Christchurch Art Seen (2024)

19/06/2024

As part of ‘s creative incubator programme, is hosting a workshop exploring urban art and the potential of the cityscape...

The City as an Incubator: Street Art and the Urban Landscape
Date: Tuesday, July 2, 2024
Time: 4:30pm - 7pm
Where: Toi Auaha, Worcester Boulevard

This is a FREE event - please register as venue capacity is limited
https://events.humanitix.com/the-city-as-an-incubator-street-art-and-the-urban-landscape
Image: .e.r installing her Gazer series fir 2023

12/04/2023

A reminder that this page is now an archive of the past walks and will be closed down later this year.

Please follow us on the new page Chch Art Seen for the 2023 walks and to keep up to date with the upcoming art adventures.

07/02/2023

The information about the first walk of 2023 has been posted on the new Chch Art Seen page, please follow us!

31/01/2023

Morena Art Lovers,

Please follow the new Chch Art Seen page for information about 2023 tours here on Facebook, and if you are on Instagram, the new account there is

The current social media accounts will be archived in the coming weeks.

23/01/2023

Kia ora koutou

The image is of work by Kāi Tahu artist Turumeke Harrington, who is currently exhibiting at Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna O Waiwhetū. The exhibition is titled 'Tātou tātou, nau maī rā' and explores the concept of moving. Harrington notes that we move either because we want to, or because we have to, and asks us to think about travel, choices, connection and whakapapa.

And I have done a lot of thinking over the summer, and subsequently have accepted a job in Wellington, which is a big move! I will be working for Clerk of the House of Representatives, in the Select Committee Services area. This is a complete change of direction and I will leave much behind in Ōtautahi Christchurch that will be missed.

However, I am thrilled to announce that Christchurch Art Seen will be continuing, in the capable hands of Warren Feeney and Agnieszka Parr.

I want to thank each and everyone of you for your outstanding support. Christchurch Art Seen had a rocky start, with the mosque terror attacks of 2019 occurring a few short weeks after we began. Warren and I made the call not to tour the following day, and I still remember the tremendous feedback we received when we cancelled the tour, and I think that set the foundation for the wonderful way you have all been so much a part of what Warren and I have tried to achieve for the art scene in the city and wider Canterbury. Of course there is no need to dwell on Covid, and the major impact it has had on our ability to run operations. But your steadfast patronage and encouragement has underpinned Christchurch Art Seen right through these last three Covid years, and as a result I feel confident that the tours will remain healthy in 2023.

I am excited to see what Agnieszka and Warren will be presenting. And I will be back to Christchurch now and again, and look forward to attending a tour when I am in town.

Take care everyone.

Ngā mihi nui

Karin

14/12/2022

Kia ora koutou

As 2022 draws to a close Christchurch Art Seen would like to thank everyone for the support given through yet another difficult year.

We have made it, in large part thanks to the interest and generosity of you all as attendees, supporters, collectors, galleries, or as one of the many artists who have made time to open up your studios and homes to our groups. Thank you.

Meri Kirihimete me ngā mihi o te tau hou - Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

22/11/2022

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This Saturday will be our final tour for 2022, and Christchurch Art Seen are touring in Sydenham.

To join the tour meet us outside the Catnap Cafe, 391 Colombo Street, at 10am on Saturday 26 November. We are beginning the morning at a studio space shared by three woman artists who will be familiar to many of you. Carol King (aka Coral Reef) is a painter and lecturer at Ara Art and Design. King also works as a collagist and is influenced by dadaism, which is often satirical or nonsensical in nature. Enjoying the absurdist nature prevalent in dada, King's collages explore a world of senselessness and contradiction. Folina Vili is a multi-disciplinary artist and musician of Sāmoan and Pākehā descent. She works across media and genres and her Master’s research involved the use of multiple print mediums and other mark making methods to explore her Sāmoan-Pākehā identity, the concept of vā, the interconnectedness of time and space, the physical and the spiritual. Kim Lowe is a painter/printmaker of NZ Chinese and Pākeha descent whose work often uses forms and elements of her hybridised NZ Chinese, Pākehā and Southern New Zealand cultures and environments. Lowe was the recipient of the prestigious 2019 Olivia Spencer Bower award and her work, which draws on traditional Chinese painting techniques, helps her to explore her mixed Southland Chinese ancestry.

