Exhibitions
Events
On display
Peter Vangioni: One O'Clock Jump
Sybil Andrews Racing 1934. Linocut. Collection of Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū, gift of Rex Nan Kivell, 1953. © Estate of Sybil Andrews, Glenbow, Calgary, Alberta
Talk
Philip Carter Family Auditorium
Free
Curator Peter Vangioni marks the opening of the new printmaking exhibition, One O’Clock Jump: British Linocuts from the Jazz Age with an illustrated talk on the emergence of the linocut in England during the 1920s.
A new medium for a new modern era, the linocut was embraced by British artists who revelled in its simplicity to create some of the most extraordinary prints of the 20th century.
Related reading: Prints, Free
Exhibition
One O'Clock Jump: British Linocuts from the Jazz Age
7 December 2024 – 11 May 2025
Dynamic and vibrant prints from a fast-changing world.
Exhibition
Ink on Paper: Aotearoa New Zealand Printmakers of the Modern Era
11 February – 28 May 2023
An exquisite selection of etchings, lithographs, wood-engravings and linocuts made during one of the most dynamic periods in Aotearoa’s art history.
Commentary
For the Price of a Pint of Beer
One of the joys of working at a public art gallery is the opportunity to really get to know an institution’s collection. I still remember, as a newly appointed curator of works on paper at the Robert McDougall Art Gallery, coming across a cache of the brightest, most colourful and energetic prints I had ever seen among the Rex Nan Kivell collection of modern British prints. Given to the Gallery in 1953, the sheer breadth and depth of Nan Kivell’s incredibly comprehensive gift, especially when combined with the works he gave to Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki and Dunedin Public Art Gallery, makes this a collection of British linocuts to rival those in major collections throughout the world.
