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Print and paper makers from the Solomon Islands
Tuesday, 9 March 2010 Public Workshops at Pataka Museum, Porirua 24 March to 7 April 2010   Four internationally acclaimed print and paper makers from the Solomon I... Read More
For Kultur - Sara Hughes
Monday, 8 March 2010 For Kultur, Sara Hughes, 13 March – 27 June 2010 Leading New Zealand contemporary artist Sara Hughes has created a dramatic new installation at Haw... Read More
New Zealand at the Venice Biennale 2009 Artworks On Display At Te Papa, 26 February - 15 August 2010
Thursday, 25 February 2010 MEDIA RELEASE Te Papa   Te Papa, in association with Creative New Zealand, presents New Zealand’s 2009 participation at the prestigious Venice... Read More
Michael Parekowhai invited to 2011 Venice Biennale
Wednesday, 24 February 2010 One of New Zealand’s most dynamic contemporary artists Michael Parekowhai has been invited to represent New Zealand at the 2011 Venice Biennale. ... Read More
New Zealand at the Venice Biennale 2011
Wednesday, 10 February 2010 Creative New Zealand has started planning for the 2011 Venice Biennale which is the cornerstone of its international visual arts strategy.   In... Read More
Govett-Brewster Art Gallery turns 40 this year
Tuesday, 2 February 2010 2010 marks the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery’s fortieth year of sustained and dynamic contribution to the cultural life of Aotearoa New Zealand. To cel... Read More
Experience Solid Light
Tuesday, 2 February 2010 New York-based artist Anthony McCall is to transform the striking architectural spaces of Victoria University's Adam Art Gallery in an upcoming exhibi... Read More
Alicia Frankovich awarded Creative New Zealand Berlin Visual Artists Residency 2010/11
Tuesday, 2 February 2010 New Zealand-born performance and installation artist Alicia Frankovich will receive the 2010/11 Creative New Zealand Berlin Visual Artists Residency a... Read More
Art Asia Pacific magazine feature on New Zealand
Tuesday, 26 January 2010 Arts Asia Pacific magazine have published their country feature on New Zealand: View the story here  
CHINESE MULTI-MEDIA ARTIST FEATURES IN VISUAL ARTS PROGRAMME FOR WOMAD NZ 2010
Tuesday, 26 January 2010 Chinese multi-media artist Mu Yu Ming is coming to WOMAD New Zealand 2010 as a highlight of the event’s visual arts programme. Mu Yu Ming hails from ... Read More
Facts and figures around New Zealand's participation in the 2009 Venice Biennale
Friday, 22 January 2010 The 53rd International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia ran from 7 June - 22 November 2009. More than 114,000 visitors viewed Judy Millar’... Read More
Artists to go bush on a Wild Creations residency
Tuesday, 15 December 2009 Creative New Zealand and the Department of Conservation have announced the three New Zealand artists who will take up a Wild Creations residency in 20... Read More
National Business Review recognises a truckload of NZ art with Supreme Award
Friday, 20 November 2009 Fiona Campbell, New Zealand’s youngest major arts philanthropist and director of the Real Art Roadshow, has won the Supreme Award at the 12th Nati... Read More
10th annual Arts Foundation Laureates announced
Wednesday, 18 November 2009 The five annual Arts Foundation Laureates were announced last night in a ceremony in Auckland.  Each of the five Laureates, Anne Noble, Chris Kno... Read More
Biennale Artist Awarded New York residency
Tuesday, 10 November 2009 Judy Millar, one of the New Zealand artists currently exhibiting at the 2009 Venice Biennale, has been awarded the Creative New Zealand Visual Arts Re... Read More
New Zealand International Arts Festival Announces Programme
Tuesday, 3 November 2009 The New Zealand International Arts Festival has launched its programme for 2010. From internationally acclaimed conductor, Vladimir Ashkenazy to legen... Read More
Tribute to Dame Doreen Blumhardt
Tuesday, 20 October 2009   Dame Doreen Blumhardt, pioneer of art education and founder of the Blumhardt Foundation which she set up to foster art in New Zealand, sadly p... Read More
Call for applications for Creative New Zealand Visual Arts Residency Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
Monday, 12 October 2009 Creative New Zealand is once again offering a residency at the Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin, Germany in 2010/11. The residency is for a period of ... Read More
New appointments to the Arts Council
Wednesday, 7 October 2009 Academic and historian Judith Binney and artist and curator Helen Kedgley have been appointed to the board of the Arts Council of New Zealand Toi Aote... Read More
Recreational Bureaucracy
Monday, 28 September 2009   Recreational Bureaucracy calls attention to the invisible and shifting line that separates ‘public’ from ‘private’ by collecting data from i... Read More
Call for applications for Taipei Artist’s Residency
Thursday, 24 September 2009 A residency opportunity of up to three months in Taipei for a New Zealand contemporary arts professional is being offered by the Asia New Zealand Foun... Read More
Call for applications open - artist residency in China
Thursday, 10 September 2009 A residency opportunity of two months in Beijing for an arts professional is being offered by the Asia New Zealand Foundation with support from Creati... Read More
NZ glass art student wins prestigious award
Thursday, 10 September 2009 Lisa Walsh has been announced the winner of the Ranamok Prize 2009. Lisa is in her second year of her Diploma in Glass Design and Production at Wangan... Read More
China in four seasons: Guo Fengyi
Wednesday, 2 September 2009 China in four seasons: Guo Fengyi, opening at the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand, features the extraordinary drawn works of on... Read More
Prize takes Darcy Lange exhibition to Europe as video pioneer’s reputation grows
Thursday, 13 August 2009 Pioneering New Zealand video artist Darcy Lange gains a new European audience next week – thanks to a prize-winning bid by the Govett-Brewster Art Gal... Read More
NZ Premiere of Handmade Nation
Monday, 10 August 2009 The documentary that has taken the USA and Australian arts and craft scene by storm is finally coming to NZ with two screenings in Wellington. Handmad... Read More
Call for applications to Creative New Zealand Visual Arts Residency, New York
Wednesday, 5 August 2009 Creative New Zealand is offering a residency at the International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP) in New York, USA in 2010. The residency is fo... Read More
ethKnowcentrix - Museums Inside the Artist running 10 Sep - 10 Oct 2009
Monday, 20 July 2009 Shigeyuki Kihara - George Nuku - Rosanna Raymond - Lisa Reihana   The first exhibition of its kind in London, ethKnowcentrix - Museums Inside t... Read More
Updated coverage on New Zealand's Venice Biennale representation
Monday, 20 July 2009 The streets of Venice rang with the unlikely sounds of a kapa haka performance announcing New Zealand's presence at the world's oldest contemporary ar... Read More
Tribute to Dr Seddon Bennington
Thursday, 16 July 2009 It is with great sadness that Creative New Zealand acknowledges the passing of Te Papa Chief Executive, Dr Seddon Bennington. His contribution and ent... Read More
NEW ZEALAND ARTISTS CONNECT CREATIVELY IN A WORLDWIDE CELEBRATION OF INDIGENOUS ART
Monday, 13 July 2009   For ten days in August, eight New Zealanders will be participating as part of the Canadian Planet IndigenUs Festival - the world’s largest and... Read More
Call for applications for Asia:NZ/Platform China Artist’s Residency
Wednesday, 1 July 2009 A residency opportunity of two months in Beijing for a young (35 and under) arts professional is being offered by the Asia New Zealand Foundation. ... Read More
Don't Pacify Me: Artists Demarcate their Pacific Existence
Friday, 19 June 2009 The ‘Don’t Pacify Me’ exhibition opens on 25 June and runs until 10 July.   Cutting-edge works with a strong sense of identity will be the focu... Read More
Residency Opportunity at the National Art Studio, Korea
Friday, 19 June 2009 The National Art Studio, run by the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea, is now accepting applications for their Asia Pacific Artists Fellowshi... Read More
Moyra Elliott awarded Creative New Zealand Craft/Object Art Fellowship
Tuesday, 2 June 2009   Moyra Elliott awarded Creative New Zealand Craft/Object Art Fellowship   Ceramic lecturer, curator, ex-maker and writer Moyra Elliott... Read More
Call for entries to the Asian Festival of 1st Films 2009
Thursday, 28 May 2009

