TAKE 40: THE GILES PETERSON COLLECTION
Contemporary Pacific Rim art at Fresh Gallery Otara, Opens April 16 - May 9 2009
Host: Giles Peterson www.pacificart.co.nz; www.urbanpacific.co.nz ; myspace/
Type: Music/Arts - Exhibit
Network: Global
Start Time: Thursday, April 16, 2009 at 6:00pm
End Time: Saturday, May 9, 2009 at 8:00pm
Location: Fresh Gallery Otara
Street: Otara Shopping mall, South Auckland (near the Library)
Phone: 6492716019
Email: Ema.Tavola@manukau.govt.nz/ giles@pacificart.co.nz

DescriptionTAKE 40: The Giles Peterson Collection
When: 17 april - 9 May 2009
Where? : Fresh Gallery Otara, Shop 5, 46 Fairmall, Otara Town Centre,
South Auckland, New Zealand,

Opening: April 16, 6 -8 pm.
Entry: Free: 40 of the best:

TAKE 40 : is an exhibition of contemporary art from New Zealand and the Pacific Rim from the personal collection of curator and educator Giles Peterson including artwork from Aotearoa, The Cook Islands, Samoa, Tonga, Niue, Hawaii, Papua New Guinea, Mexico and Australia

It features multi – media work including graph art, painting, drawing, animation, hip – hop music video, sculpture, photography, installation, embroidery textile and street fashion.

This show celebrates over fifteen years of independent curating by Giles Peterson that has included landmark exhibitions of national and international significance including Out Of the Blue and Urban Pacific .

Works that have been selected include artists Taryn Beri, Kiwi Biddle, Quinton Carrington, Joanne Currie Nalingu, Matt Dowman, Jenny Fraser, Ian George, Lonnie Hutchinson, John Ioane, Anita Jacobsen,Juse One, Robyn Kahukiwa, Leilani Kake, Emily Karaka, Marlaina Key, Shigeyuki Kihara, Taylor Kingi, Lily Laita, Andy Leleisi'uao, Janet Lilo, Niki Hastings McFall, Lina Marsh, Tracey Moffatt, Rosaria Parazza, Diane Prince, Rosanna Raymond, Marlon Rivers, Lusia Samuelu, Siliga Setoga, David Suine, Taniela Taniela, Tracey Tawhiao, Sopolemalama Filipe Tohi, Glenda Vilisoni and Dennis Japanangka Williams.

check out the new Art All magazine which has a feature on the exhibition

South Auckland curator and lecturer Giles Peterson was born in Papua New Guinea and has devoted the last 15 years and over 40 exhibitions, to bringing the work of Maori and Pacific artists and designers to a wider public (see www.pacificart.co.nz). He regards the exhibitions he curates as catalysts and markers of social change, providing exhibition opportunities in which the artist's voice is given primacy. He is considered a leading international authority on Contemporary Pacific art and contributes to journals such as Art New Zealand, and the Art Asia Pacific Quarterly (New York). Career highlights include: Emerging into the Light (1995); Pacific Dragons – Art of Protest & Promise (1996); By Design (199 ; Heart of the Niu (199 ; Ring of Fire (1999); Body Talk (1999); Island Crossings (2000)- the first exhibition of Contemporary Maori and Pacific art to tour to Australia; a ten city New Zealand museum tour of the exhibition Mauri Ora! – New work by Robyn Kahukiwa (2001-2003); Urban Pacific (2007) for the Auckland Festival AK07 (www.urbanpacific.co.nz) ; and Longitude (2007) at the Art Studio in Rarotonga for the Tautai Contemporary Pacific Arts Trust. Peterson lectures in New Zealand and Pacific Art and Design History and Fashion Theory at Whitecliffe College of Art and Design in Auckland. He has also presented papers at Cambridge University, England, the Peabody Essex Museum in Massachusetts, and the Musee du Quai Branly in Paris, and has judged the Pasifika Festival fashion Event, in Auckland. In February 2009 he will co – chair and speak on a panel on Urban Pacific Art at the CAA 2009 Conference in Los Angeles for the Pacific Art Association, present at the University of California, Santa Cruz, as well as give a public lecture on Contemporary Pacific Art at the De Young Museum, in San Francisco and the University of Hawaii, Man