Dunedin Arts and Cultural Events
October 2005 to November 2005
Following is a schedule of confirmed events in the City of Dunedin. The Dunedin City Council (DCC) City Marketing
distributes the information on behalf of the attractions that appear below. Please contact event organisers directly for
further information and confirmation of dates and times.
October 2005
Blue Oyster
Ina Johann - Trans
Painting, drawing, three dimensional works, and time based media: all are fused in their interest, presenting the viewer
with an experience of imagery based on observation in transit. Instead of wanting to perfect the view, Johann treats the
process of recording as an analogue to human memory with its contingent, shifting and subjective viewpoints. In this
body of work she uses light as an infusing medium that permeates first her layered imagery and then the darkened space
of the gallery, providing an intimacy that can also be slightly intimidating. A series of three-dimensional light works
situates the viewer among shifting landscapes of image and information, somewhere in between decoding and encoding. Here
observation is melded to object in an unstable amalgam, discrete pieces seem infused with tension, like moments paused
in the recording process, rigid forms poised for the change which the presence of the viewer alone can catalyse. The
video piece shown in the dark gallery, a collaboration between Johann, writer Sally McIntyre, and composer Ryan Smith
expands on these ideas, to see a flow of information interrupted with shards and stutters. The structure of the piece
isn’t linear but accumulative and musical, progressing in the refrains of the writing, which are in turn fragmented by
audio editing, seeding a stuttering through the piece at the point when the writing becomes voice. This is mirrored by
the pixilated in-camera editing of the video, and the glitch based nature of the sound. This piece was born through a
shared interest in audiovisual collaborations in live sound arenas, where, ideally, the meeting of music and visuals is
dialectical and works from the structural level.
Runs until 1 October 2005
Blue Oyster Upper Gallery and Dark Side
Ana Terry - Terminal Eden
Dunedin artist Ana Terry has begun to establish a sculptural vocabulary that manipulates found objects to both enlarge
and alter their associative presence. In this project she will be working with obsolescent technology that she has
intercepted on its way to the dump, exploring and critiquing an increasingly insatiable and insanely unsustainable
production and consumption of technology. Terry intends to rework the cast-off items manipulating their surfaces and
interiors so that the objects are ‘reactivated to generate a sense of pathos’ with a beauty and superseded ugliness that
may unplug perceptions. Terry’s Terminal Eden is a place where our desires are recognised, the lure of technology is
acknowledged but the hardware may also have the power to interrupt our composure. Terry intends to ‘intimately tease
out’ our individual response and responsibility within a much broader global process of western capitalism. She also
proposes to work with video and audio in the project to develop the possibilities in the sculptural work.
Runs until 1 October 2005
Blue Oyster Lower Gallery
Robin Neate
Robin Neate intends to extrapolate from and build on a project that he showed as part of the Sampler Series at Physics
Room in 2004. Neate explores things ‘uncool’, out of fashion, neglected, and handmade. Using and combining styles and
conventions from the past the way other artists use found objects, he asks the question “…if by its own definition
popular culture is already ‘known’… what is unpopular culture?” Neate proposes to build something large and amorphous
that has its beginnings in modernist form but wilfully refuses to resolve in a way the moderns would have approved of.
As he puts it, “it will appear as if it is assuming form but isn’t quite there yet.” This proposed amorphous sculpture
that he imagines will dominate the gallery space has already been pre titled Hamlet as a way of layering a literary
allusion onto the already intentionally murky aesthetic. He intends to flank Hamlet the sculpture with various paintings
or photographs that pull in other quite specific artistic and literary references, chosen for intuitive reasons and
presented in a ‘pseudo biographical fashion’. Another element Neate wants to introduce is a bar leaner, placed
conveniently for any visitor to while away the hours and miss opportunity after opportunity as they contemplate the
themes of Hamlet. In the artist’s own words, “hopefully, somewhere along the line, I manage to transform these points of
departure into renewed forms of expression.”
4 - 22 October 2005
Blue Oyster Lower Gallery
Lynn Plummer, Rodney Browne and Kushana Bush - Body/Space/Ritual; Texts
Three Dunedin artists Lynn Plummer, Rodney Browne and Kushana Bush ask: what do we reveal that is not conscious or
rational in the interrelationship between Body, Space and Ritual and what diverse Texts might result from this
interaction. The task is to acknowledge the influences underpinning our enmeshment with ritual and space, which is
governed by our understanding of ourselves through the complex concepts of the private and the public body. Each artist
engages with one of the paradigms of the conceptual triangle, while still considering the other two. Thus a text spreads
from each model, into the space and shapes multiple readings. Rodney Browne’s ephemeral installation plays with
perceptions of space. Ritual-type structures delineate the body in space, while lyrically extending its presence beyond
into a sense of the contemplative space. Lyn Plummer’s small sculptural installation comments on rituals connecting land
and body marking to a space defined by ‘the sense of place’, developed from insights from Arnhemland Australia, and
Papua New Guinea. Kushana Bush’s series of drawings focuses on the body in extension to interior space and private
ritual. They confront domestic bodies fraught with dissonance and anxiety by depicting a private stage rife with erratic
and often hyperbolic dramas.
4 - 22 October 2005
Blue Oyster Upper Gallery
Nick Dewar - kkshshshhhhhhh
Multimedia artist Nick Dewar presents a body of work primarily about how humans construct much of their reality around
information gathered from the readily available domestic transmitter of information - the television. Dewar’s ideas are
informed by Noam Chomsky and Edward S Herman, considering television as a form or social conditioning or formatting that
is both cynically manipulated and manipulative. The work will consist of digital work that uses static, white noise and
bad reception in order to coat the exhibition space in the familiar flickering that television offers. Other work will
include a series of paintings on old school desk lids, a nostalgic reference to the early naïve assumptions about
television as a way to discover and report the truth.
4 - 22 October 2005
Blue Oyster Dark Side
Jenny Gillam - In Dark Trees / August Moon
Wellington based Jenny Gillam displays work from an ongoing series developing a photographic investigation of
post-colonial New Zealand. The work draws on cinematic aesthetics appropriated from the golden age of Hollywood and
science fiction both contemporary and retro. The science fiction sources introduce an undercurrent of anxiety, a
sensation of post apocalyptic shift away from New Zealand kitsch to something Gillam describes as ‘antipodean gothic.’
In this project wild New Zealand landscapes replace inherited European gothic iconography from traditions of
psychological horror. Nature becomes an uncanny representation as a force beyond human control where a violent and
repressed past returns to haunt the present.
25 October - 12 November 2005
Blue Oyster Upper Gallery
Andreas Pytlik - Green for NZ, Watching the Sea
German sculptor Andreas Pytlik uses the colour green as a vehicle for his ideas, which are located somewhere in a
minimalist practice that is phenomenologically concerned… Or more clearly that he is interested in the associative power
of a ‘simple’ unifying element such as a colour. His work takes the form of time based and social interactions as well
as more traditionally defined static art gestures such as sculpture or painting. In all of his work he uses the colour
as a place of transaction, where his respondent negotiates their own ground within the work. For Green for NZ, Watching
the Sea Pytlik proposes to link two sites, the harbour and the gallery with an installation. He talks about changing an
everyday item a few degrees by changing its colour. The item is a small dingy and the colour of course is green. The
boat is the centre of the exhibition and combined with the other elements of the project brings another place-ness and
refers to the idea of travel. Viewers are invitation to look out at different vistas and are offered the means to go
there.
