b.145 BULLETIN OF THE CHRISTCHURCH ART GALLERY TE PUNA O WAIWHETU winter june – septemberaugust 06 06 Exhibitions Programme

June, July, August

JEFFREY HARRIS A unique journey through the extraordinary career of Touring Exhibition Galleries Jeffrey Harris. & Borg Henry Gallery • until 25 June • publication available WELTSPRACHE FUSSBALL / PLANET FOOTBALL The Gallery is New Zealand’s only venue for this international Balconies touring exhibition of football images from the world’s finest • 10 June – 16 July photography agency, Magnum. SOUTHERN LIGHTS A remarkable installation by leading photographer Anne Noble Tait Electronics Antarctica explores how the medium of photography shapes our impressions Gallery of Antarctica. • until 30 July CECIL BEATON The glamorous worlds of fashion, literature and film meet in this William A. Sutton major international exhibition of one of the most celebrated & Ravenscar Galleries British portrait photographers of the twentieth century. Toured by • until 10 September the National Portrait Gallery, London. • admission charges apply • publication available A LOOP AROUND A LOOP Sensual, complex, arresting, the work of Julia Morison is an Touring Exhibition Galleries intellectual order made physical. This major exhibition of more & Borg Henry Gallery than two decades of work by one of New Zealand’s most • 21 July – 23 October inventive artists has been developed by Christchurch Art Gallery • publication available and Dunedin Public Art Gallery. ROOM WITH A VIEW This interactive installation of jewellery object art by Kirsten Tait Electronics Antarctica Haydon was inspired by a visit to Antarctica, and looks at the way Gallery souvenirs are reminders of journeys and encounters. • 11 August – 3 December

From the Gallery Collections

THE COLLECTIONS Divided into Historical, Twentieth Century and Contemporary Collection Galleries Collections, this installation displays a rotating selection of • catalogue available treasures. • audio guide available APE TO ZIP A light-hearted art alphabet adventure bringing together a curious Monica Richards Gallery assortment of artworks in an exhibition designed to captivate the young and the young at heart. GRAPHICA BRITANNICA Highlights from the Rex Nan Kivell gift of prints by some of Burdon Family Gallery the most highly regarded British printmakers of the early to mid • catalogue available twentieth century. b.145 Bulletin Editor Sarah Pepperle

Gallery Contributors 2 Director’s Foreword Director Tony Preston A few words from the Director Curator (Contemporary) Felicity Milburn Curator (Works on Paper) Peter Vangioni Curatorial Assistant (Contemporary) Jennifer Hay 3 The Greatest New Zealand Painting Public Programmes Officer Ann Betts Cass by Rita Angus – the nation’s favourite painting Gallery Photographer Brendan Lee Friends of Christchurch Art Gallery Helen Peate 4 Noteworthy Other Contributors News bites from around the Gallery Stephen McArthur, Andrew Paul Wood

Tel (+64-3) 941 7300 Fax (+64-3) 941 7301 Email [email protected] [email protected] 8 Cecil Beaton Please see the back cover for more details. Making camp with Andrew Paul Wood We welcome your feedback and suggestions for future articles. 16 Artist Profile: Grant Takle Portrait of the artist

18 a loop around a loop An interview with artist Julia Morison

26 Planet Football Football images from the world’s leading photography agency

28 room with a view Jeweller Kirsten Haydon’s interactive installation CURRENT SPONSORS OF THE GALLERY 29 Recent Acquisitions Gold Featuring William Fox’s Guards Bay & Rangiawa’s grave, CRANLEIGH BARTON ESTATE Port Underwood ERNST & YOUNG KOREA FOUNDATION MONTANA WINES NZ LTD 31 Friends of the Gallery PYNE GOULD CORPORATION/PERPETUAL TRUST People, places and events SPECTRUM PRINT STRATEGY DESIGN & ADVERTISING 34 Coming Events TASMAN CHARITABLE TRUST A look at what’s on at the Gallery THE CARTER GROUP

Silver 36 The end of an Era AALTO COLOUR A tribute to Tony Preston GLASS TOWER STRATEGIC COMMUNICATIONS THE PRESS VERVE DIGITAL LTD

Design & Production

Art Director Guy Pask Editorial Design Douglas Maclean Designer Paulette Greyling, Chris Flack Production Manager Lynda Courtney Photolithography Verve Digital Ltd Printing Spectrum Print Please note: The opinions put forward in this magazine are not necessarily those of the Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu. All images reproduced courtesy ISSN 1176 – 0540 of the artist or copyright holder unless otherwise stated. Director’s Foreword P. ANTHONY PRESTON THE GREATEST NEW ZEALAND PAINTING CASS by Rita Angus

Welcome to this Winter issue of this glamorous exhibition of portraits Our thanks to Grant Takle,whose Bulletin. Sadly, this is my last foreword, by society photographer and designer work is featured in the new as I have decided to retire as Director, Cecil Beaton is a celebration of style. Contemporary Collections hang, after more than a decade in a position It features such luminaries as Marilyn for sitting for the Artist Profile in which has been both challenging and Monroe, Audrey Hepburn, the Rolling this issue. rewarding. Stones, Marlon Brando and Andy In closing, may I thank all the When I came to Christchurch in Warhol, bringing the red-carpet Gallery’s supporters, many of whom July 1995, we were ensconced in the old glitterati of the twentieth century to have also become personal friends Robert McDougall Art Gallery in the our Gallery. Entirely appropriately in during my time as Director, and I Botanic Gardens. While a handsome this issue, art critic Andrew Paul Wood wish you and the Gallery every success building, the institution’s needs had explores the art of ‘camp’ in Beaton’s in the future. I am sad to depart, but long outgrown the facility, and I was photography. very proud to leave you with a cultural appointed to raise the funds and Also this quarter, the Gallery hosts facility that is the envy of the rest of manage the project that now sees us a spectacular retrospective exhibition New Zealand! in our superb new building. Be proud of Julia Morison’s work. Titled a loop of the Christchurch Art Gallery, and around a loop, it surveys the major the achievements we have made since pieces from her career, to date. Created we opened just three years ago. It stands in partnership with the Dunedin Public as a tribute to the generosity of so many Art Gallery, the exhibition opens in Cantabrians, and I wish to record my Christchurch on 21 July, and Jennifer appreciation to you all, for without Hay has interviewed the artist for this your support and belief in the project Bulletin. it would never have eventuated, and Planet Football brings life to the Cass c.1936 Rita Angus. Oil on canvas. Collection of the Gallery, purchased 1955. remained – as it had for many decades Gallery’s balconies from 10 June to 16 Reproduced courtesy of the Estate of Rita Angus – a subject for occasional, and usually July. Toured by the Goethe-Institut, fractious, debate. it celebrates the global passion for This winter, as I leave the Gallery, football and features images from we open a highlight of the year’s the legendary Magnum photography This painting of a small Canterbury railway station was voted the greatest New programme, and the last international archive. The exhibition has already Zealand painting by viewers of arts television programme Frontseat. It topped a poll of exhibition I secured, Cecil Beaton: visited eighty countries, and is being paintings from galleries around the country to make the number one spot. Portraits. Exclusive to Christchurch, shown in New Zealand only at our Cass displays Rita Angus’s unique style of realism developed throughout the 1930s. Gallery to coincide with the 2006 FIFA The structured, formal composition is combined with the use of defined shapes, blocks World Cup. of colour and a clear pervading light. Forms have been simplified, and constructed objects such as the station and timber stack are given an equal emphasis with the mountains in the background. A sense of the solitary nature of the region – Cass is located in the Southern Alps, 116 kilometres north-west of Christchurch – is captured through the depiction of a single isolated figure waiting on the platform.

On display in the Dame Louise Henderson Gallery.

