17 Aug 2018

Curious Creatures & Marvellous Monsters

From Afternoons, 1:42 pm on 17 August 2018

Te Papa is holding its first art exhibition aimed at children. Curious Creatures & Marvellous Monsters has been curated by Dr Chelsea Nichols who has a PhD from Oxford about monsters in art, and is fascinated by society's ideas of what's normal and what's abnormal. She says kids already use monsters to explain the unknown - under their beds, out in the streets - and so do artists.

Angela Singer, Hedge Row, 2010, vintage taxidermy fox, found vintage jewels, glass and ceramic flowers. On loan from the artist

Ronnie van Hout, Sick chimp, 2002, plastic, resin, rubber and fabric. Te Papa

Curious Creatures & Marvellous Monsters poster

Tony de Lautour, Hot rod, 2004, acrylic on paper

W.D. Hammond, Traffic Cop Bay, 2003, acrylic on canvas

Lisa Reihana, Marakihau, 2001, colour photographic print on aluminium. Te Papa

some of the works from Curious Creatures & Marvellous Monsters