25 October - 12 November 2005
Blue Oyster Lower Gallery
Blue Oyster Gallery, Basement, Moray Chambers, 30 Moray Place, Dunedin
Contact for enquiries: Ali Bramwell, phone (03) 479 0197
Southern Sinfonia - East Meets West
Southern Sinfonia's 2005 season is set to finish on a high note on when Conductor Ryusuke Numajiri joins the Orchestra
in East meets West. Held in association with Naylor Love, the concert will be part of Dunedin's Festival of Japan.
Appropriately the first half of the programme includes works by Japan and New Zealand's best-known composers Toru
Takemitsu and Douglas Lilburn. Takemitsu is arguably the most influential of all contemporary Japanese composers, and
was instrumental in introducing Eastern and Western audiences to the music and sounds of each other's cultures. How Slow
the Wind, inspired by the verse of Emily Dickinson is renowned as "a work of extraordinary beauty and timbral warmth".
Lilburn is the father figure of orchestral music in New Zealand and Symphony No.1 is one of his best-known works. Also
included in the programme is New Zealand composer Larry Pruden's evocative Harbour Nocturne. The evening will conclude
with a rousing performance of the choral and orchestral masterpiece Requiem by Mozart, featuring the 2005 Lexus Song
Quest winner Madeleine Pierard, and the combined City of Dunedin Choir and Auckland Choral Society.
1 October 2005, 8.00pm
Dunedin Town Hall, Moray Place, Dunedin
Contact for enquiries: Katie Ellwood, phone (03) 477 5623 or email sinfonia@earthlight.co.nz
Regent Theatre - Legends Unleashed
Legends Unleashed features New Zealand’s international legends, Eddie Low, Suzanne Prentice and John Grenell combining
their vast talents to perform their own songs together with the songs and music of international legends including Roy
Orbison, Conway Twitty, Patsy Cline, Jim Reeves, Loretta Lynn and Ray Charles. Legends Unleashed follows the recent
successful stage productions, Welcome to My World, the story of Jim Reeves, featuring John Grenell, Sweet Dreams, the
story of Patsy Cline, featuring Suzanne Prentice and In Dreams, the story of Roy Orbison, featuring Eddie Low. Legends
Unleashed will recreate the era of the American entertainment superstars listed above in a stage presentation created by
the producers of Welcome to My World, In Dreams and Sweet Dreams. International musicians and back-up singers including
Musical Director Davey Walker from Vancouver and Lead Guitarist Glen Bain from Sydney will accompany Eddie Low, Suzanne
Prentice and John Grenell.
1 October 2005, 7.00pm
The Regent Theatre, 17 The Octagon, Dunedin
Contact for bookings and enquiries: Regent Theatre Ticketek, phone (03) 477 8597
Otago Museum
2005 Otago Wildlife Photographer of the Year Competition
Following the success of this competition for the last five consecutive years the Otago Museum, Natural History New
Zealand, Jonathan's Camera & Video and Nikon have come together once again to bring this exciting photographic opportunity to the community of
Otago. This impressive exhibition showcases the winners of the 2005 Otago Wildlife Photography Competition. The
categories are Plant, Animal and Human Impact on the Natural Environment. These years' entrants have once again
highlighted the outstanding calibre of amateur photographers in Otago. Don't miss your chance to see their wonderful
photographs!
Runs until 2 October 2005
Nature Gallery
Japanese Contemporary Clay Work
This exhibition showcases the work of Japanese ceramic artists in this field. The distinctive, individualistic works on
display are both essentially contemporary as well as reflective of age-old Japanese sensibilities.
Runs until 30 October 2005
People of the World Gallery
Kimono
2005 marks the 25th anniversary of Dunedin’s sister-city relationship with Otaru, Japan. Otago Museum is marking this
anniversary with an exhibition of Japanese Kimono. This beautiful exhibition of traditional Japanese garments is bound
to inspire.
Runs until 29 January 2006
Special Exhibitions Gallery
Shoji Hamada - Japanese Master Potter
Acknowledged as a leading figure in the revival of Japanese craft pottery, Hamada was of enormous influence on the
ceramic arts worldwide. The recipient of numerous cultural honours in Japan, England and America, his visit to New
Zealand in 1965 had a great impact on our own studio ceramics. The Otago Museum exhibition celebrates the 40th
anniversary of Hamada’s visit to New Zealand. It will include examples of his work from the 1920s through to the 1960s,
borrowed from New Zealand public institutions and private collectors for this purpose, as well as items from the Otago
Museum collection.
Runs until 29 January 2006
Stairwell cases
Guided Tours
Take a ‘Highlights of the Museum’ guided tour and learn some inside knowledge about various aspects that the Museum has
on offer and/or take a guided tour of ‘Southern Land, Southern People’ and gain a greater understanding, of the Southern
region. ‘Highlights of the Museum’ guided tours are available at 11.30am and ‘Southern Land, Southern People’ guided
tours are available at 3.30pm (and other times by prior arrangement).
Ongoing Service - 11.30am & 3.30pm daily
Lunchtime Music
A range of musicians will liven up the atrium with live performances each week. This is now a regular fixture but is
subject to change according to function demands.
Museum Foyer, Fridays & Saturdays between 12 noon & 1.30pm
Discovery World Science Shows
These excellent shows are now run by the Museum’s Science Communicators.
Discovery World, Saturdays & Sundays at 11.00am, 1.00pm & 3.00pm
Gallery Talks
Each day, the Otago Museum Communicators present fascinating 15-minute gallery talks on objects or themes of particular
interest from the Museum's galleries.
Ongoing Service, 2.00pm daily
Search Centre
Otago Museum’s Search Centre research facility provides an inviting opportunity for visitors to engage in further
research on objects or themes in the galleries of interest to them. It will also be the first stop for the
identification of items members of the public bring into the Museum, a service that annually attracts a huge number of
objects or specimens. Well resourced, with swift new computers, microscopes, modern journals and a great variety of new
books, the Search Centre offers a variety of options for seeking further information. Set in a comfortable and relaxing
environment the Search Centre is the perfect place in which to think, read, study, or research.
Ongoing Service
Search Centre Weekend Presentations
The Museum’s Search Centre Communicators have developed a series of Search Centre Weekend Presentations designed to help
familiarise people with the excellent resources provided by this facility.
