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Open 10am – 5pm daily Late night every Wednesday until 9pm Admission free Cnr Worcester Boulevard & Montreal Street PO Box 2626, Christchurch 8410, New Zealand (+ ) (+ ) Tel 64 3 941 7300, Fax 64 3 941 7301 BULLETIN OF CHRISTCHURCH ART GALLERY TE PUNA O WAIWHETU spring september – november 2008 Email: [email protected] www.christchurchartgallery.org.nz Gallery Shop tel (+64 3) 941 7388 Form Gallery tel (+64 3) 377 1211 Alchemy Café & Wine Bar tel (+64 3) 941 7311 Education Booking Line tel (+64 3) 941 8101 Art Gallery Carpark tel (+64 3) 941 7350 Friends of Christchurch Art Gallery tel (+64 3) 941 7356 Christchurch Art Gallery Trust tel (+64 3) 961 7521 PREPARETO SURPRISEDBE FROM MORE THAN PREPARE SURPRISED 25 ARTISTS TO BE YOURYOUR CITY THROUGHCITY THROUGH 15 COUNTRIES FROM MORE THAN NEWNEW EYES EYES 25 ARTISTS 15 COUNTRIES YOURPREPARE CITY THROUGH SURPRISED SEE NEW EYESTO BE 2008 SCAPE YOUR CITY THROUGH SEENEW EYES CHRISTCHURCH SURPRISED 2008 SCAPE BIENNIAL CHRISTCHURCH YOUR CITY THROUGH SEE NEW EYES 2008 SCAPE BIENNIAL BIENNIAL CHRISTCHURCH Exhibitions Programme September, October, November b.154 2 Foreword A.A. DEANS: ANTARCTIC STORIES FIRST SIGHT: SPENCER FINCH Bulletin Editor: David Simpson A few words from the Director Until 5 October 11 October – 30 November When Canterbury artist Austen Deans visited Antarctica in 1981 he Made in Dunedin on a recent residency, First Sight is renowned Gallery Contributors spent time sketching, painting watercolours and photographing the New York artist Spencer Finch's response to the ice caves, rivers and Director: Jenny Harper 3 My Favourite environment. Antarctic Stories presents work from the expedition. changing light of the south of the South Island. Curatorial Team: Ken Hall, Jennifer Hay, Hamish Keith makes his choice A Dunedin Public Art Gallery touring exhibition. Felicity Milburn, Justin Paton, Tait Electronics Antarctica Gallery Peter Vangioni Tait Electronics Antarctica Gallery 4 Noteworthy Public Programmes: Sarah Amazinnia, Lana Coles LAURENCE ABERHART News bites from around the Gallery FIONA HALL: FORCE FIELD Gallery Photographer: Brendan Lee Until 12 October Friends of Christchurch Art Gallery: Cheryl Comfort, Paul Deans Over 200 key works by the artist described as 'the essential visual 14 November – 15 February 6 The Year in Review poet of New Zealand's past'. Includes his signature photographs of Renowned Australian artist Fiona Hall explores the intersection Other Contributors A summary of business, 1 July 2007 – 30 June 2008 landscapes, façades, monuments and interiors from New Zealand, of nature and culture with a deft touch and a vivid, unpredictable Gregory Burke, Claire Doherty, Heather Galbraith, Australia and further afield. imagination. This spectacular survey, which includes works from Hamish Keith, Gregor Kregar, Aaron Kreisler, Kate Montgomery, 8 SCAPE 2008 A City Gallery Wellington touring exhibition. the 1970s through to the present day, shows how she transforms Hugh Nicholson, Andrew Paul Wood ordinary objects into complex and evocative works of art. Christchurch Biennial of Art in Public Space Touring Exhibition Galleries A and B Catalogue and iPod Audio Tour available Exhibition organised and toured by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia and City Gallery Wellington, New Zealand. Tel (+64 3) 941 7300 Fax (+64 3) 941 7301 17 A Private Take on Public Art DANIEL CROOKS: EVERYWHERE INSTANTLY Touring Exhibition Galleries A and B Email [email protected]; [email protected] Six opinions Catalogue and iPod Audio Tour available Until 9 November Please see the back cover for more details. We welcome your feedback and suggestions for future articles. 18 Space is Place ‘Once you’ve seen a Daniel Crooks DVD you’re not likely to WHITE ON WHITE forget the experience,’ writes art critic Edward Colless. Using his Heather Galbraith on the state of public art in New Zealand renowned ‘time-slice’ technique, Crooks transforms everyday sights Opens 23 November into wide-screen meditations on time and motion. Everywhere New for children and families, White on White is the thought- provoking replacement to I See Red. Includes new works by 20 Refreshing the Collections instantly brings these dizzying and beautiful digital worlds to Claude Flight and the New Zealand audiences for the first time. contemporary artists, and works by Ando Hiroshige, Eileen Mayo, Modern Dynamic Jude Rae and Peter Robinson from the permanent collections. Touring Exhibition Gallery C and Borg Henry Gallery 24 The Contemporary Collection Catalogue and iPod Audio Tour available Monica Richards Gallery Family worksheet available New favourites on display AUS AUSTRALIEN Until 9 November WUNDERBOX 26 The Gentleman in Red Outstanding examples