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It's a very gourd sign
One painting I was very pleased to see again recently isn't from the Gallery's collection, but will be very familiar to many Christchurch people.
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Smith's Bookshop
Julian Dashper's drawing/collage Blue Cross at Smith's Bookshop captures something of the friendly chaos that welcomed visitors as they stepped off the footpath of Manchester street and into one of Christchurch's most well-known and best-loved bookstores.
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But seriously
When it comes to contemporary painting, seriousness has a way of turning into solemnity, and solemn art is just asking for it.
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Size matters
More moments to treasure emerge from our digitisation of early Gallery exhibitions.
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When Dallington was green (not red)
It has dirty yellows and dun-greens, under silvery mid-winter light. You might even call it drab, a deliberate exercise in the un-picturesque. It's Dallington many decades ago, as seen by Russell Clark – a painting which, on an ordinary day, you might find yourself walking right past.
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Exhibition Proposals for Chambers@241
Expressions of interest for solo and group exhibitions by artists based in Christchurch are requested for the period August to December 2011 in the newly established Chambers@241 art gallery at 241 Moorhouse Avenue, Christchurch.
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The Dutch 'Dude'
In-house disappointment at the closure of the Van der Velden exhibition has been lifted today by rumours of Hollywood interest in the story of the Dutch painter and his sorties into the weather-lashed upper reaches of the South Island alpine pass.