Ongoing Service, Weekends at 11.30am & 2.30pm
Ongoing Exhibitions
The Museum’s timbered Victorian gallery, the Animal Attic, houses an extensive collection of natural history specimens
from around the world, re-displayed as they would have been in the late 1800s. A ‘museum within a museum’, this gallery
is unique in New Zealand. Explore the Tangata Whenua Gallery with its impressive displays of Maori Cultural artefacts,
including a stunning collection of Southern Maori material. The Pacific Culture Galleries display outstanding
collections from Polynesia and Melanesia. People of the World has world archaeological treasures including ancient Greek
pottery; a mummy and other fascinating artefacts from Ancient Egypt; a striking collection of swords; exquisite
decorative arts from Asia and Europe and a superb array of costume and textiles. Walk the length of the giant Fin Whale
in the Maritime Gallery, and then take in the intricate detail of a wealth of nautical artefacts. Come face to face with
the extinct giant moa in the Extinction and Survival area and see one of the few complete moa eggs in the world.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King Street, Dunedin
Contact for enquiries: Annabelle Boelema, phone (03) 474 7474 ext 845, www.otagomuseum.govt.nz
Milford Galleries Dunedin
Jon Tootill
Homes, New Zealand homes, are once again the subject of Jon Tootill's latest exhibition at Milford Galleries Dunedin.
The former Saatchi and Saatchi creative director paints the houses we all grew up in - tidy bungalows set in suburbia.
Colour themes dominate and the architectural quality of each of the houses is emphasised by the elimination of detail.
These paintings could be part of building plans. It is a period of architecture some of us wish to forget: aluminium
windows, concrete steps, box shapes. Easy, and cheap to build, these were the sixties and seventies answer to homes for
families when builders designed homes and architects were to be avoided. This was how we colonised the countryside,
fulfilled the New Zealand dream of home ownership and provided healthy, happy and safe environments for families. It was
the New Zealand paradise we told ourselves - the quarter acre section - so much better than the housing estates of
England and the United States, being built at the same time. Tootill was born in Hamilton in 1951 and, between
1970-1971, attended the Auckland Institute of Technology's School of Graphic Art. He has regularly exhibited in New
Zealand since 1978 and won the Ida Eise Painting Award in 1988. He lives in Auckland and has been painting full time
since 1998.
Runs until 5 October 2005
Scott McFarlane
The latest works by Scott McFarlane explore the overlap between intention and outcome, paint and illusion, the
psychological and the physical. McFarlane paints about the memory of place as much as he paints to explore what paint
can do and how that medium echoes the Otago landscapes that he describes. Within these new paintings there is a pleasing
duality composed of Victorian nostalgia and earthy realism. This sensibility is captured by the emblematic treatment of
landscapes that are heavy with timeless melancholy and stillness. It is captured by the controlled rawness of the paint
application and the secondary colour palette, as if the artist has used the earth itself. The chiaroscuro or distance
between darkest dark and lightest light is dramatic, and yet there is a calm and meditative quality to each of these
paintings. The intensity and metaphysical beauty about the way McFarlane describes dark, light, and shape, suits these
southern landscapes well. It resonates for many who know the gothic beauty of the southern contrasts and the soaring
dominance of the landscape.
7 - 27 October 2005
Karl Maughan
Karl Maughan has come home. Back, living in Auckland, after just over a decade in London, Karl and family are enjoying
New Zealand life. "It was something we always were going to do and in the end it was 'why wait, let's do it now,'" he
says from his studio in Auckland. Not that he has severed all connections with the UK, being still very much in favour
with the European art scene. He will return for commissions, exhibitions and other projects he is involved with. But his
return to New Zealand will mean a shift in his subject matter. Known for his large paintings of English gardens, Maughan
is now painting scenes from New Zealand gardens, preparing for a major exhibition with Milford Galleries Dunedin due to
open in late October. Karl Maughan was born in Wellington in 1964. He gained a Bachelor of Fine Arts at Elam School of
Fine Arts, University of Auckland in 1986 and a Masters of Fine Arts in 1987 and has exhibited regularly since then.
From 1994 he was based in London and in 1997 was a finalist in the John Moore Painting Award. His work is held in public
and private collections in New Zealand and the UK including the Saatchi Gallery in London. In 1998 his massive six-panel
work 'A Clear Day' was installed in the Habitat store in Chelsea, London. The work was bought by Te Papa in 2000.
29 October - 17 November 2005
Milford Galleries Dunedin, 18 Dowling Street, Dunedin
Contact for enquiries: Karen Trebilcock, phone (03) 477 8275, email karen@milfordhouse.co.nz
Globe Theatre - Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
Orsino loves Olivia, who loves Viola who loves Orsino. Confused? There's more in this production of Shakespeare's
best-loved work, which is directed by Brian Beresford. Viola, who has disguised herself as a man, following the
shipwreck that landed her on Orsino's alien shore, has an identical twin brother (Shakespeare didn't know about
genetics) who has apparently been lost at sea during that same time but whose reappearance provides opportunities for
even more confusion as he, unlike the disguised Viola, is far more responsive to Olivia's passionate advances.
6 - 15 October 2005 (excluding 10 October)
Globe Theatre, 104 London Street, Dunedin
Contact for bookings: Globe Theatre Box Office, phone (03) 4773274
Contact for enquiries: Rosemary Beresford, phone (03) 4797273 (day), (03) 4780248 (evening)
University of Otago - Lunchtime Theatre: Bite size Shows
Lunchtime Theatre is celebrating its thirty years innovation of Theatre Studies at the University of Otago and has been
pleasing audiences ever since its conception. There are a huge variety of performance styles - from improvised theatre
to naturalistic plays, to simply the most bizarre material encountered.
Even More Lucky Dip Theatre
Showcasing the talents of THEA 312: Directing 2 students. A different selection each day from playwrights around the
world. Check posters, fliers and Critic for details, or just come along and have a lucky dip...
6 & 7 October 2005, 1.00pm
Collection
Four weeks, a stage and thousands of strange ways to communicate, cooperate and collide. A devised collaborative
production between Allen Hall, his students and Wellington director Jade Eriksen.
13 & 14 October 2005, 1.00pm
Allen Hall Theatre, University of Otago, Union Street, Dunedin
Contact for enquiries: Fiona McLaughlin, phone (03) 479 8896
Fortune Theatre - Alarms and Excursions
This is the New Zealand Premiere of the play written by Michael Frayn and directed by Hilary Norris. Why does the
photocopier hate you? A farceur of unparalleled skill, the write of "Noises Off" has created a comedy about the
innumerable gadgets and vehicles of miscommunication plaguing our modern world. Cell phones, beepers, alarms and all
manner of devices cause havoc in eight miniature plays beginning with a dinner party of disastrous proportions and
building to a frenzied finale involving the world's politest German tourist, 11 separate pay phones and the answering
machine from hell.
7 - 29 October 2005
Fortune Theatre, 231 Stuart Street, Dunedin
Contact for enquiries: Lisa Scott, phone (03) 477 1695
Contact for Bookings: Box Office, phone (03) 477 8323
Dunedin Public Art Gallery - Exhibitions
Rebecca Horn
Dunedin is the only New Zealand venue for this exhibition of sculptures, films and installations made by one of
Germany’s leading contemporary artists.
8 October 2005 - 31 January 2006
Maryrose Crook: Bringing all the things that run
Bringing all the things that run is a suite of works by Dunedin painter and musician Maryrose Crook. The show includes
evocative southern skyscapes, intricately detailed dresses, still lifes stocked with fragments of nineteenth century
history, cabinets of curiosity, and some wry, haunting depictions of moths clothed in their own extraordinary patterns
and insignia.
