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Bulletin B.159 Summer Christchurch Art Gallery December 2009— B.159 Te Puna O Waiwhetu February 2010 Bulletin B.159 Summer Christchurch Art Gallery December 2009— B.159 Te Puna o Waiwhetu February 2010 1 2 BULLETIN EDITOR Bulletin B.159 Summer DAVID SIMPSON Christchurch Art Gallery December 2009— GALLERY CONTRIBUTORS Te Puna o Waiwhetu February 2010 DIRECTOR: JENNY HARPER CURATORIAL TEAM: KEN HALL, JENNIFER HAY, JUSTIN PATON, PETER VANGIONI PUBLIC PROGRAMMES: SARAH AMAZINNIA, LANA COLES REGISTRATION: GINA IRISH PHOTOGRAPHERS: JOHN COLLIE, DAVID WATKINS OTHER CONTRIBUTORS GRANT BANBURY, ELLIOT COLLINS, COURTNEY JOHNSTON, DAVID KILGOUR, MEGAN TAMATI-QUENNELL TEL: (+64 3) 941 7300 FAX: (+64 3) 941 7301 EMAIL: [email protected], [email protected] PLEASE SEE THE BACK COVER FOR MORE DETAILS. WE WELCOME YOUR FEEDBACK AND SUGGESTIONS FOR FUTURE ARTICLES. CURRENT SUPPORTERS OF THE GALLERY AALTO COLOUR CHARTWELL TRUST CHRISTCHURCH ART GALLERY TRUST COFFEY PROJECTS CREATIVE NEW ZEALAND ERNST & YOUNG FRIENDS OF CHRISTCHURCH ART GALLERY GABRIELLE TASMAN GEISEN WINES HOLMES GROUP HOME NEW ZEALAND MAGAZINE IMAGELAB LUNEYS NGĀI TAHU PHILIP CARTER PYNE GOULD CORPORATION SPECTRUM PRINT STRATEGY DESIGN & ADVERTISING TE WAKA TOI THE PRESS THE WARREN TRUST UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY FOUNDATION VBASE WARREN AND MAHONEY DESIGN AND PRODUCTION ART DIRECTOR: GUY PASK EDITORIAL DESIGN: Jeffrey DOCHERTY Hamish childs, JUSTINE HOLMES, Martin ANSLEY PRODUCTION MANAGER: DAYLE DIREEN PRINTING: SPECTRUM PRINT ISSN 1176–0540 2 3 Contents B.159 4 DIRECTOR'S FOREWORD A few words from director Jenny Harper 5 EXHIBITIONS PROGRAMME What's on at the Gallery this season 6 BROUGHT TO LIGHT Open now 12 VOX POP Seven favourite collection hangs 14 THE NAKED AND THE NUDE Bulletin talks to Gallery senior curator Justin Paton about this new exhibition 20 THE ACT OF LIFE DRAWING by Grant Banbury 21 THE ACT OF BEING DRAWN by Sarah Amazinnia 22 ILLUMINATING THE ARCHIVES The Robert and Barbara Stewart Library and Archives collection 24 RICKY SWALLOW Justin Paton on monkeys and musicians 28 MAKE A DONATION Make a difference 30 THE HEGEMONY OF Megan Tamati-Quennell on the THE MUSEUM museum and the indigenous other 34 BACK OF HOUSE TO FRONT Gallery registrar Gina Irish on Neil Pardington’s The Vault 36 BIG FINGER 38 BLUE PLANET Ken Hall on this new family- focused exhibition 42 COPYRIGHT OR COPYLEFT Courtney Johnston on the rights and wrongs of copyright 44 TALISMAN Jennifer Hay introduces this unique jewellery exhibition 50 OUTER SPACES Fiona Pardington and Gabriella and Silvana Mangano 52 STAFF PROFILE The Public Programmes Team 53 PAGEWORK #5 Elliot Collins 56 MY FAVOURITE David Kilgour makes his choice 58 NOTEWORTHY News bites from around the Gallery Steve Carr A Shot in the Dark (The Bachelor) (detail) 2008. 60 COMING SOON Forthcoming exhibitions C-type print mounted on dibond. at the Gallery Collection of Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu, purchased 2008. Reproduced Please note: The opinions put forward in this magazine are not necessarily courtesy of the artist those of Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu. All images reproduced and Michael Lett, Auckland courtesy of the artist or copyright holder unless otherwise stated. BULLETIN 4 5 Director’s Foreword Jenny Harper Exhibitions Programme i can barely contain my great maintaining a loosely chronological and indicates generative cross-cultural DECEMBER, JanuarY, February 2009/2010 personal pleasure at Brought to Light: progression through the collection. resonances. A New View of the Collection. For any And components can be changed more The Gallery is pleased to be the THE VAULT: NEIL PARDINGTON THE NAKED AND THE NUDE THE COLLECTIONS gallery, the opportunity to rethink the regularly without disrupting the whole. only New Zealand venue for the William A. Sutton and Ravenscar Galleries Touring Galleries A and B Almost seven years since Christchurch exhibition spaces in both architectural As you see the first iteration of Brought University of Queensland Art Museum Until 14 March 2010 18 December 2009 – 18 April 2010 Art Gallery opened, the collection display and conceptual terms is a wonderful to Light, we will be planning what’s next; touring exhibition, Ricky Swallow: Working behind the scenes in museums and The unclothed human figure is one of art’s has undergone a complete refreshment. challenge. Needless to say, such a major we’re keen for you to return often—and Watercolours. Swallow is a young artist galleries throughout New Zealand with his oldest subjects, yet it still ignites debate. Spectacularly reconfigured exhibition spaces overhaul of the collection galleries has to let us know what you think. who represented Australia at the 2005 large-format camera, Neil Pardington brings to Bringing together dozens of bodies from the feature a dynamic mix of new and seldom-seen been a considerable task, but one which Although the nude is a fairly Venice Biennale. His reputation is largely light the hidden collection storage spaces