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Refreshing the ART FOR FAMILIES SUMMER PROGRAMME COMING SOON! Collections Hang See the Coming Events pages The Gallery’s new summer programme is about to be launched! Works on Paper for more events for families. Keep an eye out for details on our exciting array of exhibitions from New Zealand and around the world. From 2 June, the works on paper hang in the Collections Galleries on Animals with Attitude the fi rst fl oor will be refreshed with Children’s Workshops a new selection of artworks. The new Children are invited to the Gallery display will continue to enhance and Gallery Designs during the July school holidays to complement the Gallery’s historical take part in fun workshops making Win Awards and twentieth century collection papier maché animals with attitude! paintings. Formerly reserved for The Gallery is delighted to announce Our must-see exhibition Cecil Animals will be let loose on display watercolours, the works on paper that Bulletin has once again won the Beaton: Portraits, the second in in the Gallery Foyer throughout bays are divided into several areas prestigious Museums Australia the Season of Photography series, KidsFest 06 – all visitors are covering nineteenth and twentieth Publication Design Award for promises to draw the crowds with welcome. the best magazine of 2005 by an its array of famous faces from the century Canterbury, New Zealand Workshops are offered daily, 3 –7 Australasian museum or gallery. worlds of high society, fashion, and international artists. July, from 10 am – 2 pm. You can join Congratulations to Gallery partner literature and fi lm. One of the world’s Elizabeth Taylor 1954 Cecil Beaton. © Cecil Beaton Highlights include three Archive, Sotheby’s, London in at any time. There is a workshop Strategy Design & Advertising for most celebrated photographers, watercolours by Rita Angus, fee of $2 per child to cover consistently outstanding design work Cecil Beaton is renowned for his including her 1942 still-life fl ower materials. For more information, on Bulletin. The annual awards are fl amboyant sense of style and his eye study Irises. Also on view for the fi rst Christchurch Cabaret Matariki / Winter Solstice please telephone 941 7342. peer reviewed, celebrating excellence for beauty and glamour. time are William Fox’s Guards Bay & Festival in design and communication. The Gallery has a sensational array Celebrate Matariki and the winter Rangiawa’s grave, Port Underwood The Gallery is pleased to host three of related events on offer during the solstice at the Gallery. Graham (see the Recent Acquisition pages fabulous acts from the inaugural Kids in Town period – including classic movies, Bennett’s celestial Reasons for for more information on this work) Christchurch Cabaret Festival in July! dancing demonstrations and a Voyaging sculpture will complete a and Petrus van der Velden’s excellent Every Thursday lunchtime, the Presented by the Christchurch Arts celebrity look-alike parade. See the special 13-minute rotational cycle watercolour, Marken Funeral Barge, Gallery hosts Kids in Town. Festival, the acts are Micheline van Coming Events pages for details. on the hour every hour from 10 am part of the artist’s Marken funeral Children from primary schools until 5 pm on Tuesday 27 June, and a series of the early 1870s. Other Hautem and Frederik Caelen from around Christchurch entertain A range of special ticket offers will range of special events will be held highlights include four of Colin Belgium, French Toast from Auckland visitors with performances by be made available, including two- on Sunday 2 July. McCahon’s Northland drawings, and Ali Harper with Richard Marrett choirs, Kapa Haka groups, Pacifi c for-one entry with coupons from The from the artist’s Northland series from Christchurch. See the Coming Culture groups, orchestras and Press, and a free day. See The Press of 1958/59. Events pages for details. dance troupes. See the Coming for more details. Art Appreciation Course Events pages for dates and times. The next course in the popular Alchemy Café & Wine Bar Planet Football! Insight art appreciation series for Award of Excellence 2006 World Cup at the Gallery beginners starts in June, held over School Holiday four consecutive Tuesday or Saturday Competing with the leading cafés Programme As part of the Planet Football mornings. The course explores around Christchurch, Alchemy Café exhibition, the Gallery is entering portraiture, landscape painting, & Wine Bar at the Gallery took out the The new holiday quiz for the July into the spirit of the 2006 FIFA World abstraction and contemporary art. top prize in the Café section of the school holidays is Fuzzy Friends, Cup by installing three huge plasma Meadow Mushrooms Grande Entrée with fun activities for children Courses start on Tuesday 6 June and widescreen televisions in the Foyer Award. Portobello, swiss brown and looking at animals in art. The quiz Strategy has scooped yet another Saturday 10 June. Course fee is $60. to show live all games scheduled button mushroom fi lled french toast introduces children to the many award for their work with the 12 participants per course, enrolment during the exhibition. Screening 24 topped with watercress and salmon, skills associated with making and Gallery – this time from America’s is essential. To enrol, or for further hours a day, and visible from inside surrounded by balsamic mushrooms looking at art. Fuzzy Friends is prestigious Art Director’s Club information, telephone 941 7342. 85th Annual Awards. Judged or outside the Gallery, a series of and chemoula – available now as part ideal for family groups and children by an international panel of the short fi lms will run between games. of the Autumn / Winter menu. aged 4–12 years, and is available world’s most respected creative See page 26 for more information on Dance at the Gallery daily from 1–16 July, 10 am – 4 pm. professionals, the ADC Annual Planet Football. The quiz is free, and can be picked The Gallery brings two special Awards honours the best design work up at the Information Desk. dance events to the Foyer this winter. from around the world. Selected from Shop Stocktake Footnote Dance presents Watch more than 11,000 entries worldwide, This Space, a unique fusion of Strategy won the Pimp My Brand Sale contemporary dance and music award for their work on the Gallery’s Irises 1942 Rita Angus. Watercolour. The Gallery Shop’s winter stocktake on Wednesday 26 July at 6 pm. Holiday Quiz tattoos for children, Collection of the Gallery, Lawrence Baigent / Robert sale is on for one day only. Get 15% Beaton’s Ballroom on Sunday 18 Erwin bequest, 2003. Reproduced courtesy of the which include such favourites as Art discount off all your purchases all June at 2 pm celebrates the style Estate of Rita Angus Rocks, Eye Spy, Art Attack and the day on Wednesday 21 June. and glamour of Cecil Beaton’s high ever popular Arty Farty. society world with a demonstration Alchemy’s Chef Glenn Andrew and Manager Paul of ballroom dancing. See the Coming Marquardt with the winning dish Events pages for more information.

