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_{Installation view: Matt Ellwood: Prototypes for blind contour drawing apparatus, 21 Feb 2024 - 06 Apr 2024. Photo: Stephen Cleland}

Matt Ellwood’s exhibition brings together two contrasting approaches to drawing. His ongoing series of realist charcoal works replicate and juxtapose imagery gleaned from the advertising sections in high-profile international art magazines, and these are brought into conversation with a series of new sculptures designed to aid the production of blind contour drawings. Seen together, the installation explores contrasting constraints on the act of drawing while implicating the larger mechanisms that shape the art world. On the night of the opening, a drawing performance enacting the sculptures will begin at 5.30pm.

_{Image:  Still from The Directors, Marcus Coates, 2022. Courtesy of Artangel.}

Te Wai Ngutu Kākā is pleased to participate in staging UK artist Marcus Coates’ ambitious film, The Directors (2022). Presented by Te Tuhi in association with the Auckland Arts Festival, The Directors consists of five unique films, each presented at a single inner city location and focusing on five individuals’ lived experiences of psychosis.

Mark Banham, Lucy Dempster, Anthony Donohoe, Marcus Gordon, and Stephen Groves each choose a place of significance where they direct Coates to play themselves as they voice instructions off camera. Commissioned by Artangel in London, UK and originally screened in five locations in and around Churchill Gardens Estate in the London borough of Pimlico, Te Tuhi's collaboration with Artangel mirrors the same format and presents the project in five central Auckland locations.

Screening hours: Thursday and Friday, 1pm–6pm
Saturday and Sunday, 11am–4pm