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Tim J. Veling Corner of Tuam and Durham Streets, Christchurch, 2011, from Adaptation, 2011 - 2012
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Pieter Hardimé Still Life with Flowers in a Basket
As well as being enjoyed for their superb decorative qualities, Dutch still life paintings were intended to be reminders of the beauty, brevity and fragility of life. An arrangement of tulips, anemone, nicotiana, jonquils, morning glory and oriental poppies, this work is attributed to the Antwerp-born Flemish painter Pieter Hardimé, who lived at The Hague from 1697.
The painting arrived from Windsor, England as an unexpected and welcome gift, shortly after the 2011 earthquakes. It was given in memory of Kathleen Muriel Whiteley (1904–1949), who had historical family ties to Christchurch, from the estate of her husband Albert, whom she married two years before her death in 1949.
(Treasury: A Generous Legacy, 18 December 2015 – 27 November 2016)
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Tim J. Veling Latimer Square, Christchurch, 2012, from Adaptation, 2011 - 2012
Tim J. Veling's photographs of post-quake Christchurch are studies in memory and transformation. From a body of work titled Adaptation, this nocturnal image reveals the strangeness of the transitional city, not least its moments of surprising, eerie beauty.
(Unseen: The Changing Collection, 18 December 2015 – 19 June 2016)
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Ivy Fife 69 Worcester Street
Ivy Fife directs the eye towards the red brick building, designed by local architect Cecil Wood and completed in 1928, home to Digby’s Commercial College in Worcester Street. Fife’s vantage point is her own rental accommodation in St Elmo Courts, a 1930-built apartment block that stood on the corner of Hereford and Montreal Streets until the 2010–11 earthquakes, opposite the old Canterbury College where she was a lecturer at the School of Art. Below, archetypal inner-city flats form a scruffy barricade between the refined Georgian-revival secretarial college and her elevated apartment.
(From Here on the Ground, 18 May – 17 November 2024)
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Ronnie’s Proclamation
Before a vast crowd assembled in the street before him, the might leader Ronnie van Hout salutes to the crowd and sky, his arm stiff and huge above his body. While his little black eyes wince in the sun his face is screwed up in concentration and the crowd are roaring in approval and adulation.