that collection, this exhibition charts the tension works, as well as new conversations among old the wonderful staff here have committed conventional subject for artists trained built upon his meticulously detailed still- are normally closed to the public. His gathered between the nude and the naked—between favourites. For any art institution charged themselves to willingly. in the western tradition, it is also a life sculpture, but there is a quieter side to results hold a strong natural fascination as works of art that idealise the body and those with conserving the past, registering the When the Gallery first opened in potential source of controversy when his art in the watercolours he produces. storehouses of memory or places filled with that try to tell it like it is. present and offering suggestions for the 2003, Ernest Gillick’s Ex tenebris lux shown in public. A new exhibition in our ‘Pagework’ this quarter was made mystifying treasure. iPod audio tour available future, the challenge to ‘bring to light’ is at (1937) was placed at the top of the downstairs touring galleries, The Naked by Auckland-based artist Elliot Collins, Exhibition publication and iPod video once daunting and inspiring. Brought to Light: stairs to symbolise a connection with and the Nude, examines the nude as it is a painting graduate of AUT University, tour available RICKY SWALLOW: WATERCOLOURS A New View of the Collection is our response our former manifestation, the Robert represented in the Gallery’s collection— who was recently featured in the Gallery’s Touring Gallery C to that challenge. McDougall Art Gallery. The Latin title from Jean Pierron’s late eighteenth- Cloud9 exhibition. Also contributing to BLUE PLANET 12 December 2009 – 21 February 2010 Collections catalogue and iPod audio of this sculpture, a gift to the people century engraving Adam and Eve to the the magazine are Christchurch gallerist Burdon Family Gallery Australian artist Ricky Swallow is best known tour available of Christchurch from our founding contemporary imagery of artists Grant Banbury; Megan Tamati-Quennell, Until 7 November 2010 for his meticulous still-life sculptures, but he funder in 1938 and now located in the like Steve Carr. curator of indigenous art at Te Papa; Blue is a feeling, a place to dream and the is also a maker of playful and atmospheric OUTER SPACES foyer, means ‘Out of darkness, light’. Its Also downstairs is the rare and Courtney Johnston, web editor at colour of our amazing planet as seen from watercolours. This exhibition surveys A programme featuring works of art in spaces extraordinary resonance with the title opportunity to see what happens to the National Library of New Zealand. space. Looking at the ways artists have used Swallow’s works on paper, from early sci-fi beyond the traditional exhibition galleries. of our new collection display shows how works of art when they are not on display. Banbury writes on the art of life drawing, the colour blue, Blue Planet celebrates scenarios through to haunting recent portraits. Featuring The prow of the Charlotte Jane by we at the Gallery really have taken on The Vault: Neil Pardington shines a Tamati-Quennell examines the cultural imaginative art making and thinking, as well A UQ Art Museum touring exhibition Fiona Pardington on Worcester Boulevard and the same professional responsibilities as light on collection storage spaces in hegemony of western museums in as different cultural and global perspectives. Exhibition publication available A wall, and other thoughts by Fiona Jack on our predecessors. museums and galleries throughout New relation to their collections of the art of Shaped with younger audiences in mind. the carpark bunker. Indeed, reading the exhibition labels Zealand (including this one). Pardington’s non-western cultures, while Johnston CHRIS HEAPHY: UNTITLED (BLEU) before they went to print reinforced meticulously composed photographs are delves into the increasingly murky world TALISMAN Tait Electronics Gallery TWINSET for me how generous so many of our fascinating investigations into what we of copyright, and the changes being Monica Richards Gallery 21 November 2009 – 14 February 2010 A rapid-fire programme of new video art on the forebears and current supporters have value, and how we store and preserve our forced by the Internet. 5 December 2009 – 14 February 2010 This video work turns the rich blue twin screens in the foyer. This season featuring been—building this collection over the treasures for safekeeping into the future. The last few months have seen great Talismans are found in many cultures waterscape of Lake Taupo on video by Gabriella and Silvana Mangano. years has been a source of considerable Blue Planet is the third in a series alterations in the Gallery, and now it throughout the world. In this exhibition, twelve its side to create an enigmatic image collective and civic pride. Brought to of exhibitions that investigates and is finally time to share these with you, contemporary New Zealand jewellery suggesting ghostly figures.
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