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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Ugly beauty
Ugly beauty came over me like a thrilling rash.
Ugly beauty warmed me like a slap on the face.
Ugly beauty helped me rise above the crowd
and even if it meant sitting on the face
of the hunchback of Notre Dame
I quickly got over the obsolete shame.
Sweeeeet Manuka Honey
On it goes in Sydenham today. Tomorrow we introduce the artist. (On rollers: Chris, Sean, Simon, Scott, Nathan and Ben. And cheers Simon and John for the photos.)
Vital statistics
I'm just back from Sydenham, where the big grey wall I mentioned yesterday is receiving its first layer of Resene Manuka Honey. Nothing like the sight of paint rolling out to warm an art-starved curator's heart.
Songs from Robert Burns
One of the highlights acquired for the Gallery's library recently is this beautiful 1925 Golden Cockerel Press edition of Songs From Robert Burns, illustrated throughout with wood-engravings by Mabel Annesley (1881–1959).
Wallpower
What's that weird sensation? Faint, but growing stronger. A stretching, tingling, anticipatory sort of feeling. Familiar but hard to name. After all this time, it couldn't be, surely? But yes (nervously touches wood), it really does seem to be true... It's that getting-ready-to-make-a-show feeling. People, we are about to present some art.
Going Bush
As we're constantly reminded by a somewhat strident billboard campaign, the Christchurch We Love Is Still Here.
Wrong way in
Impossible not to feel disappointed by news yesterday about a huge new sculptural gateway for Christchurch.
GOOD WEATHER FOR A STROLL AROUND THE GALLERY
Our new midday weekend Outer Spaces tours are underway, so what's keeping you away?