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

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Friends Executive Committee

President	Committee
Sarah Anderson	Bojana Rimbovska
	Charrette van Eekelen
Vice President	Ina Johann
Marianne Hargreaves	Julieanne Eason
	Kirsten MacFarlane
Treasurer	Mark Flowerday
Daniel Trochez	Ruth Leslie

Administrator
Annie de Senna

Friends annual membership fees

Individual	$65
Double	$90
Student	$40
Family	$90
(2 adults & children up to 18 living at the same address)

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

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Friends of Christchurch Art Gallery
06-0821-0970127-000
Reference: Membership and your name

Contact the Friends

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

p: (+64 3) 941 7356
e: friends@christchurchartgallery.org.nz

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

Event

Friends Speaker of the Month: "Only the Newest, the Most Modern"

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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