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Experience New Zealand art, history practice, and culture (Māori, Pacific) in its various forms and mediums through the eyes of its famous artists and their work. This can be viewed online and at art galleries in across new Zealand. SCIS no. 1808620

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Colin McCahon: I am

Colin McCahon: I am

A documentary about New Zealand's most celebrated painter, Colin McCahon.

Richard Killeen

Richard Killeen

New Zealand artist Richard Killeen

Billy Apple

A story to celebrate the opening of an exhibition at Auckland Art Gallery 'Billy Apple: The Artist Has To Live Like Everybody Else' (14 March - 21 June 2015)

Gretchen Albrecht

Gretchen Albrecht

Gretchen Albrecht is a New Zealand artist. She was born in Onehunga in 1943 and attended Elam School of Fine Arts in 1963. This set features some of her well known works.

Frances Hodgkins

Frances Hodgkins

Frances Hodgkins was a painter of still lifes, portraits, and landscapes. Born in Dunedin in 1869, Hodgkins spent most of her life in Europe, and is one of New Zealand's most renowned and influenti...

Greatest Hits: The 1990s

Greatest Hits: The 1990s

I've been thinking about the 1990s a lot lately. It's the decade I came of age - I studied art history at the turn of the century, and although I wasn't there physically, Headlands, Cultural Safety...

Painting

Painting styles and topics

New Zealand’s spectacular landscapes and the indigenous Māori people were popular subjects for paintings from the first time Europeans first visited the country. The New Zealand art world was slow ...

History of New Zealand painting

Early European painting in New Zealand was dominated by landscapes and images of exotic Māori. From the 1890s the local art scene was boosted by the arrival of professional painters from Europe. Bu...

Temporary art

Emma Bugden from Artspace with an introduction to the world of temporary art.

Len Lye — New Zealand artist, filmmaker and sculptor

Christchurch-born artist Len Lye (1901 - 1980) was an internationally renowned modernist filmmaker and kinetic sculptor. Recognised as a front-running innovator in setting music to film, e.g. Swing...

Media art

Artists have been quick to use new technologies in their work.

Interview with Sriwhana Spong

Interview with Sriwhana Spong

Sriwhana Spong explores the way art can draw upon fragments from history.

Everywhere instantly by Daniel Crooks

Everywhere instantly by Daniel Crooks — digital video artist

'Everywhere Instantly' by Daniel Crooks has just opened at the Christchurch Art Gallery.

Samoan artists

Samoan artists have made a major contribution to the New Zealand art scene. Michel Tuffery, born in Wellington of Samoan descent, likes to poke gentle fun at the negative impact of Western culture ...

Pacific frigate bird

Pacific frigate bird by New Zealand painter Don Binney

This essay originally appeared in New Zealand Art at Te Papa (Te Papa Press, 2018). Laid out with the measured flourish of Arabic calligraphy, its wings like splayed scissors, Don Binney’s Pacific...

Swinging the Lambeth Walk

Swinging the Lambeth Walk

Inspired by a song in 1937 musical Me and My Girl, 'The Lambeth Walk' was a popular dance named after a working class area of London. Kiwi-born filmmaker Len Lye edited together different versions ...

The scarred couch, the Auckland experience

The scarred couch, the Auckland experience

In this painting by Philip Clairmont, everyday domestic objects run amok.

'Final domestic expose – I paint myself', by Jacqueline Fahey

'Final domestic expose – I paint myself', by Jacqueline Fahey

In the early 1980s there was an outpouring of feminist art by New Zealand women painters. As in this work by Jacqueline Fahey, much of women's art explored women's unique experience and was highly ...

Mt Egmont from the southward

Mt Egmont from the southward

Painting titled Mt Egmont from the southward by Charles Heaphy.

Street art

Colombo Street.Thursday 28 November 2013. File Reference: 2013-11-28-IMG_0751 Photo by Donna Robertson. From the collection of Christchurch City Libraries

Comic artist Dylan Horrocks

Comic artist Dylan Horrocks

Auckland-based Dylan Horrocks is one of New Zealand's leading contemporary comic artists.

