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Eye worms
One nice thing about art is that it's not locked down to the physical location in which you first encounter it. Once it's in your head, you can take it anywhere...
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Huntsbury Press
The Gallery was very fortunate to receive a collection of books from Leo Bensemann's library this week.
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Scenes from an install
In Felicity's introduction to Julia Morison's soon-opening show, she calls the works 'nothings and somethings, odds and ends, endings and beginnings'. They're all in play – along with odds and ends of other kinds – in these shots from the install-in-progress. And yes, you sharp-eyed spotters of things Gothic, that's the word 'Macabre' on Scott's shirt...
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Aw, bless their little aerosol-coated hearts
Let it not be said that Christchurch's vandals, ahem, street artists, lack a sense of community spirit.
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Room with a (hell of a) view
There are some intriguing things to look at in Julia Morison's show, Meet me on the other side, opening next week in the NG building over on the east side of the red zone.
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The Boulevard of Broken Art
Well before the earthquakes, Christchurch had a reputation as a tough town for public art. The city's public spaces are haunted by the ghosts of several major sculptures that never made it to completion. And several local sculptors still carry some psychological scar tissue from their forays into the public realm.
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Wharariki Dreaming
Located at the top of the South Island's West Coast, near Cape Farewell, Wharariki Beach is a stunning area where the land meets the sea in dramatic fashion.
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It's funny really...
Once a week or thereabouts we're granted a half-hour window during which we're allowed into the Gallery building.