Wayne Youle I seem to have temporarily misplaced my sense of humour (detail) 2011. Reproduced courtesy of the artist
Wayne Youle I seem to have temporarily misplaced my sense of humour (detail) 2011. Reproduced courtesy of the artist
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Stretching across a vast wall at the gateway to Sydenham, Wayne Youle's new public artwork is a shadowboard, where tools for rebuilding hang alongside many familiar but precious objects.
Inspired by memories of his grandfather's workshop, Wayne has designed a huge shadowboard like those found in sheds and garages everywhere. Alongside hammers and other tools, Wayne's board contains some familiar but unexpected things – like houses, toys and wedding rings. Wayne says: 'this mural is for all those who lent their tools and their hands to all who needed help. Also to all those that lost something in the quakes, no matter what that something may have been. Don't lose your sense of humour and ability to smile.'
A collaboration between the Gallery and Gap Filler, the work is located on Colombo Street, between Carlyle and Byron streets. The miural is 7.046 metres high and 35.33 metres wide.
Thanks to David Wagner and Wagner Holdings, B&F Papers, Mike Jones and VINZ Sydenham.
From a glowing billboard on Worcester Boulevard to sculpture on the Gallery forecourt, the Outer Spaces programme ensures there's art to see not just in Christchurch Art Gallery but on it. With the Gallery closed due to the Christchurch earthquakes, we're expanding the programme into the wider city. From vivid murals on huge public walls to night-time video projections in nearby houses, Outer Spaces introduces moments of surprise, humour, colour and wonder to the post-quake Christchurch streetscape.
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Date:
November 2011 – December 2015 -
Curator:
Justin Paton -
Exhibition number:
895 -
Part of
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Presented with
Related reading: Wayne Youle, Outer Spaces
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Wayne Youle
Artist Wayne Youle on Sydenham and his mural, I seem to have temporarily mislaid my sense of humour.
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Coralie Winn
An interview with Coralie Winn, founder of the Gap Filler project.
The Gallery recently collaborated with Gap Filler to realise a major mural project by Wayne Youle.
In this short clip, made just as work began on the mural, Coralie talks about the origins of Gap Filler, the character of Sydenham in the wake of the earthquakes, and her thoughts on how the mural will be received in this unique part of the city.
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Wayne Youle: I seem to have temporarily misplaced my sense of humour
A short time-lapse film showing Wayne's mural going up.
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Wayne Youle: Look Mum No Hands
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Phantom City: Doc Ross's Christchurch 1998-2011
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Matt Akehurst: You Are Here
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Pablo Picasso, Marcel Duchamp, Damien Hirst, Robert Smithson, Michelangelo... Yes, all the big names have just arrived on the Christchurch Art Gallery forecourt.
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Jae Hoon Lee: Annapurna
November 2010 – December 2012
An immense and oddly surreal landscape glowing out from the Springboard over Worcester Boulevard is the latest addition to the Outer Spaces programme.
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Julia Morison: Aibohphobia
June 2011 – May 2013
Julia Morison has turned the Gallery's squat grey bunker into a dizzying vision in dayglo green.
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André Hemer: Things to do with paint that won't dry
August 2010 – January 2013
New Zealand artist André Hemer's colourful Worcester Boulevard intervention Things to do with paint that won't dry, appears to flow and spill down the side of the building.
Artist Profile
Wayne Youle: Look Mum No Hands
He’s been called a cultural prankster, an agent provocateur and a bullshit artist (that last description came from his dad, but it was bestowed – he’s pretty sure – with love). While we’re at it, add ‘serial pun merchant’ to that list; in art, as in conversation, Wayne Youle can spot a good one-liner a mile off and has never knowingly left an entendre undoubled.
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Making Way for Art
Last Saturday, a dedicated crew of ten from the Student Volunteer Army in association with Gap Filler came out to improve the view of Wayne Youle's Sydenham mural, I Seem to Have Temporarily Misplaced My Sense of Humour.
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If walls could talk...
... we'd all need ear plugs. Three smart locals talking about walls, though – that we're happy to listen to. Here they are (and cheers to Simon and Nathan for the camerawork).
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What's going on in Sydenham?
Your father or grandfather probably had one. Maybe you've created one of your own. Possibly there's one on a wall at home, left there by a previous owner.
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Sweeeeet Manuka Honey
On it goes in Sydenham today. Tomorrow we introduce the artist. (On rollers: Chris, Sean, Simon, Scott, Nathan and Ben. And cheers Simon and John for the photos.)
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Vital statistics
I'm just back from Sydenham, where the big grey wall I mentioned yesterday is receiving its first layer of Resene Manuka Honey. Nothing like the sight of paint rolling out to warm an art-starved curator's heart.
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Wallpower
What's that weird sensation? Faint, but growing stronger. A stretching, tingling, anticipatory sort of feeling. Familiar but hard to name. After all this time, it couldn't be, surely? But yes (nervously touches wood), it really does seem to be true... It's that getting-ready-to-make-a-show feeling. People, we are about to present some art.
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The House of Wellbeing
On Saturday, I spoke at the launch of a major new work of art in public space—Wayne Youle's installation The House of Wellbeing ALL WELCOME, at the CPIT Aoraki campus on Madras Street.
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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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Viva Sydenham
It seems a lifetime ago that we combined with Gap Filler to launch the Gallery's first post-quake Outer Spaces project in Sydenham.
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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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Wayne’s workshop
Wayne Youle ran a two-day workshop for 25 teenagers over the weekend. Students from an array of local Christchurch secondary schools were challenged to keep up with Wayne's non-stop energy... and to learn creative and design skills.
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Where in the world is this year's first outer space?
So Wayne's wall is all done (and gloriously untagged) and Ronnie's peering out nightly over the Boulevard.