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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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Collection
Robyn Kahukiwa Mourning Woman
The female body is tapu, or sacred, in te ao Māori, and known as he whare tangata, the house of humankind. Hair, in particular, is associated with mana and power. A woman’s hair might be cut during tangihanga (funeral rites) in order to be placed with the tūpāpaku (deceased) as an act of intense grief. Robyn Kahukiwa is connected through her mother to a matriarchal Māori lineage and seeks to affirm and resurrect the customary status of wāhine Māori in her art. This was undermined during the colonisation of Aotearoa due to patriarchal Victorian beliefs about gender roles.
(Perilous: Unheard Stories from the Collection, 6 August 2022- )
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TWENTY YEARS, FORTY BOOKS - THE HISTORY OF THE HOLLOWAY PRESS
There's a great opportunity to hear Peter Simpson talk about his involvement with one of New Zealand's finest private presses, the Holloway Press, tonight. Peter's talk is being held at the WEA, 59 Gloucester Street at 6:00pm.
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Clock tower
We note the recomissioning of the clock tower in Victoria Street reported in today's Press
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Tracking Louise Henderson
I recently wrote about Louise Henderson's painting Addington Workshops (1930) for the Press, and wanted to locate the place in which she stood to make the sketch for the work. It's a complex image and I wanted to understand more about its internal space as well as its history, but the workshops were demolished twenty years ago.
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Louise Henderson, Addington Workshops
For many years, the piercing whistle of the railway workshops off Blenheim Road was Addington's alarm clock.
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Jonathan Ngarimu Mane-Wheoki CNZM, 1943-2014
We were all deeply saddened over the weekend to learn of the death of Jonathan Mane-Wheoki (Ngāpuhi ki Hokianga/Te Aupouri/Ngāti Kuri): eminent art historian, scholar, curator, arts leader and cultural advocate.