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Four kilometres of red fabric tape is being laid on footpaths in central Ōtautahi Christchurch this week, to guide people around the 2023 Season of SCAPE Public Art. Six new temporary artworks will be in place by the end of tomorrow on sites along ...
Derek Jarman, , 199 Join us on Wednesday 11 August at 6pm for the last of our series of film screenings associated with our current exhibition, Crossings. Like the works in the exhibition, these films have been selected for their relevance as we grapple with the effects of global lockdowns and the heightened anxieties generated by events of 2020, films that register the polarities of inside and outside, illness and health, public and private. As filmmaker Derek Jarman’s health deteriorated due to AIDS-related illness in the early 1990s, he began to lose his vision. Rendered partially blind...
“The marooned nature of it was interesting.” She created a new artwork inspired by this striking Indian diving board. Just like the original, Guy's sculpture is of little use as an actual diving board. Natalie Guy A diving board designed by modernist architect Jane Drew in the Indian city of Chandigarh inspired a new public art work in Christchurch. It has been installed within sight of water, but too far away to be used as an actual diving board. The artwork also has no steps and a similar metal barrier on the board itself. “Moving it slightly really alters it and turns it into a s...
“There has been some damage to some of the dahlias when people have been climbing up the stalks and hanging off them,’’ he said. “It is quite frustrating for us because you are engineering it for weather, wind and rain, but you can never account for stupid people.” Newsline/CCC The Dahlias sculpture soon after its installation in December 2019. The work would involve replacing parts broken by the vandals and reinforcing critical parts of the sculpture, Veitch said. “Hopefully it won’t happen again.” Council head of urban regeneration, design and heritage Carolyn Ingles sa...
A new sculpture by Sorawit Songsataya features a dead moa installed in the Christchurch Arts Centre. A dead moa lies among the historic buildings in the Christchurch Arts Centre, surrounded by native birds looking on in mourning. An emotional and colourful new sculpture by Wellington artist Sorawit Songsataya has been installed in the centre as part of the ongoing Scape Public Art festival, which began in October. The sculpture, called The Interior, features a life-size blue moa on the ground by Market Square in the Arts Centre as other birds peer on sadly from their perches on nearby raili...