Viva Sydenham

Viva Sydenham

It seems a lifetime ago that we combined with Gap Filler to launch the Gallery's first post-quake Outer Spaces project in Sydenham. 

Pop, tick, slap, snap...

Pop, tick, slap, snap...

And those are some of the sounds you'll hear inside the ArtBox, when you step up to the screens and trigger some of the sixty performances recorded by Phil Dadson and sonicsfromscratch as part of the Bodytok project... With the SCAPE Biennial launching tonight, Bodytok's now officially open for business.

Ping!

Ping!

That's the sound the colours are making at the corner of St Asaph and Madras, where the Christchurch Art Gallery/SCAPE ArtBox is now fully wrapped in its high-key Bodytok 'skins'. (Love that first hit of pink -- seen through Parsons, past Trusttum -- in the long view travelling west...)

Ouch

Ouch

That looks like it hurts...

Now you're talking

Now you're talking

The vinyl skins are going on, down at our new Outer Space in the ArtBox complex.

What's in the box?

What's in the box?

Nothing yet, and it looks very good that way.

A book in the hand

A book in the hand

E-readers! Kindles! Digital publishing! Okay, whatever, calm down. Here's a lovely new slice of analogue publishing: the book of Bill Culbert's Venice project.

Sailing awaaaaaaaay

Sailing awaaaaaaaay

They're our tax dollars at work; might as well watch them skipping lightly away over the waves in San Francisco Bay (and give your fingernails a free trim in the process...)

Rooftops, backyards, urban scapes

Rooftops, backyards, urban scapes

As a supplement to the article in today's Press GO section, highlighting the recent purchase of Ivy Fife's Untitled (Towards Worcester Street from St. Elmo Courts), here's a modest selection of paintings of rooftops, backyards and urban scapes from the collection...

The Third Kind

The Third Kind

The photographic documentary 'Thanx 4 the Memories' on display down Worcester Boulevard at the moment is the latest installment of Glenn Busch's 'A Place In Time' project. 

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