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What’s On
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
Benjamin Green Sopwell House Near St. Albans, 1783
This print depicts New Barnes House, at Sopwell, near St Albans, Hertfordshire England. It is now the site of the Sopwell House Hotel, a luxury hotel noted for accommodating football teams immediately before big matches at Wembley Stadium.
It is not to be confused with nearby Sopwell Nunnery, sometimes known as Sopwell Priory, whose grounds were sold to Sir Richard Lee (1513–1575) at the time of the Dissolution. He reshaped and expanded the nunnery into a large Tudor house which fell into disrepair and which now exists as a picturesque ruin near the centre of St Albans.
Compare British Museum number 1852,0214.97
Collection
John Thomas Smith Landscape with Village
Compare British Museum number 1860,1208.79
From the series 'Twenty rural landscapes from nature', etched by John Thomas Smith and first published in 1793. See British Museum number 1860,1208.71 for details about this series.
Notes
Sticks and stones
The historic Canterbury Provincial Chambers are slowly being pulled apart piece by piece, labelled and placed in specially made crates seen here in the foreground.
Notes
Top Selling Gallery Cards
I have pulled together the top selling card images on sale in the shop since February 22nd. An interesting and eclectic collection it makes too.
Is your favourite work featured? Let us know.
Notes
Room with a view
The view from the windows of our new exhibition space in Madras Street is not one you can easily put into words.
Interview
Rolling Maul
A lot of water, and Lord only knows what else, has flowed under the bridge since Justin Paton and I first hatched our plans for a fast-paced, post-quake showing of new work by local artists. Rolling Maul, so far, has been quite the antithesis of 'fast-paced', and despite our best efforts, it is yet to roll anywhere – rather it has been beset by the same delays, cancellations and frustrations as all of the Gallery's other in-house plans.
Our original concept, as outlined in B.165, was based around the use of one of Christchurch Art Gallery's ground-floor exhibition spaces, which we hoped to reoccupy as soon as they were no longer required as part of the City Council/CERA earthquake response. But as we are now only too aware, we won't be showing anything there any time soon.