Event Highlights 9 - 22 July
Welcome to this fortnights edition of the Christchurch Art Gallery e-Newsletter. Two much-anticipated new exhibitions open at the Gallery on 18 July - Laurence Aberhart and Daniel Crooks: everywhere instantly. Māori Language Week is also celebrated this fortnight - collect your guide from the front desk to view four unique artworks throughout the exhibition spaces.
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18 July - 9 November
'Once you've seen a Daniel Crooks DVD you're not likely to forget the experience,' writes art critic Edward Colless. Using his renowned 'timeslice' technique, Crooks transforms everyday sights such as trains and city streets into wide-screen meditations on time and motion.
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Static No.10 (falling as a means of rising), still, 2007. DV/DVD. Courtesy of the artist and Anna Schwartz Gallery.
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Laurence Aberhart, Midway Beach, Gisborne, 13 June 1986. Courtesy of the artist.
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18 July - 12 October
Over 200 key works by an artist described as 'the essential visual poet of New Zealand's past'. Includes his signature images of landscapes, facades, monuments and interiors from New Zealand, Australia and farther afield.
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Don't miss the chance to hear the artist and curator discussing the exhibition.
Sat 19 July
8.30 am, Alchemy, Friends $20, public $30
Exhibition curator Gregory O'Brien from City Gallery Wellington talks about highlights from the exhibition Laurence Aberhart.
Sat 19 July
2 pm, floortalk, free
Join acclaimed photographer Laurence Aberhart in conversation with Gregory O'Brien, curator at City Gallery Wellington, for a floortalk of his exhibition.
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2 Millionth Visitor to the Gallery!
Tuesday 1st July saw the two millionth visitor through the doors of the Gallery. The milestone visitor was British tourist, John Bristow, who was escorting his five-year-old granddaughter, Everline Mahy, on her first trip to an art gallery. Bristow was presented with a certificate, vouchers, and a round of applause from Gallery staff. |
School Holidays
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Holiday Quiz
What's All That Noise?!
Sat 5 - Sun 20 July
10am - 4pm, free from the information desk
A fun quiz that shows just how noisy works of art can be. |
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Wed 9 July
6 pm, free
The Belladonna Film Trust presents a discussion on the moving image arts, focusing on experimental short film.
Wed 16 July
6 pm, 55 mins, G rated, free
Fifteen of Georges Méliès' rarely seen restored short films from 1898 to 1905 - fascinating viewing for anyone interested in the history and magic of cinema.
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Wed 16 July
10.30 am, Friends $2, public $5, students with ID free
Darryn George, whose exhibition Pulse covers the walls of the Sutton Gallery, will discuss his practice.
Māori Language Week
20 - 27 July
 This year, Māori Language Week celebrates te reo i te kāinga - Māori language in the home. What makes your own house not just a house but a home? Is it the look of the place and the things found inside it? Or is it the people who live there and the stories they tell about the place?
Christchurch Art Gallery celebrates Māori Language Week with a guide to four artworks offering four very different ideas of what it means to be 'at home' in Aotearoa New Zealand.
Available from the information desk in the foyer.
Tues 10.30 - 12.30: 15, 22, 29 Jul & 5 Aug
or Sat 10.30 - 12.30: 19, 26 Jul & 2, 9 Aug
This enlightening four-week course uses the Gallery's historical and 21st-century works of art to discover more about portraiture, landscape painting, abstract works and contemporary art.
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Experimental Film
