BULLETIN OF CHRISTCHURCH ART GALLERY TE PUNA O WAIWHETU spring september – november 2007 Exhibitions Programme b.150 September, October, November Bulletin Editor: Sarah Pepperle 2 Foreword Gallery Contributors A few words from the Director Director: Jenny Harper JULIAN DASHPER: TO THE UNKNOWN NEW ZEALANDER Curator: Peter Vangioni An exhibition by one of New Zealand’s leading Burdon Family Gallery, Balcony Assistant Curator: Ken Hall 3 My Favourite contemporary artists. & Collection Galleries Public Programmes Officer: Ann Betts Christopher Moore makes his choice • until 14 October Gallery Photographer: Brendan Lee • publication available PHIL DADSON: AERIAL FARM Friends of Christchurch Art Gallery: Cheryl Comfort, Paul Deans 4 Noteworthy Video and audio material recorded in the Dry Valleys of Tait Electronics Other Contributors News bites from around the Gallery Antarctica explore an environment through sound and image. Antarctica Gallery Andrew Clifford, Julian Dashper, Christopher Moore, Bruce Russell • until 14 October BILL HAMMOND: JINGLE JANGLE MORNING Tel (+64-3) 941 7300 Fax (+64-3) 941 7301 8 The Year in Review The long-awaited spectacular survey exhibition of more than Email [email protected] [email protected] Touring Exhibition Galleries Please see the back cover for more details. A summary of business, 1 July 2006 – 30 June 2007 two decades of work by one of New Zealand’s most sought-after & Borg Henry Gallery contemporary painters. • until 22 October We welcome your feedback and suggestions for future articles. Principal Exhibition Sponsor: Ernst & Young. The exhibition and accompanying • publication available 10 To the Unknown New Zealander publication are supported by the Friends of Christchurch Art Gallery, Creative New Peter Vangioni interviews Julian Dashper Zealand and Spectrum Print. HANDBOEK: ANS WESTRA PHOTOGRAPHS 16 Artist Pages: Julian Dashper Best known for her portrayal of Mäori social, cultural and William A. Sutton political life, this photographic journey by Ans Westra is a & Ravenscar Galleries challenging and revealing record of the growth of our nation • until 4 November 18 Celestial Disharmonies over nearly half a century. • publication available Bruce Russell retunes the ears of the world with sound art Based on the Alexander Turnbull Library collections and organised by BWX (Blair Wakefield Exhibitions) in association with the National Library Gallery. 20 Aerial Farm Phil Dadson explores Antarctica through sound and image ART SCHOOL 125 Celebrating 125 years of the School of Fine Arts at the Touring Exhibition Galleries University of Canterbury. & Borg Henry Gallery 24 Painters as Printmakers Exhibition organised in partnership with the School of Fine Arts, • opens 9 November A selection of modernist prints from the Gallery’s collections University of Canterbury. ANOTHER DESTINATION 28 Staff Profile The Gallery again celebrates the strength and breadth of visual Ravenscar Gallery Library and Archives / Photography arts practice in Canterbury today with a summertime exhibition • opens 16 November CURRENT SPONSORS OF THE GALLERY of emerging Canterbury artists. CREATIVE NEW ZEALAND 30 Recent Acquisitions OF DEITIES OR MORTALS ERNST & YOUNG Featuring engravings by Teodoro Viero FRIENDS OF CHRISTCHURCH ART GALLERY Eight contemporary New Zealand artists respond to objects from William A. Sutton Gallery the James Logie Memorial Collection, one of the finest collections • opens 16 November MONTANA WINES NZ LTD 33 Friends of the Gallery SPECTRUM PRINT of ancient world treasures in the southern hemisphere. People, places and events This exhibition has been developed in association with PhiloLogie and the STRATEGY DESIGN & ADVERTISING University of Canterbury Classics Department. THE PRESS VERVE DIGITAL LTD 36 Coming Soon Previewing Morris & Co. From the Gallery Collections ART DETECTIVES From the collections comes this delightful interactive exhibition Monica Richards Gallery for children of all ages, encouraging younger visitors to explore • until 25 November and connect with artworks. PAINTERS AS PRINTMAKERS Design & Production Many of New Zealand’s most significant painters have also Burdon Family Gallery excelled at printmaking, as this outstanding selection of • opens 19 October Art Director: Guy Pask modernist prints from the Gallery’s collection shows. Editorial Design: Douglas Maclean Designer: Clayton Dixon THE COLLECTIONS Production Manager: Dayle Direen Divided into Historical, Twentieth-Century and Contemporary Collection Galleries Photolithography: Verve Digital Ltd Printing: Spectrum Print Please note: The opinions put forward in this magazine are not necessarily those Collections, this installation displays a rotating selection of • Collections catalogue available of Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu. All images reproduced courtesy of treasures from the Gallery’s permanent collections. ISSN 1176 – 0540 the artist or copyright holder unless otherwise stated. Director’s Foreword My Favourite JENNY HARPER CHRISTOPHER MOORE This is the 150th issue of Bulletin a significant part of our work at the exhibition, including Gretchen magazine. We’ve come a long way Gallery, and it is good to share these Albrecht, Gordon Walters, Tony since 1979, when the first issue with you, our key stakeholders. Fomison, Shane Cotton and many of Bulletin was printed in as a bi- Our exhibition programme more, are primarily known as being monthly, black and white four-page this quarter has a contemporary among New Zealand’s leading newsletter of activities, acquisitions flavour, and I am pleased to welcome painters. However, their production and exhibitions at the Robert Julian Dashper, one of the country’s includes an impressive body of prints McDougall Art Gallery – the former most internationally successful – several of which are displayed in incarnation of Christchurch Art contemporary artists, to the Gallery. this exhibition. Gallery. Colour was introduced in the His exhibition To the Unknown We look forward to welcoming 1980s, and in 1998 Strategy Design New Zealander draws on an idea he in November Art School 125, & Advertising came on board, giving originally began to develop in 1992, the much-anticipated exhibition the magazine a major makeover and when he exhibited at the Robert celebrating the 125th anniversary paving the way for the numerous McDougall Gallery’s Art Annex. His of the University of Canterbury’s design awards it has received. Bulletin response to Christchurch’s canonical School of Fine Arts; Another Mrs Barbara Walker of Bowland / General Alexander Walker of Bowland 1819 Sir Henry has grown in size and distribution ‘destination’ painting Cass by Rita Destination will feature emerging Raeburn. Oil on canvas. Collection of Christchurch Art Gallery, presented by the Walker Family over the decades, and is now sent Angus reveals his strength as a Canterbury artists, several of whom to thousands of readers around the conceptual artist. It is exciting to have are graduates of the School; and My great-aunt Emmy McGlashen would approve entirely country, as well as to a selection of an artist-installed project space, and Of Deities or Mortals takes as its of my affection for General Alexander Walker and his lady galleries and museums internationally. in addition to have his interventions starting point the University’s James wife. Aunt Emmy held Sir Henry Raeburn in high esteem, In addition, every issue of Bulletin within the collection display. In short, Logie Memorial Collection, one of and part of childhood summer holidays with the Edinburgian is now on our website, providing a we are delighted that Dashper has the finest collections of treasures from relations were devoted to a visit to the art gallery and the thorough overview of the development come full circle with us. the ancient world in the southern works of the presiding genius of early nineteenth-century of our Gallery over the last nearly Phil Dadson’s Aerial Farm is hemisphere. It is pleasing to note Scottish painting. thirty years. from his series on Antarctica, Polar that we enjoy a mutually beneficial I’ve been besotted by Raeburn ever since; a painter with and his wife. Dapper in a smart, dark green coat and firmly In a new initiative, we summarise Projects, which explores the continent’s relationship with the University of the rare ability to convey his subjects’ personalities with grasping a gold-topped cane, the General stares levelly at Gallery business during our financial Dry Valleys using audio and video Canterbury, and that it is one we unnerving clarity. Born in 1756 at Stockbridge, a suburb of the world, every inch the doughty, stubborn Scot. You year, which ended on 30 June. Of components. As an established sound anticipate will grow and develop in Edinburgh, and orphaned as a child, Raeburn was placed in can imagine him striding around his estate at Bowland, course, numbers of visitors and the and intermedia artist, Dadson’s work useful and exciting ways. Heriot’s Hospital orphanage. Here, he received an education, bellowing orders at tenants, slicing the tops off recalcitrant cost of visits are and will remain reflects the increasing acceptance I have been director for almost a and, at fifteen, was apprenticed to a goldsmith, eventually thistles with his stick and enjoying a discussion of military key public performance indicators, of new media in mainstream year now, and my first Christchurch turning his hand to meticulously painted portrait miniatures tactics over a wee dram with