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Made in the Pacific: A Collection of Tāoga
A selection of Pacific tāoga from the Canterbury Museum in conversation with contemporary artworks that highlight the continued strength in culture and traditional art forms.
Mark Adams: A Survey | He Kohinga Whakaahua
A comprehensive survey spanning the artist's career.
Ana Iti: Ngahere Behind a Pile of Metal
An immersive installation considering the legacies of deforestation and significance of kauri trees.
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Mark Adams 26.2.1982. Farwood Drive, Henderson, West Auckland. Tattooing Seoseo Tuigamala. Tufuga tatatau: Su'a Tavui Pasina Iosefo Ah Ken
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James Oram Screens
Screens folds out across the gallery space like several pages of the internet, a physical version of virtual or online infrastructure. Made from brass, the sculpture is a series of wireframes that represent the schematic designs for websites: layouts that are created to organise how a user finds and accesses information. At the joins of the brass rods, greenish verdigris has formed as the copper solder oxidises. James Oram uses this as a reminder of the materiality of our digital world – the minerals, precious metals and even energy required to support our many digital technologies. Screens reinforces the idea that every Google search or screen swipe has an impact on our environment. Server farms are constantly humming away, storing all the data that lives in the cloud – a term that implies weightlessness but in fact demands huge power consumption.
He Kapuka Oneone – A Handful of Soil (from August 2024)
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Mary-Louise Browne Seeing is Believing
Text is an important feature in Mary-Louise Browne’s art. She explores the visual and symbolic power of language, using familiar phrases from popular culture to reveal how words have different interpretations depending on their context. The saying ‘seeing is believing’ takes on new meaning in an art gallery, where we are surrounded by things that have been constructed by artists for us to look at. By using leadlight windows in a wooden door, Browne suggests permanence, but the words themselves suggest something less solid and reliable – inviting us to question whether all is as it seems.
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![Untitled [Sheep]](/media/cache/7a/c5/7ac5a367029287b664d0f157ededc706.jpg)
Louise Henderson Untitled [Sheep]
In 1938 Louise Henderson taught art at Rangiora High School for half a day each week. While there, she painted a series of eight mural panels for the local nursery school. These depict rural life over the four seasons of the year. In 2023, Rangiora High School generously gave the panels it held to Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū.
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![Untitled [Wheat]](/media/cache/ba/3c/ba3c73ad72bf2ee1596ece875b2b93a2.jpg)
Louise Henderson Untitled [Wheat]
In 1938 Louise Henderson taught art at Rangiora High School for half a day each week. While there, she painted a series of eight mural panels for the local nursery school. These depict rural life over the four seasons of the year. In 2023, Rangiora High School generously gave the panels it held to Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū.
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![Untitled [Cows]](/media/cache/5c/6f/5c6f03b5a9a1d690f9f80b0ee4c01bd7.jpg)
Louise Henderson Untitled [Cows]
In 1938 Louise Henderson taught art at Rangiora High School for half a day each week. While there, she painted a series of eight mural panels for the local nursery school. These depict rural life over the four seasons of the year. In 2023, Rangiora High School generously gave the panels it held to Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū.
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![Untitled [Fruit]](/media/cache/e1/c4/e1c4775c34791310789112e4ca8b6774.jpg)
Louise Henderson Untitled [Fruit]
In 1938 Louise Henderson taught art at Rangiora High School for half a day each week. While there, she painted a series of eight mural panels for the local nursery school. These depict rural life over the four seasons of the year. In 2023, Rangiora High School generously gave the panels it held to Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū.
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![Untitled [Dunes]](/media/cache/82/52/8252dcac58811279837232b51a4715fc.jpg)
Louise Henderson Untitled [Dunes]
In 1938 Louise Henderson taught art at Rangiora High School for half a day each week. While there, she painted a series of eight mural panels for the local nursery school. These depict rural life over the four seasons of the year. In 2023, Rangiora High School generously gave the panels it held to Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū.
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![Untitled [Ducks]](/media/cache/29/cb/29cb9ca112d66c8d313b7585c8f8974d.jpg)
Louise Henderson Untitled [Ducks]
In 1938 Louise Henderson taught art at Rangiora High School for half a day each week. While there, she painted a series of eight mural panels for the local nursery school. These depict rural life over the four seasons of the year. In 2023, Rangiora High School generously gave the panels it held to Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū.
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![Untitled [Sandcastle]](/media/cache/94/d5/94d530be3f4e154d1a64467150c062ed.jpg)
Louise Henderson Untitled [Sandcastle]
In 1938 Louise Henderson taught art at Rangiora High School for half a day each week. While there, she painted a series of eight mural panels for the local nursery school. These depict rural life over the four seasons of the year. In 2023, Rangiora High School generously gave the panels it held to Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū.