Populate! update #8 (face up)

Populate! update #8 (face up)

The waning sun and lowering weather have one nice side-effect, which is to create the perfect conditions for viewing Peter Stichbury's backlit billboard NDE, newly installed on Worcester Boulevard.

Bridge of Remembrance

Bridge of Remembrance

Our darkest rooms

Our darkest rooms

One of the things I've noticed the most is how Christchurch has tidied things up.

Versaille

Versaille

Often it feels to me as making things is a process which happens in the dark.

Otira: It's a state of mind

Otira: It's a state of mind

It's always a good day when new artworks arrive at the gallery to enter the permanent collection and so it was when Grace Butler's large oil painting In the Otira Gorge turned up. It has been very generously bequeathed to the Gallery by her daughter, Grace Adams who recently passed away.

Starry skies live in your pavement paintings

Starry skies live in your pavement paintings

I am a romantic. I still believe there is beauty everywhere

Gallery Shop Sale

Gallery Shop Sale

Starts Monday 22 April 2013

Load up with massive reductions on Books, Moleskine Journals and more...

Off 121 Tuam Street, next to the Central Library Tuam.

Trees On A Truck

Trees On A Truck

OK, it hasn't really got the same ring to it as Snake On A Train, which you will be able to see in the flesh soon in the forthcoming Camp Blood exhibition.

Populate! update #6 (wanting it)

Populate! update #6 (wanting it)

Whenever a new exhibition or project goes on show here, we work with the artist involved to choose an image that will stand for the show on this website. And because the virtual windows within websites have unusual and unbudgeable formats, we also have to crop the image and clear that crop with the artist.

Populate! update #5 (back to the drawing board)

Populate! update #5 (back to the drawing board)

Today the Populate! tenth-birthday sneak-preview cam takes us to 200 Gertrude Street in Melbourne and the studio of New Zealand-born and now Melbourne-based Jess Johnson, well known as a force behind the maverick outfit Hell Gallery and now, as you can see, thoroughly busy making art of her own.

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