Event Highlights: 18 – 31 March
Welcome to Christchurch Art Gallery's eNewsletter. This week we launch our new-look Events & Talks pages on the Gallery website – replacing the Happenings, Special Events and Wednesday Evening pages. We hope you enjoy the additional information and easier navigation. Check out the exciting events we have planned for this fortnight, including our contribution to Race Relations week – the dramatic, award-winning film Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars. And with school holidays fast approaching, don’t forget our great school holiday programme.
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Until 17 May 2009
This exhibition examines the artist's drawings in depth, demonstrating her exquisite graphic touch and ardent observation of the visual world.
Exhibition developed by Mahara Gallery Waikanae in association with the Joanna Margaret Paul Family Trust. Toured by Exhibition Services Ltd.
Hannah and Aaron Beehre JS.02.03 2003. Projection. Collection of Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu, purchased 2003
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Until 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.
Until 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.
Major supporters: The Warren Trust, Pyne Gould Corporation, Luneys; Exhibition supporters: HOME NZ Magazine, Warren and Mahoney, University of Canterbury, Vbase, Holmes Consulting, Winegrowers of ARA
Rita Angus Fog, Hawke’s Bay 1966-8. Oil on hardboard. Collection of Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki, purchased 1969. Reproduced courtesy of the Rita Angus Estate
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Until 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
Autumn 2009
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.
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
10.30am, Friends $2, Public $5, tea and coffee in Alchemy from 10am: $3
A discussion with Jonathan Smart – Churchill Fellow, freelance writer and owner of Christchurch's Jonathan Smart Gallery.
Organised by the Friends of Christchurch Art Gallery
6pm, free
Joanna Margaret Paul's life and poetry are presented by leading Canterbury poet, playwright and literary editor Bernadette Hall, with help from actor and director Helen Moran. Copies of Paul's Like Love Poems: Selected Poems, edited by Hall, are available for sale.
Sponsored by The Press
2pm, Philip Carter Family Auditorium, free
This dramatic, award-winning film follows the journey of the Refugee All Stars – a band of musicians that was formed by a group of refugees displaced to Guinea during the brutal Sierra Leone Civil War.
With the spirited fusion of traditional West African music, roots reggae and rhythmic traditional folk, the Refugee All Stars craft music that transforms, uplifts and inspires a nation to believe in the healing power of music.
Part of Race Relations Week
6pm, meet at the front desk, free
Join Dr Rodney Wilson as he discusses the lifetime achievements of leading New Zealand architect Sir Miles Warren.
Sponsored by The Press
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