Dual<>Jewel transplaces two 'galleries' and attempts to shift ideas of convention by inverting interior and exterior spaces. The project questions three social interactions within the sphere of art production: the role of the artist as entertainer, the role of the gallery as a public space, and the role of the audience as public.

Comprised of 240 painted Delft 'tiles' on paper, the installation playfully disrupts ideas of decoration, painting, and craft. Mass produced and hand painted, What If, Abel Tasman touches on cultural colonisation, and perhaps more pragmatically, the colonisation of the working painter's studio by wet works waiting to dry.

Pinewood Bend 2013 alludes to this journey … what is around the bend? The Blue Oyster re-opened its new premises on Dowling St with an exhibition of new paintings and floor works by Auckland-based artist Judy Darragh.

Presented in association with Puaka Matariki Festival Dunedin 2013, Follow the Party of the Whale is a site-specific multimedia installation consisting of a double-channel video with a separate, but related, sound element by collaborators Shannon Te Ao (Ngati Tuwharetoa) and Iain Frengley.

Put up your Dukes! is a visual debate between Auckland-based artists Gabrielle Amodeo and Jill Sorensen with the moot: In art, as in life, we occupy an ad-hoc middle ground in which the only certainty is the impossibility of certainty.

Exploring ideas of economic and political isolation, FOREX: Outcomes from the Blue Oyster’s International Expeditions comprises moving image work, performance, text, and comprehensive documentation from SUPERMARKET, Stockholm and Art-Athina 18: Platforms, Athens. 

In May 2013, the Blue Oyster participated in Art-Athina 18: Platforms. Working with Wellington based collectives Letting Space and Loomio, as well as Athens-based curator Konstantinos Konstantidis and Dunedin-based Pieter Haydensieck the Blue Oyster presented Approaching Economic Immateriality. 

Gelber LuftBallon (Dunedin Research Project) is a series of new work created by Melbourne-based artist Shane McGrath. McGrath’s practice has used rockets, planes and zeppelins in his practice as metaphors for escapism, exploration, memory and tragedy.

Selected and appropriated from an encyclopedia published in 1970s on Australia, New Zealand and Papua New Guinea, Enkyklios (or Pedagogical Experiments) consists of found images, scanned, enlarged and interrupted by explorations into their mythic, visual and iconic qualities.

The Yellow Men (Clarke Hegan and Jed McCammon) present Re:Perform, a Blue Oyster Performance Series in association with the 2013 Dunedin Fringe Festival.