See our Summer- Autumn 2013-2014 - Govett-Brewster Art Gallery

Nicolaus
Schafhausen and
Kate Newby
Tuesday 25 March
6.00pm – 8.00pm
The Mayfair
69 Devon St West, New Plymouth
Nicolaus Schafhausen and Kate Newby discuss the
Fogo Island Arts Dialogue, a conference series that
addresses critical questions faced by the global
community in the 21st century.
Nicolaus Schafhausen is an experienced curator,
speaker and advisor in visual arts. He has directed
several institutions in Germany and initiated projects
and publications in and outside of Europe.
Schafhausen is currently Director of Kunsthalle Wien,
Austria, and advisor to the Fogo Island Arts/
Shorefast Foundation.
Since graduating from Elam School of Fine Arts,
New Zealand-born artist Kate Newby has undertaken
artist residencies in Germany, Canada, Mexico City
and New York. Newby is artist in residence at Fogo
Island Arts in 2013/2014.
Robert Leonard
Tuesday 27 May
6.00pm – 8.00pm
Venue to be confirmed
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Robert Leonard is one of New Zealand’s most
experienced art curators and writers. Director of
Brisbane’s Institute of Modern Art since 2005, he
returns to New Zealand as Senior Curator for City
Gallery Wellington in January 2014. Leonard has
worked as a curator and director for art galleries
throughout New Zealand. He curated the country’s
representation for Brisbane’s Asia-Pacific Triennial
1999, Sao Paulo Biennale 2002 and Venice Biennale
2003 and he will be curating Simon Denny’s
exhibition for Venice Biennale 2015. Leonard: “I want
to balance my love of detailed exhibition making with
coal-face responsiveness and direct collaboration
with artists. I am interested in the radical relativism
of contemporary art. I appreciate art that stands the
test of time but I am equally into art that is right here,
right now”.
Diana Thater
Tuesday 29 April
6.00pm – 8.00pm
Venue to be confirmed
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Los Angeles-based Diana Thater is an artist, curator,
writer and educator whose work is preoccupied with
untouched and manipulated nature and the politics
of human and inhuman relationships.
Thater visits Aotearoa New Zealand as one of the
artists in Adam Art Gallery’s exhibition Cinema and
Painting, exploring the phenomenology and
materiality of exhibited film (11 February — 11 May
2014). With a Master of Fine Arts at the Art Center
College of Design, Pasadena, California, Thater has
been a pioneering creator of film, video and
installation art since the early 1990s. Since 2000,
she has been the artist in residence for The Dolphin
Project, a non-profit organisation that protects
cetaceans from slaughter, captivity and abuse.