A Southland Museum and Art Gallery Touring Exhibition
Runs until 9 October 2005
Peter Robinson: VAP 2005/06
In the past two years, New Zealand artist Peter Robinson has merged the comic and monstrous in a series of impressive
sculptures and ‘floorworks’. In this Visiting Artists Project, Robinson extends his grotesques even more energetically
into three dimensions. Echoing the welded-steel sculptures of Anthony Caro and the brooding late paintings of Philip
Guston, Robinson’s new creatures stretch out on steel limbs and entangle gallery-goers in the question of just what they
are and do.
Supported by Creative NZ
15 October - 28 January 2006
Frances, France and the French
Frances, France and the French explores one thread in Frances Hodgkins' life in Europe. Through a selection of works
made in France between 1901 and 1930, it identifies her favoured subjects - fishing villages, markets, landscapes and
people - and suggests evolutions in her relationship with the country and its inhabitants.
A Dunedin Public Art Gallery exhibition
Runs until 30 October 2005
Richard Killeen: Nature, Culture
The foyer becomes a fishbowl in May, when Richard Killeen fills the Big Wall with a colossal, red, white and black fish.
The latest in Killeen's recent run of hypnotically detailed computer-designed images, his fish wears a camouflage of
vibrant punctuation marks.
Runs until 6 November 2005
Miyabi: Japanese Treasures from Dunedin Collections
The exhibition includes ceramics, netsuke and other small sculptural objects, armour and swords, textiles and woodblock
prints.
Runs until February 2006
Sara Hughes: Love Me Tender
Sara Hughes brings colour and life to the Dunedin Public Art Gallery’s Otago Daily Times Gallery with her distinctive
variations on the Paisley patterns that Scottish settlers brought to Dunedin. Cut from pre-painted sheets of sticky
vinyl, Hughes’ Paisley shapes stretch and flex as if manipulated on a computer screen - nineteenth century forms
refreshed by twenty-first century technology.
A Dunedin Public Art Gallery exhibition
Ongoing Exhibition
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, 30 The Octagon, PO Box 5045, Dunedin
Contact for Exhibition enquiries: Tim Pollock, phone (03) 474 3243
Contact for Visitor Programme enquiries: Robyn Notman, phone (03) 474 3258
New Zealand Symphony Orchestra - Lion Foundation Mainland Tour 2005
Visiting guest conductor Ramon Gamba presents a concert of great variety from the nostalgia of the opening Folk Songs
and charm of Mozart’s concert - as performed by NZSO Principal Bassoonist Preman Tilson, fresh back from his performance
at the World Expo in Aichi, Japan as part of the NZSO’s world Tour - to the fizzy exuberance of Mendelssohn’s Italian
Symphony. There is also an appealing surprise in NZ composer Ross Harris’s Song for Jonny!
10 October 2005, 7.30pm
Dunedin Town Hall, Moray Place, Dunedin
Contact for bookings: Regent Theatre Ticketek, phone (03) 477 8597
Contact for enquiries: Hannah Evans, phone (04) 801 3833, 021 745 290, email hannahe@nzso.co.nz
Dunedin Centre
New Zealand Symphony Orchestra
Conducted by Rumon Gamba with Preman Tilson on Bassoon, the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra presents a programme
including Britten’s Suite on English Folk Tunes, Mozart’s Bassoon Concerto, Weber’s Andante and Rondo ongarese, Ross
Harris’ Music for Jonny and Mendelssohn’s Symphony No 4 Italian.
10 October 2005, 7.30pm
Dunedin Town Hall, Moray Place, Dunedin
Contact for enquiries: Regent Theatre Ticketek, phone (03) 477 8597
Contact for bookings: Regent Theatre Ticketek, phone (03) 477 8597
Tichman-Bieler-Kliegel Piano Trio
Tichman-Bieler-Kliegel Piano Trio present a programme including Beethoven’s Piano Trio in D, Opus 70 No 1 ‘The Ghost’,
Ravel’s Piano Trio in A minor (1915), and Mendelssohn’s Piano Trio in C minor Opus 66. The Piano Trio is comprised of
Nina Tichman on piano, Ida Bieler on violin and Maria Kliegal on cello. A graduate of the famous Julliard School, Nina
Tichman (piano) has won many prestigious competitions and appears around the world as a soloist with orchestras and in
recital. In 2004 Nina was invited to perform for the President of Germany. Ida Bieler (violin), for many years a member
of the Melos Quartet, is in demand as a teacher and a judge at international master classes and competitions. Maria
Kliegel is one of the leading cellists of the 21st Century. She plays the legendary “Ex Gendron” cello made by
Stradivarius in 1693. For more than 30 years the cello was owned by Maurice Gendron and was loaned to Maria by the
Foundation for the Arts and Culture of North Rhine Westphalia.
20 October 2005, 8.00pm
Glenroy Auditorium, 1 Harrop Street, Dunedin
Contact for enquiries: Regent Theatre Ticketek, phone (03) 477 8597
Contact for bookings: Regent Theatre Ticketek, phone (03) 477 8597
Cleveland Living Arts Centre
Cleveland Art Awards
Seeking to reflect the diversity of the art process selected works represent painting, photography, sculpture, textiles,
ceramics and everything in between. Artists from throughout the South Island are represented and this year’s prize pool
has increased to $10,500.
Runs until 23 October 2005
Fourth Annual Children’s Art Exhibition
Primary and Intermediate Children are invited to respond each year to a theme; this year it is “The many colours of
nature: Celebrating the Environment”. Each item of work is accompanied by a short statement from each child.
31 October - 12 November 2005
Cleveland Living Arts Centre, First Floor, Dunedin Railway Station, Dunedin
Monday - Friday, 10.00am - 4.00pm; Saturday, 10.00am - 2.00pm
Contact for enquiries: Kari Morseth, phone (03) 477 7291
Dunedin Rhododendron Festival
The Dunedin Rhododendron Festival is an annual four-day celebration that has become a much-enjoyed part of the Dunedin
spring calendar. 2005 marks the 22nd year of the Dunedin Rhododendron Festival and looks set to be an exciting event.
The 2005 Dunedin Rhododendron Festival has a strong focus on garden tours with a variety of tours on offer. Please visit
the website for more information www.rhododunedin.co.nz .
27 - 30 October 2005
Contact for enquiries: Victoria Bunton, phone (03) 474 5162
Dunedin Public Libraries Network
Film Screening: X-Force = The Science of Flight - A Natural History New Zealand Production
The Library is going to the Movies! X Force - The Science of Flight explores the science behind the adrenalin rush of
this extreme discipline and follows the epic flight by New Zealand paragliding pilot Bryan Moore over the Southern Alps
from Wanaka to the base of Mt. Cook, New Zealand’s highest mountain. Exploring the technical, physical and psychological
demands of cutting-edge paragliding exploration, The Science of Flight captures the danger and exhilaration of flying
high on a single nylon wing.
