Christchurch Art Gallery – exhibition for younger audiences

Christchurch Art Gallery’s latest exhibition, created especially for younger audiences, looks at the different ways artists have used the colour blue.

Blue Planet runs until November 2010 and celebrates imaginative art making and thinking, as well as different cultural and global perspectives.

This dynamic exhibition includes video, sculpture, painting, ceramics, prints and installation.
Artists featuring in the show include Reuben Paterson, Jae Hoon Lee, Helen Calder, Francis Upritchard, Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba, Gavin Hipkins, Richard Maloy, Len Castle, Megan Jenkinson, Peter Madden, Rohan Wealleans, Max Gimblett, Shona Firman, Colin McCahon and Eileen Mayo, together with traditional Nigerian sculpture and Japanese prints.

“Blue is a feeling; a place to dream; an endless idea and the colour of our amazing planet as seen from space,” says exhibition curator Ken Hall.

 Photo credit:
Gavin Hipkins Romance: New York (jellyfish) 2006. C-type print. Private collection , Christchurch. Reproduced courtesy of the artist, Hamish McKay Gallery and Starkwhite.