From this studio space we will travel to Chambers Gallery, 80 Durham Street, where again we will see the work of three artists: Jacob Yikes with 'Limbo Land', Rebecca Stewart with 'Lush' and Tim Middleton with 'New Poems From Old Songs'. Yikes explores the uncertainty between waking and dreaming, Stewart prospects the symbolism of the Garden of Eden and the Fall of Man as she considers humanity's dilemma of being conscious of, yet detached from, the natural world, and Middleton continues his process of plaster casting as drawing. Art critic peter Dornauf describes Middleton's practice as providing a frisson between the things the objects are and the things they are not, creating accurate and literal imitations, facsimiles which throw up a range of interesting responses.

Our final gallery is City Art Depot, 96 Disraeli Street. Titled 'Here to There', the current exhibition is by Richard Elderton and Lucia Sidonio. Both artists are recent graduates from the Ilam School of Fine Arts and this is their first joint show. Born in Japan, Elderton's bicultural upbringing has led to a particular fascination with 19th century Japonism and wayo secchu (the blending of Japanese and Western styles), which often informs a foundation to his practice. Born in London, with French and Italian heritage, Sidonio's paintings draw from and echo European modernism. Painting in oils, both Sidonio and Elderton will be in the gallery on Saturday to discuss their show, which explores notions of memory, time and place.

To thank you for your support over this year Christchurch Art Seen would like to shout coffee following the tour, at Hello Sunday Cafe, 6 Elgin Street, near to The Colombo.

Image: Lucia Sidonio, 'Lodge Hill Snow', 2022, oil on stretched canvas, 1200X900mm. Courtesy of City Art Depot.

For enquiries or to book a place on the walk email: [email protected] or text: 0275 355 422
Tours last 2 hours and cost $25 per person
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24/10/2022

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With our spring weather mainly here, and 24 degrees predicted for Saturday, it feels like a good time to head out of the city for some country air.

Join Christchurch Art Seen in North Canterbury for a couple of fabulous studio visits, then stay on to enjoy the Hurunui Garden Festival, or take yourselves off to one of Waitaha / Canterbury's excellent wineries.

We are meeting at 10.00am at the studio of Sharon Earl, 69 Carters Road, Amberley. Earl describes herself as an artist and sculptor, but equally as a gardener. She grew up on her parent's cattle farm on the banks of Lake Ellesmere and spent much of her childhood drawing animals, which have been a feature throughout her art practice. Lately Earl has been busy creating a highly productive no dig/ permaculture/ soil focused garden, which is on display this weekend at the Hurunui Garden Festival. Alongside her participation in the festival, Earl's workshop, steel and wood sculpture gallery, drawings, and leather ware will also be open for viewing. Earl is perhaps best known nationwide for creating extraordinary life sized sculptures from wood or steel, such as a life sized cow, known as 'Flora', for the Ellerslie Flower Show and a horse, 'Warhorse Requiem', for NZ Sculpture OnShore. Sharon will take some time from her very full day to talk to our group about her practice.

Please note that the Amberley Farmer's Market will be operating across the road so leave plenty of time to secure a parking spot.

From Amberley we are heading to 6 Singleton Street in Waikari, about a 20 minute drive north. Here resides Canterbury artist Sam Mahon, who will need little introduction. He lives and practises in Waikari, in a reconstructed flour mill, with his partner and fellow artist, Alison Erickson. Mahon is a painter, printmaker & also sculpts, mostly in bronze. Many of you will be aware of Mahon as the creator of the bronze juggling jester, situated in the Arts Centre on Worcester Boulevard. He is also an established author, perhaps best known for his 2008 book, 'My father’s shadow — a portrait of Justice Peter Mahon', which focuses on his father, the Royal Commissioner into the Mount Erebus disaster. However you may recognise Mahon best as an activist artist, particularly involved in attempting to stop water pollution in the Canterbury region by using his art to highlight the issue. In October 2009 Mahon made a bust of Environment Minister Nick Smith out of dairy-cow dung in order to publicise the campaign to stop the Hurunui River from being dammed for irrigation. Currently Mahon is busy organising a November exhibition, and we are privileged to be getting a preview of what he is preparing for the upcoming show. Come along and be entertained by this erudite, irreverent, informed artist.

If you need transport, or wish to offer to carpool, please indicate when you book your place.

Image of 'Warhorse Requiem" by Sharon Earl, courtesy of ScribblesNZ.com

For enquiries or to book a place on the walk email: [email protected] or text: 0275 355 422
Tours last 2 hours and cost $25 per person
Internet banking is available at 01 0804 0207285 00 (please put your name and tour date as reference)
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20/09/2022

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On Saturday 24 September our Chch Art Seen tour focuses on galleries south east of the CBD and we are pleased to be offering a series of interesting speakers. The morning will start at 10.00am at 285 Cashel Street, between Barbadoes Street and Fitzgerald Avenue, and finish in Waltham.