27 October 2005, 10.30am & 5.30pm
4th Floor, City Library, Moray Place, Dunedin
Discovery Tours
Take a free tour of the City Library every Tuesday and every last Saturday of the month.
Tuesdays, 10.30am and 1.00pm. Last Saturday of the month, 2.00pm.
Dunedin City Library, Moray Place, Dunedin
Stack Trek Tours
Go where few borrowers have gone before. Visit the City Library’s basement area and find those long lost “oldies but
goodies” every last Saturday of the month.
Last Saturday of the month, 1.00pm
Dunedin City Library, Moray Place, Dunedin
Contact for enquiries: Liz Knowles, phone (03) 474 3317, email lknowles@dcc.govt.nz
Hocken Collections
The Medical Body
The Medical Body is an installation exploring the ways that the body has been used as a teaching tool at the Medical
School, showcasing the anatomical paintings of John Halliday Scott (1877-1914) and glassware from the Department of
Physiology. The exhibition is curated by Pennie Hunt with artists Ana Terry and Don Hunter.
Runs until 5 November 2005
Terminus
Terminus at the Hocken looks at networks, relationships and the effects of isolation, both positive and negative using
the port as a focus for the inquiry. Iain Cheesman is using a playful moment of arrival that refers to both royal and
alien visitations. Australian based Neil Berecry Brown works in a process oriented way and will be installing directly
in the gallery using elements that relate to flux and play of ideas and people through a specific place like a working
port, maybe also like a working preschool. Ali Bramwell also uses play and transport as a motif making reference to rail
and road transport networks in a kitset way, a bureaucrat with a train set. All three have approached the project with
an underlying humour and irreverence. Terminus at the Hocken is a gallery-based part of a larger project taking place in
October, Terminus 2005 curated and directed by Ali Bramwell, which involves twenty plus artists from as far a field as
Britain. The larger public art project is taking place in Nelson on Haulashore island and in Dunedin in and around the
inner harbour. The three artists showing at the Hocken will also be making sited works at other locations. There is
another Terminus linked exhibition on at the Blue Oyster Gallery during October
Runs until 5 November 2005
Hocken Collections, University of Otago, 90 Anzac Avenue, Dunedin
Weekdays 9.30am - 5.00pm, Saturdays 9.00am - 12.00pm
Contact for enquiries: Pennie Hunt, phone 479 5648
Otago Settlers Museum
Vikings in our Midst - Nordic Connections in Southern New Zealand
Connections have been forged between the people of the Nordic region and the people of southern New Zealand for more
than 150 years. The story told in this exhibition begins with tales of Nordic sailors and gold seekers and with the
arrival of an immigrant ship named Palmerston. Then in the 1920s and 1930s it was visits by a fleet of Norwegian whaling
ships hunting in the icy waters of the Southern Ocean that added to our connectedness. The post-World War Two era
brought further Nordic migrants and today the connections continue to be fostered, thanks in part to a thriving
community of Scandinavian students. There are indeed Vikings in our Midst.
Runs until 13 November 2005
Dunedin’s War: The wartime experiences of Dunedin people 1939-1945
On 15 August 1945 the greatest armed conflict in history finally came to an end. For six long years the world had been
convulsed by war. Tens of millions of people had died. Vast areas were devastated, entire countries in ruins. It might
seem that Dunedin was far away from the battlefields. This exhibition is a tribute to the wartime generation whose ranks
are now thinning, It commemorates especially over 900 Dunedin citizens who went to war but never returned. “They gave
their tomorrow to give us our today”.
Runs until 17 February 2006
Across the Ocean Waves
What was it like crossing the oceans to come here in a sailing ship? The core of this new display is an accurate
recreation of the steerage quarters of an immigrant ship bound for Otago in the days of sail. Visitors are welcome to
climb into a bunk or sit at the central table and imagine what life would have been like cooped up for 100 or more days
at sea. Short video presentations bring the era to life. Death and disaster, fun and romance, the misery of seasickness
and the excitement of arrival are all showcased. A baby dies, fighting breaks out among the single girls, and there is
dancing and a stolen kisses. This is an interactive exhibit, which will seize the imagination and transport you back to
the epic voyages made by Otago’s nineteenth century ancestors. Participants can climb aboard and see for themselves what
the great migration was all about.
Ongoing Exhibition
Appliance Emporium: Housekeeping Made Easy
Whenever you start to grumble about doing the chores, spare a thought for how housekeeping was conducted in the old
days. There were no washing machines to load, set and forget. No one-touch microwave cooking. Ironing likewise was a
dreaded chore that involved hours of intensive effort. This exhibition takes a look at some of the housekeeping devices
used by Victorian housekeepers and the introduction in the mid-twentieth century of some of those labour-saving devices
we now take for granted.
An Otago Settlers Museum exhibition
Ongoing Exhibition
On the Move: Road Transport in Otago
One hundred years ago Thomas Sullivan invented the tea bag, Charles Menches invented the ice cream cone and vehicles
were becoming increasingly familiar sights on Dunedin streets. To find out more about local motoring and transportation
milestones check out On the Move: Road Transport in Otago - an exhibition of vehicles, photographs and memorabilia
recalling not only the dawn of motoring in Otago but also the heydays of horse-drawn coaches and drays, tramcars and
cycles. Be sure not to miss a ride on the penny-farthing.
Ongoing Exhibition
The Smith Gallery
The Otago Early Settlers Museum opened in 1908 with just one room for displays. Now known as the Smith Gallery, it was a
memorial to Otago’s Scottish pioneers. Stern Presbyterian faces glowered down from rows of photographic portraits amidst
artefacts of daily life from Otago’s early days. Today, the Smith Gallery emphasises the importance of the Early
Settlers in the story of Otago. The portraits on the walls have been rearranged in order of arrival; and a variety of
furniture and other artefacts, all drawn from the pre- gold rush era, add character to this historic gallery.
Ongoing Exhibition
Otago Settlers Museum - Visitor Programmes
Walk The Inner City
An experienced guide will takes visitors on a 90-minute stroll while experiencing the character, history and beauty of
Dunedin, New Zealand’s first great city. Enjoy this wonderful insight into Dunedin’s architectural and social past.
Ongoing Service, 11.00am weekdays
Visitor Information Centre, The Octagon, Dunedin
Introductory Tours of the Museum
Experience a guided tour of the Otago Settlers Museum. Each tour lasts approximately 30 minutes.
Ongoing Service, 11.00am weekdays (except public holidays)
Otago Settlers Museum, 31 Queens Gardens, Dunedin
Contact for Exhibition enquiries: Tim Pollock, phone (03) 474 3242
Contact for Visitor Programme enquiries: Robyn Notman, phone (03) 474 3258
November 2005
Cleveland Living Arts Centre
Spinners and Weavers of New Zealand
New Zealand spinners and weavers show case their talent in this touring exhibition.
1 - 12 November 2005
Continuum
Satoko and Motoko Watanabe are mother and daughter, both trained in Japan. Satoko's painting is inseparable from her
interest in children's art, which makes her aware of life's depth and the mystery that exists before words are formed.
