The Cross - Group Exhibition
Mair Gallery, 14th October–29th September 2009
The Cross is a group exhibition of works by invited artists that follows the success of the collaborative slate tile exhibition and fundraiser that COCA and the Christchurch Cathedral held in 2007. As a symbol that can be traced through history and cultures over the past 4,000 years with associations that are both sacred and secular, the cross remains both a powerful and complex religious emblem open to multiple, open-ended reading and interpretation, as well as a familiar symbol of salvation and hope in Western and Eastern cultures. The exhibition encompasses works by 30 leading and up and coming New Zealand artists, including Don Binney, Dick Frizzell, Gavin Bishop, Philip Trusttum, Tony de Lautour, and Margaret Hudson-Ware. In addition, a publication to accompany the exhibition will include an introduction by Christchurch Cathedral theologian Lynda Patterson and contributions from invited writers and people from a broad range of socio-economic backgrounds. The Cross is an exhibition, fundraiser and event that aims to capture the attention of the wider community.
Artworks
Laura Griffiths - 'Crosswords'
- Recycled keys on recycled rimu
- Purchase price: $1400-$1,600 $210-$240 each
Ben Reid - 'Time in the sun, Chatham Islands Shag'
- Dry Point and Relief, Edition of 8
- Purchase price: $1,250-$1,500
Bridgit Anderson - 'Sister Sandra, Christchurch cathedral I'
- Archival pigment print
- Purchase price: $300-$500
Bridgit Anderson - 'Sister Sandra, Christchurch cathedral II'
- Archival pigment print
- Purchase price: $300-$500
Dick Frizzell - '(Sincerely L. Cohen)'
- Oil and Enamel on Linen
- Purchase price: $10,000-$14,000
Don Binney - 'Wayside, Calixtlahuala'
- Acrylic and Oil-stick over artist’s image Laser-print
- Purchase price: $3,500-$4,000
Earl Tutty - Bye Bill ‘You can’t take them with you’
- Acrylic on canvas on board
- Purchase price:
Galina Kim - 'The Cross with Archangel Michael'
- Acrylic, Mixed media on Canvas
- Purchase price: $2,800-$3,200
Gavin Bishop - 'Cowshed Christmas'
- Acrylic and Oil-stick over artist’s image Laser-print
- Purchase price: $3,000-$3,500
Hamish Wright - 'Jesus in Orbit'
- Mixed media on oak door
- Purchase price: $3,000-$3,500
Ian Scott - 'Lattice Series No. 143'
- Acrylic on Canvas
- Purchase price: $12,000-$14,000
Joanna Osborne - 'Scientia crucis: a diptych'
- Pigment ink on paper
- Purchase price: $1 700 An edition of 5 is available per print $600 per print (unframed) $850 (framed)
John Badcock - 'My God My God Why: Homage to the History of Painting'
- Oil on Board
- Purchase price: $10,000-$12,000
Llew Summers - 'Red Granite Cross'
- Granite on White Quartz
- Purchase price: $3,500-$4,500
Margaret Hudson-Ware - 'Premonition of a Crucifixion'
- Oil on Canvas
- Purchase price: $2,500-$3,000
Sam Harrison - 'Behold the Man'
- Woodcut
Stefan Roberts - 'Wood and light, fragments of a cross 2009'
- Pigment ink on paper Edition of 5
- Purchase price: $1,100-$1,400
Sue Spegiel - 'Locus'
- Quilt, Hand-dyed/printed, laser printed cotton fabric, procion dyes, acrylic paint, patchwork
- Purchase price: $2,500-$2,800
Tony de Lautour - 'Cross'
- Acrylic and Maimeri varnish on Canvas
- Purchase price: $3,000-$4,500