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[ 0 => ''''Michael Lett''' is a gallery dealing in contemporary art that operates in [[Auckland|Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland]], New Zealand [[New Zealand|New Zealand Aotearoa]]. The gallery was established by Michael Lett in 2003 and since 2015 he has been joined by co-director and part owner Andrew Thomas. ( <nowiki>https://myart.co.nz/story/gallerist-andrew-thomas/</nowiki> )', 1 => '', 2 => '== History ==', 3 => 'Michael Lett opened his eponymous gallery in a ground floor space on the corner of [[Karangahape Road]] and Edinburgh Street, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland in 2003. Lett had previously worked for art dealers Anna Bibby and [[Sue Crockford Gallery|Sue Crockford]] and was with the [[Gow Langsford Gallery]] when he decided to open his own business.<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal |last=Oliver |first=Henry |date=Spring 2023 |title=The Curation of Michael Lett |journal=Metro |pages=174}}</ref> The gallery was initially founded in partnership with the artist [[Michael Parekōwhai]] and opened with ''Dive'' an exhibition by [[Steve Carr (artist)|Steve Carr]]''.''<ref>{{Cite news |last=Poppelwell |first=Louise |date=2 April 2003 |title=Art Space with a Difference |work=New Zealand Herald}}</ref> The second exhibition ''Views of Space'' with the Australian artist [[Hany Armanious]] gave some indication of the breadth of artists Lett intended to pursue.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Exhibitions |url=https://www.roslynoxley9.com.au/artist/hany-armanious |access-date=18 January 2024}}</ref> From 2008 to 2011 Lett was assisted by Sarah Hopkinson who has described Michael Lett as a place to see, ‘…serious exhibitions by serious artists.’<ref name=":0" /> Hopkinson, after leaving Michael Lett would go on to develop her own gallery presence in Auckland, at Costal Signs.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Coastal Signs |url=https://coastal-signs.net/ |access-date=18 January 2024}}</ref> Lett has attracted other assistants who have gone on to make their own mark in the visual arts including Ryan Moore now director of his own gallery Fine Arts Sydney and Becky Hemus editor of ''Art News''<ref>{{Cite web |title=Art News |url=https://artnews.co.nz/ |access-date=18 January 2024}}</ref> and ''The Art Paper.''<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Art Paper |url=https://www.the-art-paper.com/ |access-date=18 January 2024}}</ref>', 4 => '', 5 => 'Michael Lett remained on Karangahape Road until 2011 when it moved to a large space on the [[Great North Road, Auckland|Great North Road]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=McNamara |first=T.J. |date=21 May 2011 |title=Good Reason to Tackle the Stairs |work=New Zealand Herald}}</ref> Art critic John Hurrell described the first exhibition ''trans-cryption'' by the artist collective et al. ''as, ‘''an exciting exhibition to explore….’ and ‘a useful way of getting acquainted with Lett’s new space’.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Hurrell |first=John |date=14 February 2011 |title=et al. at New Lett Venue |url=https://eyecontactmagazine.com/2011/02/et-al-at-new-lett-venue |access-date=18 January 2024 |website=EyeContact}}</ref> Andrew Thomas, who had previously worked with Hamish McKay in Wellington and [[White Cube]] in London, joined the gallery and later becomes partner and co-owner.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Amery |first=Mark |date=December 2016 |title=Michael Lett: Ahead of the Curve |url=https://artcollector.net.au/michael-lett-ahead-of-the-curve/  |journal=Art Collector Magazine}}</ref> The increased space allowed the gallery to offer artists the opportunity to show large scale works and installations not possible in the more restricted Karangahape Road site for example the combined exhibition of Michael Parekōwhai and et al. in collaboration with Anya Henis and Samuel Holloway in 2013<ref>{{Cite news |last=McNamara |first=T.J. |title=Into the Depths |url=https://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/tj-mcnamara-into-the-depths/NP6HUDQT34F2RWI4UOEBEK23WE/ |access-date=18 January 2024 |work=New Zealand Herald}}</ref> and Michael Stevenson’s installation ''Proof of the Devil'' in 2013.