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Marilynn Webb: Folded in the Hills
8 June –
13 October 2024
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
"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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Curator:
Lauren Gutsell
Lucy Hammonds
Bridget Reweti
Exhibition number: 1163
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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.
