On Show EXHIBITIONS & EVENTS AT ART GALLERY TOI O TĀMAKI JUNE / JULY / AUGUST / SEPTEMBER 2009 // FREE // www.aucklandartgallery.com On Show Designed by Inhouse Developed Edited by Jennifer Dann & Toured by ISSN 1177-4614

Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki relies From the on the goodwill and generosity of corporate partners. We are delighted to acknowledge 1 AUGUST 2009 TO their ongoing support. Director 1 NOVEMBER 2009 NEW GALLERY Free Admission Welcome to Auckland on the $113 million restoration Art Gallery. It’s your gallery, and expansion of our historic it’s free and it’s in the heart main building, after many years of the city. of planning and preparation. The new building is beginning : This winter we are excited to to rise, and remains on target to present Te Papa’s Rita Angus: open in April 2011. Life & Vision. Over 220,000 Life & Vision people have seen this free Don’t forget we remain open in show so far in , the New Gallery on the corner Dunedin and . of Wellesley and Lorne Streets. I am sure you will enjoy this On your next visit, please be compelling look at one of New sure to see the animation we Zealand’s pioneer modern have produced of the new painters. The beautifully building. You will find it in the illustrated 230-page catalogue lower foyer next to the model. is on sale in our Gallery Shop for just $75 along with Rita Chris Saines Angus T-shirts, bags, badges Director and cards. Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki I am excited too that Proudly printed by construction work is underway

Rita Angus A Goddess of Mercy (detail) 1945–47, oil on Rita Angus Cass 1936, oil on canvas on board, Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu, canvas, Christchurch Art purchased 1955. Reproduced courtesy of the Rita Angus Estate. Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu, purchased 1957. Reproduced courtesy of the Rita Angus Estate. Principal Major Funding Sponsor Partner

1 Te Papa’s landmark exhibition Curator’s tour comes to Auckland after Te Papa’s William McAloon hugely popular seasons in gives a tour of the show. New Gallery / free Wellington, Dunedin and Sunday 2 August 1pm Christchurch. Rita Angus: Life & Vision is the largest ever Photographing Rita Marti Friedlander on photo- retrospective of the work of one graphing the reclusive artist. of ’s best-loved Art Lounge / free artists. This free exhibition Sunday 9 August 1pm features 140 works, including Biographer’s talk the iconic Cass, voted New Jill Trevelyan on her 2008 Zealand’s greatest painting biography of Rita Angus. in a 2006 television poll. Art Lounge / free Sunday 16 August 1pm

Drawing out the stories Portrait of behind the paintings, the show on Angus’s reveals Angus’s commitment iconic portrait of his mother. to pacifism, her strong feminist Art Lounge / free Sunday 23 August 1pm views, and her spiritual beliefs. Also evident are Angus’s love Self portraits of nature and her affinity for Linda Tyler on Angus’s the New Zealand landscape, stylistic investigations and search for identity. as well as her extraordinary Art Lounge / free technique. Sunday 30 August 1pm

The exhibition includes Curator’s talk Ron Brownson on sketchbooks and studies Angus’s landscapes. that reveal the full scope of Art Lounge / free Angus’s practice over four Sunday 6 Sept 1pm decades (1929-1969). Co- Film screening curated by Te Papa’s William presents McAloon and biographer Jill her 2007 film Lovely Rita. Trevelyan, it is complemented Art Lounge / free / 70 mins by a full colour catalogue. Sunday 13 Sept 1pm Open late Rita Angus: Life & Vision AUT fashion design introduces a n