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Raymond McIntyre: A Modernist View
Dynamic and progressive paintings and woodcuts from one of Aotearoa’s New Zealand foremost modernist artists.
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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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James Brittenden The Kilns, Cashmere
Beyond the outskirts of early Ōtautahi Christchurch, James Brittenden’s The Kilns, Cashmere captures a curving Centaurus Road and the landmark Murphy Brothers brickworks at right. Brittenden studied at the Canterbury College School of Art in the 1930s while also working part-time as a commercial artist. He is said to have shared a studio in Kilmore Street with Sydney Lough Thompson, whose influence is perhaps visible in this work.
(From Here on the Ground, 18 May – 17 November 2024)
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Jeffrey Harris Family at Christmas
The figures in Family at Christmas project what Peter Ireland called “an oppressive solitude”; there seems to be as much holding them apart as holding them, momentarily, together. Where we might expect smiles for this festive family gathering, instead mouths are grimly pursed and postures have an awkwardness about them.
(Jeffrey Harris: The Gift, 1 October 2022 – 12 March 2023)
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Rhona Haszard Sentinels
Sentinels is a rare, early work by Thames, Coromandel-born Rhona Haszard. It shows her clear artistic vision and ability to make a sensitive, painterly response to a specific location. Haszard painted this impressionistic coastal landscape while at Canterbury College School of Art, where she distinguished herself as a star pupil between 1919 and 1924. This work was first shown in the Canterbury Society of Arts’ annual exhibition in 1923. Haszard left New Zealand two years later and began to make her mark as an artist in Europe, exhibiting in France, England and Egypt, where she moved in 1927 and died tragically young in 1931.
(Te Wheke, 2020)
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A Quick Q&A with James Oram
Over lockdown, Ōtautahi artist James Oram made a new work for our online exhibition Spheres: An Online Video Project. I asked him a few questions about the making of the work, which is up on our website until the end of October.
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A Bird in the Hand
The Christchurch Art Gallery Foundation is honoured to assist the Gallery in acquiring Bill Hammond's Bone Yard Open Home for its permanent collection. But, we need your help!
