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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.
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
The House of Wellbeing
On Saturday, I spoke at the launch of a major new work of art in public space—Wayne Youle's installation The House of Wellbeing ALL WELCOME, at the CPIT Aoraki campus on Madras Street.
![Untitled [Hare on a Wire Fence]](/media/cache/a2/d7/a2d7fc4fd1fb3d196260a84923753098.jpg)
Collection
![Untitled [Clearing Bush and Hoeing]](/media/cache/73/5f/735f10825e71f500c55f14e716d1c789.jpg)
Juliet Peter Untitled [Clearing Bush and Hoeing]
In the second half of the 1940s, Juliet Peter became more widely known as an illustrator through her role for the Department of Education’s School Publications branch and commissions by the New Zealand Listener. As this series of black and white sketches indicate, her interest in rural life informed the texts she chose to illustrate. A 1948 profile of the artist reported that her work often included field trips: “Miss Peter does not do all her drawings in the office. Last week she went out stalking a milkman and his horse to get sketches for a story […] another day she walked through half a mile of sticky mud to make drawings inside a wool-shed for the shearing chapter in Te Awa Awa.”
He Kapuka Oneone – A Handful of Soil (from August 2024)
Collection
Wayne Youle ALONE TIME
An obsessively ordered, subversively witty re-imagining of Wayne Youle’s studio, ALONE TIME also evokes a more abstract space: the creative sanctuary any artist must carve out from everyday life for the serious business of making art. A bunker, a tree-house, a ‘room of one’s own’, it’s full to bursting with references to the humour, self-doubt and daily work ethic required to build and sustain an artistic practice – not to mention the magic wand.
(Unseen: The Changing Collection, 18 December 2015 – 19 June 2016)
Exhibition
In the Vast Emptiness
The Canterbury landscape as captured by twentieth century painters.