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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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Notes
Brent Harris treats Christchurch to first solo exhibition
Celebrated artist Brent Harris will exhibit at Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū in November.
Exhibition
Adele Jackson: Antarctic Sun Lines
To mark the opening of the 2019/20 Antarctic summer season, Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū presents the first publicly exhibited Antarctic Sun Lines solargraph. A multi-day exposure image made using a pinhole camera and illuminated with solar energy, it considers Antarctica in relation to the sun and the natural forces that create and sustain life on Earth
Exhibition
Te Wheke: Pathways Across Oceania
Experience the Gallery’s collection from the perspective of our place in Te Moana-nui-a-Kiwa, the Pacific Ocean.
Director's Foreword
Director’s Foreword
Welcome to the spring edition of Bulletin. Our downstairs touring exhibition galleries are currently alive with video and moving image art, all of it produced by Māori practitioners in the last thirty years. This exhibition, which tours to us from the Dowse Art Museum in Lower Hutt, looks to capture and collate the contribution of Māori artists to time-based art practice in this country.
My Favourite
Cerith Wyn Evans's Things are conspicuous in their absence...
I have never seen an artwork reflect something so true. “Things are conspicuous in their absence” is such an uncommonly heard reflection that it is eye-catching. When things are around us, they seem normal and often go unnoticed; the moment they are gone it can be startling and we wake up.
Commentary
Te Āhua o te Hau ki te Papaioea
The ‘Operation 8’ anti-terror raids in October of 2007 were the culmination of a police investigation that led to the raiding of homes across New Zealand. The raids were conducted after an extended period of surveillance, which was enabled through use of the 2002 Terrorism Suppression Act. In 2013 the Independent Police Conduct Authority found that police had “unnecessarily frightened and intimidated” people during the raids.
Commentary
What We Talk About With McCahon
Where to begin when writing or talking about Colin McCahon? I remember seeing one of his paintings for the first time, a North Otago landscape painted deep green with a sunless white sky on a piece of hardboard, hanging at the Forrester Gallery in Ōamaru while on a family trip when I was a young teenager. I felt like I recognised the landscape depicted from what I saw around me growing up, but I hadn’t seen it reduced to something so stark and primal before.