Winter sports

This advertisement for winter sports at Tongariro National Park shows an airborne skier above the ski fields of Ruapehu with Mount Ngauruhoe in the background. It was William Perret Mead and Bernar...

Wellington in 1843.

Wellington in 1843.

1843 painting by Sir William Fox.

Medium shell lei

Medium shell lei

Medium shell lei' by Emily Siddell.

Nelson landscapes

Nelson landscapes

A painting titled Nelson landscapes by Toss Woollaston.

Wahine kino

Items from Areta Wilkinson’s, Wahine kino series.

McCahon chronology

McCahon chronology

An attempt to lay out paintings by Colin McCahon contained within DigitalNZ in chronological order, so as to satisfy an intellectual itch about colour progressions. Somewhat marred by Date not ...

Performance video

Performance video

Artwork by Simon Denny.

Hinetitama by Robyn Kahukiwa

Hinetitama by Robyn Kahukiwa

Hinetitama by Robyn Kahukiwa

Nga toki mate whenua - axes Felling Trees, kill the land

Nga toki mate whenua - axes Felling Trees, kill the land

A painting by artist Tony Fomison.

Titokowaru ponders the embers

Titokowaru ponders the embers

Lithograph of a Greek belly amphora decorated with scenes relating to the Taranaki and Tītokowaru Wars.

Surrender of the Ngaiterangi at Te Papa

Surrender of the Ngaiterangi at Te Papa

This scene at Tauranga, shows the Ngati Rangi bringing in their arms and the arms of British soldiers captured in the battle of Gate Pa. A large group of Māori is seated, with their leader, Hori Ng...

Burning the bush, Taranaki

Burning the bush, Taranaki

Bush picnics and excursions were popular forms of social entertainment for settlers two centuries ago. This picnic description from 1896 almost matches the image, “Amongst the trees a table which l...

Beatrice Faumuina

Beatrice Faumuina

As one of New Zealand’s most accomplished and respected caricature artists; Murray Webb’s work is immediately recognisable for its deft mix of caricature, realism and humour. For decades he has as ...

Venetian children

Venetian children

During her first trip across Europe early last century Francis Hodgkins sketched as she travelled, in this case a quick watercolour of two Venetian children. She returned to New Zealand but left fo...

Let me be Frank

Website of comic artist Sarah Laing.

This exhibition registers the world premiere of one of the most ambitious screen-based projects from Aotearoa New Zealand.

Simon Denny: secret power

Simon Denny’s acclaimed Venice Biennale exhibition Secret Power explores surveillance and espionage.

Artist Shane Cotton

Shane Cotton is one of New Zealand's best-known contemporary painters.

Te Papa: McCahon’s northland panels

The Northland Panels were painted after McCahon returned from an extensive tour of the United States.

Dick Frizzell’s work has always been characterised by a highly skilled handling of paint.

Reuben Paterson

Reuben Paterson is a dynamic young artist known for his creations in glitter and diamond dust.

The Wallace arts trust and its collection

The vision of the Wallace Arts Trust is to support, promote and expose New Zealand contemporary artists.

Hunting and collecting

Artist Matt Hunt collects things.

Auckland Art Gallery

Auckland Art Gallery holds a large and significant permanent collection of New Zealand art.

Images of New Zealand’s largest outdoor contemporary sculpture collection.

Hamish Mckay gallery

Works from New Zealand artists represented by the Hamish Mckay gallery.

Tour of New Zealand

Ruth Watson’s Tour of New Zealand seems to be an exercise in nostalgia.

Rita Angus life & vision

Rita Angus is one of New Zealand’s most significant artists.

The online home of arts at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa.

Video art works

The CIRCUIT catalogue contains over 500 works by 90 New Zealand artists.

Lester Hall art

Presents a contemporary take on New Zealand historical art and design.

New Zealand artists you should know

Get to know some New Zealand artists.

Joanna Braithwaite, Juggling Reality

Joanna Braithwaite’s paintings present juxtapositions of reality and the absurd.

Videos by artist Daniel Crooks.

Window is a contemporary art and project space showcasing fresh and experimental works both onsite and online.

Painter Seraphine Pick takes inspiration from the internet for her new show.

