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B.21601 Jun 2024
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Interview
![Otira: it's a state of mind](/media/cache/0b/87/0b8798322d3cd7cbe61e6d7e7d8796a4.jpg)
Otira: it's a state of mind
A short road trip to the Otira Gorge was the scene for a conversation between Gallery curator Peter Vangioni and two of the artists included in Van der Velden: Otira, Jason Greig and the Torlesse Supergroup's Roy Montgomery.
Article
![De-Building](/media/cache/00/f1/00f16bf66c5db2fd52a2f1af84897900.jpg)
De-Building
For many passers-by, Christchurch art Gallery is identified by its dramatic glass façade—the public face it presents to the world. but De-Building is an exhibition that offers a very different view. bringing together the work of fourteen artists from new Zealand and farther afield, this group exhibition draws inspiration from the working spaces gallery-goers seldom see: the workshops, loading bays and back corridors; the scruffy, half-defined zones.
Article
![A Tale of Two Chiefs](/media/cache/93/2c/932c206d44cf36b15201f7b79ea1c289.jpg)
A Tale of Two Chiefs
If you have recently visited He Taonga Rangatira: Noble Treasures at the Gallery you will have been struck by Fiona Pardington's two large photographic portraits of lifelike busts of Ngāi tahu tipuna (ancestors).
Article
![Storytelling with Hanly: A show for all ages](/media/cache/fe/a7/fea7a7c2e54462bf64cc92f062b6ca70.jpg)
Storytelling with Hanly: A show for all ages
The exhibition BLAST! Pat Hanly: the painter and his protests provides a spectacular opportunity for young and old to view the work of one of New Zealand's most cherished artists together—and for precious stories to be shared with the growing generation.
Interview
![Talking Bensemann](/media/cache/2f/e7/2fe76ea80c75cfbd76460e349d9cd471.jpg)
Talking Bensemann
Leo Bensemann was one of the most respected figures in the Christchurch arts scene, and played a pivotal role in influential arts collective The Group. Always something of an odd-man-out, he produced a large body of work across several different disciplines before his death in 1986. In an attempt to get a fuller picture of the man himself, Gallery director Jenny Harper spoke to two artists who knew him well, John Coley and Quentin MacFarlane.