Marilynn Webb Cloud Landscape 2 (detail) 1973. Linoleum engraving. Collection of Dunedin Public Art Gallery, purchased 1973 with funds from the Dunedin Public Art Gallery
Marilynn Webb Rakiura 2002. Pastel on paper. Marilynn Webb Estate collection
Marilynn Webb Mataura Valley Suite No. 1 1995. Pastel on arches paper. Collection of Eastern Southland Gallery, purchased with a donation from D. Gilchrist February/March 1995
Marilynn Webb Snow clouds and tussock, Lake Mahinerangi 1989. Hand-coloured linocut on paper. Collection of Dunedin Public Art Gallery, purchased 1993 with funds from the Dunedin Public Art Gallery Society
Marilynn Webb Cloud Landscape 2 1973. Linoleum engraving. Collection of Dunedin Public Art Gallery, purchased 1973 with funds from the Dunedin Public Art Gallery
Marilynn Webb Folded in the Hills installation view
Marilynn Webb Folded in the Hills installation view
Marilynn Webb Folded in the Hills installation view
Marilynn Webb Folded in the Hills installation view
Marilynn Webb Folded in the Hills installation view
Marilynn Webb Folded in the Hills installation view
This exhibition is now closed
"It’s nothing to do with drawing landscape, it’s to do with connection…"
Marilynn Webb (1937–2021)
Across five decades, Ngāpuhi, Te Roroa and Ngāti Kahu artist Marilynn Webb (NZOM) dedicated herself to making art concerned with the relationships between land, sky and water. Extending from Te Tai Tokerau Northland, to the home she made in Ōtepoti Dunedin, Webb spent her lifetime tracing the potential of the horizon and finding strength in the embrace of the hills. This is the legacy that she leaves to the next generation: the power of connection between tangata and whenua, people and land.
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Date:
8 June – 13 October 2024 -
Curator:
Lauren Gutsell, Lucy Hammonds, Bridget Reweti -
Exhibition number:
1163 -
Exhibition developed, toured and led by
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Director's Foreword
Director’s Foreword
Welcome to the winter 2024 edition of Bulletin. At its very heart, Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū is built upon a collection that weaves together diverse threads from history, culture and imagination. From contemporary installations that reflect and challenge the world around us to finely crafted historical paintings, each piece tells us something about the human experience, connecting past, present and future in a continuous dialogue. The works in our collection make other statements too: about where we have come from, who we are now, and how we hope others might see us in the future. Far more than a selection of static objects, it’s a living resource that will continue to grow and change as time passes and ideas shift, and as Ōtautahi Christchurch continues to adapt and transform into a diverse and exciting cultural powerhouse.
Collection
Marilynn Webb Aramoana Soup
Aotearoa New Zealand has a long tradition of environmental protest, often centred on the shoreline and with artists at the forefront. Aramoana, near the entrance to Otago Harbour, was proposed as the site of a large aluminium smelter by a New Zealand and foreign-owned consortium in the 1970s. The Save Aramoana Campaign was formed in 1974 and involved many well-known artists. The smelter proposal was eventually abandoned and the saltmarshes designated as a reserve. In 1982, Marilyn Webb produced a print portfolio titled Taste Before Eating, which included Aramoana Soup. Written in the style of the popular radio personality Aunt Daisy, Webb’s ‘recipes’ were a warning about the negative impacts of projects that prioritised economic benefits over the welfare of the environment.
(Te Wheke, 2020)