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Auction Event 2019
Image: Mervyn Williams Catalyst [red] 1994. Acrylic on canvas. Reproduced courtesy of the artist.
The first of fifty artworks to arrive in the Gallery for this year's Auction Event.
Image: Bronwynne Cornish Anubis with Satyrs 2019. Ceramic. Reproduced courtesy of the artist.
Image: Julia Morison Head[case] 71 2019. Ink on rag paper. Reproduced courtesy of the artist.
Image: Sara Hughes Spotter 2016. Acrylic on canvas board. Reproduced courtesy of the artist.
Friends
Past event
Foyer
$60
Join us for an evening of spectacular art, great eats by Lizzie's Cuisine and an open bar from Greystone Wines and Three Boys Brewery.
It's an amazing opportunity to purchase original works by New Zealand artists with proceeds from the night going towards the Gallery's acquisition fund.
Enjoy a fantastic night out and contribute to our great art scene in Ōtautahi Christchurch.
Purchase tickets to the event below (click on 'Choose Date') or at the Gallery Design Store.
View the online catalogue HERE.
The line up includes: Mark Adams, Nick Austin, Sharnaé Beardsley, Tony Bond, Joanna Braithwaite, Vita Cochran, Bronwynne Cornish, Judy Darragh, Bing Dawe, Tony de Lautour, Andrew Drummond, Allie Eagle, Simon Edwards, Tyne Gordon, Jason Greig, Jacquelyn Greenbank, Rebecca Harris, Emily Hartley-Skudder, Veronica Herber, Sara Hughes, Robyn Kahukiwa, Marie Le Lievre, Saskia Leek, Richard Lewer, Kim Lowe, Simon Morris, Julia Morison, Solomon Mortimer, Kazu Nakagawa, Oliver Perkins, Chris Pole, Hana Rakena, Aiko Robinson, Doc Ross, Richard Stratton, Peter Trevelyan, Janna van Hasselt, Ans Westra and Mervyn Williams.
Doors open 6.30pm
Auction starts 7.15pm
Preview the works at the Gallery on:
Wednesday 18 September, 5 – 9pm
Thursday 19 September, 10am – 5pm
Friday 20 September, 10am – 5pm
Registration: From 6.30pm on entry to Auction Event
Absentee bids: Accepted until midday Friday 20 September.
Click HERE to download the absentee bidding form. Scan and send the completed form to friends@christchurchartgallery.org.nz
Auction coordinator Grant Banbury will be presenting a talk on the auction works at 6pm, Wednesday 18th of September in the Gallery's Philip Carter Family Auditorium. Present your Auction Event ticket to attend the talk for free.
Related reading: Friends, auction
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Notes
Underworld 2 by Tony de Lautour
This article first appeared as 'Painting offers a multiverse of symbols' in The Press on 21 June 2017.
Notes
Walk the Beat
Volunteer guide Rod McKay talks about his life, being an art tourist, and guiding Gallery tours.
Notes
The Art Whisperer
Christchurch Art Gallery volunteer guide Bella Boyd talks about her love of guiding, her favourite works in the Gallery collection and interpreting art with poetry.
Commentary
Mediating Reality
In the late 1980s, a significant shift for photography in Aotearoa New Zealand was identified in two art publications. The essays and images in these books showed how artists were utilising new strategies, breaking away from the prevailing documentary photography tradition that was, and still is, widespread in Aotearoa. Six Women Photographers (1986) was edited by artists Merylyn Tweedie and Rhondda Bosworth for Photoforum; and Imposing Narratives: Beyond the Documentary in Recent New Zealand Photography (1989) was the catalogue for an exhibition curated by Gregory Burke for City Gallery Wellington. The artists included in both publications questioned in various ways the assumptions and rules of image making, manipulating the media and making a political move from the standpoint of taking a photograph, to making one. No longer was a photograph considered a truthful representation of reality. Instead, photography was seen as a product of, and a participant in, current social and cultural values.
Commentary
Do You See?
With the death of Julie King late in 2018, art and art history in Aotearoa New Zealand lost one of its great champions and major scholars. Julie was born in Yorkshire and grew up and was educated in Alnwick, Northumberland; she moved to Christchurch in 1975 to take up a role lecturing in the newly formed art history department at the University of Canterbury. She retired three decades later, having pioneered the teaching of New Zealand art in Canterbury.
Collection
Julia Morison Dulia
In the early 1990s, Julia Morison used gold and shit in many works, exploring the idealised and base elements of human experience. She drew on the Jewish Sefiroth as a model for thinking about the relationship between the physical and the metaphysical. “Personally, I need to put some kind of order on experience for sake of sanity and negotiation,” she said. “The Sefirothic structure, or Tree of Knowledge, is really a metaphorical file and folder system for all; a conceptual paradigm for understanding everything. Putting that at the core of my practice gives me the freedom to admit everything and anything, micro and macro, metaphysical and corporeal, as legitimate content. It also gives me an interface to compose works.”
The title of this work, Dulia, is a Catholic term for worship given to saints and angels. Here Morison has pressed gold and excrement on to handmade paper balls, which are threaded together like the beads of a catholic rosary—an invitation to meditate on the relationship of the sacred and the profane, on a monumental scale.
