Western News: October 09, 2018
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4 Tuesday <strong>October</strong> 9 <strong>2018</strong><br />
Latest Christchurch news at www.star.kiwi<br />
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WESTERN NEWS<br />
Bringing outer-space to the central city<br />
• By Sophie Cornish<br />
HANNAH BEEHRE has brought<br />
outer-space to the central city.<br />
As part of SCAPE Public Art’s<br />
20th-anniversary season, Beehre’s<br />
display Tunnel hopes to captivate<br />
viewers for the next six weeks.<br />
Nestled deep inside the Canterbury<br />
Museum, the display creates<br />
a walk-through rendering of a<br />
nebula – clouds of gas and dust<br />
from outer space, visible in the<br />
night sky.<br />
It will form the entrance to the<br />
exhibition Wildlife Photographer<br />
of the Year and is expected<br />
to bring 60,000 visitors over the<br />
exhibition period.<br />
It is constructed from dyed silk<br />
velvet with Swarovski crystals,<br />
LED lights and mirrored flooring.<br />
The 41-year-old artist moved<br />
to Christchurch from Auckland<br />
in 1998 to study at Canterbury<br />
University’s School of Fine Arts.<br />
She completed her degree in<br />
2000 but has now returned to<br />
complete a masters degree in<br />
painting.<br />
Beehre says her five-year-old<br />
daughter, Parker, is her biggest<br />
fan.<br />
“She’s really excited about it, she<br />
asked me if we could go through<br />
it holding hands. I feel like I am<br />
making the work for her as well.<br />
So I am excited to see her reaction.<br />
She’s my biggest fan, she’s<br />
really sweet. Sometimes she will<br />
point out: ‘Oh that bit is not right’.’’<br />
Last Friday marked the opening<br />
of SCAPE’s 20th-anniversary season,<br />
the display will be on show<br />
for six weeks.<br />
The trust has installed 216 temporary<br />
artworks and 14 permanent<br />
artworks in the city, since its<br />
formation in 1998.<br />
Some of the most notable works<br />
include Nucleus by Phil Price on<br />
the corners of Manchester, High<br />
and Lichfield streets, Fanfare by<br />
Neil Dawson at Chaneys Corner<br />
and Passing Time by Anton Parsons<br />
on Madras St.<br />
Notable artworks for this season<br />
OUT OF THIS WORLD:<br />
Hannah Beehre with<br />
her art installation<br />
Galaxy of Magic at the<br />
museum.<br />
include a 5.5.m bronze sculpture<br />
Mixed Feelings by British artist<br />
Tony Cragg at Christ’s College,<br />
Kotuku by Sydney artist Caroline<br />
Rothwell in the Botanic Gardens,<br />
also known as the white heron,<br />
and Three Squares Gyratory Variation<br />
2 by American artist George<br />
Rickey, near the Art’s Centre.<br />
ON DISPLAY: Two more<br />
sculptures, Mixed Feelings<br />
and Kotuku which can<br />
be seen during SCAPE’s<br />
exhibition, which runs for six<br />
weeks.<br />
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