Kā Kaupapa o te Wā
What’s On
Disruptive Landscapes: Contemporary Art from Japan
Quietly powerful and immersive video works revealing the politics behind our view of landscape.
John Vea: Ini Mini Mani Mou
Powerful new work examining the complexities of the immigration process in Aotearoa New Zealand.
Dear Shurrie
The art, influence and friendships of sculptor and teacher Francis Shurrock
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Late night Wednesday until 9pm
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Free entry, free wifi
Notes
In praise of windows
As you may know, we've all just shifted to a new office and while we're in closer proximity to each other than before and quite a bit further away from the Gallery's collection, for me at least there's one pretty glorious upside.
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Firewall by John Nicholson
This article first appeared as 'Living colour' in The Press on 1 August 2014.
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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.