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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 preview: Thursday 10 June,
5:30pm
Exhibition runs: 11 June - 25 July
2021
Artist talk with Rachel Shearer: Saturday 12
June, 1pm
Image: Microwave/mailbox
from the Isle of Lewis, Scotland, shared during research
correspondence, 2021. Photo: Lucy Skaer.
Light
enough to read by emerged from discussions around the
return of The Physics Room’s library into the gallery and
to public access. For the last three years, since the shift
to our current site in the Registry Additions Building, much
of the library has sat in boxes. The specific needs of this
shift sufficient and natural light, space for reading,
listening, and resting offered a script for us to work
The re-energising of street art at Canterbury Museum is a highlight as
Warren Feeney’s list of 10 must-see exhibitions in for the month returns in May. Plus the Physics Room’s
Bedrock helps us remember who we are, an Art Chemist opens in Ōtautahi with a promise of wellbeing. and there is more. 1.
Benjamin Work, Hakē: Street Art Revealed, Canterbury Museum, Rolleston Ave. Auckland-born Tongan/Scottish street artist Benjamin Work’s 330 square metre floor-to-wall mural brings a newfound spirit to the Canterbury Museum’s Exhibition Hall – the site of its inaugural 2013 street art festival,
Rise. Work’s panoramic mural represents his response to a Tongan ‘Akau tau’ war club from the museum’s collection, given life anew in the company 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