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Further North

Behind the scenes

Continuing down the recently reopened Madras Street and drawing tenuous links to works from our collection (!), I've always been a sucker for a good gargoyle.

Charles Meryon Le Stryge 1853. Etching. Collection of Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū, presented by Olivia Spencer Bower 1979

Charles Meryon Le Stryge 1853. Etching. Collection of Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū, presented by Olivia Spencer Bower 1979

Charles Meryon's Le Stryge is certainly the best example that the Gallery has, but check out the pointy bits on this clock tower on the corner of Madras and Oxford terrace. They've been wrapped in orange plastic and black gaffer tape, presumably to protect them during repairs, but the fact that they now resemble tigers is surely the best deterrent possible...

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