraki Gulf, and which has a total population of . While European New Zealanders, Europeans continue to make up the plurality of Auckland's population, the city became multicultural and Cosmopolitanism, cosmopolitan in the late-20th century, with Asian New Zealanders, Asians accounting for 31% of the city's population in 2018. Auckland has the fourth largest Foreign born, foreign-born population in the world, with 39% of its residents born overseas. With its large population of Pasifika New Zealanders, the city is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fiona Connor
Fiona Connor (born 1981) is a visual artist from New Zealand, currently based in Los Angeles. Education Fiona Connor was born in 1981 in Auckland, New Zealand. In 2004 she graduated from the Elam School of Fine Arts with a BFA/BA. She has also studied at the University of California, San Diego and University of Barcelona and has an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts. She is currently based in Los Angeles. Work Connor often replicates everyday objects in her sculptural installations. Simulacra of public noticeboards, drinking fountains, outdoor furniture, doors and so on draw attention to these often overlooked forms of civic infrastructure. She also has an ongoing collaborative project with artist Michala Paludan, Newspaper Reading Club. Connor has exhibited throughout New Zealand and internationally. Notable exhibitions include: * ''Notes on the half the page'', Gambia Castle, Auckland (2008), solo * ''Something Transparent (please go round the back)'', Michael Let ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simon Denny (artist)
Simon Denny (born 1982, in Auckland) is a contemporary artist based in Berlin. He represented New Zealand at the 2015 Venice Biennale. Since 2018 he is a professor for time based media at the HFBK Hamburg. Education Denny studied at the University of Auckland’s Elam School of Fine Arts from 2001 to 2005 and Meisterschule, Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main from 2007 to 2009. Career Denny makes sculptures and installations that take his research into the practices and aesthetics of technology companies and products as their starting point. His subject matter has included the redesign of the New Zealand passport, German technology conferences, and internet entrepreneur Kim Dotcom. Denny has produced three exhibitions under the title ''The Personal Effects of Kim Dotcom'', in which the artist presented replicas and stand-ins for the items seized from Kim Dotcom's home in a raid carried out by New Zealand Police. The exhibition was first presented at Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kate Newby
Kate Newby (born 1979) is an artist from New Zealand. Background Newby was born in 1979 in the Auckland region of New Zealand. She attended the Elam School of Fine Arts, receiving a BFA in 2001, an MFA in 2007, and a PhD in 2015. The title of her doctoral thesis was ''Casualness: it's not about what it looks like it's about what it does''. Newby lives and works in Brooklyn, New York and Auckland. Career Newby is a mixed materials installation artist. She creates her installations based on their site and setting, often disused urban environments. Using commonplace materials such as pebbles, nails, and rope, her work explores the details of everyday life. Newby was a member of the Auckland artist space Gambia Castle. She is represented in New York by the Laurel Gitlen gallery and in Auckland by Michael Lett. Newby's work was exhibited at the 21st Sydney Biennale (2018), at the Brussels Biennal (2008), among other important arts festivals. Work by Newby is held by the Auck ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tao Wells
Tao Wells is a New Zealand Artist and a voluntary community conceptualist, whose work is known for its critiques of established systems of power and value. Early life & Education Wells was born in Colorado, United States and moved to New Zealand at a young age. Growing up in Taranaki, Ngāmotu/New Plymouth, he completed a BFA in photography at Canterbury University and a MFA in the Avant-garde and Education, at Massey University in Wellington. Works In 2000 Wells was asked to join up with the original three founders of Enjoy Gallery, at 174 Cuba St, Wellington. In 2002 after the original three founders of Enjoy left the gallery, Wells added "Public" to the galleries name, making it "Enjoy Public Art Gallery". He also coined the phrase "Liberated from commercial constraint" to reflect the public funding from Creative New Zealand, he helped the gallery to receive. The gallery kept this name and phrase for 18 years and has enjoyed over a million dollars of public funding. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Teststrip
Teststrip was an artist run gallery that operated in Auckland Auckland (pronounced ) ( mi, Tāmaki Makaurau) is a large metropolitan city in the North Island of New Zealand. The most populous urban area in the country and the fifth largest city in Oceania, Auckland has an urban population of about ..., New Zealand from 1992 to 1997. History In late 1992 the artists Kirsty Cameron, Judy Darragh, Gail Haffern, Giovanni Intra, Denise Kum, Lucy Macdonald, Daniel Malone and Merylyn Tweedie formed the artist collective Teststrip. The Teststrip Gallery was opened the same year on the second floor of 10 Vulcan Lane in Auckland’s CBD where Daniel Malone was living at the time. In mid 1994 the gallery relocated to the first floor of 454 Karangahape Road. The new space had two galleries upstairs and a shop window exhibition space at street level. Writer and artist Stella Brennan described Teststrip as, “Sassy, careerist and self-aware, by its persistent charm Teststrip ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karangahape Road
