CHRISTCHURCH ART GALLERY

Laurence Aberhart

A comprehensive retrospective of work from one of New Zealand's most significant photographers.

Daniel Crooks - Everywhere Instantly

Contemporary, challenging and witty video installation from Kiwi-born, Melbourne-based artist Daniel Crooks

Peter Peryer: Tecomanthe

To celebrate the Festival of Flowers, Peter Peryer's work Tecomanthe will hang in the Gallery foyer. Tecomanthe Speciosa is a rare twining climber that was discovered on one of the Three Kings Islands northwest of Cape Reinga in 1946. All the vines we have today descend from this one plant.

Coming up at the Gallery

Sat 6th, 12pm, free floortalk by Dorle Pauli, senior lecturer at CPIT’s School of Art and Design, who discusses this significant platinum photograph recently purchased by the Gallery. 

Sat 13th, 12pm, free floortalk. Guntra Auzins explores the signature interior of this Northland church in a work by New Zealand's pre-eminent photographer, Laurence Aberhart.

Wed 17th, 6pm. Free.    Art in the Age of Digital Culture 

Dr Daniel Palmer, lecturer at Monash University in Melbourne, discusses the ways in which contemporary digital visual media are transforming art practices, and explores cutting edge developments in Australian video art. 

Thu 18th, 7pm, free

The Donkey’s Tail 

An experimental, free noise ensemble led by Melbourne based abstract artist John Nixon, with Marco Fusinato, Greg Malcolm and Bruce Russell using electric guitars, drums and percussion, teamed with various home-made instruments and noise-making objects. Cash bar available.

Coming soon ... SCAPE 2008

THE PHYSICS ROOM

20 August–13 September 2008

MY EYES KEEP ME IN TROUBLE 

Justin Andrews (AUS), John Beech (UK/USA), Kjell Bjorgeengen (N), Helen Calder (NZ), Julian Dashper (NZ), Matthew Deleget (USA), Alexandra Dementieva (RUS/B) & Aernoudt Jacobs (B), Ward Denys (B), Billy Gruner (AUS), Andre Hemer (NZ), Clemens Hollerer (A), Andrew Huston (UK/USA), Simon Ingram (NZ), Kyle Jenkins (AUS), Klaas Kloosterboer (Nl), Pippa Makgill (NZ), Rossana Martinez (USA), Simon Morris (NZ), Rose Nolan (AUS), Miranda Parkes (NZ), Léopoldine Roux (F/B), Esther Stocker (I), Tilman (D/B), Emmanuelle Villard (F/B), Dan Walsh (USA), Tamara Zahaykevich (USA), Beat Zoderer (CH)

Organized by CCNOA, Brussels

Curated by Tilman


THE KIOSK

Nomadic Operating Platforms: Observation Deck / Drawing from Observation 

Ri Williamson

29 August–25 September 2008

 

CENTRE OF CONTEMPORARY ART

3rd–21st September 2008

Preview 2008 - Emerging contemporary South Island artists

Pip Trumic - 'Letting Go' & Sue Syme - 'New Works'

Front Gallery

Simon Edwards - 'New Works'

Canaday Gallery

Zaron Marshall

North Gallery

HIGH STREET PROJECT

27 August - 13 September. 

Ruth Thomas-Edmond

Watery Yellow Heaps

ARTHOUSE

20 August to 14 September

Land, Sea & Sky

Curatored by Erika Stone, this exhibition looks at the influence the New Zealand landscape has on our artists.