What’s On
Marilynn Webb: Folded in the Hills
A major survey exhibition of Ngāpuhi, Te Roroa and Ngāti Kahu artist Marilynn Webb.
From Here on the Ground
Populated places and cityscapes converge with backyards, factories and remote railway stops. Open now!
Cora-Allan: Encountering Aotearoa
A major body of new work that considers the whenua from the vantage point of the moana.
Open 7 days, 10am - 5pm
Late night Wednesday until 9pm
Free entry, free wifi
New exhibition: Shifting Lines
Here's a little from behind the scenes. Shifting Lines opens tomorrow, 9 November, and runs until 19 January 2014. It's a show about drawing as an idea, which is permitted here to take very different forms. It includes work by six artists – Andrew Beck, Peter Trevelyan, Katie Thomas, Pip Culbert, Gabriella Mangano and Silvana Mangano – all of whom use line to investigate space and structure in unexpected ways.
A moonlit landscape by Sir Alfred East
This article first appeared as 'Lesser lights' in The Press on 8 November 2013
Master Secretary
"A man's power is in the half-light, in the half-seen movements of his hand and the unguessed-at expression of his face. It is the absence of facts that frightens people: the gap you open, into which they pour their fears, fantasies, desires."
Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall
Cut it out
Eileen Mayo has more than a few fans here at Christchurch Art Gallery and for me her linocuts are a standout of her works represented in the Gallery's collection.
Behold, the Great Wall of CAG
We don't have too many visitors to the Gallery building just now, but those who do turn up will be able to admire our new forecourt feature.
The 18th century power paunch
There are websites for everything. Here's a recent discovery by a colleague, a site to which we could make a nice contribution or two ourselves – I mean from the collection.
Clutha
Making the trip between Queenstown and Alexandra recently I was struck, as always, by the sight of the massive Clyde Dam.