Colin McCahon

In 2014 we purchased an important landscape work by Colin McCahon. Curator Peter Vangioni speaks about this new addition to Christchurch Art Gallery’s collection.

The way a work of art is framed affects our perception of the piece. A bad frame can detract and distract, a good frame enhances and even extends a work. While the Gallery has been closed we have updated frames for a number of works in the collection.

This article first appeared as 'Mighty kauris inspired McCahon' in The Press on 10 February 2015.

On a recent printer's residency at the Otago University's Otakou Press Colin McCahon's huge mural painting Waterfall Theme and variations dominated proceedings.

Today is the centennial of the death of one of New Zealand's most treasured artists, Petrus van der Velden.

This article appeared as 'Divine Innovation' in the The Press on 31 August 2012.

Oh yes he does.

After many, many months in the 'Darkness' of the empty gallery, I can think of no better words than those of Colin McCahon to signify the opening of the new gallery shop at 40 Lichfield Street.

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See you all soon!

An Easter-themed excerpt from an article published in 2010 in The Journal of New Zealand Art History...

Nothing made it into a W.A. Sutton painting by accident, and the white line that rises diagonally through the sky in Plantation Series II is no exception.