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Populate! update #10 (body building)
The Rolleston, Scott and Godley statues may have toppled in the February 2011 earthquake. But never fear. In the Van Hout 'laboratory' in Christchurch Art Gallery's foyer, Ronnie, with the help of his brother Francis, is building another body for the depopulated inner city. One of the Gallery's tenth-birthday Populate! projects, it's going out -- and up -- very soon. Watch the rooftops round 209 Tuam...
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Dr T.L. Rodney Wilson 1945-2013
We learned of the death of Rodney Wilson yesterday and our thoughts are with his family and friends.
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Static
TV is going digital in the South Island (is it still called that?) TODAY, so if you haven't switched then this is what you will be watching.
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Populate! update #8 (face up)
The waning sun and lowering weather have one nice side-effect, which is to create the perfect conditions for viewing Peter Stichbury's backlit billboard NDE, newly installed on Worcester Boulevard.
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Our darkest rooms
One of the things I've noticed the most is how Christchurch has tidied things up.
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Otira: It's a state of mind
It's always a good day when new artworks arrive at the gallery to enter the permanent collection and so it was when Grace Butler's large oil painting In the Otira Gorge turned up. It has been very generously bequeathed to the Gallery by her daughter, Grace Adams who recently passed away.