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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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Max Gimblett Certainty
For the exhibition Yellow Moon: He Marama Kōwhai (28 October 2017 – 28 October 2018) this work was displayed with the following label:
Max Gimblett is a New Zealand artist living in New York who makes art for contemplation and healing. For him, the art-making process embraces awareness of the unknown and the idea of being part of something bigger. He says: “Human is a tiny part of things. The ocean, the unconscious – these are things that are not knowable. Sometimes you can participate in a work from and in that source.” Gimblett also values “the curiosity that’s endless in beginning a drawing or a painting”, and attempts “to find a voice that will deliver the maximum content in the cleanest, clearest aesthetics”.
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Populate! update #24 (Who you gonna call?)
There's something straaange... in the neighbourhood.
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It's Boy George!
Gallery Guides' Supervisor Rebecca Ogle and her son George were the stars at a morning tea/brunch hosted by the Guides at Meshino Café in St Albans last Friday.
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Max Gimblett 3 Grand Jacks – Joe, Jack, Jesus
Max’s iconic quatrefoil shape blends with a series of circles in an explosion of colour and form. The spontaneity of the blue ink as it runs and splatters over the paper is beautifully contrasted with the other colours, which are meticulously painted and confined to their pencil-drawn boundaries.
Here, Max explores the possibilities of the circle as an overlaying form: four circles are overlaid to create the quatrefoil shape, with each of these contained within their own larger, overlapping circles.
(Max Gimblett: Ocean Wheel 1 August – 15 November 2020)
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'Dropp!' into the Gallery Shop
Something new from the designers of our very popular rubber vases.
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When it feels like curtains...
Well, yes, sometimes it can. In which case, you need to find ways - maybe even work harder than you've ever had to do before - of staying hopeful.
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Quake brain, van der Velden-style
As might be expected, the Gallery's collection is primarily made up of complete works; prepared, resolved and sent on their way, as ready as they'll ever be for public exposure.
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Going home in the dark
On a balmy night last week Nathan Pohio and myself were making our way home through the city streets only to be greeted by this great big backlit monolith being torn apart by a nibbler.