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Aotearoa Art Fair: A selection II

John Daly-Peoples

James Blackie Gallery

Bill Hammond, Snare, $115,000

One of the few Bill Hammond’s available at the Fair

Pontone Gallery

Hwang Seontae, The Space with Sunshine, #1 $25,000

Created with printing, etching  and layering  over an LED light source

Gallery Sally Dunn-Cuthbert

Lisa Reihana, Tupaia’s Ceremony, $145,000

From the major installation Lisa Reihana: Emissaries  The New Zealand’s project for the 57th International Art Exhibition at Venice

Another example of the work can be seen at Gow Langsford Gallery

Redbase Gallery

Shaen Shoamin, Chinese Carp, $960

 Mechanical carp illustrating the consequences of human desire and artificiality

Föenander Galleries 

Roger Mortimer, Pikarere,

One of the artists largest works of fantastical landscapes and watery coasts, people and creatures enact dynamic vignettes of horror and hope

Paul Nache Gallery

Glen Hayward, Whitehall Place, $7500

Carved and painted wooden security camera

Suite Gallery

Richard Lewer, Home Invasion $6000, Love thy neighbour $3000, Drive to the Snow, $6000. Crucifixion $5000, I am Human $3500, Mount Maunganui $5000

Cultural + Co

Simon Cardwell, The Shadow (Edition of 8)

Art which narrates ancient allegories and contemporary fables

Black Door Gallery

Kaye McGarva, Terra D’Ombre III, $13,500

Blurring the boundaries between abstraction and representation, 2D and 3D, photography and painting

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Arts reviewer for thirty years with the National Business Review

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