Mark Amery

Mark Amery finds lots to think about in a show about time and place at The Dowse, Local Knowledge.

A group of male artists prove a sense of humour and good artwork can go together in Never Mind the Pollocks, on at Suite Gallery in Wellington.

As part of The Big Idea’s celebration of ten years online, we challenged critic Mark Amery to sum up those years in the visual arts - in writing.

Mark Amery professes his love for a puddle in Civic Square - part of City Gallery Wellington’s Prospect exhibition.

Mark Amery reviews the 20th Wallace Art Awards exhibition at The Dowse Art Museum in Lower Hutt.

A new exhibition by Shane Cotton sees him both looking back and pulling everything apart to start again, says Mark Amery.

Old School New School is smart and information packed, but it's also dense and overloaded, says Mark Amery.

Mark Amery considers exhibitions that put art back into public circulation.

Mark Amery considers the role of the arts during the Rugby World Cup.

Mark Amery visits New Plymouth for the Len Lye All Souls Carnival; the first time Lye's kinetic steel sculpture, films and painting have filled Govett Brewster since 1977.

Mark Amery marks the passing of one artist, Gordon Crook, and the emergence of another, Liyen Chong

Mark Amery on a range of interesting exhibitions popping up in difficult to access places.

Crystal City at the Dowse Art Museum makes us look at the world anew across cultures and countries, writes Mark Amery in his latest visual arts column.

Wellington should spend less funding on giant Weta paperweights and gargantuan Wellywood signs, and more investing in the plethora of strong emerging artists, writes Mark Amery.

Geoffrey H Short makes an explosive debut as an artist in Wellington, alongside other photographers making fresh interpretations of landscape says Mark Amery in his latest visual arts column.

A new exhibition at Te Papa puts a dim spotlight on Te Papa’s contemporary art collecting, writes Mark Amery.

Inspired by the landscape and art around her, and the small world structures she and we built as children, Joanna Langford makes the sublime romantic landscape of dreams tangible and human.

Tender is the Night at City Gallery Wellington teases out art’s ability to get under the skin of the platitudes we hear in popular culture about love.

This month Wellington dealer galleries welcome an unprecedented number of exhibitions from out of town, writes Mark Amery.

Amelia Pascoe has much to say about our relationship to nature through her bringing together of jewellery and pinhole photography.