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Hannah and Aaron Beehre's Lilith and Cruithne at Jonathan Smart.

Geological Crystalline Beehres

JONATHAN SMART GALLERY

Christchurch

 

Hannah and Aaron Beehre
Lilith and Cruithne

 

7 October - 29 October 2011

Acrylic shard sculpture & charcoal/pencil drawings

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Matt Akehurst, Object 1.

Akehurst’s Ambiguity

ABC

Christchurch

 

Matt Akehurst
Object

 

10 September - 24 September 2011

 

Lumpy biomorphic satire or items of organic affection?

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Claire Earlie Maxwell, Hakatere River

River Divas in Timaru

AIGANTIGHE ART GALLERY

Timaru

 

Claire Earlie Maxwell
Eau Revoir

 

2 July- 10 August 2011

Maxwell’s river goddesses


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Jeena Shin, Fractus, 2001 (detail)

Shin and Katchadourian in Dunedin

DUNEDIN PUBLIC ART GALLERY

Dunedin

Jeena Shin

Fractus
7 May - 30 October 2011

Nina Katchadourian

Seat Assignment

26 March - 17 July 2011

Andrew Paul Wood visits Otago

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Katie Thomas, Lifted, 2010, oil on canvas, two panels, 1450 x 2200 mm

Katie Thomas Paintings

ILAM CAMPUS GALLERY

Christchurch

 

Katie Thomas
Travelling Light

 

11 May 2011 -13 May 2011

Oil as knitted skeins

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Pauline Rhodes, Stains/Tears at Jonathan Smart

Rhodes at Smart

JONATHAN SMART GALLERY

Christchurch


Pauline Rhodes

Stains/Tears



February 22 - 25 March 2011

 

Exhibition in England St


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Scott Flanagan and James Robinson, Ecological Collapse

Flanagan and Robinson

NG Basement

Christchurch

 

Scott Flanagan and James Robinson

20 Years of Domestic Art

 

1 February 2011 - 12 March 2010

Unexpected pairing in Christchurch

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Morgan Jones – Recent Work at CoCA

Shifting Programme in CoCA

CENTRE OF CONTEMPORARY ART TOI MOROKI

Christchurch
Morgan Jones: Recent Work
7 December 2010 - 15 January 2011.

Roy Good: Triangles, Octagons and Lintels, Shaped paintings…
19 January - 18 February 2011

Morgan Jones then Roy Good

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Geoffery Heath, Scheduled Entertainment at The Physics Room. Installation photographs by Tim J. Veling.

Spong and Heath at The Physics Room

THE PHYSICS ROOM

Christchurch

 

Geoffrey Heath

Scheduled Entertainment

Sriwhana Spong
Dancing Celestial

 

17 November - 19 December 2010

Two Aucklanders in Christchurch


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sign plate for new gallery address

Smart in Christchurch

JONATHAN SMART GALLERY

Christchurch

 

Group Show

Mercury Rising

 

10 November - 27 November 2010

Dealer bounces back

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David Shennan at Brooke Gifford

Ulysses Spends Some Time In Christchurch

BROOKE GIFFORD GALLERY

Christchurch

 

David Shennan
Ulysses

 

21 September - October 9, 2010

David Shennan’s version of James Joyce

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Roger Boyce Agua Libre from The Illustrated History of Painting 2008-10.  Oil and water-based mediums on hardwood ply. Reproduced courtesy of the artist, Brooke Gifford Gallery, Christchurch and Suite, Wellington

Roger Boyce’s History of Painting

CHRISTCHURCH ART GALLERY TE PUNA O WAIWHETU

Christchurch

 

Roger Boyce
The Illustrated History of Painting

 

13 August -14 November 2010

100 painted fables about the tribulations of the painting life


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Jo Torr, Vahine no te Tiare - Woman with a Flower, image courtesy of the artist, the Aigantighe and Mark Hutchins, photo by Frances Husband

Cultural Synthesis and Dress Sense in Timaru

AIGANTIGHE ART GALLERY

Timaru

 

Jo Torr
Vahine

 

3 July - 1 August 2010

Clothing that anchors ideas and meaning to a tangible three dimensions

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Jason Greig, Devil's Advocate, acrylic on clay, 110mm diameter

Greig’s Brooding Prints and Ceramic Paintings

BROOKE GIFFORD GALLERY

Christchurch

 

Jason Greig
Reformation

 

20 July - 14 August, 2010

These disturbing (perhaps funny) images mentally linger

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On nearby table, Map (From Uncertain Pilgrimage) by Gareth Moore, 2006-9, photos courtesy of the artists and SOFA

Giblin Curated Show in Christchurch

SOFA GALLERY UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY

Christchurch

 

The Chained Lady, The Microscope & The Southern Fish
Curated by Tessa Giblin


21 May until July 4


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James Oram, Game Face, images courtesy of the artist and The Physics Room, photo by Mark Gore

Oram and Darragh

THE PHYSICS ROOM

Christchurch

James Oram
Game Face
Judy Darragh

Studio of Exhaustion

5 June-4 July 2010

 

 

Oram loves playing with the cages of social conventions of what is expected.

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Robert Hood

Hood and Parsons

JONATHAN SMART GALLERY

Christchurch

 

Robert Hood and Anton Parsons



12 May - 12 June 2010

The final exhibitions in Jonathan Smart’s High Street gallery are a couple of humdinger doozies.

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<i>Viewing Device, Counter-Rotating</I>, 2008-2010, Steel, paint, aluminium, air system. Partially funded by Creative New Zealand

Drummond Survey in Christchuch

CHRISTCHURCH ART GALLERY TE PUNA O WAIWHETU


Andrew Drummond
Observation / Action / Reflection


14 May - 5 September 2010

At other times his work resembles a steampunk contrivance from a mad scientist’s laboratory.


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Outlet

Eve Armstrong at The Physics Room

THE PHYSICS ROOM

Christchurch

Eve Armstrong
After

21 April - 23 May 2010

This really is a delicious assemblage that has real depth, meaning and interest

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Going GalleryGallery-Gallery Visiting

SOFA GALLERY UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY

Christchurch

Matt Akehurst

GalleryGallery-Gallery

24 April - 12 May 2010

it is an appropriately poignant and elegiac retirement of a worn-out warhorse, and I salute it

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Tanker

Miranda Parkes in Christchurch

JONATHAN SMART GALLERY

Christchurch

Miranda Parkes
Cracker

April 13 - May 8 2010

Cracker’ represents a transitional phase in Parkes’ career.