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Hurrell |first=John |date=10 September 2013 |title=Stevenson at Lett |url=https://eyecontactmagazine.com/2013/09/stevenson-at-lett |website=EyeContact Magazine}}</ref> The gallery returned to Karangahape Road in 2014 siting itself on the bottom floor of an old bank building on the corner of East Street.<ref>{{Cite journal |title=An Art Gallery’s Stylish New Auckland Home |url=https://homemagazine.nz/cheshire-architects-transforms-bank-offices-new-home-michael-lett-gallery/ |journal=Home Magazine}}</ref> In 2022 the gallery took over a hall next door to use as a project space. (Rose of Sharon Leake Art Collector 28 April 2022 <nowiki>https://artcollector.net.au/michael-lett-announces-new-project-space/</nowiki> ) The Methodist Mission Hall had been opened in 1909 and designed by Alexander Wiseman.<ref>{{Cite web |title=East Street Mission Hall |url=https://heritageequip.govt.nz/funding-your-project/heritage-equip-funding/funded-projects/east-street-mission-hall |access-date=18 January 2024}}</ref> Early projects have included a recreation of Jim Allen’s performance ''Poetry for Chainsaws'',<ref>{{Cite web |title=Jim Allen: Poetry for Chainsaws |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/333943160_Jim_Allen_Poetry_for_Chainsaws_Hanging_by_a_Thread_II |access-date=18 January 2024}}</ref> Michael Stevenson’s installation ''Waiting for the Other Shoe to Drop, Seating Proposal for a Grant Maker,''<ref>{{Cite journal |title=Michael Stevenson: Waiting for the Other Shoe to Drop, Seating Proposal for a Grant Maker |url=https://artcollector.net.au/gallery-event/michael-stevenson-waiting-for-the-other-shoe-to-drop-seating-proposals-for-a-grantmaker/ |journal=Collector}}</ref> and [[Kate Newby|Kate Newby's]] installation ''Had Us Running With You''.<ref>{{Cite web |date=24 March 2023 |title=Thinking Out loud |url=https://artnow.nz/essays/thinking-out-loud-kate-newby |access-date=18 January 2024 |website=Art Now}}</ref> ', 6 => '', 7 => '== Artists ==', 8 => 'The current list of artists (2023) represented by Michael Lett are:', 9 => '{| class="wikitable"', 10 => '|Anouska Akel', 11 => '|[[Et al. (New Zealand artist)|et al.]]', 12 => '|[[Séraphine Pick]]', 13 => '|-', 14 => '|[[Jim Allen]]', 15 => '|Richard Frater', 16 => '|[[Ian Scott (artist)|Ian Scott]]', 17 => '|-', 18 => '|[[Hany Armanious]]', 19 => '|[[Gavin Hipkins]]', 20 => '|[[Sriwhana Spong]]', 21 => '|-', 22 => '|Dan Arps', 23 => '|Zac Langdon-Pole', 24 => '|Michael Stevenson', 25 => '|-', 26 => '|Steve Carr', 27 => '|[[Paul Lee (artist)|Paul Lee]]', 28 => '|[[Peter Stichbury (artist)|Peter Stichbury]]', 29 => '|-', 30 => '|[[Fiona Clark (photographer)|Fiona Clark]]', 31 => '|[[Judy Millar]]', 32 => '|Imogen Taylor', 33 => '|-', 34 => '|[[Stella Corkery]]', 35 => '|[[Kate Newby]]', 36 => '|Kalisolate ‘Uhila', 37 => '|-', 38 => '|[[Martin Creed]]', 39 => '|[[Michael Parekōwhai]]', 40 => '|[[Cerith Wyn Evans]]', 41 => '|-', 42 => '|[[Julian Dashper]]', 43 => '|Campbell Patterson', 44 => '|', 45 => '|-', 46 => '|[[Simon Denny (artist)|Simon Denny]]', 47 => '|Oliver Perkins', 48 => '|', 49 => '|}', 50 => '', 51 => '== Exhibitions ==', 52 => 'From the last show of its first year of operation, Michael Parekōwhai’s ''Kapa Haka'', five life-sized figures posing as security guards in the gallery’s street facing window,<ref>{{Cite web |last=Denby |first=Mark |date=18 January 2024 |title=Kapa haka by Michael Parekowhai |url=http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/en/photograph/40401/kapa-haka-by-michael-parekowhai |access-date=18 January 2024 |website=Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand}}</ref> to  et al.’s 2023 installation ''I am the Direct Source of Truth'' that introduced itself with a waste paper bin full of bulldog clips<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Eastmond |first=Elizabeth |date=Spring 2023 |title=The Direct Source of Truth: a Visit with et al. |journal=Art New Zealand |volume=187 |pages=84}}</ref> Michael Lett has also demonstrated a strong interest in representing a wide range of work by important contemporary artists. The gallery has also shown an interest in promoting recent art history and first showed work by Jim Allen the influential teacher and artist within three years of opening.