Audio described tour of Louise Bourgeois: In Private View

Join us for an audio described tour for blind and low vision visitors through Louise Bourgeois: In Private View, led by Auckland Art Gallery's Senior Curator Global Contemporary Art Natasha Conland, and audio described by Nicola Owen of Audio Described Aotearoa.

This 90-minute tour offers rich verbal description and guided interpretation tailored for blind and low vision visitors. The tour is limited to 13 people, and two sighted companions will be available, courtesy of Blind Low Vision NZ.

Louise Bourgeois: In Private View brings together key works from a private international collection, many exhibited publicly for the first time. Spanning more than six decades of the artist’s career, the exhibition traces Bourgeois’ evolution from early paintings in the 1940s to the extraordinary textile sculptures and monumental forms she produced later in life.

Bourgeois, renowned for her emotionally resonant sculptures and recurring themes of memory, family, the subconscious and the body, is best-known globally for her spider sculptures, represented in the exhibition by Spider VI, 2002. Also featured are important early Personages, Lair sculptures and the striking hanging work The Couple.

Bookings for the audio described tour are essential and limited to 13 places. If attending with a sighted companion, please book a ticket for them as well.

Please note there is capacity for one sighted companion per purchase.

Image description: Audio describer Nicola Owen speaks through a transmitter to a group of blind people with white canes listening on headphones. Some stand, others sit. One person is feeling a touch piece.