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The Queen's visit by Ivy Fife

The Queen's visit by Ivy Fife

This article first appeared as 'Hello and goodbye' in The Press on 5 October 2012.

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Untitled by Meindert Hobbema

Untitled by Meindert Hobbema

This article first appeared as 'Dutch treat' in The Press on 12 April 2013.

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Across the plains by Viola Macmillan Brown Notariello

Across the plains by Viola Macmillan Brown Notariello

This article first appeared as 'Her own voice' in The Press on 23 November 2012.

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Maori whare and tiki design by Doris Tutill

Maori whare and tiki design by Doris Tutill

This article first appeared as 'Grand design' in The Press on 1 March 2013.

Exhibition

Faces from the Collection

Treasured portraits populate empty spaces in our changing city.

Exhibition

Steve Carr: Majo

Steve Carr's strangely mesmerising sound and video projection is shown after dark in an upstairs window of the old house opposite the Gallery on Worcester Boulevard.

Exhibition

Emily Hartley-Skudder: Showhome

Recent University of Canterbury graduate Emily Hartley-Skudder's eerily precise still lifes play on the idea of the 'artificial ordinary'.

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Holiday reading

Holiday reading

Herman Melville's Moby Dick, first published on 14 November 1851, is a whale of a book...

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R.P. Moore rewards closer inspection

R.P. Moore rewards closer inspection

Mark Strange, an old friend, rang me in May to discuss a gift that he and his partner Lucy Alcock wished to make to the Gallery. 

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Death to deco

Death to deco

Christchurch always had its dullness challenge, but there were just enough interesting bits to allay that nagging feeling that really you had to get out of here...

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