Karangahape Road (commonly known as K' Road) is one of the main streets in the central business district (CBD) of Auckland, New Zealand. The massive expansion of motorways through the nearby inner city area – and subsequent flight of residents and retail into the suburbs from the 1960s onwards – turned it from one of Auckland's premier shopping streets into a marginal area with the reputation of a red light district. Now considered to be one of the cultural centres of Auckland, since the 1980s–1990s it has been undergoing a slow process of gentrification, and is now known for off-beat cafes and boutique shops. It runs west–east along a ridge at the southern edge of the Auckland CBD, perpendicular to Queen Street, the city's main street. At its intersection with Ponsonby Road in the west, Karangahape Road becomes Great North Road, at its eastern end it connects to Grafton Bridge. Etymology Karangahape is a word from the Māori language. Before Europeans appeared Auc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walters Prize
The Walters Prize is New Zealand's largest contemporary art prize. Held biennially since 2002, the prize aims to 'make contemporary art a more widely recognised and debated feature of cultural life'. The prize is named in honour of New Zealand abstract painter Gordon Walters and the founding benefactors and principal donors are Erika and Robin Congreve and Dame Jenny Gibbs. The prize is organised by and held at Auckland Art Gallery. Four artists are nominated each year by a panel of four New Zealand-based jurors for a work or body of work exhibited in the previous two years. The four artists are invited to install the nominated works (or version of their nominated show) at the Auckland Art Gallery in a public exhibition. The prize is awarded by a visiting international judge. The winner receives $50,000. The prize attracts significant media coverage every year. The 2016 nominees were considered notable, as three of the four nominees are of Māori descent. Recipients and finali ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tate Modern
Tate Modern is an art gallery located in London. It houses the United Kingdom's national collection of international modern and contemporary art, and forms part of the Tate group together with Tate Britain, Tate Liverpool and Tate St Ives. It is located in the former Bankside Power Station, in the Bankside area of the London Borough of Southwark. Tate Modern is one of the largest museums of modern and contemporary art in the world. As with the UK's other national galleries and museums, there is no admission charge for access to the collection displays, which take up the majority of the gallery space, whereas tickets must be purchased for the major temporary exhibitions. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the museum was closed for 173 days in 2020, and attendance plunged by 77 per cent to 1,432,991 in 2020. Nonetheless, the Tate was third in the list of most-visited art museums in the world in 2020, and the most visited in Britain. The nearest railway and London Underground station is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vicente Todolí
Vicente Todolí (Valencia, 1958) is a Spanish contemporary art curator who has worked as the director of several museums and art centres internationally, including the Tate Modern in London. Education After earning a degree in Art History from the University of Valencia, Todoli carried postgraduate studies at Yale University between 1981 and 1982 as a Fulbright Scholar. He then went to the City University of New York and was also an intern at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1984-85. Career With a career in the arts sector spanning over 30 years, Todolí was Chief Curator (1986–88) and then Artistic Director (1988–96) of the Valencia Institute of Modern Art in Spain. In 1996 he was appointed as the founding director of the Serralves Museum in Porto, which opened to the public in 1999 and quickly built an international reputation, becoming also the most visited museum in Portugal. His appointment as Tate Modern Director was announced by the Trustees of Tate in 2002 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eduardo Abaroa (artist)
Eduardo Abaroa (born 1968) is a Mexican artist and writer working in the fields of sculpture, installation and performance. Born in Mexico City in 1968, Abaroa received a bachelor's degree from the National School of Plastic Arts of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) in 1999 and a Master of Fine Arts degree from the California Institute of the Arts (Valencia, California) in 2001. His work has been shown in Mexico, the United States, Spain, Germany, the United Kingdom, Canada, South Korea, and other countries. As a writer, he has contributed texts for exhibition catalogues of artists Francis Alÿs, Melanie Smith, Pablo Vargas Lugo, Tercerunquinto and Dr Lakra, among others. He was also an art reviewer for the newspaper ''Reforma'' and has written for other publications like ''Curare'', ''Código 06140'', ''Moho'', ''95La Tempestad95'', the ''Journal of Aesthetics & Protest'', and the Argentinian magazine ''Ramona''. Abaroa was a founding member of the alternative ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sanné Mestrom
Sanné Mestrom is an Australian experimental and conceptual artist who works mainly in the mediums of installation and sculpture. Mestrom has a research-based practice and incorporates notions of "play" into social aspects of urban design. Since 2011, Mestrom has remade and reinterpreted motifs from the twentieth century modernist art canon. She has earned many grants and has been commissioned to execute public art, sculptures in situ. She has studied in Korea and Mexico, and is a senior lecturer at Sydney College of Art. Early life and education Mestrom was born in 1979 in Heerlen in the Netherlands and came to Australia, via New Zealand, as a 17-year-old. She studied fine art at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT), graduating with honours in 2000. In 2008 she completed a PhD thesis on the power of place and the politics of perception, followed in 2011 by a Graduate Certificate in Public Art. Mestrom was appointed senior lecturer at Sydney College of the Arts (Scu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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