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Joanna Margaret Paul's Barry's Bay: Interior With Bed And Doll
Joanna Margaret Paul Barry's Bay: Interior With Bed And Doll 1974. Oil and watercolour on paper and hardboard. Collection of Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū, purchased 1974.
Art Bite
Past event
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Join writer and lecturer Dorothee Pauli as she discusses Joanna Margaret Paul's Barry's Bay: Interior With Bed And Doll in the exhibition 1969 Comeback Special on the ground 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 12.30pm.
Related reading: Free event
Exhibition
1969 Comeback Special
27 August – 6 November 2016
A fascinating focus show centred on a decade in which Gallery director, Brian Muir, began to acquire contemporary New Zealand art for the city’s collection.
Collection
Joanna Margaret Paul Barrys Bay: Interior with Bed and Doll
“Through the shaped spaces of the bed’s frame; through the flowers carved in the wood and through the window pane; through the pierced verandah hood, the foliate rose, I see the straight and curved branches parting of a tree. Without the lens heaven, the heavens not understood. Thus domestic life is both subject and metaphor.”
“As a woman, painting is not a job, not even a vocation. It is part of life, subject to the strains, and joys, of domestic life. I cannot paint unless the house is in order. Unless I paint I don’t function well in my domestic roles. Each thing is important. The idea that one sacrifices other values for art is alien to me, and I think to all women whose calling it is to do and be many things. To concentrate all meaning and all energy in a work of art is to leave life dry and banal. I don’t wish to separate the significant and everyday actions but to bring them to close as possible.” —Joanna Margaret Paul, 1975
(Perilous: Unheard Stories from the Collection, 6 August 2022- )
