Exhibitions Archive 2000
Di
ffrench - Light & Illusion
15 December 2000 - 14 January 2001
Contemporary Art Annex
The first retrospective exhibition of this significant and innovative
New Zealand artist.
Treasures
from Christ Church Oxford
20 October 2000 until 18 February 2001
An exhibition of Old Master Drawings and Rare Works in Precious
Metals.
Symposium
10 - 13 November 2000
Christchurch, New Zealand
Post - Object and Performance Art in New Zealand in the 1970's
80's and 90's
Phil
Dadson
6 October 2000 until 5 November 2000
Contemporary Art Annex
Francis
Shurrock
6 October 2000 until 28 January 2001
An exhibition of the work of Francis Aubery Shurrock (1887-1977),
the most significant figure in New Zealand sculpture in the first
half of the 20th Century.
Art
2000 - Artist's Book Exhibition
27 October 2000 until 28 January 2001
An exhibition looking at the book as art.
Intervention
10 November until 10 December 2000
Canterbury
Painting in the 1990s
2 June until 6 August 2000
Main Gallery
A major exhibition celebrating the breadth and diversity of Canterbury
painting between 1990 and 2000
Grace
Butler (1886-1962)
10 June until 13 August 2000
Main Gallery
An exhibition of one of New Zealand's most important alpine landscape
painters.
Michael
Shepherd
30 June -13 August 2000
Contemporary Art Annex
Exquisitely rendered, illusory and enigmatic paintings from 1992
- 1999 re-interpret and challenge New Zealand's early social history.
Archibald
Nicoll
1 July until 6 August 2000
Main Gallery
Canterbury's premier plein-air landscape painter and studio portraitist.
Michael
Reed
17 August until 1 October 2000
Contemporary Art Annex
A series of raw and compelling print works focusing on the civil
conflicts of the 1990s by local print artist Michael Reed.
Don
Driver
25 August until 7 October 2000
Main Gallery
A major retrospective of New Zealand's most significant assemblage
artist.
Richard & Elizabeth
Wallwork
26 August until 24 September 2000
Main Gallery
A combined exhibition of these highly regarded Canterbury artists.
Boyd
Webb
18 March until 21 May 2000
Main Gallery
An opportunity to review and assess the photographs and films
of one of New Zealand's foremost photographers.
Denise
Copland
17 March until 30 April 2000
Contemporary Art Annex
Christchurch-based print artist Denise Copland creates a body
of work on the theme of nature and humanity, in particular, journeys,
survival and shelter.
Charles
Kidson (1867 - 1908)
25 March until 30 April 2000
Main Gallery
At the beginning of last century Canterbury had many professional
painters but few sculptors and by far the most prominent and promising
was Charles Kidson.
Leonard
Booth (1879- 1974)
13 May until 18 June 2000
Main Gallery
Within an article in the February 1913 issue of the Australian
literary monthly magazine "The fellow" it was stated
'Now that Lambert has gone and Maclean does little Leonard Booth
is about the best pen-line single figure draughtsman left in Australasia'
Uneasy
Spaces
5 May until 25 June 2000
Contemporary Art Annex
A group show of New Zealand artists exploring the conceptual and
physical boundaries of space
Quotations
21 January-12 March 2000
Contemporary Art Annex
Exploring works from the McDougall's contemporary collection which
have references to literary sources, this exhibition will include
the work of Kathryn Madill, Tony Fomison and Ralph Hotere.
Canterbury Vignettes
This 150th anniversary series of historical vignette exhibitions
explores the work of nine prominent Canterbury artists of the
19th and 20th Centuries
John
Gibb (1831 - 1909) 5 February - 5 March
Alfred
Walsh (1859 - 1916) 12 February - 12 March
Charles
Kidson (1867 - 1908) 25 March - 30 April
Leonard
Booth (1879 - 1977) 13 May - 18 June
Grace
Butler (1870 - 1962) 10 June - 6 August
Archibald
Nicoll (1886 - 1953) 1 July - 6 August
Richard
(1882 - 1955) & Elizabeth Wallwork (1884 - 1969) 26
August - 24 September
John
Gibb, Marine Artist 1831-1909
5 February - 5 March 2000
John Gibbs, regarded as New Zealand's major professional marine
painter in the 1880's, sketched from nature and later worked from
these drawings to create paintings with an intense attention to
detail. This exhibition explores 22 of these New Zealand paintings.
Alfred
Walsh, Watercolourist 1839-1916
12 February - 12 March 2000
A watercolourist of the plein air movement in New Zealand, Alfred
Walsh eschewed the romantic and sentimental approach to nature.
This exhibition displays Walsh's work from 1884-1913.
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