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The installation of Sydow: Tomorrow Never Knows at Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu. Photo by John Collie.

Carl Sydow Sculptures and Drawings

CHRISTCHURCH ART GALLERY TE PUNA O WAIWHETU

Christchurch

 

Carl Sydow
Sydow: Tomorrow Never Knows


25 March - 23 July 2017

A small survey

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The Culturalised Psychology of Shame

Bloomsbury Academic

Susan Best

 

Reparative Aesthetics: Witnessing in Contemporary Art Photography

London 2016

Can Art help us break free?

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David Shrigley, Drawings (gallery view), 2004-2014 at CoCA, Christchurch, New Zealand, March 2017 © David Shrigley, Courtesy CoCA and British Council. Photo by Janneth Gil

Letting Mr. Shrigley Steal Your Mind

CENTRE OF CONTEMPORARY ART TOI MOROKI

Christchurch

 

David Shrigley
Lose Your Mind

 

11 March - 27 May 2017

International touring survey


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Judy Darragh, Untitled 2, 2016. Image: Vicki Piper, Jonathan Smart Gallery

The Irrepressible Judy Darragh

JONATHAN SMART GALLERY

Christchurch

 

Judy Darragh
Ummm

 

27 January - 18 February 2017

Smart show in CHCH

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Installation of The Devil's Blind Spot at Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu. Photo: John Collie

Emerging Photographic Talent

CHRISTCHURCH ART GALLERY TE PUNA O WAIWHETU

Christchurch

 

Nine emerging photographers
The Devil’s Blind Spot: Recent Strategies in New Zealand Photography


19 November 2016 - 12 March 2017

A New Generation

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Visual Political Caricature in Aotearoa

Potton and Burton

Murdoch: The Political Cartoons of Sharon Murdoch

 

Cartoons by Sharon Murdoch

Commentary by Melinda Johnston



Published October 2016

Murdoch satire


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Byrt’s Backyard

Auckland University Press

Anthony Byrt

This Model World: Travels to the Edge of Contemporary Art

252 pp, paperback

September 2016

Personal responses to NZ contemporary art

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Billy Apple's Bruce and Denny Show as installed at Two Rooms, April 2008. Photo: Sam hartnett

Fuck Art; Let’s Race

EyeContact Essay #15

Art and Sport

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Paul Cullen's Provisional Arrangements at installed at Ilam Campus Gallery. Photo: Nicholas Glen

Pataphysical Speculations

ILAM CAMPUS GALLERY

Christchurch

 

Paul Cullen
Provisional Arrangements

 

8 June - 30 June 2016

Cullen Ilam Campus installation


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Rebecca Harris, Lips Like Sugar, 2016, oil on board, 2016, 695 x 595 mm

Rebecca Harris’ Biomorphic Fluorescence

Chambers@241

Christchurch

 

Rebecca Harris
Pink Sugar Bush

 

19 April - 7 May 2016

Imaginative visual poetry

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Zhonghao Chen's Environmental Freakology as installed at Jonthan Smart Gallery

Paint as Fuel or Food

JONATHAN SMART GALLERY

Christchurch

 

Zhonghao Chen
Environmental freakology

 

1 December - 19 December 2015

Zhonghao Chen at Smart

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Photo by Michael Clayton-Jones. Courtesy of The Age

Kees Hos: Printmaker, Gallerist, Teacher, War Hero

Kees Hos obituary.

Pioneering figure


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Examining Te Papa’s Photography

TE PAPA TONGAREWA MUSEUM OF NEW ZEALAND

New Zealand Photography Collected
Athol McCredie

Over 400 colour and b/w images from the national collection

368 pp, hardcover


Te Papa Tongarewa October 2015

Athol McCredie’s publication

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Eglė Kulbokaitė & Dorota Gawęda, She cannot, does not want, and is ready for everything, 2015. Paua, plastic vacuum packs, blue ice gel

French Curator in Christchurch

THE PHYSICS ROOM

Christchurch

 

Future Artists-in-Residence at Te Whare Hera
The blue-grey wall

 

21 October - 28 November 2015

Anticipating Wellington residency

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Heather Straka's The Honeytrap, as installed at the Jonathan Smart Gallery

Baby Got Back

JONATHAN SMART GALLERY

Christchurch

 

Heather Straka
The Honeytrap

 

7 October - 31 October 2015

Straka’s rear view semi-nudes


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Tom Kreisler Film

Point of View Productions

Shirley Horrocks

Tom Who? The Enigma of Tom Kreisler

73 mins

Producer: Shirley Horrocks, Tony Green

Photography: Adrian Greshoff, Leon Narby, Ron Egozi

Shirley Horrocks’ documentary

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Pānoho’s ‘Māori Art’

David Bateman Ltd

Māori Art: History, Architecture, Landscape & Theory

Dr. Rangihīroa Pānoho,

Hardcover, 352 pp, 300 illustrations

Published by David Bateman, 2015

Substantial, useful, idiosyncratic and flawed

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Jo Langford, Calling the Deep, cement & bamboo skewers, at Jonathan Smart

Suspended Disbelief

JONATHAN SMART GALLERY

Christchurch

 

Joanna Langford
Calling the deep

 

28 July - 22 August 2015

Jo Langford in Christchurch


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Cover of The Critic's Part: Wystan Curnow Art Writings 1971- 2013

Postcards from the Ivory Tower

Victoria University Press

Wystan Curnow

The Critic’s Part: Wystan Curnow Art Writings 1971- 2013 
Edited by Christina Barton and Robert Leonard

VUP, 2014

Another look at Wystan Curnow’s anthology of criticism

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Hannah Beehre, Tarantella.

Hannah Beehre Looks at Astronomy

JONATHAN SMART GALLERY

Christchurch

 

Hannah Beehre
New Paintings

 

3 July - 25 July 2015

Kitsch as a study of nature

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Natalia Saegusa, do you know (2015) fluorescent highlighter on A4 copy paper, 318 x 232 mm

Wilson and Saegusa at Chambers

Chambers@241

Christchurch

 

Amber Wilson / Natalia Saegusa
Leave-taking Like Air / A Line Has Two Lines

 

2 June - 13 June 2015

Evocative colour explorations