Fiona Pardington The prow of the Charlotte Jane 2009. Digital print.
Reproduced courtesy of the artist.
Fiona Pardington The prow of the Charlotte Jane 2009. Digital print.
Reproduced courtesy of the artist.
This exhibition is now closed
In September 1850 more than 150 settlers left England for Canterbury, New Zealand, aboard the Charlotte Jane. A century later a Christchurch glass-blower called John Rowe, a descendant of one of those passengers, recreated the ship as a scale model. The model is now in the collection of Canterbury Museum, where it was photographed recently by Fiona Pardington. In this new incarnation, floating in a black void, the Charlotte Jane has become a ghost ship – at once imposing and skeletal, beautiful and fragile.
Further works by Pardington can be seen inside the Gallery, in the exhibition Brought to Light: A New View of the Collection.
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Date:
10 November 2009 – 31 October 2010 -
Exhibition number:
836B
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