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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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Māori artists consider the enduring relevance of taniwha in Aotearoa.
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Making Ligurian Lace by H H La Thangue
This article first appeared as 'Artist chased the sun for the right light, warmth' in The Press, 19 October 2016.
Collection
Shannon Williamson Continuous Positive i
In its capacity to be experimental territory, drawing offers a space where different states of mind can be explored. Each of the artists here has taken the practice eyond the realm of obvious observation or recording into something more internal, psychological and uncertain.
Shannon Williamson describes her drawing as “navigating this very intimate and personal space that we can’t access – our internal self.” Here, she uses different kinds of mark making – scientific notations, anatomical drawings, erasures and urgent scribbles resembling biometric readouts – to show how psychological experiences and anxiety are expressed through the body.
(Die Cuts and Derivations, 11 March – 2 July 2023)
Collection
Shannon Williamson Continuous Positive iii
Shannon Williamson is an artist who trained as a sleep scientist. Her drawings begin with the data she gets from recording sleep. In the ‘Continuous Positive’ works, she includes medical notes and translates records of sensory experience into specific colours and reoccurring motifs like rainbows and circles. The drawings are like maps of the circadian rhythms of the body, the natural processes of regulation and repair that occur within sleep and intimately affect the way people function and how they feel about themselves. The title refers to the form of sleep therapy Williamson works with, Continuous Positive Airway Pressure. It also suggests the state of mind necessary to keep going through difficulty. “I needed money to make art, but I needed time to make art, which was hard with a day job—I had to be continually positive about my practice,” she says.
(Now, Then, Next: Time and the Contemporary, 15 June 2019 – 8 March 2020)
Exhibition
Francis Upritchard: Jealous Saboteurs
Exquisitely imagined, startlingly strange works by an internationally acclaimed New Zealand artist.
Exhibition
Olivia Spencer Bower: Views from the Mainland
A selection of watercolours by one of Canterbury’s most treasured artists.