Richard Killeen The inner binding (detail) 2012. Translucent vinyl. Courtesy of the artist. A Christchurch Art Gallery Outer Spaces project in association with Christchurch City Libraries
Richard Killeen The inner binding (detail) 2012. Translucent vinyl. Courtesy of the artist. A Christchurch Art Gallery Outer Spaces project in association with Christchurch City Libraries
This exhibition is now closed
Laden with associations, but buoyant with possibility, this large-scale window commission by renowned New Zealand artist Richard Killeen features a richly-layered composition that hints at systems of knowledge and classification.
Richard Killeen once described himself as a 'miner' of libraries; extracting a wealth of images and shapes to condense and manipulate with his distinctive 'cut-out' technique. The layered forms in this intricate digital work recall, amongst many other things, the genealogical patterns used by early cultures to record and preserve family connections. Here, cut free from their original context, the distinctive images Killeen has chosen produce a work that is both laden with associated meanings and buoyant with possibility.
A Christchurch Art Gallery Outer Spaces project in association with Christchurch City Libraries.
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Date:
10 July 2012 – 20 September 2018 -
Location:
Central Library Peterborough -
Exhibition number:
912 -
Part of
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Tjalling is Innocent
21 August – 29 October 2012
An ambitious paste-up work by local artist Tjalling de Vries on CoCa's back wall (viewable from Worcester Boulevard), Tjalling is Innocent is an Outer Spaces project presented in association with CoCA.
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On your marks
Anyone visiting the Central Library Peterborough during the past 2 months will have noticed the impressive Richard Killeen art work The inner binding which looms large above the library entrance.
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After midnight...
'We're gonna give an exhibition.
We're gonna find out what it is all about.'
JJ Cale got it about right.
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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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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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(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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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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