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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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Collection
Doris Lusk The Swing Bridge, Kawarau
Lusk experimented with a variety of materials and styles throughout her career, “riding the media” to expand her arsenal of painting techniques. Often discoveries in one field were productively translated across into other modes. To make her 1985 watercolour of the bridge over the Clutha River, Lusk first dampened a stretched canvas, to which she applied broad washes of fluid colour. Paint was then flicked over the still-wet surface, creating a splatter effect that convincingly denoted the scrubby Central Otago terrain. Painted in the same year, The Swing Bridge, Kawarau tackles a similar subject in oils, with Lusk using a dramatically angled view to contrast the forthright utility of the bridge structure with the irregular rocky landscape and surging water beneath.
(Doris Lusk: Practical Visionary, 4 June – 30 October 2016)
Collection
Hamish Keith Banana
Created for the series of 20/20 Vision exhibitions, organized by John Coley and Tom Taylor, held in Christchurch between 1964 and 1968.
