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Populate! update #5 (back to the drawing board)
Today the Populate! tenth-birthday sneak-preview cam takes us to 200 Gertrude Street in Melbourne and the studio of New Zealand-born and now Melbourne-based Jess Johnson, well known as a force behind the maverick outfit Hell Gallery and now, as you can see, thoroughly busy making art of her own.
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Populate! update #4 (proofs of life)
So back at the start of last week I posted a teaser view of NDE, Peter Stichbury's work in progress for the Gallery's tenth-birthday Populate! programme, and asked the question: How is this easel painting, this thin skin of canvas with its fragile coating of acrylic, going to to muscle its way up to public art scale?
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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.)