This exhibition is now closed
Unseen: The Changing Collection
18 December 2015 –
19 June 2016
Sarah Lucas Nud Cycladic 1 2009. Tights, fluff, wire, concrete blocks, MDF. Collection of Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū. Purchase enabled by a gift from Andrew and Jenny Smith, made in response to the generosity of Sarah Lucas, Sadie Coles, London and Two Rooms, Auckland to the people of Christchurch on the occasion of the Canterbury Earthquake, February 2011
A selection of exciting recent additions to Christchurch's public art collection.
Art collections don’t stand still. Each new acquisition connects us with an ever-changing present, recharging the works it brushes up against with altered contexts and expanded meanings. Unseen offers an invigorating and intriguing selection from the works that have been added to Christchurch’s public art collection by purchase or gift while we’ve been closed.
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Collection works in this exhibition
Exhibition number: 980
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Contemporary Art Partner
Collection works in this exhibition (48)
Walt's Wet Dream
Jason Greig
A Hot Drawing for a Tin Roof Painting
Ralph Hotere
Wanton Eye
Barbara Tuck
Grandparents at Okains
Jeffrey Harris
Sydney Harbour
Don Peebles
New Representation #2
André Hemer
rainwob ii
Francis Upritchard
Burma Visit
Max Gimblett
Yes - Correct - That's It - Right
Max Gimblett
Lost at Sea - 3
Max Gimblett
Living in the Face of Death
Max Gimblett
Disasters of War - 2 - The Sting of the Real. The Lives of All Children Our Shame.
Max Gimblett
Disasters of War - 14 - Electrocution
Max Gimblett
Certainty
Max Gimblett
The Ancient Gods
Max Gimblett
Yellow Bleed
Max Gimblett
Anima - Relic
Max Gimblett
The Multicolored Garment
Max Gimblett
Self-Liberation by Knowing the Signs of Death
Max Gimblett
Ocean Wheel
Max Gimblett
Christ in Majesty - after Fra Angelico
Max Gimblett
Crouches with moths
Peter Madden
NUD CYCLADIC 1
Sarah Lucas
There is only one direction
Colin McCahon
Springing Fern
Eileen Mayo
Shrink wrap
Glen Hayward
Depot
Philip Trusttum
Untitled [Quentin (Kin) Woollaston Shearing]
Toss Woollaston
Kauri Tree
Colin McCahon
The Saviour
Wayne Youle
Latimer Square, Christchurch, 2012, from Adaptation, 2011 - 2012
Tim J. Veling
River Pool, Somerset
Frances Hodgkins
Closed circuit
Glen Hayward
Red Form
Glen Hayward
Typo
Glen Hayward
Red house
Stephen Bambury
Untitled
Brenda Nightingale
NDE
Peter Stichbury
Dust, Smoke and Rainbows
Shane Cotton
Monument #15
Callum Morton
Monument #15
Callum Morton
Kauri tree landscape
Colin McCahon
Bucket, Croagnes
Bill Culbert
Arrangement for 15 Colours (15/44)
Helen Calder
Dead Head
Tjalling de Vries
Cerulean Slipping
Marie Le Lievre
ALONE TIME
Wayne Youle
Untitled
Leigh Martin
Related
Notes
There is only one direction by Colin McCahon
This article appeared as 'Divine Innovation' in the The Press on 31 August 2012.
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Populate! update #4 (proofs of life)
So back at the start of last week I posted a teaser view of NDE, Peter Stichbury's work in progress for the Gallery's tenth-birthday Populate! programme, and asked the question: How is this easel painting, this thin skin of canvas with its fragile coating of acrylic, going to to muscle its way up to public art scale?
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No. 9, No. 9, No. 9, No. 9…Barbour Street
Colin McCahon spent several years based in Christchurch between 1948 and 1953 during which time he rented a house in Barbour street in the inner city suburb of Phillipstown.
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Hiding in plain sight
We've all heard the stories about confusions occurring on the edge where art meets life.
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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.
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Kauri tree landscape by Colin McCahon
This article first appeared as 'Mighty kauris inspired McCahon' in The Press on 10 February 2015.
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NUD CYCLADIC I by Sarah Lucas
This article first appeared as 'A visible means of support' in The Press on 26 September 2014.
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How Did You Do That?
How often have you stood in front of an art work and wondered how the artist did that?
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Lift of a gift
Staff here at the Gallery have enjoyed finally getting the opportunity to see Dust, Smoke and Rainbows (2013), a major new painting gifted by Shane Cotton, which was brought out of storage to be photographed recently.
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Populate! update #8 (face up)
The waning sun and lowering weather have one nice side-effect, which is to create the perfect conditions for viewing Peter Stichbury's backlit billboard NDE, newly installed on Worcester Boulevard.
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A major boon to the Gallery in the direct aftermath of the earthquake
English artist Sarah Lucas was installing her show in Two Rooms, Auckland, when the 22 February earthquake struck.
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Max's gift
In early 2010 Max Gimblett announced his intention to give the Gallery a substantial gift of works on paper. The only complication was that someone had to go and select them...
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Subtly engaging security
We've all heard the stories about confusions occurring on the edge where art meets life. The London cleaning lady, for instance, who threw out hundreds of cigarette butts that turned out to be a Damien Hirst. Naturally, no self-respecting gallery professional wants to see their favourite artworks confused with mere stuff.