Paul Johns: South Pacific Sanctuary / Peraki / Banks Peninsula, installation view 2014
This exhibition is now closed
The consideration of Japanese whale-hunting activity and ensuing protest in nearby southern waters has led to a reflection on our local whaling past, highlighting changing and divergent attitudes to animal life.
The residue of history is awakened in new work by Christchurch-based artist Paul Johns, whose consideration of Japanese whale-hunting activity in southern Antarctic waters and the ensuing protests has led to a reflection on our local whaling past. The artist's personal connections to Banks Peninsula contribute to a finely tuned response that reveals how, although the substance of the past is eroded over time, resonant traces are left behind. The contrast between past and present also draws attention to changing or evolving attitudes to animal life.
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Date:
8 November 2014 – 25 January 2015 -
Curator:
Ken Hall -
Exhibition number:
976
Related reading: Outer Spaces, exhibition-976
Exhibition
Artists Project: Paul Johns
7 August – 13 September 1981
This exhibition is an autobiographical statement which is composed of diverse works: large silk screened images, neon, written documentation and orgone accumulation.
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Holiday reading
Herman Melville's Moby Dick, first published on 14 November 1851, is a whale of a book...
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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.
Interview
Silent Patterns
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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