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Graham Bennett, Disrupt, 2021, 33 machine-shaped wooden axes, pine and native timbers. Photograph by Johannes van Kan. Collection of the Canterbury Museum.
In July’s listing of the best exhibitions in Canterbury,
Warren Feeney recommends Graham Bennett’s
AXIS + AXES as a must-see treasure, discovers that a catastrophe is more than an act of nature or God’s choosing, and that after a ten-year absence, senior painter and printmaker Stanley Palmer has returned to exhibit at the Arts Centre Te Matatiki Toi Ora.
1. Graham Bennett,
AXIS + AXES, Canterbury Museum, Rolleston Ave:
AXIS + AXES is a survey exhibition of sculptor/printmaker Graham Bennett’s arts practice, revealing unseen studio works completed and in progress. With Bennett’s access to the Museum’s Pacific collection and its influence on his work, the exhibition also features ceremonial paddles, clubs and adzes, their presence persuasive and confronting, heightening awareness of
Exhibition runs:
27 February – 4 April 2021
Exhibition
talk with Jamie Hanton and Grace Crothall: Wednesday 3
March, 5:30pm
Grace Crothall’s
Shelter
House draws on an atmosphere, material textures and
sounds familiar to the artist from growing up in the
charismatic pentecostal movement in the 90s. The
installation takes its name from a worship song of the era,
which plays intermittently in the space. Crothall explores
the interplay between born-again adult and child-like states
within this community of belief, dividing the gallery space
in two, and editing together text and design associated with
her experiences of that time. Central to the project are
He was considered one of New Zealand s most influential contemporary painters.
Photo: Auckland Museum
Olivia McLeavey, whose family gallery in Wellington represented Hammond since 1987, confirmed the death to RNZ News.
McLeavey, who was told of the death by Hammond s widow, said he died on Saturday evening.
Arts writer and curator Hamish Keith was among the first to pay tribute to the Lyttelton-based artist, describing him as a marvellous artist and a very lovely man .
Bill Hammond one of our finest artists has died
A marvellous artist and a very lovely man pic.twitter.com/pK0fchHtXr Hamish Keith (@hamish keith) February 1, 2021