Julian Dashper
Aotearoa New Zealand, b.1960, d.2009
Cass
- 1986
- Silver gelatin print and pastel on paper
- Purchased, 2012
- 685 x 1395mm
- 2012/021
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Tags: appropriation (imagery), buildings (structures), crosses (motifs), mountains, railroad stations, trees, utility poles, words
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Rita Angus Cass
In the autumn of 1936, Rita Angus, with artist friends Louise Henderson and Julia Scarvell, took a ten-day sketching trip to Cass – a remote railway stop on the Midland Line between Ōtautahi Christchurch and Te Tai Poutini West Coast. Angus completed several works in oil and watercolour in the following months, all showing her attentiveness to human presence in the sweeping landscape. Cass, her best-known work, includes railway sheds, a stationary wagon, telegraph poles and stacked timber, as well as a solitary waiting passenger. Other finished works from this visit featured a derelict musterers’ hut and the Canterbury College Biological Station with a passing steam engine.
(He Kapuka Oneone – A Handful of Soil, 2025)
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100 years of the Cass field station
Last weekend the University of Canterbury Biology Department celebrated the 100th anniversary of the field station at Cass with a symposium on Cass followed up with a field trip to the station.
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CASS
André Hemer's exhibition CASS is well worth a visit if you are near the Christchurch Art Gallery's space above NG on Madras street.
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From CASS to <del>CASS</del> - Iterations of New Zealand's 'greatest painting'
Over 50 iterations of Rita Angus's 1936 painting Cass are collated in André Hemer's new exhibition CASS, which considers ideas of distance, deletion and dislocation.