Located at 285 Cashel Street is Ōtautahi's newest art scene offering, Fibre Gallery, a distinctly Moana gallery located within a wider Pacific creative hub. Fibre is the first gallery in the South Island/Te Wai Pounamu to have this Polynesian focus and is dedicated to the display of community-engaged, digital and heritage arts by Moana artists and creatives from throughout Aotearoa. We are thrilled that executive director, Nina Oberg Humphries, will join us to talk about the creation of the space, the gallery agenda and its strong commitment to the local Pacific community.

Oberg Humphries will also talk to the current exhibition, titled 'The Last Kai', by Tui Emma Gillies and Sulieti Fieme'a Burrows, two artists based in Tāmaki Makaurau/Auckland. Did you know that Polynesian people feel a particular affinity to Leonardo Da Vinci's 'The Last Supper', and in fact prints of this work are to be seen in many Pacific households. 'The Last Kai' showcases a Pacific version of 'The Last Supper' on Tongan tapa cloth. The work measures approximately 5 metres by 2.5 metres and is painted on two sheets of feta’aki (plain tapa cloth). Fieme’a Burrows used old kupesi stencils, handed down from elders in Falevai in Vava'u, Tonga, to create the background. The kupesi stencils are placed under the cloth, which is rubbed with brown umea dye made from red earth clay from Falevai. Next, Fieme’a Burrows used traditional Tongan patterns for the borders and the flooring, while Gillies focused on painting the supper itself, in the vibrant colours Polynesians often love to wear. Gillies says that the painting was a painstaking and labour-intensive endurance event as well as a creative firestorm that taught her mother Sulieti, and herself, so much about their own chosen art practice.

From here we are heading to NZArtbroker at 2 Kingsley Street in Sydenham, where artist Anna Dalzell, who is based in Horomaka/Banks Peninsula, is going to talk to us. Dalzell recently spent time in the sub-Antarctic and had this to say about her time there -
"I love this isolation so much it scares me. I think of these islands, their majesty, the wilds, the extreme nature and abundance of life they cradle. This is an absolutely stunning natural world, so invigorating, so healing, everything one could ever desire in seeing such places. The islands possess a spiritual magic, a magic almost surreal in splendour. There is an energy that as humans we have almost lost the ability to feel."
Her exhibition 'Outer Islands Inner Worlds' documents her response to this isolated environment. Wild, beautiful, and harsh, Dalzell has painted her experiences of being immersed in this place and she hopes that through her works the viewer will experience something of the splendour she felt in this wild, rough extreme part of the world.

From the sub-Antarctic we head back to the warmth of the Pacific at 52 Buchan Street in Jonathan Smart Gallery. Jonathan will be on site to talk to his latest exhibition - John P**e's 'Aukia/Waiting'. The sumptuous paintings and mixed media works of this significant Niuean artist reflect P**e's strong interest in his homeland. We will see P**e's continued adaptation of traditional Pacific art forms in works that reflect his exploration of cultural belonging through story telling using Pacific flora and Pasifika journeying.

Our final stop and speaker for the day will be Auspicious Victory, with their show 'Hostile Body' at Exchange Christchurch-XCHC, 376 Wilsons Road in Waltham. Auspicious Victory is a digital artist, also an entity and idea, advocating for community organisations that provide mental health support to men as well as working to empower the rights of artists. Choosing in principal to remain anonymous behind their digital mask, they are creating a future for succeeding digital artists using this persona. Auspicious Victory has recently been digital artist-in-residence at XCHC and has created a multi-sensory exhibition that will challenge but also illuminate. Come and encounter this intriguing artist who will be stepping out from behind their 'mask' to talk to us.

If you need transport, or to be collected from the central bus station, please indicate when you book your place.

Image courtesy of Jonathan Smart Gallery: Anoiha (we will return in the future), John P**e.
Materials: enamel & oil stick on canvas Size: 2000 x 2000mm

For enquiries or to book a place on the walk email: [email protected] or text: 0275 355 422
Tours last 2 hours and cost $25 per person
Internet banking is available at 01 0804 0207285 00 (please put your name and tour date as reference)
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23/08/2022

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On Saturday 27 August Christchurch Art Seen are beginning their tour with a studio visit in Phillipstown.

