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What’s On
Edith Collier: Early New Zealand Modernist
A rare opportunity to view the work of one of Aotearoa New Zealand’s most adventurous and experimental modernist artists.
Made in the Pacific: A Collection of Tāoga
A selection of Pacific tāoga from the Canterbury Museum in conversation with contemporary artworks that highlight the continued strength in culture and traditional art forms.
Mark Adams: A Survey | He Kohinga Whakaahua
A comprehensive survey spanning the artist's career.
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Collection
Bridget Riley Cosmos
Unwavering in her exploration of sharp-edged, shimmering abstraction since the early 1960s, Bridget Riley draws inspiration from nature and optical sensation. She also recognises that her work conveys subtle, unexpectedand sometimes fleeting effects.
Stand back and take it all in: Bridget explains that “the colours [are] organised on the canvas so that the eye can travel over the surface in a way parallel to the way it moves over nature. It should feel caressed and soothed, experience frictions and ruptures, glide and drift. Vision can be arrested, tripped up or pulled back in order to float free again.”
(Perilous: Unheard Stories from the Collection, 6 August 2022-21 July 2024 )
Exhibition
Cerith Wyn Evans: Things are Conspicuous in their Absence...
Cerith Wyn Evans is an artist with a rich conceptual practice. This work was acquired and displayed to mark the retirement of Christchurch Art Gallery’s long-standing and much-loved director Jenny Harper.
