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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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Open 7 days, 10am - 5pm
Late night Wednesday until 9pm
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Free entry, free wifi
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Study (Woman in a wide black hat) by Raymond McIntyre
This article first appeared as 'The Muse' in The Press on 25 August 2015.
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Mountains, Cass by Rita Angus
This article first appeared as 'The wonders of waterolours' in The Press on 11 August 2015.
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Te Wiki o te reo Māori
Curator Nathan Pohio has been asking Māori artists how te reo affects them and their work
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Sang by Tony Oursler
This article first appeared in The Press as 'The many faces of Tony Oursler' on 14 July 2015.
Collection
Connie Samaras Untitled (Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica)
A seal breaks through the ice and begins oxygenating; slowly opening and closing her eyes as she fills her lungs with air. Weddell seals live and breed on the ice shelves around Antarctica, further south than any other mammal on the planet. They move between holes in the ice to hunt, and have been recorded holding their breath for up to ninety-six minutes. Connie Samaras made this video while on a residency in Antarctica. Like many of her works, it invites us to consider the two-way dependency of our relationship with the environment, the fragility of the body and our tenuous grip on survival.
(Te Wheke, 2020)
The images shown here are stills taken from the video.
Collection
![La Corvette l'Astrolabe tombant tout-à-coup sur des récifs dans la baie de l'Abondance, (Nouvelle Zélande) [The Corvette Astrolabe falling suddenly on reefs in the Bay of Plenty, (New Zealand)]](/media/cache/f3/ee/f3ee101dfaa85206f23e6a6871764577.jpg)
Louis Auguste de Sainson, Felix-Achille St Aulaire La Corvette l'Astrolabe tombant tout-à-coup sur des récifs dans la baie de l'Abondance, (Nouvelle Zélande) [The Corvette Astrolabe falling suddenly on reefs in the Bay of Plenty, (New Zealand)]
Artist Louis Auguste de Sainson experienced this terrifying storm in New Zealand waters aboard the Astrolabe in 1827. As captain Jules Dumont d’Urville later described: “All we knew was that we were surrounded on every side by danger and felt that a few more violent jolts and our masts would come down.”
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Still reaching out
There was a lovely article in the Nor'west News this week about students from Cotswold School enjoying a clay lesson, taught by our educator Bianca.