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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
Ralph Hotere: Ātete (to resist)
Celebrating the artistic vision of one of Aotearoa’s most significant artists.
Notes
Touching Sight: Conor Clarke, Emma Fitts, Oliver Perkins
Touching Sight showcases exciting new work from three contemporary Ōtautahi artists, with a twist – it also enables people with blindness or low vision to experience contemporary art at Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū from Saturday 31 October.
Notes
Graham Bennett: Seeking a Balance
Come face to face with works of art from across sculptor Graham Bennett’s remarkable 50-year career in Seeking a Balance, a new exhibition at Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū opening on Saturday 31 October.
Collection
John Moore The Lion, Milford Sound
John Moore was a prolific printmaker known for his simple black and white woodcuts of Aotearoa’s native flora and fauna. He is one of the few printmakers to produce more ambitious and larger scale colour woodblocks of the New Zealand landscape, often done in the manner of ukiyo-e Japanese woodblock prints, such as The Lion, Milford Sound.
Ink on Paper: Aotearoa New Zealand Printmakers of the Modern Era, 11 February – 28 May 2023
Collection
Gertrude Ball Gorge, Arrowtown
Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland watercolourist Gertrude Ball moved to London to further her art training in 1920. She struggled to make a living as an artist, although she regularly exhibited with the Royal Academy of Arts. She became a member of the Society of Graphic Art and the Society of Women Artists, but described her journey as an artist as “a long uphill row to hoe”. She was friends with the Auckland printmaker Hilda Wiseman, who may have encouraged her to take up the woodcut. Around 1936 she began working on a major publication to be titled British Castles: A Book of Woodcuts, Written and Illustrated by Gertrude Ball. Although ultimately unpublished, it involved the creation of thirty woodcuts. Returning to Aotearoa after World War II she travelled to Central Otago with fellow artist Mabel Still, making several woodcuts of the region.
Ink on Paper: Aotearoa New Zealand Printmakers of the Modern Era, 11 February – 28 May 2023