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Aotearoa Father of Experimental Art, Tributes Flow in After Passing of Jim Allen |url=https://thebigidea.nz/stories/aotearoas-father-of-experimental-art-tributes-flow-after-passing-of-jim-allen |access-date=18 January 2024 |website=The Big Idea}}</ref> Since that time Lett has regularly featured Allen who was 83 when he first performed at the gallery. The work exhibited was a re-creation by Allen of his performance piece ''Poetry for Chainsaws'' that was first shown in 1976 at the [[Experimental Art Foundation]] in Adelaide, Australia. Since then Allen performed and exhibited a mix of recreated and new works until his death in 2023.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Knell |first=Conor |last2=Chumko |first2=André |date=14 June 2023 |title=Visual artist Jim Allen dies, aged 100 |url=https://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/arts/132309780/visual-artist-jim-allen-dies-aged-100 |access-date=18 January 2024}}</ref> More recently the work of Pauline Rhodes has also become a regular part of the Michael Lett programme.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Hurrell |first=John |date=16 March 2019 |title=Visceral Jostling |url=https://eyecontactmagazine.com/2019/03/a-visceral-jostling |access-date=18 January 2024}}</ref> ', 53 => '', 54 => '=== '''Selected exhibitions''' ===', 55 => '', 56 => '* Martin Creed ''Work No 329: Half the air in a given space''. (2006) [[Turner Prize]] winning artist Martin Creed half-filled Michael Lett’s original Karangahape Road space with pink balloons.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Clifford |first=Andrew |date=10 Oct, 2006 |title=Bypassing the Thinking Process |url=https://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/bypassing-the-thinking-process/EQSMJMRYJNOQ2ZKVCYDBIZ4QUM/ |access-date=18 January 2024 |work=New Zealand Herald}}</ref> ', 57 => '', 58 => '* ''Simon Denny: Starting from behind.'' 2009<ref>{{Cite web |last=Hurrell |first=John |date=30 September 2009 |title=Aqua Mass Media |url=https://eyecontactmagazine.com/2009/09/aqua-mass-media |archive-date=18 January 2024}}</ref>', 59 => '', 60 => '* ''Hany Armanious: Set Down''. 2013<ref>{{Cite news |last=McNamara |first=T.J. |title=Light and Illumination |url=https://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/tj-mcnamara-light-and-illumination/3LDNZCWDNPLSPNBIML7U63J6EE/ |access-date=18 January 2024}}</ref> ', 61 => '* Michael Stevenson ''Proof of the Devil. 2013''<ref>{{Cite web |last=Hurrell |first=John |date=10 September 2013 |title=Stevenson at Lett |url=https://eyecontactmagazine.com/2013/09/stevenson-at-lett |archive-date=18 January 2024}}</ref> ', 62 => '', 63 => '* ''Implicated and Immune''. 2013 (group)<ref>{{Cite news |last=Knight |first=Kim |date=2 February 2015 |title=Artists in Aid Mission |url=https://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/arts/65673294/artists-in-aid-mission |archive-date= |access-date=18 January 2024}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Hurrell |first=John |date=18 February 2015 |title=Aids and Gay Pride in 2015 |url=https://eyecontactmagazine.com/2015/02/aids-in |access-date=18 January 2024 |website=EyeContact Magazine}}</ref>', 64 => '', 65 => '* ''Julian Dashper again and again, again. (2016)'' A re-creation of an exhibition initially curated by Mark Kirby and Julian Dashper. In 2006 for Aratoi Wairarapa Museum of Art and History.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Hurrell |first=John |date=13 May 2016 |title=More and More (and More) Dashper |url=https://eyecontactmagazine.com/2016/05/more-and-more-and-more-dashper |access-date=18 January 2024}}</ref> ', 66 => '', 67 => '* ''Living with Aids 1988 . (2018) by Fiona Clark.''