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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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Lizard's Lounge
I stumbled into their lair on accident, and found myself in a madhouse of reptilian decree. I immediately froze, in a vain hope they had not noticed me in my peculiarity, but my attempts were feeble, I had been seen. I felt a cold sweat and a shiver ran down my spine as they glared at me with beady black eyes from a nebulous of smoke and dust that choked the room. I was their intruder. One of the lizards mockingly hissed a welcome, 'Please take a seat, you look weary.'
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Eternal Gaze
At the hot forge, I thought of her face frozen in time... a perfect oil painting, every stroke, every colour ... so serene as she fell, the wind dancing around her dress and hair, momentarily turning her into an angel, then the crack of water breaking apart to let her descend into the depths of the sea, disappearing forever from sight.
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The Hanging Sky in Wellington
Having been lucky enough to attend the intimate opening of our exhibition Shane Cotton: The Hanging Sky at the IMA in Brisbane in December it was great to be part of the Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū whanau again last Friday evening in Wellington.
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Aotearoa
A texture-rich new exhibition at Oxford showcases the considerable talents of six Canterbury artists.
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The Gnomes of Virook
The smell of molten metal filled the caverns, the smelter working overtime. Sweat dripped from many rows as the forge was manned without end, the echoes of hammer on anvil continuing well on into the night. The miners laboured tirelessly to bring new materials. No one could sleep. There was only one week left. They were all preparing for the day of Black Rain.
Collection
Laurence William Wilson Mount Amstead, Rees River
Mount Ansted is an unofficial, local name for a mountain between the Rees Saddle and the upper stretch of the Matukituki River. The name appears on map NZMS260 E39 but Land Information New Zealand records the feature as having no official name.
The Rees River flows into the Northern end of Lake Wakatipu.
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Laurence William Wilson Pembroke, Lake Wanaka
The area around Lake Wānaka was inhabited across the centuries by the Waitaha, Kāti Māmoe and Kāi Tahu iwi. Oral histories describe its creation by the ancestor Rākaihautū with his mighty kō. The name Wānaka implies a place of sacred learning.During colonial settlement under the governance of the Otago Provincial Council, Wānaka was renamed Pembroke, hortly after it was first surveyed by colonial settlers in 1863. The name was given in honour of the recently deceased English MP Sidney Herbert, son of the Earl of Pembroke and the British Secretary at War from 1845 (coinciding with the start of the Aotearoa New Zealand land wars). As a supporter of colonisation, he was also a founding member of the Canterbury Association three years later. The settlement reverted to its original name in 1940.
Waitaha ~ tribal group that occupied much of Te Waipounamu South Island before they were displaced by Kāti Māmoe
Kāti Māmoe ~ tribal group that was largely replaced by Kāi Tahu through intermarriage and conquest
Kāi Tahu ~ tribal group of much of Te Waipounamu South Island
iwi ~ tribes
kō ~ digging stick
He Kapuka Oneone – A Handful of Soil (from August 2024)