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On display
Follow Your Nose: Conor Clarke and the Hutton's Shearwater Trust
Conor Clarke Ka kite anō 2023. Pigment print on Hahnemühle Baryta paper. Courtesy of the artist and Jonathan Smart Gallery, Ōtautahi Christchurch
Talk
Philip Carter Family Auditorium
Free
Artist and lecturer Conor Clarke (Waitaha, Ngāti Māmoe, Ngāti Tahu) and chair of the Hutton’s Shearwater Charitable Trust, Ted Howard, discuss their experience of creating Follow Your Nose.
It is a uniquely Aotearoa New Zealand story of collaboration, exploration and conservation of a species under threat.
Hutton’s Shearwater Charitable Trust
Related reading: Conservation, Talk, Artist Talk, Free event
Interview
Gold, Chalk and Rabbit-Skin Glue
Bulletin talks to Anne-Sophie Ninino, a French-trained conservator based in Ōtautahi Christchurch with international experience in museum conservation and a specialisation in gilding, frame and heritage restoration.
Article
Street urchins, blue moons and rare visions
Even in a city where surreal scenes have become somewhat routine, the sight of the Isaac Theatre Royal's eight-tonne dome, suspended like a great alien craft, had the power to turn heads and drop jaws. Preserved inside a strange white shroud while the theatre was slowly deconstructed around it was a jewel of Christchurch's decorative arts heritage – a 105 year-old Italianate plaster ceiling featuring a circular painted reverie on the theme of William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. The dome, along with the rest of the theatre, is currently being restored as part of an ambitious rebuild that is expected to be completed in 2015 at a cost of over $30 million.