We will be talking with artist Rebecca Stewart, who is on sabbatical from her teaching position at Papanui High School to make work in a newly renovated studio. Stewart has been working on several projects, including the fabrication of over 100 skulls (possibly to be shown in Melbourne in conjunction with the Alexander McQueen show at the NGV). She also has work in the upcoming sculpture festival at The Arts Centre Te Matatiki Toi Ora, and a group show at Chambers Gallery in November. Rebecca Stewart gained her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dunedin in 1999, and later completed Honours at the University of Canterbury, majoring in sculpture. Her sculpture practice has evolved over the years, but has always had, as its focus, the body, nostalgia and desire. Family relationships, growth and touch are also themes that resonate with Stewart.

For many years Stewart has collected vintage mannequins and she uses the limbs and body forms in her art. Each piece requires hours of work. First, a silicone mould is made from a mannequin. These are embedded with floral stems created from assorted colourful artificial flowers, bamboo shoots and fern fronds. The moulds are then filled with resin. Once the moulds are removed Stewart painstakingly sands back the finished product to create a crystal-clear finish. Each piece is hand sanded for between 20-30 hours to achieve a glass like appearance. The highly polished and reflective surfaces create an aesthetic experience that alludes to desirability, seduction and femininity.

From Phillipstown we will drive to Jonathan Smart Gallery to see 'equipoise', the current exhibition by sculptor Neil Dawson. Dawson is widely acclaimed for Fanfare, one of the country’s largest public artworks, and Warren Feeney notes that Dawson's sculpture practice continually shuffles between monumentality and intimacy. In this exhibition of new work, two sculptural forms co-exist: feathers made of polycarbonate, aluminium & acrylic, and ripples in water cast in polyester resin. Dawson’s floating feather works are around 2 metres high, and visually deceptive in their undulating surfaces and light.

Our final stop today is City Art Depot to view the latest exhibition by Olivia Chamberlain, titled 'Off cuts'. This somewhat understated exhibition title emphasises much about Chamberlain's materials, decision-making and the processes of her practice. Her paintings direct our attention to the close-up experience of the qualities of their aesthetics; colour, surface, material, and the nature of their evocative relationships. We will see a shift in scale and an overlapping of washes to create new colour, in part influenced by the seasons and by watching the world pass outside her studio window. Through careful juxtapositions, each painting is a balance of subtle layering of translucent colours, uneven surfaces, curves, points and intersections. Chamberlain has distilled and simplified her construction and layering into simple and harmoniously balanced works that are a joy to view.

I will message Rebecca Stewart's studio address once bookings are made. If you need help with transport please email me.

Image courtesy of City Art Depot. 'Interval', Olivia Chamberlain, 2022, Acrylic on canvas, 737X600mm

For enquiries or to book a place on the walk email: [email protected] or text: 0275 355 422
Tours last 2 hours and cost $25 per person
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20/07/2022

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This Saturday Christchurch Art Seen are touring a week earlier than usual, with a great variety of art for you to experience.

Meet us at 10.00am on Level 3 of Canterbury Museum. We are here to take a look at the portrait exhibition 'Operation Grapple: We Were There'. This show is a personal profile of 19 veterans from the Royal New Zealand Navy who were manning naval ships in the mid-Pacific during 1957-1958 as support for British nuclear testing in the area. Codenamed Grapple, the operation saw 551 NZ personnel witnessing the detonation of nuclear devices. Other duties included collecting weather data as close as 37 kms from Ground Zero. These duties took place over the course of nine nuclear tests, one test being hundreds of times larger than the Hiroshima bomb.
Auckland professional photographer Denise Baynham came across the little known story of Operation Grapple at the Torpedo Bay Naval Museum in Devonport. Determined to find out more, Baynham spent 2 years travelling the country meeting, photographing and interviewing veterans. She says “The stories of nuclear testing veterans are incredibly sad. Looking back, there are common threads – infertility, miscarriages, stillbirths. They have all suffered such heartache, but they are all such incredible, amazing men and I felt a huge responsibility to tell their stories and to tell them accurately.”

Following the museum we have a studio visit with Asher Raawiri Newbery (Ngāi Tūhoe, Ngāti Manunui) at Te Matatiki Toi Ora The Arts Centre. The centre has developed a creative residency programme and Newbery is one of three artists who have been selected for a three month stay from May to August. Used as a time to focus on developing their skills and talents, each artist will produce a public programme as part of their residency. Newbery is exploring Māori colour theory which he says is different from a Western approach. For example, black might mean potential, rather than The Void, and red might be a chiefly colour rather than an angry one. Green is a colour associated with mourning because Māori wear the green leaves of Kawakawa throughout the tangihanga process. Come and hear Newbery's thoughts on colour, and his thoughts on why he might consider himself as a Māori artist, and his work as Māori art.