Her daughter Motoko, has lived in New Zealand since 2000 and works in pastels, which she says have a similar effect to
traditional Japanese "rock paint". Both are happy to be part of the continuum - of generations, tradition, relationships
and life.
8 - 19 November 2005
Fourth Annual Children’s Art Exhibition
Primary and Intermediate Children are invited to respond each year to a theme; this year it is “The many colours of
nature: Celebrating the Environment”. A short statement accompanies each item of work from each child.
Runs until 12 November 2005
Kings Adult Art Students
A popular group show demonstrating the achievements of students from the full time art course. Tutors of the group
include print maker Inge Doesburg.
16 - 26 November 2005
Lynette Robb
An exhibition of recent paintings from Cantabrian artist Lynette Robb features with each room containing a related
series of paintings.
22 - 27 November 2005
Cleveland Living Arts Centre, First Floor, Dunedin Railway Station, Dunedin.
Monday - Friday, 10.00am - 4.00pm; Saturday, 10.00am - 2.00pm
Contact for enquiries: Kari Morseth, phone (03) 477 7291
Dunedin Public Libraries Network
Discovery Tours
Take a free tour of the City Library every Tuesday and every last Saturday of the month.
Ongoing Service - Tuesdays, 10.30am & 1.00pm; Last Saturday of the month, 2.00pm.
Dunedin City Library, Moray Place, Dunedin
Stack Trek Tours
Go where few borrowers have gone before. Visit the City Library’s basement area and find those long lost “oldies but
goodies” every last Saturday of the month.
Ongoing Service - Last Saturday of the month, 1.00 pm
Dunedin City Library, Moray Place, Dunedin
Contact for enquiries: Liz Knowles, phone (03) 474 3317, email lknowles@dcc.govt.nz
Fortune Theatre - Spreading Out
It is 25 years on and we revisit the characters of Roger Hall's enormously successful "Middle Age Spread". Colin and
Elizabeth, now retired, proudly survey their Central Otago vineyard from imported Javanese deckchairs. Sipping their
pinot noir as the sun sets, the serenity is only marred by the gentle snores of their lay-about son. With their daughter
and granddaughter arriving to celebrate the New Year, gatecrashers in the form of old neighbours Reg and Isobel (in
their gaudy mobile home) look to ruin all best-laid plans and rout any noble new year's resolutions. A comedy of bad
manners, unexpected revelations and marital discord oh goody!
4 November to 3 December 2005
Fortune Theatre, 231 Stuart Street, Dunedin
Contact for enquiries: Lisa Scott, phone (03) 477 1695
Contact for Bookings: Box Office, phone (03) 477 8323
Hocken Collections
The Medical Body
The Medical Body is an installation exploring the ways that the body has been used as a teaching tool at the Medical
School, showcasing the anatomical paintings of John Halliday Scott (1877-1914) and glassware from the Department of
Physiology. The exhibition is curated by Pennie Hunt with artists Ana Terry and Don Hunter.
Runs until 5 November 2005
Terminus
Terminus at the Hocken looks at networks, relationships and the effects of isolation, both positive and negative using
the port as a focus for the inquiry. Iain Cheesman is using a playful moment of arrival that refers to both royal and
alien visitations. Australian based Neil Berecry Brown works in a process oriented way and will be installing directly
in the gallery using elements that relate to flux and play of ideas and people through a specific place like a working
port, maybe also like a working preschool. Ali Bramwell also uses play and transport as a motif making reference to rail
and road transport networks in a kitset way, a bureaucrat with a train set. All three have approached the project with
an underlying humour and irreverence. Terminus at the Hocken is a gallery-based part of a larger project taking place in
October, Terminus 2005 curated and directed by Ali Bramwell, which involves twenty plus artists from as far a field as
Britain. The larger public art project is taking place in Nelson on Haulashore island and in Dunedin in and around the
inner harbour. The three artists showing at the Hocken will also be making sited works at other locations. There is
another Terminus linked exhibition on at the Blue Oyster Gallery during October
Runs until 5 November 2005
Design History
A Design History exhibition curated by Design Studies students at the University of Otago.
12 November 2005 - 14 January 2006
Hocken Collections, University of Otago, 90 Anzac Avenue, Dunedin
Weekdays 9.30am - 5.00pm, Saturdays 9.00am - 12.00pm
Contact for enquiries: Pennie Hunt, phone 479 5648
Dunedin Public Art Gallery - Exhibitions
Richard Killeen: Nature, Culture
The foyer becomes a fishbowl in May, when Richard Killeen fills the Big Wall with a colossal, red, white and black fish.
The latest in Killeen's recent run of hypnotically detailed computer-designed images, his fish wears a camouflage of
vibrant punctuation marks.
Runs until 6 November 2005
Rebecca Horn
Dunedin is the only New Zealand venue for this exhibition of sculptures, films and installations made by one of
Germany’s leading contemporary artists.
Runs until 31 January 2006
Miyabi: Japanese Treasures from Dunedin Collections
The exhibition includes ceramics, netsuke and other small sculptural objects, armour and swords, textiles and woodblock
prints.
Runs until February 2006
Sara Hughes: Love Me Tender
Sara Hughes brings colour and life to the Dunedin Public Art Gallery’s Otago Daily Times Gallery with her distinctive
variations on the Paisley patterns that Scottish settlers brought to Dunedin. Cut from pre-painted sheets of sticky
vinyl, Hughes’ Paisley shapes stretch and flex as if manipulated on a computer screen - nineteenth century forms
refreshed by twenty-first century technology.
A Dunedin Public Art Gallery exhibition
Ongoing Exhibition
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, 30 The Octagon, PO Box 5045, Dunedin
Contact for Exhibition enquiries: Tim Pollock, phone (03) 474 3243
Contact for Visitor Programme enquiries: Robyn Notman, phone (03) 474 3258
Regent Theatre - The Royal New Zealand Ballet - The Nutcracker
Featuring the Southern Sinfonia the Nutcracker is just what the doctor ordered. Whirling snow imps and tangoing tea
ladies join the ever-enchanting Sugar Plum Fairy in a festive treat for all the family. Choreographers Gary Harris and
Adam Burnett spin a dreamy confection of classical dance to Tchaikovsky’s sumptuous score. Kristian Fredrikson’s design
is a Technicolor vision straight out of Hollywood’s big studio era.
12 November 2005, 7.30pm and 13 November 2005, 2.30pm
Regent Theatre, 17 The Octagon, Dunedin
Contact for enquiries: Regent Theatre Ticketek, phone (03) 477 8597
Contact for bookings: Regent Theatre Ticketek, phone (03) 477 8597
Blue Oyster
Jenny Gillam - In Dark Trees / August Moon
Wellington based Jenny Gillam displays work from an ongoing series developing a photographic investigation of
post-colonial New Zealand. The work draws on cinematic aesthetics appropriated from the golden age of Hollywood and
science fiction both contemporary and retro. The science fiction sources introduce an undercurrent of anxiety, a
sensation of post apocalyptic shift away from New Zealand kitsch to something Gillam describes as ‘antipodean gothic.’
