Event Highlights: 3 – 16 September
 Welcome to the Christchurch Art Gallery eNewsletter.
We've got a full and exciting programme of events on at the Gallery this fortnight.
Why not come down and enjoy our Wednesday Evenings programme – over the next two weeks you can hear a fascinating talk on Daniel Crooks's work, and take part in an insightful floortalk on the dazzling new Sara Hughes installation in the Gallery foyer with the artist herself.
Also, don't miss the upcoming Gallery fundraising lecture, featuring Dame Malvina Major talking about her life as an artist.
Sara Hughes United We Fall 2008. Courtesy of the artist and Gow Langsford Gallery |
Climb the stairs to the first floor and you'll find yourself accompanied along the way by a procession of high-intensity colours.
Together these colours make up United We Fall, an artwork by Sara Hughes that represents the first commission in the ‘Glasshouse' series – a programme of major new works for the Christchurch Art Gallery's foyer.
6pm, Philip Carter Family Auditorium, free
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Wed 3 September, 6pm
Laurence Simmons, Associate Professor of Film, Television and Media Studies at Auckland University, reveals the historical tradition of film and video image that Daniel Crooks’s work draws from.
Wed 10 September, 6pm
Recently returned from a year in the politically charged climate of America, Sara Hughes discusses her recent work, followed by a guided floortalk on her new installation in the Gallery foyer, United We Fall.
Wed 10 September, 7pm
Creative New Zealand, Creative Communities and Christchurch Community Arts Council showcase a successful funded arts project with live dance performances, poetry reading and music. |
Daniel Crooks Imaginary Object #1 still, 2007. HD/DVD. Courtesy of the artist and Anna Schwartz Gallery |
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Interior, tomb, Epernay, Champagne, France, 22 September 1984 by Laurence Aberhart
Sat 6 September
12pm, meet at the front desk, free
Dorle Pauli, senior lecturer at CPIT’s School of Art and Design, discusses this significant platinum photograph recently purchased by the Gallery.
Interior #1, Anglican church, Pukepoto, near Kaitaia, Northland, 13 May 1982 by Laurence Aberhart
Sat 13 September
12pm, meet at the front desk, free
Guntra Auzins explores the signature interior of this Northland church in a work by New Zealand's pre-eminent photographer.
Daniel Crooks Static No.9 (a small section of something larger) still, 2005. DV/DVD. Courtesy of the artist and Anna Schwartz Gallery |
Static No.9
Wed 3 September
5.15pm, meet at the front desk, free
Ed Muzik, from RDU98.5FM’s ARTcore show, talks about the intertwining helices of science and technology that make up Daniel Crooks’s Static No.9
Sun 7 September
2.30pm, Philip Carter Family Auditorium, $25
Dame Malvina, one of New Zealand’s best-known opera stars, will be talking about her life as an artist on stage. Proceeds go to the acquisitions programme at the Gallery. |
