Event Highlights: 2 – 15 April 2008
Welcome to the Christchurch Art Gallery e-Newsletter. On this month we have a range of exciting events, including lectures on the life and influence of Colin McCahon and the chance to make your own pot in Mud, Glorious Mud! Don't forget to check out Twinset: Video Art in the Foyer, a new addition to the Gallery.
Wednesday Evenings
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6pm, Auditorium, free
Colin McCahon: Casting a Long Shadow
Wed 2
Hamish Keith, author, arts consultant and broadcaster, discusses McCahon's influence, imagined and real.
William Morris at Home: From Red House to Kelmscott Manor
Wed 9
The New Zealand Historic Places Trust presents Dr. Ian Lochhead discussing Morris's innovations in English domestic architecture.
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Morris & Company, London, Britain, 1861 - 1940. Edward BURNE JONES, designer, Britain, 1833 - 1898. J. H. DEARLE, designer of floral ground, Britain, 1860 - 1932. The Adoration of the Magi 1900 02, designed 1887, London. Wool, silk. Morgan Thomas Bequest Fund 1917. Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide.
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Colin McCahon 7 poems 1952.
Colour lithograph; letterpress on paper. Courtesy of the Colin McCahon Research and Publication Trust.
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New to the Gallery!
Twinset: Video Art in the Foyer
Check out the twin screens in the foyer for a rapid-fire programme of fresh video art by artists from Australia, Europe, USA and New Zealand. This quarter featuring sight-and-sound gags by New Zealander Sean Kerr, quick cuts by Nicolas Jasmin from Vienna, and Australian David Rosetzky's meditative film Nothing like this.
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Coming Soon!
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Richard Killeen The Gathering 2008. Digital print in ink on vinyl. Courtesy the artist.
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Outer Spaces
Expect to encounter art in some unexpected places from April onward at the Gallery.
Kicking off soon with a billboard by Richard Killeen on the Gallery's Worcester Boulevard façade, and including a light-filled new work for the foyer by Hannah and Aaron Beehre later in 2008, Outer Spaces is an ongoing programme of artworks in spaces above and beyond (and sometimes below) the Gallery's exhibition galleries.
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Sat 12 April
Art in the Morning: Form and Fire
8.30am, Alchemy, Friends $15, public $25
Enjoy a light breakfast followed by a tour around the NZ Potters' annual national exhibition Form and Fire with ceramic artist Margaret Ryley.
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The Life of Colin McCahon
2pm, auditorium, free
Professor Lloyd Geering, an eminent theologian, brings his unique insight to the life and works of Colin McCahon, New Zealand's foremost painter.
Don't Miss!
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Mud, Glorious Mud!
Sun 13, 12 - 4pm, foyer, free
Watch the skill of local potters as they create new works, and try your own hand at throwing a pot.
Entertaining With Clay
Sun 13, 2pm, auditorium, free
Peter Lange, creator of the world's first brick boat and a leading figure in the craft/object art sector, talks about his humorous, satirical and technically exacting approach to clay.
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Kumiko Black (Waipara), Brown Tsubo, salt glazed stoneware, 2003
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