The second installment of the Art in the Library series is up on Library News.
Thanks to Kathryn Andrews for your suggestion of the carving in the Education Library.
Next time I will be covering something in EPS. All suggstions welcome!
Also, I have just installed art in the newly refurbished Staff Club. If you haven’t been over since it reopened, it’s worth a visit for an after work drink and a view of their pretty impressive art collection.
Lydia Baxendell
UC Art Curator
Hello, I hope you are all warm enough today!
I am starting a new series on Library News – Art in the Library.
To remind you that Winter is not forever, the first is on the gorgeous Summer landscape painting by Bill Sutton in the Central Library (used to be in the Law Library).
http://library.canterbury.ac.nz/blogs/libnews.php?itemid=16149
Once a month (or maybe more frequently) I intend to compile something about an art work on display in one of our campus libaries.
So people, I need your help: what’s your favourite art work and what particular art work would you like to know more about?
You don’t have to know what it’s called, just give a description and a location and I can figure out the rest.
Looking forward to hearing from you!
Lydia
UC Art Curator
MB Library
For those of you who missed Jill’s farewell, here is an image of her gift.
Heather Masters Exhibition – Level 2 Central Library
A new collection of 37 artworks generously donated by the Chancellor and VC provide an insight into Canterbury College School of Art, now UC’s School of Fine Art during the 1930s.
A selection of these art works by UC Alumni Heather Masters (1917-2012) as well as art by several of her contemporaries and related photographs and ephemera will be on display on level two of the James Hight Library from Wednesday 27th February to 27th March. Depicting Canterbury College (now known as the Art Centre), the Provincial Chambers as well as wallpaper designs, calligraphy, life and antiquity studies, the exhibition provides an understanding of the School of Fine Arts and practicing artists during one of Christchurch’s most exciting and innovative periods of artistic development.
Born in Taihape in 1917, Masters studied at the CCSA from 1932 to early 1936. Her principal legacy is her perfect botanically based designs for friezes and wallpapers. At UC, she studied design, antique, life drawing, portraiture, line drawing, landscape and lettering. “Madame Henderson” taught her design and embroidery and she was also a talented metalworker.
Thanks,
Lydia
A series of Ralph Hotere prints are being exhibited in the James Hight Library this week in a tribute to one of New Zealand’s greatest artists who died on Sunday 24th February.
The 81-year-old sculptor, painter and collaborative artist, with a career spanning 50 years, had been suffering from pneumonia and passed away surrounded by family in Dunedin.
Hotere was a guest lecturer and artist-in-residence at University of Canterbury (UC) in 1984 where he collaborated with several printmakers at the School of Fine Arts to produce a number of etchings and lithographs.
The prints are displayed on Level two by the lifts.
Many thanks,
Lydia
Today is the traditional feast day of St Jerome, patron saint of librarians.
In my opinion, this is an excellent opportunity for us all to celebrate the fabulous work librarians do!
Many thanks,
Lydia