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10 exhibitions

to look out for in Canterbury in June

In June, Warren Feeney is looking forward to an exhibition that recommends we all undertake an act of generosity, and the display of a sculpture by O¯ tautahi’s most neglected sculptor. 1. Ma¯ ori Moving Image ki Te Puna o Waiwhetu¯

Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu¯ , corner Montreal St and Worcester Blvd. Described as a ‘‘rich gathering of works that explore time, politics, language and place – and karaoke!’’ Ma¯ ori Moving Image ki Te Puna o Waiwhetu¯ is a collaboration between the Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu¯ and The Dowse Art Museum. Curated by Melanie Oliver and Bridget Reti, the exhibition extends the influential momentum of contemporary Ma¯ ori art, nationally and internationally, its origins and authority now reaching back over seven decades. June 4 – Oct 6.

2.gift Ashburton Art Gallery, 327 West Street, Ashburton.

The group exhibition gift features 12 artists representing numerous identities and cultures: Rachel Hope Allan, Dr Margo Barton, Tui Emma Gillies and Sulieti Fieme’a Burrows, Neil Emmerson, Alice Jones, Madison Kelly (Ka¯ i Tahu, Ka¯ ti Ma¯ moe), Dr Stella Lange, Anna Muirhead, Louise Sutherland, Metiria Turei (Nga¯ ti Kahungunu, Te A¯ tihaunuia-Pa¯ pa¯ rangi), and Georgina May Young (Te Upokorehe,

Whakato¯ hea, Irish). Curated by Victoria Bell and Dr Natalie Smith, gift’s attention to acts of generosity between individuals, communities and cultures, encourages us, by example, to likewise share and partake in an act of generosity. May 8 – June 19.

3 Matthew McIntyre-Wilson, Matariki artist-in-residence

Oxford Gallery Toi o Waimakariri, Main St, Oxford. Weaver and sculptor Matthew McIntyre-Wilson (Taranaki, Nga¯ Mahanga and Titahi) threads woven geometric patterns, grounded within raranga whakairo (plaiting) with precious metals, treasures in the intimacy of their detail and expansive possibility. In June, McIntyre-Wilson is Oxford Gallery Toi o Waimakariri’s artistin-residence, hosting workshops for all, and transforming the gallery into an active working studio. June 23 – July 17.

4. John Parker, Form and Colour

Form Gallery, 468 Colombo St, Sydenham.

Renowned potter John Parker has sustained the vitality of his ceramics for more than five decades, committed to design principles based on the refined aesthetics of European modernism. In Form and Colour, Parker reveals his enduring commitment to Bauhaus traditions, his familiar monochrome ceramics complemented by new colourful polychrome ‘‘wall rings,’’ evidence that Parker maintains his exploration of new, unchartered territory. June 4-25

5. William Trethewey’s Sacrifice Canterbury Museum, Rolleston Ave.

William Trethewey (1892–1956) is Aotearoa’s most neglected sculptor, yet responsible for some of our most prominent public artworks, especially in his hometown of O¯ tautahi Christchurch. Trethewey’s Citizen’s War Memorial, 1937, previously in Cathedral Square, is currently being restored, but Canterbury Museum is hosting one of its five figures, Sacrifice. Influenced by Trethewey’s admiration for Michelangelo, the figure’s castbronze form acquires a new and dominating presence in the museum’s foyer. Ongoing.

6. The Associates, PLACE Art on the Quay, 176 Williams St, Kaiapoi.

The Associates is a collective of 10 artists, their work characterised by its response to domestic and environmental issues, their exhibition, PLACE, reconsidering the realities of its subjects. For example: Lee Harper’s The Sow’s Ear is a fond recollection of a childhood home qualified by the memory of her mother’s observation: ‘‘I drove past our house one day and my mother said, ‘you can’t make a silk purse from a sow’s ear’. Not a judgment, rather a statement of fact.’’ June 9–July 13.

7. Kara Burrowes, Lost Space

Chambers Gallery 80 Durham St, Sydenham.

Currently completing her Masters of Fine Arts at the Ilam School of Fine Art, Kara Burrowes’ Lost Space is about our experience of the land and also an encounter with the qualities of her oil and plaster on board paintings. Burrowes exceeds expectations in landscape paintings as provocative and contemporary as they are credible in their refinement and command of materials. June 1-18.

8. Hana Olsen and Jillian Wordsworth: Emerging Artists in Conversation

Murray & Co. Investment banking firm Murray &

Co’s long-term commitment to O¯ tautahi’s arts graduates in 2022 sees the work of artists Barbara Boekelman, Hana Olsen, Chloe Summerhayes and Jillian Wordsworth exhibiting at the firm’s Durham St offices. The exhibition also features two lunchtime events, with the second, in June, an opportunity to hear Olsen and Wordsworth discussing their work with lecturer in painting at the University of Canterbury Raewyn Martyn. To attend: murrayandco-emergingartists-in-conversation.eventbrite. co.nz. Friday, June 17, 11.30am– 12.30pm.

9. Chris Heaphy, Everyday Life Jonathan Smart Gallery, 52 Buchan St, Sydenham.

After at least two decades of paintings that have focused their attention on silhouetted patterns, figurative images and graphics, in Everyday Life, Chris Heaphy has seemingly prioritised paint as the subject of his attention. In Your Song, the artist’s title could be about his painterly surfaces, the outcome of pulling paint across linen, stretching and blurring his images and heightening our engagement with colour and space. June 1-30.

10. Koryu, A Hum (the beginning and the End).

Salt District, central O¯ tautahi. With 44 new works of art executed for the March Flare Festival, all within the Salt District intersection of High, Manchester and St Asaph streets, the city centre should be high on everyone’s list for a serious art experience. A highlight is the festival’s people’s choice, Japaneseborn Koryu’s A Hum (the beginning and the end). The largest mural undertaken for the festival, and singled out by street art academic Reuben Woods: ‘‘The work is touching on a number of levels, drawing on the shared experiences of the O¯ tautahi earthquakes and the Tohuku earthquakes and tsunami, which occurred within weeks of each other... Koryu envisages his figures [in this work] as guardians for the city.’’

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