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Bulletin 145 Winter 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. 2 3 www.christchurchartgallery.org.nz Noteworthy Register online to receive a monthly enewsletter with information on current exhibitions and events at the Gallery. Noteworthy 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.
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