She was also responsible for a programme of high profile overseas exhibitions of key international artists such as Yayoi Kusama, Robert Mapplethorpe and Frida Khalo.
[1] Here she oversaw the redevelopment of the former Wellington Public Library Building in collaboration with architect Stuart Gardyne[2] and the Gallery's relocation in 1993.
[3] To open the refurbished building, Gregory Burke curated an exhibition by the German artist Rosemarie Trockel.
[12] Art curator and writer Justin Paton said of the exhibition, 'what stays with you after you leave this show is a sense of high-heartedness, even intimacy: against a backdrop of world events as awful as any have been, the objects sing out like flowers in a bombsite.’ [13] 2000 Parihaka: The Art of Passive Resistance was a partnership between the City Gallery and Parihaka Pā Trustees.
The Gelmans lived in Mexico who owned, 'an outstandingly fine group' of 20th-century European paintings and sculptures They were also patrons, friends and collectors of Kahlo and Rivera.
Shown in partnership with Te Papa, the exhibition was delivered across the two institutions by curators Gregory O'Brien, Paula Savage, Reuben Friend and Abby Cunnane.
[25] The Chief Censor's office finally applied an R18 rating (which the Gallery had already implemented) along with instructions that the catalogue had to be sold in a sealed plastic bag.
Savage claimed the Christian Heritage Party and the protest group City Gallery Watch were responsible for the low attendance figures.