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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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Late night Wednesday until 9pm
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Free entry, free wifi
Notes
Must try harder
Sometimes I wonder about the blurbs we public gallery types pin to our exhibitions.
Exhibition
I seem to have temporarily misplaced my sense of humour
Stretching across a vast wall at the gateway to Sydenham, Wayne Youle's new public artwork is a shadowboard, where tools for rebuilding hang alongside many familiar but precious objects.
Notes
Going Bush
As we're constantly reminded by a somewhat strident billboard campaign, the Christchurch We Love Is Still Here.
Notes
Wrong way in
Impossible not to feel disappointed by news yesterday about a huge new sculptural gateway for Christchurch.
Notes
GOOD WEATHER FOR A STROLL AROUND THE GALLERY
Our new midday weekend Outer Spaces tours are underway, so what's keeping you away?
Collection
Joanna Margaret Paul UNPACKING the BODY
UNPACKING the BODY is one of several works artist and poet Joanna Margaret Paul made in response to the death of her infant daughter, Imogen. Swathed in a baby’s muslin wrap, it is both an annotated inventory of words connected to the human body and a lament about love, mothering and loss. Joanna’s work tenderly explores and names each part of the body, carefully listing resemblances to things in nature and the origins of the terms used to describe it. Bodies are ubiquitous, but they are also singular, and it is clear that what is represented here is something particular, private and irreplaceable.
(Perilous: Unheard Stories from the Collection, 6 August 2022- )