What's on at the Cultural Precinct

A photographic display titled 'Up Close and Personal - Take a Closer Look...Beauty is Everywhere'.  Many beautiful flowers are overlooked due to their size and form.  Through the use of photography, those that view the display will be introduced to flowers they wouldn't normally notice.

Working behind the scenes in museums and galleries throughout New Zealand with his large-format camera, Neil Pardington brings to light the hidden collection storage spaces that are normally closed to the public.

His gathered results (here thirty-five large-scale framed photographic works) hold a strong natural fascination as storehouses of memory or places filled with mystifying treasure.

The unclothed human figure is one of art’s oldest subjects, yet it still catches attention and ignites debate.

This exhibition brings together dozens of bodies from the collection, from languid academic nudes to the fragmented bodies of recent art.

Along the way, the exhibition charts the growing tension between the nude and the naked – between works of art that idealise the body and those that try to tell it like it is.

In Scoot, painter and graphic designer Earl Tutty reveals his long-standing passion and commitment to superb industrial design, in a new series of works that extol the virtues, culture and life-style of the Vespa scooter.