No. fifty-three January/February 1974

President: Secretary-manager: Russell Laidlaw Exhibitions Officer: Tony Geddes Receptionist: Joanna Mowat Editor of News Stuart McMillan

Gallery calendar (subject to adjustment)

Dec — Jan 6 Neil Cooke Dec — Jan 6 Private Collection Dec — Jan 6 Sue Patterson Dec — Jan 6 Polish Posters Jan 19- Feb 10 Commonwealth Games Exhibition ' 'Art N.Z. '74" Feb 14 - Feb 29 Margaret Parker Feb 14 - Feb 29 B. Miles Feb 18 - March 6 Kevin Passmore Sally Powell March Star School Dr Breach R. McWhannell Annual Autumn April Ross Gray Andrew Coates Sue Frykberg Summers & Sinclair Ruth Priestly May Tony Geddes May Cant. Embroidery Guild Hugh Struyk Macrame, Pottery & Sculpture A.R. Pearson Bill & Kathrine Madill Nichol June Lew Summers M. Angelo July Canterbury Potters C.S.A. Open Exhibition August John Papas Photographic - Society Hilary Osmers Sept Barry Sharplin The Group Bruce Robinson Oct Weavers Lap. Club Nov M. Hudson Dr & Mrs G.J. van der Lingen Morgan Jones Dec Fair Children's Art Class Summer Exhibition

Exhibitions are mounted with the assistance of Q.E.11 Arts Council through the Agency or the Assoc. of N.Z. Art Societies. New members Happenings

The Society welcomes the following new members. in the Gallery Mr Heinz Sobiecki Mr Ian Gilmour Weavings have been a distinctive feature at the C.S.A. for Mrs P.N. Jamie Mrs B.M.I. Ivin the month of November. Vivian Mountfort captured much Mrs Patricia R. Champion Mr D.T. McKenzie admiration with her exhibition, It is unusual for one weaver Miss E.M. Acton Adams Mrs Nancy Sutherland to provide anough work for a one-man show and I am sure Miss Margaret Burns Miss Catherine E. Brown she felt her efforts were well rewarded with numerous sales. Mr Agus Hidajat Avonside Girls High School Weaving by an active group, led by Pauline Pease, was Mr Edward J. Vial Mrs Doris Woodward displayed in the same gallery again. This exhibition differed Mr J.E.C. Jones Mr & Mrs W.M. Bowden as the work could be regarded from a more useful aspect Mrs Annie Baird Mr & Mrs Noel Gregg whereas Vivian's work consisted mainly of decorative wall Mr W.R. Allan Mrs Tomoko McKnight plaques. Mr & Mrs Jack Chaston Mr & Mrs A.D. McBeath Members may have noticed some "foreign" works of art Mrs Stephanie Doidge Mr Peter J. Bruce displayed by the main entrance. A collection of pottery, Mrs C. Voute Christchurch Girls' High School painting, weaving and a combination of leather and Mr & Mrs A.F. Shaw Mrs V.M. Hills wrought iron in the form of a very handsome chair which Miss Jilly Parsonson feels like "the rack" to sit on but nevertheless is beautifully Mrs Irene Fitzgerald ornamental. This work hails from the "Artists Quarter" Mrs June Bell where one can make a closer study of this work in the Miss Linda Hamilton making. Mr Michael Trumic The C.S.A. Annual Meeting was held in November with a Mr Douglas Newall small attendance so maybe this means there are no Mrs M.A. Willcox CSA Gallery hours grouches. Once again we offer apologies for printing errors Mrs Gowan Banbury in the Annual Report, two omissions being, Andrew Coates Mr Martin Major Monday - Friday 10am-4.30pm and Norman France not being recognised as working Saturday & Sunday : 2pm - 4 30pm Mrs Sylvia Riley members, indeed, they are both staunch supporters of our Mr & Mrs P.J. O'Regan Society exhibitions.

