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There's an art to being a Friend of the Gallery - and joy in being connected to a community of art lovers! As a Friend you'll be part of great talks, events and gain a special insight into what's happening at your gallery.

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Catalyst [red] (1994) by Mervyn Williams

Friends membership perks:

Join us for talks, studio visits, regional and national tours and social gatherings.

Enjoy selected discounts from the Gallery Design Store

Get 10% discount at Universo Brasserie & Bar

Keep in touch with the Friends monthly enewsletter

Get inside information on what's happening at your Gallery.

And for an extra $10:

You receive the Bulletin, the Gallery's award-winning magazine.

Where your Friends support goes

Your friendship helps to support the Gallery's collection and publications. We also run fundraising activities to assist the Gallery, including the Auction Event.

President	Committee
Sarah Anderson	Daniel Trochez
	Bojana Rimbovska
	Charrette van Eekelen
Vice President	Julieanne Eason
Marianne Hargreaves	Kirsten MacFarlane
	Ina Johann
Administrator	Ruth Leslie
Airi Hashimoto

Contact the Friends

The office is staffed on a part-time basis, but email and phone messages are checked regularly.

Friends of Christchurch Art Gallery
PO Box 2626
Christchurch 8140
New Zealand

Call Airi Hashimoto on (+64 3) 941 7356
friends@christchurchartgallery.org.nz

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Friends annual membership fees

Individual	$55
Double	$80
Student	$30
Family	$80
(2 adults & children up to 18 living at the same address)

For an additional $10, members have the option to subscribe to the Gallery's award-winning Bulletin.

Membership can be for you, or a gift for art lovers that keeps on giving—it lasts a whole year!

Friends bank account

You can also pay via online banking, here are our details:

06-0821-0970127-000

Put your name and 'membership' in the reference fields.

Upcoming Friends Events

Click here for information on upcoming Friends events.

Event

Friends Speaker of the Month: Felicity Milburn and Melanie Oliver

Curators Melanie Oliver and Felicity Milburn talk about the benefits of staying local, and offer a special preview of their summer exhibition programme.

Event

Julie King Memorial Lecture: Julia Waite

A new annual lecture established in the memory of art historian and long-term supporter and patron of the Friends of Christchurch Art Gallery Julie King. Presented by the Friends of Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū.

Event

Friends Day Trip to Oxford

Join us on a day trip exploring art and artists in the Oxford area. The trip will include a visit to the Arts in Oxford Gallery and shop and the studios of two local artists, jeweller Areta Wilkinson and photographer Mark Adams. THIS EVENT IS NOW FULLY BOOKED.

Event

Richard Bullen

Richard Bullen, associate professor in Art History and Theory at the University of Canterbury, will speak about artworks made by Japanese inmates at the WWII Featherston Internment Camp.

Commentary

Do You See?

With the death of Julie King late in 2018, art and art history in Aotearoa New Zealand lost one of its great champions and major scholars. Julie was born in Yorkshire and grew up and was educated in Alnwick, Northumberland; she moved to Christchurch in 1975 to take up a role lecturing in the newly formed art history department at the University of Canterbury. She retired three decades later, having pioneered the teaching of New Zealand art in Canterbury.

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Collection

Julia Morison Dulia

In the early 1990s, Julia Morison used gold and shit in many works, exploring the idealised and base elements of human experience. She drew on the Jewish Sefiroth as a model for thinking about the relationship between the physical and the metaphysical. “Personally, I need to put some kind of order on experience for sake of sanity and negotiation,” she said. “The Sefirothic structure, or Tree of Knowledge, is really a metaphorical file and folder system for all; a conceptual paradigm for understanding everything. Putting that at the core of my practice gives me the freedom to admit everything and anything, micro and macro, metaphysical and corporeal, as legitimate content. It also gives me an interface to compose works.”

The title of this work, Dulia, is a Catholic term for worship given to saints and angels. Here Morison has pressed gold and excrement on to handmade paper balls, which are threaded together like the beads of a catholic rosary—an invitation to meditate on the relationship of the sacred and the profane, on a monumental scale.

Interview

The London Club

In September 2017, Gallery director Jenny Harper, curator Felicity Milburn and Jo Blair, of the Gallery Foundation’s contracted development services, Brown Bread, went to London, taking a group of supporters who received a very special tour of the city’s art highlights. While there, they further developed the Foundation’s new London Club. Recently they sat down together in Jenny’s office…

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