Starkwhite is launching an exhibition of the late Marti Friedlander’s photography — including, above, Turangawaewae Marae Jubilee from 1971 — from her almost 60-year career.
After arriving in New Zealand in 1958 from England, her images of Maori, of protests, of rural and suburban life and of everyday people and things captured moments in time that have helped define NZ.
At Milford Galleries, Jenna Packer gives an artist’s talk at 6pm on her works which draw on a traditional decorative art form of idealised country life.
A new gallery on Church St features Thai artist Virut’s expressive pop-art style portraits made from blending and layering tiny scraps of colourful paper.
Artbay’s Front Room farewells an exhibition by Fiona Kerr Gedson, ‘Pilgrimage’, in which peacock and pheasant feathers are arranged into intricate and often brightly-coloured compositions.
Artbay’s former upstairs gallery’s now home to Lightworx, which is exhibiting new works by contemporary Maori artist Robert Jahnke.
And Romer Gallery, known for its large-format landscape photography, has a new work, Rangitata, capturing a fleeting moment of sunlight breaking through clouds above Canterbury’s Rangitata River.
