Event Highlights: 4 – 17 March
Welcome to Christchurch Art Gallery's eNewsletter. This fortnight marks the opening of the spectacular Rita Angus: Life & Vision and Miles: a life in architecture exhibitions. We also open the doors on Subjects to hand: Joanna Margaret Paul Drawing and kick off our packed schedule of Gallery events for March.
Sir Miles Warren Harewood Memorial Gardens and Crematorium, Christchurch, long garden 1963. Photograph. Martin Barriball |
New!
7 March – 14 June 2009
Celebrating the achievements of leading New Zealand architect Sir Miles Warren, this exhibition reveals his contribution to modernist architecture and his success as a watercolourist and gardener.
7 March – 5 July 2009
Rita Angus is widely regarded as one of the leading New Zealand artists of the twentieth century. Rita Angus: Life & Vision features 143 works drawn from public and private collections throughout New Zealand. The exhibition reveals the full scope of Angus's work throughout her career.
Developed and toured by: Te Papa; Principal touring partner: Pelorus Trust; Major sponsor: Singapore Airlines
Installation in the Gallery Foyer
Opening for Ellerslie International Flower Show
To coincide with the Ellerslie International Flower Show, Christchurch Art Gallery has invited Auckland-based artist Niki Hastings-McFall to create an installation for the Gallery's foyer.
Well known for creating playful and eye-catching works incorporating the flowers from artificial lei, Niki will here use the flowers to outline the recently drained interior water features of the foyer, draping the stonework of the foyer with a bright Pacific welcome. This installation will form part of the Gallery's Outer Spaces programme.
14 March – 17 May 2009
This exhibition examines the artist's drawings in depth, demonstrating her exquisite graphic touch and ardent observation of the visual world.
JS.02.03: Hannah and Aaron Beehre
14 March – 17 May 2009
This intriguing projection of stylised leaves by Christchurch artists Hannah and Aaron Beehre responds to your voice or footsteps by falling in unexpected patterns.
Last chance to see
Until 8 March 2009
This exhibition presents new work by six emerging New Zealand artists. These recent graduates unravel conventions and show us new aspects of contemporary art practice.
Generously supported by Coffey Projects.
Olivia Spencer Bower Ngaio Marsh Painting c.1934-9. Watercolour. Collection of Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu, presented by the Friends of the Robert McDougall Art Gallery 1993. Reproduced courtesy of the Olivia Spencer Bower Foundation |
Until 26 July
Nature's Own Voice focuses on plein-air painters – artists who work outdoors in an attempt to record the varying effects of differing light and weather conditions through direct observation.
Until October 2009
Keeping younger audiences in mind, and including a number of new works by contemporary artists, White on White is an exhibition brimming with the imaginative possibilities of white.
Generously supported by Chartwell Trust.
12pm, meet at the front desk, free
William McAloon, co-curator of Rita Angus: Life & Vision, leads a floortalk of the exhibition.
7pm, $10, book by 8 March
With Emilie Sitzia.
Organised by the Friends of Christchurch Art Gallery
5.15pm, meet at the front desk, free
Curator Peter Vangioni examines the Nature's Own Voice exhibition, which features the work of some of New Zealand's most accomplished plein-air painters.
6pm, free
Arborist Dieter Steinegg evaluates the condition of our heritage tree stock.
Rita Angus Self-portrait 1936-7. Oil on canvas. Collection of Dunedin Public Art Gallery, purchased 1980. Reproduced courtesy of the Rita Angus Estate |
8.30am, Alchemy, Friends $20, Public $30, book by 12 March
Breakfast and tour through Rita Angus: Life & Vision with Dr Pamela Gerrish Nunn.
Organised by the Friends of Christchurch Art Gallery
7pm, $10, book by 15 March
With Julie King.
Organised by the Friends of Christchurch Art Gallery
6pm, Philip Carter Family Auditorium, free
Join botanist Trevor Partridge for an illustrated presentation on the difference between botanical art and illustration in New Zealand.
Sponsored by The Press
6pm, meet at the front desk, free
Meet Jill Trevelyan, co-curator and author of Rita Angus: Life & Vision, for a floortalk and tour of the exhibition.
Sponsored by The Press
8pm, foyer, free
The Richard Neave / Nick Harte combo followed by an experimental sound performance from Simon Kong. Cash bar available. |