Bill Hammond - Living Large 6 (1995)

An introduction to Bill Hammond's Living Large 6 (1995), narrated by New Zealand actor Miranda Harcourt.

John Walsh’s work is characterised by a palette of aqua and green hues, a cast of lyrical hybrid characters and expressive brushwork.

Cliff Whiting is one of the most influential Māori artists of our time.

Pule has emerged as one of this country’s most recognised painters.

Five Māori painters at Auckland Art Gallery

Explore the foundations on which contemporary Māori painting is based.

Five Kiwi artists

Five Kiwi artists who are going places.

Ronnie Van Hout

Ronnie Van Hout talks about his work in the Melbourne Now exhibition.

Painter Helen Stewart

Article that features the modernist painter Helen Stewart.

Toi Māori Aotearoa

Toi Māori was set up in 1996 for the promotion of Māori art and artists.

The Cut Collective

The Cut Collective is an Auckland based art collective.

Michael Lett gallery

Works from New Zealand artists represented by the Michael Lett gallery.

The Art of Sofia Tekela-Smith

Sofia Tekela-Smith - maker of jewellery and/or objects of body adornment.

Francis Upritchard: jealous saboteurs

The first major survey exhibition of New Zealand-born sculptor Francis Upritchard.

Matt Hunt is one of New Zealand’s most interesting and eclectic painters.

Judy Darragh: limbo

Respected New Zealand artist, Judy Darragh is known for her brightly coloured sculptural collections of found objects.

Contemporary New Zealand artists to know and watch

A subjective overview of the contemporary New Zealand artists you really need to know.

Information about the biennial Walters Prize that profiles outstanding examples of contemporary New Zealand art.

An aerosol and stencil artist, Flox first made her mark on the inner cityscape of Auckland in 2003.

Katharina Grosse

Katharina Grosse is one of the most inventive and intriguing painters working today.

Guides & factsheets

Drawings, Paintings, and Prints

The Drawings, Paintings and Prints collection holds drawings, prints, paintings, cartoons, architectural plans and objects relating to New Zealand and the Pacific from 1642 to the present.

Rose

950 x 850mm; oil and acrylic on aluminum

Life Goes On

760 x 620; Stained Glass

Trophy

640 x 560 x 180mm; Mixed media

Dining Room with Demons

Dining Room with Demons

750 mm x 580 mm; Watercolour on paper

Heart Book

925 x 1385mm; Acrylic on two sheets of unstretched canvas, sewn together vertically down the centre (in the form of a book)

Painter

470 x 330mm (framed); 450 x 310mm; Oil on canvas

Manaia

1170 x 570mm; Acrylic on three board panels

Kurow

450 x 580 mm; Watercolour and collage on paper

'Untitled' Balloon

'Untitled' Balloon

472 x 532mm; Acrylic on board. Framed

Rugby Player

1070 x 755mm (framed and glazed); 845 x 454mm; Watercolour on paper, framed and glazed.

Girl of Rain

570 x 290mm; 860 x 575mm (framed); Oil on board

New Zealanders c1200 AD

New Zealanders c1200 AD

700 x 1000mm; Oil on Canvas

The Hot Rod Angel of Commander Newadamma 8986 AD

The Hot Rod Angel of Commander Newadamma 8986 AD

190 x 140 x 20mm; Oil on board

Reptilian Future Cop Indoctrination

Reptilian Future Cop Indoctrination

510 x 710mm; Oil on canvas

Simon Denny’s practice emphasizes relationships within communities of things.

A gallery of work by contemporary jeweler Jane Dodd.

Artist, Neil Dawson has been working for the last 40 years at the forefront of New Zealand’s public sculpture.

Tony de Lautour

Tony de Lautour’s art is quirky and full of dark humour.

Brett Graham is a sculptor who creates large scale artworks and installations that explore indigenous histories, politics and philosophies.

The art world is being bombarded with ‘non-fungible tokens’. We asked artist and crypto expert Simon Denny to help us explain them.

Find more information about New Zealand art on EPIC. Databases recommended: New Zealand Geographic, Australia New Zealand Reference Centre Plus and Oxford Art Online.

Works of art by New Zealand artist Julian Dashper.

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