Group show
Manufacturing Meaning: The University of Wellington Art Collection Context
curated by Christina Barton
21 September 1999 – 31 January 2000
The inaugural exhibition of the Adam Art Gallery Manufacturing Meaning showcased ten key works from the university collection, spanning a period from the 1930s to the present. The works of Frances Hodgkins, John Weeks, Gordon Walters, Colin McCahon, Ralph Hotere, Michael Smither, Jacqueline Fahey, Richard Killeen, John Pule and Peter Peryer were each presented in relation to the artist’s practice or ideas and issues raised by the work, and each was accompanied by a catalogue.
Manufacturing Meaning offered important new insights into the history of New Zealand art, through the research and presentation of selected critical thinkers–curators, art historians, writers and artists Elizabeth Eastmond, Linda Tyler, Damian Skinner/ Ngarino Ellis, Ewen McDonald, Jack Body and David Crossan, Stuart McKenzie, Anna Miles, Greg Burke, Lisa Taouma, and David Maskill.
Installation view, Manufacturing Meaning: The University of Wellington Art Collection Context, Adam Art Gallery Te Pātaka Toi, Victoria University of Wellington, 2000
Installation view, Manufacturing Meaning: The University of Wellington Art Collection Context, Adam Art Gallery Te Pātaka Toi, Victoria University of Wellington, 2000
Antoine-Joseph Dézallier d’Argenville, L’histoire naturelle éclaircie dans deux de ses parties principals, la lithogie et la conchyliogie, 1742, illustrated book. Collection of the Institute of Geological Sciences Ltd, Wellington.
Installation view, Manufacturing Meaning: The University of Wellington Art Collection Context, Adam Art Gallery Te Pātaka Toi, Victoria University of Wellington, 2000
Installation view, Manufacturing Meaning: The University of Wellington Art Collection Context, Adam Art Gallery Te Pātaka Toi, Victoria University of Wellington, 2000
Installation view, Manufacturing Meaning: The University of Wellington Art Collection Context, Adam Art Gallery Te Pātaka Toi, Victoria University of Wellington, 2000
Installation view, Manufacturing Meaning: The University of Wellington Art Collection Context, Adam Art Gallery Te Pātaka Toi, Victoria University of Wellington, 2000
Installation view, Manufacturing Meaning: The University of Wellington Art Collection Context, Adam Art Gallery Te Pātaka Toi, Victoria University of Wellington, 2000
Installation view, Manufacturing Meaning: The University of Wellington Art Collection Context, Adam Art Gallery Te Pātaka Toi, Victoria University of Wellington, 2000
Installation view, Manufacturing Meaning: The University of Wellington Art Collection Context, Adam Art Gallery Te Pātaka Toi, Victoria University of Wellington, 2000