Mōrena,

There are currently 2x assignments using the art collection on public display underway this week. If you see students who seem to be wandering aimlessly around the library looking at the art – it could be them!

ARTH217 – Kiwi Icons – research and write a catalogue entry on an art work from a building list (Mechanical & Civil Eng, Karl Popper, Business & Law, Central Library, Macmillan Brown Library).

ARTH330 – Medium and Materiality – write a short essay considering an art work on public display in relation to issues of medium and/or materiality. Building list from Central Library, Macmillan Brown Library, EPS Library.

There are 2x art works on L5 of the Central Library that have been listed as part of the assignments. (Whakapapa by Kura Te Waru-Rewiri & Stars, Hearts, Heads and Knives by Tony de Lautour.

The last exhibition to be coordinated by the Library opens this Saturday. A touring show of stunning handcrafted objects from Japan. It has been organized by the Confucius Centre and Art History department who will be using it for teaching and learning.

There will be a small display in the Central Library and a larger exhibition in the Matariki Gallery.

Dr Richard Bullen will be giving a talk on items in the exhibition – dates to be advised.

I’ve lost a multidrive screwdriver. It’s possibly been picked up in the Henry Field Library store by someone. I need one ASAP. Just wondering if there is a spare hanging around in a library tool kit I could use?
Thanks, Lydia

Kia ora,

Come along to a lunch time talk @12pm this Friday about the exhibition Chrystabel Aitken: Caprice. It’s been a real pleasure to curate this show. Details in the links below

UC event calendar Facebook event Press review

Tomorrow morning we will be hosting high school tours in both PJH and MB as part of Art History day. The idea is to give interested students a taste of what it would be like to study at UC and the kind of awesome resources we offer. Elizabeth C and I will be hosting groups at Central and Erin and Damian will be hosting groups at MB. This is the fourth year the Art Hist dept has asked the Library to contribute and we always get great feedback.

Lydia

I’m giving a lunch time talk in the Matariki Campus Gallery this Friday. Come along and hear more about UC’s recent art acquisitions. Thanks and hopefully see you there! Lydia

Curators Talk, Friday 21st April @ 12.30pm for Look, Look, See exhibition in the Matariki Campus Gallery.

Look, Look, See showcases a selection of works recently acquired by the University of Canterbury via acquisition and donation. From contemporary to historic, painting and sculpture, the exhibition is a concise and varied sample of artists with a strong connection UC and the Canterbury region. Artists include: Mark Adams, Chrystabel Aitken, Hannah Beehre, Oliver Dawe, Ioane Ioane, Andy Andy Le Leleisi’uao, Colin Lovel-Smith, Paul McLaughlin, Abbigail Meakin, Donna Patterson & Francis Upritchard.

Research shows art can boost your work productivity, lower stress and increase wellbeing! See Guardian article here

Here is your opportunity to enrich UC’s environment. Staff and students are invited to view the exhibition and apply for works to be displayed in a department or chosen area on campus.

Facebook Event link: https://www.facebook.com/events/1718400998457541/?acontext=%7B%22action_history%22%3A[%7B%22surface%22%3A%22dashboard%22%2C%22mechanism%22%3A%22calendar_tab%22%7D]%7D

Comms Event link: http://www.canterbury.ac.nz/events/active/uc-events/look-look-see-.html

Morena!

We have a new exhibition on show in the Matariki Gallery. The staff at MB have had fun finding weird, creepy and unsettling items hidden away in our collections. Of particular interest to those in PJH – Ronnie van Hout’s self portrait ‘End Doll’ which Coral on more than one occasion described as ‘that creepy Chucky doll’. I’m being a bit provocative here but  I  was just wondering, seeming how it’s out now, perhaps the staff at PJH would like me to return to permanent display on level two once the show is over? Let me know your thoughts!

You are warmly invited to join us for a floor talk on the exhibition Arts and Crafts vision: objects from the University of Canterbury collections, which will take place next week, Tuesday 15th Sept, 1:30pm in the Matariki Gallery (lower concourse of the Matariki Building, University of Canterbury Ilam campus).

Floor talk: Tuesday 15th Sept, 1:30pm

Exhibition Curator Rosie Ibbotson (Lecturer in Art History and Theory) – “Ways of seeing Arts and Crafts vision”

Douglas Horrell (Visual Resource Technician, Humanities and Creative Arts) – The Art History Department lantern slide collection

Lydia Baxendell (Art Collections Curator) – UC’s Arts and Crafts collection