Calendar

Title: Applications for McCahon House Artists Residency Start Date: Thursday, July 15, 2010 End Date: Monday, August 09, 2010 Contact Person: Chris McBride

Applications for the residency close Monday 9 August 2010. Please have your applications in prior to this date.

Title: Judy Millar at Te Papa Start Date: Friday, May 07, 2010 End Date: Sunday, August 15, 2010

Judy Millar's "Giraffe-Bottle-Gun" is now on show at Te Papa Tongarewa. In association with Creative New Zealand, Te Papa Tongarewa has brought back New Zealand's 2009 Venice Bienalle installations - Millars "Giraffe-Bottle-Gun" and Francis Upritchards "Save Yourself" for you to enjoy. The exhibitions are free and can be seen on the 5th floor until 15 August.

Title: Richard Lewer Start Date: Friday, May 07, 2010 End Date: Sunday, August 15, 2010

I MUST LEARN TO LIKE MYSELF A recent survey of works by Richard Lewer Richard Lewer is a stalker in his own life and in the lives of all humans. Basing works on non-fictional events and people, all the while retaining little bits of information to allow us to think about similarities between our own experience and his. His ability to evoke a mood with child-like writing or through the monochromatic drawing of a nun or strangely familiar family portraits, is what makes Lewer, the local Hamiltonian, international. Lewer’s figurative stylisation has the deceptive facade of naïve or bad art, but his works are actually highly controlled compositions, opening up tapu* subjects like death, missing persons, stalking, voyeurism and confessional disclosure (in police interviews and Catholic confessionals). Each subject in its own way signifies major concepts that can be traced throughout all of his works. Skill, discipline and training: goal-orientation each become trope by which ideas of strain and effort to perform or to obtain a goal be it godly or criminal, are manifested in the art of Richard Lewer.