The Art Link

THE ART LINK
Saturday 17th March 2007
10 - 6pm

On Saturday 17th March be transported to fourteen of Auckland's art galleries and see the work of over 70 artists as part of the Auckland Festival, AK07 programme. Proudly supported by Stagecoach and Art News magazine, THE ART LINK will run on a continuous loop from 10 - 6pm allowing visitors to determine their own schedule and select events and exhibitions of specific interest. Click here to download and print your map.

Where once Auckland's galleries were within easy walking distance, in recent years they have become increasingly less centralized with significant gallery precincts now flourishing in Newton and Karangahape Road as well as in the city. THE ART LINK buses will link people to galleries and art with the convenience of transport between venues.

Highlights of THE ART LINK 'tour' include exhibitions of new work by significant New Zealand artists Judy Millar at Gow Langsford Gallery, Peter Robinson at Sue Crockford Gallery and Barbara Tuck at Anna Miles Gallery. International talent includes exhibitions of new work by Fiona Lowry (Australia) at Roger Williams Contemporary and Hany Armanious (Australia) at Michael Lett.

As well, THE ART LINK will visit venues hosting turbulence - the 3rd Auckland Triennial. This multi-venue exhibition presents major works by over 35 artists from more than 20 countries including Turner Prize finalist Isaac Julien (UK), Phil Collins (UK) and from New Zealand Shane Cotton, John Pule and Yuk King Tan. Admission charges may apply.

GALLERY LISTINGS AND EVENTS
(in order of stops)

SUE CROCKFORD GALLERY
Suite 2c, Endeans Building, 2 Queen St, Auckland City (press 50 on the intercom)
Phone: 309-5127
Exhibiting Poliglot - new work by Peter Robinson

VAVASOUR GODKIN GALLERY
2nd floor, 35 High St, Auckland City
Phone: 309-9665
Exhibiting In Limbo

The show will incorporate photographic images of Andrew Drummond's performance piece 20 Directions in an Enclosure 1978. In the late 1970's Drummond was working largely in performance. In Limbo showcases images from the Ngaraunga Set, a suite of four performances where Drummond performs 'complex ritualistic and repetitive manoeuvres, to embody a layered narrative about confinement and liberation.' (Christina Barton) Drummond's work will be exhibited alongside recent work by Hannah and Aaron Beehre combining paint with digital video, along with large scale painting by Matthew Dowman and digital drawings and video by Gregory Bennett.
ARTIST TALKS: Gregory Bennett an d Matthew Dowman, 12 o'clock

ANNA MILES GALLERY
Suite 4J, 47 High St, Auckland City
phone: 377-4788
Exhibiting new work by Barbara Tuck: Slow Degrees of Ocean

ARTSPACE
Level 1, 300 Karangahape Road, Newton
phone: 303-4965
Exhibiting work by Sriwhana Spong, Alexandros Georgiou, Long March Project with Daniel Malone and Kah Bee Chow as part of turbulence: the 3rd Auckland Triennial
IN CONVERSATION: Alexandros Georgiou and Brian Butler, 3pm
Visiting Greek artist Alexandros Georgiou discusses his work with ARTSPACE Director Brian Butler.

IVAN ANTHONY GALLERY
312 Karangahape Rd, Newton
Phone: 377-1229
Exhibiting new work by Bill Hammond - Predator Rock

MICHAEL LETT
478 Karangahape Rd, Newton
Phone: 303-4211
Exhibiting new work by Australian artist Hany Armanious

STARKWHITE
510 Karangahape Rd, Newton
Phone: 307-0703
Exhibiting new and recent work by Peter Stichbury, Layla Rudvera-MacKay, Gavin Hipkins and Australian Grant Stevens

OBJECTSPACE
8 Ponsonby Rd, Ponsonby
Phone: 376-6216
Exhibiting Jewellery out of Context (JOC)
Shown in New Zealand exclusively at Objectspace, JOC was curated by Peter Deckers and Carole Shepheard specifically for the 2006 International Conference of the Jewellers and Metalsmith's Group of Australia. JOC features 24 works / installations created by 31 New Zealand artists.

TWO ROOMS
16 Putiki St, Newton
Phone: 360-5900
Exhibiting Mirror Worlds.
Curated by Zoe Butt and Bec Dean, Mirror Worlds presents the work of eight artists selected from across Asia, who use video as an imaginative tool to reinvent the world and play havoc with reality. The artists are Junebum Park, Wit Pimkanchanapong, Rashid Rana, Chen Shaoxiong, Kiran Subbaiah, Heman Chong (with Corinna Kniffki) and Sharmila Samant.

Two Rooms also presents a 16 mm film by London based artist Runa Islam in the Long Room. The film Be the First to See What You See As You See It was shown at the Venice Biennale (2005). Her film works h ave emerged through an interest in well-known avant-garde film and she uses narrative as a device to blur distinctions between art and cinema.

