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Language is a Virus, as installed at Ilam Campus Gallery. Photograph by Daegan Wells

New Zealand / Taiwan Combination

ILAM CAMPUS GALLERY

Christchurch

 

Chen Yin-Ju with James T. Hong, Hsu Che-Yu, Nathan Pohio, Shannon Te Ao and Teng Chao-Ming
Language is a Virus

 

25 March - 23 April 2015

Looking at William Burroughs’s view of language

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Emma Fitts, Fit out for Olivia Spencer Bower at Ilam Campus Gallery. Photo by Daegan Wells

Fitts on Spencer Bower

ILAM CAMPUS GALLERY

Christchurch

 

Emma Fitts
Fit-out for Olivia Spencer Bower

 

25 February - 19 March 2015

Spencer Bower’s socially engaged art practice

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Barry Brickell, Holeomorph, c.1980, Collection of The Dowse art Museum. Photo: Haru Sameshima

Brickell and Maseyk

DUNEDIN PUBLIC ART GALLERY

Dunedin

Barry Brickell
His Own Steam

13 September 2014 - 1 March 2015

Paul Maseyk
One Pot Wonder
12 July 2014 - 30 November 2015

Two ceramic shows


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Cover of 'I See Art Everywhere Judy Darragh'

New Darragh Publication

discreet & popular

Judy Darragh

I See Art Everywhere

 

Judy Darragh in conversation with Tessa Laird

Essays by Louise Menzies and Megan Dunn


New Books, Auckland, 2013

More than essays

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Olafur Eliasson, The Cubic Structural Evolution Project, 2004, Collection Queensland Art Gallery. Installation views at Dunedin Public Art Gallery.

Eliasson in Dunedin

DUNEDIN PUBLIC ART GALLERY

Dunedin

 

Olafur Eliasson
The Cubic Structural Evolution Project

 

3 May - 3 August 2014

Soliciting community participation

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Matter, (Installation), Suji Park and Lisa Walker

Comparing Approaches to Materials

THE NATIONAL

Christchurch

 

Adrienne Millwood, Suji Park and Lisa Walker
Matter

 

3 May - 31 May 2014

Painting, sculpture, and jewellery


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Art and Social Change Research Project: Delhi Residency 2013 at The Physics Room. Photo by Daegan Wells.

Interviews from Delhi in Christchurch

THE PHYSICS ROOM

Christchurch

 

Art and Social Change Research Project: Delhi Residency 2013


18 April - 1 June, 2014

Parallel show to that of Pakuranga.

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Benedict Drew, Zero Hour Petrified (2014) Image courtesy of the artist and Matt's Gallery, London. Photograph by Chrissy Irvine

Benedict Drew Installation

ILAM CAMPUS GALLERY

Christchurch

 

Benedict Drew
Zero Hour Petrified

 

26 March - 17 April 2014

Fabricated promises & manipulated distractions

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Saskia Leek, Untitled Soap Sculptures, 2002, dimensions variable, soap and pins.

A Different Look at Leek

ILAM CAMPUS GALLERY

Christchurch

 

Saskia Leek
Casual Arrangements

 

26 February - 20 March 2014

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Installation of The day is a fume in The Physics Room. Photo: Daegan Wells

Excavations and Entanglements

THE PHYSICS ROOM

Christchurch

 

Five artists 
The day is a fume


1 February - 2 March 2014

Looking at an Elle Loui August curated show

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Milton Springsteen's Bogan Creek

Street Art Extravaganza

Canterbury Museum and various inner city locations

Christchurch

 

Local and international street artists
Rise Festival

 

20 December 2013 - 23 March 2014

Museum invests in promotion of public art

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The cover of Lateral Inversions: The Prints of Barry Cleavin

Barry Cleavin Publication

Melinda Johnston with T. L. Rodney Wilson.
Lateral Inversions. The Prints of Barry Cleavin.

Hardback, 288 pp

Canterbury University Press, 2013.

Five decades of printmaking


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The TEZA site. Photo: Mark Amery

Aiming at the Local Good in Christchurch

Letting Space in New Brighton Mall

Christchurch

 

Assorted artists and associates
TEZA

 

24 November - 1 December 2013

Letting Space in the suburbs

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The installation of Shifting Lines at Christchurch Art Gallery's Outer Spaces

Linear Preoccupations

Christchurch Art Gallery Outer Spaces

Christchurch

 

Trevelyan, Culbert, Thomas, Beck, and the Mangano Sisters.
Shifting Lines

 

9 November - 19 January 2014

Types of drawing

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Miranda Parkes, Fielder, 2013. Photo by Bridgit Anderson. Image courtsey of the artist, SCAPE Public Art and Jonathan Smart

SCAPE 7 in Christchurch

SCAPE 7

Christchurch

 

International group exhibition

Public Art Christchurch Biennial

 

27 September - 9 November 2013

An overall assessment


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Francesca Heinz, Five Horse Arses, 2013, Latex, hair, cotton.  Dimensions variable. In foreground, Ben Terakes, See Saw, 2013, Cinder block, wood. Polyurethane foam, spray paint, air drying clay, dimensions variable.

Three Sydney artists come to Ilam

ILAM CAMPUS GALLERY

Christchurch

 

Francesca Heinz, Eloise Kirk and Ben Terakes
Milksop

 

2 October - 25 October 2013

Gritty hints of beastiality

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Mark Braunais' Old School at Ilam Campus Gallery. Photo: Kezia Fairbrother

Ilam as Old School

ILAM CAMPUS GALLERY

Christchurch

 

Mark Braunias
Old School

 

4 September - 27 September 2013

Braunias drawings

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Bronwynne Cornish, Fox, High-fired red earthenware with white and coloured slips

Cornish & Dodd

THE NATIONAL

Christchurch

 

Bronwynne Cornish and Jane Dodd
Tooth and Claw

 

30 July - 17 August 2013

Ceramics and jewellery at The National


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Michael Parekowhai, He Korero Purakau mo Te Awanui o Te Motu: story of a New Zealand river, 2011, Steinway grand piano, brass, steel, resin, ivory, ebony, mother of pearl, paua and lacquer, Purchased 2011, with the assistance of the Friends of Te Papa

Te Papa’s Rehang

TE PAPA TONGAREWA MUSEUM OF NEW ZEALAND

Wellington

 

Collection regrouping
Nga Toi - Arts Te Papa

 

Ongoing

Organised into thematic sections

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Neil Dawson, Cloud 1, 2013; Andrew Drummond, Spatial Observation, 2013; Heather Straka, Orchid 5, 2013; Lonnie Hutchinson, This is the Sound of my Soul

Smart Opens In Sydenham

JONATHAN SMART GALLERY

Christchurch

 

Group show
25/52

 

19 July - 17 August 2013

Moving to a third location

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Jess Johnson, Wurm Whorl Narthex, 2013. Courtesy of Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney; and Utopian Slumps, Melbourne

Christchurch Art Gallery’s 10th Anniversary

Outer Spaces, 212 Madras Street, 209 Tuam Street and various inner city locations

Christchurch

 

Dispersed group exhibition
Populate!

 

Various dates

The city’s work-in-progress