Art School 125
125 Years of the School of Fine Arts at the University of Canterbury

9 November 2007 - 17 February 2008
Touring Exhibition A, B, C & Borg Henry Galleries

Raymond McIntyre, Ruth. Oil on panel. Collection of Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu. Presented by the McIntyre family, 1938.

Drawn from the Christchurch Art Gallery, University of Canterbury and other private and public collections, the Art School 125 exhibition will feature work by former students such as Margaret Stoddart, Shane Cotton, Ronnie van Hout, William Sutton, Leo Bensemann, Francis Upritchard and Bill Culbert.

Designed in chapters, such as early modern, regionalist painting and 1960s - 70s expressionism, the exhibition will cluster work by style and/or conceptual approach.

The exhibition will feature works in a range of media - paintings, sculpture, film, photography, printmaking and the earlier decorative arts that were taught at Canterbury - and be accompanied by a website publication looking at the role of the Art School in the lives of many significant New Zealand artists.