What’s On
Leo Bensemann: Paradise Garden
A collection of Leo Bensemann’s extraordinary Mohua Golden Bay landscape paintings.
New exhibition now open!
Edwards + Johann: Mutabilities—propositions to an unknown universe
He Kapuka Oneone – A Handful of Soil
Our new collection exhibition is now open.
Open 7 days, 10am - 5pm
Late night Wednesday until 9pm
Free entry, free wifi
Justice
Roger Boyce's Painter Speaks was recently installed in Lichfield Street as part of the ongoing Stereoscope series.
Spruce Up
With public art taking centre stage in Christchurch at the moment thanks to the latest installment of the Scape Biennial, it was good to see an old stalwart getting a bit of a scrub and tickle the other morning.
Probably not a sign of good parenting
con·flict.ed
kənˈflikt'ed
1. Explaining to your kids that writing on other people's property is wrong while getting out of the car to take a picture for the work blog.
It was 100 years ago today...
There are not many works in Christchurch Art Gallery's collection that can be pin-pointed to the exact date in which they were completed but Petrus van der Velden's Self-portrait with Otira Gorge is one and it was completed exactly 100 years ago today.
50s Models Series by Vivian Lynn
This article first appeared as 'Ahead of her time' in The Press on 18 October 2013
Horsing around
Curator Peter Vangioni has posted a couple of blogs in the last week or so in relation to the exhibition New Zealand Illustrated: Books from the Victorian Age which is coming up soon at Peterborough Street Library.
Philip Trusttum's visit to St Mary's School
Philip Trusttum and I had a great time at St Mary's school on Tuesday morning.
BEST in show
I'm a few days late on this, but we're due some bragging after picking up two great wins in the BEST Design Awards in Wellington last Friday.
What's in a title page
Quite a lot if you happened to be a graphic designer working in London during the Victorian period as the three examples below highlight.