Exhibitions
BNZ EXHIBITION HALL
Bank of New Zealand Building, 205 Princes Street, Dunedin
This will be the “HQ” and major Exhibition Hall for the entire Festival, hosting static and interactive displays throughout the four days. Internal shop facades will depict the architectural visage of the Exchange area in 1861 and the Cargills Castle Trust have contributed some historical displays including a replica model of Cargill’s Castle in its former glory.
Opening 2.00pm Friday 18th March.
Open Daily 10.00am - 4.00pm Saturday 19th March through to Monday 21st March.
DUNEDIN’S GOLD FOUNDATIONS
The Otago Settlers Museum has mounted a pictorial display depicting the historical importance of the Otago Goldrush to Dunedin’s establishment as a major commercial centre.
SHIRAKEE
'Shirakee' is an oral history exhibition based on memories and photographs of childhood in and around Dunedin’s Walker St, now Carroll St, in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s. Walker Street was a fascinating inner-city world of its own.
To children it was a giant playground full of interesting alleyways and frequented by a gallery of eccentric characters. Chinese and Lebanese customs added colour to life in the street. To outsiders it was considered an unsafe area with unsavoury characters. The Shirakee Exhibition, a project of Presbyterian Support Otago, was first mounted in 1991 and exhibited in Carroll Street.
DUNEDIN’S CHINESE DYNASTY
The profile of Chioe Sew Hoy’s family tree will add understanding to the rich cultural fabric of Dunedin’s early settlers.
DEEDS, DELINQUENTS & DEATH
The Otago District Law Society presents the exhibition that was first mounted to celebrate 125 years of the Society. It covers past and present with genealogies of the oldest law firms and traverse the changes seen in law firms, the courts, training, collegiality, and features personalities in the Society’s history.
TOUR THE BNZ
Take the opportunity to explore the banks original safes and assaying rooms.
PASS THE INGOT
Chris Idour will be crafting Gold Jewellery over the Saturday and Sunday with some traditional equipment incuding a french blow pipe.
19th - 20th March Only
10.00am - 4.00pm
Bank of New Zealand Building
205 Princes St
Dunedin
DEEPLY ‘BITTEN GROUND’
An exhibition which portrays the strikes and strife of miner’s lives and their passage to Otago by artists Pauline Bellamy, Manu Berry, and Max Bellamy.
18th March – 11th April
12.00pm - 5.00pm
Bellamys Gallery
495 Portobello Road
Macandrew Bay, Otago Peninsula
Enquiries: 03 476 1606
Caption: Bell Hill Excavation, 1863. Maclaggan Street runs up the gully, with Canongate on the ridge on its right".
Courtesy of the Otago Settlers Museum.
GUTS, GOD AND GOLD: PROSPECTS IN 1860S DUNEDIN
From a muddy town to a city paved with gold. Witness the turn of fortune through photos, books, letters and newspaper articles gleaned from our Heritage Collection.
18 March – 3rd July
Monday to Friday 9.30am -8.00pm
Saturday and Sunday 11.00am –4.00pm (Closed Mon 21 March)
Dunedin City Library - Reed Gallery, 3rd Floor
Enquiries: Library@dcc.govt.nz
03 474 3690
"REFER TO GOLD FIELDS SECRETARY: ADMINISTRATION OF THE OTAGO GOLD FIELDS”
This exhibition highlights the archival collections of the Otago Provincial Government and Lawrence Warden's Court and their roles in managing the gold rushes. The presence of the Chinese on the gold fields will also be explored.
A film programme will run alongside the exhibition. This will have films relating to the discovery of gold and Otago.
Friday 18th March - Friday 15th April
9.30am - 5.00pm
Archives New Zealand
556 George Street Dunedin
03 477 0404
dunedin@archives.govt.nz
BELOVED: WORKS FROM THE DUNEDIN PUBLIC ART GALLERY
Many of the most significant works of art in the Gallery’s collection were given by generous donors, including in recent times, the gift by Mary, Dora and Esmond de Beer. In 1982 they gave over 172 works, including a painting by Monet and the Gallery’s oldest picture, an Italian painting on panel with gold leaf made about 1340-1350.
