Necessary distraction
Subtitle: a painting show
By: curator and commissioning editor Natasha Conland ; editor Clare McIntosh
Contributors: Stanhope, Zara, writer of added text; Smith, Allan, writer of added commentary; Cunnane, Abby, interviewer; Auckland Art Gallery
Publisher: Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Auckland, New Zealand
Language: eng
Number of pages: 223
ISBN-13: 9780864633064
Subjects: New Zealand Painting; Exhibitions
Description: "Discover a new vigour in recent New Zealand painting in this ambitious multi-artist exhibition. Responding to the question 'What can painting offer that other art forms cannot?', the artworks selected and commissioned for this survey share a focus on material and form, and are deliberately open ended. Through suggestion and proposition, the artists invite us into conversations that, rather than being constrained by the ties of narrative painting, are speculative and forward-looking. Experience diverse work by 20 established and emerging painters and witness a future for painting that's still in the making."--Publisher description.
Notes: Essays by Natasha Conland, Dr Zara Stanhope, Allan Smith and an interview with artists conducted by Abby Cunnane.

"Published ... on the occasion of the exhibition Necessary Distraction : a Painting Show at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki 28 November 2015 - 28 March 2016"--Colophon.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Director's foreword  -- Rhana Devenport; title: If I would ... a necessary distraction  -- Natasha Conland; title: Little by little, soon a rich cloth: painting everywhere and everytime  -- Allan Smith; title: An anxious medium  -- Dr Zara Stanhope; title: Artists: Andrew Barber, Nick Austin, Julian Hooper, Kim Pieters, Kirstin Carlin & Emma Fitts, Saskia Leek, Oliver Perkins, Stella Corkery, Patrick Lundberg, Dan Arps, Simon Ingram, Ngataiharuru Taepa, Jeena Shin, Adrienne Vaughan, Barbara Tuck, Milli Jannides, Anoushka Akel, Nicola Farquhar, James Cousins.; title: A conversation between Milli Jannides, Anoushka Akel, Kirstin Carlin, Emma Fitts and Abby Cunnane.