James Dignan

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    <i>Crooner</i>, by Saskia Leek.

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    ''Desk Collection'', Saskia Leek (Dunedin Public Art Gallery)

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    <i>We don't wanna Niagara Falls in the sink - trust me!</i>, by Javier Mansilla.

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    <i>We don't wanna Niagara Falls in the sink - trust me!</i>, by Javier Mansilla. ''I Hope You Like It'', Javier Mansilla (None Gallery) Chilean artist and musician Javier Mansilla has chronicled his New Zealand travels through a collection of watercolour portraits of ordinary New Zealanders going about their daily chores.

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    <i>Tryasyoulike</i>, by Hannah Kidd

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    ''The race'', Hannah Kidd (Milford Galleries) Hannah Kidd is getting a lot of much-deserved attention for her impressive sculptures.

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    <i>Walking Wolf</i>, by Isaac Leuchs

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    ''Menagerie'' (The Artist's Room) With ''Menagerie'', The Artist's Room presents an exhibition, by nearly 30 artists, of work connected, either directly or loosely, with animals. There is much here to be seen and appreciated, with many fine two- and three-dimensional works.

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    <i>High tide</i>, by Michael Harrison

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    ''Invasion Biology'', Michael Harrison (Brett McDowell Gallery)

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    <i>Black crawled zig-zag bottle,</i> by John Parker

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    ''Black + White + Red'', John Parker (Milford Gallery) There is more than a touch of stagecraft in the ceramic art of John Parker.

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    <i>Magdalena at French Farm,</i> by Jeffrey Harris.

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    ''Family'', Jeffrey Harris (Brett McDowell Gallery) An exhibition featuring just four paintings may not sound substantial, but when those works are new Jeffrey Harris paintings the exhibition, though small, becomes notable.

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    <i>The Straw Man</i>, by Kushana Bush.

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    ''Gander Moon'', Kushana Bush (Brett McDowell Gallery) There is a distinct sense of purpose about the characters depicted in the latest set of work by Kushana Bush on display at the Brett McDowell Gallery.

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    <i>There will be -</i>, by Kerry Tribe.

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    ''True stories/Scripted realities'' (Dunedin Public Art Gallery) ''True stories/Scripted realities'' is a series of video installations, each examining the nature of reality in narrative. Bridging the borders between naturalistic and scripted, truth and propaganda, the artists have produced ''mediated accounts''. Each plays with the concepts of cinematic truth and its manipulations.

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    <i>Le marechal Anglais </i> (The English blacksmith), by Theodore Gericault.

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    ''Gericault to Gauguin: Printmaking in France, 1820-1900'', (Dunedin Public Art Gallery)

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    <i>Sculpture</i>, By Marte Szirmay.

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    Sculpture, Marte Szirmay (Dunedin Medical School, Great King St) At the beginning of the year, the few open galleries around Dunedin are generally showing stock shows, and an opportunity exists to examine art elsewhere on general public display.

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    <i>My headphones</i>, by Jessie-Lee Robertson.

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    ''Dirt'' (Glue) Glue has launched what is possibly its largest exhibition with the show ''Dirt'', billed as ''a national collection of experimental works made by women''. More than 100 works are presented by some 30 artists, and the exhibition spills out from the main gallery space and across much of Glue's premises.

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    Milford Sound, looking north-west from Freshwater Basin", by John Buchanan

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    "Art in the service of science", John Buchanan (Hocken Library) The mid-19th century was a period filled with remarkable colonial artists: crafts people who combined the skills of...

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    &quot;Wings&quot;, by Neil Dawson.

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    • "New and recent work" (Milford Galleries Dunedin) Milford is presenting a show of new works by leading New Zealand artists, with all five providing delights for the viewer. ...

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    "Figuratively speaking", Luke Hollis and Stephen Martyn-Welch (The Artist's Room)

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    • The Artist's Room is presenting portraiture by two well-matched artists, Luke Hollis and Stephen Martyn-Welch. The two distinct series of paintings fit well together, despite the stylistic...

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    <i>Edin</i> (Detai), by the Edge of the Grid Collective.

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    "Edin", Edge of the Grid (Blue Oyster Gallery) "Edin" is a large-scale installation by Edge of the Grid, a collective made up of photographer James Voller, architect Robin Aitken and sound artist Tane Upjohn-Beatson.

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    'The Keeper', by Paula Rego.

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    "Paula Rego" (Brett McDowell Gallery) Brett McDowell Gallery has pulled off a significant coup in hosting an exhibition by major Anglo-Portuguese artist Paula Rego.