The address for postal bookings for events is: The Secretary, Friends of the Auckland Art Gallery, PO Box 5449, Wellesley Street, Auckland.

Telephone: 307 7705 - Email: galleryfriends@aucklandartgallery.govt.nz

Please bring your membership card to all events.

Tickets are only issued for paid events

Telephone credit card bookings available

More details of events available from the Friends' Secretary.

The Friends of the gallery welcome Members and Non- members to all events.

Coming events

August | September | October | November

August

Wednesday 6 August, 6.00 for 6.15pm
The Friends Renaissance Art Lecture Series by Mary Kisler.
Lecture 3 - More than just a meal – the symbolism of food in classical and Renaissance art.
Auckland City Library. Lorne Street.
Numbers are limited so please book early to avoid disappointment.
RSVP by Monday 4 August
Members $15 per lecture or $80 for the series. Students $10 per lecture. Non-members $20 per lecture.

Future dates for The Friends Renaissance Art lecture Series by Mary Kisler.
Lecture 4 - August 20 Stitched stories - The hidden history of Louise de Kéroualle's court dress.
Lecture 5 - September 3 Politics, power and the saintly body.
Lecture 6 - September 17 Women Artists in the Renaissance.

Tuesday 12 August
10.30am
Visit to an Artist Studio
A visit to the studio of sculptor Greer Twiss in Ponsonby. Greer has had a successful career spanning four decades. His work is represented in major public and private collections. Numbers are limited so please book early to avoid disappointment.
Meet outside Greer Twiss's studio. (Address on ticket.)
Members only. No charge.
RSVP by Thursday 7 August.

Monday 18 August
6.15 for 6.30pm
Pat Hanly Student Membership Awards Evening
The annual award ceremony for Year 13 art students nominated by the secondary schools throughout Auckland.
Foyer of the New Gallery, Upper Khartoum Place
By invitation only.

Wednesday 20 August
6.00 for 6.15pm
The Friends' Renaissance Art Lecture Series by Mary Kisler
Lecture Four "Stitched stories – the hidden history of Louise de Keroualle's court dress". When we look at historic paintings we often are unaware how what looks like a frock to die for, is in fact a cleverly coded sign of one young naughty miss's place in life.
Second Floor of Central City Library, Lorne Street.
Members $15 Student Members $10 Non-Members $20
NOTE $4 discount parking at Victoria Street car park after 6pm. Park then pick up your discount voucher from the library.

Wednesday 27 August
6.00 for 6.15pm
54th Annual General Meeting of the Friends of the Auckland Art Gallery Incorporated
Art Lounge, entrance on lower Khartoum Place, Lorne Street.
All members are welcome to attend.
RSVP by Tuesday 26 August.

September

Wednesday 3 September
6.00 for 6.15pm
The Friends' Renaissance Art Lecture Series by Mary Kisler
Lecture Five "Politics, power and the saintly body." For men and women who chose the ascetic life, controlling the body was the means of attaining a place within the state. But spurning the world of the flesh had its negative side...
Second Floor of Central City Library, Lorne Street
Members $15 Student Members $10 Non-Members $20
NOTE $4 discount parking at Victoria Street car park after 6pm. Park then pick up your discount voucher from the library.

Wednesday 17 September
6.00 for 6.15pm
The Friends' Renaissance Art Lecture Series by Mary Kisler
Lecture Six "Women artists in the Renaissance". While Renaissance texts suggest that women had neither the brains nor talent for wielding the brush or mallet, being more genetically disposed towards weaving and spinning, scholarship in the last thirty years has suggested that the story doesn't quite go like that.
Second Floor of Central City Library, Lorne Street.
Members $15 Student Members $10 Non-Members $20
NOTE $4 discount parking at Victoria Street car park after 6pm. Park then pick up your discount voucher from the library.

Tuesday 23 September
1.00pm
Curator's Tour – The Walters Prize 2008
Senior Curator Ron Brownson will talk to us in the exhibition which features work by the four finalists for The Walters Prize – Edith Amituanai, Lisa Reihana, John Reynolds and Peter Robinson. The $50,000 Walters Prize is awarded for an outstanding contribution to contemporary art in New Zealand in the past two years.
Meet in the foyer of the New Gallery, Upper Khartoum place.
Members no charge. Non-Members $10.
RSVP by Monday 22 September.

Saturday 27 September
11.00am
Art Walk to V2- instruments of art
Join us for a walk that combines art and music. The Guild of the Auckland Philharmonic has organised a fund-raising event which entails 13 artists turning a violin into a work of art and they will be on display from 15 to 30 September at galleries around Auckland. We visit three galleries in the central city: Oedipus Rex, where Joanna Fieldes' violin will be shown; Gow Langsford, where we can see Billy Apples's work; and Anna Miles, where Mary Louise Browne's work will be on display.
Meet outside the New Gallery, Upper Khartoum Place.
Members no charge. Non-Members $10.
RSVP by Thursday 25 September.

October

Thursday 2 October
Noon – 2.00pm
Celebrity Lunch with Alexa Johnston
Alexa was a curator at the Auckland Art Gallery for nineteen years and is now a freelance curator, arts commentator and writer. Alexa will talk to us about her varied career and her new book "Ladies, A Plate" to be launched this September. Copies of the book will be on sale for Alexa to sign. Numbers are limited so please book early to avoid disappointment.
Art Lounge, entrance on Lower Khartoum place, Lorne Street.
Members $30. Non-Members $35.
RSVP by Monday 29 September.

Wednesday 15 October
10.30am
Behind the Scenes with Registrar David Reeves
What is a registrar? And what do they do? David Reeves, senior registrar at the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki, will give an illustrated talk on the varied transport, storage and documentation problems that registrars work on behind the scenes, and without which no collections could be shown. This will be a highly informative talk, taking us behind the scenes of the gallery.
Art Lounge, Lorne Street, entrance on lower Khartoum Place
Members no charge. Non-Members $10.
RSVP by Tuesday 14 October.

Tuesday 21 October
6.00 for 6.15pm
Curator's Evening Tour – In Shifting Light
Senior curator Ron Brownson will talk to us in the newly opened exhibition, In Shifting Light. curated by Ron, this exhibition from the Gallery's collection will explore notions of landscape, light and time. Wine and savouries will be served.
Meet in the foyer of the New Gallery, Upper Khartoum Place
Members $5 Non-members $15 RSVP by Thursday 16 October.

November

Saturday 1 November
11.00am
Art Walk
Visit to two dealer galleries. First visit will be to FHE Galleries where director Kathlene Fogarty will talk about the current exhibition by glass artist Ann Robinson, and then we will go down to the new Gow Langsford Gallery in Lorne Street to view the work of Australian artist Dale Frank. Members no charge.
Meet outside the New Gallery, Upper Khartoum Place.
Non-Members $10.
RSVP by Thursday 30 October.