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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
Petrus van der Velden Mountain Stream, Otira Gorge
The Rotterdam-born Petrus van der Velden arrived in New Zealand in 1890. Following his first visit to Otira Gorge in January 1891, he became engrossed with this subject, and painted its powerful, surging torrents many times over the next two years.
This painting was purchased by Gilbert Anderson, a leader in New Zealand’s frozen meat industry, also involved with the Canterbury Society of Arts. Anderson sold it to the Society in 1912; it was purchased from them in 1996 through the Community Trust and Christchurch Art Gallery Trust.
(Treasury: A Generous Legacy, 18 December 2015 – 27 November 2016)
Notes
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.
Notes
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.
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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.
Collection
Pauline Rhodes Land Extensums, Banks Peninsula
Picturing the Peninsula, 21 April - 22 July 2007
There are two aspects to Pauline Rhodes’ sculptural practice, ‘Intensums’ – often chaotic and intensely installed indoor installations and ‘Extensums’ – where she places materials such as dyed silk within the natural landscape. This example of her ‘Extensum’ practice highlights the transitory, impermanent nature of her temporary installations, the artist interacts with the environment for a fleeting moment through the placement of floating material discs within the rock pool.
An important aspect of Pauline Rhodes art often involves temporarily introducing materials to the natural environment. She has been working on Banks Peninsula and the Port Hills since the early 1970s and is continually inspired by the regions unique landscape.