Michael Smither Rubber Gloves 1977. Oil on hardboard. Collection Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, purchased from Monica Brewster Bequest in 1978
Max Gimblett Certainty 2002. Pencil and ink. Collection of Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū, the Max Gimblett and Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett Gift 2011
This exhibition is now closed
Yellow is a colour with impact – it’s time to encounter its brilliance.
This lively exhibition offers the chance to think about how artists work and create, to consider differences and similarities, and to be inspired by a variety of unexpected creative thinking processes. Glowing, vivid paintings – mainly abstract – join surprising sculpture, video and photography. Featuring the work of well-known artists like Rosalie Gascoigne, Michael Smither and Colin McCahon, it also presents new work by artists Ani O’Neill and (perhaps heralding the start of a weaving revival) Annie Mackenzie. Bursting with energy and pleasure, Yellow Moon is an exhibition for visitors of all ages.
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Date:
28 October 2017 – 28 October 2018 -
Curator:
Ken Hall -
Exhibition number:
1046
Collection works in this exhibition
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Ani O'Neill shows you how to create a crochet crater
In the Gallery exhibition Yellow Moon, Ani O’Neill is inviting visitors to take part in making this progressively changing work. Week by week, we’ll see a giant yellow moon in its different phases, its crocheted surface of craters in different tones and shades, pinned and tied beside each other to gradually light up its lunar surface.
‘Don’t worry’, she says, ‘absolute beginners can do this – with a little help.’ This video will show you how.
Visitors to Yellow Moon can make a crater using the wool and hooks provided (you can either follow the pattern or use your own), and we’ll add it to Ani’s artwork. Or if you’re watching this at home, you can also bring in craters you’ve made to the front desk downstairs and we’ll put them up for you.
Ani O’Neill is an artist of Cook Island (Ngāti Makea, Ngāti Te Tika) and Irish descent who has lived in New Zealand for many years and now is mainly based in Rarotonga.
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21 November 2009 – 20 February 2011
Looking at the ways artists have used the colour blue, Blue Planet celebrates imaginative art making and thinking. Shaped with younger audiences in mind.
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White on White
23 November 2008 – 14 November 2009
New for children and families, White on White is the thought-provoking replacement to I See Red. Includes new works by contemporary artists, and works from the permanent collection by Ando Hiroshige, Eileen Mayo, Jude Rae and Peter Robinson.
Director's Foreword
Director's Foreword
As I write this, I’m still smiling with pleasure and pride at the huge success of the Gallery Foundation’s fundraising drive for our own work by Ron Mueck. Wonderful in its own right, it’s amazing to finish the 2017 calendar year knowing a sculpture by Mueck is now on its way to join the other four ‘great works’ for Christchurch.
Notes
Swings by Ethel Spowers
This article first appeared in The Press on 12 January 2018 as 'A champion of the pioneering linocut'.