The New Dowse
April 12-August 17 | Reviewed by L M Wallace

“Visiting Antarctica was one of the most significant and important experiences of my life.”
—Chris Cree Brown

POWERFUL work from thirteen leading New Zealand artists and writers collides in Sinfonia Antarctica, an exhibition at The New Dowse, celebrating art inspired by experience; a result of the Artists to Antarctica programme.

Enjoy Public Gallery
April 3-19 | Reviewed by Thomasin Sleigh

I WENT to Mitre Ten Mega on Easter Sunday. It was a big mistake; the places are absolutely terrifying. All I had to buy were some picture hooks, but it was like finding a needle in a haystack. They sell everything there. I experienced my usual sense of mega-chain-store-panic when confronted by so many products, so many people and so much space.

Gavin Hipkins Photographs
Rim Books, NZ$20 | Reviewed by Andy Palmer

OKAY, so some days I’m a little slow. Recently Gavin Hipkins had an opening at Lopdell House in Auckland and used that occasion to launch a book. The show was called Second Empire, the book Empire. I knew little about the work except that the new show was a development of an earlier series. Naturally (I believe) I assumed the book was of the exhibition. Being in Wellington I haven’t yet seen the show, and it was only some days later, while re-reading Empire that it occurred to me that the work in this book was that of the earlier series. The different titles should have been a giveaway but... some days I’m a bit slow.