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Update: No institution can afford to rest itinerary of every visitor to the city as Vision of Christchurch Art Gallery Paradigm Shift on its laurels. Worldwide, galleries the ‘must-see’ attraction. Throughout and museums are faced with falling March and early April, we consulted Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o We recognise our key audiences are We want to be recognised locally, numbers and having to reinvent our stakeholders, seeking their input Waiwhetu will take a key leadership the families/whanau of Christchurch, nationally and internationally as Change is always diffi cult. themselves to engage new and and ideas in helping create the new role in making Christchurch’s Cultural international visitors to our City, innovative, with quality collections It takes us from our comfort enlarged audiences. This is despite an programme of exhibitions and events Precinct the most visited cultural domestic visitors, educational groups and programmes, and for the ever-growing number of visitors and to reinforce the vision. They were tourism site in New Zealand. and special audiences. enjoyment and appreciation of art it zone and challenges us tourists. There is much competition honest with their feedback, which was We are ideally placed to take this lead The Gallery strives to connect brings all its audiences. We will set to think without the for their discretionary time, and it is appreciated, and shared a wealth of a standard of excellence in all our only those institutions that appeal ideas that will form part of the plan. with our iconic building, strategic people with art – emotionally and constraint of familiar location at the heart of the Cultural intellectually. We celebrate art and endeavours. to a wider community base with Among stakeholder suggestions have boundaries. And that is their exhibition programme that will Precinct and our programmes inviting the creative spirit. We know where we been bringing to life the Sculpture visitors to live the Precinct’s core stand and we have global reach. exactly what happened prosper. Christchurch Art Gallery has Garden on Montreal Street with responded early to this challenge. values of expanding cultural horizons We educate, inspire discovery last December with artwork, introducing a space for the and enriching senses. Christchurch should be proud of its exhibition of contemporary/ emerging and preserve the legacy of artistic Christchurch City Council’s Gallery. There is much to celebrate: artists with a quick turnover of work, We want to grow the public’s achievement for the people of review of operations at a magnifi cent building, a well-trained creating a vibrant environment within perception of art as we commit to Canterbury and New Zealand through new audiences by building a new, collecting, presenting, interpreting Christchurch Art Gallery and professional staff, a signifi cant the courtyard and foyer area and collection preserving the legacy of getting the Gallery more involved with stimulating visitor experience and and conserving quality works of art. Te Puna o Waiwhetu. It artistic achievement in Canterbury local festivals. We thank everyone develop the brand. generated considerable and New Zealand and a supportive who contributed; your feedback was debate, but more community that not only gave so invaluable in helping shape the new much to build the new facility but who face of the Gallery. Into the Void playing in the Foyer, 29 March importantly got people remain passionate about their Gallery. Christchurch Art Gallery has a new talking and thinking about With the Paradigm Shift, Christchurch vision – the fi rst step on the road to their Gallery. has given its residents one of the the Paradigm Shift. While the vision greatest gifts – the opportunity to capitalises on the facility’s strength Not prepared to accept falling visitor shape and mould its art institution within the Cultural Precinct, it is the numbers and an exhibition programme – and stakeholders have embraced support, passion and enthusiasm of that was labelled by museum experts it with enthusiasm. What has come the community that will guarantee Ken Gorbey and Tim Walker as “polite, through strongly is a real ownership a strong future. Change will not be low-paced and not rebellious enough”, of the Gallery, and that is important instant but rather progressively the Council decided it was time to put to secure a prosperous future. Not introduced during the next fi ve a new canvas on the wall and paint a everyone will agree on the new years. There is already a new energy future that delivered a dynamic new direction, but that is okay. of excitement and anticipation programme and attracted more than We now have a new vision for reverberating within the Gallery. Be 400,000 visitors annually, by 2009. our Gallery. This is to take a key part of the future – mark a visit to the There was a fear of the unknown as leadership role in making Worcester Gallery in your diary on 10 June and this was put in front of stakeholders. Boulevard and the Cultural Precinct experience Planet Football. It will be a This was not done in isolation but the most visited cultural tourism site taste of the future. rather acknowledged the success in New Zealand. It is a logical lead. of the new Gallery in its fi rst thirty The Gallery has an iconic building STEPHEN MCARTHUR months of operation, at the same time strategically located at the heart of recognising the need to build on this the Cultural Precinct and through its General Manager, Community Services, strength and expand visitor numbers programme invites visitors to expand Christchurch City Council by attracting new audiences. We had their cultural horizons and enrich their experienced a magnifi cent opening senses. This article was first printed in phase, but it was simply time to look As we celebrate the city’s creative The Press, 5 April 2006. to the future. spirit by expanding the public’s perception of art, we will commit to new audiences, building a stimulating visitor experience that puts Christchurch Art Gallery on the

You’ll be hearing more from the Gallery soon regarding the exciting new summer programme of exhibitions, which promises to cater for all tastes.

6 7 THE GLAMOROUS WORLDS OF FASHION, ART & FILM MEET IN THIS MAJOR INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION OF THE PORTRAITS OF SIR CECIL BEATON. MAKING CAMP CECIL BEATON Andrew Paul Wood explores behind the scenes.

Cecil Beaton 1937 Paul Tanqueray. Cecil Beaton Archive, Sotheby’s, London

9 “I adore simple pleasures, they “To be natural is such a very Susan Sontag pointed out Sitwells on the sunlit lawns of Beaton allowed this passion for are the last refuge of the complex.” difficult pose to keep up.” Oscar in ‘Notes on Camp’ that, while Stephen Tenant’s house at Wilsford, the epicine and artificial to flourish Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Wilde, An Ideal Husband (1895) nothing in nature can be campy, and at his own home, Ashcombe, like kudzu in his elaborate design Importance (1893) “Camp sees everything in and most camp is urban, there is in Wiltshire during the 1920s and work for the movies Gigi (1957) and still such a thing as Rural Camp 1930s. It resonates in his portraits My Fair Lady (1964). In Gigi, one Cecil Beaton (1904–1980) was quotation marks.” Susan Sontag, – manmade, and with the serenity or of the poisonous divorcee Wallis can barely see the coquettes for the one of the world’s most celebrated Notes on Camp (1964) naiveté of pastoral. One of Beaton’s Simpson in the gardens of the decadent tropical triffids of the mock photographers. He is remembered Beaton’s sensibilities form a favourite reoccurring motifs (along Château de Candé, or Elizabeth, the Art Nouveau sets, and the enormous as a leading society and fashion bridge between the aestheticism with harlequinades and posing Queen Consort (later the Queen Edwardian lampshade hats are photographer, and that stereotypical of Oscar Wilde and the celebrity his subjects as corpses) was the Mum) standing by an enormous virtually characters themselves. product of English class- worship of Andy Warhol. It is a fête-champêtre of the rural idle, marble urn at Windsor. It is what John Summerson has consciousness: a tenacious social kind of ‘Camp’ – that which with his friends as figures from This version of souped-up rural called “the craving for the aedicule” climber. To whit, as a young man he Susan Sontag described as “failed paintings by Fragonard and Titian. simplicity combined with glamorous Maurice Chevalier’s character lives harboured a burning desire to dine at seriousness” – it is camp of a More specifically he was drawn photographs of the Royal Family in rooms that appear part brothel, the Eiffel Tower because, “the people complex, rich and deliberate sort, to the artifice of the fantasy – the proved to be useful propaganda part Mogul palace, overwrought who go there are smart, arty, and the tinged with a love of absurdity, urban/urbane snob’s fantasy of the during the war, cushioning the with velvet and stylised peacocks. set I must get in with”. Beaton was artifice and surrealism, a creative rural retreat, Watteau shepherds injured British soul from the horrors In My Fair lady, Mrs Higgins tells a gifted networker, and soon he was pastiche of crinkled cellophane gambolling on the parterre and of the Blitz with a peculiarly English off Pygmalionesque son Henry for working for Vogue and Vanity Fair. backgrounds mingled freely with Marie-Antoinette dressing up in a kind of patriotic escapism. “playing with your live doll”! It is an The allure of Beaton is the mannered Old Master poses. Beaton’s silk-and-brocade milkmaid costume Beaton’s love of theatricality apt admonishment for Beaton too mutability of his façade, and the genius lay not in his photographic at the Petit Trianon while the began early. As a child he obsessively – in his world people were things enigma of what lay behind it. It is skills, but his instinctive ability to peasants starved beyond the walls. collected picture postcards of the to be directed and manipulated in not a cliché to describe him as one of synthesise successful pastiche from It is the Rococo fantasy of the Locus stage actresses of the day, and exotic stage sets of his conception. the last of the dilettanti – a talented this mélange. Amoenus – a delightful grove of wit, constructed elaborate sets for his painter, writer, designer, illustrator, Behind the effete posturing, beauty and flirtation insulated from beloved toy theatre. Later he would and of course one of the great sexual ambiguity and occasional the realities of the world. greatly admire Ballets Russ dancer celebrity portrait photographers dalliances in frocks was the steely, Beaton first explored this as Lydia Lopokva for her “Marionette “HE VIRTUALLY (although he always regarded this as waspish will of a tenacious social a young man, with his dress-up quality”, likening her to a wax doll. He INVENTED something of a minor arrow in climber forever ashamed of his pictures of Rex Whistler and the would later use the marionette simile THE GLAMOUR his quiver). He virtually invented nouveau riche origins. It was this to describe the British model Twiggy. SHOT.” the glamour shot, and somehow which informed his ability to idealise managed to surf the vicissitudes even the most inbred aristo, to home of fame and fashion from the in on and flatter their best features, Right: Edith Sitwelll 1927 Cecil Beaton. National Portrait Gallery, London Bright Young Things of the roaring wickedly pun on their weaknesses, twenties to the Rolling Stones in the Opposite page: On the bridge at Wilsford (L to and superimpose himself in their R: Rex Whistler, Cecil Beaton, Georgina Sitwell, swinging sixties (a full circle in many world with the judicious use of William Walton, Stephen Tennant, Zita Jungman, ways), from Buckingham Palace to Theresa Jungman) 1927 Cecil Beaton. National mirrors, while at all times remaining Portrait Gallery, London Hollywood. the respectful genuflecting courtier.