Next we head to The Physics Room to view 'Invasive Weeds', work by Hana Pera Aoake (Ngāti Mahuta, Ngāti Hinerangi me Ngāti Raukawa, Tainui/Waikato, Ngāti Waewae, Waitaha), Wesley John Fourie and Taarn Scott. This is a collaborative exhibition of work developed in relation to the water that is held in our earth, with a particular focus on the Ōtākaro awa, Avon River, which runs through Ōtautahi Christchurch. Subtitled 'I wish I could give you the world, but I was only given mud, rot and the bones of a half-eaten fish' the exhibition produces stories well worthy of discussion.

Our final stop is Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna O Waiwhetū to view a painting by the late Catherine Brough (1935-2022). Painted in 1984 and titled 'Untitled [Hay's Bay, Horomaka Banks Peninsula]', this beautiful work will be the starting point by Warren Feeney of a discussion of Brough's career, her insightful thoughts about her practice and its status and/or lack of. Latterly based on the West Coast Brough painted en plein air, considering this a form of extreme sport!

Noho ora mai (keep well)

The painting is by Catherine Brough, Untitled [Hay's Bay, Horomaka Banks Peninsula], 1984, Oil on canvas.
Image courtesy of the Christchurch Art Gallery.

For enquiries or to book a place on the walk email: [email protected] or text: 0275 355 422
Tours last 2 hours and cost $25 per person
Internet banking is available at 01 0804 0207285 00 (please put your name and tour date as reference)
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21/06/2022

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Welcome to the June tour offering from Christchurch Art Seen. We are providing another walking tour on Saturday, which begins at 10.00am at The National, 249 Moorhouse Avenue.

At The National we are viewing a group exhibition titled 'Tree in a Hurry', featuring artists Cat Fooks, Emma Fitts, Jacquelyn Greenbank, Moniek Schrijer & Lisa Walker and comprising painting, sculpture and mixed media works. Tree in a Hurry is the affectionate name for Virgilia oroboides, a short lived tree with showy mauve/pink flowers that grows very fast, but has a tendency to fall over as it ages. What has this to do with the exhibition? Come on the tour and find out!

From The National we walk to Form Gallery, 468 Colombo Street to view an exhibition by renowned potter John Parker. Parker's show, 'Form and Colour', closes today so this is our last chance to view these works produced by one of Aotearoa's leading ceramic artists. Warren Feeney will discuss Parker's enduring commitment to Bauhaus tradition and the aesthetic of European modernism which continues to inform his innovative practice. As well as Parker's familiar monochrome ceramics we will also see polychrome wall rings, the colour evidencing a foray into new, unchartered, territory by the artist.

The next stop is around the corner at Dilana Rugs. Dilana continue their rethinking of the work of visual artists by creating textured rugs influenced by existing works. This visit will reveal the result of a collaboration with painter Sarah Anderson. The inspiration for Anderson's painting work comes from the riverbed and shingle beach of the Rakaia River, where Anderson spends a lot of her free time. Now she has joined forces with Sudi Dargipour at Dilana to recreate two of her paintings into a rug, and both Sarah and Sudi have agreed to talk to us about this production. Dilana describes the rug as singing songs of water, beach and coastal dreaming.

Our final stop is at Jonathan Smart Gallery at 52 Buchan Street. Here artist Chris Heaphy has pulled and pushed acrylic paint across Belgian linen with a spatula to create vibrant canvasses in a new show titled 'Everyday Life'. Through the paintings we will note the artist applying his familiar iconography, this time layered in broad washes of colour that stretch and blur his images, as Heaphy continues his exploration of symbology and its cultural associations. A graduate of the Canterbury School of Fine Arts, Heaphy has been exhibiting in Aotearoa for thirty years now. His work is held in public and private collections across both motu (islands). Heaphy is part Ngāi Tahu and lives in Tāmaki Makaurau, Auckland

The image is courtesy of Anna Miles Gallery: Cat Fooks, 'Butyraceous', 2020, Oil and mixed media on board, 715 x 610mm

For enquiries or to book a place on the walk email: [email protected] or text: 0275 355 422
Tours last 2 hours and cost $25 per person
Internet banking is available at 01 0804 0207285 00 (please put your name and tour date as reference)
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23/05/2022

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Welcome to the May tour offering from Christchurch Art Seen. We are providing another walking tour, which begins at 10.00am at Shop 9, Cathedral Junction, 109 Worcester Street (opposite Sakimoto Japanese Bistro).

