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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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Sydney Lough Thompson Lyttelton From The Bridle Path (Sketch)
Sydney Lough Thompson’s Ōhinehou Lyttelton is a celebratory and officially endorsed view, the port bathed in a warm light signifying perhaps an emerging optimism as the country sees its way out of the Depression. In 1936 Thompson had completed a similar work for the Wellington Harbour Board, commissioned for presentation to the newly opened National Art Gallery and Dominion Museum. Buoyed by this success, he proposed to the Lyttelton Harbour Board that they commission this second large work to present to the new Robert McDougall Art Gallery, this Gallery’s predecessor. As The Press reported, it was to be “of a size not less than 4ft by 3ft and not more than 5ft by 4ft, for a fee of 200 guineas”.
From Here on the Ground (18 May – 17 November 2024)
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Christchurch 1850
A carefully drawn plan on a sheet of paper: it's interesting to reflect that most cities didn't exist in this form before a single street had been formed, or hardly a building raised.
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Twist, twist again, bust!
On Friday 8 June I attended the reopening of the Canterbury Club, just down Worcester Boulevard from us.
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Wainui, Akaroa by Rita Angus
This article first appeared as 'On view' in The Press on 15 June 2012.
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Reaching for the Sky
While the Anglicans get all the headlines, there are other - admittedly less iconic - damaged church tragedies around the city.
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Let it flow, let it flow, let it flow...
It's International Blood Donor Day... (in my experience, the nurses look a lot friendlier than this ...)