ROGER WILLIAMS CONTEMPORARY
61 Randolph St, Newton
Phone: 377-2695
Exhibiting new work by Australian painter Fiona Lowry: all i want to do is spend my life with you

Fiona Lowry is a rising star in Australia's contemporary art world with her work being received equally well by art critics and the public. In 2006 she won the ABN Amron Emerging Artist prize as well as the Collex Primavera Prize. Her work was included in the prestigious 2006 Primavera exhibition at Sydney's Museum of Contemporary Art and in 2007 is included in National Gallery of Victoria curator, Jason Smith's exhibition E PIC at the Lismore Regional Gallery alongside Patricia Piccinini and Tracey Moffatt.
Also exhibiting selected works from Lowry's all is one, all is one, all is one series of 2006 and recent sculptural works by Christopher Braddock from his Fleshly Worn series of 2006.

ST PAUL ST GALLERY
Auckland University of Technology, 34 St Paul St, Auckland City
Phone: 921-9999
Exhibiting True North by Isaac Julian as part of turbulence: the 3rd Auckland Triennial.

Isaac Julien's three-screen synchronised film installation, True North, 2004, is a meditation on the treacherous and complex journeys beckoned by the sublime and contested space of the North Pole. Julien has, for a number of years, been a forerunner in the use of parallel montage. Shot in Iceland and Sweden, the film responds to the story of Matthew Henson, an African American, who took part in Robert Peary's expedition to the North Pole in 1909, and who was the first person to reach the geographic North Pole, True North, (as opposed to the magnetic North Pole). The minimal voiceover in Julien's film, which has the intimacy of a whisper, replays the tension between these two men which escalated to the point at which Henson, motivated by fear, had to remove the ammunition from his rifle at night and bury it in the snow. The men had a mutual dependence, however, with a respective double and constantly changing index.
CONTINUOUS SCREENINGS of 14 Minutes and 13 seconds

Also on exhibition: New work by Julie Rrap and NO CHINA TOWN, The Long March by Kah-Bee Chow and Daniel Malone.
EXHIBITION TALK BY ST PAUL ST GALLERY DIRECTOR LEONHARD EMMERLING, 11am

AUCKLAND ART GALLERY
Main Gallery: Cnr Kitchener and Wellesley Sts, Auckland City
New Gallery: Cnr Wellesley and Lorne Sts, Auckland City
Phone: 307-7700

Exhibiting turbulence: 3rd Auckland Triennial at the New Gallery and Passion and Politics at the Main Gallery
Admission charges may apply
GUIDED TOUR: 2pm with gallery docents

ON FILM: Colin McCahon: I Am, 1pm at the Main Gallery auditorium - free
An award wi nning documentary on the life and work of New Zealand's most renowned modern artist, Colin McCahon. Director Paul Swadel uses interviews with a range of art commentators, friends and family members to tell McCahon's story, including a rare audio interview with the painter, and the voice of Sam Neill reading from the artist's letters.
Director Paul Swadel, 2004, 72 minutes, Winner of Best Documentary - Qantas Television Awards 2005

ON FILM: Marti - The Passionate Eye , 3pm at the Main Gallery auditorium - free
Marti Friedlander is one of New Zealand's leading photographers, alongside the major social changes she recorded she has photographed New Zealand's best-known artists in their studios, collaborated with Michael King on a famous series of Maori portraits, and documented many protest activities. Marti talks frankly about the art of photography, her life, and the fascinating people and events she has portrayed.
Directed by Shirley Horr ocks 2004, 73 minutes

GOW LANGSFORD GALLERY
Cnr Kitchener and Wellesley St, Auckland City
Phone: 303-4290
Exhibiting new work by Judy Millar: Butter for the Fish

Judy Millar, the inaugural recipient of the McCahon House residency extends her investigations into the possibilities left in the grand tradition of action painting. The provisional irresolvable aspects of the paintings will be extended in the show with temporary walls being built in the gallery. Building fence-like hoardings into the gallery is a strategy Millar has worked with a number of times since her Auckland Art Gallery project in 2005. This show will mark another step in her investigation into what happens when paintings bring their own walls into the gallery space.
ARTIST TALK: 1pm

GUS FISHER GALLERY
The Kenneth Myers Centre, 74 Shortland St, Auckland City
Phone: 373-7599
Exhibiting turbulence: 3rd Auckland Triennial
READING 1pm: Tze Ming Mok, Alison Wong, Lynda Chanwai Earle
Writer Tze Ming Mok, poet and novelist Alison Wong join writer and actor Lynda Chanwai Earle in a reading from their work in response to the 3rd Auckland triennial theme - turbulence.

This is a unique opportunity for visitors to see the work of over 70 artists at 14 venues in one day.
An ART LINK pass is $2 and allows unlimited access to transport. Buses d epart from platform D6 at Britomart Centre, QEII Square, at 10am and travel on a continuous loop until 6pm. All bus stops and buses will include maps. Visitors may park, board and ride buses from any stop on the route.
Stagecoach and THE ART LINK apoligise for any unavoidable delays caused by roadworks on Queen St.

Admission to exhibitions and events free unless otherwise stated.
Click here to download and print your copy of THE ART LINK map

For further general information: enquiries@rogerwilliamscontemporary.com

PROUDLY SUPPORTED BY STAGECOACH AND ART NEWS AS PART OF The Auckland Festival, AK07

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