<ref>{{Cite news |last=Herk |first=David |date=3 June 2018 |title=Unseen Albums Document how Aids Affected Four New Zealanders in 1988 |url=https://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/life/104259409/unseen-albums-document-how-aids-affected-four-new-zealanders-in-1988 |access-date=18 January 2024}}</ref>', 68 => '', 69 => '* ''Giovanni Intra''. (2018) Documentation from Intra’s archives and a selection of artworks had  Alex Davidson comment in the magazine Artforum, ‘… these material products of his early thought do offer new insights into the bearing of his life’s work, and as such it is significant that they are seen here together for the first time.‘<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Davidson |first=Alex |date=March 2018 |title=Giovanni Intra |url=https://www.artforum.com/events/giovanni-intra-239743/ |journal=Art Forum}}</ref> ', 70 => '', 71 => '* Ian Scott ''Realist Paintings from the Late 1960s.'' (2019) Scott died in 2013 and this exhibition brought together a review of his early work.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Hurrell |first=John |date=20 September 2019 |title=Ian Scott Paintings |url=https://eyecontactmagazine.com/2019/09/ian-scott-paintings |access-date=18 January 2024}}</ref> ', 72 => '* [[Douglas Wright (dancer)|D''ouglas Wright'']]'': the Envoys''. (2020)<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Envoys |url=https://2020.aucklandpride.org.nz/the-envoys/ |access-date=18 January 2024}}</ref> ', 73 => '', 74 => '== Controversy ==', 75 => 'What can only be described as Pickle Mania struck the gallery in 2022. When artist Matthew Griffin threw a pickle up at the ceiling of the Karangahape gallery where it stayed stuck as part of an art installation the action was not only reported locally, but also globally in the [[The Guardian]],<ref>{{Cite news |last=Corlett |first=Eva |date=27 July 2022 |title=Flung Pickle Token: Artist Asks $10000 for McDonald's Ingredient |url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2022/jul/27/pickle-flung-on-gall-ceiling-artist-asks-10000-for-mcdonalds-burger-ingredient?ICID=ref_fark |access-date=18 January 2024 |work=The Guardian}}</ref> the [[Daily Mail]],<ref>{{Cite news |last=Talintyre |date=20 July 2022 |title=But is it art? Aussie artist flings a pickle from a McDonald's cheeseburger onto a ceiling as part of a new exhibition |url=https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11016453/Michael-Lett-art-exhibition-Sydney-artist-exhibit-McDonalds-pickle-flung-ceiling.html |access-date=18 January 2024 |work=Daily Mail}}</ref> [[The Times]]<ref>{{Cite news |last=Callery |first=James |date=28 July 2022 |title=McDonald’s pickle stuck to ceiling is £5,000 ‘art’ |url=https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/mcdonalds-pickle-stuck-to-ceiling-is-5-000-art-slthz80gj |access-date=18 January 2024}}</ref> and [[NBC News Today]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Lamour |first=Joseph |date=2 August 2022 |title=An artist threw the pickle from a McDonald’s burger on a ceiling — and is charging $6,325 for it   |url=https://www.today.com/food/news/mcdonalds-pickle-ceiling-artwork-rcna40931 |access-date=18 January 2024 |work=NBC Today}}</ref> ', 76 => '', 77 => '== Selected Michael Lett publications ==', 78 => '', 79 => '* ''Michael Parekowhai'' (2007)', 80 => '* ''The Estate of L Budd: Catalogue of Existent Works'' ( 2008)', 81 => '* ''Jim Allen Poetry for Chainsaws & Hanging by a Thread II'' (2009)', 82 => '* ''Julian Dashper: This is not Writing'' ( 2011)', 83 => '* ''Affirmation Dungeon, by Dan Arps'' (2012) with Clouds Publishing', 84 => '* Anthony Byrt ''Simon Denny: The Founder’s Paradox a Compendium'' (2017)', 85 => '* ''Fiona Clark:'' ''Living with Aids 1988'' (2018)', 86 => '* ''Imogen Taylor'' (2022)', 87 => '* ''Michael Lett Documents 2021–2023'' (2023)', 88 => '', 89 => '== References ==', 90 => '', 91 => '== ''External links'' ==', 92 => 'Official website [https://www.michaellett.com www.michaellett.com]' ]