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Dried flowers from Mars
We're all getting pretty used to some odd sights in this crazy old town.
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Christchurch Art Gallery takes out Museums Aotearoa Award
Our building may be closed – but we've have still achieved national recognition of by winning a prestigious Museums Aotearoa Award.
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Thinking / feeling my way in
"What abstract painting can do better than anything else is [evoke] that sense of recognition that's indefinite yet ecstatic at the same time. It's getting to the emotional underpinning that we all share, that is the substitute for the common or religious belief. I believe abstraction can do that."
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Populate! update #3 (legs to stand on)
Meanwhile, over in Melbourne, Ronnie van Hout's contribution to the birthday programme is emerging bit by bit. First, the torso...
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Populate! update #2 (painting outdoors)
The Populate! programme includes some indoor art, of course (Jess Johnson, Tony Oursler, Camp Blood), but there are some sizeable pieces of outdoor art taking shape for our birthday celebration too...
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Populate! update #1 (not quite Hollywood)
Our tenth-birthday Populate! programme is revving up – fast. Here's the first of what'll be quite a few Populate! updates leading up to our birthday on May 10. (And a warning to those suffering coulrophobia, or fear of clowns: DON'T SCROLL DOWN.)
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Boyce / Braithwaite / Van Hout
Only two days left to visit Artbox's inaugural exhibition, which includes work by Roger Boyce, Joanna Braithwaite and Ronnie van Hout.
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Summertime, Arthurs Pass
I recently found myself walking through a scene straight out of Grace Butler's 1946 oil painting.