The de Beer family, and their relations the Hallensteins, came to Dunedin for the gold rush. Having made their fortunes here, they subsequently returned the good will by giving the city their family’s treasures.
Their gifts, and many more works are currently on display in Beloved, an exhibition designed to showcase the best of the collection and to celebrate the 125th Anniversary of the founding of the Dunedin Public Art Gallery, New Zealand’s oldest, finest public art gallery.
10.00am-5.00pm
Dunedin Public Art Gallery
30 The Octagon
Enquiries: 03 474 3240
TE PŪTAHITANGA Ō REHUA
Reuben Paterson’s first digital animation: this stunningly beautiful work explores optical abstraction, offering viewers a kaleidoscopic infinity of pattern. With references within New Zealand art to Maori kowhaiwhai designs and the paintings of Gordon Walters, the work also makes an informed reference to modernist international abstraction, while also reflecting the artist’s view that his images are ‘a composite of real places invested with the life force of whenua.’
Opening 19 March 2011
10.00am-5.00pm
Dunedin Public Art Gallery
30 The Octagon
Enquiries: 03 474 3240
DVD ART IN THE MAKING: ITALIAN PAINTING BEFORE 1400
DVD Art in the Making: Italian Painting before 1400 (G 20min). Filmed in Siena and at The National Gallery, London, this video examines the methods and techniques of Tuscan panel paintings of the fourteenth century including gilding and tempera painting.
Saturday 19th and Monday 21st March
3.00pm
Dunedin Public Art Gallery
30 The Octagon
Enquiries: 03 474 3240
‘PRESENCE’ ARTIST IN THE TERMINAL
At Dunedin International Airport the rich abstractions of Dunedin based Contemporary Abstract artist Rob Piggott are greeting travellers as they pass through the terminal. Piggott’s intention is to produce visual and spatial qualities that will enhance and humanize the artificially 'functional' airport environment. The paintings, mainly large works on canvas, are selected from various series over the past decade of this prolific artist's work and have been chosen to resonate with both the architecture and the flow of movement throughout the airport. Piggott says each painting will have it's own special 'gift', for those who take the time to look.
27th January - 25th March
Dunedin International Airport
GOLD MINING MEMORABILIA
An exhibition of the Gold Mining memorabilia from the collections of the Port Chalmers Maritime Museum.
18 March – 30th April
Monday to Friday 10.00am – 3.00pm
Saturday 11.00am - 3.00pm
Sunday 1.30pm-4.30pm
Port Chalmers Maritime Museum
19 Beach St, Port Chalmers
Visit www.portmuseum.org.nz
"GOLD" - PAST AND PRESENT
Waikouaiti Museum’s exhibition commemorates the discovery of gold and its impact on Waikouaiti. You can view artefacts from Otago’s gold mining past including a Cobb and Co. stagecoach gold bag which would have been transported under armed guard to the Waikouaiti BNZ.
From the present, Oceana Gold has facilitated an informative display about today’s gold mining practices at Macraes Mine.
Waikouaiti Museum
2nd March -30 April.
2pm to 4pm Wednesday -Sunday
Jewellers
GOLDFINGER
Lure jewellers present gold rings, one off works created especially for ‘Layers of Gold’.
16th March to 26th March
12.00pm - 5.00pm weekdays
11.00am -2.00pm Saturday
130 Stuart St
Dunedin
THIS GOLDEN TIME OF YEAR
This is a rare opportunity to view, under one roof, many of Dunedin jeweller, Chris Idour‘s, major exhibition pieces that have spent many months being exhibited in galleries all over New Zealand.
This exhibition is being displayed at the BNZ HQ, Princes Street.
Friday 18th till Monday the 21st March
Open from 2.00pm Friday and 10.00am - 4.00pm Saturday to Monday
Visit www.jewellerybyidour.co.nz
GOLDEN I
View the works of classically trained jeweller Iain Henderson as he incorporates his jewellery into modern day themes as seen through his eyes.
Friday 18th & Monday 21st March 9.00am - 5.00pm
Saturday 19 10.00am - 3.00pm
326 George St
