Last time I wrote we were busy making space and getting ready to move the collections back into storage. Since then we've been busy! While the team were installing the Shane Cotton: Baseland exhibition last week, I took stock of what we've done and what's still to do.

This article first appeared as 'Artist unknown' in The Press on 6 June 2014.

Staff here at the Gallery have enjoyed finally getting the opportunity to see Dust, Smoke and Rainbows (2013), a major new painting gifted by Shane Cotton, which was brought out of storage to be photographed recently.

Gallery staff are busy behind the scenes at the moment preparing for the installation of Shane Cotton's exhibition Baseland which opens at our Tuam street gallery and the Ilam Campus Gallery at the School of Fine Arts, University of Canterbury on 7 June.