Current Exhibitions

A Hocken Collections touring exhibition.

‘To the weak became I as weak, that I might gain the weak: I am made All things to all men, that I might by all means save some’. From the Bible, 1 Corinthians 9:22

Kushana Bush’s latest satirical paintings playfully tout the impossible task of satisfying everyone’s needs.  Their delicate and alluring surfaces conflate disparate cultures, unsettle the simplified classifications of East and West and cut across cultural difference.  Inhabited by a multi-cultural cast of characters, her amusing and imaginative group portraits draw on a range of art styles and epochs from Giotto’s fourteenth century frescoes and erotic Japanese Shunga art to Indo-Persian miniatures and the twentieth century paintings of Englishmen Stanley Spencer.  Bush’s cosmopolitan art brings together constituent elements from all over the world in order to inventively reconfigure the geographical, political and social landscape of our time.

All of the delicate jewel-like gouaches in this exhibition were created during Bush’s year as the 2011 Frances Hodgkins Fellow.

Exhibition Opening Monday 23 April, 6pm

TEN is a group show of recent paintings by 10 artists who completed their Master of Fine Art at Elam School of Fine Art, University of Auckland in 2010.

This very diverse group of 10 artists are linked through their individual investigation into painting as a medium. This show presents a range of conceptual projects and ideas in a medium more than 10,000 years old, yet still relevant to this century. The show reflects on how painting continues to be a fertile ground for contemporary emerging artists.

The 10 artists are exploring ideas and concepts through painting. They are nudging boundaries by obeying or disobeying the rules, mixing, revisiting and borrowing from last century’s practices.

Novak’s work explores the interrelationships between sound, colour, form, time, space, and social context.

Tone Connections is a sound network created through mixed media made up of a primary exhibition space in the AV Room at the Pah Homestead, inner satellite spaces (other spaces within the Pah Homestead), and outer satellite spaces (other spaces linked to the Pah Homestead).

“The installation will put forward the idea that sound is part of us, of all we experience, of all that exists”. -Novak

Wellington based photographer Paul Redican exhibits a series of large colour images exploring the urban environment and its inhabitants. Urban Topographies is a body of works are based mainly on a project undertaken by Redican in Hong Kong in 2006 and 2007. Whilst in Hong Kong Redican was inspired by one of the world’s most densely populated urban centers and found it a rich environment to focus on both the physical public spaces and the inhabitants of the region.

Debbie Stenzel's Starshake: 5928 references abandonment of vehicles within the Christchurch CBD as a result of the magnitude 6.3 earthquake on 22 February 2011 in which 183 people lost their lives.