Christchruch Art Gallery Ralph Hotere : Ātete (to resist) 27 March – 25 July 2021 Celebrating the artistic vision of one of Aotearoa’s most significant artists. As the first major survey exhibition of Hotere’s artistic career for over twenty years, Ātete gathers works from collections across Aotearoa. Hotere’s art charted his journeys throughout Aotearoa and the world,… View more
Jasmine Gallagher reviews Rebecca Harris’ exhibition ‘Dark Burns the Night, Flirty Bird Flies’ in Autumn 2021 Art New Zealand. In this series of landscape paintings Rebecca Harris veers closer to realism than some of her more surreal work from arround 2015. This is a trend that has increasingly emerged in her painting over the last… View more
Farid Ahmed Thursday 4 March, 7.30pm Join Farid Ahmed next Thursday evening as he discusses his philosophy of forgiveness, peace and love, and how it is an example of how faith and humanity can be tools for navigating even the most horrific of tragedies. Farid will also discuss the tributes that were gifted following the mosque… View more
Moving photographs capture daily lives of grieving March 15 widows “Photographs revealing the daily life of grieving widows after the Christchurch terror attack and paintings that capture tribute flowers in glorious close up feature in a new art exhibition. Photographer Janneth Gil said it was tough to capture the images of March 15 widows that… View more
by Andrew Paul Wood Following the horrific events of March 15, 2019, one of the most striking visual memories of the period were the huge walls and drifts of flowers that the residents of Christchurch left in front of the Al Noor and Linwood mosques. When you are so shocked and emotionally overwhelmed by an… View more
Dr Andrew Paul Wood In recent years coral has become an important symbol of our increasingly precarious ecological balance. Coral has long been at risk from exploitation for jewellery and tourist souvenirs, agricultural runoff, industrial pollution, blast fishing, overfishing leading to population explosions among crown-of-thorns starfish, and more recently ocean acidification (climate change’s just as… View more
Jasmine Gallagher reviews James Robinson‘s exhibition ‘EDGELAND‘ – the unsayable being said over and over… response works to David Eggleton’s poetry in the latest Art New Zealand Summer issue. The artworks in ‘EDGELAND’ often feel like a sea of words, with Eggleton’s poems written liberally onto some of the canvasses. This oceanic aspect of the… View more
Join Marian Maguire, curator of Seeing what’s there, for a discussion about the individuality of observation. Friday 30 Oct, 12noon. Free entry, all welcome! Exhibition features: Philippa Blair, Nigel Buxton, Katharina Jaeger, Maurice Lye, Richard McWhannell, Andrew Ross Exhibition until 6 November
A massive congratulations to gallery artist Darryn George who was named a winner at The 29th Annual Wallace Art Awards. Darryn George was The Wallace Arts Trust Second Award Winner for his work Mara #26, 2020, oil pastel and acrylic on canvas, 1570 x 2180 x 55mm. “A work that speaks strongly of ‘our time’, and… View more
Joanna Braithwaite: Noisier Than Ever by Grant Banbury, 2 September, 2020 Grant Banbury reviews Joanna Braithwaite‘s latest exhibition Hullaballoo at Martin Browne Contemporary, Sydney. As ringmaster, Braithwaite (out of sight in this series but that’s not always the case), calls her performers to attention, marching them head-long in the same direction. Taking aboard… View more