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What’s On
Raymond McIntyre: A Modernist View
Dynamic and progressive paintings and woodcuts from one of Aotearoa’s New Zealand foremost modernist artists.
Living Archives
Archives that tell stories about artists and history in Aotearoa
Whāia te Taniwha
Māori artists consider the enduring relevance of taniwha in Aotearoa.
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Exhibition
Kulimoeʻanga Stone Maka: Toga mo Bolataʻane
Monumental contemporary ngatu tā’uli by local Tongan artist Kulimoe’anga Stone Maka.
Exhibition
Hellzapoppin'! The Art of Flying Nun
Unruly art and design from the early years of New Zealand’s maverick record label.
Collection
Conor Clarke The Sky over Columbus (described by Shawn Lowe)
This work by Conor Clarke depicts a landscape as remembered and then described by a member of the blind and low vision community. She used a pinhole camera without a viewfinder to create an image that responded to their words. Combined with touchable braille embedded into the photograph’s surface, this offers a way of experiencing art that moves beyond the visual. It invites us to encounter a scene without expectation or assumption and to reflect on how we each experience and interpret the world around us.
(Absence, May 2023)
Collection
Elizabeth Kelly Self Portrait
Christchurch artist Annie Elizabeth Kelly was one of the earliest professional artists to establish themselves in Aotearoa New Zealand, and the first New Zealand woman to be awarded a CBE for services to art.
Kelly painted this early self-portrait when she was forging a career as a portrait painter. She had just moved into her first studio at 218 Hereford Street in the central city.
Painted from reflection, Kelly’s direct gaze is confident, painted loosely in an impressionistic style but with sharp, idealised facial features, showing the influence of the Aesthetic movement from her studies at the Canterbury College School of Art. Painting herself in a traditional European bonnet and using muted brown colours suggestive of the old masters, a fashionable style influenced by Petrus Van der Velden, this painting advertised her skills as she made her debut as a portrait artist.
(The Moon and the Manor House, 12 November 2021 – 1 May 2022)