11 Beaton’s most compelling The aristocracy of the twentieth portraits explore his fascination with century looked to Beaton as androgeneity – the implacably butch their Van Dyck. To many he was “THE BEATON PORTRAIT IS AN AMAZING Gertrude Stein, and the waifish the Royal photographer of the THING. HE POSSESSED THE MOST gamin Audrey Hepburn. Beaton war period. His photographs REMARKABLE ABILITY TO DRAW OUT THE himself frequently attended costume of the coronation of Elizabeth ESSENTIAL QUALITIES OF A SITTER’S balls in drag and appeared en traviste II have become the legitimising CHARACTER AND GLAMORISE THEM.” in a Cambridge production of public collective memory of The Duchess of Malfi in 1924. A the inauguration of the Second favourite subject of Beaton’s, Greta Elizabethan Age. He made the Garbo (to whom the avowedly young Elizabeth our Gloriana, just homosexual photographer once as Spencer did with her namesake. proposed) was the apotheosis of the Beaton was also quick to catch on to androgynous ideal. During their the Windsor’s desire to be portrayed long and complex flirtation, Garbo as having as normal a family life as would occasionally refer to herself as their subjects, humanising them and Beaton’s “boy”. Marlene Dietrich was making them seem less distant. another androgyne – as Kenneth During his four visits to Tynan observed in Beaton’s book Hollywood, starting in the early Persona Grata (1953), she possessed 1930s, Beaton discovered a new “sex without gender”. Beaton American aristocracy, the pantheon described Mick Jagger as “completely of the silver screen, which he sexless. He could nearly be a snapped, drenched in California sun. eunuch.” While this was intended as In his lens, Garbo’s face is translated a high compliment, it is difficult to into a silver moon that transcends Above: Pablo Picasso 1933 Cecil Beaton. Cecil Beaton Archive, Sotheby’s, London imagine the implacably virile king of mere portraiture. Paradoxically, his Below: Nancy Cunard 1929 Cecil Beaton. sex, drugs and rock-n-roll taking it treatment of movie stars seems to National Portrait Gallery, London as such. be quite the opposite of the socially in-the-know way he depicted the “It’s absurd to divide people into British ruling classes. good and bad. People are either The Beaton portrait is an charming or tedious.” Oscar Wilde, amazing thing. He possessed the Lady Windermere’s Fan (1892) most remarkable ability to draw out Beaton imperiously defined the essential qualities of a sitter’s society with his lens, and an eye that character and glamorise them. was both waspish and kindly by Having known Cocteau and various turns. He was a compulsive social Surrealists, he employed many of climber – never having recovered their ideas in setting up the scene from his ill-placed shame at having with furbelows and bits of random a father who was a self-made man. bric-a-brac, but the sitter underneath This is perhaps the ultimate vanity, as is always him or herself – even if it was his father’s lumber wealth that they are dressed as a Moorish prince allowed Beaton to play the dilettante or Edwardian debutant. It anticipates and indulge his whimsical fancy. similar tableaux in the work of No one did more to re-brand contemporary photographers the Windsors after the abdication of such as Pierre et Gilles, Robert Edward VIII, demonstrating once Mapplethorpe, Richard Avedon, and for all the power of publicity Herb Ritts and many others. and the media over the public consciousness. Beaton’s photographs of Elizabeth, the Queen Consort, seamlessly smoothed the abrupt succession by extolling her great

Princess Elizabeth 1942 Cecil Beaton. charm and appeal. National Portrait Gallery, London

12 13 There was always a bit of bitchy Related Events irony in Beaton’s work, particularly I Can Still Smell the Perfume in the early years – Churchill 7 June, 6.00 pm Elric Hooper shares his personal memories looks particularly like a British of spending time with celebrity photographer bulldog, Picasso looks like a suited Cecil Beaton. Elric is a lecturer at the University of Canterbury and former director businessman rather than the pre- of the Court Theatre. eminent painter of the twentieth Venue: Philip Carter Family Auditorium century. This vitriolic streak was Beaton’s Ballroom largely burned out of him like a 18 June, 2.00 pm To celebrate the style and glamour of Cecil tic by his experiences as an official Beaton’s high society world, join us for a “IN HIS WORLD, PEOPLE WERE THINGS TO war photographer travelling in the demonstration of ballroom dancing. Spot prizes include free tickets to the exhibition. BE DIRECTED AND MANIPULATED IN EXOTIC Middle East, capturing the last days Venue: Foyer STAGE SETS OF HIS CONCEPTION.” and fading glories of an Orientalist Jon Gadsby: Gossip and Celebrity Brideshead Revisited. By the end of 12 July, 6.00 pm One of New Zealand’s best-known his career, formal and compositional comedians and writers turns his attention to values were the important aspect the gossipy world of celebrity. of his craft, when he really became Venue: Philip Carter Family Auditorium Below: Andy Warhol and The Factory 1969 Cecil Beaton. Cross Dressing Cecil Beaton Archive, Sotheby’s, London an artist. Sadly though, although 19 July, 6.00 pm Opposite page: Winston Churchill 1940 Cecil Beaton. he had celebrity cachet, snapping Ross Gumbley, Director of the Court National Portrait Gallery, London worthies of the day like Mick Jagger Theatre, playwright and actor, shares his amusement and recollections of the cross- and Andy Warhol (so like him in life dressing and stage-dressing phenomena. and aspiration), his artistic vision Venue: Philip Carter Family Auditorium was something of an anachronism. Beaton Classic Movies Season: Breakfast at Tiffany’s He remained throughout his life an 23 July, 2.00 pm Edwardian dandy in his own mind, Audrey Hepburn stars as Holly Golightly in this delightful classic movie. and a basilisk whistling away in its Duration 110 minutes plus interval. cave to a world he was rapidly falling Venue: Philip Carter Family Auditorium out of step with. Beaton Classic Movies Season: My Fair Lady “Life is too important a thing ever 6 August, 2.00 pm to talk seriously about it.” Made in 1964, this film starring Audrey Oscar Hepburn, Stanley Holloway and Rex Wilde, Vera, or The Nihilists (1880) Harrison features costumes and sets designed by Cecil Beaton. Duration 165 minutes plus interval. ANDREW PAUL WOOD Venue: Philip Carter Family Auditorium Andrew Paul Wood is an art historian, Beaton’s Homes writer and critic. He contributes regularly 9 August, 6.00 pm to Urbis, The Listener, Art New A personal insight to the man and his life with Rodney Laredo. Zealand and The Press. Venue: Philip Carter Family Auditorium Cecil Beaton: Portraits is in the Celebrity Look-alike Day 13 August, All Day William A. Sutton and Ravenscar 2.30 pm Look-alike Parade Galleries until 10 September. 4.00 pm Winner Announced Dress up as your favourite celebrity and enter the contest for the best look-alike of the day. CECIL BEATON: PORTRAITS All entrants will receive a free ticket to the IS SUPPORTED BY: exhibition and the winner a $100 voucher for Strategy Design & Advertising the Gallery Shop. Principal Exhibition Sponsor Venue: Foyer The Tasman Charitable Trust Beaton Classic Movies Season: Season of Photography Principal Funder The Rat Pack The Press 20 August, 2.00 pm Season of Photography Media Partner Three programmes tell the stories of the Aalto Colour famous Rat Pack of the swinging 60s, with Season of Photography Paint Sponsor Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr and Dean Martin. Duration 140 minutes plus interval. Venue: Philip Carter Family Auditorium Jane Ussher: Portraits 23 August, 6.00 pm One of New Zealand’s leading commercial portrait photographers discusses her work. Venue: Philip Carter Family Auditorium

14 15 Grant Takle Grant Takle’s paintings bristle with references to New Zealand’s history and culture, presenting an intense and often unsettling examination of our national identity. Richly loaded with visual and verbal puns, their aggressive imagery and abrupt juxtapositions offer a bracing riposte to the current climate of political correctness. Born and based in Christchurch, Takle trained at the University of Canterbury School of Fine Arts and has exhibited regularly over two decades in solo and group exhibitions throughout New Zealand. His work is represented in several major public collections. The Gallery owns five works by Takle. The most recently acquired, No Smoking (2005), is part of the new hang in the Contemporary Collections Gallery.