The Asian Festival of First Films is the world's premiere Film and Documentary Festival for first time filmmakers of Asia - Pacific origin.

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Janet Lilo in Japan
Tuesday, 26 May 2009

Auckland video artist Janet Lilo is the latest New Zealander chosen to be a resident artist in Sapporo, Japan, under the JENESYS residency programme.
In her first video blog, she talks about dust masks, the playground, the S-Air programme, her flat & introduces the other artists she is working with.

You can check out her video blog here.

 

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The New Honesty: a critique of the Retreat
Tuesday, 26 May 2009

 

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Arteries of Aotearoa: A call for young New Zealand artists
Wednesday, 13 May 2009

Intersect, a nationwide network of Young Leaders in Sustainability, is calling for young New Zealand artists (aged 18-25) to create artwork that explores ideas around water and cultural diversity.

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Opening events for New Zealand's participation in the Venice Biennale
Tuesday, 12 May 2009

 

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Thrill me every day
Monday, 4 May 2009

Celia Dunlop collection of New Zealand 250 works by 121 artists at The New Dowse

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Travel into an often eerie, sometimes comic, yet strangely familiar world
Monday, 4 May 2009

Flying Solo is an exhibition drawn from private collections within the Wellington region, featuring 18 large-scale John Walsh paintings alongside a number of his smaller works.

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Photo Competition: Pacific Island Heritage in Focus
Friday, 1 May 2009

Amateur photographers are invited to submit up to three photos in the Pacific Island Heritage in Focus international photo contest. Entries will be formally displayed and shots that best represent the theme will be published in a Pacific Island Heritage 2010 Calendar. The contest is part of the Pacific Island Archaeology in the 21st Century: Relevance and Engagement conference to be held in Palau from July 1-3, 2009.

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VENICE BIENNALE WORKS TO COME HOME TO NEW ZEALAND
Monday, 27 April 2009

NZ entries in the 2009 Venice Biennale are coming back to New Zealand next year to be exhibited at Te Papa.

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