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9 March to 18 April 2010
Craig Freeborn was born in Timaru and completed a Diploma in Fine Arts at Aoraki Polytechnic. He paints from his Dunedin studio and teaches part-time at an Early Childhood Centre. Of his work he states: in my paintings I often use seemingly incongruous combinations of imagery and sensory overload to deliberately unsettle the viewer.
The work reflects on an anarchic and pessimistic world view; a warning about the state of civilization or humanity.
I've appropriated fragments from medical, political and marketing images. A Positioning in Radiography book was a main source of images which decompose in their new environment.
The distortion of figure-ground relationship and different techniques of paint application in strongly contrasting colours all help to polarise the stability, familiarity and accepted meaning of these images.
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Craig Freeborn. The Passive Man 2009 Acrylic on canvas |
New exhibitions from the Permanent Collection |
4 Corners
A trip to the Four Corners of the Earth through the permanent collection.
This exhibition features artworks that are either from or depicting the four corners of the world. Artists featured include Dame Eileen Mayo, Michel Tuffery, Frances Hodgkins and Horace Moore-Jones.
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Dame Eileen Mayo (1906-94)
Antarctic Base. 1971
Woodcut on paper
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Txt
An exhibition featuring works from the permanent collection that contain words or letters.
Artists featured include Nigel Brown, Trudy Mulligan, Pat Foster, Rodney Fumpston and Jason Greig.
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Trudy Mulligan Investigate. 2002
Digital print on canvas. |
Illustrators
This exhibition showcases artists who worked for the New Zealand Ministry of Education School Publications School Journal.
Artists featured included Dick Frizzell, Gordon Walters, Doris Lusk, Russell Clarke and Robin White.
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Dick Frizzell Mickey to Tiki Tu Meke. 1997, Screenprint on paper. |
In the House Gallery from the Permanent Collection |
Goldie, Hodgkins and McCahon
Featuring works by the three artists visitors request to see most often. Colin McCahon was born in Timaru and both Goldie and Hodgkins knew the Grant family who founded Aigantighe as an art museum. |
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Frances Hodgkins (1869-1947). Arabs, Tetuan. c.1902-3. Watercolour. |
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C.F. Goldie (1870-1947).
Memories.
1913.
Oil on canvas |
Victoriana
The Aigantighe's collection of Nineteenth Century British paintings is world renowned and works are often lent for Victorian art exhibitions abroad. |
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Thomas Kennington (1856-1916)
The Mother.
1895.
Oil on canvas. |
Costume Room
Featuring the wedding dress and bridge party dress worn by Mrs Helen Grant who built Aigantighe in 1908 and a 1950s evening gown worn at the opening of Aigantighe as an art museum in 1956 plus contemporary fashion from the permanent collection. |
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Archibald Nicoll
(1886-1952).
Helen Grant.
c.1940s.
Oil on canvas |
South Canterbury Room: Scenes of Timaru
In celebration of the 150th anniversary of the landing of the Strathallan in Timaru this exhibition features historic and contemporary views of Timaru from William Greene’s donkeys on the beach to Sandie Davies’ modern interpretation of the arrival of the Strathallan.
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William Green (1872-1925)
The Unemployed.
1912.
Oil on canvas |
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