Photograph: Chris Flack Julia Morison 21 July – 23 October

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Fair and gay goes Lent away from Gobsmack & Flabbergast series 2005 Julia Morison. Mixed media on aluminium laminate. Collection of the artist

18 19 Inventive, complex, a loop around a loop, arresting. The work developed by Christchurch of Julia Morison has Art Gallery and Dunedin come to represent Public Art Gallery, is a major an intellectual order exhibition of more than two made physical. decades of work. a loop around a loop around a loop around a loop around a loop around a loop around a loop around a loop around a loop around a loop around a loop around a loop around a loop around a

Julia Morison was born in Pahiatua During the 1980s, Morison Her major survey exhibition, The title of the exhibition is a loop around a loop. How did this in 1952. She initially studied produced formal abstract paintings a loop around a loop, curated by title come about as being appropriate to your practice? at the Wellington Polytechnic, in which she explored precise Felicity Milburn from Christchurch It’s not a complete retrospective ten huge works, each one combining graduating in 1972 with a diploma geometric relationships and spatial Art Gallery and Justin Paton show, and so we [with curators with the next to create one vast work. in graphic design, and went on to progressions. In these early works, from Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Felicity Milburn and Justin Paton] More recently, I’ve experimented gain an honours degree from the hard-edged forms and shaped incorporates a selection of works were trying to come up with a title with the idea of an endless painting University of Canterbury School canvasses rely on their own special dating from the 1980s through to that did not capture everything – a painting that never comes to a of Fine Arts in 1975. Since then, logic, rather than any exterior recent work produced especially definitively – something that was close but is extended with each new Morison has exhibited nationally reference. Geometric forms appear for the exhibition. The first open-ended. In my practice, ideas exhibition. So when Felicity, Justin and internationally and been again in work from the 1990s, comprehensive publication on Julia seem to loop around themselves and I were talking about a title for the awarded numerous grants and however these were now laden with Morison will also be produced in and works can be read as relating or show, I drew a loop while describing fellowships, including the Frances symbolic references. Associated conjunction with the show. The connecting to other works. Back in my practice as a loop within a loop Hodgkins Fellowship in 1989, oppositions of the sacred and exhibition defies the traditional 1986, when I made the earliest work – and Justin said, that’s it! and the prestigious New Zealand profane, the precious and abject, give concept of a survey, instead multi- in this show, I embarked on what I Moët & Chandon Fellowship in her work a potent, mystical air. part installations juxtaposed against eventually hoped would be a series of 1990, which allowed her to travel Morison’s unique oeuvre displays each other spiral and wrap around to France for a year’s residency. She concerns not only for materials, the gallery spaces, inviting viewers to chose to make France her base for but also identity, classification ponder the notion of beginnings and the following ten years, returning to and memory. Early religious belief endings, and the constant circling of take up an appointment as senior systems, such as the Jewish practical ideas within ideas. I interviewed Julia Opposite page: Quiddities IX 1989 Julia Morison. Cibatransparency in lightbox. Collection of lecturer of painting at the University Kabbalah, have made a profound on the subject of the exhibition. Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki of Canterbury. Morison became a impact on the artist, whose rich New Zealand Arts Foundation imagination combines ancient source Laureate in 2005. material with contemporary issues.

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“ Installations spiral and The exhibition has been Have you moved away How would you like people to approach the exhibition? conceived as revolving around consciously from your focus You mentioned earlier that it is not a retrospective, and the wrap around the gallery the number ten, which is a part on Hermeticism and the concept is unconventional in a way, being more open than of your practice. Kabbalah? a traditional exhibition experience. spaces, the constant circling I began unconsciously working Well, I don’t think that I have quite Initially I’d like people to simply How does the basic language of ten with the number ten as a student. finished with it. Madonna has made take in the exhibition on a visceral signs, materials and qualities get of ideas within ideas.” It later became a conscious skeleton it fashionable and something very level, just to look and experience worked and reworked? How does the for my work – first ten, then 100, different to what I am interested it. It’s still relatively chronological, conversation between geometrical then 1000. It’s still there in my work, in. One of the things that drew as certain groupings of works are rigour and material overload play out but less obvious. Some of the later me to this body of knowledge is more compatible than others, in successive works? It’s interesting Above: No Name For Things No String For works are less predetermined; but it’s that it is a tool for understanding according to the period they were to me that children often feel freest 2003/04 Julia Morison. Mixed media on board. Collection of the Gallery weird, even in trying to abandon the world, a kind of model of the made in. The works are layered and to revel in the material richness of Opposite page: Prick and spare not (detail) from the ten by ten format, as I did in universe – so each person has to complex, which is important – the the works. Of course, there will be a Gobsmack & Flabbergast series 2005 Julia Morison. No Name For Things No String For, make their own use of it. It’s not seduction and attraction of the comprehensive catalogue with essays Mixed media on paper. Collection of the artist when I added up all the panels at a set of rules delivered from on surfaces. A viewer can, if she wants, that elucidate the work for the more Jonathan Smart Gallery [where the high. Every time I heard the word follow the works chronologically. curious. work was exhibited], they came to ‘Kabbalah’, it meant something But it’s also possible, and perhaps 100. Our aim with this exhibition different. My use of it is less obvious more interesting, to pursue some was to acknowledge how of late the in my current work but it is still other threads through the show. work has extended beyond the part of my practice. I particularly ten-part structure. So we’ve worked like the way it encourages people to with the notion of ten plus one – make connections between things ten major projects, and a vast new that are often opposed – the sacred one to set the stage for future and the profane, the sensual and the developments, and put the emphasis intellectual. on the present tense.

22 23 Opposite page: Material Evidence: 100 Headless Woman (detail of installation) 1998 Julia Morison. Various materials. Collection of the artist

Below: End to Begin (details) 1995 Julia Morison. Oil and wax on hessian over board. Collection of the artist

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You figured out a specific system The new component a loop around a loop is in the Touring of painting early in your career. of the exhibition – Exhibition Galleries and Borg Henry Is this system reinvented for each Gargantua’s Petticoat – Gallery from 21 July until 23 October. series that you start? Is this still is still in progress at the This is a partnership project between part of the way you are working? moment. Christchurch Art Gallery and Dunedin There is actually not one system Yes, Gargantua’s Petticoat will be a Public Art Gallery. A major publication on the exhibition and career of Julia governing all series. At the start there painting installation and is fueled Morison, with essays by Justin Paton and is always the notion of a scheme by earlier works that feature in the Felicity Milburn, will be available from the for a specific series, and within this exhibition – quite possibly all of them. Gallery Shop in August. To pre-order your structure I read and respond to the It also relates to aspects of Gobsmack copy, telephone the Gallery Shop on work in progress allowing it to take & Flabbergast, but is more graphic. (03) 941 7388 any time during July. me on a journey rather than over- They are like women and torsos, All artworks © Julia Morison. determining the outcome. I want abstracted, big panels, that are a mix to work with the unfamiliar too, so of formal abstraction and the surreal Related Events I try not to bind myself to a way – the two positions I tend to move Meet the artist: Julia Morison of thinking. Each work intuitively between. I don’t want to say too much 16 August, 6.00 pm The artist conducts a floortalk comes out of the previous one. about it yet before the exhibition… around the exhibition. It may be an elaboration or even I’d like to keep it as a surprise. Venue: Touring Exhibition Galleries a critique of it. Go With Me 30 August, 6.00 pm INTERVIEW BY JENNIFER HAY Curator Felicity Milburn discusses important Jennifer Hay is Curatorial Assistant themes in the work of Julia Morison. (Contemporary Art) at the Gallery. Venue: Philip Carter Family Auditorium Ernst & Young is Principal Exhibition Sponsor of a loop around a loop at Christchurch Art Gallery

