Footnote X McCleavey Gallery at Cuba Dupa 2025

Our Watch This Space site-specific gallery performance series is back at the New Zealand Portrait Gallery Te Pūkenga Whakaata. Come engage with the Gallery in a new way, encountering the dancers throughout the space as they respond to the current exhibition Me: Artists Paint Themselves.

Saturday 11th October

1pm - 1.30pm

New Zealand Portrait Gallery

Shed 11, 60 Lady Elizabeth Lane Wellington

About the exhbition

Delving into the complicated multiplicities of self-perception and identity, this exhibition presents a selection of innovative painted self-portraits by modern and contemporary artists from Aotearoa New Zealand.

The self-portraits on display offer a wide range of perspectives—from bold studio depictions and imaginative self-aggrandizement to vulnerable reflections on the realities of aging and self-scrutiny, as well as articulations of the complex interrelationships that frame identity. Each self-portrait encapsulates the unique perspectives that artists bring to the understanding of our own humanity.