In this project wild New Zealand landscapes replace inherited European gothic iconography from traditions of
psychological horror. Nature becomes an uncanny representation as a force beyond human control where a violent and
repressed past returns to haunt the present.
Runs until 12 November 2005
Blue Oyster Upper Gallery
Andreas Pytlik - Green for NZ, Watching the Sea
German sculptor Andreas Pytlik uses the colour green as a vehicle for his ideas, which are located somewhere in a
minimalist practice that is phenomenologically concerned… Or more clearly that he is interested in the associative power
of a ‘simple’ unifying element such as a colour. His work takes the form of time based and social interactions as well
as more traditionally defined static art gestures such as sculpture or painting. In all of his work he uses the colour
as a place of transaction, where his respondent negotiates their own ground within the work. For Green for NZ, Watching
the Sea Pytlik proposes to link two sites, the harbour and the gallery with an installation. He talks about changing an
everyday item a few degrees by changing its colour. The item is a small dingy and the colour of course is green. The
boat is the centre of the exhibition and combined with the other elements of the project brings another place-ness and
refers to the idea of travel. Viewers are invitation to look out at different vistas and are offered the means to go
there.
Runs until 12 November 2005
Blue Oyster Lower Gallery
Paul Cullen - The Unreliability of Gravity
Paul Cullen’s project for Blue Oyster has the working title, The Unreliability of Gravity, and represents a continuation
of his ongoing inquiries. Cullen sees this current project as a model or diagram of the gallery as an impossible place
where gravity is suspended. Fundamentally his works are like propositions, involving a kind of testing out of ideas
where the process of asking questions is more important than locating answers. These propositional investigations
involve a testing (possibly) of objective knowledge through the various means we employ to construct, arrange and
organise the physical world. As in his recent ‘antigravity projects’ the installation will be located, in part at least,
on the gallery ceiling and supported by a scaffold-like structure. The installation may include rotating world globes,
altered scale versions of architectural models made from cardboard, tape, items of partially dismantled furniture,
ordinary objects, models/elements reconstructed from previous temporary ‘antigravity’ installations and amateur light
fittings. Filling a room with such objects, pressed high up against the ceiling, provides a prosaic - and absurd -
alternative means of achieving "anti-gravity". Cullen’s constructions often strive towards pseudo-laboratory scenarios
employing a varied cast of items and staged processes with which to make up his 'experimental' situations.
15 November - 3 December 2005
Blue Oyster Upper Gallery
Diane Halstead
Diane Halstead began a project at the Blue Oyster in 2003 called Mulatto - Bloodlines that explored her hybrid identity
as a New Zealander with mixed ethnicity. This new work proposes to again use her own hybrid heritage as a starting point
but engages more specifically with the absences and lacunae in her personal history. The project is a photographic
record of a search for identity clues, recording fragments that might tell her something about who she is. She has begun
with a tactile and practical way that women have of holding on to history, through textiles. The ‘clues’ that she has
begun photographing are brightly coloured patterns and prints, literally closely observing and photographing crudely
repaired tears in the almost aggressively coloured fabrics. Halstead discusses polarities, talking about scarring and
healing, horror and carnival. She is deliberately playing out a marked ambiguity of feeling by focussing on ruptures
where she has torn the pattern herself and then attempted a repair. She presents the following quote from Homi K. Bhaba
(1992) “This conflict of pleasure/unpleasure, mastery/defense, knowledge/disavowal, absence/presence, has a fundamental
significance for colonial discourse.” The project proposal is presented as an active exploration that the artist expects
will reflect the conflicts within the process of searching more accurately than it can present any newly found identity.
15 November - 3 December 2005
Blue Oyster Lower Gallery
Blue Oyster Gallery, Basement, Moray Chambers, 30 Moray Place, Dunedin
Contact for enquiries: Ali Bramwell, phone (03) 479 0197
Otago Settlers Museum
Vikings in our Midst - Nordic Connections in Southern New Zealand
Connections have been forged between the people of the Nordic region and the people of southern New Zealand for more
than 150 years. The story told in this exhibition begins with tales of Nordic sailors and gold seekers and with the
arrival of an immigrant ship named Palmerston. Then in the 1920s and 1930s it was visits by a fleet of Norwegian whaling
ships hunting in the icy waters of the Southern Ocean that added to our connectedness. The post-World War Two era
brought further Nordic migrants and today the connections continue to be fostered, thanks in part to a thriving
community of Scandinavian students. There are indeed Vikings in our Midst.
Runs until 13 November 2005
Dunedin’s War: The wartime experiences of Dunedin people 1939-1945
On 15 August 1945 the greatest armed conflict in history finally came to an end. For six long years the world had been
convulsed by war. Tens of millions of people had died. Vast areas were devastated, entire countries in ruins. It might
seem that Dunedin was far away from the battlefields. This exhibition is a tribute to the wartime generation whose ranks
are now thinning, It commemorates especially over 900 Dunedin citizens who went to war but never returned. “They gave
their tomorrow to give us our today”.
Runs until 17 February 2006
Across the Ocean Waves
What was it like crossing the oceans to come here in a sailing ship? The core of this new display is an accurate
recreation of the steerage quarters of an immigrant ship bound for Otago in the days of sail. Visitors are welcome to
climb into a bunk or sit at the central table and imagine what life would have been like cooped up for 100 or more days
at sea. Short video presentations bring the era to life. Death and disaster, fun and romance, the misery of seasickness
and the excitement of arrival are all showcased. A baby dies, fighting breaks out among the single girls, and there is
dancing and a stolen kisses. This is an interactive exhibit, which will seize the imagination and transport you back to
the epic voyages made by Otago’s nineteenth century ancestors. Participants can climb aboard and see for themselves what
the great migration was all about.
Ongoing Exhibition
Appliance Emporium: Housekeeping Made Easy
Whenever you start to grumble about doing the chores, spare a thought for how housekeeping was conducted in the old
days. There were no washing machines to load, set and forget. No one-touch microwave cooking. Ironing likewise was a
dreaded chore that involved hours of intensive effort. This exhibition takes a look at some of the housekeeping devices
used by Victorian housekeepers and the introduction in the mid-twentieth century of some of those labour-saving devices
we now take for granted.
An Otago Settlers Museum exhibition
Ongoing Exhibition
On the Move: Road Transport in Otago
One hundred years ago Thomas Sullivan invented the tea bag, Charles Menches invented the ice cream cone and vehicles
were becoming increasingly familiar sights on Dunedin streets. To find out more about local motoring and transportation
milestones check out On the Move: Road Transport in Otago - an exhibition of vehicles, photographs and memorabilia
recalling not only the dawn of motoring in Otago but also the heydays of horse-drawn coaches and drays, tramcars and
cycles. Be sure not to miss a ride on the penny-farthing.
Ongoing Exhibition
The Smith Gallery
The Otago Early Settlers Museum opened in 1908 with just one room for displays. Now known as the Smith Gallery, it was a
memorial to Otago’s Scottish pioneers. Stern Presbyterian faces glowered down from rows of photographic portraits amidst
artefacts of daily life from Otago’s early days. Today, the Smith Gallery emphasises the importance of the Early
Settlers in the story of Otago. The portraits on the walls have been rearranged in order of arrival; and a variety of
furniture and other artefacts, all drawn from the pre- gold rush era, add character to this historic gallery.
