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![Timekeeper](/media/cache/93/68/936865da837985896c4237d9c0f4903d.jpg)
Timekeeper
For those of you who got to see the De-Building exhibition way back in 2011, for the few weeks it was on display before the earthquakes, you may remember a wonderful piece by Pierre Huyghe, in which concentric rings revealed various layers of paint below the walls surface, a kind of archaelogical exploration of the gallery's exhibition history.
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![What is Artbox?](/media/cache/3f/12/3f12ee617c22664311c5e49a86c61ab9.jpg)
What is Artbox?
While our main building is closed we are still exhibiting real art in real spaces. One of our new spaces is ArtBox.
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Green with envy
Here's a little collection of works in our collection with links to the Emerald Isle
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![We do this by Alexis Hunter](/media/cache/99/90/99904b82de5ad140b950bcb6a00d922b.jpg)
We do this by Alexis Hunter
This article first appeared as 'I am woman see me paint' in The Press on 14 March 2014.
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![Nor'western Sky](/media/cache/38/d5/38d5cd18ccf0d224804174a981ebd446.jpg)
Nor'western Sky
Yesterday descendents of an old Christchurch identity, John Bradley, presented a charcoal drawing by Petrus van der Velden to Christchurch Art Gallery.
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Alexis Hunter
What is important is that artists lend their voice to expressions of freedom in their own unique way. Sometimes an artist's complex reading of a situation, which then can be put in a simple pure image, can help a movement become more popular. Art is an expressive medium, and if it is used to portray the values of a retrogressive regime, the art will be stilted and lifeless. That is why fascistic regimes always kill the poets and writers, and ban contemporary artists from showing. Just by the making of it, real art becomes the voice of freedom.
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![But briefly fooled](/media/cache/23/04/2304f4a1dabc014150daadb6e86e4908.jpg)
But briefly fooled
About four years ago we were contacted by a person who wanted to donate a watercolour painting depicting Christchurch Cathedral Square, by Charles Nathaniel Worsley, to the Gallery.
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![It’s not as bad as Dusky Sound…](/media/cache/c6/67/c66736a95130c974967b6e8b9f2bc841.jpg)
It’s not as bad as Dusky Sound…
So said photographer Mark Adams to the brave art lovers who battled through the storm to hear him talk on Tuesday night. And they were glad they did.