Elliot Collins Everything's Evaporating 2008. Enamel and acrylic on canvas. Reproduced courtesy of the artist and Tim Melville Gallery
Elliot Collins Walkabout 2010. Oil on canvas. Reproduced courtesy of the artist and Tim Melville Gallery
Elliot Collins Sparks that fly upwards 2008. Acrylic on linen. Private collection. Reproduced courtesy of the artist
This exhibition is now closed
Keep an eye out for the Gallery's latest Outer Spaces project around town over the next couple of weeks as poster reproductions of three paintings by Auckland artist Elliot Collins appear pasted to bollards and walls throughout the city.
Elliot Collins's word paintings, Everything's Evaporating, Sparks that fly upwards and Walkabout, were not created directly in response to the Canterbury earthquakes but the poignant messages they carry can offer universal glimpses of hope when applied to the devastation that has been experienced since September 2010. Collins had four paintings and a video work in the exhibition Van der Velden: Otira, which was open for just twelve days at Christchurch Art Gallery prior to the 22 February earthquake.
From a glowing billboard on Worcester Boulevard to sculpture on the Gallery forecourt, the Outer Spaces programme ensures there's art to see not just in Christchurch Art Gallery but on it. With the Gallery closed due to the Christchurch earthquakes, we're expanding the programme into the wider city. From vivid murals on huge public walls to night-time video projections in nearby houses, Outer Spaces introduces moments of surprise, humour, colour and wonder to the post-quake Christchurch streetscape.
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Date:
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for those that stay behind
In the latest installment of the Gallery's Outer Spaces programme, keep an eye out for posters of several Elliot Collins' word paintings that are currently pasted up round town.
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Holloway Press 1994-2014
Last chance to view the Holloway Press exhibition at Central Library Peterborough this week so if you are in the neighbourhood and like beautifully printed, designed and hand-crafted books then make sure you head along.
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Sian Torrington Call Out
Christchurch Art Gallery is excited to be working with Wellington-based artist Sian Torrington on a site-specific sculptural installation that will combine ideas, images and materials that relate to living in Christchurch now.
See below for a message from Sian to find out how you can get involved.
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Outer Space programme sees Canterbury arts graduate exhibit work in Showhome
The Gallery's latest exhibition in the Outer Spaces programme, Showhome, has opened in Christchurch, featuring the disconcertingly 'perfect' works of recent University of Canterbury graduate Emily Hartley-Skudder.
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Worcester Boulevard exhibition extended as publication developed
The popularity of Reconstruction: Conversations on a City has led to the exhibition being extended until 14 October, and the development of a publication.
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The inner binding now on display at the library
If you've not been down to the Central Library Peterborough yet now's a good time to do it.
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(Way Out)er Spaces
We're pretty pleased with what we're achieving with our Outer Spaces programme, but it's always good to see what else is out there. And I do mean 'out there'...
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The ghost of studios past
In preparation for the next issue of Bulletin, Gallery photographer John and I have been out photographing some of the local artists who will be taking part in Rolling Maul when we reopen.
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When we asked Tony de Lautour to produce a new work for the Bunker—the name Gallery staff give to the small, square elevator building at the front of the forecourt on Montreal Street—he proposed a paint scheme inspired by Dazzle camouflage. Associated with the geometric near-abstraction of the vorticist movement, Dazzle was developed by British and American artists during the First World War to disguise shipping. It was a monumental form of camouflage that aimed not to hide the ship but to break up its mass visually and confuse enemies about its speed and direction. In a time before radar and sonar were developed, Dazzle was designed to disorientate German U-boat commanders looking through their periscopes, and protect the merchant fleets.
Senior curator Lara Strongman spoke with Tony de Lautour in late January 2016.
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