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Aroha ki te Takata a Rohe
Behind the scenes
Voluntary work is work done of one's own free will, unpaid, for the common good.
School tour at ArtBox
Barry et al. monthly Art Club on the C1 rooftop with Ronnie van Hout's Comin' Down 2013
Today is International Volunteer Day.
We wish to acknowledge and thank our team of 34 Gallery Guides who have continued to give about 1000 hours each year since our building has been closed for repairs. (The Guides gave over 3000 hours each year when our Gallery building was fully open).
This year, our Guides supported our education programme in the first three school terms by guiding groups through our hugely successful Burster Flipper Wobbler Dripper Spinner Stacker Shaker Maker exhibition at ArtBox.
They have added to the visitor experience by guiding tours and monthly art clubs at our offsite exhibition spaces, including Shane Cotton: Baseland.
Guides presented Art Bites on a single work to connect our visitors with the city's collection, currently in storage while we are closed.
Guides have also supported our public programmes at special events, holiday programmes for children and have presented works from our collection at rest homes and our new outreach initiative called ARTSheimers, in association with Alzheimers Canterbury.
ARTSheimers outreach
Related reading: Fulton Hogan
Director's Foreword
Everything is going to be alright
The cover of Bulletin 181 in September 2015 featured a miscellany of crates in storage, several marked fragile, one weighing 156kg, some with arrows indicating which way up they should be, others instructing the reopener to lay it flat first. Some bear an image of what’s inside. Ralph Hotere’s Malady Panels and Julia Morison’s Tootoo are there, one with a label, the other with an image of the installed piece. As I write this our collections remain in storage. A few new works and some which have been on loan are awaiting return from storage within other institutions.
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Sparks that fly upwards
Curator Felicity Milburn remembers five years and 101 installations in a gallery without walls.