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Our exciting Commonwealth Games exhibition is This final issue of the pottery notes for the year will be There are some young potters that are making good drawing closer and while there has been a good response for too late to give you greetings for Christmas but not too late progress in Christchurch and we do hope that they will bear assistance with supervision, we would still like to hear from to wish that the New Year will be a good and happy year in mind the Canterbury Potters Exhibition which is being anyone who has a few hours to spare. Speaking of the for everyone. staged in the C.S.A. Gallery in July and put aside early their Games, the most informative little magazine in Christ- The opening in of the Sixteenth Annual best pots. church is always available at the Gallery desk and that is Potters' Society Exhibition on October 20 got off to a good It is hoped that the potters of Canterbury will offer their Time Off which covers all art activities . . . and it's free. start with some 14,500 attending over the opening help to man the Gallery during the exhibition of all the Recent purchases by the C.S.A. for the Permanent weekend. Arts which the C.S.A. Gallery is staging for the Common­ Collection are Lord Reith (looking back), photograph by The overall opinion was that the standard of pots was wealth Games. There will be so many people attending this Murray Hedwig, and Road to Puhi-Puhi by John Oakley. not high in the domestic ware but that some of the exhibition that it will be necessary to have lots of helpers. News from England tells us that Michael Ebel has won a sculptured pieces were good. Despite the fact that we had useful information in May recent Royal Overseas League Art Competition worth Early in October we were privileged to have Margaret Davis's letter published in the last News of the firing of the £150. Michael is due back next year and has booked the Milne and Jocelyn and Guy Mountain stage an exhibition at Peruvian women's pots, our attempt at this native style of Gallery for another one-man show. Several Arts. By the number of opening-day enthusiasts and firing was not very successful at our picnic day at Rangiora by the steady stream of visitors which continued Joanna Mowat. on Saturday, November 17. Whether our clay was not throughout the exhibition it proved to be very successful. It suitable or the fire unsatisfactory, the result was that very was good to see colour in the pots of both Margaret and few pots survived. Guy. Jocelyn Mountain had some interesting and attractive However the day was perfect and a good number of weaving. families attended and a grand picnic atmosphere prevailed. Juliet Peter and Roy Cowan also had an exhibition in Best wishes to you all for the New Year. early October of pots and paintings at the C.S.A. Gallery. Mari Tothill. Juliet's floor vases were particularly pleasing, one being bought for the McDougall Art Gallery. Another potter from who had her pots at first staged in the Library of the School of Engineering at Ham and finally at the C.S.A. Gallery was Flora Christella.

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J. MARGARET PARKER - PRINTS. KEVIN PASSMORE - PHOTOGRAPHY Feb. 14-29. Feb. 17 - Mar. 6 I have always been interested in painting and the graphic Studied Photography and film making within the Design side of it; and from leading a very full country life I have curriculum at the University of Canterbury School of Art now started to draw again — anything that crosses my path, and graduated with an Honours Diploma in 1969. Worked wood pigeons, men at work, mountains in storm or rabbits for a period as a freelance designer and photographer, then that the cat puts at my feet. Every moment is valuable and returned to teach photography and film making at the I try to capture each as it comes, Tekepo and Fairlie are School of Art during 1972 and 1973. within twenty miles of here with tremendous subjects and a I became interested in the female nude during my history in the making. post-graduate year and my photography has almost entirely I have had one-man shows in Hastings and Timaru. I had centred on this theme ever since. Through the photographic four years at the School of Art in Christchurch doing the image lam searching for woman's charisma; celestical body, Diploma course and have taught at the Adult Education universal statement, earthy and timeless, monumental and Dept, published a book for children with all pictures in delicate. As a result, my photographs have become highly block work and taught landscape at the Timaru College. formal statements. In a sense I feel more like a painter than a photographer - choosing to contrive my images by I go down to Timaru each Thursday for a working day composing them within a carefully considered context. there. Pottery all day and graphic art at night and get back to Mt Dalgety at about 10p.m. The exhibition "WOMAN" contains work completed The Art Gallery in Timaru was my mother's home, so we since 1969. are naturally, as a family, interested in painting and its well being in South Canterbury. "AN INVITATION IS EXTENDED TO ALL C.S.A. MEMBERS TO ATTEND A PREVIEW OF KEVIN'S PHOTOGRAPHY ON SUNDAY 17TH FEBRUARY AT 11AM."

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