Robert Leonard

Contemporary Art Writer And Curator

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Selected Writings

2024

Miguel Aquilizan: Mutagenesis
Sarah Poulgrain: Take Me to the River
Ralph Hotere: Taranaki Gate Stations

2023

Brent Harris: Hidden Figures
Michael Zavros: The Devil’s in the Detail
The Last Word
Kathy Barry: Within You Without You
Anselm Kiefer Has Left the Building
Tia Ranginui: My Other’s Other

2022

Brett Graham: Art of Forbearance
Divergent
Brent Wong: Twilight Zone
Brett Graham: Ark of Forbearance
Julian Dashper: Are You Talking to Me?
Yvonne Todd and Geoffrey Heath: Mould in the Lens
John and Jane
Simon Ingram with Terrestrial Assemblages: Machine in the Garden
Venice for Beginners
Zac Langdon-Pole: Hurry Slowly
John Currin: Part of the Problem
John Lethbridge: Escape the Flames

2021

Robin White: The Tide Turns
Telly Tuita: Telly Vision
Brett Graham: Written on the Wind
Florian Habicht: Everything Is Kapai
Andrew Beck: Photography Backwards
Judy Millar: Paint, Canvas, Action
Julian Dashper: Autumn 1989
Yona Lee: Fix and Fit
Tia Ranginui: Gonville Gothic
In Memory of Bill Hammond 1947–2021
Wellness versus Art
Susan King: Address Unknown
Michael Zavros: Zeus/Zavros

2020

Zac Langdon-Pole: Containing Multitudes
Isabella Loudon: Concrete Mixer
Zac Langdon-Pole: Rabbit Hole
Kirsty Lillico: Let Me Tell You About My Mother
Steve Carr: Taking the Fun out of Fireworks
Explaining Peter Peryer to a Dead Hare
Stuart Ringholt: Committing Time
John Stezaker: A Ship’s Steering Wheel and a Hangman’s Noose
Gavin Hipkins: No Place (Like Home)

2019

Brent Harris: Sincere Disconnect
Colin McCahon: Numerals
City Chief
Stanley Kubrick: 2001
Patrick Pound: Slender Threads

2018

Questioning Revolt
The People vs. Kelley Walker
Eva Rothschild: The Difference a K Makes
Patrick Pound: The Collector’s Shadow
Jono Rotman: Our Enduring Image of Strength
This Is New Zealand
Ian Scott: Enzed Dead Zone

2017

Gavin Hipkins: The Revenant
John Stezaker: Twice Removed
Michael Parekowhai: The Empire of Light
Colin McCahon: On Going Out with the Tide

2016

Gavin Hipkins: Wives Are Scarce
Mikala Dwyer: Psychoplastic
Corita Kent: Sister Act
Laith McGregor: Ramblin’ Man
Francis Upritchard: Adrift in Otherness
Fifteen Minutes, Twenty Years Later: Ann Shelton’s Redeye
Cindy Sherman: Everything and Its Opposite
Julian Dashper: Nothing Personal
When Artists Die
Bullet Time
Michael Zavros: Daddy’s Girl
Jacky Redgate: What Ever Happened to Baby Jacky?

2015

Julian Dashper & Friends
Love Not Given Lightly
City Mission
Feel the Love in Venice
Simon Denny: Too Much Information
Steve Carr: Annabel

2014

Yvonne Todd: Cult Appeal
Viviane Sassen: Detail in the Shadows
Mikala Dwyer: Drawing Down the Moon
Promiscuous Collaborator
Stuart Ringholt: The Artist Will Be Naked
Curnow’s Leverage
Simon Starling: Please Explain
Ocula Conversation
Michael Zavros: What Now?

2013

Shane Cotton: The Treachery of Images
Geek Moment
On Curating
Craig Walsh: Elephant in the Room

2012

Re-Reading Julian Dashper’s The Big Bang Theory
Nostalgia for Intimacy
Don Driver 1930–2011

2011

Peter Madden: Orgasm and Trauma
Damiano Bertoli
Judy Millar
Unnerved: The New Zealand Project
Michael Zavros: Charm Offensive

2010

Peter Robinson: Gravitas Lite
APT6: Nice Show
Scott Redford: It’s Complicated
Feminism Never Happened
Michael Stevenson: Gift Horse
Scott Redford vs. Michael Zavros
Taryn Simon’s Known Unknowns