The starting exhibition on Saturday is 'Miyako', new works by Japanese Kiwi visual artist Amy Couling.

The kanji character 京 (Miyako) takes its name from Kyoto, the former ancient capital that is also Couling's Japanese hometown. In this show Couling's paintings explore themes of longing to go back to places that are dear to us, but unreachable because of the ongoing pandemic. She traverses the universal sentiment that misses family and friends abroad and yearns to be back in a specific place or second home. Amy will be at the gallery on Saturday to talk to us about the exhibition.

From Cathedral Junction we will walk to Canterbury Museum which is currently displaying one of the six figures from the Citizens' War Memorial. The memorial was first modelled in clay by the Christchurch sculptor William Trethewey, and afterwards reproduced in plaster. The moulds were then forwarded to England where they were cast in bronze by A. B. Burton. Since the February 2011 earthquakes the memorial has been fenced off from public view due to its proximity to the severely damaged Cathedral. The Museum is currently exhibiting the central figure 'Sacrifice', which represents grief. As a memorial to WWI soldiers the sculpture wasn't initially well-received publicly when it it was unveiled in 1937, due to the realism of its figures, and Warren will talk to us of this history.

Next it's a quick walk across the road to Pūmanawa, situated in Te Matatiki Toi Ora The Arts Centre, to visit an exhibition by multimedia artist Dr. Jo Burzynska. Burzynska will be familiar to some of you as the creator of a series of walks through the city of Ōtautahi Christchurch guided by participant's non visual senses. Her exhibition, 'What Might We Find When We Stop Looking?' is the culmination of this project, which sought to answer the question using a critical walking practice. In a hands, nose, and ears exploration of our urban space Burzynska directed pedestrians away from well-trodden paths to alter awareness of their environments. Responses from participants have informed the final artworks and Jo will be at the space on Saturday to speak to the project and the novel processes behind its interactive multi-sensory installations.

We will finish the morning in The Physics Room to see 'Te Whakawhitinga', an 11-minute film commissioned by TPR and directed by Jeremy Leatinuʻu. The film’s narrative is in te reo Māori, and follows the story of a young man leaving his home in Te Tai Tōkerau in the Far North and journeying to Ōtautahi in Te Waipounamu. Central to the film are complex narratives spanning time, place and generations, through multiple voices as the traveller journeys south. "Stretching from early adulthood to old age, and from the time of Te Pākanga Tuarua o te Ao, WWII, to the present, 'Te Whakawhitinga' follows the narrative like a stone skimming across water - touching down at points, at others flying across time-space with the clean momentum of recall."

The image is courtesy of The Physics Room: Jeremy Leatinuʻu, Te Whakawhitinga (video still), black and white 16mm film, 2022

For enquiries or to book a place on the walk email: [email protected] or text: 0275 355 422
Tours last 2 hours and cost $25 per person
Internet banking is available at 01 0804 0207285 00 (please put your name and tour date as reference)
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25/04/2022

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Christchurch Art Seen are back in business, with a new model of one tour a month, occurring on the last Saturday of each month respectively.

We are starting the season with a street art walking tour hosted by Ōtautahi Christchurch's very own Dr Reuben Woods.

March 2022 saw Ōtautahi Christchurch host the Flare Street Art Festival, the city's first street art festival since 2017. This festival created a flurry of creative activity around the SALT District, most notably with the creation of seven blockbuster murals, new landmarks that tell an array of stories. Join Reuben, from Watch This Space, for a guided walking tour of some of the city's freshest urban art and explore the stories behind the art and artists who have helped reaffirm Christchurch as one of Aotearoa's foremost urban art destinations!

Bookings are required and the wearing of masks is highly encouraged. Reuben will not be wearing a mask while he is talking. Our starting point is 10.00am in Evolution Square in the SALT district, 226 Tuam Street (over the road from C1 Espresso and Alice's). The tour will finish between 12.00pm and 12.30pm.

The image was taken by Dr Reuben Woods and features a street mural by Wongi 'Freak' Wilson (Untitled).
For enquiries or to book a place on the walk email: [email protected] or text: 0275 355 422
Tours last 2 hours and cost $25 per person
Internet banking details: 01 0804 0207285 00 (please put your name and tour date as reference)
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