of printmaking by eight leading Australian 28 November – 15 February The hidden story behind Kneller's striking portrait artists working with a variety of techniques. Highlights include Wunderbox brings together secretive spaces, model worlds energised woodcuts by John Nixon and confrontational etchings by and eccentric collections by some of New Zealand’s best- 28 Aus Australien Mike Parr, two of Australia’s most compelling contemporary artists. known contemporary artists, including Judy Darragh, Andrew Drummond, Bill Hammond, Neil Pardington, Francis Upritchard, Contemporary Australian printmaking at its finest Burdon Family Gallery CURRENT SPONSORS OF THE GALLERY Terry Urbahn and Ronnie van Hout. 32 Daniel Crooks: everywhere instantly I SEE RED Touring Exhibition Gallery C and Borg Henry Gallery AALTO COLOUR iPod Audio Tour available ADRIAAN AND GABRIELLE TASMAN Until 23 November BALLANTYNES 33 Laurence Aberhart: The Silver Trail An interactive journey through a high-spirited and wide-ranging selection of contemporary and historical artworks exploring some ERNST & YOUNG of the powerful ideas and meanings attached to the colour red. THE COLLECTIONS FRIENDS OF CHRISTCHURCH ART GALLERY 34 Outer Spaces Designed for children and families. From Petrus van der Velden’s thundering Mountain Stream, Otira SPECTRUM PRINT Sara Hughes transforms the Gallery foyer Monica Richards Gallery Gorge of 1893 to Robert Hood's My Puddle, filmed in the South STRATEGY DESIGN & ADVERTISING Family worksheet available Island landscape 110 years later, the first-floor collection galleries TEXTILIA 36 Spencer Finch: First Sight hold a rotating selection of treasures from the Historical, Twentieth THE PRESS ALAN LONEY: POET & PRINTER Century and Contemporary Collections. 38 Alan Loney: Poet & Printer 5 – 28 September Collection Galleries A selection of books by Alan Loney, one of the foremost printers Collections catalogue available 39 Staff Profile of hand-crafted books in Australasia. Includes finely printed The curatorial team examples of his work from Hawk Press, Blacklight Press, A CONSTANT FLOW OF LIGHT Holloway Press and Electio Editions. Fifty years since Colin McCahon began his renowned work , this focus exhibition from 40 Showcase Balconies Tomorrow will be the same but not as this is the collections brings together remarkable works spanning the life Featuring recent arrivals to the Gallery's collection SCAPE 2008 of this great modern painter, and points to the ‘afterlives’ of his art in CHRISTCHURCH BIENNIAL OF ART IN PUBLIC SPACE the works of two contemporary artists. Design & Production 41 Friends of the Gallery 20 September – 30 November Collection Galleries Art Director: Guy Pask People, places and events Christchurch Art Gallery is the hub for the SCAPE 2008 Editorial Design: Clayton Dixon Christchurch Biennial of Art in Public Space. Every two years, OUTER SPACES Anita Liu 44 Coming Soon SCAPE brings renowned contemporary artists to Christchurch The big event in Outer Spaces this season is Sara Hughes’s Production Manager: Dayle Direen Previewing Fiona Hall: Force Field and Wunderbox to create exciting new public artworks. Highlights this year at the United We Fall – the first major work in our Glasshouse series Photolithography: Verve Digital Ltd Gallery are Guillaume Bijl’s glittering stage set for an imaginary beauty of commissions for the Gallery foyer. Hughes has created what Printing: Spectrum Print Please note: The opinions put forward in this magazine are not necessarily those competition, and the elegant silver bikes designed by Ann Veronica she describes as a kind of 'world flag' – stripped of symbols and of Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu. All images reproduced courtesy of Janssens that allow visitors to explore SCAPE’s outdoor artworks. potentially endless. ISSN 1176 – 0540 the artist or copyright holder unless otherwise stated. Foyer Director’s Foreword My Favourite JENNY HARPER HAMISH KEITH This issue of Bulletin is significant for More informally, our visitors' book is from the Speaker of the House, the two reasons: firstly, it includes a wrap- brimming with energised responses to Hon Margaret Wilson. up of the previous year; and secondly, it the Gallery's current programme. Coming up this quarter, the Gallery ‘Anyone who has spent any time on is expected to be the final issue of this And more good news: I’m delighted is pleased to host part of the SCAPE magazine in its current format. to announce that the Gallery’s top- 2008 Christchurch Biennial of Art Auckland’s west coast will know the This is an exciting and creative selling book Bill Hammond: Jingle Jangle in Public Space. This is the second truth of sunsets like these – the truth time for the Gallery as we work with Morning won the illustrative