Ongoing Exhibition
Otago Settlers Museum - Visitor Programmes
Walk The Inner City
An experienced guide will takes visitors on a 90-minute stroll while experiencing the character, history and beauty of
Dunedin, New Zealand’s first great city. Enjoy this wonderful insight into Dunedin’s architectural and social past.
Ongoing Service, 11.00am weekdays
Visitor Information Centre, The Octagon, Dunedin
Introductory Tours of the Museum
Experience a guided tour of the Otago Settlers Museum. Each tour lasts approximately 30 minutes.
Ongoing Service, 11.00am weekdays (except public holidays)
Otago Settlers Museum, 31 Queens Gardens, Dunedin
Contact for Exhibition enquiries: Tim Pollock, phone (03) 474 3242
Contact for Visitor Programme enquiries: Robyn Notman, phone (03) 474 3258
Milford Galleries Dunedin
Karl Maughan
Karl Maughan has come home. Back, living in Auckland, after just over a decade in London, Karl and family are enjoying
New Zealand life. "It was something we always were going to do and in the end it was 'why wait, let's do it now,'" he
says from his studio in Auckland. Not that he has severed all connections with the UK, being still very much in favour
with the European art scene. He will return for commissions, exhibitions and other projects he is involved with. But his
return to New Zealand will mean a shift in his subject matter. Known for his large paintings of English gardens, Maughan
is now painting scenes from New Zealand gardens, preparing for a major exhibition with Milford Galleries Dunedin due to
open in late October. Karl Maughan was born in Wellington in 1964. He gained a Bachelor of Fine Arts at Elam School of
Fine Arts, University of Auckland in 1986 and a Masters of Fine Arts in 1987 and has exhibited regularly since then.
From 1994 he was based in London and in 1997 was a finalist in the John Moore Painting Award. His work is held in public
and private collections in New Zealand and the UK including the Saatchi Gallery in London. In 1998 his massive six-panel
work 'A Clear Day' was installed in the Habitat store in Chelsea, London. Te Papa bought the work in 2000.
Runs until 16 November 2005
Neil Dawson
Neil Dawson has established an international reputation for his innovative large-scale sculpture. In New Zealand he is
most well known for his work Ferns, installed in Wellington's Civic Square in 1998 and Chalice, an 18m-high conical
structure installed in Christchurch's Cathedral Square in 2001. His 16.5 metre high sculpture at the Australian War
Memorial in Canberra, to the Australians who served in Bomber Command in the Second World War, was recently dedicated.
In his exhibition at Milford Galleries Dunedin there will be wall sculptures, which will be landscape forms with
architectural elements. Dawson was born in Christchurch in 1948 where he still lives. He holds a Diploma of Fine Arts
(Hons) from Canterbury University and a Graduate Diploma in Sculpture from Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne.
18 November - 7 December 2005
Milford Galleries Dunedin, 18 Dowling Street, Dunedin
Contact for enquiries: Karen Trebilcock, phone (03) 477 8275, email karen@milfordhouse.co.nz
Otago Museum
Kimono
2005 marks the 25th anniversary of Dunedin’s sister-city relationship with Otaru, Japan. Otago Museum is marking this
anniversary with an exhibition of Japanese Kimono. This beautiful exhibition of traditional Japanese garments is bound
to inspire.
Runs until 29 January 2006
Special Exhibitions Gallery
Shoji Hamada - Japanese Master Potter
Acknowledged as a leading figure in the revival of Japanese craft pottery, Hamada was of enormous influence on the
ceramic arts worldwide. The recipient of numerous cultural honours in Japan, England and America, his visit to New
Zealand in 1965 had a great impact on our own studio ceramics. The Otago Museum exhibition celebrates the 40th
anniversary of Hamada’s visit to New Zealand. It will include examples of his work from the 1920s through to the 1960s,
borrowed from New Zealand public institutions and private collectors for this purpose, as well as items from the Otago
Museum collection.
Runs until 29 January 2006
Stairwell cases
Guided Tours
Take a ‘Highlights of the Museum’ guided tour and learn some inside knowledge about various aspects that the Museum has
on offer and/or take a guided tour of ‘Southern Land, Southern People’ and gain a greater understanding, of the Southern
region. ‘Highlights of the Museum’ guided tours are available at 11.30am and ‘Southern Land, Southern People’ guided
tours are available at 3.30pm (and other times by prior arrangement).
Ongoing Service - 11.30am & 3.30pm daily
Lunchtime Music
A range of musicians will liven up the atrium with live performances each week. This is now a regular fixture but is
subject to change according to function demands.
Museum Foyer, Fridays & Saturdays between 12 noon & 1.30pm
Discovery World Science Shows
These excellent shows are now run by the Museum’s Science Communicators.
Discovery World, Saturdays & Sundays at 11.00am, 1.00pm & 3.00pm
Gallery Talks
Each day, the Otago Museum Communicators present fascinating 15-minute gallery talks on objects or themes of particular
interest from the Museum's galleries.
Ongoing Service, 2.00pm daily
Search Centre
Otago Museum’s Search Centre research facility provides an inviting opportunity for visitors to engage in further
research on objects or themes in the galleries of interest to them. It will also be the first stop for the
identification of items members of the public bring into the Museum, a service that annually attracts a huge number of
objects or specimens. Well resourced, with swift new computers, microscopes, modern journals and a great variety of new
books, the Search Centre offers a variety of options for seeking further information. Set in a comfortable and relaxing
environment the Search Centre is the perfect place in which to think, read, study, or research.
Ongoing Service
Search Centre Weekend Presentations
The Museum’s Search Centre Communicators have developed a series of Search Centre Weekend Presentations designed to help
familiarise people with the excellent resources provided by this facility.
Ongoing Service, Weekends at 11.30am & 2.30pm
Ongoing Exhibitions
The Museum’s timbered Victorian gallery, the Animal Attic, houses an extensive collection of natural history specimens
from around the world, re-displayed as they would have been in the late 1800s. A ‘museum within a museum’, this gallery
is unique in New Zealand. Explore the Tangata Whenua Gallery with its impressive displays of Maori Cultural artefacts,
including a stunning collection of Southern Maori material. The Pacific Culture Galleries display outstanding
collections from Polynesia and Melanesia. People of the World has world archaeological treasures including ancient Greek
pottery; a mummy and other fascinating artefacts from Ancient Egypt; a striking collection of swords; exquisite
decorative arts from Asia and Europe and a superb array of costume and textiles. Walk the length of the giant Fin Whale
in the Maritime Gallery, and then take in the intricate detail of a wealth of nautical artefacts. Come face to face with
the extinct giant moa in the Extinction and Survival area and see one of the few complete moa eggs in the world.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King Street, Dunedin
Contact for enquiries: Annabelle Boelema, phone (03) 474 7474 ext 845, www.otagomuseum.govt.nz
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