Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu (29)

Maori Moving Image

ISBN: 9781877375736

Author: Mills et el    Publisher: Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu

A beautifully designed new book that champions recent film, animation and video art made by Māori artists. Whether it be 16mm film, hand-drawn animation, 4K vi...


A beautifully designed new book that champions recent film, animation and video art made by Māori artists. Whether it be 16mm film, hand-drawn animation, 4K video or footage recorded on a phone, moving image artworks create a unique space for Māori artists to connect the forms, patterns and concepts of toi ataata (Māori visual arts) with the oral histories, performance and music of ngā mahi a te rēhia (the arts of performance). This new book acknowledges the senior Māori artists who have led the way, and the newer generations working with moving image to convey concepts of whakapapa, whenua and whanaungatanga.


Bind: hardback


Pages: 180


Dimensions: 180 x 260 x 20 mm


Publication Date: 20-06-2022


$34.90
Cheryl Lucas : Shaped by Schist and Scoria

ISBN: 9781877375767

Authors: Felicity Milburn, Kim Paton    Publisher: Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu

Canterbury-based artist Cheryl Lucas pushes the physical and conceptual possibilities of the ceramic artform, describing it as “the perfect medium to convey e...


Canterbury-based artist Cheryl Lucas pushes the physical and conceptual possibilities of the ceramic artform, describing it as “the perfect medium to convey even the most unpalatable truths”. The surfaces of her works may be seductive, but they tackle rough and relevant ground, often focusing on the intersections between the natural world and human intervention. Occupying both physical and psychological space, they deftly overturn expectations about scale and ambition. This richly illustrated book accompanies Lucas’s major solo exhibition at Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū. Featuring approachable essays from Felicity Milburn and Kim Paton, it examines highlights from her career to date and launches a major body of new work.


Bind: hardback


Pages: 56


Dimensions: 170 x 245 mm


Publication Date: 20-08-2022


$29.99
Hotere : Empty of Shadows and Making a Shadow

ISBN: 9781877375057

Author: Ralph Hotere    Publisher: Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu

Available again!! The first and only publication to look at the lithographs of one of Aotearoa New Zealand's most important artists. This book explores Ralph ...


Available again!! The first and only publication to look at the lithographs of one of Aotearoa New Zealand's most important artists. This book explores Ralph Hotere’s lithographic output over more than two decades, shedding light on a medium the artist commanded with vision and accomplishment since he began working with it in 1984. The lithographs, 122 in total, explore and extend the major themes found in Hotere’s paintings. Sophisticated, inventive and sincere, they reveal a mastery of technique. Hotere’s methods, associations, influences, symbols and themes are explored in insightful texts by Peter Vangioni, Jillian Cassidy and Marian Maguire. Includes a helpful guide to understanding lithography.


Bind: paperback


Pages: 143


Dimensions: 230 x 300 mm


$39.99
Everywhere Instantly

ISBN: 9781877375170

Author: Justin Paton    Publisher: Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu

At a moment when much has been said about the possibilities of video and new media art, Crooks simultaneously takes us back to cinema's origins in the time-and-...


At a moment when much has been said about the possibilities of video and new media art, Crooks simultaneously takes us back to cinema's origins in the time-and-motion experiments of Marey and the Lumiere brothers, and propels video art forward into exciting new territory. Author Justin paton describes how Crook's works seem to carry us through space and time in multiple directions at once.


Bind: paperback


Pages: 90


Dimensions: 210 x 260 mm


$19.99
Bad Hair Day

ISBN: 9781877357439

Author: Ken Hall    Publisher: Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu

A 'bad hair day' is one when your hair won't behave itself, or when everything seems to go wrong. This eccentric little book of pictures investigates the changi...


A 'bad hair day' is one when your hair won't behave itself, or when everything seems to go wrong. This eccentric little book of pictures investigates the changing expressions of hair, and includes historical paintings and prints, contemporary sculpture, videos, a wig-and Christchurch Art Gallery's oldest treasure, a 2500-year-old Egyptian portrait.


