Presence: New Acquisitions and Works from the Collection

Since the mid-1960s the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery has been building a strong permanent collection of work from Aotearoa New Zealand and the Pacific. Presence: New Acquisitions and Collection Focus features important new acquisitions by photographers Mark Adams and Peter Peryer alongside Lisa Reihana’s haunting stop-frame animation, A Maori Dragon Story, earlier photography by Fiona Pardington and a sculptural wall work by Jacqueline Fraser that addresses a colonial legacy of cultural repression. Also included are large-scale installation works such as the interactive Star by Hiroyuki Matsukage that plays on celebrity adulation, and Selflok, an accumulative and fantastical work by Sydney-based Egyptian artist Hany Armanious.