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What’s On
Raymond McIntyre: A Modernist View
Dynamic and progressive paintings and woodcuts from one of Aotearoa’s New Zealand foremost modernist artists.
Living Archives
Archives that tell stories about artists and history in Aotearoa
Whāia te Taniwha
Māori artists consider the enduring relevance of taniwha in Aotearoa.
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Exhibition
Stereoscope #2: Jason Greig
Jason Greig's two larger-than-life oval portraits are drawn from the key characters, Jekyll and Hyde in Robert Louis Stevenson's classic novel of 1886, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.
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Movie Palace Meets Art
The curtain has just come down on the films we've been showing at Alice Cinematheque – only temporarily I'm pleased to say, until next month when our next series of films start.
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Holiday reading
Herman Melville's Moby Dick, first published on 14 November 1851, is a whale of a book...
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Lakeside
Unsurprisingly, there are some stellar paintings of Canterbury high-country lakes in our collection.
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Naughty boys
Visiting places depicted in the works in the Gallery's collection can be very rewarding, but on this occasion the reality thoroughly undid the artist's efforts.
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Christchurch Hills
Keep an eye for our latest outerspaces project, Christchurch Hills 2010 - 2012 by Brenda Nightingale.
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Uncanny, Canny Scot and Saint
Puerile I know, but I was astounded by the similarity of Leo Bensemann's portrait of St Francis and the Scots actor Alan Cumming.
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Sticky Fingers
Take some paper squares, some glue, and sparkly bits, add a child and see the creativity flow.
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Supermarket of art
The new branch of the Louvre opened in December 2012 in the depressed, and I'm sorry to say depressing, former mining town of Lens in northern France. Tate Liverpool, Guggenheim Bilbao, and now Louvre Lens: industrial towns all in chronic decline given new life by art.
Collection
André Hemer CASS
Playing with ideas of distance and deletion, this work was prompted by the constantly multiplying online presence of Cass by Rita Angus, one of the most famous paintings in the Gallery’s collection. Images of, and relating to, Cass are freely available on the internet. They include legitimate reproductions, unauthorised copies and numerous responses to the original painting in the form of school projects and even Cass-themed birthday cakes. Here, André Hemer presents his own version of Cass, created using a process that echoes the many translations Angus’s painting has undergone – from traditional materials to new media and back again.
(Absence, May 2023)