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What’s On
Disruptive Landscapes: Contemporary Art from Japan
Quietly powerful and immersive video works revealing the politics behind our view of landscape.
John Vea: Ini Mini Mani Mou
Powerful new work examining the complexities of the immigration process in Aotearoa New Zealand.
Dear Shurrie
The art, influence and friendships of sculptor and teacher Francis Shurrock
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Notes
Angels and Aristocrats
Blair Jackson and I attended the opening of Angels & Aristocrats at Dunedin Public Art Gallery on Friday 27 April. It's spectacular.
Notes
Taking Stock
It's hard to believe, but only eighteen collection works were damaged as a result of all earthquakes, with fourteen damaged on the 22 February 2011.
Collection
Artist Unknown Nathaniel Webb, Esq., of Roundhill Grange, Charlton Musgrove, Somerset
Nathaniel Webb, the subject of this striking 300-year-old portrait, was a Bristol merchant who – like many of his peers in this period – is known to have made a vast fortune through West Indies sugar and slavery.
Webb’s portrait was donated in 2007 by a direct descendant, in honour of her father John Jekyll Cuddon, a respected Christchurch chartered accountant. The painting came to New Zealand with Henry Joseph C. Jekyll, who immigrated to Canterbury in 1862, and in 1880 purchased a large parcel of farmland beyond the edges of Christchurch, naming it Dallington after an old family estate.
(Treasury: A Generous Legacy, 18 December 2015 – 27 November 2016)
Collection
Gerrit Adriaenszoon Berckheyde A View in Cologne with St. Gereon's Basilica
Gerrit Berckheyde’s major contribution to Dutch painting was as a champion of the cityscape, a new genre that developed from the mid 1600s. Haarlem-based Berckheyde began making paintings of Cologne (Köln) in about 1670, from sketches made in Germany in the 1650s. Several works featured St Gereon’s Basilica, a Romanesque church completed in the early thirteenth century.
(Out of Time, 23 September 2023 – 28 April 2024)