Mark Amery
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10 New Zealand artists to invest in right now (opens the original)
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All power to you if financial investment is a strong motivation for buying art; artists need you and as a way of supporting artists, you can also take heart that if you buy and then sell a work 5% of the sales price goes back to the artist thanks to the Resale Right for Visual Artists Act 2023. But if you decide to invest in art, invest with your heart because you may be living with that work – be it a painting, a drawing or a sculpture – for a long time. Generally, investing in art isn’t a shor
Urban masters: An art critic reviews the works soon to be seen by thousands using Auckland’s CRL (opens the original)
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The anticipatory hum on the rails ahead of Auckland’s City Rail Link opening this month is almost audible up and down the motu. The attention paid to art and design is notable. Working with mana whenua to ensure these aren’t just faceless interchanges, Māori concepts are in the very structures. My hometown is recognising itself as a creative city, grounded in traditional stories. The stations are cloaked in patterns connecting to the environment, with additional elements (below), from steel rod
Art Land: A series of exhibitions show that oil’s still well with the world (opens the original)
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This month, in tribute to Sir Sam Neill, we travel to Gore, to a true out-of-the-box cultural gem: the Eastern Southland Gallery. It has been run by Sam’s mate Jim Geddes since, incredibly, 1984 and is home to some remarkable gifted art collections. The last significant work Neill gave to the gallery was earlier this year, by Yuki Kihara, in memory of the actor’s mother. Currently on show is Heartland, work from the collection by one of Gore’s other great gifts to the world – the late painter Tr
Instagram cannot compete: How photobooks became a phenomenon (opens the original)
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An image from the photobook Jellicoe & Bledisloe, David Cook’s document of Hamilton’s Hayes Paddock state house community, where he lived in the 1990s. Photo / David Cook As photobook creators and followers gather for a festival at Te Papa, Mark Amery takes a look at the medium’s international growth, its local practitioners, and the publishers behind them. Wellington photographer Mary Macpherson doesn’t remember her mother taking photographs on holidays in the 1950s and 60s, when Mary was a chi
Art Land: Shows to raise your libido and et al’s controversial Venice offering gets a 20th anniversary exhibition (opens the original)
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What’s happening in visual arts and galleries around NZ this month. Drawings have been pouring into Whangārei Art Museum from all corners of Aotearoa, and old art centres like Melbourne, Berlin, London and New York. For just-opened exhibition A Drawing for a Group Show, director Simon Bowerbank sent out a single piece of paper and a return addressed bag to “pretty much every [New Zealand] artist [he] could think of”. Every artist? “Artists that feel relevant now, or have in the past … But I real
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