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On display
Clarendon Hotel, Oxford Terrace by Cecil Kelly
Cecil Kelly Clarendon Hotel, Oxford Terrace c. 1940 Oil on canvas. Collection of Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū, purchased 1999
Art Bite
Past event
Meet in the exhibition
Join visitor host supervisor Janet Abbott as she discusses Cecil Kelly's Clarendon Hotel, Oxford Terrace in From Here on the Ground on the first floor.
Art Bites are 30-minute lunchtime presentations on a single work on display, presented by our staff, guides and guest speakers.
There's a new Art Bite to enjoy each Friday at 12 noon (except during public and school holidays).
Related reading: Free event
Exhibition
From Here on the Ground
18 May – 17 November 2024
Populated places and cityscapes converge with backyards, factories and remote railway stops in this fascinating survey of twentieth-century Aotearoa New Zealand artists exploring urban, suburban and industrial landscapes.
Collection
Cecil Kelly Clarendon Hotel, Oxford Terrace
Despite regularly embracing the opportunity to combine painting and travel, Cecil Kelly often also set up easel in his own Ōtautahi Christchurch neighbourhood and encouraged his Canterbury College School of Art students to do the same. In this instance, he was planted opposite the Clarendon Hotel and Public Trust Office on Oxford Terrace, five minutes from where he taught at the School of Art, and the same short distance from his home and studio downriver at 245 Montreal Street, where he lived with his wife, painter Elizabeth Kelly. Kelly embedded painting outdoors into his teaching. Bill Sutton, who trained under Kelly in the 1930s, later recalled him requiring students to paint over a previous week’s efforts (successful or otherwise) in a second sitting from the same position as an exercise in seeing differences in light and shadow.
(From Here on the Ground, 18 May – 17 November 2024)