25 Planet Football (Weltsprache Fussball) 10 JUNE > 16 JULY

Planet Football’s world tour finishes in New Free Events Zealand! Showing exclusively at the Gallery, this 2006 FIFA World Cup at the Gallery! exhibition of football images from the world’s finest Three huge plasma widescreen televisions in the Foyer will show photography agency, Magnum, has toured eighty live all games scheduled during the exhibition. Soccer Skills countries around the globe! Sunday 11 June, 2 pm A fun demonstration of soccer skills by representatives from Football is the world’s most popular sport – it is Christchurch soccer clubs.Venue: Sculpture Garden / Foyer played by hundreds of millions and watched by Soccer Film Season billions of people around the world. It has been In addition to the films listed below, described as the people’s sport because it speaks a for the duration of the exhibition, Shoot Goals! Shoot Movies will show continuously on widescreen televisions in the Foyer. universal language. All around the world, the game Screening 24 hours a day, and visible from inside or outside of football transcends the barriers of culture, religion, the Gallery, this is a selection of international short films with a football theme – children and their desires, fans and their © Abbas / Magnum Photos social standing and politics. dreams, the shadow politics casts over the sport, satirical clips, Iran. Tehran. 1998 Timed to coincide with the FIFA World and moments of joy in appalling conditions. Cup 2006, this exhibition of photographs reveals The Cup Wednesday 14 June, 6 pm how football can build bridges around the world. The first film made in the Himalayan Kingdom of Butan, From mosque courtyards to middle-class English where the soccer fever of the students disrupts the serene contemplation of a Buddhist monastery. Duration 94 minutes “This exhibition reveals how football can build bridges around the world.” gardens, football stadiums and refugee camps, Planet plus interval. Venue: Philip Carter Family Auditorium Football is a photographic exhibition that celebrates One Day in Europe the world of football – great moments on and off Wednesday 21 June, 6 pm the soccer field. A travel adventure through Europe, capturing the diversity of cultures linked by the language of football. Duration 93 minutes This exhibition has been created by the Goethe- plus interval. Venue: Philip Carter Family Auditorium Institut in Germany in conjunction with world- The Other Final renowned photography agency Magnum Photos. Wednesday 28 June, 6 pm A crazy idea that comes true: the finale of the two worst football It includes works by such photographers as Henri teams in the world! Duration 87 minutes plus interval. Cartier-Bresson, Abbas, Chris Steele-Perkins, Luc Venue: Philip Carter Family Auditorium Delahaye, Josef Koudelka, Brice Gilden, Susan Le Ballon d’or Sunday 2 July, 2 pm Meiselas, Martin Parr and Marc Riboud, and has The story of a ten-year-old boy from Guinea who is determined toured eighty countries around the world before to become a football star. Duration 90 minutes plus interval. coming to New Zealand. Venue: Philip Carter Family Auditorium The Champions Wednesday 5 July, 6 pm Weltsprache Fussball / Planet Football is on the balconies An in-depth, behind-the-scenes look at large European soccer from 10 June to 16 July. An exhibition by the Goethe-Institut, clubs. This documentary follows four youngsters on their way conceived in cooperation with MAGNUM PHOTOS. to becoming professional players. Duration 129 minutes plus interval. Venue: Philip Carter Family Auditorium

© Martin Parr / Magnum Photos Japan. Tokyo. 1998

26 27 room with a view by Kirsten Haydon Recent Acquisitions 11 AUGUST – 3 DECEMBER

Melbourne-based jeweller Kirsten Haydon brings an interactive installation of jewellery object art to the Gallery in room with a view. Kirsten was an Antarctic Arts Fellow in 2004, and this exhibition resulted from her experiences in Antarctica and her research into the role souvenirs and jewellery play in society.

GUARDS BAY & RANGIAWA’S GRAVE, PORT UNDERWOOD William Fox

The purpose of Kirsten’s journey to Antarctica was to produce a collection of jewellery that related to the landscape, flora and fauna, and to expand upon her knowledge of the history of objects and wearable souvenirs. As she says, “Jewellery, historically, is a personal and sentimental medium. Many objects were fashioned in the form of miniature representations of landscapes and icons and have been used to remind people of journeys and experiences.” Displayed in a darkened section of the gallery space and viewed by torchlight, Kirsten’s new works are created from luminous visy beads used in road paint fired into enamel at high temperatures to form reflective objects– an optical illusion visible in the dark. Juxtaposed is a video projection of a journey in a Hagland (Antarctic transport vehicle) that combines Kirsten’s interest in ideas of exploration with a new way of viewing object art. Other pieces displayed in an adjoining space are enamel geometric shapes, some with delicate drawings of landscape fragments and sea animals. The role of memory in the production, reception and use of jewellery Guards Bay & Rangiawa’s grave, Port Underwood 1848 William Fox. Watercolour. Donated by Christchurch City Libraries, 2005 and objects is another aspect of her practice highlighted in this exhibition. By engaging viewers to explore her work on an intimate level, the notion of remembered landscapes can be projected onto the jewellery while Kirsten’s own direct experience of Antarctica can also be contemplated. An important watercolour painting, Guards Bay & Rangiawa’s Wynen, is seen with a sweeping view across Port Underwood grave, Port Underwood by William Fox (1812–1893) was from above Guards Bay. The bay was named after John recently discovered in the Christchurch City Libraries Guard, a prominent trader and whaler in the area at the Archives and generously donated to the Gallery. Completed time, but is today known as Kakapo Bay. by Fox in 1848, this work is one of the most significant Fox was an important early artist-surveyor who emigrated additions to the historical collection in recent years. Shown to New Zealand from Britain in 1842. He was employed as a here prior to conservation, it is now the earliest New Zealand resident agent for the New Zealand Company, which enabled painting in the permanent collection. him to travel and record many remote regions of the country. Located on the east coast of Marlborough Sounds, Today, his paintings from the 1840s in particular provide Port Underwood was home to a thriving whaling industry important records of New Zealand during this period. in the 1830s and 1840s. As an agent for the New Zealand JENNIFER HAY This work is on display in the Sir Robertson & Lady Company, Fox visited and sketched in the area during Jennifer Hay is Curatorial Assistant (Contemporary Art) at the Gallery. Stewart Gallery. December 1847 while in the process of selecting a suitable room with a view is in the Tait Above: ice domes 2005/06 Kirsten Haydon. Necklace: enamel, copper, port for the Wairau district. His recommendation for Picton Electronics Antarctica Gallery from oxidised silver. Reproduced courtesy of PETER VANGIONI 11 August until 3 December. the artist, image by Jeremy Dillon (Waitohi) was eventually approved. In the foreground, the grave of Kuita Rangiawa (Ngati Toa), wife of James Peter Vangioni is Curator (Works on Paper) at the Gallery. Artwork © Kirsten Haydon.

