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Installation of Stephen Bambury works at Jonathan Smart

Retinal Workout in the Mental Gym

JONATHAN SMART GALLERY

Christchurch

 

Solo show

Stephen Bambury

 

10 April - 2 May 2015

Bambury and philosophy

APW
Tony de Lautour, Exit Plan 1

De Lautour and Best at Chambers

Chambers@241

Christchurch

 

Tony de Lautour and Holly Best
Domestic Abstraction

 

31 March - 18 April 2015

Abstracted real estate and landscape

APW
Marie Le Lievre, Fly Catcher, oil on inkjet,  440 x 485mm, framed

It’s a Trap! New Paintings by Marie Le Lievre

JONATHAN SMART GALLERY

Christchurch

 

Marie Le Lievre
Trappings

 

13 March - 4 April 2015

The activity of capture


APW
Nikhil Chopra, Blackening, 2013, costume, X2 photographic prints on archival paper, slide show

Christchurch–Mumbai Express

JONATHAN SMART GALLERY

Christchurch

 

Group show

The Network: Contemporary Art from India


13 February - 7 March 2015

Indian art visits Canterbury

APW

Tall Poppies, Cultural Cringe, Catton and Culture

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EyeContact Essay #10

APW

Why the Art World Shouldn’t Be Too Quick to Distance Itself from Charlie Hebdo and its Ilk.

EyeContact Essay #9

Charlie and the artists


APW
In foreground, Paul Johns, A: The hippopotamus is my closest living relative, 2014. Whalebone, American white oak, glass, galvanised steel. (Whalebone courtesy of private owners, Banks Peninsula) Photo: John Collie

Whales Weep Not

CHRISTCHURCH ART GALLERY TE PUNA O WAIWHETU

Christchurch

 

Paul Johns
South Pacific Sanctuary / Peraki, Banks Peninsula


8 November 2014 - 25 January 2015

Johns in Tuam St

APW
Installation of Anton Parsons' Inside Outside Upside Down at Jonathan Smart

A More Intimate Parsons

JONATHAN SMART GALLERY

Christchurch

 

Anton Parsons
Inside Outside Upside Down

 

28 October - 22 November 2014

With mentally participatory component

APW

Jonathan Mane-Wheoki 1944-2014

Professor Jonathan Mane-Wheoki (ONZM

Much loved art historian, educator and curator


APW
Installation of Neil Dawson at Jonathan Smart

Neil Dawson’s Lightness of Touch

JONATHAN SMART GALLERY

Christchurch

 

Solo show

Neil Dawson

 

29 August - 20 September 2014

Suspended steeples and gables

APW
Richard Reddaway's 'Some Assembly Required' at Jonathan Smart.

Reddaway’s Cuboid Sculpture

JONATHAN SMART GALLERY

Christchurch

 

Richard Reddaway
Some Assembly Required

 

5 August - 23 August 2014

Linked blocks as bodies

APW
 Liv Worsnop, The Periphery State, 2014, paper, linen, tape, clay, card table, tinctures, infused oil found: rocks, water, plywood, leaves, twigs, cord, flowers, wood. Photo credit: Daegan Wells

Liv Worsnop at The Physics Room

THE PHYSICS ROOM

Christchurch

 

Liv Worsnop
The Periphery State

 

10 June -12 July 2014

Non-sites in Christchurch


APW
Leigh Martin, Silenced # 11, 2014, acrylic on linen.

Martin & Morison at Smart

JONATHAN SMART GALLERY

Christchurch

 

Julia Morison / Leigh Martin
2000 Grounds for Error / Silenced

 

13 May - 7 June 2014

Rejecting and embracing aesthetic hygiene

APW
Robert Hood's Say Valley Maker at the Jonathan Smart Gallery. Detail.

Hood on CERA

JONATHAN SMART GALLERY

Christchurch

 

Robert Hood
Say Valley Maker

 

16 April - 10 May 2014

The pathos of the office

APW
Julia Croucher, Eastside 08, varnish, ink and pen on paper, 130 x 100 mm

Thinking About Love

CITY ART DEPOT

Christchurch

 

Julia Croucher, Ana Iti, Ed Lust.
<3

 

11 March -11 April 2014

City Art Depot show


APW
Alexis Hunter, To Silent Women, 1981, 24 photocopies, 1200 x 375 x 25 mm. Collection of Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki, purchased 1989.

Vale Alexis Hunter

EyeContact Obituary

Pioneer feminist

APW
Andrew Drummond, Measuring Devices (Gold, Copper and Platinum)

The Last Symbolist

JONATHAN SMART GALLERY

Christchurch

 

Andrew Drummond
from a private site; objects

 

26 November - 21 December 2013

Drummond sculpture

APW
Julia Morison's Tree Houses for Swamp Dwellers (2013), on the corner of Gloucester St and Colombo St, Christchurch. Photo: Duncan Shaw-Brown

Morison Tree Houses in Christchurch

SCAPE7

Christchurch

 

Julia Morison
Tree Houses For Swamp Dwellers

 

Portable but permanent public sculpture

Permanent but portable


APW
Gaby Montejo's OPP at Chambers 241

Montejo at Chambers

Chambers@241

Christchurch

 

Gaby Montejo
OPP

 

18 September - 5 October 2013

Cuban installation in Christchurch

APW
Supply + Demand at The Physics Room, featuring Robert Hood's When the mountains bow down and become valleys (2013). Amy Howden-Chapman ‘s What Depressions Look Like (2013) is on the right. Photo: Daegan Wells

The Dark Arts of Capitalist Economics

THE PHYSICS ROOM

Christchurch

 

Bennewith, Hood, Howden-Chapman, Kirschner & Panos, Paton
Supply + Demand

 

31 August - 6 October

Market fluctuations as modern divine wrath

APW
Janet Lilo, Hit me with your best shot, at The Physics Room

Janet Lilo at The Physics Room

THE PHYSICS ROOM

Christchurch

 

Janet Lilo
Hit me with your best shot

 

26 July - 25 August 2013

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