What’s On
Leo Bensemann: Paradise Garden
A collection of Leo Bensemann’s extraordinary Mohua Golden Bay landscape paintings.
He Kapuka Oneone – A Handful of Soil
Our new collection exhibition is now open.
Edith Amituanai and Sione Tuívailala Monū: Toloa Tales
New video works trace migratory threads across Te Moana-nui-a-Kiwa as the artists return to their ancestral homeland.
Open 7 days, 10am - 5pm
Late night Wednesday until 9pm
Free entry, free wifi
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A new sculpture for Christchurch
A karanga competed with the familiar rebuild soundtrack of hammering and excavating on Tuesday morning, as Lonnie Hutchinson's I like your form was launched at The Commons, on the former site of the Crowne Plaza hotel. Looping through the wooden Arcades frames, the 50 metre-long work reimagines a Maori hinaki, or eel trap, on an epic scale.
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Collection Tarot
One of the things I've really missed in these post-earthquake days is contact with collection works in the storage areas.
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This will make your head hurt
The hardest working video-making musicians OK Go (and, presumably, a fairly large team of helpers) are at it again.
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Slow-mo-tastic
My friend's daughter visited our ArtBox show Burster Flipper Wobbler Dripper Spinner Stacker Shaker Maker (on till September 28!) on a school trip recently and was captivated by Steve Carr's Screen Shots videos, in which a paint-filled balloon bursts in super slow motion.
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Human Beans Rejoice!
Fantastic to hear that Jess Johnson has won Australia's 2014 National Works on Paper Prize.
Exhibition
Edwards+Johann: Rebels, Knights and Other Tomorrows
Combining vividly imagined photographs with sculptural elements, Christchurch-based collaborative duo Edwards+Johann present an enigmatic and playful installation laced with tension and possibility.
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Automated Colour Field (variation 4) field by Rebecca Baumann
This article first appeared as 'Colour + light' in The Press on 2 May 2014.
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David Brokenshire 1925 - 2014
We were sorry to hear of the recent death of Christchurch potter David Brokenshire, who was known for delicate and expressive ceramic works that reflected his fascination with the natural world.