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Samuel Charles Brees Jason Greig Colin McCahon Reuben Patterson Plain of the Ruamahanga, opening into Blood is Thicker 2005 Puketutu Manukau 1 Naturist 2005 Annual General Meeting Friends Scholarship Palliser Bay near Wellington c. 1842 Depth Charge 2005 (Title page) 1957 Screen print Lithograph Monoprints Puketutu Manukau 2: Purchased, 2005 At the AGM on 30 March the committee The Friends annual scholarship Gifted by Christchurch City Purchased, 2005 Puketutu from the beach 1957 for 2006 was elected. It comprises Helen recipients for 2006 are Melissa Reimer Libraries, 2005 Puketutu Manukau 3: Jude Rae Michael Harrison SL 145 2003 Peate (President), Margaret Luisetti and Sam Harrison. Both received Puketutu from my boat 1957 (Vice President), Cheryl Comfort cheques for $1500 and a year’s Ben Cauchi Adversaries 2005 Puketutu Manukau 4: Oil on linen Hovering Object 2005 Watercolour View within an Oval 1957 Purchased, 2005 (Secretary), Brent Bruce (Treasurer), membership to the Friends. Ambrotype Purchased, 2005 Lithographs Terry Bennett, Jocelyn Gilchrist, Purchased, 2005 John Waring Saxton Melissa, winner of the University Annie Elizabeth Kelly Van Gogh: Poems by John The town and part of the harbour Marianne Hargreaves, Peter Bannan, Caselberg Portfolio of Canterbury scholarship, is in her Margaret Dawson Untitled (Self Portrait) c. 1901 of Nelson in 1842 1842 Paul Deans, Corallyn Newman and Hobbyhorse (Outside) 2005 Plaster bas relief Portfolio Title page 1957 Lithograph fourth year of an Honours degree in Seven dumb beasts of burden 1957 Dorle Pauli. Patrons Don Peebles, Photograph Purchased, 2005 Gifted by Christchurch City Art History and English Literature. Purchased, 2005 Six years I have wrestled… 1957 Libraries, 2005 Lady Judith Hay and Lady Diana Isaac Marian Maguire Before university, Melissa spent three Title 1957 were re-elected. In recognition of their James Fitzgerald A New Zealander by Parkinson and Wild the hedgerows… 1957 William Mein Smith years abroad, and her research is on the service to the Friends, Honorary Life Antigua Street Bridge date unknown Ajax by Exekias play draughts 2005 Lithographs The harbour of Port Nicholson and the museums and galleries she visited. Her Bridge of Remembrance 1933 A Portrait of Captain James Cook with Gifted by Christchurch City town of Wellington 1842 Memberships were given to former ambition is to be an art curator. The Lake date unknown a Classical Urn from the Collection of Libraries, 2005 Lithograph president Mark Stocker and committee St. Andrews date unknown the Admiralty 2005 Gifted by Christchurch City President’s Letter Etchings Athena Observes a Fracas 2005 Owen Merton Libraries, 2005 members June Goldstein and Rebecca Sam received the Christchurch Gifted by Ailsa Gregory, 2005 Attic Volute Crater, 1779, Depicting Sketchbook c. 1905 It is with sadness that we say goodbye Garside. Polytechnic Institute of Technology Various media Michel Tuffery Scenes from the Odyssey of Captain to our Gallery Director, Tony Preston. Scholarship. He is in his final year of a William Fox Cook 2005 Vauxhall Bridge, London 1907 FALE SA “CHCH” 1999 Guard’s Bay and Rangiawa’s grave, Captain Cook makes his Approach Watercolour Woodcut As a member of the Friends, and as bachelor degree in art and design. Last Port Underwood 1848 from the West 2005 Gifted by Christchurch City Purchased, 2005 our liaison with the Gallery, he has Previews year Sam achieved his goal of having a Watercolour Cook Landing 2003 Libraries, 2005 solo exhibition before he turned twenty, Gifted by Christchurch City Mrs Wickstead always been generous with his time, Friends are invited to preview new Examples of Flora and Fauna from Judy Millar The town of New Plymouth in the year and sold all but two of twenty-one works Libraries, 2005 the South Seas 2004 support and advice in a charming way. exhibitions before they open to the The Shooting Gallery 2004 1843 1843 on the opening night. Claus Edward Fristrom Ko wai koe? (Who are you?) 2003 Oil and acrylic on canvas Lithograph We have admired his enthusiasm and public. Where possible, a curator Mount Egmont from the Southward Untitled (landscape with trees) c. 1910 Purchased, 2005 Gifted by Christchurch City inspirational drive within the Canterbury or other expert will introduce the Oil on board 2004 Libraries, 2005 community in providing the region Purchased, 2005 The Death of Captn Cook 2005 Simon Morris exhibitions between 4.15 and 4.45 pm. Lithographs June Pause, 1900 Square 2005 with our magnificent Gallery. He will For entry, please present your Friends Max Gimblett All purchased, 2005 Acrylic on linen be missed. To mark his outstanding membership card. Friends are invited to Thalo Blue 1985 Purchased, 2005 service to the Gallery we were pleased Acrylic on paper Eileen Mayo meet at 3.30 pm in the upstairs reception Purchased, 2005 A Garden Enclosed 1980 to present him with an Honorary Life room for a social coffee or tea before Screen print Membership. Le Milieu Divin 1979 the preview. Linocut As Friends, we support the Gallery as Moths on the Window 1969 it goes forward into an exciting future. Julia Morison: a loop around a loop Rain, Coal and Wood 1977 Relief prints All members were invited to attend THURSDAY, 20 JULY, 4–5 PM Winter Sleep 1964 a meeting on 15 March to discuss the Touring Exhibition Galleries Screen print Gallery’s ‘paradigm shift’; a summary All purchased, 2005 report can be sent on request to any interested member. Wellington Trip Sam Harrison, Melissa Reimer, Helen Peate March 2006 We have an exciting programme of Enjoy a weekend with Friends in events over this quarter, including Wellington, visiting the exhibition weekend activities. I hope to see ‘Constable, Impressions of Land, Sea you there! and Sky’ at Te Papa in September. We will also visit Pataka Museum, take a peek at private collections, visit City Gallery Wellington and take a tour of the amazing collection of public sculpture in this vibrant city. 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32 33 Soccer Film Season: One Day Life Is Not A Dress Rehearsal! Meet the Artist: Julia Morison June in Europe August Events Calendar 15 6.00 PM CABARET FESTIVAL 16 6.00 PM FLOORTALK Kids in Town 21 6.00 PM FILM FOYER Grahame Sydney: 32 years of TOURING EXHIBITION GALLERIES See page 26 for details. Join Ali Harper, New Zealand’s solitary confinement Enjoy a floortalk on the exhibition 1 12.00 PM PERFORMANCE leading lady of musical theatre, jazz a loop within a loop with the artist SCULPTURE GARDEN / FOYER 2 6.00 PM LECTURE and cabaret, as she teams with Richard Julia Morison. Lunchtime performances by students Kids in Town PHILIP CARTER FAMILY AUDITORIUM Visit our website for updates and Marrett on piano for an exquisite TICKETS $25 PER PERSON details of additional programmes, from Beckenham School and St 22 12.00 PM PERFORMANCE evening of song and celebration. A special lecture by one of New Kids in Town performances and events. Andrew’s College Preparatory School. SCULPTURE GARDEN / FOYER Bookings through Ticketek, ph 377 8899 Zealand’s most popular artists to raise Lunchtime performances by students or www.ticketek.co.nz 17 12.00 PM PERFORMANCE The Art Bites programme is offered money for the Gallery’s acquisitions SCULPTURE GARDEN / FOYER every Monday, Wednesday and Friday I Can Still Smell the Perfume from Ko te Rito o te Harakeke school. programme. See the Friends pages for Lunchtime performances by students at 12.30 pm, featuring a twenty- 7 6.00 PM LECTURE Areta Wilkinson: My jewellery more information. from Christchurch Primary Schools’ minute floortalk on selected works PHILIP CARTER FAMILY AUDITORIUM Soccer Film Season: The Other Final practice 1992–2006 Cultural Festival. currently on exhibition and delivered Elric Hooper, lecturer at the University 28 6.00 PM FILM 19 10.30 AM LECTURE Kids in Town by a range of different speakers. For of Canterbury and former director of PHILIP CARTER FAMILY AUDITORIUM See page 26 for details. details of artworks and speakers the Court Theatre, shares his personal FRIENDS $2, PUBLIC $5 3 12.00 PM PERFORMANCE Dr Paul McNamara: Photography please check the Gallery Programme SCULPTURE GARDEN / FOYER Collections & Collecting memories of spending time with Artist and jeweller Areta Wilkinson or visit our website. celebrity photographer Cecil Beaton. Kids in Town discusses how jewellery is the perfect Lunchtime performances by students 19 10.30 AM WEEKEND LECTURE The latest search and discovery 29 12.00 PM PERFORMANCE medium to create a mark of identity. See from Mount Pleasant School and St PHILIP CARTER FAMILY AUDITORIUM FRIENDS $2, PUBLIC $5 Holiday Quiz for family groups and Kids in Town SCULPTURE GARDEN / FOYER the Friends pages for more information. Marks School. children is available daily, 10 am to Lunchtime performances by students Dr Paul McNamara, owner of 8 12.00 PM PERFORMANCE 4 pm, during the school holidays. Beaton Classic Movies Season: McNamara Gallery in Wanganui, gives a SCULPTURE GARDEN / FOYER from Christchurch Adventist School. Cross Dressing See the Noteworthy pages for more My Fair Lady presentation on photography collections Lunchtime performances by students 19 6.00 PM LECTURE and the history of collecting. See the information. 6 2.00 PM WEEKEND FILM from Wairakei School and South New PHILIP CARTER FAMILY AUDITORIUM Friends pages for more information. The Kids in Town programme is PHILIP CARTER FAMILY AUDITORIUM Brighton School. July Ross Gumbley, Director of the Court produced in conjunction with the Theatre, playwright and actor, shares his Made in 1964, this film starring Audrey Events Team at Christchurch City Beaton Classic Movies Season: Soccer Skills Soccer Film Season: Le Ballon d’or amusement and recollections of the cross- Hepburn, Stanley Holloway and Rex Council. Harrison features costumes and sets The Rat Pack 2 2.00 PM WEEKEND FAMILY FILM dressing and stage-dressing phenomena. 11 2.00 PM WEEKEND FAMILY EVENT designed by Cecil Beaton. Duration 165 20 2.00 PM WEEKEND FILM See page 26 for details. PHILIP CARTER FAMILY AUDITORIUM See page 26 for details. Kids in Town minutes plus interval. Three programmes tell the stories of the Soccer Film Season: The Cup Soccer Film Season: The Champions 20 12.00 PM PERFORMANCE Beaton’s Homes famous Rat Pack of the swinging 60s, with SCULPTURE GARDEN / FOYER Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr and Dean 5 6.00 PM FILM 9 6.00 PM LECTURE 14 6.00 PM FILM Martin. Duration 140 minutes plus interval. Lunchtime performances by students from PHILIP CARTER FAMILY AUDITORIUM See page 26 for details. See page 26 for details. Aranui Primary School. A personal insight to the man and his life with Rodney Laredo. Jane Ussher: Portraits Kids in Town Jon Gadsby: Gossip and Celebrity Beaton Classic Movies Season: Breakfast at Tiffany’s 23 6.00 PM LECTURE 15 12.00 PM PERFORMANCE 12 6.00 PM LECTURE PHILIP CARTER FAMILY AUDITORIUM PHILIP CARTER FAMILY AUDITORIUM Kids in Town SCULPTURE GARDEN / FOYER 23 2.00 PM WEEKEND FILM In association with Cecil Beaton: 10 12.00 PM PERFORMANCE One of New Zealand’s best-known PHILIP CARTER FAMILY AUDITORIUM Portraits, one of New Zealand’s leading Lunchtime performances by students SCULPTURE GARDEN / FOYER from Christchurch East School and comedians and writers turns his Audrey Hepburn stars as Holly Golightly commercial portrait photographers Lunchtime performances by students South Hornby Primary School. attention to the gossipy world of in this delightful classic movie. Duration discusses her work. celebrity. 110 minutes plus interval. from St Peter’s Primary School and Kirkwood Intermediate School. Beaton’s Ballroom Kids in Town French Toast Watch this Space 18 2.00 PM WEEKEND FAMILY EVENT Celebrity Look-alike Day 24 12.00 PM PERFORMANCE FOYER 13,14 6.00 PM CABARET FESTIVAL 26 6.00 PM PERFORMANCE SCULPTURE GARDEN / FOYER FOYER 13 WEEKEND FAMILY EVENT To celebrate the style and glamour of FOYER Lunchtime performances by students This performance by chanteuse Linn 2.30 PM PARADE Cecil Beaton’s high society world, join Footnote Dance presents a unique 4.00 PM WINNER ANNOUNCED from Banks Avenue Primary School. us for a demonstration of ballroom Lorkin, accordionist Hershal and bassist fusion of contemporary dance and FOYER Peter Scott will transport listeners to a dancing. Spot prizes include free tickets music. A fascinating and accessible Dress up as your favourite celebrity Go With Me little café on the banks of the Seine, a to Cecil Beaton: Portraits. introduction to some of New Zealand’s and enter the contest for the best look- piazza in Rome and a Berlin cabaret – all 30 6.00 PM LECTURE leading edge choreography. alike of the day. All entrants will receive in one night. Bookings through Ticketek, PHILIP CARTER FAMILY AUDITORIUM May Smith: Colourist – a free ticket to the exhibition Cecil 03 377 8899 or www.ticketek.co.nz Felicity Milburn, the Gallery’s Curator of Modernist – Feminist? Kids in Town Beaton: Portraits and the winner a Contemporary Art, discusses important $100 voucher for the Gallery Shop. 21 10.30 AM LECTURE Madame 27 12.00 PM PERFORMANCE themes in the works of Julia Morison, in PHILIP CARTER FAMILY AUDITORIUM SCULPTURE GARDEN / FOYER association with her exhibition a loop FRIENDS $2, PUBLIC $5 13,14,15 8.00 PM CABARET FESTIVAL Lunchtime performances by students Warren Feeney: An Introduction to within a loop. FOYER Art historian Diane Burgess presents from Woolston Primary School and St the CSA Art Collection Belgian duo Micheline van Hautem and a lecture on modernist painter May Michael’s Church School. 16 10.30 AM LECTURE Kids in Town www.christchurchartgallery.org.nz Smith. See the Friends pages for more Frederik Caelen bring together works PHILIP CARTER FAMILY AUDITORIUM information. made famous by some of the greatest FRIENDS $2, PUBLIC $5 31 12.00 PM PERFORMANCE The Gallery’s Wednesday evening female cabaret performers, from Sarah SCULPTURE GARDEN / FOYER programme is generously sponsored by Warren Feeney, Director of CoCA, Vaughan and Julie London to Piaf and Montana Wines. All programmes are subject provides an introduction to the CSA’s art Lunchtime performances by students to change, please check beforehand on Dietrich. Bookings through Ticketek, collection. See the Friends pages for more from Christchurch South Intermediate (03) 941 7302. Limited places apply to some 03 377 8899 or www.ticketek.co.nz School. programmes. information.

