2009 Programme

Aroha Novak and Elise O'Neill: Expensive Rubbish | Elspeth Fougere: Here, There and Everywhere (We are a Community of Cells) | 1 Dec 09 - 24 Dec 09

The Blue Oyster is pleased to present Elise O'Neill and Aroha Novak | Expensive Rubbish and Elspeth Fougere | Here, There and Everywhere (We are a Community of Cells). Using handmade and recycling methods O'Neill, Novak and Fougere are part of an international resurgence of a craft and do-it-yourself ethos, which has grown in response to current economic and environmental conditions. The exhibitions will open on Tuesday 1 December at 5:30pm and run until 24 December.
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Matthew Hammond: */Journey/* | Hamish Tocher: Overhead Project (Villa of the Mysteries) | 3 Nov - 28 Nov

The Blue Oyster is pleased to present Matthew Hammond | */Journey/ * and Hamish Tocher | Overhead Project (Villa of the Mysteries). In quite different ways Hammond and Tocher both interrogate the conventions and modi operandi of photography. The exhibitions will open on Tuesday 3 November at 5:30pm and will run until Sat 28 November.
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Heather Straka | Hannah Riley | 6 Oct - 31 Oct

Blue Oyster is pleased to present Heather Straka | Do Not Resuscitate and Hannah Riley | Still Occupants. With strong macabre overtones Straka and Riley explore the seductive and sometimes humorous possibilities of the abject. The exhibitions will open on Tuesday 6 October at 5:30pm and will close on Halloween.
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TENTH ANNIVERSARY | 8 Sep - 3 Oct 09

Dunedin's only dedicated experimental art project space is turning 10!  In celebration of a decade of continuous busyness the Blue Oyster Art Project Space is launching a reflective exhibition and publication on Tuesday 8 September 2009. But, to get the festivities started we are throwing a 10th Anniversary Party (themed in the traditional anniversary material - tin), on Friday 4 September.
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Martyn Reynolds: Samuel Georgia Oscar / Turning back and forth | Eva Wuerdinger: replace | 11 Aug - 2 Sep

The Blue Oyster is pleased to present Martyn Reynolds: Samuel Georgia Oscar / Turning back and forth and Eva Wuerdinger: replace. Through different methods Reynolds and Wuerdinger explore the way space is defined through temporal and shifting negotiations of use and materiality. The exhibitions will open on Tuesday 11 August at 5:30pm and will run until Wednesday 2 September.
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Justine Walker: Is this Enough? | Cathy Helps: Interface | Boris Dornbusch: Paviljon Marinum | 14 Jul 09 - 8 Aug 09

The Blue Oyster is pleased to present works by Justine Walker, Boris Dornbusch and Cathy Helps that explore lives lived through, constructed by or remembered because of the screen. The exhibitions will open on Tuesday 14 July at 5:30pm and will run until Saturday 8 August.
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Anya Sinclair and Alan Ibell: Future Girl and Tales from the Interior | Markus Hofko: Islands | 16 Jun - 11 Jul 09

The Blue Oyster is pleased to present Anya Sinclair and Alan Ibell: Future Girl and Tales from the Interior and Markus Hofko: Islands 'You and Me – A Second and a Lifetime'. Hofko, Sinclair and Ibell explore the construction of imagined realities as a way to interrogate issues arising in everyday life, through the way belief systems, fears and desires are revealed in the content of fantasies. The exhibitions will open on Tuesday 16 June at 5:30pm and will run until Saturday 11 July.
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Emma Morgan: Aural Hysteric | Kate Boocock: Onward! | 19 May - 13 June

The Blue Oyster is pleased to present Aural Hysteric by Melbourne based artist Emma Morgan and Onward! by Wellington based artist Kate Boocock. The exhibitions will open on Tuesday 19 May at 5:30pm and will run until Saturday 13 June.
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Instructional Models | 21 Apr - 16 May

The Blue Oyster Gallery is pleased to present Instructional Models; a propositional exhibition instigated by Terri Bird and Julie Davies, in association with the artist-run initiatives Ocular Lab and Clubsproject Inc. in Melbourne, and facilitated by Neil Emmerson Head of Print Studio at the Otago Polytechnic School of Art.
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Sylvia Schwenk: They paved paradise, put up a parking lot | 24 Mar - 18 Apr

The Blue Oyster Gallery is pleased to present the exhibition They paved paradise, put up a parking lot by Australian artist Sylvia Schwenk. The exhibition is a performance, photographic and installation based body of work showing off the latest footwear and fashion needed for global warming. A performance of Boots for Rising Waters, will see women modelling gumboots with black stilt-like fixtures on their base, on the opening night of the exhibition; Tuesday 24 March at 5.30pm. The exhibition runs from Tues 24 March to Sat 18 April at the Blue Oyster Gallery 24b Moray Pl, Dunedin - Free Entry.
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The Grad Show | 24 Feb - 21 Mar

The Blue Oyster Gallery is thrilled to present our annual 'Grad Show', featuring a sample of innovative and intriguing art works by the 2008 graduates of the Otago Polytechnic School of Art. Eight artists have been selected to present works from their final assessment exhibition, and many have been inspired to create new pieces especially for this show.
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Hello Lamb: The Perspectives of Elsewhere | 27 Jan - 21 Feb

The Blue Oyster Gallery Dunedin's first show for 2009 will be a Japanese - New Zealand collaboration The Perspectives of Elsewhere.  The exhibition will open on 27 January at 5.30 pm with the launch of a publication documenting the project.
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