EVENT
HIGHLIGHTS: 2 - 15 SEPTEMBER
Join the Friends of Christchurch
Art Gallery for their major annual fundraising evening, The Art
Event, on Friday 11 September at 7pm. It's a great opportunity to
purchase original New Zealand artworks, including limited editions,
at excellent prices. Tickets are $50 and include drinks and
supper. Find
out more
Construction is well underway on
the collection galleries, which re-open on 28 November. See
behind-the-scenes images, receive updates from staff members
involved in the project and let us know what you think at our Brought to
Light blog.
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Séraphine Pick
Wandering Rose 2008. Oil on linen. Private
collection. Reproduced courtesy of the
artist |
6pm / free
Felicity Milburn, curator of the
exhibition Séraphine Pick, discusses the artist's
use of memory, found images and imagination.
Sponsored by The Press
6pm / free
Join curator Jennifer Hay as she
explores this new exhibition by nine contemporary New Zealand
painters.
Sponsored by The Press
Until 18 October
Best known for his funny and
haunting variations on the self-portrait, Ronnie van Hout's brand of
absurdist sculpture unfolds here in a twisting journey past failed
robots, doll-sized portraits of the artist, shadowy rooms of memory
and something strange from Antarctica.
Exhibition Supporter:
ImageLab
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George Dunlop Leslie
In the Wizard's Garden c. 1904. Oil on
canvas. Collection of Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o
Waiwhetu. Presented to the Canterbury Society of Arts by W
Harris 1907 and gifted to the Gallery in
1932 |
Until 15 November
In late November, a new exhibition
featuring hundreds of works from the Gallery's collection will go on
show in refreshed and reshaped galleries.
In the meantime, you can keep in
touch with some old favourites in Gembox, a show of
ten gems from the collection.
Read more about the new collection
exhibition, Brought
to Light.
Until 29 November
Strange dreams, imaginary
landscapes, celestial structures and the outside world are themes
central to the practices of these nine contemporary New Zealand
artists.
The fourth in the emerging
artists series at Christchurch Art Gallery,
Cloud9 presents new work by recent graduates Elliot
Collins, Mike Cooke, Ruth Thomas Edmond, Georgie Hill, Eileen Leung,
Marie Le Lievre, Tim Thatcher, Telly Tu'u and Pete Wheeler.
Exploring new directions in
contemporary painting techniques, the exhibition shimmers with
colour and form and explores the potential for art to transport us
to other realms.
Exhibition Support: Coffey
Projects
Until 22 November
Séraphine Pick's original and
imaginative practice has made her one of New Zealand's most highly
regarded painters. From the spectral dresses, leaky baths and
teetering suitcases of the 1990s to the psychologically charged
dreamscapes of more recent years, this large-scale survey brings
together more than a hundred works made between 1994 and
2009.
Touring Sponsor: Ernst &
Young
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Installation view:
et al.: that's obvious! that's right! that's
true! July 2009 |
Until 22 November
The collective et al. has exhibited
widely both nationally and internationally to great acclaim. This
exhibition continues their exploration of 'superfiction' by
combining words, industrial furniture and video projections to
create works of art that mirror political structures.
Until 15 November
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 | 
