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Bobbie Barwell- Capturing People and Places

Recently opened at the Ashburton Museum, Bobbie Barwell: Capturing People and Places, documents the life of Ashburton photographer, Bobbie Barwell, (1898 – 1985), with attention on her work from the 1930s and 40s. Bobbie Barwell: Capturing People and Places is curated by Senior Museum staff member, Maryann Cowan, authoritatively...
Port Levy’s Got Talent at Eastside Gallery, Linwood

Eastside Gallery Linwood is hosting an exhibition from six artists based in Port Levy, Banks Peninsula, working in a range of media and ideologies, united in their appreciation of the region and its environment. The exhibition brings together a shared integrity and diversity to their practices, cultivated in the isolated rural location that...
A personal appeal - support the formation of the New Zealand Jazz Orchestra

For almost seven years a group of people from throughout New Zealand has been working towards establishing a New Zealand Jazz Orchestra (NZJO). A charitable trust has been established with 12 Trustees from the New Zealand jazz community chaired by Mr Ron Samson (Drummer/Auckland Jazz Programs) and Rodger Fox (Trombonist/New Zealand School of...
Creativity wrapped around us like a korowai

The inaugural online Ngā Wāhi Auaha Creative Spaces Conference 2022 brings fabulous opportunities to ignite possibilities, connect with others working in the field and to continue to develop our community of practice.
Cheryl Lucas- Shaped by Schist and Scoria

The Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū maintains its impressive commitment to Ōtautahi-Christchurch and Waitaha-Canterbury’s artists with a survey exhibition of four decades of work by Cheryl Lucas. As ceramicist, potter, crafts-person, sculptor and installation-artist, Lucas’ arts practice is difficult to narrow down to a...
Graffiti Conversations

Throughout 2022, I have been working with Tāmaki Makaurau researcher and artist Dr Bobby Hung (perhaps better known under his graffiti pseudonym, Berst, a highly respected artist, advocate and documentarian) on a project to record a series of oral histories of Aotearoa graffiti artists. With funding from the Manatū Taonga Ministry of Culture...
Viv Kepes and MiKyung Jang- Voyage Beyond in Banks Peninsula

Viv Kepes and MuKyung Jang describe their current exhibition as assuming the role of enthused anthropologists in the environment of Banks Peninsula and paying specific attention to its ecosystems and the precarious nature of the region, and - in a wider context, the state of planet earth. Kepes’ interest is in a specific native plant,...
Canterbury Museum- An Invitation to a Favourite Exhibition Experience

As Canterbury Museum commences the progressive de-installation and packing of its artifacts as the first stage of its five-year redevelopment and transformation, it is simultaneously putting together a farewell exhibition of the public’s favorite items and objects. Arguably, there will be no one in Ōtautahi Christchurch who will not have...
Tim Main and Here to Eternity- Nature and the Universe

For more than twenty years the work of artist Tim Main has revealed his response to the principles of the Arts and Crafts Movement and the influence of its founder William Morris (1834 – 1896), creating contemporary works that celebrate the mystery and orderliness of the natural world. There is a sense of Main transitioning from his...
Thrash & Escalate, Nick Harte on film, music and art- Whatever Happened To Linda Blair?

Prior to her unforgettable turn in The Exorcist (1973), Linda Blair had only appeared in a couple of nearly completely unseen comedies, but had worked as a child model since age 5 appearing in 75 commercials for Welch’s grape jam and various other companies. Although the admittedly opaque pro-religious message of The...
John Pule, Aukia-Waiting

Niuean-born artist and writer John Pule initially established a strong visible presence in the arts in Aotearoa from the early 1990s. Initially he became best-known through the written word, the publication of The Shark that Ate the Sun (Ko E Mago Ne Kai E La) in 1992. Yet, almost simultaneously, his presence and influence as a painter...
Andrew Craig- Land Surface Exposing What Lies Beneath

Andrew Craig is a landscape architect based in Christchurch with a background in Art History and post-graduate study as a landscape architect. He also attended numerous workshops in painting, many of which were based at the School of Fine Arts at Ilam. He maintains that both painting and landscape architecture are entwined, both drawing...
Cheryl Lucas- Shaped by Schist and Scoria

Cheryl Lucas: Shaped by Schist and Scoria brings a resonating atmosphere of resilience, revision, and regeneration to Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū in August. This stunning survey, comprising of both new work and acclaimed favourites, follows Lucas’s phenomenal four-decade career, from early years in Central Otago to...
Transforming Death- A group Exhibition at Pumanawa Gallery

Transforming Death is a week-long exhibition at The Arts Centre Te Matatiki Toi Ora’s Pumanawa Gallery in October, held during Death Matters month. Ten local artists have been invited to create a series of work based on their own relationship with death, loss or grief - This is no small task. For all the artists this has been a...
Group of Seven

In August the Aigantighe Art Gallery in Timaru launched what I think might well be one of the most important exhibitions of the year. It’s a small show, but well chosen, curated by the Aigantighe’s Hamish Pettengell. It is both a surprise and delight. The exhibition Group of Seven recreates a critically well-received 1966...