"Captain Winterbottom and the Billiard Room of Horton House", Sir Frank Brangwyn (Dunedin Public Art Gallery) Sir Frank Brangwyn was a notable and versatile figure in early 20th-century British art. A painter, ceramicist, designer, and illustrator, it is for his murals that he is best remembered, and his name ranks alongside the finest muralists of the era.
"Voices of Earth", Garry Currin (Milford Gallery) Garry Currin has a way of creating atmospheric, ephemeral landscapes into which a viewer can project their own imaginary worlds.
'Landing", Robert Scott (Moray Gallery) Space exploration has been much in the news recently, with the landing on Mars of the Curiosity rover and the death of Neil Armstrong. Perfect timing then, for Robert Scott's exhibition "Landing", with its science-fictional themes.
Mervyn Williams/Chris Bailey/Lorene Taurerewa(Milford Galleries) Milford Galleries is presenting the work of three artists, two of them new to exhibitions in the far South.
"Sound Full" (Dunedin Public Art Gallery) The marriage of sight and sound has long been a source of intriguing multimedia art, yet it is only in the past 50 or so years that it has really come into its own. The freedom that conceptual and concrete art have allowed the visual artist, and the similar freedoms allowed to sonic artists through recording and synthesizer technology have opened the door to a fruitful and seemingly limitless creative form.
'Le dossier 10 (ii)', by Christine Webster.
> "Le Dossier", Christine Webster (Milford Gallery)
"60 years 60 pots", Mirek Smisek (Otago Museum) "60 years 60 pots" is a major retrospective of the work of one of New Zealand's premier potters, Mirek Smisek.
The Edo era, stretching from the 17th to the 19th centuries, was a time of a major burgeoning of Japanese culture. A newly-monied merchant class had developed, and a wealth of arts and entertainments, from kabuki theatre to high-status brothels to highly stylised Ukiyo-e art, grew up as a result.
'Untitled', by Philip Trusttum
"Untitled (Mural design)", Fiona Connor and Aaron Kreisler (curators) (Dunedin Public Art Gallery)
Travelling the harbour road to Bellamy's Gallery at Macandrew Bay, one cannot miss the whimsical bus shelters with which the name of artist John Noakes will forever be associated. Local painter...
When Di ffrench died in 1999, New Zealand lost a major artist, one whose larger-than-life photographic works challenged the viewer with their provocative sexuality and graceful, lithe form.
• "Concrete Chimera", (Salisbury Boutique Basement) Dunedin's Fringe Festival has brought numerous art shows to the city, many of them brief, unexpected, and unusually located. One...
"Five new works, five old works", Martin Thompson (Brett McDowell Gallery) The worlds of the sciences and the arts are often seen as polar opposites, but the two intertwine and mesh to an extraordinary degree.
The university and polytechnic are host to many artworks which, if not strictly speaking public, are on open display. Some are well known, such as Peter Nicholl's Bridge of blackened timbers close to the University Union. Others are in more secluded spaces, or within the tertiary institutes' buildings.
Jason Greig has returned to the Brett McDowell Gallery with another fine collection of delicate gothic prints. His monoprints, plus occasional etching, shed a dark light on to a fascinating underworld - a demimonde inhabited by shadowy figures and fatal beauty.
"Side seam" (Inge Doesburg Gallery)