2009

Vernon Ah Kee: Your Call
Biennale Makers
Hamish Keith: The Big Picture
Julian Dashper 1960–2009
Tomorrow Will Be the Same but Not as This Is
Jemima Wyman: The Declaration of Resemblance and Fluid Insurgents

2008

Hello Darkness: New Zealand Gothic
Vivian Lynn’s Playground Series
Archives Become Him: The Giovanni Intra Archive
The Dating Show
Diena Georgetti: Parallel Existence

2007

Katharina Grosse: Mist and Mud
Julian Dashper: Mural for a Contemporary House 4
Scott Redford: Pop Haiku
Grey Water
Yvonne Todd: Why Beige?

2006

Jim Speers: Outdoor Cinema
Curator/Surfer
Gordon Walters: Form Becomes Sign
Et Al.’s Neo-Brutalist Playground
Hany Armanious: Catalogue of Errors

2005

Mixed-Up Childhood
Yvonne Todd
Michael Smither: Print Friendly
AES+F: We Are the World, We Are the Children
Stella Brennan: History Curator
Michael Parekowhai: Kapa Haka Pakaka
At the End of New Zealand Art
Judy Millar: I … Would Like to Express
Ian Scott: Jump Over Girl

2004

Mike Parr: Portrait of M and F
Shane Cotton: Cultural Surrealist
Peter Robinson: The End of the Twentieth Century
Et Al., Jacqueline Fraser, Ronnie van Hout, and Daniel Von Sturmer: 2004 Walters Prize
Et Al.: Simultaneous Invalidations, Second Attempt
Judy Millar: Things Get Worse

2003

Terry Urbahn
Michael Stevenson: Call Me Immendorff
Bill Hammond
Michael Parekowhai
John Reynolds
Michael Stevenson
Michael Stevenson: This Is the Trekka
Peter Peryer

2002

Jim Speers: Everything Is in Two Minds
John Reynolds: A City Street. A Sign. Dusk.
Gavin Hipkins: The Colony

2001

John M. Armleder: Lovers Lane on Full Moon

2000

Ava Seymour: I’m So Green
Jim Allen: Contact
Stephen Bambury: Interview
Gavin Hipkins: The Crib
Michael Parekowhai: Patriotism
Michael Stevenson and Steven Brower: Genealogy

1999

Adrian Hall: Bricks in Aspic
Gavin Hipkins: The Guide
Stephen Bambury: Chakra
Patrick Pound: Landscape of Mirrors
William Kentridge
The End of Improvement: In Defence of Ava Seymour
Colin McCahon

1998

Te Papa: Papa’s Bag
Rudi Fuchs: Some Sun, Some Mist, Some Shadow
Gavin Hipkins, Ani O’Neill, Peter Robinson, and Jim Speers: Biennale of Sydney
Shane Cotton
Action Replay: Curators’ Introduction

1997

Ronnie Van Hout: Overimpressed
Pacific Sisters: Doing It for Themselves
Peter Robinson’s Strategic Plan
Dick Frizzell: Self Portrait as a Serious Artiste
Richard Killeen: Secret Handshake
John Nixon

1996

Edgar Roy Brewster: Where the Bee Sucks There Suck I
Peter Peryer: Second Nature
For Armchair Tourists

1995

3.125% Pure: Peter Robinson Plays the Numbers Game

1994

Peter Tyndall
Dashper as Photographer
Julian Dashper and Michael Parekowhai: Perverse Homages
Michael Stevenson: Smokers Please
Michael Parekowhai: Kiss the Baby Goodbye

1993

Dick Frizzell: Beyond the Pale
Michael Smither: To My Father the Printer

1992

Sleeve Notes: Julian Dashper’s Greatest Hits
Derrick Cherrie: Two Interviews
James Ross: Damned Fine Paintings
How Far Can Curators Go?
Mod Cons
Cliff Whiting: Te Po, Te Whaiao, Te Ao Marama (From out of the Darkness, the World of Being, to the World of Light)
Making a Scene

1991

Merylyn Tweedie: Mixed Emotions
Michael Parekowhai: Against Purity
Marie Shannon: Something from Nothingness Comes

1990

Julian Dashper: Surf
Derrick Cherrie: First Impressions

1989

Nobodies: Adventures of the Generic Figure

1988

You Must Be Barbara Kruger!

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