34 35 The end of an era: A TRIBUTE TO TONY PRESTON DIRECTOR, 1995–2006

36 Spectrum – practising the art of printing

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RUDOLF NUREYEV (detail) 1963 Cecil Beaton. CECIL BEATON PORTRAITS Cecil Beaton Archive, Sotheby’s, London A National Portrait Gallery London Exhibition Principal Exhibition Sponsor: Strategy Design & Advertising Principal Funder: The Tasman Charitable Trust Media Partner: The Press 27 May – 10 September Paint Sponsor: Aalto Colour

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MARLON BRANDO (detail) 1946 Cecil Beaton. CECIL BEATON PORTRAITS Vogue / Condé Nast Publications A National Portrait Gallery London Exhibition Principal Exhibition Sponsor: Strategy Design & Advertising Principal Funder: The Tasman Charitable Trust Media Partner: The Press 27 May – 10 September Paint Sponsor: Aalto Colour

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GRETA GARBO (detail) 1946 Cecil Beaton. CECIL BEATON PORTRAITS Cecil Beaton Archive, Sotheby’s, London A National Portrait Gallery London Exhibition Principal Exhibition Sponsor: Strategy Design & Advertising 168 Montreal Street, PO Box 2975, Christchurch, New Zealand, Tel: (03) 365 4597, Fax: (03) 365 0536, www.vervedigital.co.nz Principal Funder: The Tasman Charitable Trust Media Partner: The Press 27 May – 10 September Paint Sponsor: Aalto Colour Open 10 am – 5 pm daily, late night every Wednesday until 9 pm Closed Christmas Day Admission free unless otherwise stated

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Above: Elizabeth Taylor 1954 Cecil Beaton. Cecil Beaton Archive, Sotheby’s, London. Cover: Mick Jagger, Marrakesh (detail) 1967 Cecil Beaton. Cecil Beaton Archive, Sotheby’s, London. First inside cover: Baba Beaton: A Symphony in Silver (detail) 1925 Cecil Beaton. Cecil Beaton Archive, Sotheby’s, London. Second inside cover: Marilyn Monroe (detail) 1956 Cecil Beaton. Cecil Beaton Archive, Sotheby’s, London / Courtesy Matt Weld