Event Highlights: 15 – 28 April
Welcome to Christchurch Art Gallery's eNewsletter. Our school holiday programme is now well underway, so don’t miss out on these exciting activities, or your chance to win a set of art materials. And while your children enjoy the activities, you can take in the fabulous works of art on show in one of our stunning exhibitions like Rita Angus: Life & Vision.
Sir Miles Warren Christchurch Town Hall, Kilmore Street, Christchurch, main auditorium 1972. Photograph. Martin Barriball
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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
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; Christchurch exhibition generously supported by Gabrielle Tasman, University of Canterbury Foundation, Winegrowers of ARA
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.
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 26 July 2009
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.
Peter Robinson Cascade 2007. Polystyrene. Collection of Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu, purchased 2007
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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
Photographer Doc Ross gives an illustrated talk on the shift in his photographic style.
Organised by the Friends of Christchurch Art Gallery
Rita Angus Cass 1936. Oil on canvas on board. Collection of Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu, purchased 1955. Reproduced courtesy of the Rita Angus Estate
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6pm, free
Ron Brownson, senior curator at Auckland Art Gallery, gives an illustrated talk on Rita Angus's landscapes, and discusses her paintings in the Gallery's collection.
Sponsored by The Press
8.30am, Alchemy, Friends $20, public $30, book by 16 April
Breakfast and tour of Miles: a life in architecture with architectural historian Jenny May.
Organised by the Friends of Christchurch Art Gallery
6pm, free
Julie King examines how Rita Angus and her fellow female artists contributed to the development of early modernism in New Zealand.
Sponsored by The Press
14–24 April, weekdays only, 10–11.30am or 1–2.30pm
Sculpt, squish and coil yourself in clay – wear your old clothes!
Education Centre, $5, for information tel: (03) 941 7382
Bookings not required
Until 26 April, collect from front desk, 10am–3pm, free
White-Out Explore and Draw!
Explore White on White and the Gallery's collections with this drawing activity. Enter the draw to win a set of art materials.
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