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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
Saskia Leek Clay Lakes #7
Saskia Leek’s small-scale paintings come to life slowly: built in layers, paused and restarted, gradually settling into resolution. Comfortably unheroic and awkward, they take a quietly whimsical approach. Ōtautahi Christchurch-born, Ōtepoti Dunedin-based Saskia sometimes takes cues from things overlooked, including discarded op-shop paintings, and also lightly echoes art history, as seen in the cubist- inspired modernist schemes of these works. Untitled, with its slightly kitschy 1950s bathroom palette, perhaps pays tribute to earlier, amateur painters and eras. Both works are too wayward to be high minded, and too sensitively formed to be naïve.
(Perilous: Unheard Stories from the Collection, 6 August 2022- )
Collection
Saskia Leek Untitled
Saskia Leek’s small-scale paintings come to life slowly: built in layers, paused and restarted, gradually settling into resolution. Comfortably unheroic and awkward, they takea quietly whimsical approach. Ōtautahi Christchurch-born, Ōtepoti Dunedin-based Saskia sometimes takes cues from things overlooked, including discarded op-shop paintings, and also lightly echoes art history, as seen in the cubist-inspired modernist schemes of these works. Untitled, with its slightly kitschy 1950s bathroom palette, perhaps pays tribute to earlier, amateur painters and eras. Both works are too wayward to be high minded, and too sensitively formed to be naïve.
(Perilous: Unheard Stories from the Collection, 6 August 2022- )
Exhibition
Luigi Rossini: Le Antichità Romane
A young Italian architect and archaeologist is captivated by the Rome of antiquity.
Notes
Village life
Some detective work has put us in touch with the owners of the farm painted by Evelyn Page.
Collection
Cerith Wyn Evans Things are conspicuous in their absence...
When Cerith Wyn Evans watched subtitled films on TV as a teenager, he became fascinated by the gap in understanding between the text and the picture. Here his neon text recalls a time in the past, when something that has now disappeared from view was taken for granted. What’s been lost? Perhaps a person, or an object, or even a way of life; the viewer is invited to consider their own response to loss and change. The memory of lost things is a constant feature of the present.
(Now, Then, Next: Time and the Contemporary, 15 June 2019 – 8 March 2020)