Bind: hardback


Pages: 116


Dimensions: 168 x 220 mm


$14.99
Shane Cotton - The Hanging Sky

ISBN: 9781877375255

Author: Justin Paton    Publisher: Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu

For twenty years, Shane Cotton has been one of New Zealand's most acclaimed painters. His works of the 1990s played a pivotal part in that decade's debates abou...


For twenty years, Shane Cotton has been one of New Zealand's most acclaimed painters. His works of the 1990s played a pivotal part in that decade's debates about place, belonging, and bicultural identity. In the 2000s, however, Cotton headed in a spectacular and unexpected new direction: skywards. Employing a sombre new palette of blue and black, he painted the first in what would become a major series of skyscapes vast, nocturnal spaces where birds speed and plummet. New York poet Eliot Weinberger meditates on Cotton's 'ghosts of birds'. Justin Paton plots his own encounters with Cotton's work, across six years in which the artist was 'finding space'. Geraldine Kirrihi Barlow confronts the haunting role of toi moko tattooed Maori heads in the paintings and in her own past. Meanwhile, IMA Director Robert Leonard argues that Cotton is a cultural surrealist exploring 'the treachery of images'.


Bind: hardback


Pages: 192


Dimensions: 300 x 395 mm


$49.99
De-Building

ISBN: 9781877375248

Author: Justin Paton    Publisher: Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu

There's a moment in the life of all exibitions that public galleries usually hide from their audiences - when a show ends, the doors close and the 'de-build' be...


There's a moment in the life of all exibitions that public galleries usually hide from their audiences - when a show ends, the doors close and the 'de-build' begins. From award-winning author and curator Justin Paton, this stylish little book features fourteen remarkable artists who draw attention to – and inspiration from – spaces that are usually behind the scenes. Winner of the Judges Special Award at the 2012 Museums Austalia Design and Pubilcation Awards. Higly Commended, PANZ Book Awards 2012 Mary Egan Award for Best Typography.


Bind: hardback


Pages: 108


Dimensions: 150 x 210 mm


$19.99
Van Der Velden: Otira

ISBN: 9781877375231

Authors: Peter Vangioni, Dieuwertje Dekkers    Publisher: Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu

A sumptuous book on the ground-breaking Otira works by Petrus van der Velden, one of New Zealand's keystone artists. This beautifully presented book features es...


A sumptuous book on the ground-breaking Otira works by Petrus van der Velden, one of New Zealand's keystone artists. This beautifully presented book features essays by Peter Vangioni and Dieuwertje Dekkers, and an introduction by Rodney Wilson, exploring the fascination van der Velden's Otira works continue to exert on art lovers and artists. Designed by award-winning designer Aaron Beehre, this richly illustrated publication is a long overdue addition to the scholarship on a truly international artist.


Bind: hardback


Pages: 96


Dimensions: 245 x 265 mm


$29.99
Andrew Drummond: Observation / Action / Reflection

ISBN: 9781877375194

Authors: Jennifer Hay, John Finlay, Bruce Barber, Peter Leech, Pamela Hansford    Publisher: Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu

A spectacular book on an exceptional artist whose uncompromising perspective and artistic energy have led him to the forefront of art in New Zealand. Includes e...


A spectacular book on an exceptional artist whose uncompromising perspective and artistic energy have led him to the forefront of art in New Zealand. Includes essays by Jennifer Hay, Peter Leech, Bruce Barber and Pamela Hansford, and an interview with the artist by John Finlay. Designed by award-winning designer Neil Pardington, it features photographs of the most significant works from Drummond's career, including performances and public and private commissions.


Bind: hardback


Pages: 208


Dimensions: 225 x 265 mm


$49.99
Et Al: that's obvious! that's right! that's true!

ISBN: 9781877375217

Publisher: Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu

Critical remarks on the National Question, recent events and the state of the world: commentary and movements. The collective et al has exibited widely both he...


Critical remarks on the National Question, recent events and the state of the world: commentary and movements. The collective et al has exibited widely both here in New Zealand and around the world, including representing New Zealand at the 2005 Venice Biennale. This fascinating book is an extension of their work, and explores aspects of superfiction as conceptual and visual artworks.


Bind: hardback


Pages: 100


Dimensions: 140 x 207 mm


$19.48
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