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Catalyst [red] (1994) by Mervyn Williams

Image: Mervyn Williams Catalyst [red] 1994.

Celebrating colour and exploring illusionary space through surface texture, Williams's Catalyst [red] (1994) is a classic example of the artist’s work from the 1990s. Mervyn has generously gifted all the proceeds from the sale of this work to the Friends in support of the Gallery and Christchurch.

Where your Friends support goes

Your friendship helps to support the Gallery’s collection and publications. The Friends run fundraising activities to assist the Gallery, including The Auction Event.

Friends membership perks

As part of the Gallery family, Friends enjoy exclusive benefits, including:

Attend Friends lectures, talks, studio visits, tours and social functions
Enjoy selected discounts from the Gallery Design Store
Get 10% discount at Universo Brasserie & Bar
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President	Committee
Marianne Hargreaves	Adam Coleman
	Bojana Rimbovska
	Charrette van Eekelen
Vice President	Julieanne Eason
Sarah Anderson	Kirsten MacFarlane
	Kirsty Rueppell
Administrator	Leigh Rodgers
Airi Hashimoto	Ruth Leslie

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

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

Change to Friends bank account

The Friends now have a new bank account as we join the Gallery's Foundation Partners, ANZ. When making any direct payments online please use this account, and update us on your saved payees list.

Friends of Christchurch Art Gallery
06-0821-0970127-000

Upcoming Friends Events

Click here for information on upcoming Friends events.

Featured Event:

Friends Christmas House Tour 2019
Sunday, 08 December / 2-5pm

The Friends invite you to join them to celebrate the Christmas season with a progressive house tour, offering an insight into three private art collections.

Three members have kindly opened their doors for us. As well as the art and Christmas decorations, each venue will be hosting a number of skilled artists who will be displaying a selection of beautiful gifts for sale.

Find out more >

Event

Friends Art Tour to Auckland

Join the Friends on an art-filled weekend in Auckland, including visits to Gibbs Farm Sculpture Park and McCahon House.

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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