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Godley House

Godley House

The Press announced today that another iconic Banks Peninsula building is to be demolished, Godley House at Diamond Harbour.

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Art News and the Gallery

Art News and the Gallery

The new issue of Art News New Zealand is out now, and features a run down of the state of the arts in post-quake Christchurch.

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Lessons on wheels

Lessons on wheels

This term I am in the car taking lessons out and about to schools around Christchurch as part of our outreach programme.

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Open House – our opening (and reopening) exhibitions

Open House – our opening (and reopening) exhibitions

It's an open house. Come in. That's the simple message we'll be sending when the Gallery reopens later this year.

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Duvauchelle Hotel

Duvauchelle Hotel

Sad end for the Duvauchelle Hotel

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Pupils' self-portraits aid in healing

Pupils' self-portraits aid in healing

SELF-PORTRAITS created by a group of year 3 pupils who had spent the morning of February 22 at the Christchurch Art Gallery have become both a permanent record and a way to heal the emotional impact of their experiences.

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Where's my Bulletin gone?

Where's my Bulletin gone?

On 22 February B.164 was drying in piles on the floor of Spectrum Print. The job had just been finished and press-passed the day before, and was due to be bound the next day. Of course, that never happened.

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The Potter [Luke Adams]

Charles Kidson The Potter [Luke Adams]

Best known as a sculptor, Charles Kidson was an assistant master at Canterbury College School of Art in 1896 when he exhibited The Potter at the Canterbury Society of Arts. A reviewer described the work as ‘a large canvas, which though not a portrait picture, bears an admirable likeness to a well-known Christchurch tradesman at work at his wheel’.The painting’s subject was Luke Adams (1838–1918), an English-born potter who established his Sydenham Pottery Works in 1881. Pictured here throwing flowerpots from prepared lumps of clay, Adams often put himself on public display, working at his wheel during local industrial exhibitions.

(Leaving for Work, 2 October 2021 – 1 May 2022)

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