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Melisa Brakel talks about her memories of Gerry Brownlee, who lost his seat in Ilam at the 2020 election.
THE PRESS 160 YEARS is a series marking the launch of
The
The Press will revisit stories from every year of publication. Cantabrians have become used to and even fond of National MP Gerry Brownlee’s sense of humour. There was an early sign of it on August 27, 1996, when
The Press reported on two bizarre election thefts. “MP for Christchurch North Mike Moore has had $4000 worth of Labour campaign signs stolen in the new Waimakariri electorate and the National candidate for Ilam, Gerry Brownlee, had his mobile electorate office taken for a joy-ride at the weekend.”
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Artist Bill Hammond, photographed with one of his paintings in 1994, has died.
The story of Aotearoa’s art history cannot be told without mentioning Bill Hammond’s work, Arts Minister Carmel Sepuloni said of the exalted artist following his death. Hammond, one of New Zealand’s leading artists, was a legendary figure in his home in the port town of Lyttelton, just outside Christchurch. One of his best known works,
Fall of Icarus, is displayed at the Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū.
Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū
Hammond’s famed paintings often had environmental themes. “Bill’s contribution to the New Zealand art scene and the sub-genre of the New Zealand Gothic was immense,” Sepuloni said on Monday.