‘Unnerved: The NZ Project’
May 2010 -
Jul 2010
Holdings of contemporary work from New Zealand have grown rapidly since the early 1990s, partly through increased awareness and interest in the Asia Pacific Triennial exhibitions.
‘Unnerved’ explores a particularly rich dark vein that recurs in New Zealand contemporary art and cinema. Psychological or physical unease pervades many works in the exhibition, with humour, parody and poetic subtlety among the strategies used by artists across generations and genres.
Major sculptures by Michael Parekowhai, installations by Lisa Reihana and Michael Stevenson and photographic series by Yvonne Todd, Anne Noble and Greg Semu are featured alongside video art by Sriwhana Spong and Nathan Pohio.
‘Unnerved’ included works fromthe QAGOMA Collection as well as works on loan. Find out more about Collection works featured this exhibition below.
‘Unnerved’ was on display across the Gallery of Modern Art from 1 May to 4 Jul 2010.
Feature image: Michael Parekowhai / Jim McMurtry 2004 installed for ‘Unnerved’, GOMA, April 2010 / Courtesy: The artist and Michael Lett, Auckland / Photograph: N Harth, QAGOMA
Collection artworks featured in ‘Unnerved: The NZ Project’
Daughter of the high chief (from 'Savage nobility' series) 2001, printed 2004
- COLE, Duncan - Photographer
- KIHARA, Yuki - Concept developer
Tama and his vahine (from 'Savage nobility' series) 2001, printed 2004
- COLE, Duncan - Photographer
- KIHARA, Yuki - Concept developer
The high chief and his subjects (from 'Savage nobility' series) 2001, printed 2004
- COLE, Duncan - Photographer
- KIHARA, Yuki - Concept developer
Three sisters (from 'Savage nobility' series) 2001, printed 2004
- COLE, Duncan - Photographer
- KIHARA, Yuki - Concept developer
Table leg 1982, printed 2002
- CULBERT, Bill - Creator
Sunset III 1992
- CULBERT, Bill - Creator
Balls 1990/92/94/97
- GIMBLETT, Max - Creator
Brisbane - 3 1993
- GIMBLETT, Max - Creator
Bat (from 'Liliu' series) 2007
- HOOPER, Julian - Creator
Cinco 2002
- HUTCHINSON, Lonnie - Creator
Ruby's room no. 6 1999
- NOBLE, Anne - Creator
Ruby's room no. 10 2000
- NOBLE, Anne - Creator
Ruby's room no. 16 2001
- NOBLE, Anne - Creator
Ruby's room no. 17 2001
- NOBLE, Anne - Creator
Ruby's room no. 22 2002
- NOBLE, Anne - Creator
Ruby's room no. 33 2005
- NOBLE, Anne - Creator
Feeling the burn 2006
- ORAM, James - Creator
Wha tekau ma tahi Auhunga Heitiki, Okains Bay Maori and Colonial Museum, Okains Bay, South Island, Aotearoa/New Zealand Heitiki made by a Parihaka ploughman imprisoned in Dunedin (from 'Te mate o te aroha/The pain of longing' series) (from 'Quai Branly' 2002, printed 2006
- PARDINGTON, Fiona - Creator
Acts II 1994
- PAREKŌWHAI, Michael - Creator
The Horn of Africa 2006
- PAREKŌWHAI, Michael - Creator
Kapa Haka (Whero) 2003
- PAREKŌWHAI, Michael - Creator
Chewing brothers 2005
- PATTERSON, Campbell - Creator
Dead steer 1987
- PERYER, Peter - Creator
Marsden cross 1994
- PERYER, Peter - Creator
Landfall of a spectre 2007
- POHIO, Nathan - Creator
Untitled 1998
- PULE, John - Creator
A Maori dragon story 1995
- REIHANA, Lisa - Creator
Digital Marae 2001
- REIHANA, Lisa - Creator
The colander 1967
- SMITHER, Michael - Creator
Candlestick Park 2006
- SPONG, Sriwhana - Creator
Too artistic to drive 1996
- STEVENSON, Michael - Creator
January 2006
- TODD, Yvonne - Creator
O Tamaiti 1996
- URALE, Sima - Creator
Still Life 2001
- URALE, Sima - Creator
Alice Bayke 2008
- TODD, Yvonne - Designer
- VICTORIAN TAPESTRY WORKSHOP - Workshop
- BATTEN, Sue - Weaver
- CORNALL, Amy - Weaver