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Chase the blues away
Behind the scenes
The first day back at work after a holiday is always a bit rubbish isn't it. And today is no exception, particularly when you add to the general post-festive blues the new layer of plaster dust and earthquake-related detritus that this particular break generated.
Michael Parekowhai Cosmo 2006. Woven nylon substrate, pigment, electrical components. Collection of Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū, the Jim Barr and Mary Barr Gift 2011
Michael Parekowhai Cosmo 2006. Woven nylon substrate, pigment, electrical components. Collection of Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū, the Jim Barr and Mary Barr Gift 2011
Michael Parekowhai Cosmo 2006. Woven nylon substrate, pigment, electrical components. Collection of Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū, the Jim Barr and Mary Barr Gift 2011
Michael Parekowhai Cosmo 2006. Woven nylon substrate, pigment, electrical components. Collection of Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū, the Jim Barr and Mary Barr Gift 2011
So this morning when I was rather grumpily looking through the Gallery drives for images of something or other and I found these photos again, they really cheered me up. If I could bring myself to use text-speak I might even go as far as to say they made me LOL. But I won't. I remembered what a fun morning we had had setting up the shots around the Gallery and I thought 'hey, it's not so bad being back!'
Hopefully he can cheer up your post-holiday blues too. Here's Cosmo...
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Exhibition
Op + Pop
6 February – 19 June 2016
The influence of two major twentieth-century art movements on New Zealand art.
Collection
Michael Parekowhai Cosmo McMurtry
Some characters aren’t quite what they seem, no matter how charming. Michael Parekōwhai’s Cosmo McMurtry is a noxious pest in the guise of a Disney-worthy bunny. Even his doe-eyed, cutesy appearance can’t quite erase our awareness of the toll his endlessly multiplying relatives have taken on Aotearoa New Zealand’s natural environment. It’s a short hop from one introduced, invasive species to the next, which leads us to an uncomfortable question: is Cosmo a rabbit-shaped personification of colonisation?
(Dummies & Doppelgängers, 2 November 2024 – 23 March 2025)