Exhibitions
Events
On display
Richard Reddaway
Perilous: Unheard Stories from the Collection, installation view, Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū, 2022.
Talk
Past event
Philip Carter Family Auditorium
Free
Join artist and lecturer Richard Reddaway as he explores how art making during the 80s and 90s reflected the changing social and political landscape of Aotearoa New Zealand.
UPDATE: Unfortunately due to extenuating circumstances Jeremiah Boniface will not be able to attend. Jeremiah will instead be delivering his part of the talk on Wednesday 8 March at 6pm.
Richard will speaking to artistic responses to a time of social foment in the 1980s; with the anti-Springbok tour protests, the fourth Labour government, Mururoa atoll protests and the homosexual law reform - and how all of this matters in our current climate.
Since the mid-1980s Richard Reddaway has been making sculpture, both sticks-and-stones stuff and the stuff of photography, in which the body, the figural, carries meaning as well as formal delight. His practice fills space with often noisy, colourful objects to explore, amongst other things, Chaotic complexity, Globalism and the local, and what it might mean to be Pākehā. He is currently a Senior Lecturer at Massey University Whiti-o-Rehua School of Art in Wellington.
Richard will speaking to artistic responses to a time of social foment in the 1980s; with the anti-Springbok tour protests, the fourth Labour government, Mururoa atoll protests and the homosexual law reform - and how all of this matters in our current climate.
Related
Exhibition
Perilous: Unheard Stories from the Collection
Making room for fresh voices, untold narratives and disruptive ideas.
Collection
Grant Lingard Swan Song
The term ‘swan song’ originated with the ancient Greeks and their belief that a dying swan sang beautifully. It has come to describe a final act before leaving. Grant Lingard conceived this sculpture while dying from HIV/AIDS. It was assembled three months after his death according to his written instructions by his partner Peter Lanini and a group of Grant’s art school friends for the Swan song exhibition at Sydney’s First Draft Gallery in 1996.
The towels, sheets and pillowcases arranged over these drying racks are more than one person or family would typically use, their number suggesting the regular changes required by a long illness. As elegant as ever, the minimal white procession is funereal, but it also documents private acts of loving care for all to see.
(Perilous: Unheard Stories from the Collection, 6 August 2022- )